Skipped IDs

[Megacrafter127]

Some of you might know I am currently writing a "real" starmade mod(not just some added blocks here and there, which are just other blocks with new textures and names).
While opening some chests full of code from the mighty cat for said purpose, I backchecked some arrays just to be sure what exactly they are. And stumbled upon unassigned IDs below the biggest used ID.
The question is, why aren't they assigned?

Were they forgotten?
Are they features yet to come?
Are they buggy?​

If they are assigned, why don't they appear in the array?

The list of the skipped IDs I located.

 

[therimmer96]

I have always wondered about this, because I noticed it awhile ago while flicking through the block properties file thingy. Considering we are always told that there are limited IDs and we might hit it, that's an awful lot of unused ID's

 

[Megacrafter127]

I have always wondered about this, because I noticed it awhile ago while flicking through the block properties file thingy. Considering we are always told that there are limited IDs and we might hit it, that's an awful lot of unused ID's

We have 1024 IDs, and the highest currently used is 545.
I can see why schine is conservative about IDs, but then I'd not outright skip any of them!

 

[therimmer96]

We have 1024 IDs, and the highest currently used is 545.
I can see why schine is conservative about IDs, but then I'd not outright skip any of them!

we can't be limited too 1024, I'm sure that @Crusade's IBM blocks had ID's over 1050, and I am sure I read somewhere here when someone did a breakdown of the bytes sent over the network that it was limited too 2048 :/

 

[NeonSturm]

we can't be limited too 1024, I'm sure that @Crusade's IBM blocks had ID's over 1050, and I am sure I read somewhere here when someone did a breakdown of the bytes sent over the network that it was limited too 2048 :/

I guess 1024 are for the game, not the total the user may add with custom blocks...

 

[therimmer96]

I guess 1024 are for the game, not the total the user may add with custom blocks...

the game cant differentiate between custom blocks and real blocks, they all get declared in the same XML file. Realistically, you could remove the ship core from the game. Not sure how it would run, but the option is there.

 

[Megacrafter127]

we can't be limited too 1024, I'm sure that @Crusade's IBM blocks had ID's over 1050, and I am sure I read somewhere here when someone did a breakdown of the bytes sent over the network that it was limited too 2048 :/

the 1024 are originating from the amount of bits assigned to the BlockID in a .smd2 file [10] (.smd2 files are used to store blocks in blueprints and the client- and server-database)

 

[NeonSturm]

Then either you have only 1024 different per ship or the 1024+ IDs are sorted into the 1023-?

Or has it changed?

 

[der_scheme]

It could of course be wrong, but the code I've written here indicates that the bits 0-10 are for IDs, which would mean that we have 2¹¹ = 2048 at our disposal.

 

[Megacrafter127]

It could of course be wrong, but the code I've written here indicates that the bits 0-10 are for IDs, which would mean that we have 2¹¹ = 2048 at our disposal.

Well maybe I miscounted by 1, but it still doesn't explain the skipped IDs.