Add admin panel

[RedRafe]

Changes

• added config & top button for admin panel (Mk2 armor icon)
• admin commands file now also exports its command functions to be used elsewhere, by providing additional param { actor = LuaPlayer } if needed
• updated missing handlers/rules in utils.gui and luackeckr

Main features

Added 3 pages in admin panel: Player manager, Map manager, Lua console. Scenarios can also add more pages through the AdminPanel API, planning on adding the history of player actions to help admins moderate maps.

Player manager

• General actions: cheat mode, create pools, delete stuff... basically shortcuts from already existing console commands for admins
• Player management: promote/demote/jail/invoke/goto players. requires to select another player from the dropdown selector (can filter for online/all/offline players)
• Players ban: helps building the ban message by providing few common reasons, the the admin can further customize the text by editi it themselves before banning.

screenshot of the player manager panel

Map manager

• Just a bunch of button-slider pairs to tweak map settings/enemies/pollution/evo. Label on the right shows the current map setting, while sliders have a tooltip that shows the "selected" value on the slider. Wont be applied until the user presses the button.

screenshot of the map manager

Lua console

• I dont expect many admins to use this, but writing commands in the console is shit because it's just 1 line high, so this is more a QoL gift for us devs :) (will probably remain at bottom of all future pages added)

screenshot of the lua console panel

Future development:

• maybe add some tooltips here & there for buttons based on feedbacks. Could also have each button tooltips that is a "shortcut" for a command, be the description of the command itself and all the parameters that go into it (if an admin needs to manually run the command with specific parameters, idk...)
• add the history of player actions panel. Still need to think on how to actually make it. Tracking players actions is straightforward, displaying the information in a useful/organized way instead of a giant wall of text/giant table of data is not

[grilledham]

Had a play around, looks good. Just some comments to address.

[RedRafe]

The map manager is already quite useful to tweak game speed/map reveals/enemy settings while debugging. So we can also think to implement more debugging features, or even adding a separate page (only visible to admin panel in debug mode) with shortcuts of debug tools/scripts that we usually run.

[RedRafe]

Made it a separate slider with its command tooltip as well to make it clear

[grilledham]

Testing again, I notice that when you ban a player, it says that the player was banned by script.

This concerns me as we keep track of which admin did the ban at https://refactorio.de/admin/bans and I wouldn't like to lose that. I'm not sure what the solution to this is.

[grilledham]

Actually this might jus be coming from text[#text + 1] = ' was banned by <script>**\\n' in Report.ban_player. I'll investigate further.

[RedRafe]

Yeah I thought it was strange too when testing. I looked at

RedMew/features/report.lua

Line 436 in d109a66

function Module.ban_player(player, reason)

and there was no "admin" player in the code so I just assumed bans always had <server> as actor. I actually never banned myself a player in game, only through our interface, so I dont know if there's another route that shows the actor of the ban? Actor of the ban should be displayed if done by command/buttons (probably need to add it as 3rd param in the Report module and if not available, default to <script> just like other commands)

[grilledham]

In game we normally ban using the /ban command that picks up the admin automatically. The problem is that https://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/classes/LuaGameScript.html#ban_player doesn't let you pass in the admin. I'm not sure how we can work around this. I tried the rawset(game, 'player', admin) trick, but it didn't work in this case 🙁.

[grilledham]

I think these are the last few comments.