Two updates to the energy transfer system.
1. Previously, for fighters missing a system (e.g. shields), the energy would be treated as if all energy from that system was routed to the other systems. So, for example, a fighter's typical speed would be faster without shields than with shields. A new AI profile flag now treats the other systems as if the energy had not been transferred.
2. At some point in development, Volition intended the `$Power Output` ships.tbl field to affect ETS. A new AI profile flag now treats the power output as a factor of energy applied to energy systems.
* Fix/cleanup using `intrinsic no shields` and ship loadout switching
The flag `intrinsic no shields` is used to allow switching between both shielded and unshielded craft in loadout. There is one edge case that was not accounted for though, which is that if a ship has no shields, and is switched to a ship with shields, the mission will start with that ship having a current shield strength of 0 and only slow get it's shield strength up via shield recharge.
This is not expected behavior, so this PR adds the extra conditional check that if that flag is on, then treat shield percent as full instead of empty. This ensures that switching to a ship with shields in loadout will begin the mission with full shield strength (instead of 0 and waiting for a full recharge).
Tested and works as expected. If desired I can put this behind a game settings flag, but I figured this was the expected behavior (and I'm not even sure how many mods besides FotG uses `intrinsic no shields`.
* also fix initial ets setting with intrinsic no shields
* format consistency
* base working version
* localization and minor tweaks
* add retail UI controls
* Add way to hide gauges from Config view
* convert hud config from index matching to id matching
* clang
Remove the `n_quadrants` field because it is entirely redundant to the size of `shield_quadrant`. Also, be more rigorous about the difference between `shield_get_quad(i)` (which can fluctuate) and `shield_quadrant[i]` (which gives the exact quadrant strength). Finally add some C++ casts and move some checks to better places.
* Add scaling for vfnts and scale multipler to gr_string
* nullptr
* Add scaling to a couple other string operations
* Add scaling features to additional bitmap drawing methods
* Implement framework for rendering hud gauges in config mode
* fix merge error
* address feedback
* Fix max Z speed when using ETS and engine damage tracking
Follow up for #5137 and #5292. This engine strength check thus needs to be added to all instances where `max_vel.xyz.z` is updated, so a function was created and added in respective locations. Fixes#5367.
* cleanup and adding validity assertations
* cleanup outdated comments
* might as well make the cleanup look nice
* update to account for more edge cases
* cleanup
This was the bug found recently that was thought to be related to #2157. It turns out that ships will manage ETS even if they are playing dead, which caused a ship to accelerate during a ship-maneuver as it directed more power to engines. So this PR adds a "$ships playing dead don't manage ETS:" flag to control this behavior. Tested and works.
This also capitalizes two flags that did not have an initial capital letter.
* Add drop shadows to HUD text
* Add drop shadow to reticle
* Add control to toggle Drop Shadows
* Double render reticle shadows
* Use gauge_color instead of creating a temp var
* Add shadows to ETS gauges
* Set shadow default to false and adjust formatting
* Restore numbering for controlsconfig
As astuetly determined by @Baezon `the speed differential for retail cap ships is caused by 'ships with no shields can manage ETS', being part of the bugfixes with target version`. This PR adds two flags per Discord suggestion, one for all ships and one for only small ships.
This one line fix properly specifies which ship to use for ETS managment. The recent merge of `Non-shielded ships manage ETS` had a object reference error, so this rectifies that. Thanks to Axem for finding this!
Using the `No_shields` flag for ships is common usage in multiple mods, and as it turns out ships with that flag set will not have the AI manage ETS values due to an early return in the `ai_manage_ets` function. This PR adds an AI flag to allow ships with no shields to manage ETS regarding weapons and engines. This flag was tested and works as expected.
Previously a ship's shields and weapon regeneration per second rates were only stored in the ship_info strut, thus they should not be changed during a mission or via scripting (see #2236 and and #2239). There are many precedents for taking a ship_info value ans copying it to a ship_object value so the value can be changed on a per ship basis in mission (auto aim FOV is one of many examples). This PR thus copies the shield and weapon recharge values to the ship_object and exposes those new values to scripting.
This adds a new class which allows to create type safe resource handle
types. At the moment, the engine uses ints pretty much everywhere for
providing handles to resources created by the specific subsystems. Since
all ints are the same to the C/C++ typesystem it is perfectly legal to
pass a sound handle to the graphics API as a buffer handle which will
obviously cause issues.
This adds a new type called "ID" which is a wrapper class for a generic
handle but with added type safety. An instance of this class cannot be
passed to a function expecting another type of handle which provided
compile-time type safety for these APIs.
As an initial test I converted the game sound handles to this new type.
I already found a bug in the mainhall system thanks to this new type.
The mainhall used the game sound handles as sound instance handles which
probably meant that that specific code never really worked right. I
removed the code since there was no better alternative for fixing it.
Fix unlimited transfer of energy to shields (energy lost)
Fix thresholds in ai balance shields, rearm timer & call4help
Fix scaling in shield pain flash
Fix variable number of shield segments in shield pain flash
Lastly includes formatting tidy-up in shield pain flash
This introduces a new mechanism for handling bit flags. Instead of using an int (or two, or three) to write bits into, this uses the std::bitset in a wrapper class that accepts an enum class as input. This means that certain classes of errors we've had a few of in the engine, where a coder used the wrong set of flags or checked them against the wrong variable (SF_STEALTH vs SIF_STEALTH, for example) can now be detected at a compiler level rather than not at all.
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