* only strip the legacy M/S suffix from the last pilot when needed
player_select_get_last_pilot_info() chopped any trailing uppercase M or S
from the LastPlayer value, a holdover from the pre-pilot-file era. Pilots
whose callsigns end in M or S (e.g. BOSS) were never found as the last
pilot. Now the suffix is only removed when the full callsign is not a
pilot but the shortened one is. This also avoids indexing before the
string when LastPlayer is empty.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* route all pilot selection through one commit function
player_select_close() and player_finish_select() each had their own copy
of the code that loads a pilot as the active Player, and the copies had
drifted apart. Both now call player_select_commit_pilot().
This fixes two bugs:
* -pilot did not work with the retail pilot select screen.
player_finish_select() loaded the requested pilot, but then
player_select_close() loaded the highlighted pilot (the most recent
one) over it. The close handler now skips the load if a pilot has
already been committed.
* player_finish_select() ignored its is_multi parameter when setting
player_was_multi, so scripted selection of a multiplayer pilot saved
it as single-player.
Scripted selection also now saves the pilot file, as the retail screen
already did. The background bitmap handle starts out as -1 so that the
close handler doesn't release bitmap 0 when the screen was never set up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* select pilots automatically at game init, through the normal commit path
-startgame, -connect and -almission (via Cmdline_use_last_pilot) used
player_select_get_last_pilot(), which loaded the last pilot directly
without most of the setup that a normal selection does. It skipped
valid_pilot(), multi_options_init_globals() and saving the pilot file.
Because it never entered the pilot select state, it also turned off the
main hall's fallback for an unavailable campaign. Meanwhile -pilot and
-benchmark_mode were handled on the pilot select screen itself, which
scripted UIs replace entirely.
All of these now go through player_select_try_auto_select() at
GS_EVENT_GAME_INIT. It picks the -pilot callsign, else the last pilot
if it still exists, else the most recently saved pilot. It shows the
startup warning popups, validates the pilot, and commits it through
player_select_commit_pilot(). The pilot is multiplayer if -startgame or
-connect was given, and single-player otherwise. If there are no
pilots, or validation fails, the pilot select screen is shown as usual.
The main hall now allows the campaign fallback whenever a pilot has just
been committed, not only when coming from the pilot select state.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* select a pilot automatically for -start_mission
-start_mission skips the main hall, but it still waited on the pilot
select screen. It now uses the same automatic pilot selection as the
other quickstart options, so the screen only appears if there are no
pilots. The pilot is committed as single-player, consistent with the
main hall forcing single-player mode for -start_mission.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* skip the intro movie for quickstart options
When the command line asks to skip pilot selection (-start_mission,
-pilot, -startgame, -connect, -almission, -benchmark_mode), the intro
movie now doesn't play either. It could take several minutes before the
game even reached the pilot. The OnIntroAboutToPlay hook still runs, as
it does when the mod table disables the intro.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
* Shadow overhaul round 2: PCSS, dynamic cascades, cockpit/instanced shadows
Squashed snapshot of lafiel/shadow_overhaul_2's continuation work
(d3922aa87..010f9d2d9), which has no separate upstream PR of its own.
* Add Vulkan rendering backend
Squashed snapshot of the Vulkan backend as vendored into this branch
(ce2d1e85f..6ce539463, authored by Mara van der Laan with build/CI
fixes by Taylor Richards). This work has its own upstream PR #7553
(notimaginative:vulkan-pr-new) and is not otherwise original to true-hdr.
* Add true HDR output, RT shadows, and PCSS shadows for Vulkan
Squashed snapshot of true-hdr's own integration work: true HDR
framebuffer output, wiring the shadow overhaul into the Vulkan
backend (raytraced + cascaded shadow maps), logging refactors, log
filter UI, and CI/build fixes.
* refactor: update Vulkan logging calls to use `nprintf` for scoped logging
* fix: correct shadow cascade count in Vulkan logging calls
* fix: fall back to PATH-resolved ccache when CCACHE_PATH is stale
CI hardcodes /usr/local/bin/ccache, but macOS runners on Apple Silicon
hosts install Homebrew (and ccache) under /opt/homebrew instead,
causing all four Mac configs to fail with "No such file or directory".
* Fix vulkan texture readback to correctly handle transparent pipelines
* Put the pixel swizzles into a util file
* OOB safety check
* Fix fog handling
* Fix MSAA in Vulkan
* fix: enable SMAA for vulkan
* adapt the post-processing AA shaders to hdr
* fix clang-tidy warnings: concatenate nested namespaces, static methods
pixel_swizzle.{h,cpp}: collapse `namespace graphics { namespace util {`
into `namespace graphics::util {` (modernize-concat-nested-namespaces).
VulkanState.h/VulkanDraw.h: getClearColor()/setClearColor() only touch
gr_screen and other globals, no instance state, so make them static
(readability-convert-member-functions-to-static) and drop the
top-level const on getClearColor()'s return type
(readability-const-return-type).
* fix clang-tidy warning
* Extend raytraced shadows to all directional lights
RT shadows previously only shadowed the first directional light in the
scene, even though multi-sun missions push more than one directional
light into the engine. The TLAS raytraced shadows query against is
already light-agnostic, so this extends both the deferred lighting
pass and the forward MODEL shader to shadow every directional light
(capped by a new Max Raytraced Shadow Lights option, configurable via
the in-game Options menu or the Lab's Scene rendering options).
Cascaded shadow maps are untouched: they're built for a single light
only, so the deferred pass still limits itself to one shadowed
directional light whenever CSM (not raytracing) is the active method.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016DA6JHJ3twz2oHGQcZ1Udc
* refactor: improve shader flag handling and render target finalization in Vulkan backend
- Consolidate shader flag setup logic in VulkanPostProcessingLighting to simplify configuration.
- Fix dead field usage in VulkanDraw by ensuring correct image view selection for environment maps.
- Add mip chain regeneration in VulkanRenderer::endRenderTarget to ensure correct mip levels for cubemaps.
* fix: ensure correct mip chain initialization in cubemap rendering
- Add mip chain generation to VulkanDraw for cubemaps with multiple mip levels.
- Fix potential issue with uninitialized mip levels above level 0 in deferred-f.sdr sampling paths.
* fix: don't crash on startup when environment locale is unavailable
std::locale("") pulls in the process's environment locale categories
(LC_CTYPE, LC_MONETARY, LC_PAPER, etc.), and throws std::runtime_error
if any of them names a locale not installed on the host (e.g.
mismatched regional-format overrides). Since SCP_default_locale is
constructed during static initialization, before main() and before any
of our own exception handling exists, an uncaught throw here aborted
the whole process before the game even started. Fall back to the
classic "C" locale instead, which is sufficient since this locale is
only ever used for ASCII case-folding (SCP_toupper/tolower/isdigit).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
* `feat: add raytraced shadows for local lights and optimize TLAS management`
* Make the Commandline authoritative for -res and -vulkan / -opengl
* address BMagnu's comments on the original PR
* update prebuilt version hash to 62c89ef6
* refactor: standardize graphics API handling and document Vulkan limitations in qtFRED
- Updated `AboutDialogModel.cpp` to use `GraphicsAPI` enum for better clarity.
- Ensured qtFRED falls back to OpenGL when Vulkan is requested.
- Added detailed documentation in `qtfred/README.md` regarding Vulkan backend limitations and requirements.
* chore: include cmdline library in main and mission management modules
* docs: add known issue for blank render viewport under Wayland in README.md
* fix CI issues
* chore: add `GR_DEBUG_SCOPE` markers across Vulkan post-processing and rendering paths for improved debugging
* feat: improve Vulkan HDR pipeline with separate encode paths for SDR and HDR10
- Added an HDR10-specific output encode pass in `VulkanRenderer` and `VulkanPostProcessor` that applies PQ/BT.2020 transfer.
- Introduced an optimized SDR fallback path with direct blit support for devices that can skip shader draws.
- Updated `m_sceneLdrCompressed` to provide [0,1]-clamped proxies for HDR edge detection.
- Refactored `copyImageToImage` and added `blitImageToImage` to allow format conversions and optimized transfers.
- Replaced `hdr_mode` with explicit HDR10 flags and data structures for clearer state handling.
* refactor: encapsulate SMAA processing and refactor VulkanPostProcessor
- Moved SMAA-specific logic into `VulkanSMAA` class for better separation of concerns.
- Simplified `initSMAA`, `shutdownSMAA`, and `executeSMAA` logic by leveraging `VulkanLDR` and `PostProcessContext` abstractions.
- Improved initialization and cleanup code with clearer resource lifecycle management.
- Updated debug markers and messages to reference `VulkanSMAA`.
- Enhanced flexibility of fullscreen triangle rendering API with additional parameters (`sampleCount`, `bindGlobalSet`).
* Update Vulkan porting credits in AboutDialogModel
* fix CI issues again
* fix: correct Y-flip in viewport setup for Vulkan light volumes
- Adjusted viewport height to negative value to account for G-buffer render pass's negative Y-axis convention.
- Ensured proper alignment of point and tube light volumes with actual light positions.
* feat: add user-adjustable gamma correction to SDR and HDR10 output paths
- Added gamma correction to HDR10 path, applying user settings before PQ/BT.2020 encode.
- Replaced the SDR blit-only path with an encode pass that applies gamma correction, ensuring consistent behavior across devices.
- Refactored VulkanPostProcessor and associated shaders to support gamma slider adjustments for both SDR and HDR output.
* fix: ensure proper uniform and cull mode setup for Vulkan sphere rendering
- Added uniform buffer setup and default material uniforms in `vulkan_draw_sphere`.
- Disabled face culling in material definition for sphere rendering to align behavior with OpenGL.
* Ensure memory flushes after UBO updates and add explicit pipeline barrier for MoltenVK compatibility.
* fix: add clear pass for SMAA edge detection to prevent persistent artifacts
* feat: add Vulkan debug-utils messenger, opt-in sync validation, frame diagnostics
Groundwork for the renderer-review fix series (.agents/plans/
vulkan-renderer-review-fixes.md, Phase 0):
- Register a VK_EXT_debug_utils messenger (preferred) instead of only the
deprecated VK_EXT_debug_report callback, which is kept as a fallback for
loaders without debug-utils. The messenger config is also chained into
instance creation so vkCreateInstance-time messages are captured.
Validation errors/warnings now go to the main log via mprintf.
- New -gr_sync_validation cmdline flag (implies -gr_debug): chains
VkValidationFeaturesEXT with synchronization validation into instance
creation when VK_LAYER_KHRONOS_validation is available. This is the
regression net for the synchronization fixes in the following commits.
- Frame stats now report descriptor sets/writes allocated per frame and the
total pipeline count (descriptor-manager counters; DescriptorWriter::flush
moved out-of-line to report into the manager).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
* refactor: unify Vulkan render-pass begins, clamp in-pass clears, add per-frame UBO ring
Phase 1 of the renderer-review fix series: shared helpers that the
correctness fixes build on.
- New VulkanRenderer::beginTrackedRenderPass(PassBeginDesc): every render-pass
begin on the frame command buffer now records vkCmdBeginRenderPass and
updates the state tracker (pass, color attachment count, sample count,
render area, viewport) in one place. Converted: setupFrame,
beginSceneRendering (both branches), resumeSceneRendering,
endSceneRendering, beginRenderTarget (viewport kept for gr_set_viewport),
resumeSwapChainPass, plus new resumeScenePassAfterCopy() shared by
copyEffectTexture/copySceneDepthForParticles and
rebeginSwapChainPassAfterReadback() shared by both readbackFramebuffer
exits (~200 lines of duplicated begin/clear/viewport blocks removed).
- The state tracker records the active render area; all four
vkCmdClearAttachments sites clamp their rects against it and skip empty
results. Previously gr_screen-sized clear rects could exceed a smaller
off-screen render target's render area, which is invalid API usage.
- New PerFrameUboRing utility (VulkanPerFrameUbo.h/.cpp): a persistently
mapped uniform buffer with one slot region per frame in flight and a
self-flushing alloc(). Used by the next commit to fix the cross-frame
UBO races.
Deliberate behavior deltas (all safe-direction): the helper always sets
colorAttachmentCount/sampleCount (some sites previously inherited stale
values), and resumeSwapChainPass/resumeSceneRendering now also reset the
standard flipped viewport instead of leaving the previous one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
* fix: eliminate Vulkan cross-frame UBO/buffer races, make gr_sync honest
Phase 2 of the renderer-review fix series: with two frames in flight, several
host-visible resources were rewritten by the CPU while the previous frame's
GPU work could still be reading them.
- The post-processing scratch UBO is now a PerFrameUboRing (per-frame-in-
flight slot regions, persistently mapped, self-flushing alloc). All the
per-pass map/unmap/cursor bookkeeping in bloom/LDR/fog/SMAA is deleted;
the cursor resets exactly once per frame via the new
VulkanPostProcessor::beginFrame() hook in setupFrame.
This also fixes two latent bugs: (a) fog consumed scratch slots mid-scene
and bloom's later same-frame cursor reset overwrote them before submission
whenever fog+bloom were both active; (b) volumetric_fog_data (288 bytes)
overflowed the 256-byte slots - the memcpy spilled into the neighboring
slot and the shader's bound range ended before the aspect/fov/noise
fields. Slots are now 512 bytes (static_assert at the fog call site) and
the per-frame budget is 32 slots.
- The dedicated tonemap, output-encode, and MSAA-resolve UBOs (each a single
instance rewritten per frame, i.e. racy; the MSAA one also never flushed)
are deleted entirely - those passes build their structs on the stack and
allocate from the scratch ring.
- Static-buffer rewrites orphan instead of racing: getVkBuffer() stamps a
last-used frame number, and a full-content updateBufferData() on a Static
buffer used within the last MAX_FRAMES_IN_FLIGHT frames defers the old
VkBuffer to the deletion queue and writes a fresh one. Offset writes
(GPU-heap appends to fresh regions) and PersistentMapping buffers (the
engine holds their mapped pointer and syncs via gr_sync) are exempt.
- gr_sync_wait now honors its contract: VulkanRenderFrame::waitForFinish
takes a timeout and reports expiry without consuming the fence;
VulkanRenderer::waitForFrame returns false for fences taken during the
still-recording frame (previously it waited on a stale or idle slot and
reported success) and resolves the frame->slot mapping correctly. This
makes UniformBufferManager's segment-fence throttling actually protective
on Vulkan for the first time.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
* Refactor framebuffer and target lifecycle: centralized creation/resizing logic, improved resource management across Vulkan post-processing subsystems.
* Improve Vulkan cross-frame sync with explicit access masks and validation updates
- Unified Vulkan validation flag handling in setup, separating engine debug output from synchronization validation.
- Specified access masks and stage flags to address cross-frame WRITE_AFTER_WRITE vulnerabilities, notably in G-buffer, post-processing, and MSAA resolve paths.
- Adjusted subpass dependencies and image layout transitions to prevent read-after-write and write-after-write hazards, detected using `-gr_sync_validation`.
- Fixed uniform buffer and barrier transitions to ensure proper ordering in render passes across frames.
* Refactor Vulkan render-pass dependencies and sync stages for clarity and future testing
- Clarified dependency logic for cross-pass and cross-frame synchronization, ensuring explicit stage and access flag comments match observed behavior.
- Adjusted subpass dependencies to decouple render-pass compatibility definitions from dependency assumptions.
- Highlighted MoltenVK-specific issues and retained workarounds with notes for re-testing on macOS hardware.
- Updated synchronization barriers and validation notes to address historical inconsistencies across platforms.
* Remove transfer queue support; consolidate all operations into the graphics queue
- Removed transfer queue handling, simplifying buffer and queue logic to use the graphics queue for all transfer operations.
- Updated buffer sharing modes and removed related code paths and parameters for transfer queue families.
- Introduced exclusive buffer access, noting async transfer and queue ownership transfers are future work.
- Limited enabled device features to only those actively used by the renderer, reducing unnecessary feature requests (e.g., robustBufferAccess).
* Refactor frame advancement and descriptor management in VulkanRenderer
- Removed `endFrame()` from `VulkanDescriptorManager`, replacing it with `setCurrentFrame(frameIndex)` for explicit frame synchronization.
- Centralized frame index advancement within `VulkanRenderer` to ensure consistency across components.
- Invalidated cached descriptor set bindings at render-pass boundaries to handle raw recorder staleness correctly.
- Optimized pipeline descriptor rebind logic by removing redundant clears during pipeline changes.
* Refactor `PipelineConfig::hash` and Global descriptor set management for improved hashing and memoization efficiency
- Replaced inefficient shift-based hashing in `PipelineConfig::hash` with a robust `hashCombine` strategy to minimize bucket collisions.
- Introduced `maskBits` helper to streamline bitmask creation for boolean fields.
- Implemented memoization for Global (Set 0) descriptor sets, reducing redundant rebuilds across frames and improving performance.
- Added dirty state tracking (`m_globalSetDirty`) and invalidation logic for Global set updates following relevant input changes (e.g., TLAS or UBO modifications).
* Refactor Vulkan post-processing output logic: extracted shared `encodeToSwapChainPass` method to streamline HDR and SDR output paths.
* Optimize Vulkan descriptor set management with per-frame memoization
- Added memoization for Material (Set 1) and PerDraw (Set 2) descriptor sets to reuse cached sets across frames if inputs remain unchanged.
- Implemented precise input tracking for Material and PerDraw descriptor sets to detect and rebuild only when necessary.
- Reduced redundant Vulkan descriptor allocations and writes, improving performance on repeated or batched draw calls.
* Fix Vulkan access masks for G-buffer and scene pass transitions
- Added `eColorAttachmentRead` to access masks in multiple barriers to ensure proper synchronization for load operations (e.g., `loadOp=eLoad`) across render passes.
- Prevented `READ_AFTER_WRITE` synchronization validation issues in deferred and multi-pass rendering scenarios.
- Updated comments to clarify the reasoning behind the access mask changes and load dependencies.
* Refactor Vulkan resource management and indexed draw logic
- Consolidated destruction queue methods in `VulkanDeletionQueue` using a shared `queueHandle` template to reduce redundancy.
- Introduced `ModelDrawParams` structure and `computeModelDrawParams` function to unify indexed draw parameters for models and shadows.
- Simplified draw logic by eliminating repeated calculation of indexed draw parameters and improving code reuse.
* Add `releaseAnimationSlotRef` for ref-count handling of shared animation texture arrays
- Introduced `releaseAnimationSlotRef` to manage reference counting for shared animation texture-array slots, preventing premature destruction of shared resources.
- Updated `flushTextures` and related methods to integrate `releaseAnimationSlotRef` for shared slot cleanup.
- Refactored staging buffer creation into `createStagingBuffer` for 3D texture uploads and shared path consistency.
- Enhanced texture upload logic with improved tracking and logging for re-upload cases, aiding preloading gap analysis.
- Added instrumentation for on-demand mid-frame texture uploads in `FrameStats`.
* Refactor Vulkan resource and texture management, extend debug logging
- Updated smart pointer usage for consistency across Vulkan resource managers (`std::make_unique`).
- Removed redundant `cubeImageView` member and related cleanup logic; unified sampling view management.
- Added per-instance debug log counters (avoiding static state) for Vulkan texture uploads and bindings, improving visibility during initialization and run-time.
- Optimized `VulkanRenderer` property/feature getters by caching physical device properties and features during device creation.
- Improved memory region flushing logic for out-of-date offsets, aligning with Vulkan Memory Allocator behavior.
- Refactored render pass state tracking to reapply dynamic state reliably after mid-frame render passes.
- Enhanced validation and error handling for mismatched update texture formats.
* fix CI build warning
* Fix on-demand YUV texture locking and set alpha uniform for movie rendering in Vulkan
- Corrected bitmap lock type from `BMP_TEX_OTHER` to `BMP_AABITMAP` for YUV textures during on-demand loading.
- Updated movie rendering to bind alpha from the `MovieData` UBO (set 2, binding 4) for Vulkan, aligning behavior with OpenGL implementation.
* revert inadvertent changes introduced by a squash commit
* address ci issues
* remove wip stuff from code comments that make no sense to people who aren't me
* Remove unused LD_LIBRARY_PATH export and fix shader shadow map sampling.
* Refactor batched rendering uniform setup in Vulkan
- Removed unused fields from `genericData` uniform block, simplifying shader definitions.
- Updated Vulkan material uniform handling to align with OpenGL's batched rendering logic.
- Introduced `batched_data` struct for streamlined UBO updates, improving maintainability and clarity.
* Add `-hdr` command-line option for HDR nits configuration
- Introduced `-hdr` parameter to set paper white and peak luminance in nits, overriding in-game HDR settings.
- Added input validation with error feedback for incorrect format.
* Remove unused `MODEL_SDR_FLAG_SHADOW_MAP` macro from shader flags
* clean up unrelated changes
* Invalidate Vulkan state tracker bindings after external command buffer modifications
- Added `invalidateExternalBindings()` to `VulkanStateTracker` to handle stale pipelines, descriptors, and dynamic states caused by external Vulkan commands (e.g., ImGui renders mid-pass).
- Updated ImGui rendering flow to call `invalidateExternalBindings()` post-draw, ensuring consistent pipeline state for subsequent engine renders.
- Adjusted image usage flags to account for `eTransferSrc` in texture readbacks.
- Fixed barrier `dstAccessMask` and pipeline stage flags to ensure proper synchronization for image transitions.
* Add a few more generically useful lines to the log
* Simplify Qt deployment logic and improve handling for system-installed Qt on Linux
* add cmdline headers to make qtFred compile
* use VK_KHR_synchronization2 for sync and barrier purposes
* Simplify and clean up Qt deployment logic in CMake for qtfred
* update get_bitmap_from_texture to match the new API
* Enhance `-hdr` command-line option to force HDR output and support optional nits configuration with improved input validation and overrides.
* Improve Vulkan robustness, add device feature checks, and refine memory/logging.
- Added depth clamping support gated by device feature checks, with fallback where unsupported.
- Improved deferred lighting UBO overflow handling with user-accessible warnings and buffer size adjustments.
- Enhanced Vulkan logging for validation, allocation, and debugging:
- Automatic logging for descriptor pool exhaustion/fragmentation.
- Vertex format and resource destruction checks.
- Notifications for generic layout transitions and volumetric texture uploads.
- Consolidated shader logic to ensure Vulkan and OpenGL parity.
* Remove HDR10 encode shader and consolidate gamma correction logic for SDR and HDR10. Replace `Verify` assertions with `Assert`
* Add braces to conditional in object lighting logic for clarity
* Refine Vulkan memory allocation checks with `Verification` for improved error handling and messaging.
* Refine VulkanBuffer resize logic to preserve contents with CPU-side copy and add safeguards for non-coherent memory scenarios.
* Add detailed comments explaining descriptor array capacity constants in VulkanDescriptorManager
* Gate shadow support on depth clamp feature availability and clarify its necessity with improved comments.
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Co-authored-by: BMagnu <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Mara van der Laan <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]>
* avoid undefined behavior from UNREACHABLE on reachable code paths
UNREACHABLE expands to __assume(false) / __builtin_unreachable() in
release builds, which is undefined behavior if the code is ever actually
reached. Many UNREACHABLE sites only guard against unexpected-but-
possible runtime states (values from tables, mission/save files, network
packets, scripting, or user input), so reaching them should degrade
gracefully rather than invoke UB.
Replace UNREACHABLE with Assertion(false, ...) at all such sites. It
still pops an error in debug builds, but in release it is a harmless
no-op that simply falls through to the following code. Sites that are
genuinely unreachable by local invariants (e.g. a switch over a bounded
random number) are left as UNREACHABLE.
A few converted sites had no safe fall-through -- an uninitialized read,
null dereference, or null call would have followed -- so they also get a
minimal recovery: initialize the value, guard the dereference, return
early, or skip the offending item.
Where the converted site was a simple guard of the form
if (x) { Assertion(false, ...); return; }
hoist the check onto the invariant instead:
Assertion(!x, ...);
if (x) { return; }
This states the expectation directly and shows the offending value in
the debug popup, while keeping the same graceful runtime degradation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
* addendum
After consultation with Lafiel, use UNREACHABLE in situations that are effectively impossible even if not provably impossible. UNREACHABLE = "this shouldn't ever happen"; Assertion = "if this ever happens, it's a coding error". Also fix a few other sites and change a couple to Warnings.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
* Extract shadows into own shader and render pass
# Conflicts:
# code/def_files/data/effects/main-g.sdr
* Consolidate render queue code
* More cleanup
* Fix missing clear of shadow buffer inter frame
* Request capability for viewport layer rendering
* instanced shadows
* Fix issues
* Switch to PCF+PCSS and proper textures for it
* Smooth PCSS toggle
* Fix for windows
* Fix OGL error
* Cleanup of old flag
* Expose shadow smoothness
* Fix missing uniform
* Make number of shadow cascades dynamic
* Progress on cockpit shadow integration
* Wrangle Cockpit and show-ship shadows into correct behaviour
* Cleanup
* make player ship shadow table options more intuitive
* Cleanup
* Only read from correct set of shadow maps, also stretch first main-scene map to 0
* Remove now non-necessary validation
* Make shadow cascade buffer more typesafe and less wasteful
* Don't allocate cockpit cascades if not used
* Cleanup
* Final fixes
* Fix Warnings
* clang tidy
* Fix missing fallback for shader precaching
* That weird FOV multiplier that always ruins your day
* Avoid shadow geometry artifacts by using hardware depth clamping
* Correctly handle shadow cascade overrides with hardcoded length
* GCC9 and its sad state of C++17 support.
* Address Feedback
# Conflicts:
# code/graphics/shadows.cpp
Turrets with initial animations flip animation angles every frame in the techroom. The commit returns TriStateBool from model_get_cached_ui_render_instance specifically so callers can run setup only when a new instance is created, but only `render_tech_model` (the Lua path) actually checks it.
Since the instance is cached and persists across frames, every frame re-runs clearShipData + initial-animation start on an already-animated instance, re-applying the initial animations relative to the current (already-animated) pose. This is what seems to produces the per-frame flip/jitter.
This PR caches it to prevent this, and fixes#7526. Tests confirm it works as expected.
Some code refactoring to allow mission titles to be strings of any length. Titles that are too long to actually display (based on string width) will be visibly truncated using `font::force_fit_string`, but the underlying title will not be affected. Multiplayer is still subject to the 31-character length limit, so titles sent over the network will still have characters truncated.
Also removes some redundant calls to `gr_get_string_size`, since `font::force_fit_string` returns the fitted string width.
* use std::move() for local variables that are copied but not reused
Addresses ~140 Coverity "Variable copied when it could be moved"
defects across 74 files. Every std::move() targets a local variable
whose value is consumed by push_back, emplace, assignment, lambda
capture, or a function call and is never read again afterward.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>
* clang: use std::make_shared
* clang: use std::make_unique
* address feedback
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <[email protected]>
All other display names are `SCP_string`, so make these `SCP_string` as well to be consistent and to allow arbitrary-length display names.
Also fix a few infelicities with German translation and the script API.
Rewrite `force_fit_string` to be more robust and to remove the potential for memory access violations. Also audit all of the length parameters in the calling functions - some of them were the buffer size, not the length. This should fix the mysterious crash in the mission log screen.
* Allow mods to easily tune 'Target Hostile Bomb or Bomber' control
The `Target Hostile Bomb or Bomber` control targets bombs or bombers, though in mods may want a way to easily set exactly what this control does while still leveraging the utility of the 'bomb' flag for weapons and/or 'bomber' flag for ships (both of which affect AI behavior in various ways).
For example, in Solaris, Darius wants a way a way to allow players to only target bombs, while still allowing ships to be classified as as 'bomber'. In this case, the 'only bombs' option can be used. This PR adds a `$Behavior for pressing 'Target Hostile Bomb or Bomber' control:` to allow mods to set the behavior to `default` `only bombs` or `only bombers`.
For example, in FotG we want to allow players to target just bombers, as bombs themselves are hard to shoot down (critically though we still want the player to be able to manually target a bomb via 'target object in reticle'. This allows players to prioritize and easily target bombers while allowing skilled pilots to retain the option of manually shooting down bombs if they want an extra challenge. In this case the 'only bomber' option can be used.
Tested and works as expected in all cases.
* update using cleaned up function
* extra alt option for default case
* warning cleanup
* update default message
* whitespace clang
* appease clang with brackets
* Allow Display Name to be used in Kills Stats by Ship Class
Currently, the display that is shown for kills by ship type does not use display name of the ship class, which makes the ship classes look different than the other areas where they are displayed throughout the game. This PR fixes that by using display name when rendering the kill stats. Note, this PR does not edit the pilot file structure at all, it simply just tunes how the names are displayed/rendered.
Importantly though, display names do not have to be unique, while the ship class names do. Thus, this PR also consolidates the number of kills of ship classes with the same display name (For example, FotG uses classes like `X-wing#Red` and `X-wing#Blue`, but both have the same display name of `X-wing`, so this consolidation means FSO will simple display `X-wing` with the sum. Overall, mods not using display name will be unaffected, while mods that do use display name will now have it properly work in the barracks and debrief rendering.
Tested and works as expected.
* remove flag for now
* move assert
* use handy get_display_name
Improve skipmemymissionyo in several ways, based on RedMageJoe's recent experience:
1. Allow spaces to be accepted in the mission prompt
2. If the requested mission can't be found, just abort rather than restarting the entire campaign
3. Clarify that the prompt needs a filename and add a message if the mission can't be found
4. Improve handling of the .fs2 extension
5. Fix a bounds check in `popup_input`
Use `std::unique_ptr` rather than `vm_malloc` and `vm_free` to handle optional strings in ship classes. This makes the code more robust and increases memory safety. This also allows several string variables to be consolidated in the ship class and weapon class script APIs.
Also add new `stuff_string()` overloads and a new `F_TRIMMED` string parsing type to handle the new fields and the string trimming done inside `stuff_malloc_string()`.
* Create scripting hook: 'On Options Menu Closed'
Complements #6591. This PR creates a hook, 'On Options Menu Closed' that provides a hook variable of `hv.OptionsAccepted` which is true if the options are accepted/saved, false if the options are discarded and not accepted/saved.
* Option to unify setting options with easy flag
Most modern UIs, including KNet 1.3, have options that are always set and do not require the user to click save, or on the few cases where options will not be saved automatically, the program shows a popup telling the user the changes are not saved. In addition, the user experience of setting many options then forgetting to press save is far more common and annoying then the opposite. As a last example, even the F3 in-game options menu presents Escape as the leave and save button, not the leave and discard button.
Currently, there are two screens where FSO allows users to press escape after setting options and leave without warning. The main options screen and the HUD screen. As it turns out, half of the options in the main options screen get saved even if the player presses escape (all the detail slider options along with the joystick and mouse sensitivity and dead zone settings), so current behavior is inconsistent to users.
This PR, aimed to be strategic and efficient, creates a game settings table option that allows mods to set so that the escape key for the HUD and Options screen does the same thing as pressing Ctrl-Enter/Accept. This optional setting unifies behavior, so that setting an option sets it whenever the user leaves that screen (whether it is pressing Escape, Ctrl-Enter, or the Accept button). The other screen that involves options and an escape is the control config menu, but that already methods in place to deal with escape in a consistent way.
Tested and everything works as expected.
* fix oversight of saving when going to F3 menu
* update to enum for future additions
* cleanup with better naming
* update warning message
* one more warning cleanup
* Create scripting hook: 'On Options Menu Tab Changed'
It would be very useful to know which options tab is active (IE Options, Multi, Detail) but it's all under one single Game State `GS_STATE_OPTIONS_MENU`.
This PR creates a hook, 'On Options Menu Tab Changed' that returns the value of the newly switched to options tab. Lafiel and I both discussed making this an ENUM, but the ENUM list is already quite bloated and this integer value seems like the cleanest solution.
Tested and works as expected.
* fix description typo
* Allow modders to always show first game tip at start
This PR adds a simple boolean that allows mods the ability to always show the game tips in the same order, starting with the first entry. This is particularly useful if the mod is introducing something to new players.
The current behavior is to pick a random starting location, so this PR just always starts at tip index 0.
Tested and works as expected.
* add comment clarification
* make into integer instead of bool
* better tips index setting method
* spelling and static cast
* one more static cast
* make actual warning
* clang and consistent order
Several changes related to the volumetrics model fix:
1. Update the `model_load()` prototype with better parameter names, including a new `ErrorType` enum defined in pstypes.h
2. Update the `MIN`, `MAX`, and `CLAMP` macros, all of which were susceptible to performance issues because they duplicated their tokens. This could cause functions or calculations to be re-run unnecessarily. Since the codebase is now on C++17, `std::clamp()` can be used.
3. Update the rest of the codebase to fix any associated issues.
`On Dialog Start` (used in SCPUI and within `popup_init`) reads popup options by affirmative or negative flags, and the popup for exiting the Mainhall did not set these flags. Notably, most popups that use `POPUP_NO` or `POPUP_YES` already, so this PR sets those flags for this popup. Now `On Dialog Start` within `popup_init` has access to the correct flags.
PR tested and works as expected, both in retail UI and SCPUI
* initial version of default_settings.tbl
* Add a way to change player detail level defaults and implement a couple more options to detail_settings.tbl
* support the rest of 2d.cpp options
* Allow enforcing options to a specific value
* modernize detail defaults, levels, and values
* Fix parsing issue and remove lambda capture by reference
* fix print
* clang
* More efficient +Enforce parsing
* cleanup
* typo
* don't negate this
* error_display
* clarify language between presets, levels, and values
* add default case
* small fix
* use a map to minimize string lookups
As discovered by WouterSmits, campaigns with periods in their filenames caused issues with FSO's campaign handling. Specifically, in The Babylon Project, the EA-Minbari war v1.0.fc2 campaign would not save progress because FSO expected EA-Minbari war v1.fc2 in certain places. This is because the `_splitpath()` function attempted to remove an extension from a filename that already had it removed. For most campaigns this did not matter, but WouterSmits found a campaign where it did.
To solve this, there is now a new `util::get_file_part()` function to remove the path without removing the extension. This replaces `_splitpath()` for campaign files, as well as the similar `clean_filename()` and `GetFilePart()` functions in other places. All code paths were inspected for any chance of inadvertent extension adding, and Assertions were added to verify future code. The only potential problem area was `player:loadCampaignSavefile()` which now pre-removes the campaign extension if needed.
There were several bugs and design issues in the Vasudan headz cheat, probably due to being coded in a hurry right before release:
1. Although the cheat activated on the main hall, it was not immediately apparent, requiring the player to switch screens and come back
2. The detection of whether the main hall is Vasudan did not work after the cheat was activated, due to the background filename changing (this one is actually not Volition's fault)
3. The implementation of the cheat was actually in the wrong section of code, resulting in some confusion
These are now fixed. The cheat can be enabled or disabled from one function, the graphics are reloaded properly, and the main hall detection includes the cheat-active version of the main hall. Also, the door sounds have been slightly refactored to use a `std::pair` rather than a vector, since there are exactly two sounds, an open and a close.
