This PR adds a table entry that allows modders to specify the damage threshold for when turrents become less accurate due to weapon subsystem damage. A Game table setting is easier to set once and tune, thus this PR allows that efficent exposure to the modder and does not require a large change or complex table entry.
Fixes 2526 by making the array a vector and also adds a Shockwaves always damage bombs game_setting.tbl setting and a Shockwaves_consistently_apply_damage game_settings.tbl setting. The second one keeps bombs and asteroids from being hit more than once by shockwaves, like ships do!
Since the original release of FS2, internal strings have been translated to their English entries in strings.tbl but external strings have not been translated to their English entries in tstrings.tbl. It appears that string translation was universal until it was disabled via a hack, probably due to FRED idiosyncrasies (see comment in `fred_init()`), and then not re-enabled for release. PR #2343 re-enabled it, but this turned out to have undesirable side-effects since many mods used incorrect XSTR indexes for external strings.
This PR restores the previous behavior and also cleanly separates localization into translated and untranslated modes. FRED will always run in untranslated mode. FSO will run in translated mode for all languages except English, where it will run in untranslated mode UNLESS the new option `$Use tabled strings for the default language` is enabled in game_settings.tbl.
Previously, Engine Wash Intensity didn't actually do anything in the code. This adds a game table setting that let's modders specify to the game to actually take the intensity value into account when calculating engine wash effects.
This PR adds a table entry that allows modders to specify the RGBI values for the damage and emp arc colors (which were previosuly hardcoded).
This option adds the table entry to `Game_settings.tbl` under `#Graphic Settings` with the lines:
```
$EMP Arc Color:
+Primary Color Option 1: rgb
+Primary Color Option 2: rgb
+Secondary Color Option 1: rgb
$Damage Arc Color:
+Primary Color Option 1: rgb
+Primary Color Option 2: rgb
+Secondary Color Option 1: rgb
```
This is a system for storing arbitrary data in the config file and then
easily retrieving it later on. This has full Lua support for exposing
the available options in a custom UI and changing the values of the
options. This ported some of the existing command line options over to
the new system which is opt-in for the moment by using a mod_table flag.
This allows to use the built-in lua "require" function with our file
system. This will help organize complicated scripts and it will also
allow to use libraries which were designed for this system.
To enable this change, this includes a new mechanism which allows to
load scripts from the default file system so that the files don't need
to be included in every mod. The default files can be overridden by a
mod if a special mod-table option has been set, similar to how external
shaders are handled right now.
This is mostly intended for total conversions to allow them to set
themselves apart from FS2 based mods. It uses the new in-memory
filesystem to support a default icon in case no icon was specified by
the mod.
This add a system for adding generic instances of the DynamicSEXP class
to the SEXP system. The only implementation at the moment is the LuaSEXP
which is used by the mn.addSEXP lua API to allow Lua to add new SEXPs.
Since this requires that FRED also runs lua scripts I added a mod table
option to enable scripting in FRED. Since the current scripts are not
built with FRED in mind it would likely break all these scripts if FRED
would be opened with normal scripting enabled.
This fixes#1320.
This adds support for displaying subtitles embedded in movie files. This
supports files with multiple subtitle streams where each stream contains
the subtitles for one language. When the movie file is opened, the
stream for the currently active language will be used and displayed.
This resolves one of the points mentioned in #1522.
This also depends on PR #1484.
This adds proper Unicode support by allowing the parse system to read
UTF-8 encoded files. The new mode is controlled by a mod option which
allows older mods to continue using the legacy text encoding.
That option changes the behavior of several systems in FSO. It disallows
the usage of Volition fonts since they don't support Unicode encoding
and changes a few usages of special characters to their unicode
counterparts of generic rendering solutions.
This fixes#1415.
FSO now allows the window title to be specified via game_settings.tbl, some never-used function arguments were pruned at the same time, and fred.rc now receives version information (for the About dialogue and the title bar) from a cmake-generated header, so the version numbers get filled in properly. Speaking of FRED's About dialogue, it now displays the copyright symbol properly.
This adds a small system for letting a mod specify which version of FSO
was designed for. That would allow us to introduce code which would
normally break backwards-compatibility by putting it in an if block
which checks if the mod supports the FSO version which ontroduced the
behavioral change.
There is currently no code which uses the new functions yet so I added a
few tests to verify that the options do what they are designed to do.
This fixes#1389.
Baezon