This system adds the code necessary for letting content creators specify
complex events by specifying a simple, program-like sequence of
operations that will be executed by the engine when a certain event is
triggered.
* Fix underline length calculation in message scrollback
* Use SCP_string for message source (which allows ships with long display names to work without crashing) and message text
* Upgrade assorted functions to work with SCP_string
Several things going on here:
1) refactor `get_display_string()` to `get_display_name()` to be more precise
2) likewise, refactor `alt_name` to `display_name`
3) automatically generate display names when parsing the ship, ship class, and weapon class for the first time
4) remove the on-the-fly truncation of names with hash symbols
Basically this subsumes the `end_string_at_first_hash_symbol` logic into the display name. Rather than truncate the name every time it's displayed, truncate it once when it's parsed. This takes advantage of the previous display name infrastructure, since display names are a superset of the case of truncating the hash symbol.
This also has the benefit of now allowing hash symbols within display names. When updating Destiny of Peace, I noticed that "Lockheed Shuttle #4" would no longer display properly; and it was not previously possible to fix this even with display names.
I could pull out the `get_display_string()` and `alt_name` renaming into a separate PR if desired.
Although not technically a bug, several mods have been misled by the description of the "$Rearm Rate:" weapons table setting, and specifying an initial ammo value that is less than 100 for ballistic primaries would force the ballistic ammo to be loaded all at once, with "$Rearm Rate:" just specifying how long that one load would take.
This allows modders to use more realistic behavior for things like anti-turret ballistic primaries, where initial ammo could be in the thirties so that any number above zero can be added per load.
This is similar to the other changes I already posted. Here the sound
instance handles are converted to their own handle type which will make
it easier to use the sound API.
Nightmare discovered an off-by-one error when checking the validity of a
particle effect handle. Since the new ID system makes that much easier
and less error-prone I decided to go ahead and convert all handles to
an ID typedef which also fixes the reported bug.
I also fixed a few issues where the internal char array was used as a
mutable string which changed the string after it was parsed which is not
good(TM).
This also replaces all user-facing occurences of usages of name to use
the new function so that the correct, possibly translated, name is displayed
to the user.
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.
This allows to render screen space decals into the deferred lighting
buffers no matter how complex the underlying geometry is.
Currently there is only limited support for using this in the engine.
Only weapon impact decals are supported at the moment for testing
purposes.
Shield impact sounds now re-use the shield quadrant calculated by the collision code instead of naively recalculating based on global hitpos, allowing the hull impact sound to play if the shot pierces shields or was fired from within the shield mesh, and simplifying the relevant calculations in the process.
Adds a new "+Pulse Interval:" countermeasure field that enables the new behavior; all countermeasures that don't have this field defined still use the old behavior of the global frame counter.
This changes countermeasure logic quite a bit, but I attempted to mitigate performance implications by re-using an existing traversal of the object list in order to build the list of active countermeasures each frame. If any countermeasures are actively pulsing in a frame, the object list is traversed again, looking for homing weapons. Each homing weapon then goes through the active countermeasure list and checks to see if it got decoyed. Most of this central logic is unchanged from the old behavior, although no longer separated into two functions, and it should be more efficient since it's using a prepared list of active countermeasures instead of traversing the object list looking for countermeasures for every homing missile (which are themselves found by traversing the object list).
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