Previously, the game used a dead-reckoning system for measuring time, where several time counters were incremented as long as time was running. This unfortunately has no way to synchronize time in the long term, and therefore in-game time will tend to run faster or slower than real time by a few percent, depending on various factors.
This PR redesigns the timestamp system to use the SDL time counter which will always keep it in sync with real time. However this necessarily involves a bit of clever handling when the game is paused and unpaused. It also revealed several minor bugs in several places in the code where timestamps were handled.
This PR is currently in draft status until the design can be updated to handle time compression. In all other respects it should be working.
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 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.
This allows to use standard TrueType Fonts for text rendering in FSO. It uses the NanoVG library which provides the ability of drawing 2D shapes. This library is used for most 2D operations now and can also be used directly by using the PathRenderer class.
convert credits.cpp to use float version of gr_opengl_string; eventually Taylor wanted to make the float version standard
git-svn-id: svn://svn.icculus.org/fs2open/trunk/fs2_open@11127 387891d4-d844-0410-90c0-e4c51a9137d3
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