1. Add a `vanish()` function for beam objects, to be consistent with other object types
2. Add a `BeamFree` virtvar, analogous to `TurretLocked`
3. Add timestamp variants of TurretLocked and BeamFree to be consistent with sexps
4. Add `BeamLife`, `BeamWarmup`, and `BeamWarmdown` virtvars so scripts can access table properties
5. Add "On Beam Death", "On Beam Warmup", and "On Beam Warmdown" hooks
6. Clarify some existing documentation and patch a couple things
This adds several fixes to make the event and menu music more robust:
1. The game will now run with zero soundtracks. All accesses into a potentially empty vector should now have checks.
2. Soundtracks and menu music are now checked for validity before being played (not just when importing a FSM mission).
3. The parsing validity checks and the in-game event music now check for skippable patterns using the same function.
4. Zero measures and zero samples-per-measure now cause the game to skip a pattern. Negative values now trigger a warning.
5. Omitting some or all of the `$Name:` lines for a soundtrack will not cause an assert.
Fixes#5576. Follow-up to #5572.
The `mn.createWeapon()` function takes an optional group ID for weapons that share lighting, but the internal `weapon_create_group_id()` function was never exposed to the API. This adds that.
Since other functions in the scripting API remove extensions before loading the files, and since the internal functions expect them to be removed, the streaming anim API should handle that too.
* fast version of setting position and orientation
* preliminary stale collide time
* add global collision cache stale flag instead
* clean up
* more clean up
* no periods >.>
* bring back single object version
* rename and bring back stale object list
* use a set
When fireballs were made dynamic in 609ed4ed94, the `MAX_FIREBALLS` #define lost any relationship to the fireball collection. This removes it and also correctly specifies the size of the fireball collection.
This fixes a CTD when accessing items in `mn.Fireballs` via script.
See title. There were some cascade effects, but the changes are mostly contained to the model code. The calls to `gr_render_model` and `g3_render_primitives` use `const_cast` because constifying that API would require a whole other PR.
1. Add a function to retime *only* the collision pairs involving a specific object. This is useful when only one object has moved, since only collisions involving that object are affected.
2. Use this function when objects are moved for autopilot, via sexp, and via script.
Previously collision pairs were not retimed when objects were moved via script, leading to bugs. This fixes that.
* initial API for hud config elements
* get rendering, highlighting, and selecting working
* Add a way to create color objects
* some cleanup and fixes
* go away we dont need you
* allow arbitrarily scaling the hud config draw
* last few config options and innitial preset handling
* vectorize hud presets and setup handling
* some last minute fixes
* iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiint
* really
* documentation and address feedback
* completely revert this as well
* more documentation
* document all the things
* comment out unused parameter
* peach emoji retentive
* whatever
* return types
* color
Follow-up to #5280:
1. Make the Rank virtvar actually return a rank object, to be consistent with other Lua API methods
2. Add a RankIndex virtvar to replicate the previous functionality
3. Make RankIndex return the expected 1-based index for Lua
This is a breaking change to the API, but since the original API is less than a month old, the impact should be small.
mjn-mixael