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.
Somewhere along the line, "sentry gun" was replaced with "escape pod" in the inverted is_flyable check. This made the game think an escape pod wasn't flyable and therefore things like waypoint orders were not displayed. This PR fixes that.
Additionally, I fixed a potential bug in weapons.cpp where the HUGE flag should really check against HUGE ships. And there's a no-op formatting change in hudtargetbox.cpp.
This maintains the type information which can be used for enforce
const-correctness and also for implementing more advanced ways of
handling the type information.
The routine ai_turn_towards_vector() had an unused parameter (frametime)
and it has been removed.
Each of the instances where this routine is called have also been updated
to reflect the parameter removal. As this resulted in the routine
swarm_update_direction() suddenly having an unused parameter, that routine
and the places where it is called have also been updated (remove
unused parameter).
Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <[email protected]>
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.
This can be used for mark parts of the code which should be unreachable
in normal execution. In debug mode, if such a statement is reached an
Error dialog is shown which aborts the execution. In release mode the
macro is replaced with a compiler specific expression that lets the
compiler know that this part is unreachable which allows it to optimize
the code better.
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.
The current particle system uses dynamic allocation of particle
instances for keeping track of particle instances. This adds unnecessary
overhead in case the code does not need a handle to this particle which
is the case in pretty much all instances.
The new non-persistent particles are stored in a standard vector without
dynamic allocation which should make the processing steps using this
vector much faster and allow better scalability in case more particles
are used by a mission.
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.
This caused a warning in GCC7 which is fixed by this. This will also
initialize the array properly since the previous version may not have
worked correctly even if the entire array woudld have been written (on
all supported platform it would have worked since repeating -1 on all 4
bytes of an int will still produce -1).
*Homing conditions are now consistant with in-frame checks
*Swarm missiles will now only change their homing pos during a change frame. This'll reduce their hit rate if SWARM_FRAME_STOP_SWARMING is too low, but will make their pathing more cinematic.
The particle sources of the beams were missing multiple properties
(direction and impact normals) and the generic shape effect didn't have
any way of controlling how long the source was active. This fixes that
by introducing an effect timing field similar to the single particle
effect.
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.
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