For type safety, use enum class rather than int.
Also make a few miscellaneous tweaks such as adding a new casting macro and making detail level settings a bit cleaner.
#6808 converted all Pspews to use the new particle effects, though that in turn lead to a fun little visual bug. Overall, particles on weapons will only be rendered if they are valid, and the is valid check included a `weapon_state == m_weaponstate` check (IE states had to match between what the weapon object held and what the particle held. When a weapon switches to homing that particle state was never updated, b/c before 6808 it never needed to be. This lead to the particle effects from pspews not rendering when a missile was in homing mode.
This PR fixes that issue by also updating the particle host status whenever the weapon state changes (uses the same logic as when the particle spawns the first time).
Tested and works as expected.
* Allow mods to set threshold at which shield stops taking damage
FSO logic dictates that shields collisions and any related sound or visuals related to shields are skipped if the shields are under 10%. This is rather unintuitive especially for mods, so this PR creates a game setting value that allows mods to set this value.
Also, this PR fixes a bug where the HUD shield gauge would try and incorporate this feature but did not do it correctly. Specifically, the gauge skips shield segment rendering if the raw shield strength was 0.1 not the percent. Incorrectly using the raw value results in HUD shields being rendered (albeit faintly) even if the damage was skipping the shield and directly damaging the hull. In other words, if the shield segment was 8%, the shield segment would show faintly even the shield is skipping damage.
Tested and works as expected. Also happy to discuss or answer any questions!
* update local variable name for clarity
* rename `ship_quadrant_shield_strength`
* cleanup with updated get percent function
* more cleanup
* wording and safety tuning
* use correct default number
* add new conditions
* don't worry about it
* implement new conditions
* bugfixing
* handle pokethrough differently
* clang for the clang god
* appeasement
* to the last i grapple with thee
* from hell's heart etc
* bugfixing
* support hits while dying
* fix shield math, cleanup
* fix memory error
* Make scripting use the full-blown particle system
* Add reverse option
* Add animation reversal as an option to modern particles
* Start implementation of beam particles
* Add multi-emission particle source API for legacy particles
* Attach beam muzzle particles to the correct host
* Reorder code in order to facilitate apparent visual size as modular curve input for particles
* fix lua api
* Typo
* Fix scripting and beam muzzle particles
* Remove muzzleflash code, prepare to replace with particles
* Begin mflash effect conversion
* Pass final parameters to mflashes and fix curve
* Remove deprecated particle function
* Add debris flame particles
* remove weapon_explosion table
* Convert shield explosion particles
* Fix modular curve full inputs and convert particle curve inputs accordingly
* Allow particle volume offset and rotation with curve-based rot around fvec
* Add Ring and Point Volumes
* Convert PSPEW to new system
* Make particle curve timing aware of interp
* Update todos
* get rid of performance waste
* Add last parameter for converted pspews
* Fix pspew bugs
* Fix direction for default pspew
* Fix order for voluem rotation
* particle vel interp
* particle vel interp 2
* Make beam muzzle stay parented to the firing ship, as it's likely the more commonly intended variamnt
* fix scripting particle lifetime
* Allow beam muzzle particle override
* Skip invalid pspews
* remove pspew dcf code
* Fix sparkler stretch
* Correct sparkler bia
* General sparkler weirdness
* Tune distribution of sparklers
* Convert Asteroid particles
* Fix conversion warning
* Fix conversion warning again
* Fix conversion warning again again
* Really clang?
* Fix crash when clicking inside the hud area but not on a gauge
* add dogfight_variant weapon flag for sorting purposes
* fix weapon display for default hud and skip dogfight weapons on auto-select
* cleanup the mouse check function
* it's broken and i don't like it
* it's fixed and i approve
* add multi support maybe
* appease clang
* appease clang ii: electric boogaloo
* const refs
* increment multi version
* Mod Specific Visual Culling Size for Lasers
Currently, lasers will not render if the length or both head and tail radii are < `0.0001`. This is very small, and in many mods the smallest visual size is `0.01`, so this PR exposes that culling size value to allow mods to optimize and tune visual culling of lasers, which can be quite useful especially in laser heavy missions.
* update names
* actually push all files
* Fix some issues preventing various secondary types from firing in the lab
* Add ability to fire turrets from the lab
* const char*, mjn please
* more cleanup
* range-based for loop
* Update comment
Use `std::unique_ptr` rather than `vm_malloc` and `vm_free` to handle optional strings in ship classes. This makes the code more robust and increases memory safety. This also allows several string variables to be consolidated in the ship class and weapon class script APIs.
Also add new `stuff_string()` overloads and a new `F_TRIMMED` string parsing type to handle the new fields and the string trimming done inside `stuff_malloc_string()`.
Most places in the code that use `vm_vector_2_matrix` do so on already-normalized vectors. Changing these to `vm_vector_2_matrix_norm` avoids redundant normalization.
* Fix incorrect ship legacy particle curve assignment
* Setup trigger radius
* Properly attach particle sources to objects and subobjects
* Add trigger velocity for weapon impacts
* Onetime particle source timing fix
* Warnings
* Allow global_to_local to work with no submodel
* Allow global_to_local to work with no submodel, again
Make these convenient functions even more convenient:
1. Change `object_get_model()` to `object_get_model_num()` and `object_get_model_instance()` to `object_get_model_instance_num()` to more accurately reflect what they do
2. Add new `object_get_model()` and `object_get_model_instance()` functions to return `polymodel*` and `polymodel_instance*` values.
* Partially builds weapon curves.
* Further curve implementation
* Implementation of more output types.
* Cleanup
* Adjusts warning.
* Appeases clang.
* further appeasement
* Appeasement and time-traveling review changes
* change the enum branch too that'd be good
* More requested changes
* Basic abstraction for generic modular curves
* Make curve list by output statically sized
* Make instance-randomization consistent and mapless
* Add parsing
* Add derived modular curve sets
* Fix incorrect unpack
* Split modular curve set and definition, properly comment struct usage
* Split off specific type-traits into own file
* Fix modular curves for multi-derive case
* Implement some basic weapon curves, as well as the damage multiplier hit curve
* Merges in generified system built by Lafiel.
* Fills out beam curvesets.
* Renames curvesets.
* Removes launch curves for now.
* Testing, bugfixing.
* Various cleanup
* Returns extern do_subobj_hit_stuff
* Fixes compile errors
* Beam flag checking
* Rearranges beam flag checking.
---------
Co-authored-by: BMagnu <[email protected]>
Many beams are lumped into the #Primary Weapons section of weapons.tbl, which will mark them as WP_LASER. Fix the few instances of code that are intended for beams that may have omitted most beams by mistake.
Randomization of weapon impact particle radius is also affected, but since this affects existing visual effects, it was not changed.
Goober5000