OK, these changes effect a lot of file, I suggest everyone updates ASAP:
Removal of many files from project.
Removal of meanless Gr_bitmap_poly variable.
Removal of glide, directdraw, software modules all links to them, and all code specific to those paths.
Removal of redundant Fred paths that arent needed for Fred OGL.
Have seriously tidied the graphics initialisation code and added generic non standard mode functionality.
Fixed many D3D non standard mode bugs and brought OGL up to the same level.
Removed texture section support for D3D8, voodoo 2 and 3 cards will no longer run under fs2_open in D3D, same goes for any card with a maximum texture size less than 1024.
In OGL it works perfectly and in both API's it doesnt switch to the desktop anymore so hopefully people will not experience the crashes etc that the old system used to suffer from.
Added -query_flag to identify builds with speech not compiled and other problems
Now loads up launcher if videocard reg entry not found
Now offers to go online to download launcher if its not present
Changed target view not to use lower res texture, hi res one is already chached so might as well use it
Added stats command for ingame stats on memory usage.
Trys to play intro.mve and intro.avi, just to be safe since its not set by table.
Added fix for fonts wrapping round in non standard hi res modes.
Changed D3D mipmapping to a good value to suit htl mode.
Added new fog colour method which makes use of the bitmap, making this htl feature backcompatible again.
Made some commandline variables fit the naming standard.
Changed timerbar system not to run pushes and pops if its not in use.
Put in a note about not uncommenting asserts.
Fixed up a lot of missing POP's on early returns?
Perhaps the motivation for Assert functionality getting commented out?
Fixed up some bad asserts.
Changed nebula poofs to render in 2D in htl, it makes it look how it used to in non htl. (neb.cpp,1248)
Before the poofs were creating a nasty stripe effect where they intersected with ships hulls.
Put in a special check for the signs of that D3D init bug I need to lock down.
Fixed a bug with 32bit PCX code.
Fixed a bug in the d3d_string batch system that was messing up screen shaking.
Added a couple of checks to try and stop timerbar push and pop overloads, check returns missing pops if you use the system.
Put in a higher res icon until we get something better sorted out.
In D3D red is general processing (and generic graphics), green is 2D rendering, dark blue is 3D unlit, light blue is HT&L renders and yellow is the presentation of the frame to D3D. OGL is all red for now. Use compile flag TIMERBAR_ON with code lib to activate it.
Also updated some more D3D device stuff that might get a bit more speed out of some cards.
Fixed up some more non standard res stuff
Improved selection of device type, this includes using a pure device when allowed which means dev should not use Get* functions in D3D
Made fade in credits work
Stopped a call to gr_reser_lighting() in non htl mode when the pointer was NULL, was causing a crash loading a fogged level
Deleted directx8 directory content, has never been needed.
Put my 32bit PCX loading under PCX_32 compile flag until its working.
Fixed a bug with res 640x480 I introduced with my non standard mode code.
Changed JPG and TGA loading command line param to "-t32"
As well as initialised in a different mode, bitmaps are stretched and for these modes
previously point filtered textures now use linear to keep them smooth.
I also had to shuffle some of the GR_1024 a bit.
Put my HT&L flags in ready for my work to sort out some of the render order issues.
Tided some other stuff up.
It doesnt use the backgrounds anymore but its still an improvement.
Currently it fogs to a brighter colour than it should because of Bob specular code.
I will fix this after discussing it with Bob.
Also tided up some D3D stuff, a cmdline variable name and changed a small bit of
the htl code to use the existing D3D engine instead of work around it.
And added extra information in version number on bottom left of frontend screen.
still needs a lot of work, ubt the frame rates were getting with it are incredable
the biggest problem it still has is a bad lightmanegment system, and the zbuffer
doesn't work well with things still getting rendered useing the sofware pipeline, like thrusters,
and weapons, I think these should be modifyed to be sent through hardware,
it would be slightly faster and it would likely fix the problem
also the thruster glow/particle stuff I did is now in.
Should all work now if setup properly with version 2.4 of the launcher.
FS2_SPEECH can be used to make the speech code compile if you have SAPI 5.1 SDK installed.
Otherwise the compile flag should not be set and it should all compile OK.
- RT
* persistent variables
* rotating gun barrels
* positive/negative numbers fixed
* sexps to trigger whether the player is controlled by AI
* sexp for force a subspace jump
I think that's it :)
--Goober5000
cell shadeing has been added activated via the comand line '-cell',
3D shockwave models, and a transparency method I'm calling edge and center alpha that could be usefull for other things, ask for details
suport for seperate specular levels on lights and
optional strings for the stars table
code has been made more organised,
though there seems to be a bug in the state selecting code
resulting in the HUD being rendered incorectly
and specmapping failing ocasionaly
useing a phong lighting model I have made specular highlights
that are mapped to the model,
rendering them is still slow, but they look real purdy
also 4 new (untested) comand lines, the XX is a floating point value
-spec_exp XX
the n value, you can set this from 0 to 200 (actualy more than that, but this is the recomended range), it will make the highlights bigger or smaller, defalt is 16.0 so start playing around there
-spec_point XX
-spec_static XX
-spec_tube XX
these are factors for the three diferent types of lights that FS uses, defalt is 1.0,
static is the local stars,
point is weapons/explosions/warp in/outs,
tube is beam weapons,
for thouse of you who think any of these lights are too bright you can configure them you're self for personal satisfaction
fs2_open now uses the registry entry 'VideocardFs2open' instead of 'Videocard' to store its video settings. To run fs2_open now you MUST use the launcher I have provided.
Launcher binary: http://mysite.freeserve.com/thomaswhittaker/c_code/freespace/Launcher.rar
Launcher source code: http://mysite.freeserve.com/thomaswhittaker/c_code/freespace/Launcher_code.rar
I have also taken the opertunity to fix a few bugs in the launcher and add a new feature to make selecting mods a bit easier.
The launcher now uses some files in the freespace project so it should be put into CVS with the rest of the code inside the 'code' directory (still in its 'Launcher' dir of course). Currently the launcher wont compile since speech.cpp and speech.h arent in cvs yet. But once Roee has checked in that will be sorted.
I have also removed the internal launcher from the D3D8 module.
Please contact me if you have any problems.
When trying to run the exe after updating I get an error parsing 'rank.tbl' but im fairly sure thats nothing to do with me so I'll just have to leave it for now because I'm still using a 56K modem and cant afford to find out.
randomtiger