This add a system for adding generic instances of the DynamicSEXP class
to the SEXP system. The only implementation at the moment is the LuaSEXP
which is used by the mn.addSEXP lua API to allow Lua to add new SEXPs.
Since this requires that FRED also runs lua scripts I added a mod table
option to enable scripting in FRED. Since the current scripts are not
built with FRED in mind it would likely break all these scripts if FRED
would be opened with normal scripting enabled.
This fixes#1320.
This allows to use the XSTR mechanism in script to make translating
script text possible. This is compatible with the existing XSTR format
so automatic tstrings.tbl generator tools should work fine with this.
This resolves point 2 of #1522.
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 adds support for specifying multiple sounds for a single game sound
entry. The engine then selects which sound will be played based on the
strategy provided by the game data. This required a few changes to some
of the game code since previously every game sound had exactly one sound
file attached to it. The most notable change is that it is no longer
possible to determine the exact duration a sound can have so instead the
new code computes the maximum duration a sound can have and uses that
where appropriate.
This also adds support for randomizing the pitch and volume of the sound
to provide a more varied experience even if only a single sound is used.
One possible issue that exists is that the "sequential" strategy only
works globally at the moment so if two sources use the same game sound
concurrently then the two sources will share the sequence of sounds
since there is no sound instance data at the moment. That can be added
in a future change but should not present a huge issue for most
use-cases.
Visual Studio on Appveyor somehow causes deprecation error on _our_
definition of vsprintf. I have no idea why these changes introduced this
warning but I won't debug Visual Studio compiler bugs that I can't
reproduce with my Visual Studio version so I just disabled those
warnings.
All transformations are now handled by shaders so there is nothing
special going on in the graphics API specific code anymore. Since model
uniform buffers require access to these matrices I moved the matrix
handling out of the graphics API code.
This was reported by @AxemP who wanted to have leading tabs in a text
line. However, split_str removed those characters by default since it
ignores leading whitespace. To fix that unexpected behavior of
gr.drawString I added a new paramter to split_str which disabled
whitespace removal and enabled that flag for the scripting function.
That should not be a problem for existing scripts since the expected
behavior would be that leading whitespace remains in place and since we
have not received any bug reports about missing white space I'm going to
assume that no one has used the function like this before removed those
characters by default since it ignores leading whitespace. To fix that
unexpected behavior of gr.drawString I added a new paramter to split_str
which disabled whitespace removal and enabled that flag for the
scripting function.
That should not be a problem for existing scripts since the expected
behavior would be that leading whitespace remains in place and since we
have not received any bug reports about missing white space I'm going to
assume that no one has used the function like this before.
As described in #1278, the current scripting system has issues with
handling non-trivial C++ types. Since fixing that deficiency is too much
work, especially since we are in a feature freeze, I decided to simply
enforce the usage of trivial types for scripting handles. Fortunately,
only two handles used non-trivial types so it was relatively easy to fix
those instances by dynamically allocating those and only storing the
pointers in the lua memory.
This fixes a bug in JAD-XA where the game would crash at the last boss.
Also, I noticed that the HudGauge handle used a copy of the hud gauge
rather than a pointer to the actual instance so I'm pretty sure that any
scripting changes to a custom HUD gauge simply didn't work before.
I found this issue while debugging the JAD gauntlet where a script calls
getSignature() on an invalid object. However, object_h does not see the
object as invalid even though its signature is 0 which is defined to be
an invalid sigature. This should fix that by making sure that
object_h::isValid returns false if the saved signature is not valid.
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