* Allow `test_line_of_sight` to return intersecting object signature
The `test_line_of_sight` can currently provide the closest intersecting distance, but it would be very useful, especially for AI scripting, if this function could also return the signature of the intersecting object. This PR adds that functionality.
Tested and works as expected. Happy to discuss strategies for changing implementation, too. The extra, third return value for object signature was added to `getLineOfSightFirstIntersect` function because that function already returns 2 values. Thus, it will remain compatible with older scripts which only save the first 2 returned values.
* fix documentation
* fix typo
* return object instead of sig
* fix pointer
* use pointer pointer for full fix
* name clarification
In #4443, `fl_near_zero` was set to use default epsilon values in the `IS_VEC_NULL` check. In this comparison, epsilon is the wrong threshold because it used to have a much smaller threshold. The fix restores the previous definitions of `IS_VEC_NULL` and `IS_VEC_NULL_SQ_SAFE` by exposing the epsilon value as an optional parameter (similar to how `IS_NEAR_ZERO` used to work. This PR also restores `IS_VEC_NULL_SQ_SAFE` where it was replaced by `IS_VEC_NULL.`
* more cleanup in preparation for model translation
1) Clean up stepped rotation, fixing some logic, adding safeguards for invalid values, and allowing rotations to go in the opposite direction
2) Add more specific SEXP error checking for AWACS and rotating subsystems
3) Assorted refactoring and polishing
* address feedback, plus a bit of extra cleanup
This introduces type parsing for all types used within the scripting
documentation. This improves the generated JSON output and also
validates new code via the unit test.
Collision groups as previously coded were unusable due to Lua 5.1's lack of support for bitwise operators. This fixes that deficiency in two ways:
1) Objects now have the functions `addToCollisionGroup` and `removeFromCollisionGroup`
2) An `evaluateNumericSEXP` function has been added for returning SEXP results as numbers (so that the bitwise SEXP operators can be used)
The previous system was kind of hacky and made things a bit inflexible.
This improves that system quite a bit and also adds unit tests for the
hook variable functionality.
1) Upgrade the pilot file code to correctly save flags whether entries are added *or* removed
2) Make the tech-db/tech-db-multi ship flag handling consistent
3) Add scripting support for intel entries
4) Add scripting support for adding and removing entries from the tech room
5) Minor cleanup
This adds an Antlr grammar for parsing argument lists instead of using a
hand written parser. This allows to write much more complicated syntax
constructs and have all the code being auto-generated. It will also
produce a much more correct parser instead of having all those hacks in
the hand-written one.
This also adds (in addition to supporting the previous syntax) support
for function types along with support for them in HTML and JSON output
formats.
The ANTLR generated parser is included in source form so that it is not
necessary to have an ANTLR installation around if you are not going to
change the grammar. Also includes the necessary runtime code from Antlr.
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