This will automatically call the destructor of a type of Lua calls the
garbage collector for an object of that type. This is the last step
towards fully supporting non-trivial objects in the Lua API and all
previous workarounds have been removed.
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 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.
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.
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