In FS2, the HUD will automatically target the first turret on any BIG or HUGE ship. In FS1, this did not happen. This adds a flag to disable the new behavior.
The change is needed because the scan view cone is significantly constrained when any turrets or subsystems are targeted. This makes Playing Judas quite a bit more difficult than it was designed to be.
The game setting table allows modders to set the default noise levels for new pilots, but the game did not actually use the values set in mod table. This PR fixes that and adds safety range checks, too. Tested and works as expected.
* Scale distant combat related effects so they stay visible
- Effects scaled so that they always maintain a minimum pixel size
- Supports lasers, beams, all trails, muzzle flashes, and thrusters
- Disabled by default, but can be configured through the game_settings.tbl
* Added comments clarifying when min pixel size scaling happens.
* Convert some NULLs to nullptr to make CLANG happy
The shadows distances were tuned/added by swifty with the following logic:
`// these cascade distances are a result of some arbitrary tuning to give a good balance of quality and banding.`
Mods, especially TCs, may have very different sized ships compared to FS, and as such desire more precise control over shadow cascade distances.
This PR exposes those values with settings in the `game_settings.tbl`.
PR is tested and works as expected.
This refactors the tolower/toupper code to use standards-conformant logic, and also adds some helpful utility functions. Regular tolower/toupper must be supplied a value that can be represented as `unsigned char`, but the std:: functions are a bit more robust.
This PR adds a table entry that allows modders to specify the damage threshold for when turrents become less accurate due to weapon subsystem damage. A Game table setting is easier to set once and tune, thus this PR allows that efficent exposure to the modder and does not require a large change or complex table entry.
Fixes 2526 by making the array a vector and also adds a Shockwaves always damage bombs game_setting.tbl setting and a Shockwaves_consistently_apply_damage game_settings.tbl setting. The second one keeps bombs and asteroids from being hit more than once by shockwaves, like ships do!
Since the original release of FS2, internal strings have been translated to their English entries in strings.tbl but external strings have not been translated to their English entries in tstrings.tbl. It appears that string translation was universal until it was disabled via a hack, probably due to FRED idiosyncrasies (see comment in `fred_init()`), and then not re-enabled for release. PR #2343 re-enabled it, but this turned out to have undesirable side-effects since many mods used incorrect XSTR indexes for external strings.
This PR restores the previous behavior and also cleanly separates localization into translated and untranslated modes. FRED will always run in untranslated mode. FSO will run in translated mode for all languages except English, where it will run in untranslated mode UNLESS the new option `$Use tabled strings for the default language` is enabled in game_settings.tbl.
This mostly meant for special docker standalone server builds where it
might be useful to have full release performance but also have the logs
available if necessary. This now always compiles the log statements but
enables or disables them with a constexpr so they should not appear in
actual release binaries.
Previously, Engine Wash Intensity didn't actually do anything in the code. This adds a game table setting that let's modders specify to the game to actually take the intensity value into account when calculating engine wash effects.
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