This adds a mission file option for ships which allows specifying a
different string which should be used for displaying the name of the
ship to the user. This name will not be used in SEXPs or other ship
lookup functions so it can be freely translated and two ships can also
have the same display name.
The new feature can be used by adding $Display name: <string> after $Name
for a ship in a mission file. I think I added proper support for FRED
(and qtFRED) so that this new value is properly saved but it would be
great if someone could test that.
This implements one of the features requested in #1730.
This adds a new class which allows to create type safe resource handle
types. At the moment, the engine uses ints pretty much everywhere for
providing handles to resources created by the specific subsystems. Since
all ints are the same to the C/C++ typesystem it is perfectly legal to
pass a sound handle to the graphics API as a buffer handle which will
obviously cause issues.
This adds a new type called "ID" which is a wrapper class for a generic
handle but with added type safety. An instance of this class cannot be
passed to a function expecting another type of handle which provided
compile-time type safety for these APIs.
As an initial test I converted the game sound handles to this new type.
I already found a bug in the mainhall system thanks to this new type.
The mainhall used the game sound handles as sound instance handles which
probably meant that that specific code never really worked right. I
removed the code since there was no better alternative for fixing it.
Shield impact sounds now re-use the shield quadrant calculated by the collision code instead of naively recalculating based on global hitpos, allowing the hull impact sound to play if the shot pierces shields or was fired from within the shield mesh, and simplifying the relevant calculations in the process.
This introduces a new mechanism for handling bit flags. Instead of using an int (or two, or three) to write bits into, this uses the std::bitset in a wrapper class that accepts an enum class as input. This means that certain classes of errors we've had a few of in the engine, where a coder used the wrong set of flags or checked them against the wrong variable (SF_STEALTH vs SIF_STEALTH, for example) can now be detected at a compiler level rather than not at all.
Fix calculations of server ping in in-game server list. Minimize floating
point calculations, using double instead of float, avoid calling timer
twice when receiving pong, and capture pong time more precisely.
Replaces calls to double-precision floating point trig functions with
calls to single-precision floating point trig functions as follows:
cos() -> cosf()
sin() -> sinf()
tan() -> tanf()
acos() -> acosf()
asin() -> asinf()
atan() -> atanf()
This allows the compiler to avoid generating unnecessary instructions
that convert a float to a double and then a double back to a float.
Signed-off-by: Peter Mitsis <[email protected]>
Remove support for the IPX protocol. The IPX selector button in the multi
options menu is now hidden, and the TCP button is disabled since there is no other option.
Goober5000