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.
Nobody ever thought to add a reset-post-effects SEXP to complement set-post-effects, so this remedies that. Also, a few minor edits were made to the scripting documentation.
This adds a playback property for making the movie loop to the start
when the end is reached. The way this is done is by simply keeping the
decoder running even if the end of the movie is reached. Then the movie
is reset to the beginning and decoding continues. The player detects
this reset by examining the frame times which keeps the playback
constant.
This also includes support for this in the movie scripting API.
This is similar to the other changes I already posted. Here the sound
instance handles are converted to their own handle type which will make
it easier to use the sound API.
This adds an API for the scripting system which allows it to load and
display movie files using the standard movie player code which includes
multi-threaded frame decoding.
The bounds check was not correct for 1-based indices. I moved the
Lua->C++ index conversion before the bounds check so that it makes
more sense.
Also, atoi isn't a reliable way for converting a string to an integer.
Ideally it wouldn't be an optional argument at all, but that would break backwards-compatibility, so instead it'll just return an invalid ship handle instead of calling ship_create() with a class of -1. In addition, the Assert from ship_create() meant to guard against invalid ship_type values is now an Assertion that actually says what the invalid value of ship_type was, to make future debugging easier.
This converts the previous int handles to a strongly-typed wrapper
handle which will make the API more self-documenting and will ensure
that wrongly used handles are detected at compile time.
I already found a few mistakes with these changes which I also fixed
here.
This adds a scripting API which can be used for adding and removing
background from a mission similarly to the existing SEXPs but with full
support for floating point numbers.
This was requested by Axem on Discord.
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.
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.
Since atoi return 0 on error the code tries to access the waypoint list
with index -1 which causes an assert in the lookup code. This fixes that
by using the error detection capabilities of strtol.
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.
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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