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.
Lua's Ship.TargetSubsystem VIRTVAR, when set, would write to an attribute of the Ships[] array based on an objnum instead of a ship instance index. Since MAX_OBJECTS is drastically higher than MAX_SHIPS, then depending on how many objects happen to be in the mission, an out-of-bounds array access can be easily generated. This commit makes sure to use the objnum instead as an index to the Objects[] array, and then retrieve the ship instance from it.
The current scripting hook is pretty simple and straight forward but it
makes a couple of scripting applications harder to implement than
needed.
For example, a lot of scripts need to do some work every frame
for all or some objects. The script needs to manage an internal list of
all the objects that are affected by that list which includes removing
invalid objects to conserve resources. This effectively mirrors what the
engine already does and adds unnecessary overhead.
In these changes I added a generic event system which can be used by any
part of the code for providing callbacks when a specific event occurs.
As an example, I added hooks for the pre- and post-move events to the
object class which are called before and after physics are applied to an
object.
I integrated that feature into the scripting system so now a script can
simply register a function as a callback which will be called whenever
the target event is executed.
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.
I also fixed a few issues where the internal char array was used as a
mutable string which changed the string after it was parsed which is not
good(TM).
This also replaces all user-facing occurences of usages of name to use
the new function so that the correct, possibly translated, name is displayed
to the user.
This changes how the bitmap slots are managed by the bmpman system.
Instead of allocating a fixed-size array when the game starts this will
manage multiple "blocks" of bitmap slots. When the engine runs out of
slots in the already allocated blocks it simply creates a new block and
allocates the new slot in that.
This removed the hard limit on how many bitmaps can be loaded at the
same time and should fix issues encountered by mods which use a lot of
bitmap slots (I'm looking at you Spoon).
This implements the idea described in #1503.
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.
The previous version used NanoVG which caused quite a serious FPS drop.
This adds a buffer batching class which groups line drawing operations
together and submits them to the GPU with a single draw call.
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.
All transformations are now handled by shaders so there is nothing
special going on in the graphics API specific code anymore. Since model
uniform buffers require access to these matrices I moved the matrix
handling out of the graphics API code.
This was reported by @AxemP who wanted to have leading tabs in a text
line. However, split_str removed those characters by default since it
ignores leading whitespace. To fix that unexpected behavior of
gr.drawString I added a new paramter to split_str which disabled
whitespace removal and enabled that flag for the scripting function.
That should not be a problem for existing scripts since the expected
behavior would be that leading whitespace remains in place and since we
have not received any bug reports about missing white space I'm going to
assume that no one has used the function like this before removed those
characters by default since it ignores leading whitespace. To fix that
unexpected behavior of gr.drawString I added a new paramter to split_str
which disabled whitespace removal and enabled that flag for the
scripting function.
That should not be a problem for existing scripts since the expected
behavior would be that leading whitespace remains in place and since we
have not received any bug reports about missing white space I'm going to
assume that no one has used the function like this before.
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.
I found this issue while debugging the JAD gauntlet where a script calls
getSignature() on an invalid object. However, object_h does not see the
object as invalid even though its signature is 0 which is defined to be
an invalid sigature. This should fix that by making sure that
object_h::isValid returns false if the saved signature is not valid.
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