* Adds Lead Indicator Behavior option to game_settings.tbl
* Adds dont merge lead indicators flag to weapons, allowing homing secondaries to have their own lead indicators no matter what.
* Removed unused variable that was added just for testing
* add explicit int to float conversion to appease build checks
* Move some things around to avoid potentially undefined values
* Clean-up + address feedback
* Remove redundancy
* Allow mods to change Emp flash color, intensity, and string
EMP is the only text warning that does not use an entry in the strings table (and thus it's the only text warning gauge that mods cannot change and/or translate). This PR adds a string entry for it to allow mods to translate and change the string like all other HUD gauge text warnings.
Also, EMP flash has a hard coded color and strength factor for the flash, whereas generic pain and shield pain have a configurable flash strength factor (shield pain flash is based on shield color, while generic pain is based on damage dealt). This PR also allows modders to change the strength intensity and color following previously established methods.
This PR also fixes a case of "Launch" that fell through the cracks. The function is supplied the translated string, but within the function it does not check for the translation.
Everything is tested and works as expected.
* incorporate feedback
* convert to float during parse
* incorporate more feedback
* improve safety checks
`$Shadow Quality Default:` allows mods to specify what the default shadow quality should be, given that `-enable_shadows` flag is used. If a mod used this game settings option but the player did not use the `-enable_shadows` flag, then a parsing error would show up.
This PR fixes that bug by reordering two lines. Tested and fix works as expected.
Previosuly, the default object update speed setting for new players was `High`. Many mods, such as Fate of the Galaxy, do multiplayer tests where we have to ensure players are using the highest object update speed, which is LAN. This extra step is cumbersome and prone to players' forgetfulness.
This PR allows mods to set the default multiplayer object update speed for new pilots to mitigate this issue. Tested and works as expected.
This allows you to automatically append, for example, "-shock" to the damage type to make the shockwave damage type, so a weapon with "Heavy" damage type would automatically have its shockwave assigned the damage type "Heavy-shock".
This includes both separate defaults for dinky and non-dinky shockwaves, as well as automatic inheritance of the parent weapon's damage type (and if both are enabled simultaneously, the default is only used if there's nothing to inherit because the parent weapon doesn't set a damage type).
In Training missions, the game will check if keys used in directives are bound or unbound, and if unbound will display a message to the player to bind the key.
This is limited to only Training missions though, so this PR adds a `game_settings` option to allow modders to use that check in singleplayer mission types too, which is very useful for mods that rely on key presses in non-training missions. Also fixes#4340.
By specifying a base resolution in game_settings.tbl, subtitles can be scaled to the screen in the same way as HUD gauges. This can be used to prevent subtitles from appearing smaller at larger resolutions.
Depends on and is a follow-up to #4157.
What it says on the tin. This allows more precise positioning of subtitles, and a future PR will add the ability to scale them according to screen resolution.
A bit of cleanup, refactoring, and bugfixing...
1) The supernova code now uses enums to represent states, and those state transitions now all happen in `supernova_process` instead of being scattered around.
2) Some state transition bugs were fixed - e.g. the HUD is now disabled when the camera cuts to the external view, instead of when the camera stops moving; and the particles start and the simulation stops when the comments say they do.
3) There is now a game_settings.tbl flag to make the HUD countdown timer reach zero when the supernova hits, instead of reaching 5s. This only affects the HUD display; actual timing is not changed.
4) Don't apply lightshafts if the supernova glare is in effect - partial fix for #4152.
There is a bit of code that detonates a missile if it misses impacting on a subsystem. On Nyctaeus's Arachnas model, missiles could reach the center point of the main beam turret submodel without actually hitting any part of the submodel. The fail-safe code would set the missile to detonate in that case, but on low-FPS systems the weapon would be able to actually hit the turret before it detonated. On high-FPS systems, there is a clean miss.
This reworks the code to delay the missile detonation until it reaches the other side of the submodel, so it has time to hit some other part of it. It also reduces the detonation time from 1/100 of a second (which is more than one frame on 120 FPS systems) to 1/1000 of a second (which is always less than one frame).
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.
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