There's no API yet as I need to look into the handling of qpic_t before
I can get any of this into the other renderers (or even vulkan, for that
matter).
However, the current design for slice rendering is based on glyphs (ie,
using instances and vertex pulling), with 3 strips of 3 quads, 16 verts,
and 26 indices (2 reset). Hacky testing seems to work, but real tests
need the API.
I don't know why it didn't happen during the demo loop, but going from
the start map to e1m1 caused a segfault due to the efrags for a lava
ball getting double freed (however, I do think it might be because the
ball passed through at least two leafs, while entities in the demos did
not). The double free was because SCR_NewScene (indirectly) freed all
the efrags without removing them from entities, and then the client code
deleting the entities caused the visibility components to get deleted
and thus the efrags freed a second time. Using ECS_RemoveEntities on the
visibility component ensures the entities don't have a visibility
component to remove when they are later deleted.
While simple component pools can be cleared simply by zeroing their
counts, ones that have a delete function need that function to be called
for all the components in the pool otherwise leaks can happen.
It's currently used only by the vulkan renderer, as it's the only
renderer that can make good use of it for alias models, but now vulkan
show shirt/pants colors (finally).
This cuts down on the memory requirements for skins by 25%, and
simplifies the shader a bit more, too. While at it, I made alias skins
nominally compatible with bsp textures: layer 0 is color, 1 is emissive,
and 2 is the color map (emissive was on 3).
As the RGB curves for many of the color rows are not linearly related,
my idea of scaling the brightest color in the row just didn't work.
Using a masked palette lookup works much better as it allows any curves.
Also, because the palette is uploaded as a grid and the coordinates are
calculated on the CPU, the system is extendable beyond 8-bit palettes.
This isn't quite complete as the top and bottom colors are still in
separate layers but their indices and masks can fit in just one, but
this requires reworking the texture setup (for another commit).
For whatever reason, I had added an extra 4 bytes to the fragment
shader's push-constants. It took me a while to figure out why renderdoc
wouldn't stop complaining about me not writing enough data.
It turns out my approach to alias skin coloring just doesn't work for
the quake data due to the color curves not having a linear relationship,
especially the bottom colors.
It works on only one layer and one mip, and assumes the provided texture
data is compatible with the image, but does support sub-image updates
(x, y location as parameters, width and height in the texture data).
The bright end of the color map is actually twice the palette value, but
I didn't understand this when I came up with the shirt/pants color
scheme for vulkan. However, the skin texture can store only 0..1, so the
mapping to 0..2 needs to be done in the shader. It looks like it works
at least better: the gold key at the end of demo1 doesn't look as bleh,
though I do get some weird colors still on ogres etc.
Currently only for gl/glsl/vulkan. However, rather than futzing with
con_width and con_height (and trying to guess good values), con_scale
(currently an integer) gives consistent pixel scaling regardless of
window size.
Well, sort of: it's still really in the renderer, but now calling
R_AddEfrags automatically updates the visibility structure as necessary,
and deleting an entity cleans up the efrags automatically. I wanted this
over twenty years ago.
The support for the new vector types broke compiling code using
--advanced. Thus it's necessary to ensure vector constants are
float-type and vec3 and vec4 are treated as vector and quaternion, which
meant resurrecting the old vector expression code for v6p progs.
This fixes maplist showing only those maps in the user directory.
However, no checking is done for duplicate files due to earlier search
paths overriding later paths.
This involved disabling sigils for hipnotic and rogue (not used),
adjusting the number of items views, and moving the two keys views for
hipnotic. Rogue is not yet using the correct status bar pics.
The functionality of the hipnotic and rogue weapon power-ups is now done
by a various mappings instead of separate functions. In theory, this
should make things more flexible, but most importantly, there's a lot
less code duplication.
Sigils can't be flashed as they don't have any animations provided, and
they're not normally as critical. I don't know why items weren't
flashed, but since the pics are there, might as well use them (and the
flashing keys do look pretty good).
I think this makes the purpose of the functions more clear and makes the
protocol logic less dependent on the meaning of some of the updates.
Most of the update functions are not fully implemented yet.
I had forgotten that the cl structs in nq and qw were different layouts,
which resulted in qw's sbar/hud being quite broken. Rather than messing
with the structs, I decided it would be far better in the long run to
clean up sbar's access to the cl struct and the few other nq/qw specific
globals it used. There are still plenty of bugs to fix, but now almost
everything is in the one place.
In the end, it was removal of the old entries that corrupted the parent
indices. Very nicely, most of the fixes involved removing code. Taking
advantage of the ECS to debug the hierarchies was fun, and the resulting
colorized entity names helped no end.
Even 37 objects is a lot, but it's a whole lot better than 180. Most
importantly, it reproduces the problem, which seems to be not all parent
indices getting updated. The child indices seem to be working nice, as
do the reference object indices (ie, the entity components). I suspect
its the parent indices getting corrupted that cause problems on the
second switch of the hud/sbar cvar as the parent indices are used to
find the child indices that need to be updated.
This improves the behavior of hierarchies when self-inserting, but nq's
sbar still crashes when trying to do so. However, its tree is a fair bit
more complex than the test case (that does pass now), so I need to try
to replicate the important parts of the tree with fewer objects (180 is
too many to work with).
As expected, reparenting a sub-hierarchy such that it (and possibly its
children) move up the arrays fails (this is why sbar needs to first
remove the sub-hierarchy then insert it).
Since test_build_hierarchy2 already tested removal of a sub-hierarchy
(once fixed), it seems test_build_hierarchy3 testing parenting within
the same hierarchy would be a good idea. Reparenting such that
everything moves to later in the arrays works nicely (not very
surprising).
Its updates to the various indices were out, but this was missed due to
the tests being wrong. I wonder if I got interrupted while working on
them last and just assumed the removals were correct. This improves
sbar's behavior, but it's still wrong when pulling the armory view out
of the inventory. Very unsure what's going on, but the various indices
look ok, as do the view positions.
Ugh, things were quite bad, it turns out. It seems a lot of trouble
would have been saved if these tests had worked (however, something is
still not quite right as views are out of place).
This is the bug that sbar found when pulling a sub-hierarchy out of a
larger hierarchy: child indices not getting updated correctly for later
siblings and any niece objects.
The hierarchy-specific tests from the transform tests have been moved
into the ecs tests and the transform tests renamed appropriately. As
part of the process, hierarchies can now have a null type (ie, no
additional components maintained by the hierarchy). This should make
sorting out the issues highlighted by sbar a bit easier.
It should have always been here, but when I first created the hierarchy
and transform objects, I didn't know where things would go. Having two
chunks of code for setting an entity's parent was too already too much,
and I expect to have other hierarchy types. Doesn't fix the issues
encountered with sbar, of course.
Bill Currie