* Hooks are no longer a mess of lua boiler plate. Helper functions reduce hooks
to, at the most basic level, only two calls.
* Lua tables (the array part) are used to index hooks. Such tables contain only
hooks of the same type.
* Hook types are defined in one place so you no longer need to sync up the enum
and name array.
* Apply the RTA penalty to the live event backup rather than the current timer. (Resolves#184)
* Snap the character name and timer mode text to the bottom of the screen, just above the bar.
All this refactoring, just to resolve#162. Specifically, it engages savegame events not at level load (except for savefile start) but on level completion, just after you've gotten all the intermission bonuses but before the intermission actually starts.
Also fixes a never-before-discovered bug where if the titlemap has LF_SAVEGAME, your save file will be overwritten upon returning to the title screen. This game is a mess of hacks, I swear...
One unintended side effect: It may actually be faster in some speedrun circumstances in mods with cutscenes to complete the map, exit back to the title screen, and reload the file. It's a common feature of optimal runs in games with cutscenes, though, and Marathon Run has a toggle for cutscenes, so I'm not particularly bothered.
Basically a dedicated Record Attack-like experience for speedrunning the game as a continuous chunk rather than ILs. Has several quality of life features.
Benefits include:
* An unambiguous real-time bar across the bottom of the screen, always displaying the current time, ticking up until you reach the ending.
* Disable the console (pausing is still allowed, but the timer will still increment).
* Automatically skip intermissions as if you're holding down the spin button.
* Show centiseconds on HUD automatically, like record attack.
* "Live Event Backups" - a category of run fit for major events like GDQ, where recovery from crashes or chokes makes for better entertainment. Essentially a modified SP savefile, down to using the same basic functions, but has its own filename and tweaked internal layout.
* "spmarathon_start" MainCfg block parameter and "marathonnext" mapheader parameter, allowing for a customised flow (makes this fit for purpose for an eventual SUGOI port).
* Disabling inter-level custom cutscenes by default with a menu option to toggle this (won't show up if the mod doesn't *have* any custom cutscenes), although either way ending cutscenes (vanilla or custom) remain intact since is time is called before them.
* Won't show up if you have a mod that consists of only one level (determined by spmarathon_start's nextlevel; this won't trip if you manually set its marathonnext).
* Unconditional gratitude on the evaluation screen, instead of a negging "Try again..." if you didn't get all the emeralds (which you may not have been aiming for).
* Gorgeous new menu (no new assets required, unless you wanna give it a header later).
Changes which were required for the above but affect other areas of the game include:
* "useBlackRock" MainCFG block parameter, which can be used to disable the presence of the Black Rock or Egg Rock in both the Evaluation screen and the Marathon Run menu (for total conversions with different stories).
* Disabling Continues in NiGHTS mode, to match the most common singleplayer experience post 2.2.4's release (is reverted if useContinues is set to true).
* Hiding the exitmove "powerup" outside of multiplayer. (Okay, this isn't really related, I just saw this bug in action a lot while doing test runs and got annoyed enough to fix it here.)
* The ability to use V_DrawPromptBack (in hardcode only at the moment, but) to draw in terms of pixels rather than rows of text, by providing negative instead of positive inputs).
* A refactoring of redundant game saves smattered across the ending, credits, and evaluation - in addition to saving the game slightly earlier.
* Minor m_menu.c touchups and refactorings here and there.
Built using feedback from the official server's #speedruns channel, among other places.
- Don't force the player's default normalspeed and jumpfactor while not in dashmode
- Properly trim the fuse for followmobj ghosts spawned during dashmode
- Add deliberate dashmode ghosts for Metal's jet fume
Please look at the merge request description for a full explanation, since I know the vanilla team has been hashing this out and I don't want to add fuel to the fire without at least presenting a solid case.
(oddly enough, this actually revealed some secret file dependencies previously included via r_things.h! I also needed to include d_player.h in r_skins.h itself it seems)
It makes more sense for 100% deadzone to just make it so that
you have to push the axis all the way to trigger it,
rather than 100% deadzone resulting in no axis input
ever happening... So, let's make it be the former way instead
Fix division-by-0 crash with gamepad deadzones
The problem was that it checked if A was more than B,
then lowered A to a max value, then subtracted B from A,
then divided something by that, without checking if A minus B was 0,
allowing division by 0 if B was the same as that max value
This fixes that by making sure that A is less than the max value
This is accomplished by simply preserving
the player's body after disconnecting.
Bodies will despawn after the number of minutes
specified by the "rejointimeout" console variable (float).
A value of 0 disables the feature completely.
Clients rejoining are identified by their IP address,
and may rejoin even if the server is full or joins are disabled,
for as long as their body remains.
From a technical standpoint, when the user disconnects,
the player they were controlling does not leave,
the underlying player_t just keeps working normally,
except it does not receive any input anymore.
When the user reconnects, they are simply "relinked"
to their player_t.
Those "soulless" players can be identified through
their "quittime" field, which is the number of tics
elapsed since the user disconnected, or zero
if still connected. "quittime" is exposed to Lua.
