All games combined there's 11(!!!) scene render blocks, not counting the sub-blocks for ROR and mirrors.
Does it surprise anyone that most of these sub-blocks do not feature all engine capabilities?
After merging the CD enabling CVAR they had the same default (off) as Blood which is wrong.
This also addresses other music related issues, like not properly cycling through the RR music.
* removed all cases of getting a sound handle and checking it later.
* In particular, refactor the cases where the handle is stored in a static local variable. These are fundamentally unsafe because nothing maintains these local variables.
* finished rewriting the PlaySound function. Let's hope this is what was intended, the entire coding here was not particularly good, mixing high and low level sound handling all on the same level.
* call the update routine each tic and not merely every 4th or 8th one, this kind of granularity was ok in 1997 but not with a modern sound engine.
This was one huge mess where nothing fit together.
Also added an enhancement that the CD Audio boss theme tracks are also played when CD music is generally off, because these have no equivalent in MIDI. This needs to be checked if it's stylistically ok, though.
Sound is only partially functional, video mode completely nonfunctional, but it makes no sense adjusting them to the current backend code when it's due for replacement.
Not tested yet!
* Added a JSON-based header to the savegames so that the unified menu can read from a common data source.
* moved loading and saving of frontend independent data to the wrapper so that support is automatic.
* saving of demos and savegames no longer mindlessly writes to the mod directory. All such access is now being rerouted through the special paths interface so that the game data can reside in write protected locations.
* refactored all occurences of klistpath except fnlist_getnames.
* do not allow CON scripts to write to arbitrary files. This is a massive exploit and can be used to cause real damage if someone knows how to play this thing - it's far easier than people may think! It will now write any such data to a special section in the main config which is safe and cannot be manipulated to write to random locations on the hard drive.
This is a lot of changes in a lot of code because nothing here was abstracted into the sound system. :(
Hopefully most of the affected code here can be tossed out soon, it's not pretty.
- consolidated Polymost precaching and removed precaching for static tiles because they now are always loaded.
- removed cache configurability. On modern systems this is relatively pointless - allocating 50 or 100 MB is a non-issue - and the cache is due for replacement anyway.
Sorry, but having a globally writable pointer to every texture is just insane and makes any functional management impossible.
This is merely a preparation for adding a real texture manager. That cannot be done if any code can write over the data at will. For that, it now has to make the texture writable first or create a writable empty texture.
Files moved but not modified. Changes to follow in a subsequent commit.
You down with CPP?
git-svn-id: https://svn.eduke32.com/eduke32@6055 1a8010ca-5511-0410-912e-c29ae57300e0
