This means that the varargs functions themselves are now responsible for parsing them into DrawParms.
This was done because DrawTextV made a blanket assumption that every single vararg has the size of a 32 bit integer and caused crashes when anything else was passed. It also failed to eliminate any tag that is incompatible with text display. These will now abort DrawText and trigger an assert.
In order to avoid passing around tag lists, DrawTextV needs to parse everything itself and then pass a fully initialized structure to DrawTexture. This cannot be done if all variants require a varargs tag list.
Apparently the only reason for the old approach was the 'hw' parameter which was never used.
- The old algorithm is something I threw together that produced decent,
but not spectacular results since it had a tendency to waste space by
forcing everything onto "shelves".
The new packer is the Skyline-MinWaste-WasteMap-BestFirstFit algorithm
described by Jukka Jylanki in his paper *A Thousand Ways to Pack the Bin - A
Practical Approach to Two-Dimensional Rectangle Bin Packing*, which can
currently be read at http://clb.demon.fi/files/RectangleBinPack.pdf
This is minus the optimization to rotate rectangles to make better fits.
- GetSystemMetrics can lie about the window border sizes, so we can't
trust it if the executable is flagged as Vista-targetting
(default behavior for VS2012/2013).
defaults to 200. Setting it to 0 will restore the previous behavior of having no frame rate
limit. Note that vid_maxfps 35 is NOT the same as cl_capfps 1. cl_capfps caps the frame rate
by tying the video update directly to the game timer. With vid_maxfps 35, the video update and
game timer are running on separate timers, and results will not be as good as with cl_capfps 1,
which uses only one timer.
SVN r3872 (trunk)
decided there was nothing to draw. In practical terms, this means that if your weapon is
completely invisible, the game would not draw anything outside of the main play area because
the scissor test would be left on for the entire frame and not just the weapon's quad.
Making the call to SetStyle() before the scissor check is enough to fix this.
SVN r3412 (trunk)
also decided to compile some other shaders slightly differently, too.)
- Fixed: The InGameColormap had been designed without taking alpha into consideration.
As the least likely parameter to be used, desaturation has been moved into a constant
register to make room for the alpha parameter to live in the vertex's color value.
SVN r3208 (trunk)
- allow setting 'Shadow' as default fuzz effect
- changed CVAR conversion that strings 'false' and 'true' get evaluated as integers 0 and 1 respectively so that changing boolean CVARs to int does not destroy their values.
SVN r3076 (trunk)
since the screenwipe speedup fixes also mean that this function no longer operates directly
with the front buffer, but rather with a copy that is not letterboxed.
SVN r2355 (trunk)
some other application already has it. While technically this is a failure, the device is
still created, so we can continue using it anyway.
SVN r2326 (trunk)
swap between them each frame. The one that's not the TempRenderTexture is used
as the FrontCopySurface without the need for a copy operation. This removes the
performance penalty the previous commit introduced for these modes.
SVN r2014 (trunk)
properly in letterboxed modes.
- Added another surface to receive a copy of the top back buffer immediately
before it is presented. This effectively produces a copy of the front
buffer without the performance penalty of GetFrontBufferData, so fullscreen
wipe preparation and screenshots are faster now. At lower resolutions,
always copying the backbuffer does incur a slight FPS hit, but it's
practically free at higher resolutions.
SVN r2013 (trunk)
assumed that since the wipes only run at 35 FPS, the time spent DMA'ing
it from system to video memory would be acceptable. Apparently I was wrong.
In particular, updating the same surface several times probably has to
synchronize between each one, making melt particularly slower than it
needs to be.
SVN r2012 (trunk)
unsigned integer that can use all 32 bits. They must therefore use
the unsigned mul instruction rather than the signed imul instruction.
- Fixed several signed/unsigned comparison and possibly uninitialized
variable warnings flagged by GCC.
SVN r1965 (trunk)
player sprites will retain the same precision they had when they were
rendered as part of the 3D view. (needed for propery alignment of flashes
on top of weapon sprites) It worked just fine for D3D, but software
rendering was another matter. I consequently did battle with imprecisions
in the whole masked texture drawing routines that had previously been
partially masked by only drawing on whole pixel boundaries. Particularly,
the tops of posts are calculated by multiplying by spryscale, and the
texture mapping coordinates are calculated by multiplying by dc_iscale
(where dc_iscale = 1 / spryscale). Since these are both 16.16 fixed point
values, there is a significant variance. For best results, the drawing
routines should only use one of these values, but that would mean
introducing division into the inner loop. If the division removed the
necessity for the fudge code in R_DrawMaskedColumn(), would it be worth it?
Or would the divide be slower than the fudging? Or would I be better off
doing it like Build and using transparent pixel checks instead, not
bothering with skipping transparent areas? For now, I chop off the
fractional part of the top coordinate for software drawing, since it was
the easiest thing to do (even if it wasn't the most correct thing to do).
SVN r1955 (trunk)
