Now a child type can decide for itself how to treat 'amount'.
The scripting interfaces to this function in ACS and FraggleScript have been consolidated and also scriptified.
- offloaded key list generation for alternative HUD to non-UI parts.
This change also revealed a problem with handling empty sprites in the key list so this got fixed, too.
There were still some leftover definitions from FMod and far too many things were at the top level. Anything non-essential has been moved to the "Advanced Sound Options" submenu and the pointless sound backend switch has been removed entirely.
Overriding this would make the engine vulnerable to badly behaving mods. Intercepting this and altering the behavior can render the entire game inoperable, especially if more internal code gets scriptified later. So even at the risk of breaking some carelsss mods this must be blocked.
This was by far the largest block of native virtuals, and they were only native to be able to allow checking if the event was implemented for the current handler. This can easily be done by looking at the byte code, just like VMCall also does but in turn it removes more than half of the existing native virtuals from the interface.
It has been like this initially but was changed when ZDoom gained an overly complicated polymorphic class descriptor object that required a lot of support code. All these complications have long been removed but these methods remained. Since they prevent a class from being moved to the script side entirely they had to be removed.
This was the last major blocker to make Weapon a purely scripted class, the only remaining native method is Serialize which is of no concern for the coming work.
This stuff is now kept locally in the bot code so that it doesn't infest the rest of the engine.
And please don't read the new botsupp.txt file as some new means to configure bots! This was merely done to get this data out of the way.
The bots are still broken beyond repair and virtually unusable, even if proper data is provided for all weapons.
In both cases, having this flag on will render the monster-backing-off-check for melee attacks ineffective because it would misinterpret these weapons as close range only - which they aren't. Even for the PhoenixRod the range is longer than what gets checked here.
As a consequence, the bot's check for missile shooting melee weapons has also become pointless because no such weapon is defined anymore.
