The values were still 8 and 32 respectively which applied to hardware from last decade, but for modern mods these are simply too low. New values are 64 as minimum and 128 as default.
- added script access to a sector's colormap and specialcolors fields. (Writing only through dedicated functions because these fields are render state which may need to trigger some form of refresh if the renderer changes.)
With no 3D floors this appears to be ok, but there are so many places where colormaps are being set in the software renderer that I cannot guarantee that I got all of them correct. This will need some testing.
- moved testcolor and test fades into SWRenderer files.
These CCMDs work by hacking the default colormap and were never implemented for hardware rendering because they require many checks throughout the code.
This has increasingly become an obstacle with the hardware renderer, so now the values are being stored as plain data in the sector, with the software renderer getting the actual color tables when needed. While this is a bit slower than storing the pregenerated colormap, in realistic situations the added time is mostly negligible in the microseconds range.
This is only the parsing part, the arrays are not yet getting evaluated.
This required quite a hacky workaround because the gramma couldn't be made to accept the rule. The scanner will check if a 'static' token is immediately followed by a 'const' token and will combine both to a new 'staticconst' token that does not create conflicts with other rules.
- added a StartSlideshow ACS and ZScript command and extended the functionality to specify the slideshow's name when starting it.
This is for triggering any kind of intermission definition in the middle of a level - keep in mind that this may not be set up to loop!
This method was chosen because it avoids adding variable declarations to the global namespace which would have required a lot more work while polluting the grammar.
This way the global variables can be handled by a small bit of special coding in the struct generator.
If we have to write compiler specific code for micro-optimizations I am out.
The Posix compatible version nullified most the advantage on MSVC by writing out the XMM register to memory and then reading back the float.
That's not worth the hassle for an optimization that brings a few microseconds at best.
* dynamic lights also work in the true color software renderer and have been moved out of the OpenGL menu.
* created a separate software renderer menu and moved all relevant options there.
* delete non-applicable options when running in legacy mode.
* moved the OpenGL preferences menu one level up to eliminate a two-entry GL top level menu.
