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.
* 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.
- optimized the math to get a plane equation from a linedef. The original code used a generic algorithm that knew nothing about the fact that Doom walls are always perfectly vertical. With this knowledge the plane calculation can be reduced to a lot less code because retrieving the normal is trivial in this special case.
- use the SSE2 rsqrtss instruction to calculate a wall's length, because this is by far the most frequent use of square roots in the GL renderer. So far this is only active on x64, it may be activated on 32 bit later as well, but only after it has been decided if 32 bit builds should be x87 or SSE2.
# Conflicts:
# src/gl/dynlights/gl_dynlight.cpp
# Conflicts:
# src/g_shared/a_dynlightdata.cpp
This was done to clean up the license and to ensure that any commercial fork of the engine has to obey the far stricter requirements concerning source distribution. The old license was compatible with GPLv2 whereas combining GPLv2 and LGPLv3 force a license upgrade to GPLv3. The license of code that originates from ZDoomGL has not been changed.
Both of these were inherited from ZDoomGL and in terms of light design in maps it makes absolutely no sense to have them user configurable. They should have been removed 11 years ago.
- restricted gl_lights_additive to legacy code and removed menu entry for this.
For modern hardware this setting is completely pointless, it offers no advantage and degrades visual quality. Its only reason for existence was that drawing additive lights with textures is a lot faster, and that's all it's being used for now.
- added colormap shader to postprocessing.
This replaces the in-place application of fullscreen colormaps if renderbuffers are active. This way the fully composed scene gets inverted, not each element on its own which is highly problematic for additively blended things.
It makes no sense having them organized differently in this struct than what the rendering code needs. This saves one redundant copy operation and a function-local static variable.