This should be less of a drag on the playsim than having each light a separate actor. A quick check with ZDCMP2 showed that the light processing time was reduced to 1/3rd from 0.5 ms to 0.17 ms per tic.
It's also one native actor class less.
This will mostly ensure that each patch used for composition is only loaded once and automatically unloaded once no longer needed.
So far only for paletted rendering, but the same logic can be used for true color as well.
In ZDoom this would affect everything using a patch that got used in a front sky layer, even if the texture was totally unrelated. It is only owed to the low usability of such patches for other purposes that this hasn't caused problems.
Previously it tried to copy all patches of composite sub-images directly onto the main image.
This caused massive complications throughout the entire true color texture code and made any attempt of caching the source data for composition next to impossible because the entire composition process operated on the raw data read from the texture and not some cacheable image. While this may cause more pixel data to be processed, this will be easily offset by being able to reuse patches for multiple textures, once a caching system is in place, which even for the IWADs happens quite frequently.
Removing the now unneeded arguments from the implementation also makes things a lot easier to handle.
* it's no longer the main texture objects managing the pixel buffer but FSoftwareTexture.
* create proper spans for true color textures. The paletted spans only match if the image does not have any translucent pixels.
* create proper warp textures instead of working off the paletted variants.
As a side effect, caching of pixel buffers for texture composition is temporarily disabled, as it management of texture redirections. These things will be reimplemented once things progress further. The existing methods here had their share of serious issues that should be fixed.
This was done to make reviewing easier, again because it is virtually impossible to search for the operators in the code.
Going through this revealed quite a few places where texture animations were on but shouldn't and even more places that did not check PASLVERS, although they were preparing some paletted rendering.
* it was never saved in savegames, leaving the state of dead bodies undefined
* it shouldn't be subjected to pointer substitution because all it contains is old dead bodies, not live ones.
Since the only thing it gets used for is swapping out PlayerPawns it can safely skip all global variables that never point to a live player, which allowed to remove quite a bit of code here that stood in the way of scriptifying more content
This allows retaining the functionality, even if for the JIT compiler's benefit all default arguments are pushed onto the stack instead of reading them from the defaults array.
This will now both exclude floor caps when only ceiling elements are used and everything outside the bounding box of active portal lines.
Hopefully this is enough to fix the issues with portal caps but of course it is not foolproof if someone just makes the right setup.
Apparently they can indeed happen with broken map setups like isolated linedefs somewhere in the wild (see Strife MAP08.)
Although they are a problem for triangulation, this isn't what sections get used for currently so it's of no real concern.
In case this is needed later their work data gets marked as 'bad' for the time being.
A section is a continuous part of a sector or in some case of several nearby continuous parts. For sectors with far away parts multiple sections will be created, especially when they lie in disjoint parts of the map.
This is mainly supposed to cut down on time for linking dynamic lights. Since they need to traverse subsectors to find all touching sidedefs a more coarse data structure that only contains the info needed for this is more suitable. In particular, this does not contain any intra-sector lines, i.e. those with both sides in the same sector.
Setting the buffer and its attribute bindings must be one step, not twp. With Vulkan this is a single API call.
This removes the now obsolete SetVertexBuffer method from the model renderer's interface.
