- HTTP networking support, mods can be downloaded via the builtin downloader.
All network activity runs in a seperate thread, which is started
as soon as any network activity is requested.
- The master server is hard-coded to fg.wzff.de/aqmods/ if not specified otherwise;
this setting can be overridden in the config file.
- The mod selector screen is now a grid-view for much better navigation;
also works with joystick.
- VFS code is functionally similar to the old molebox-packed release
for win32. The game could also have its data shipped in a Zip file
or any other kind of archive.
- It is still possible to build without VFS support, but then the mod
downloader and soft-patching will not be available.
The full commit history can be found here:
https://github.com/fgenesis/Aquaria_clean/compare/master...vfs
The most important commit messages follow:
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This replaces all std::ifstream with InStream, and fopen(), ... with vfopen(), ...
Some code is #ifdef'd for better performance and less memory-copying.
VFILE is defined to whatever type of file is in use:
- FILE if BBGE_BUILD_VFS is not defined
- tttvfs::VFSFile if it is.
Other changes:
- [un]packFile() is now unused and obsolete. That code has not been adjusted to use VFILE.
- glpng can now load from a memory buffer.
- TinyXML uses the VFS for reading operations now.
- The rather clunky binary stream loading of glfont2 got replaced with ByteBuffer,
which gets its data in one block (necessary to use the VFS without implementing
a somewhat STL-compliant std::ifstream replacement.)
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Implement loading mods from zip files.
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Implement soft-patching game data files. (Replacing textures/audio/... on the fly)
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Misc bits:
- Extended GUI focus handling a bit
- Fixed weirdness in texture loading... not sure but this seems more correct to me.
Actually, considering that the texture will have its native size after restarting the game,
the lines removed with this commit seem pretty useless.
This was removed in HG changeset 7ec478d993b7, and is now implemented
in a way that is better than before: voice overs and music
no longer cause decoding lag, as they are always decoded on-the-fly.
The additional memory use (~40 MB) should be no problem for anyone.
The default is still to decode everything on the fly.
Collision rendering is now mapped to Ctrl+Shift+Return instead of capslock.
Also fixed one float->int truncation in script interface,
and removed useless debug message when particle effect "" was supposed
to be spawned (but does never exist).
This does now allow constructs like this, in an entity script:
function msg(me, a)
if a > 1 then
a = a * entity_msg(me, a - 1)
end
return a
end
So that entity_msg(thing, 5) == 120 is true.
Script interface:
- entity_msg() will no longer corrupt the Lua stack if sending messages to itself.
- added more info to non-critical Lua errors ("attempt to call a nil value", etc)
- replaced many lua_tostring() with getString(), which does never return NULL.
This prevents possible crashes when a non-string parameter is passed to functions
expecting a string.
Misc:
- Removed classes BoxElement, DFSprite, Datafile, and related references.
They were essentially unused.
- Removed unused Element class member variables.
- Show more lines in the in-game console.
When a mod without a world map was loaded from a saved game,
and the player died and respawned at the last save, the game
would spam this error message.
Now it loads world map explored data only if a world map is present.
- Removed some unused member variables.
- The BBGE_BUILD_WIDESCREEN define is now gone.
- Added an TiXMLDocument cache to prevent parsing the same file
once for each entity on the map with the same skeletal.
- Removed Lua func entity_warpToPathStart, which was essentially a no-op
because Entity::followingPath was always NULL. Removed related code.
- Set texture wrap only when required.
(Some changes taken from https://bitbucket.org/mattbierner/ios-aquaria,
special thanks for changeset 72d6460d9e60)
An Errorneous script could cause a node script instance leaking,
preventing the leaked inctances from unloading, and thus
locking the whole file, preventing it from re-loading when relaoding
the map, until the mod was exited.
Also init nodes properly when cloned or changed.
- Game::reconstructEntityGrid() now really clears only entity grid,
and not the tile grid as well
(Added OT_INVISIBLEENT do further distinguish entity from tile obstruction)
- Invalid script pointers should not pop up message boxes
- Lost an include and CMakeLists changes
Also simplified .zga texture and .aqs savegame loading.
Dropped support for "crunched" .sav files (those were never used),
and the corresponding crunch functions.
To be done: Temp files are still used when compressing files,
will address this in a later commit.
The pool adjusts to the amount of required threads.
The implementation is as simple as possible, but should be enough
for future extensions.
This brings down decoder thread creation/destruction even more.
Also fix OpenALSystem::release() to close channels properly on shutdown,
otherwise it would deadlock with the pool, because it waits until all
threads have died off, which did not necessarily happen.
This patch adds the functionality of the removed hack added in 07bc370c1680,
but without the runtime performance impact.
OT_* obstruction types are now a bitmask; as a side effect,
Game::baseGrid is no longer needed, which reduces memory usage by
4 MB.
Do not play sounds with volume 0 that would never get audible.
This helps against stuttering on maps with many entities that play
sounds in regular intervals, but are too far away to be heard.
This needs to be removed once audio position updating is implemented.
