- Only works in Match Race and Online level selects
- Shows in-progress state on Pause and Cup Grid, but no direct influence available on those screens
- Z to queue current highlighted map
- Pending until you press A, then sent to server
- When done online, tries to send one at a time to avoid overloading connection
- C to clear
- Removes one from pending first
- If you're out of pending maps, prompts whether you want to clear server's queue
Now that TA wipes are their intended length, holding Respawn during Time Attack for more than a single frame repeatedly restarts the run. This is not ideal, and frankly wasteful of CPU. Here is the specified replacement for this case:
- Holding gc_respawn will hold on a black(/white) screen before mapload.
- Allows for taking a conscious breather (or opportunity to curse) in the middle of long Time Attack sessions.
- Ticcmdbuilder will not interpret gc_respawn into BT_ constants in Time Attack contexts at all.
- Fixes the occasionally visible E-Brake when coming out of this breather state.
A lot of messy, copypasted boilerplate has been bundled together into a single function.
Programmers can now fire up a Match Race, the most basic type of gameplay, from menu code in only four steps (other modes take a little more attention):
- **M_MenuToLevelPreamble(UINT8 - splitscreen players #, boolean - false to extend wipe/true for short wipe)**
- set restoremenu
- D_MapChange(...)
- M_ClearMenus(...)
Includes the following fixes:
- Encore no longer has over-long wipes when started from menu, only standard-length
- "Boss Intro" and Encore start-of-round sounds will always play, even if no Title Card is drawn
- No long wipe when restarting a Time Attack run
- Auto Encore and Auto Gamespeed are no longer accidentially forced if you've manually changed them to Off and Gear 2 before starting netgame
A chunk of P_LoadLevel, extracted.
Calling it in D_ClearState should clear up some of the straggling pointers that might cause Laz' reported issue.
With any luck, it should also significantly reduce the amount of memory the menu uses.
- Built off g_fast_forward to utilise a lot of existing structure
- Only does steps of 5 seconds and therefore isn't precise, but that's better than having to rewatch/fastforward through the entire thing
- No single frame step back or general in-motion rewind preview, but that was all overkill
- Demos/Ghosts that end before ticking once are now correctly ignored. (ResolvesKartKrew/RingRacers#168)
- There was code for discovering it on read! It was just placed slightly too early, probably due to the conversion for netreplays! I'm very mad!
- As a preventative measure, demos *recorded* before ticking will simply not save in the first place.
- This was also a frustratingly easy fix for the amount of headache it's caused us.
- Reduced the amount of copypasted boilerplate by simplifying the places where DEMOMARKER can be written (and therefore read).
- Previously, like half the write functions tried to guess their own output size and potentially end the demo at any point.
- At best, this will grant us a few tics of reprireve for large netgames and MAYBE a handful of seconds for time attack, The Mode In Which The Aim Is To Go Fast.
- Instead, double the size of the deadspace buffer extension and just check to see if we've crossed into that territory.
On most devices these days, there is a mandatory microphone indicator
when an input device is being used. Moreover, on macOS and some Linux
distros, the user will be prompted to grant permission to the game for
microphone access. To ensure we're playing nicely with these
expectations, instead of just leaving the device on at all times on
first use, close and reopen the device as sound input is needed.
- We keep medals, but times are invalid due to the massive overhaul!
- To avoid double increment of minorversion, this will not fire on current internal, only 2.3 gamedatas
- Misjudged the boundary conditions as `numskins == MAXSKINS` is valid
- Internal version of public MR !113, credit Alu Folie for bringing attention to the area of error
