- V_HUDTRANS does not fade if combined with V_SLIDEIN
(since sliding elements are not supposed to fade).
- If not V_SPLITSCREEN, uses most opaque fade value among
splitscreen players (since Tally will fade back out for
specific players).
Instead of the absolute insanity that is V_DrawCroppedPatch, which makes you specify the number of pixels to crop off the top/left and then the number of pixels to show after the crop ... you just use V_SetClipRect to create a rectangle for any future draws to be cropped down to, and V_ClearClipRect afterwards to clear it.
Currently only supported by V_DrawStretchyFixedPatch. Ideally other drawing functions should also receive clipping rectangle support too.
* Set via a fourth digit in the upper midtexture for transparent FOFs
* For example - #2551 is additive solid, #1282 is subtractive half...
* The original method of setting the upper midtexture to #900 or 901 still works, since I'm not out to break existing maps.
* Software: Remove the horrible `else if` ladder for FOF translucency. Algorithms, baby!
* OpenGL: Move to using `HWR_GetBlendModeFlag` in more places, for more long-term extensible support for multiple blendmodes.
All my work thus far on solving the drawflag/renderflag/additive/subtractive conundrum.
Outstandng problems:
* Bad additive/subtractive tables means that they appear opaque except under certain conditions.
* No support for FOFs, Polyobjects, or linedefs in OpenGL yet.
* All OpenGL support mostly done blind, may or may not function in practice.
If nothing else, the hard engineering problems are solved and it's just bug hammering...
- Split HUD stuff into k_hud.c/h
- V_SPLITSCREEN replaces the old function that sets V_SPLITSCREEN/V_HORZSCREEN flags system, and instead automatically moves it based on player number
- V_SLIDEIN makes HUD items slide in after the intro animation.
Basically a dedicated Record Attack-like experience for speedrunning the game as a continuous chunk rather than ILs. Has several quality of life features.
Benefits include:
* An unambiguous real-time bar across the bottom of the screen, always displaying the current time, ticking up until you reach the ending.
* Disable the console (pausing is still allowed, but the timer will still increment).
* Automatically skip intermissions as if you're holding down the spin button.
* Show centiseconds on HUD automatically, like record attack.
* "Live Event Backups" - a category of run fit for major events like GDQ, where recovery from crashes or chokes makes for better entertainment. Essentially a modified SP savefile, down to using the same basic functions, but has its own filename and tweaked internal layout.
* "spmarathon_start" MainCfg block parameter and "marathonnext" mapheader parameter, allowing for a customised flow (makes this fit for purpose for an eventual SUGOI port).
* Disabling inter-level custom cutscenes by default with a menu option to toggle this (won't show up if the mod doesn't *have* any custom cutscenes), although either way ending cutscenes (vanilla or custom) remain intact since is time is called before them.
* Won't show up if you have a mod that consists of only one level (determined by spmarathon_start's nextlevel; this won't trip if you manually set its marathonnext).
* Unconditional gratitude on the evaluation screen, instead of a negging "Try again..." if you didn't get all the emeralds (which you may not have been aiming for).
* Gorgeous new menu (no new assets required, unless you wanna give it a header later).
Changes which were required for the above but affect other areas of the game include:
* "useBlackRock" MainCFG block parameter, which can be used to disable the presence of the Black Rock or Egg Rock in both the Evaluation screen and the Marathon Run menu (for total conversions with different stories).
* Disabling Continues in NiGHTS mode, to match the most common singleplayer experience post 2.2.4's release (is reverted if useContinues is set to true).
* Hiding the exitmove "powerup" outside of multiplayer. (Okay, this isn't really related, I just saw this bug in action a lot while doing test runs and got annoyed enough to fix it here.)
* The ability to use V_DrawPromptBack (in hardcode only at the moment, but) to draw in terms of pixels rather than rows of text, by providing negative instead of positive inputs).
* A refactoring of redundant game saves smattered across the ending, credits, and evaluation - in addition to saving the game slightly earlier.
* Minor m_menu.c touchups and refactorings here and there.
Built using feedback from the official server's #speedruns channel, among other places.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/405336003239477249/641295998395613224/srb20042.gif
* Port MUSICDEFs from Kart.
* Safe to modify without modifying game, so we can put it in music.dta eventually.
* "Title", "AltTitle", "Authors" fields are self-evident.
* "Soundtestpage" and "Soundtestcond" are used to determine which sound test unlockable can play them (set with Unlockable's variable, just like Level Select).
* "Stoppingtime" and "BPM" both accept floats, and are used for presentation stuff on the sound test.
* Ironically, we don't share a single field name with them. Such is the case of differing foci, though, and I expect they'll change their implementation to match (since this is necessary for a sound test).
* Change how S_AddSoundFx works to avoid iterating through all of them, and to allow cv_soundtest to only scroll through defined slots (instead of the infinite wall of thok sounds when scrolling to the left).
* Change V_DrawFixedPatch to allow scaling on two seperate axes.
* Now called "V_DrawStretchyFixedPatch".
* "V_DrawFixedPatch" is a macro to V_DrawStretchyFixedPatch now (same scale on both axes).
* Available to Lua under v.drawStretched!
* Even works in GL!
* Bugfix: Add SR_PLAYER to SOC's menutypes_list.
Stay tuned for the merge request, where I put the onus on the Music Team to finish this off...
