When multiple quicksaves occurred in quick succession, the numeric order
of the saves could not be guaranteed. To prevent players from getting
confused as to why their saves appear out of order, don't number them.
With more than 1 quicksave slot, slots will be created each time you
quicksave until the maximum number (configured in settings) of
quicksaves has been reached. After that, the oldest quicksave slot will
be replaced each time you quicksave. Saves are numbered sequentially,
unless the maximum number of slots is 1, in which case it is not numbered.
A Warning indicates a potential problem in the content file(s) that the user told OpenMW to load. E.g. this might cause an object to not display at all or as intended, however the rest of the game will run fine.
An Error, however, is more likely to be a bug with the engine itself - it means that basic assumptions have been violated and the engine might not run correctly anymore.
The above mostly applies to errors/warnings during game-play; startup issues are handled differently: when a file is completely invalid/corrupted to the point that the engine can not start, that might cause messages that are worded as Error due to the severity of the issue but are not necessarily the engine's fault.
Hopefully, being a little more consistent here will alleviate confusion among users as to when a log message should be reported and to whom.
Two motivations for doing this:
- If the user chooses to overwrite existing save file, and there is an exception during the save process, the existing file will not be lost.
- Many small writes to a file are slow. Very slow. Writing to memory first then writing the completed file to disk appears to be ~500% faster.
ESM::Cell::getCellId() was allocating a string on every call. This caused functions dealing with cellIds to be unnecessarily expensive.
For example, World::moveObject spent almost as much time comparing CellIds as it did updating Bullet's AABB after the move. OpGetDistance was by far the most expensive script instruction because it has to compare cellIds.
The total cost of getCellId() relative to the frame loop was about 0.3%.
Daniel Vukelich
Andrei Kortunov
Allofich
Bret Curtis
scrawl
MiroslavR
Roman Proskuryakov
Marc Zinnschlag
dteviot
Alexander "Ace" Olofsson