With this PR we refactor a `premultiplied alpha` user string set by `characterpreview.cpp` into a more flexible mechanism allowing us to assign any state to GUI textures. We can consider these changes more future proof than the previous approach.
This PR aims to spark the retirement of a questionable pattern I have found all over our code base. I will illustrate how this pattern encourages code duplication, lacks type safety, requires documentation and can be prone to bugs.
```
std::map<std::string, Object> mMap; // Stored in all lowercase for a case-insensitive lookup
std::string lowerKey = Misc::StringUtils::lowerCase(key);
mMap.emplace(lowerKey, object);
std::string lowerKey = Misc::StringUtils::lowerCase(key);
mMap.find(lowerKey);
mMap.find(key); // Not found. Oops!
```
An alternative approach produces no such issues.
```
std::unordered_map<std::string, Object, Misc::StringUtils::CiHash, Misc::StringUtils::CiEqual> mMap;
mMap.emplace(key, object);
mMap.find(key);
```
Of course, such an alternative will work for a `map` as well, but an `unordered_map` is generally preferable over a `map` with these changes because we have moved `lowerCase` into the comparison operator.
In this PR I have refactored `Animation::mNodeMap` accordingly. I have reviewed and adapted all direct and indirect usage of `Animation::mNodeMap` to ensure we do not change behaviour with this PR.
To construct serializer from given entities:
* Data source/destination - any value that has to be serialized/deserialized,
usually already existing type.
* Format - functional object to define high level serialization logic to
define specific format and data schema. Like order of fields, allocation.
* Visitor - functional object to define low level serialization logic to
operator on given data part.
* BinaryWriter - copies given value into provided buffer.
* BinaryReader - copies value into given destination from provided buffer.
* SizeAccumulator - calculates required buffer size for given data.
This PR fixes a recent regression concerning enable and disable commands with object paging. In addition, we add a necessary comment to avoid such issues in the future.
This PR fixes a crash caused by the improperly ensured lifetime of RigGeometry::mSourceGeometry. mSourceGeometry was not adequate to ensure mSourceGeometry would outlive mGeometry because we extend mGeometrys lifetime beyond this lifetime by passing mGeometry to the draw traversal instead of this.
In addition,
We add important comments.
We detect and prevent generally unsafe operations in high level code.
We add a sprinkling of const to help clarify intentions.
Currently, we use an `UnrefQueue` which supposedly aims to transfer destruction costs to another thread. The implications of this unusual pattern can not be well understood because some allocators might free resources more efficiently if they are freed by the same thread that allocated them. In addition, `UnrefQueue` complicates the validation of thread safety in our engine. Lastly, our current usage of `UnrefQueue` triggers `ref()`, `unref()` atomic operations as objects are passed into the queue. These operations could be more expensive than the actual destruction.
With this PR we thus remove `UnrefQueue`. We can expect these changes to have a minor impact at most because we free most resources elsewhere in `ResourceSystem::updateCache`.
A component to load ESM content files with limited support for record types and
selection which of them to load. Supported record types are:
ACTI, CELL, CONT, DOOR, GMST, LAND, STAT.
Currently, we disable a paging root node that we only need in exterior cells by setting its node mask to 0 when transitioning into an interior cell. Node masks are not ideal for this usage case because Node::getBound is unaware of masks. With this PR we just detach the unused node from the scene graph. _shadowedScene->getBound() in the MWShadowTechnique should return a much better value in interior cells with these changes.
We currently build a large map of a BSAFile's contents unused by Open MW. We already map archive contents in VFS. With this PR we remove the map from BSAFile and reimplement its only current use in BSATool.
We currently use a version guard to adapt to a change in the number of parameters supplied to osg::TriangleFunctor's operator() template functor. The differing parameter is unused in our code. Crucially, operator() is not an override, so we can just add a default value for the differing parameter. Such a default allows us to apply identical code to both versions of the library without regressing functionality.
This PR proposes a simple change to `RigGeometry` `dirtyGLObjects` logic.
1. We will avoid dirtying unmodified arrays.
2. We can drop an osg version guard since `Drawable::dirtyGLObjects` is not nearly as harmful as `Geometry::dirtyGLObjects`.
3. We will avoid crashes in an as yet unfinished future PR concerning `Array` sharing improvements.
To reduce amount of computations on the caller side and restrict possible
values.
* verts can't be non-int because it's a number of things.
* worldsize is initially defined as int by ESM::Land::REAL_SIZE.
* Put function to calculate heightfied shift into components to be able to
reuse by other binaries.
osg::NodeVisitor is designed to recursively call virtual apply signatures until we find an implemented signature. Encountered nodes that we do not explicitely handle will trigger additional virtual function calls. With this PR we avoid these additional virtual function calls in the particularly costly ComputeLightSpaceBounds by adding some explicit signatures.
Currently, we always traverse the scene graph an additional time with a ComputeLightSpaceBounds visitor during shadow casting. ComputeLightSpaceBounds is only useful when the shadow casting mask allows us to shrink the bounds of the rendered scene, so we guard its traversal with a check against getCastsShadowTraversalMask. In practice, this guard never works because we build the traversal mask inclusively.
With this PR we limit the getCastsShadowTraversalMask check to relevant masks. This new check allows us to skip a superfluous ComputeLightSpaceBounds traversal with most settings.
