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.
The first part of the fix is to assign VBO/EBO's upon loading the array in the Nif reader. This avoids triggering the 'addVertexBufferObjectIfRequired' code path in osg::Geometry which has the race condition when two threads add the same Array at the same time. Essentially, we want the Arrays to be 'const' when they come out of the Nif reader.
The second part of the fix is to make sure not to create empty arrays in the Nif reader (importantly, not assigning a VBO to the empty array). This empty array would be deleted when the NIFFile is cleaned up, and the detachment of the VBO assigned to it (which is still in use by other arrays) would cause threading issues.
This rare crash bug was first introduced with commit a7c5beb7c5. When using OSG dev version 3.5 the crashes were a little more prevalent, because 'addVertexBufferObjectIfRequired' in osg::Geometry is now used even when VBO's are disabled (as part of the VAO support changes).
The previous commit broke some magic effects (e.g. shield). The controller's emit start/stop times should control the emitter, while the absence of the ParticleSystem's autoplay flag should freeze the whole particle system if no valid controller source gets assigned. This revised version works for both the Shield effect and the "dagoth ur death sparkles" effect.
Since commit e8662bea31, we're using OSG functionality that contains an unfixed crash bug in version 3.2. The bug is fixed in version 3.4 (OSG commit 6351e5020371b0b72b300088a5c6772f58379b84)
Instead use getImage and let the caller create the Texture. Sharing of textures is then handled in post by the SharedStateManager.
This is closer to what the OSG serializer does.
Streamlines the TextureManager and will make it easier to multithread.
Practical benefits:
- Filter settings are now applied to native OSG format models. These models do not use TextureManager::getTexture2D since the model itself specifies a Texture.
- The GUI render manager will be able to use its own separate textures, making it easier to turn off filtering for them.
Cache the current position in the animation track and attempt to reuse it in the next frame.
Decent speed up for the Update phase, about 0.3 ms faster in Balmora.
Unlike what I expected, the osgUtil::UpdateVisitor is set to traverse all children (not only active children). The FrameSwitch was thus traversing both RigGeometries part of the double-buffering scheme, rather than only the one active in the current frame.
Seems wrong to me, but MW appears to do it that way. Without this fix, the light_de_candle_08_64 from http://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/41654/ has flame particles in the wrong spot.
