The mapper has now the choice to disable several graphics features on
the client (for his map only, of course). The overrides are stored in
the map header.
mapoverride_nowaterreflect
If "1", water reflection is disabled. Useful, when odd water colours
are used to emulate other liquids that are not supposed to be that
reflective.
mapoverride_limitwaveheight
If "1", waveheight is capped at 0.1 max. Useful for small water
areas (like puddles), where higher waves would look weird.
mapoverride_nostencilshadows
If "1", stencil shadows are disabled. On clients, where stencil shadows
are otherwise enabled, blob shadows are used instead. If shadows are
disabled anyway, they stay disabled. Useful for dim maps, where hard
shadows make no sense.
The player is free to ignore any of those overrides:
ignoreoverride_nowaterreflect
If "1", mapoverride_nowaterreflect is ignored and regular client
settings are used.
ignoreoverride_limitwaveheight
If "1", mapoverride_limitwaveheight is ignored, and "waveheight" is
used unchanged.
ignoreoverride_nostencilshadows
If "1", mapoverride_nostencilshadows is ignored.
DOCREF mapoverride_nowaterreflect ignoreoverride_nowaterreflect
DOCREF mapoverride_limitwaveheight ignoreoverride_limitwaveheight
DOCREF mapoverride_nostencilshadows ignoreoverride_nostencilshadows
* sort colored lights behind white ones to avoid a light bug
* sort all clipped entities to the end of the list to speed up physics
* sort all pickups and playerstarts to use smaller index numbers to
use less bandwidth
Interpret the waterlevel value as tenths of a cube.
This makes the waterlevel variable a float value to the user, while the
map file still stores an integer value - but now it is interpreted
differently - for example, a waterlevel value of 123 now means 12.3 cubes
instead of 123. Old map files are converted during loading.
Note: the values of waterlevel and hdr.waterlevel need to be in sync.
DOCREF waterlevel
This patch enables an option to keep the map config embedded in the map
file - with autogenerated content. Any changes to map config data will be
written with the map. This includes data by loadnotexture, loadsky,
mapmodel, texture, fog, fogcolour, mapsound and shadowyaw. Once enabled,
all changes with those commands become persistent to the map.
New variables:
mapsoundchanged
Set to "1" with every command that changes mapsound slots. Should be
used to trigger a rebuild of mapsound menus.
New/changed commands:
mapsound
Now returns the number of the created slot.
mapmodel
Now returns the number of the created slot.
texture
Now returns the number of the created slot.
loadsky
Is now a builtin string variable (instead of a command), which means,
that the current value can easily be retrieved or edited.
The skymap name in the argument is now required to start with
"textures/skymaps/" - but that part of the path can be omitted.
examples:
loadsky steini/steini2 (loads textures/skymaps/steini/steini2_*)
loadsky textures/skymaps/steini/steini2 (same)
loadsky ../foo/bar (loads textures/foo/bar_*)
echo $loadsky
getnotexture
Returns the current "notexture" path. (Set by loadnotexture)
dumpmapconfig (available for debug binaries only)
Writes the current automatically generated map config to
dumpmapconfig.txt.
DOCREF mapsoundchanged mapsound mapmodel texture loadsky getnotexture
- press B to get the former filled volume view
- raise the value of tagnumfull to get both views simultaneously
- cubescript parameters should be cleaned up before release
In addition to the existing clip- and plclip-entities, this patch provides
a new approach to provide the same: clip areas by tagging cubes.
Each cube of a map has a parameter "tag". All tags in all existing ac maps
are currently zero. It is a leftover from cube 1. This patch uses the tag value
to determine, if a cube (from floor to ceiling) should be forbidden for
players (tag 0x80) or every moving object (tag 0x40). Tagclips have several
advantages over classic clip entities: they are fast to establish (mark
area, then /edittag 0x80) and are "cheap" for the engine. Tagclips do not
increase the number of entities. As tagclips are always floor to ceiling,
they can't be used to build stairs or platforms. Tagclips should be
preferred over clip entities, but can coexist without problems.
Technically, setting the tag value to 0x40 or 0x80 causes the physics
engine to handle the cube like a "solid".
Older versions of ac did not obey the map header field "headersize".
When a map was written, only the "version" field was updated, even if
the new written header had a different size. Thanks to bigger headers
in map versions 7 & 8 (and now smaller headers again in 9), the headersize
of basically all official maps is bogus. This fix makes sure, only proper
headersizes are written. It also makes the game tolerate different (bigger)
headers - and keeps their content untouched. Future map format extensions
can use this to add header information without breaking existing map parsers.
This patch establishes a new map format 10, which is identical to format 9,
with the exception that the headersize field is guaranteed to be correct.
Format 10 also allows any amount of additional header data.
This patch also cleans up the transformation routines for old map entities.
@ other devs: check my fix... I expect to not block any good map
git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/actiongame/code/trunk/ac@6490 e016b1c5-ed68-44aa-a2f7-31cac88cffde
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