| 1 | February 26, 2001
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| 2 | -----------------
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| 3 | - Justin and I have been writing LISP code to do teamplay
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| 4 | and capture the flag. The CTF objects all function
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| 5 | correctly; it'd be cool if we could get some better
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| 6 | artwork for them, and if they were tinted right, though. :)
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| 7 | - Redefined the cons_cell and related structures to make it
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| 8 | easier to browse through the watch window in the debugger
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| 9 | without having to type-cast everything I want to see.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | February 18, 2001
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| 12 | -----------------
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| 13 | - Changed lisp function (set_player_color x) to
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| 14 | (set_object_tint x)
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| 15 | - Added lisp function (get_object_tint)
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| 16 |
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| 17 | February 17, 2001
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| 18 | -----------------
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| 19 | - Lots of playtesting recently
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| 20 | - Have fixed all of the window display problems (I think)
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| 21 | - Added lisp function (set_player_color x) to switch player
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| 22 | to color number x
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| 23 | see chat.lsp for details
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| 24 | - Modified cop.cpp with Leon's suggestion for player drawing
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| 25 | - Modified people.lsp to correspond to the change to cop.lsp
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| 26 | - added -window switch to allow play in a window (still
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| 27 | experimental -- only works with 32-bit desktop color
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| 28 | depth) -size still works the same. Press alt-tab to
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| 29 | switch away from Abuse.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | February 04, 2001
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| 32 | -----------------
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| 33 | - Finally got alt-tabbing to behave nicely. Still minor
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| 34 | issues with the main menu, but it's at least much
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| 35 | better than it was.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | January 28, 2001
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| 38 | ----------------
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| 39 | - There's now only one place where a window_manager
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| 40 | is instantiated. There are no functions which
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| 41 | take a window_manager parameter anymore.
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| 42 | - Well, in the process of adding changes necessary to
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| 43 | handle recovery from alt-tabbing away from Abuse
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| 44 | (which is why I was updating jwindow::redraw()),
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| 45 | the entire windowing system is getting an overhaul.
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| 46 | It's gonna be sweet when I'm done, though.
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| 47 | - jwindow::redraw() has been changed to a virtual
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| 48 | function requiring no parameters. This'll make
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| 49 | it much easier to implement special specific-
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| 50 | purpose windows.
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| 51 | - renamed wm[] array in dev.cpp to WinMenus so that it
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| 52 | doesn't have a name collision with the satic wm
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| 53 | singleton.
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| 54 | - Starting work on singleton code; will get rid of all
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| 55 | references to an arbitrary window_manager* because
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| 56 | there's only going to be one, and it's not ever
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| 57 | going to change.
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| 58 | - Got rid of X-ish "control is only active when mouse is
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| 59 | over it" Now you've gotta click on a control to make
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| 60 | it take focus, and you can hit tab to move between
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| 61 | controls even when one isn't currently selected.
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| 62 | - Fixed right/down arrow display in selection boxes...
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| 63 | Finally. That bug had been eluding me forever.
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| 64 | (Accidentally Lock()ed again at the end of drawing
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| 65 | instead of UnLock()ing ... Oops)
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| 66 |
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| 67 | January 27, 2001
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| 68 | ----------------
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| 69 | - I think I've figured out why the automap is crashing the
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| 70 | engine sometimes. When I'm done with other stuff, I'll
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| 71 | take a look at fixing it.
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| 72 | - Got fRaBs' uninstall working. I guess "company name" is
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| 73 | required before the uninstaller can initialize. Dumb
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| 74 | limitation, if you ask me...
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| 75 | - Moving username.lsp, gamename.lsp, and some other LISP
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| 76 | files out of /addon/deathmat into /config. Adding
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| 77 | more saved configuration stuff as well.
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| 78 | - Added net_configuration::save() function
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| 79 | - Modifying deathmatch startup code to look for -a switch,
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| 80 | allowing addons to redefine deathmatch settings.
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| 81 | - Added net_configuration::load() function
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| 82 | - fixed info_field->find() function
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| 83 | - fixed button_box->press_button() function
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| 84 | - Also found the foretile corruption display in the editor.
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| 85 | Will take a look at it soon -- for now just close the
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| 86 | window and re-open it and it'll be okay.
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| 87 |
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| 88 | File notes:
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| 89 | changed:
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| 90 | /
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| 91 | abuse.lsp
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| 92 | /lisp
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| 93 | people.lsp
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| 94 | startup.lsp
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| 95 | /addon/deathmat
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| 96 | deathmat.lsp
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| 97 | dstartup.lsp
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| 98 | /addon/fRaBs
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| 99 | !new-> netstart.lsp
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| 100 | /addon/fRaBs/lisp
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| 101 | startup.lsp
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| 102 | /addon/fRaBs/deathmat
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| 103 | deathmat.lsp
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| 104 | dstartup.lsp
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| 105 |
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| 106 |
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| 107 | January 24, 2001
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| 108 | ----------------
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| 109 | - Engine now deletes lcachexx.tmp on exit, and doesn't
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| 110 | ever create end.mem in the release build.
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| 111 | - Working on Shareware/Retail/fRaBs InstallShield packages.
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| 112 | Can't get fRaBs' uninstall to start correctly...
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| 113 |
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| 114 | January 23, 2001
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| 115 | ----------------
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| 116 | - Finally fixed the sound so that Abuse doesn't crash when
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| 117 | it can't find a sound card...
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| 118 | - Fixed game_getter() so that lbreak() works.
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| 119 | - Removed *all* exit() calls and replaced with WriteErr().
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| 120 | Abuse should *never* shut down without giving a reason
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| 121 | anymore. If it does, I've got an error somewhere that
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| 122 | isn't being taken into account.
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| 123 | - Fixed fRaBs so that it'll work within /addon/fRaBs with
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| 124 | the -a switch. Now I just need to tell Justin how he
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| 125 | needs to do things from now on... ;)
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| 126 |
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| 127 | January 19, 2001
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| 128 | ----------------
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| 129 | - I actually added this a while ago, but for anyone who's
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| 130 | interested, the GUID I'm using to create DirectPlay
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| 131 | sessions is:
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| 132 | {7FAABB28-D1AB-4b3b-957C-58A124E03542}
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| 133 | Not that anyone'll probably need this, but who knows?
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| 134 | - Added -module switch for specifying "add-on modules,"
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| 135 | which will be a more complete version of the -a switch.
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| 136 | - Tweaked with the re-worked DPlay stuff and it's much
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| 137 | better now. Still works, and is far prettier.
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| 138 |
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| 139 | January 18, 2001
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| 140 | ----------------
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| 141 | - The entire Abuse engine now runs inside its own thread,
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| 142 | allowing WinMain() to do event processing --
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| 143 | Now alt-tab should *always* work, even in game loops
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| 144 | where it previously wasn't polling for Windows events.
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| 145 | - Re-worked some DirectPlay stuff to allow it to start
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| 146 | a new network game after it's done with another...
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| 147 | Not the best solution, but it works.
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| 148 | - DirectInput routines now run inside their own thread,
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| 149 | as part of an effort to make the entire engine multi-
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| 150 | threaded. Currently working on moving Get/Translate/
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| 151 | DispatchMessage() out of the event handling code and
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| 152 | back into WinMain() where they belong.
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| 153 | - also had an idea to improve mouse wheel weapon switching
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| 154 | that works great except for one tiny problem. I
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| 155 | doubt if anyone'll encounter this problem, tho'. If
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| 156 | you find it, and it's a major problem, let me know
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| 157 | and I'll see if I can get to the bottom of it.
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| 158 | - worked on the lighting altorithm. Got a 100% speedup
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| 159 | in one of the inner loops, according to the profiler.
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| 160 | Lighting now takes about 10% less processor time when
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| 161 | using hw acceleration.
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| 162 |
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| 163 | Could still be sped up, though. The 32-bit reads
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| 164 | are faster (and fewer), but they're still not
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| 165 | guaranteed to be on a DWORD boundary, so there's
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| 166 | still a potential performance hit. I also need
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| 167 | to re-work the lighting table's functionality to
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| 168 | get rid of another good portion of the 8-bit
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| 169 | operations.
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| 170 |
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| 171 | January 17, 2001
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| 172 | ----------------
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| 173 | - fixed blinking player location dot not displaying in
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| 174 | automap.
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| 175 | - finally completely fixed the far right/bottom lines not
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| 176 | being drawn problem. Really bizarre solution -- I'm
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| 177 | not entirely convinced that the problem doesn't lie
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| 178 | elsewhere -- but it's fixed.
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| 179 | - weaning functions from image::width() to use
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| 180 | image::Pitch instead... DirectDraw aligns all scan
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| 181 | lines on DWORD boundaries, so width() doesn't
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| 182 | necessarily equal bytes/scan line.
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| 183 | - Right now I'm having a problem with system vs. local
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| 184 | video memory... If I create any of my surfaces in
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| 185 | system memory, the hardware acceleration takes a
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| 186 | serious hit on non-AGP systems. If I create surfaces
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| 187 | (one in particular representing the offscreen buffer)
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| 188 | in local video memory, any software rendering routines
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| 189 | (especially lighting) take serious performance hits.
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| 190 |
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| 191 | Hardware acceleration blazes through all of Abuse's
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| 192 | drawing routines. I can get upwards of 120 fps on my
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| 193 | computers with delays turned off ... But more than 50%
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| 194 | of all processing time is spent in the lighting routine.
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| 195 | When using system memory, lighting takes about 15% of
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| 196 | the processing time...
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| 197 |
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| 198 | Methinks I'll have to do some work on the lighting
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| 199 | algorithm to make it more 32-bit friendly...
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| 200 |
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| 201 | January 10, 2001
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| 202 | ----------------
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| 203 | - fixed bug that made Abuse think that keys were being
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| 204 | pressed when they were released, and vice-versa. It was
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| 205 | only by an incredible coincidence that the DirectInput
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| 206 | code was working at all before this. Now everything
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| 207 | (should) work.
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| 208 |
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| 209 | January 08, 2001
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| 210 | ----------------
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| 211 |
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| 212 | Code Notes:
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| 213 | - changing file_manager::remote_file::unbuffered_read() so
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| 214 | that it won't overrun the read buffer anymore -- ever.
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| 215 | - trying to find a bug that's preventing files larger than
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| 216 | 8k from transferring over the network correctly
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| 217 | (only a problem in the debug executable ... for now.
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| 218 | has potential to make things really bad later on.)
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| 219 |
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| 220 |
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| 221 | January 07, 2001
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| 222 | ----------------
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| 223 | - Added automap, though it's crashed a test machine twice,
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| 224 | so I removed it again.
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| 225 | - Built InstallShield package for shareware install
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| 226 | - Added mouse wheel support for changing weapons (not
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| 227 | perfect yet)
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| 228 | - Other stuff, though I've forgotten what.
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| 229 |
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| 230 | January 06, 2001
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| 231 | ----------------
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| 232 | - DirectInput for mouse works. Mouse sensitivity can be
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| 233 | changed, but needs a user interface still.
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| 234 | - Modified do_title() routine to no longer be hard-coded
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| 235 | for the original "intro" string ... Any string should
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| 236 | now be shown in its entirety. Mouse button click will
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| 237 | also exit the title screen.
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| 238 | - Started looking at LISP processing code to see about
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| 239 | adding functions that'll allow LISP scripts to do
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| 240 | intro/title-type stuff. (Draw pictures, show
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| 241 | scrolling text, etc.)
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| 242 | - Fixed editor map mode ... again. Forgot that I'd lost that
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| 243 | fix when I had a mini HD crash.
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| 244 | - Framerate is no longer "game tick" based. The game tick
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| 245 | runs at a fixed rate of 15Hz, and all game objects run
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| 246 | at this rate. This made the mouse move kinda choppy,
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| 247 | (as Bill pointed out) even if your computer is capable
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| 248 | of framerates much higher. Screen is now updated as
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| 249 | fast as possible, and game ticks still happen at 15Hz.
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| 250 | Interesting note, though: all I've got to do to increase
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| 251 | or decrease the speed of the game is to change a
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| 252 | floating-point value to something other than 15 ...
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| 253 | Throw a user interface in for it, and "Turbo-mode Abuse,
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| 254 | anyone?"
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| 255 |
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| 256 | It's amazing how much I've been able to tinker with now that the
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| 257 | DirectPlay code is more or less done... It's also amazing how
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| 258 | much of this engine's capabilities went unused by the original
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| 259 | Abuse...
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| 260 |
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| 261 |
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| 262 | January 05, 2001
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| 263 | ----------------
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| 264 | - Now using DirectInput for keyboard input. Faster, better.
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| 265 | Doesn't rely on Windows messaging. No more accidentally
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| 266 | hitting the Windows key when reaching for Ctrl, Josh...
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| 267 | - Working on DirectInput for mouse input. Will be faster,
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| 268 | better. Will support changing sensitivity and more
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| 269 | buttons. (5-button/wheel mouses will be more useful
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| 270 | in Abuse, eventually...)
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| 271 |
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| 272 |
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| 273 | January 04, 2001
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| 274 | ----------------
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| 275 | - Sound should never crash the Sound Server anymore (thus
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| 276 | crashing Abuse)
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| 277 | - Creating DirectPlay sessions with a much higher player limit
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| 278 | to allow for more simultaneous "virtual connections" that
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| 279 | I make with each client. Fixes "Can't create player"
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| 280 | errors.
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| 281 |
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| 282 | January 03, 2001
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| 283 | ----------------
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| 284 | - My name's in the startup console view now... :)
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| 285 | - Adding console view; throwing out text stat_man entirely
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| 286 | - preload.lsp now required. This file contains startup
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| 287 | configuration for game fonts, palette, and window
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| 288 | stuff.
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| 289 |
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| 290 |
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| 291 | Code Notes:
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| 292 | - event_handler (eh) is now created only once immediately
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| 293 | after the video mode is initialized. Same with the
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| 294 | status_manager (stat_man). They're both destroyed
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| 295 | when the program exits.
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| 296 | - fixed up WriteErr macro
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| 297 | - moving exit(x)'s into WriteErr, which shuts down DirectDraw
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| 298 | and shows a message box describing the error.
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| 299 | - changed sprite::change_visual() to copy the image and then
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| 300 | unlink it. jwindow::jwindow unlinks its screen. Did this
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| 301 | to keep them from getting destroyed when lisp is reloaded.
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| 302 | - modified NF_set_file_server(net_address *addr) to use dprintf
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| 303 | for console reporting.
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| 304 | - moving most printf's and fprintf's into dprintf to give the
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| 305 | Windows port a form of output for users to see as progress
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| 306 | indication and/or error messages.
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| 307 |
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| 308 | January 01, 2001
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| 309 | ----------------
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| 310 | - Networking supports more than 2 players
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| 311 |
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| 312 | December 26, 2000
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| 313 | -----------------
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| 314 | - Networking is much better now.
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| 315 |
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| 316 | December 24, 2000
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| 317 | -----------------
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| 318 | - Fixed extra line of garbage being drawn on display (really!)
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| 319 | - Networking works
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| 320 |
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| 321 | December 9, 2000
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| 322 | ----------------
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| 323 | - Fixed map display problem
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| 324 | - Added experimental logic to the sound server ... It now
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| 325 | tries to keep the number of playing sounds managed, so
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| 326 | hopefully it'll sound better.
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| 327 | - I've set the sound to play at 44.1 khz, 16-bit which helps
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| 328 | a lot even without sound management. Eventually this'll
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| 329 | be user-configurable, but for now it's hard-coded.
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| 330 | - And yet another improvement in the sound department -- it's
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| 331 | now in *stereo*! If something's on your left, you'll hear
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| 332 | it from the left speaker, and vice versa. This took me
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| 333 | *exactly* one line of code to implement. The framework
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| 334 | already had support for panning, it just wasn't used for
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| 335 | some reason.
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| 336 | - Command line switches work now. Try -size (and give it a
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| 337 | usable resolution, because it does no checking and will
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| 338 | just die if it can't switch modes)... All other switches
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| 339 | should work, too. Let me know if any don't.
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| 340 | - Fixed minor graphical glitch that made garbage show on the
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| 341 | far-right column and bottom scan line of the monitor.
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| 342 | (I think.)
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| 343 | - Threw out all of my old DirectPlay code and am starting
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| 344 | over. I've got a better idea of what it needs to do now,
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| 345 | so I should be able to get a slightly more elegant
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| 346 | solution in place than the one I was working on before.
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| 347 | (also began reading up on Winsock 2 APIs, for possibility
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| 348 | of supporting non-Windows players)
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| 349 |
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| 350 | Known Bugs:
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| 351 | - Once, when I was playing around with the editor, the
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| 352 | foreground tile window filled itself with garbage. I
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| 353 | closed it and re-opened it and it was fine. I couldn't
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| 354 | reproduce it again.
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| 355 | - Also, once, the debugger found some bad memory allocations
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| 356 | in weird places, but it didn't affect the game, and I
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| 357 | can't get it to do it again. |
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