In comparison to the old system, this is a downgrade - instead of being
able to set a full color mapping by gamma ramp, we now get just a value
per colour channel.
Upside is that we do not need to play around with the global gamma ramps
any more, which was arguably the wrong way to do it.
This commit will likely break everything that has been using gamma so far.
Sound() called when the instance is already running used to fail. Now, it always succeeds (also for script sync safety) but updates the sound level and pitch parameters. SoundAt has not been modified since it allows creation of multiple concurrent sound instance of the same effect without object context.
ExtractMaterial has been changed to be able to slurp in from the most distant horizontal position rather than the closest to the extraction top center.
Also speed up ExtractMaterial for the common case of no required horizontal shifts.
Useful e.g. for ingame scripting when you want to grant extra construction plans. Additionally, this kind of behavior is known from some other functions with per-player parameters like e.g. Sound().
CreateObject() now does not reposition an object after it has been created, but rather grows it around the center of said object.
To that end a new parameter has been added to DoCon() and SetCon() and the documentation has been updated.
Renamed CreateObject() to CreateObjectAbove() and replaced all occurrences in script files.
Added CreateObject(), the function may need a rewrite though, see comment in code.
Updated documentation
I would prefer to render the models for speaker portraits directly. However, it seems like it's not currently possible to clip or render models to offscreen surfaces.
As discussed in http://forum.openclonk.org/topic_show.pl?tid=2917, I
have merged all copyright notices into a single file and referenced that
merged file from each source file.
For the updated source files, the timeline has been split into three
parts:
1. Pre-RWD code (before 2001)
2. RWD code (2001 through 2009)
3. OpenClonk code (2009 and later)
All pre-RWD copyright notices have been left intact, as have RWD-era
copyright notices where the file did not have a RedWolf design copyright
notice but only individual author ones. All copyright notices of the
OpenClonk era have been replaced by a single notice ranging from the
first recorded year to the current year (2013). Mape code did not get a
OpenClonk Team copyright notice because it is somewhat separate from the
main OpenClonk codebase and has only been touched by Armin Burgmeier.
The new type C4TimeMilliseconds behaves for the most part like a uint32_t but is overflow-proof in comparisons.
In some places, a 0-value (or uint_max) of the variable storing the time had the special meaning "not set yet". This has been resolved by having it as a pointer to C4TimeMilliseconds with NULL meaning that it has not been set yet.
Peter Wortmann