Replace existing random buildings implementation with one using
proper instancing. This allows better control of the buildings
themselves and allows BUILDING_LIST STG verb to specify
individual building dimensions. See README.scenery for details.
The updateInterval argument is used a lot less than the dependency list, so
these have been swapped. That simplifies the registration code in the subsystem
implementations as the updateInterval default of 0.0 no longer need to be
supplied.
This is a partial reversion of c1dd8faa29 and a
complete reversion of caea68007e and
846f024e91. These changes are incompatible with
the subsystem class IDs.
This is a clean up commit prior to the subsystem API standardisation to simplify
the diffs. It includes all SGSubsystem and SGSubsystemGroup derived classes.
This uses an SGThreadExclusive controlled by Emesary notifications that are received from the main loop.
When active at the end of a frame the garbage collection thread will be released; if it is already running this will do nothing. Optionally at the start of the mainloop we can wait for the previous GC to finish.
The actions of the background GC is controlled by notifications - again received from the main loop which in turn uses properties.
I initially thought that the wait at the start of the frame would be necessary; however in 100 or so hours of flight without the await for completion at the start of frame no threading problems (or any other problems) were shown; so nasal-gc-threaded-wait is defaulted to false which gives a slight boost in performance.
So what this does is to it removes the GC pause of 10-20ms every 4 seconds (test using the F-15). This change doesn't really give much extra performance per frame because normally GC is only performed when needed.
An exclusive thread is one that is suited to being used where the thread needs to be activated at a certain point, and also that the code activating the thread may also need to wait for thread completion.
Example of this is the new background garbage collection for Nasal. The thread will be activated at the end of the frame processing and at the start of the next frame the thread can be awaited - thus allowing the thread to work in parallel with the rendering.
rework to measure the required length (vsnsprintf does this with a size of zero and a nullptr as the first parameters) - and then just alloc the required space. Should be more efficient than the looping version.
- Added light definitions to the model XML files. This is not compatible with Rembrandt.
- Added depth slicing.
- Added threading support. For now it's faster to run everything on the main thread since there aren't many lights.
derived from: https://github.com/Zaretto/Emesary/tree/master/src/Emesary/EmesaryC++
This is a similar implementation to that in Nasal; currently this is only for use in C++ modules as there is no Nasal interface - however this is something that may be added later.
The basic premise of the Emesary messaging system is to allow the decoupled operation of the various components that comprise any system - usually within the same process.
The basic unit of communication is a Notification, which is passed around to any and or all objects that implement the IReceive interface (pure virtual class). Using Interfaces and ihneritance
it is possible to pass around Notifications that have special meanings to certain objects and allow them to perform the appropriate function.
Notifications are created and sent via a call to NotifyAll. Any object within the system can inherit from IReceive and register itself with a Transmitter to receive all notifications that are sent out.
The underlying concept is that one part of a system knows that something needs to be done without needing to know how to do it. The part of the system that needs something done simply creates a notification and sends it out. Once received by the part of the system that is capable of performing the requested Notification the relevant actions will be carried out and a status of OK or Finished returned.
The return code from the Receive method must follow the guidlines as follows:
If a notification is not recognised in the recipient must return ReceiptStatusNotProcessed. Normally a recipient will return ReceiptStatusOK, sometimes ReceiptStatusFail to indicate that the recipient could not properly process the notification.
The overall result of a call to NotifyAll is a composite of the results of each individual recipient's return value; and generally OK or Fail. It is acceptable to use the return code to ascertain success or failure and take appropriate action.
It is generally recommended that more detail specific to the particular purpose be included within the Notification to allow more control.
Notifications can be modified during processing to permit a multistage process; however this needs to be designed correctly.
* ReceiptStatusOK : Notification processed fine by Receive, transmitter continues with next recipient
* ReceiptStatusFail : Notification processed but failed, transmitter continues with next recipient
* ReceiptStatusAbort : Notification processed and the receive method declares a fatal error; the transmitter will stop notifying recipients
* ReceiptStatusFinished : Notification processed and the recipient declares that the processing is completed, the transmitter will stop notifying recipients
* ReceiptStatusNotProcessed : receive method does not recognise the notification
These status are for later implmentation.
* ReceiptStatusPending : (future ues); notification been sent but the return status cannot be determined as it has been queued for later processing, transmitter continues with next recipient
* ReceiptStatusPendingFinished : Message has been definitively handled but the return value cannot be determined. the transmitter will stop notifying recipients
- change to always use the SG create mipmap function as it works better (no purple clouds)
- when enabled always generate a mipmap even if the file couldn't be compressed
- adjust level of log messages
- move lru_cache into its own header file.
