Two things: 1) there was an extremely inefficient implementation in the particle system of a queue where, when particles expired, each expired element would be copied over(replaced) by one at the rear of the container. Depending on the performance of the update, this could range anywhere from 100 to 500 (the max particle count) memcpy operations per update loop. I replaced the flat array with a std::list, and simply pop the unneeded elements when they expire now. This seems to shave ~30% off the time spent in the Update() call.
2) Hardcoded the number of emitters for the mana particles to 60 (the default in the psi file seems to be around 114). This reduces the amount of iterations per tapped mana by just over half, which also helps the performance, and it's not really noticeable - the glow effect is a *tiny* bit more muted, but chances are, if you didn't read this comment, you probably wouldn't have noticed.
I've gone from having my psp start lagging noticeably at 8 tapped mana to about 12 - at this point, I think the bigger remaining lag is the fact that when there's a cache miss for a card image, we're doing synchronous i/o on the main thread - the framerate drop this causes is far more noticable than the mana particle lag.
- Added a possibility to put a file "Res.txt" instead of the folder "Res". The file Res.txt is a simple 1 line text file, telling where to find the Res folder, terminated by "/". For example: "../../wagic_res".
This addresses issue 428 . This could also help us in the future, to develop mods.
- fixed memory leak in AEquip/ATeach
- Test suite now trims strings correctly (allows to have space between comma-separated card names)
- Added Paradise Mantle (for ATeach test)
- removed a missing wallpaper from wallpapers list
new ability lord...teach(whatever[whatever]) ability.
teach is a targeted lord, it takes the cards current target and lords it the ability. im aware of a tiny memleak it contains, but the leak is happening on parser lvl, so i need more eyes to look at it. teach is ideally used for equipment, and was designed to fix issue 244 taught abilities are not given to the source cards.
forced Ai to pay for sunburst correctly. it was choosing to pay with all of one type of mana. now it pays either max or 1 from max sunburst.
added a tiny double check for Ai to try and find something to use if it suddenly has mana in its pool. it is only a single check in a turn, but i notice it actually does slightly improve the usages of dark ritual and foreach mana producers. ideally i wanted it to check EVERYTIME. but i could not achieve it without putting the game in danger of looping. so once is better then none :/
fixed a bug with affinity where it was not counting duel lands, this is becuase of not setting it up correctly for lands with multiple types SORRY!
** Sun Titan: missing exclusion of instants and sorceries for special ability
** Primeval titan: fixed token placement so that tokens went into exile and not the graveyard
following up on wrenczes cleanup,
changing ints to floats
fixing calculations such as ( 16.0 / <some float>) to ( 16.0f / <some float>) to remove compiler warnings.
Minor note to others: if you're writing drawing code, the coordinate system in JGE uses floats, so don't bother with ints for x/y coords & the like. You're forcing the processor to do float to long conversions for nothing.
please copy "DeckEditorMenuBackdrop.png" into your PSP folder. Otherwise you will have a crash when you start up!
ChangesLog:
minor refactoring of DeckMenu
added a new DeckEditorMenu which is derived from DeckMenu. This customizes the deck editor menus with the exception of the confirmation screens (yes/no)
Still more work to be done to round out some font issues.
TODO:
put more information text in bottom row of menu.
reorganize statistical data to allow more info to be shown.
installed a horizontal text scroller for the deck selection screens in normal play
TODO:-> Need to make it smoother transition. It currently just replaces the text with the new text.
