blending of wood and/or gold texture on some resolutions(mobile,
tablets, etc) draws line which can be distracting. The backdrop is now
full size of PSP resolution (480x272, 2x res can be loaded like 960x544)
- removed every references to the gameobserver singleton. This object can now be instantiated several times as it's needed for minmax. To be able to do that, I mostly added a reference to a gameobserver from any targetable object (cards, players, spells) and abilities.
This btw points out another circular dependancy between the texture and the JQuad - a texture owns a bunch of JQuads, yet the renderer uses JQuads and always assumes that the texture is valid. We're going to need to add more defensiveness to JGE to protect against this.
Other changes in this check-in: WResourceManager doesn't derive from JResourceManager anymore. It actually didn't require anything from the base, so I killed the dependency. Also cleaned up the notion of a WTrackedQuad in the WCachedResource - it didn't need a separate class, just a better container.
I've build this & tested against PSP, win, linux, QT (linux). I haven't tried against iOS and QT Win, or Maemo. If these other platforms are broken, I apologize in advance! - I'm hoping it should be fairly simple to put them back into play.
Also fixed the project includes so that we don't need to always use the indirect include path, ie:
#include "../include/foo.h" -> #include "foo.h"
I'm don't know much about make files - if I busted the linux build, mea culpa, but I think we're okay on that front too. For future reference, here's the most straightforward link on the topic of adding pch support to make files:
http://www.mercs-eng.com/~hulud/index.php?2008/06/13/6-writing-a-good-makefile-for-a-c-project
- bug fix in JGE++ audio (improve HBL compatibility)
- Added new rewards in story mode: random card, card (either by "name" or id), specific set
- Story mode: added possibility to choose music, and bg for duel.
-- See "01. Where it all begins" for examples of new features
* Removed all calls to Release(JQuad*).
* Updated flatten(). Prior flatten was buggy beyond belief.
* Done some extensive testing, but if this causes more trouble than it fixes, we'll have to revert. It's too close to release time.
* In GuiBackground, we now load and use all of backdrop.jpg. This is for effects like that in Jade. It's an extremely minor change, so shouldn't effect stability.
This is pretty major, so there'll probably be something wrong with it... even though I did spend a few hours looking.
NOTES:
* If you've Retrieved it, don't delete it--- Use resources.Release(Whatever).
Textures automatically release subordinate quads.
* Most of the time, use resources.RetrieveQuad to grab a quad. Should handle everything for you.
RetrieveQuad will load the required texture, if needed.
Only managed resources have a resource name ("back", "simon", etc).
Managed resources can be retrieved with GetTexture/GetQuad/GetWhatever.
Non managed quads lookup by position/dimensions, defaulting to the whole texture.
* Use resources.RetrieveTexture only when you need to do something special to it.
Calling retrieve texture with RETRIEVE_MANAGE will permanently add a texture to the manager
RETRIEVE_LOCK and RETRIEVE_VRAM will lock a texture. It will not leave the cache until
Release(JTexture*) is called, or as a last resort during cache overflow.
* Try to only store (as a class member) pointers to textures retrieved with RETRIEVE_MANAGE.
All others may become invalid, although locked textures do have a high degree of stability. It's
pretty safe to store a locked texture if you're not going to load much between uses.
There's a lot going on here, so I might have missed something... but it runs through the test suite alright.
TODO:
* When called without any arguments, RetrieveQuad sometimes leaves a thin border around the image.
This can be bypassed by specifying a quad one or two pixels less than the image size. Why?
* I've had a crash while runing the Demo mode, something to do with receiveEventMinus?
This hasn't exactly reproduced on a clean SVN copy, (being a hang, rather than a crash) so
I've probably done something to worsen the problem somehow? I'll look into it tomorrow.
* Clean up lock/unlock system, memory usage. Streamline interface, consider phasing out calls using GetWhatever() format.
