This flag is removed for a few reasons:
* Engines universally set this flag to true for widths > 320,
which made it redundant everywhere;
* This flag functioned primarily as a "force 1x scaler" flag,
since its behaviour was almost completely undocumented and users
would need to figure out that they'd need an explicit non-default
scaler set to get a scaler to operate at widths > 320;
* (Most importantly) engines should not be in the business of
deciding how the backend may choose to render its virtual screen.
The choice of rendering behaviour belongs to the user, and the
backend, in that order.
A nearby future commit restores the default1x scaler behaviour in
the SDL backend code for the moment, but in the future it is my
hope that there will be a better configuration UI to allow users
to specify how they want scaling to work for high resolutions.
This removes the unnecessary Buffer subclass and stops most places
where the output buffer was being interrogated about dimensions
instead of GfxFrameout.
Convert macros and vars to enums, rename keyboard events in
preparation for adding key up events, clean up unnecessary nested
conditionals, add TODOs for potential future work.
1. Added a new game option for linear interpolation when scaling
overlay-mode video in ScummVM builds with USE_RGB_COLOR;
2. Implemented SCI2.1-variant of the VMD player renderer (fixes
Trac#9857), which bypasses the engine's normal rendering
pipeline;
3. Improved accuracy of the SCI3-variant of the VMD player by
writing HunkPalettes into the VMD's CelObjMem instead of
submitting palettes directly to GfxPalette32.
The approach to video benchmarking used by SCI engine does not
translate very well to modern video devices -- it will either be
so slow that the games think the system is not capable of showing
normal visual effects, or so fast that the benchmarks overflow
their counters. So, game scripts that perform video benchmarking
are now patched to unconditionally return the highest speed value.
A pleasant but subtle side-effect of this change is that the extra
time sitting at a blank screen before the start of a game (while
benchmarks ran) is now gone.
Fixes Trac#9741.
This flag was used in SSCI to read from VRAM instead of from the
back buffer when a mouse interrupt was received in the middle of
a back buffer update. Since ScummVM controls when mouse events
are received via polling, it is not possible to receive a mouse
event in the middle of back buffer updates, so this code is
unnecessary for the engine to work properly.
This also fixes Valgrind warnings about use of uninitialized
memory at the start of the game, caused by not filling the cursor
memory buffers because `_frameNowVisible` was false until the first
frame was rendered.
SSCI transitions code sends a large number of small show rects
to the graphics manager, one at a time, for each division of a
transition. Each time a rect is submitted, a call to showBits
is made. This design was used when transitions for SCI32 were
first implemented in ScummVM, and it worked OK because the
hardware surface was updated by EventManager::getSciEvent,
not showBits, so the large number of calls to showBits from the
transitions code did not adversely affect engine performance.
Later in SCI32 engine development, hardware surface updates
were changed to occur in showBits so that the hardware surface
would be updated at frame-out time, instead of at input-in time.
This change meant that now the large number of calls to showBits
from transitions became very expensive, and the engine would
stall constantly refreshing the entire hardware surface.
To fix this problem, the transitions code now (1) maximises the
size of rects coming from transitions, when possible, and (2) only
calls showBits when all the rects from one frame of a transition
have been calculated and added to the show rects list.
Additionally, there were some arithmetic errors in the
implementation of pixel dissolve that have been corrected in this
changeset.
Fixes Trac#9614.
This may come back in the future to deduplicate some gfx code,
but SCI32 had two different inlined ways of doing coordinate
conversions with different rounding methods, so CoordAdjuster32
didn't get used when the graphics system was rewritten.
At the moment, SCI32 code uses the mulru/mulinc methods from
helper.h for scaling up/down coordinates.
This commit implements all of the known plane transitions from
SCI2 through SCI2.1mid games. Because kSetShowStyle is always
called indirectly via the Styler game script, it is difficult to
find all the places where transitions are used. As such,
transitions that appeared to never be used have been added as
stubs which will trigger a game crash with a message to report
what was being done, so any missed transition types can be
identified quickly and then implemented.
Controls that manage their own event loops and call frameOut
directly generally need to sleep in order to avoid 100% CPU,
just like the main VM event loop.
Most SCI32 games draw a "fred" object to the screen when the game
first starts to benchmark video performance. When framerate
throttling is enabled (which fixes many/most timing-related bugs
and reduces system load caused by unnecessary graphics updates),
the game's performance check will think that video card is slow,
causing some "high-performance" game features to be disabled.
To avoid this, we simply disable throttling during benchmarking by
detecting the "fred" object.
The implementation was not correctly rounding the scaled position
with mulru, leading to occasionally incorrect hit detection at
the boundaries of boxes.
Fixes restoring saved games, when ScummVM dialogs are patched in
Removing clearing planes+screen items as well, because the scripts
actually did that, but did not clear everything.
Fixes "Invalid screen item" message when entering options menu,
after restoring in SQ6.
Filippos Karapetis
Colin Snover
Willem Jan Palenstijn
Eugene Sandulenko
Martin Kiewitz