This is needed for 8.VMD in Lighthouse (room 380, the credits
room), which is rendered partially off the bottom of the screen.
OSystem does not accept rects that are offscreen.
Technically this video probably should not have been doubled
vertically by game scripts, but there is not enough space to fix
the rendering with a regular script patch, and it is a very
unimportant video.
Calling through EventManager::getSciEvent to flush events is
pretty inefficient and created stalls that lead to dropped
frames during the chapter 7 chase in Phantasmagoria 1.
If necessary, performance could be improved further by extending
Common::EventManager to expose SDL_FlushEvents, but this seems to
finish in 0-1ms so should be OK for now.
Refs Trac#9974, Trac#9975.
In b4c0be8b42 keyboard events were
adjusted to send control characters to game scripts, which matches
how keyboard input works in SSCI. Unfortunately this broke games
using kMenuSelect because that kernel code was not expecting to
receive control characters.
Here is an amended list of known types of keyboard shortcuts, for
future reference:
* All games with text inputs (Ctrl+C clears text boxes)
* Most games using MenuBar, like QFG1EGA (Ctrl+P pauses the
game, Tab or Ctrl+I show inventory)
* QFG1VGA (Ctrl+S shows stats)
* Torin (Ctrl+N, Ctrl+O, Ctrl+S, etc. activate menu commands)
* LSL1VGA & LSL3 (Ctrl+Alt+X to bypass age check)
* Most in-game debuggers (Alt+T for teleport)
The shortcut handling code is still not 100% accurate since there
are some edge cases that are not implemented (e.g. in DOS/SSCI,
Shift+Ctrl+<key> usually sends the same key information as
Ctrl+<key>, but not if <key> is Tab), but it should now be working
in a consistent and rational manner for end-users.
This fixes the 3-frame glitch that was also present in the
original game when moving in the chapel from room 6500 to 6400 in
chapter 7.
Fixes Trac#9788.
Rendering bugs in ScummVM are often caused by buggy game scripts
relying on the last ditch sort, which is not the same in ScummVM
as in SSCI (since the SSCI last ditch sort relies on a different
memory architecture and is super buggy). However, these bugs do
not show up very frequently these days, so it is easy to forget
all the places that need to be checked when debugging a rendering
problem that appears to be caused by sorting failure.
This commit breaks out the last ditch comparison formerly in
Plane::calcLists to hopefully make it more visible to future
programmers.
Refs Trac#9957.
While this optimisation helped to reduce unnecessary palette
updates in KQ7, it broke Phant1, which relies on changes to index
255 in the source palette causing palette invalidation.
Refs Trac#9788.
This transition style was used when exiting the asteroids minigame
in PQ4, though it appears likely that this was an error in the
original game script since it does not actually do anything in the
context that it is used (neither here nor in the original
interpreter).
Still, this code is already written, and it fixes the crash, so in
it goes.
Fixes Trac#9856.
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.
1. Added a new game option for linear interpolation when scaling
video in ScummVM builds with USE_RGB_COLOR;
2. 8bpp videos that put black in a palette index other than 0
(KQ7) should now always render correctly without the earlier
game-specific workarounds which did not work very well;
3. Data from game scripts regarding video size and position are
now ignored, since games always just try to show videos in the
middle of the screen, but frequently get this a little bit
wrong, causing either bad aspect ratios or off-center videos;
4. Builds without USE_RGB_COLOR support will not crash when
attempting to play >8bpp AVIs, like those from KQ7 2.00b.
Fixes Trac#9843, Trac#9762.
This may be masking another bug, but at least what happens in
Phant1 is that the mouse does not get redrawn after being moved
programmatically to the fast-forward button when deviceMoved
returns early.
Videos in GK2 use this flag (e.g. the chapter 6 intro).
Now that GfxPalette32::updateHardware no longer calls
OSystem::updateScreen (only GfxFrameout::frameOut does this now),
every time a palette swap occurs during playback, there is a frame
of blackness that should not exist. This is because the order of
operation is:
1. Send black palette
2. Call frameOut (which updates the screen)
3. Send new, correct palette
4. No frameOut (so the screen is not updated with the correct
palette)
OSystem::updateScreen cannot be called multiple times for the same
frame due to vsync, but also, there does not appear to be any
reason to send a black palette, since it seems to be intended to
avoid temporarily rendering video frames with the wrong palette on
a hardware device that cannot guarantee simultaneous application
of a new palette and new pixel data. ScummVM does not have such
a problem, so this feature appears to be unnecessary for us.
For the moment, this 'feature' remains hidden behind an ifdef,
instead of being removed entirely, to avoid potential confusion
when comparing VMD code from SSCI.
More than one call to OSystem::updateScreen per frame on systems
with vsync ruins performance because the call is blocked until
the next vsync interval.
This also fixes bad rendering performance with the OpenGL backend.
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.
Colin Snover
Torbjörn Andersson
Bastien Bouclet
Willem Jan Palenstijn
Filippos Karapetis