Added a compressed variant of the Russian translation of Nancy Drew:
Secrets Can Kill. Added a flag to mark compressed game variants and
only load archives when playing one. Removed the 8-bit colors flag.
Fixed the visual artifacts in the inventory box curtains in The Vampire
Diaries. Renamed the Shades class to Curtains to reflect their name in
the original engine.
Moved all hardcoded engine data that changes between games (e.g. number
of items, number of event flags) to a dedicated file and added a function for
accessing it in NancyEngine.
Changed the Button class so it doesn't require subclassing. Added a visible button to the Help screen. Also moved several classes' constructors to fix compilation errors.
Changed the UI::Scrollbar class so it doesn't require subclassing and added functionality for horizontal scrollbars. Fixed the textbox and inventory box scrollbars so their lowest point is consistent with the original engine's.
Changed the readRect() method so it correctly adds one more pixel to the width and height. Fixed a couple of off-by-one errors in the viewport scrolling code. Set the menu and help buttons as transparent to avoid drawing green lines when they're pressed.
SoundManager is now responsible for loading and storing all common sounds (sounds with their own BOOT chunk). All playSound() calls with a hardcoded channel ID now use the chunk name instead. Also fixed some sound inaccuracies when switching between states.
Class members that get properly initialized after the constructor now also get default values during construction to silence warnings. Also fixed a couple of broken entries in response.cpp that were uncovered by these changes.
Added a \0 to every instance of a char buffer being loaded into a Common::String. Fixed an instance of a large buffer getting repeatedly allocated and deleted inside a for loop. Fixed an instance of a small char buffer being unnecessarily allocated on the heap. Also added a readFilename() convenience function to util.h for reading 8-character filenames found in the data.
The Vampire Diaries' videos are all upside down after decompression, need a palette to be loaded from a separate bitmap file, and background videos are also quarter size (1/2 width and height). This commit adds a GraphicsManager function for loading a Surface or a raw buffer into a ManagedSurface, applying all transformations needed to display it correctly.
Removed the BlitType enum and getBlitType() method from RenderObject, and replaced them with setTransparent(). This was done to reduce redundant code, since ManagedSurface can already pick between a transparent and regular blit depending on whether the provided source surface has a transparent color set. Also added the correct transparent color for The Vampire Diaries, and the transparent color for nancy1 now gets calculated on the fly.
Changed surfaces in the textbox and inventory box so they are now initialized with the screen pixel format instead of the one used inside images. With this change The Vampire Diaries no longer fails a particular assert in the ManagedSurface blitting code, and can now boot successfully.
Added generic methods for getting the pixel format and transparent color. Also added a method for loading an image directly into a ManagedSurface, which also loads the palette and lets The Vampire Diaries logo display properly.
The resource manager now keeps track of its cif trees and calls to loadImage() and loadData() don't need to specify a cif tree. In order to support The Vampire Diaries, IFFs can now be loaded from their own dedicated .iff file, and the engine doesn't require a cif tree to be loaded on boot.
Made all states (Scene, Credits, Help, etc.) singletons, as well as subclasses of a common State parent with a proper state switching API. Moved the OnPause virtual function from RenderObject to ActionRecord and hooked it into the state switching code. Also got rid of the NancyEngine pointer that got passed around between most classes, and replaced it with several convenience macros. As a result of these changes action records that render to the viewport no longer disappear after opening the menu, and state changes feel snappier.
Eugene Sandulenko
Orgad Shaneh
Paul Gilbert
Kaloyan Chehlarski