In the original game, they had no choice but to use the memory card file
as their method of persisting settings. We are not limited by such
things.
It's inconvenient to have to load your save-file when launching the game
to initialize these settings to your liking, it's also confusing
behaviour to even some players that have played the game heavily for
over a decade. We can do better by globally saving these settings to the
`pc-settings` file instead.
Originally I only migrated the volume settings, then i figured it would
be nice to also have play-hints and subtitles settings persisted. More
could debatably be moved (language is a big one...) but these were the
low hanging fruit.
I also reduced the default volumes as that is something else that has
come up a few times.
Fixes https://github.com/open-goal/jak-project/issues/3563
These users have the following spamming in logs:
> OpenGL error 0x502 S8246 T824C: GL_INVALID_OPERATION error generated.
Source and destination dimensions must be identical with the current
filtering modes.
And the solution is to correctly set their game-size. The way this
change accomplishes that is by confirming whether or not the set
`game-size` is a valid resolution informed by SDL, if not, it defaults
to the monitor's currently set display mode's resolution.
This also moves the selected display id, and the display mode into the
C++ settings -- closer to where it's actually managed and used. I'm
tempted to do this eventually for the resolutions as well but that stuff
is much more burdensome. This hopefully simplifies debugging, reduces
startup flickering, and removes back-and-forth complexity. Hopefully
this makes debugging display related problems easier. It also adds a
bunch more logging to the related code.
For example, `AppData/OpenGOAL/jak2/features/speedrun-categories.json`
is defined as such:
```json
[
{
"cheats": 0,
"completed_task": 0,
"continue_point_name": "",
"features": 0,
"forbidden_features": 992,
"name": "Gunless",
"secrets": 0
},
{
"cheats": 1,
"completed_task": 29,
"continue_point_name": "ctypal-shaft",
"features": 1024,
"forbidden_features": 0,
"name": "Turbo Jetboard - After Praxis 1",
"secrets": 0
}
]
```
> These entries can be created using the in-game menu as well.
https://github.com/open-goal/jak-project/assets/13153231/9b17a116-4aa9-40ad-b9f5-02b04e0ad4f3
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Co-authored-by: dallmeyer <2515356+dallmeyer@users.noreply.github.com>
It was narrowed down recently that a lot of people have issues with the
controller input because of Steam Input working as intended. Steam Input
can be configured to replicate controller inputs as keyboard inputs (for
example, pressing X on your controller presses Enter on the keyboard).
This results in the problem of "jumping pauses the game" and similar
issues. This is a consequence of the intended behaviour of the game
listening to all input sources at the same time.
Since the vast majority of players are using controllers over keyboards,
it makes sense to disable the keyboard input by default to solve this
problem. However that makes things awkward for users that want to use
the keyboard (how do they enable the setting). The solution is a new
imgui option in the settings menu:
**Known issue that I don't care about** -- in Jak 1's menu code, since
the flags are controlled by pointers to values instead of a lambda like
in jak 2, the menu won't update live with the imgui option. This has no
functional impact and I don't care enough to fix it.
I also made the pc-settings.gc file persist on first load if the file
wasn't found. Hopefully this helps diagnose the support issues related
to the black screen.
# Why not just ignore the keyboard inputs for a period of time?
This won't work, the keyboard is polled every frame. Therefore if you
hold down the X button on your controller, steam is continuously
signaling that `Enter` is held down on the keyboard.
Yes it would be possible to completely disable the keyboard while the
controller is being used, but this defeats the purpose of creating an
input system that allows multiple input sources at the same time.
With an explicit option, not only can the user decide the behaviour they
want (do they want the keyboard ignored or simultaneously listened to)
but we avoid breaking strange edge-cases in usage leading to never
ending complexity:
- ie. imagine steam input sends events to the mouse, well you can't
disable the mouse while using the keyboard because most times people are
using mouse and keyboard
- ie. a user that wants to hold a direction with the keyboard and press
buttons on the controller in tandem (something i frequently do while
TAS'ing, to move in a perfect straight line)
- Wired up the menu settings to change the settings in game, not just on
boot
- Removed all the duplication in the game options menu code
- Fixed the mouse code so that it properly brings the virtual analog
stick back to neutral when the mouse stops
- Extended the sensitivity min/max for those that want to ensure the
slightest movement maxes out virtual analog stick.
Adds the opengoal cheats to the secrets menu. Only cheats that are fully
functional and unlockable are there right now, which is eight cheats.
This update will reset most Jak 2 settings.
Also fixes#3274 .
Adds controller LED features to Jak 2:
- progressive flickering denoting health
- copies tomb simon says puzzle colors
- unique colors for each gun
- orange color for being indax
- yellow color for being in mech
- purple color for being darkjak
- blue color for being in board
- red flash when wanted.
May add more features later?
Also did some minor clean-up on some types.
This PR adds a frame rate option to the graphics menu for some of the
most common refresh rates.
Jak 2 has much better support for variable frame rates than Jak 1 out of
the box, but there are still some edge cases, most prominently the fact
that sprites are still limited to the 300 tick system, which is most
noticeable on glow sprites. For this, I abused the glow boost debug
setting to scale the glow based on the frame rate.
While testing, I noticed two other cases that I have also patched,
there's likely to be many more that are yet to be found, but aside from
that, the game is playable as normal.
https://github.com/open-goal/jak-project/assets/6624576/ad4db24f-cd27-4237-a155-0db7008160f3
Tyler Wilding