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)
This sets up the C Kernel for Jak 3, and makes it possible to build and
load code built with `goalc --jak3`.
There's not too much interesting here, other than they switched to a
system where symbol IDs (unique numbers less than 2^14) are generated at
compile time, and those get included in the object file itself.
This is kind of annoying, since it means all tools that produce a GOAL
object file need to work together to assign unique symbol IDs. And since
the symbol IDs can't conflict, and are only a number between 0 and 2^14,
you can't just hash and hope for no collisions.
We work around this by ignoring the IDs and re-assigning our own. I
think this is very similar to what the C Kernel did on early builds of
Jak 3 which supported loading old format level files, which didn't have
the IDs included.
As far as I can tell, this shouldn't cause any problems. It defeats all
of their fancy tricks to save memory by not storing the symbol string,
but we don't care.
Currently only tracks enemy kills, and how they were killed. There is
currently no menu for this, but I've already added most of the text for
it. Also did a bunch of misc decompilation fixes and renamed some
methods.
Fixes#3277Fixes#3278
This fixes the crash reported in
https://github.com/open-goal/jak-project/issues/2833
There was a memory bug here for a long time where our array of `VagCmd`
in `iso_queue.cpp` was too small. This caused GetVagCommand to return
bogus pointers, and sound code would write over other parts of memory.
Avoids blocking other IOP threads on IO.
Idk if it'll really help anything, but at least theoretically it might
stop some pathologically slow IO case from blocking the VAG buffer
switching.
Normally, when they allocate a VagCmd, they do a bunch of stuff to clear
all the status bits and reset things
in particular the InitVAGCmd function does a lot
but for the stereo command, they do a lot less:
Which means that the new_stereo_command can just have random status bits
left over from whatever the last user had.
we seem to end up in a state where byte21 is set, and this causes
everything else to be wrong and off-by-one dma transfer. My guess is
that the original game avoided this bug due to lucky timing that I don't
understand.
I think the fix of just clearing byte21 is ok because there's no way
that the old value of the byte is useful after the command is
repurposed.
Also fixed an original game bug in `loader.gc` on a method that's called
quite often, though I have no clue what erroneous behavior it could have
even caused.
Saves 16 bits and lets us align the `color_index` field properly.
This shouldn't improve or decrease performance by any noticeable amount
except maybe in really low end systems.
Tyler Wilding