The game stores the last 3 frames of input (50ms of time at 60fps) and
often checks if a button was pressed within those 3 saved frames as a
condition.
When transitioning states, it often checks if some input was received
during the previous state (within those 3 frames) in order to quickly
transition out. A good example of this is when transitioning to
standing, it checks if you can jump this frame and if you had pressed X
recently, and if so, transition immediately to jump. This allows
transitions between states to feel more smooth/forgiving by letting you
jump at a later time when you are transitioning from falling->standing
than if you were only falling.
At 165fps the last 3 frames is only 18ms of time so the input windows
for these smooth transitions are almost 3x shorter.
This PR saves 15 input frames (enough to cover 50ms of time at 300fps)
for each controller and adds a (recently-pressed?) macro that checks all
15 frames. However, it only updates the necessary frames in history
based on the current frame rate. This way, 60fps continues to only check
against 3 input frames, 165fps checks against 9, 240fps checks against
12, and 300fps checks all 15.
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Co-authored-by: Tyler Wilding <xtvaser@gmail.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)
The bind carried forward from Jak 1 is annoying -- R1 shoots the gun.
Allow the user to use whatever button combination they want by modifying
it in the `pc-settings` file.
```clj
(controller-led-status? 1360729)
(speedrunner-mode-custom-bind 4098)
```
- 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.
I finally read through all the joint code and wrote up some
documentation. I think this will be really helpful when we try to
understand all the functions in `process-drawable`, or if somebody ever
wants to import/export animations.
This switches all three games to using a new faster GOAL joint
decompressor. It is on by default, but you can go back to the old
version by setting `*use-new-decompressor*` to false.
Also fix the log-related crash, fix the clock speed used in timer math.
- `transformq`
- `wind-work`
- `progress-static`
- `merc-vu1`
- `emerc-vu1`
- `merc`
- `emerc`
- `cloth-h`
- Most of `cloth`, not added to gsrc yet
Art group dumps were incorrect for Jak 3 because the master art group
fields were at different offsets.
- `entity-h`
- `eye-h`
- `simple-sprite-h`
- `sprite-h`
- `cam-debug-h`
- `cam-update-h`
- `cam-interface-h`
- `hud-h`
- `actor-link-h`
- `camera-h`
- `progress-h`
Also fills out a lot of the `text-id` enum. `progress-static` is also
very close to ready, only being blocked by #3361.
Decomp aligner-h, joint-h, prim-h, debug-h, game-h, penetrate-h,
bones-h, foreground-h, scene-h, script-h.
Also, has a little bit of the joint-mod-h file, but it's not finished
yet.
- `pat-h`
- `engines`
- `res-h`
- `res`
- `fact-h`
- `game-info-h`
- `wind-h`
- `merc-h`
- `shadow-vu1-h`
- `shadow-cpu-h`
- `dynamics-h`
- `memcard-h`
- `surface-h`
- part of `gui-h`
- `ambient-h`
- `speech-h`
- `prototype-h`
- `smush-control-h`
- `generic-merc-h`
- `generic-work-h`
- `collide-func-h`
- `collide-mesh-h`
- `collide-shape-h` (only missing the `new` method for `collide-shape`
because we don't have `process-drawable` yet and that also needs joint
stuff etc.)
- `collide-touch-h`
- `collide-edge-grab-h`
- `lightning-h`
This also adds argument name remaps for the `relocate` and `mem-usage`
methods (Jak 1 and 2 ref tests were updated, but not the gsrc).
types-h, vu1-macros, gsound-h, dma-h, video-h, vu1-user-h, profile-h
The `gsound-h` is very simple, but the rest have decent docs and all the
macros we had from jak 2.
So far, barely any differences! (there's a few in gsound-h)
Decompile `gcommon`. I adjusted the spacing of docstring comments, and
removed some spammy decompiler warning prints.
I also added some random notes I had on VU programs from jak1/jak2. They
are not polished, but I think it's still worth including since we'll
have to go through them again for jak 3.
- `vector-h`
- `gravity-h`
- `bounding-box-h`
- `matrix-h`
- `quaternion-h`
- `euler-h`
- `transform-h`
- `geometry-h`
- `trigonometry-h`
- `transformq-h`
- `bounding-box`
- `matrix`
- `matrix-compose`
- `transform`
- `quaternion`
- `euler`
- `trigonometry`
Not a whole lot of changes, just a couple of new functions and one new
file (`matrix-compose`).
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.
This sets out the bones of a Jak 3 build, many things are stubbed out,
guessed, or copied from Jak 2 but it should at least be good enough to:
run `task set-game-jak3`
launch the repl
run builds from the repl
build outputs themselves are untested but the build itself runs without
errors
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Co-authored-by: Tyler Wilding <xtvaser@gmail.com>
This is the more correct way of doing what that code is trying to do.
Fixes#3296
Also fixed some type inconsistencies with related code, probably wasn't
causing issues though.
May also fix the "black screen on startup" issues people keep having,
but that would simply be a nice bonus and isn't the aim of this PR.
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
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 .
Brent Hickey