I saw that some new speedrunning-related text was added to the English
language, so I decided to translate them. Meanwhile I also made some
minor adjustments/fixes to existing translations.
BUT I have a question...
Do we really need all this text?
They are displayed in a menu that is called 'NEW INDIVIDUAL LEVEL RUN'.
So adding IL after the level names is kind of redundant in my opinion -
the existing level name text entries could be used instead. And the
reason why I care so much is because it is hard to come up with a
"translation" for IL. But if I am forced to, I will come up with
something.
I will keep this PR a draft until I know what the main jak-project
people think about this "IL" issue. And I will adjust my branch
accordingly.
Disables the fog hack for Jak 2, where it's not useful and kind of
breaks in most levels which rely on dark vertices that aren't underwater
(e.g. city windows).
Add the vortex renderer. The vortex texture isn't there yet (it uses the
same texture as clouds), so it uses a checkerboard. But the
colors/vertices seem right.
This way a user can take multiple data samples from one/multiple play
sessions quickly. Creates a directory called profile_data that is added
to gitignore to place the data in, and checks to see if a file is there
and if so it creates prof1.json prof2.json prof3.json and so on...
- better handling of the `disable-fog` settings for merc, should fix the
spotlights. There's a setting in the merc effect, and also a runtime
flag for the draw-control. I'm not actually sure what reads these, but
the draw-control one is definitely used to disable fog on the
spotlights.
- increase merc draw limit to try to fix the issue about partially drawn
citizens in the city
- remove useless debug prints (it's okay to die in init, and the medium
load buffer size mode is understood now)
Fixes some mistakes with merc draw modes. The glass in the palace level
no longer writes to the depth buffer (it's "water"):
Also fixes the one-frame flickers when level draw orders change. We
might be able to make this more efficient in the future, but this will
at least fix the frame with nothing drawn.
This should fix a bunch of texture-related issues by generating a table
of overlapping textures and just... adjusting them slightly so they
don't overlap. It's not the most elegant solution in the world, but I
think it's no worse than the existing hard-coded tpage dir stuff.
Definitely needs a clean up pass, but I think the functionality is very
close.
There's a few "hacks" still:
- I am using the emerc logic for environment mapping, which doesn't care
about the length of the normals. I can't figure out how the normal
scaling worked in etie. I want to do a little bit more experimentation
with this before merging.
- There is some part about adgifs for TIE and ETIE that I don't
understand. The clearly correct behavior of TIE/ETIE is that the alpha
settings from the adgif shader are overwritten by the settings from the
renderer. But I can't figure out how this happens in all cases.
- Fade out is completely disabled. I think this is fine because the
performance difference isn't bad. But if you are comparing screenshots
with PCSX2, it will make things look a tiny bit different.
My mistake -- testing focused too much on preserving the existing
behaviour I clearly forgot to make sure the new stuff worked properly.
Just had to early out and not modify the args if they were in the new
format.
An attempt to cleanup the last CLI interface we have left to cleanup.
- `gk` args now follow the typical convention ie. `--proj-path` instead
of `-proj-path`.
- args that are passed through to the rest of the application / the
game's runtime use the typical convention of following a `--`
- I'm thinking some args shouldn't be handled at this level ie
(`-nodisplay`, `-vm`, `-novm` or `-jak2`) These could be better
documented as legitimate flags and passed in via a nice struct. They
don't seem to be used in `InitParams` but I'll triple check.
There's a temporary shim here so there is no coupled release with the
launcher (right now it executes `gk` with a few args). So I just change
the old args into the new format. After one release cycle, I can change
it in the launcher and delete it here.
I am unsure if this will break the bash shellscript usages -- not sure
which args were usually passed into `$@`
Three main changes:
- Adds support for the texture scrolling effect used on conveyor belts,
and turn it on for jak 2.
- Use merc instead of generic in jak 1 for ripple/water/texscroll stuff
(non-ocean water, lava, dark eco, etc). This is a pretty big speedup in
a lot of places.
- Fix a really old bug with blending mode used to draw environment maps.
The effect is that envmaps were half as bright as they should have been.
As usual, there's a flag to go back to the old behavior on jak 1. Set
these to `#t` to use generic like we used to.
```
*texscroll-force-generic*
*ripple-force-generic*
```
The format has changed, and everything must be rebuilt (C++, FR3's, GOAL
code)
Support rendering eyes with merc for both jak 1 and jak 2.
For jak 1, everything should look the same, but merc will be used to
draw eyes. This means that jak is now fully drawn with merc!
For jak 2, eyes should draw, but there are still a few issues:
- the tbp/clut ptr trick is used a lot for these eye textures, so
there's a lot that use the wrong texture
- I had to enable a bunch more "texture uploads" (basically emulating
the ps2 texture system) in order to get the eyes to upload. It would be
much better if the eye renderer could somehow grab the texture from the
merc model info, skipping the vram addressing stuff entirely. I plan to
return to this.
- I disabled some sky draws in `sky-tng`. After turning on pris2
uploads, the sky flashed in a really annoying way.
Work in progress minimap. Known issues:
- "path finding" doesn't appear to work - it gets stuck forever in many
cases
- some nasty patches around timer-based code
- jak arrow blending issues
- would be nice to make it higher resolution
if the search is forced to terminate due to iteration/time limits, the
icon is not in the right place
I didn't actually visually notice much of a difference with these hacks
unlike in Jak 1, but I also avoided checking the missions thoroughly
since the game crashes very often right now.
water111
