- 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.
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.
- Disable depth test for sprite glow (VU1 programs only `sq.xy` and
leaves `z` alone, which has Z_MAX from the template)
- Fix tfrag/tie/shrub issues when `use-camera-other` is set.
Increase level heaps and borrow heaps. The level heap increase was
likely not needed, but better safe than sorry. We allocate the 128 MB
main heap anyway so there's no harm.
Also fix the crash when using `-boot`. As I thought it was just a
one-line typo in the kernel.
Fixes the aspect ratio of the font renderer (Jak 2 does not need the
same hacks as Jak 1), the custom letterbox/pillarbox sizes and fixes the
heap display.
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Co-authored-by: water <awaterford111445@gmail.com>
Adds the `pckernel` system to Jak 2, allowing you to do the PC-specific
things that Jak 1 lets you do like change game resolution, etc.
In other to reduce the amount of code duplication for something that
we're gonna be changing a lot over time, I split it into a few more code
files. In this new system, `pckernel-h.gc`, `pckernel-common.gc`
(previously `pckernel.gc`) and `pc-debug-common.gc` are the files that
should be shared across all games (I hacked the Jak 2 project to pull
these files from the Jak 1 folder), while `pckernel-impl.gc`,
`pckernel.gc` and `pc-debug-methods.gc` are their respective
game-specific counterparts that should be loaded after. I'm not fully
happy with this, I think it's slightly messy, but it cleanly separates
code that should be game-specific and not accidentally copied around and
code that should be the same for all games anyway.
Add a debug window for the loader to show levels and fix an issue with
jak 2 level unloading. I never really thought about how this works for >
2 levels, and there is a chance that you could unload the wrong level in
some cases.
The problem is some combination of merc-only levels not counting toward
the "in use" detection, and the unloader ignoring what the game wants to
load.
I don't remember why using merc models doesn't contribute to "in use"
but I'm afraid to change this for jak 1. Instead, we can have the
unloader avoid unloading levels that the game is telling us are loaded.
This is what we should have done originally, but there was a time when
Jak 1 didn't tell the loader anything, and we had this stupid detection
thing.
I think this is the first step toward just getting rid of the "in use"
detection and trusting the game for everything.
Implements the jak 2 lightning renderer as an alternate path through
Generic2. Also set up some generic stuff in the goal code.
There is a problem with the texture pool, which doesn't support the case
where two textures have the same tbp, but different cluts. So lightning
is often the wrong color (usually red).
I did a pass through all missions, fixing issues as they came up. Also
got `seal-at-waterslums` working -- the best mission in the game 🥳
Co-authored-by: water <awaterford111445@gmail.com>
This PR adds a feature to merc2 to update vertices. This will be needed
to efficient do effects like blerc/ripple/texture scroll. It's enabled
for blerc in jak 1 and jak 2, but with a few disclaimers:
- currently we still use the mips2c blerc implementation, which is slow
and has some "jittering" because of integer precision. When porting to
PC, there was an additional synchronization problem because blerc
overwrites the merc data as its being read by the renderers. I _think_
this wasn't an issue on PS2 because the blerc dma is higher priority
than the VIF1 DMA, but I'm not certain. Either way, I had to add a mutex
for this on PC to avoid very slight flickering/gaps. This isn't ideal
for performance, but still beats generic by a significant amount in
every place I tested. If you see merc taking 2ms to draw, it is likely
because it is stuck waiting on blerc to finish. This will go away once
blerc itself is ported to C++.
- in jak 1, we end up using generic in some cases where we could use
merc. In particular maia in village3 hut. This will be fixed later once
we can use merc in more places. I don't want to mess with the
merc/generic selection logic when we're hopefully going to get rid of it
soon.
- There is no support for ripple or texture scroll. These use generic on
jak 1, and remain broken on jak 2.
- Like with `emerc`, jak 1 has a toggle to go back to the old behavior
`*blerc-hack*`.
- In most cases, toggling this causes no visual differences. One
exception is Gol's teeth. I believe this is caused by texture coordinate
rounding issues, where generic has an additional float -> int -> float
compared to PC merc. It is very hard to notice so I'm not going to worry
about it.
This adds environment mapping support to `Merc2`, and turns it on for
Jak 1 and Jak 2.
- The performance is much better
- Jak 1 can be toggled back to the old behavior with `(set! *emerc-hack*
#f)`. The new environment mapping is identical to the old one everywhere
I checked.
- Jak 1 still falls back to generic for ripple/texscroll/blerc/eyes -
there's still no dynamic texture or vertex updating support. The eye
detection stuff will sometimes flag stuff as eyes which is not eyes,
which is fine, but means that generic will be used in some places where
emerc could be used. For example, the shiny plates on jak's arm will be
drawn with generic because jak has eyes.
- Jak 2 hasn't been checked super carefully against PCSX2 yet.
- Jak 2 still isn't technically using emerc, but instead putting emerc
models in the merc bucket.
- The interface to merc is a lot different now and totally custom
OpenGOAL DMA code. The original merc drawing asm doesn't run anymore.
- The FR3 format changed
- Something funky going on with foreground lighting in escape, but
doesn't seem to be related to this change?
Performance comparison, jak 1, in likely the most generic-merc heavy
spot:
Initial implementation of the `ocean-mid`, `ocean-far` and `ocean-near`
renderers for Jak 2.
There's still a few things to sort out, mainly:
- [x] ~Backwards compatibility with Jak 1. The only thing that currently
stands in the way of that is figuring out a clean way to "un-hardcode"
the texture base pointer in C++ without creating a completely separate
`OceanTexture` class for Jak 2. One thing I thought of would be
modifying `BucketRenderer`'s virtual `init_textures` method to also pass
the `GameVersion`, but I'm not sure if there's a better way.~
- [x] ~The sudden transition from `ocean-near` to `ocean-mid`. Not sure
why it's happening or how to fix it.~
- [x] The ocean has two new methods in Jak 2, `ocean::89` and
`ocean::79`, one of which seems to be related to time of day sky colors.
~Even without them implemented, the end result looks quite close, so we
may be able to skip them?~ `ocean::89` generates `ocean-mid` envmap
textures, so it will likely be required, but will not be handled right
now.
Reverted the VU prologue removals because it made the tests fail.
Some side missions require cars, they don't work yet. Also the
ring-races and collection ones do not grant orbs. The hoaming beacon
collection one causes a `hud` crash
- make sure bsp is processed on `l` levels in extraction (caused missing
remaps)
- clean up a few prints in extraction
- handle the <15 byte differences in art group files automatically (no
more errors about file naming)
- fix potential exception thrown by merc2 in a few ways: fixed bad data
in FR3's, check texture index just in case, and handle exceptions a
little bit better (still a crash, but at least you get a print)
- fix mips2 ocean stuff causing ocean far crashes
Manual patches in:
- `tomb-boulder`: a few `ppointer->handle`s (I think) were not being
decompiled properly (all used in combination with `clone-anim-once`)
- `ruins-obs`, `pillar-collapse`: `art-joint-anim` casts
- `tomb-beetle`: commented out a call to `shadow-control-method-14` that
was crashing the game when spawning the beetles
- `grunt-mech`: commented out `(.mula.s)` instruction
Notes:
- `enemy-info`'s `idle-anim-script` is most likely a `(pointer
idle-control-frame)`, however, some `nav-enemy-info` labels set it to
`#f` (first encountered in `tomb-beetle`, but also present in `hal`,
`roboguard` and `metalkor-setup`), which crashes the decompiler. This
may become a problem in the future when we eventually get to these
files. For this PR, I made `tomb-beetle` decompile with
`idle-anim-script` set to `#f` and have not noticed any issues/crashes
with that.
- `tomb-boulder` compiles and doesn't crash, but when trying to play the
Daxter chase sequence, the boulder sometimes either spawns at the origin
or spawns in the correct place, but doesn't move.
Co-authored-by: water <awaterford111445@gmail.com>
- worked around audio code for gungame, the tutorials now function
- auto-exit cutscenes upon entry. This doesn't always work nicely (i
didnt want to cause any side-effects due to messing with load states)
but it atleast stops jak from being stuck forever waiting for the
cutscene to load
water111
