Several parts of bot module logic, often through the AIUtils helper class, will query or count over all actors in the world. This is not a fast operation and the AI tends to repeat it often.
Introduce some ActorIndex classes that can maintain an index of actors in the world that match a query based on a mix of actor name, owner or trait. These indexes introduce some overhead to maintain, but allow the queries or counts that bot modules needs to perform to be greatly sped up, as the index means there is a much smaller starting set of actors to consider. This is beneficial to the bot logic as the TraitDictionary index maintained by the world works only in terms of traits and doesn't allow the bot logic to perform a sufficiently selective lookup. This is because the bot logic is usually defined in terms of actor names rather than traits.
This is a more natural representation than int that allows removal of casts in many places that require uint. Additionally, we can change the internal representation from long to uint, making the Color struct smaller. Since arrays of colors are common, this can save on memory.
Handle the client being null. Previously, a service could be created with a null client. This would leads to NREs when invoking the static Update methods. Now we guard against a null client.
- Rename the filename parameter to name and make it mandatory. Review all callers and ensure a useful string is provided as input, to ensure sufficient context is included for logging and debugging. This can be a filename, url, or any arbitrary text so include whatever context seems reasonable.
- When several MiniYamls are created that have similar content, provide a shared string pool. This allows strings that are common between all the yaml to be shared, reducing long term memory usage. We also change the pool from a dictionary to a set. Originally a Dictionary had to be used so we could call TryGetValue to get a reference to the pooled string. Now that more recent versions of dotnet provide a TryGetValue on HashSet, we can use a set directly without the memory wasted by having to store both keys and values in a dictionary.
The Text element of these widgets was changed from display text to a translation key as part of adding translation support. Functions interested in the display text need to invoke GetText instead. Lots of functions have not been updated, resulting in symptoms such as measuring the font size of the translation key rather than the display text and resizing a widget to the wrong size.
Update all callers to use GetText when getting or setting display text. This ensure their existing functionality that was intended to work in terms of the display text and not the translation key works as expected.
This provides a single utility command for interacting with maps, that takes an arg for the map operation. The filename filter allows all maps in the mod to be operated on by default, or a regex can be passed to limit the operation to certain maps.
