The player can now cycle between;
-Standard: Health and Status bars display only on mouse hover.
-Show On Damage: Health shows on damaged actors, Status always shows.
-Always Show: Health and Status bars are always displayed.
- Create an overload that renders a line in one color, as this allows most existing calls to be simplified. This also allows a slight performance improvement by only normalizing the components once.
- Introduce a DrawLineStrip method. This improves performance by allowing the color components to be normalized once for the whole strip, and only needing to calculate vertices once per point rather than twice since we can reuse the last result.
- Made Array.IndexOf available via extension method.
- Made ToHashSet extension method.
- Change collections queried often via Contains into sets.
- Avoid Count() extension if Count or Length property exist.
- Made Count() > 0 checks and variations calls to Any() instead.
- Don't call ToList/ToArray if there is no benefit to materializing the sequence.
- If the sequence does benefit from materialization, follow this general pattern:
- Collection queried often via Contains use ToHashSet to speed up lookups.
- Short lived variables use ToList. This is because ToArray requires an extra copy to output the final size.
- Collections persisted into fields or for a long time use ToArray to minimize memory overhead.
The HardwarePalette will now grow its palette buffer and texture in power-of-2 increments. This avoids it having to allocate memory for a full 256x256 texture up front. In practice the default mods use 22 or 23 palettes so a 32x256 texture is used. This means both the buffer and texture save neatly on memory. Additionally, HardwarePalette.ApplyModifiers sees a nice speedup as it has to transfer a much smaller amount of memory from the buffer to the texture.
To facilitate this change, the MaxPalettes constant is no more. Instead the PaletteReference deals with the calculation of the index and this is passed into the appropriate methods.
The OrderBy overload that takes an int generating key selector is faster than the one that requires a custom comparer. We extract a function from the ScreenZPosition function that determines the Z position of a WPos with an offset, but does not account for the tileset height. For the ordering function this is fine as only the relative magnitude of the comparison keys matter, so we don't need to spend time adjusting for the tileset height, as that won't affect the sort.
Textures, FrameBuffers and VertexBuffers allocated by the Sdl2 Renderer were only being released via finalizers. This could lead to OpenGL out of memory errors since resources may not be cleaned up in a timely manner. To avoid this, IDisposable has been implemented and transitively applied to classes that use these resources.
As a side-effect some static state is no longer static, particularly in Renderer, in order to facilitate this change and just for nicer design in general.
Also dispose some bitmaps.
- Add separate ImmutablePalette and MutablePalette classes since the distinction is extremely important to HardwarePalette.
- Keep a cache of palettes in HardwarePalette to avoid reallocation them every time ApplyModifiers is called.
- Palettes that are not allowed to be modified are copied to the buffer once when added, rather than every time ApplyModifiers is called.
- The AdjustPalette method now takes a read-only dictionary to prevent the dictionary being messed with.
- Added a constant for the palette size to remove its usage as a magic number in several areas.
- The ColorPreviewManagerWidget is annoying in that it needs to actually permanently update a palette after it has been added. To allow this, HardwarePalette now allows a palette to be replaced after initialization. The WorldRenderer therefore now also updates the PaletteReference it created earlier with the new palette to prevent stale data being used elsewhere.
- Made private methods static where possible (runtime can elide checking the object for null).
- Declared attribute classes as sealed (allows reflection on attributes to complete faster).
- Moved some static cctor's into field initializers (static cctor's are slower than static field initializers).
- Made classes static if they contained only static methods (can't create instances of useless objects).
- Use inferable Exts.Lazy and not new Lazy<T>().
- Added required STAThread attribute to CrashDialog.
- Removed unused parameters in private methods.
- Added Serializable attribute to exceptions.
- Added parameter name in calls to ArgumentNullException.
- Use of as operator instead of is + cast.
- Changed (x as Foo).Bar anti-pattern into ((Foo)x).Bar. Results in sensible cast exceptions on error rather than null dereferences.
- Removed unused method in NullShader.
