As the `touched` cell layer uses Boolean values, Array.IndexOf is able to use a fast vectorised search. Most values in the array are false, so the search is able to significantly improve the performance of finding the next true value in the array.
- Add prefixes to all message keys to provide context
- Use messages with attributes for some UI elements (dropdowns, dialogs, checkboxes, menus)
- Rename some class fields for consistency with translation keys
When this cheat is used by notifying of shroud changes we invoke the usual logic that would occur if the visibility had been granted by units. Without this change any cached information about the visibility is not refreshed. Without this refresh actors with different visibility may not act correctly.
One aspect this improves is frozen actors. Using the visibility cheat will show up all actors on the map. If the cheat is then disabled than frozen actors will appear in their place. Prior to this change a frozen actor would fail to appear if the cheat had caused it to be revealed. Healthbars and selection boxes are also made consistent for similar reasons.
Shroud, access ProjectedCellLayer by array index over PPos index.
Performance improvement. Avoid the multiple PPos to array index
conversions in the same method call by calculating the cell
layer index once.
Background:
`Shroud.Tick` and `ProjectedCellLayer.Index(PPos puv)` shows up
in profile reports as one of the most expensive methods
(9% of CPU time).
In `Shroud.Tick` calls `ProjectedCellLayer.Index(PPos puv)` multiple
times for the same or different cell layers of the same dimension.
Improvement:
Benchmark results show an 0.5ms mean improvement in tick
time and 0.3 improvement in render time -
on a replay map of 1.12 min of play at max speed.
Render time:
render222052(bleed) render221934(this commit)
count 8144.000000 8144.000000
mean 11.410075 11.470100
std 5.004876 4.731463
min 3.450700 3.638400
25% 7.409100 7.015900
50% 12.410600 12.435900
75% 13.998100 14.242900
max 149.036200 149.656500
Tick time:
tick_time222043(bleed) tick_time221923(this commit)
count 2366.000000 2366.000000
mean 4.762923 4.275833
std 3.240976 3.206362
min 0.263900 1.653600
25% 4.145375 3.668600
50% 4.779350 4.240050
75% 5.232575 4.611775
max 85.751800 87.387100
Shroud.touchedCount to avoid Tick updates if no cells touched.
Avoids iterating over all map cells of the `touched` cell layer.
Tick time improvement of 40%+ - during at least the first two
minutes of gameplay.
During the first minutes of a game - out of every 1000 ticks
only 10-100 result in the Shroud - of any player - to be touched.
For certains player types (Neutral, Creep) less Shroud updates
are expected throughout a complete game.
Throughout a complete game human/AI players can also have no
Shroud touches during certain Ticks.
