Previously, the ClosestTo and PositionClosestTo existed to perform a simple distance based check to choose the closest location from a choice of locations to a single other location. For some functions this is sufficient, but for many functions we want to then move between the locations. If the location selected is in fact unreachable (e.g. on another island) then we would not want to consider it.
We now introduce ClosestToIgnoringPath for checks where we don't care about a path existing, e.g. weapons hitting nearby targets. When we do care about paths, we introduce ClosestToWithPathFrom and ClosestToWithPathTo which will check that a path exists. The PathFrom check will make sure one of the actors from the list can make it to the single target location. The PathTo check will make sure the single actor can make it to one of the target locations. This difference allows us to specify which actor will be doing the moving. This is important as a path might exists for one actor, but not another. Consider two islands with a hovercraft on one and a tank on the other. The hovercraft can path to the tank, but the tank cannot path to the hovercraft.
We also introduce WithPathFrom and WithPathTo. These will perform filtering by checking for valid paths, but won't select the closest location.
By employing the new methods that filter for paths, we fix various behaviour that would cause actors to get confused. Imagine an islands map, by checking for paths we ensure logic will locate reachable locations on the island, rather than considering a location on a nearby island that is physically closer but unreachable. This fixes AI squad automation, and other automated behaviours such as rearming.
Both writing to perf.log frequently as well as GetTimestamp
aren't free and hurt performance particularly on slower systems
(which can have notably higher output to perf.log, further
amplifying the problem).
Therefore we make simulation perf logging opt-in.
Additionally, logging of the current tick and tick type
(local/net) is removed from debug.log, and some
remnant debug logging for kills and pips is removed
to keep performance-sensitive logging limited to
perf.log.
Note: This is a work-around until Selectable can be moved to Mods.Common, which is when the voice extensions should be moved back to ActorExts.
Pulled phrase check before foreach in PlayVoice ActorExts.
Removed superflous actor parameter from PlayVoice/PlayVoiceLocal.
Simplified PlayVoice extensions.
variant is no longer customisable, as all current usages use self.Owner.Country.Race anyway.
- Refactored PerfTimer to use less memory.
- Avoid using the PerfTimer in highly called methods DoTimed and RunActivity, instead tracking long ticks manually to reduce overhead and avoid memory allocations.
- Added some helper methods in PerfTimer to output information when a tick takes too long.
- Changed PerfTimer logging to output the time at the start of the line, and no longer truncate output per line.
- Settings.LongTickThreshold changed from TimeSpan to float and renamed to LongTickThresholdMs.
This is useful to ignore fast operations that just spam the log.
The class had to be reworked because it couldn't properly handle cases
where all of a node's children where below the threshold.
Also changed DoTimed() and RunActivity() to use PerfTimer.