Currently when linting translations, we check for any unused translation keys. This works fine for the default mods, which own the entire sets of translation files. For community mods, they often import the translation files from the common mod assets, but they may only use some of the translations provided. Currently, they would get warnings about not using translations from the common files they have imported.
Since the community mods don't own those translations, getting warnings about it is annoying. To solve this issue, introduce a AllowUnusedTranslationsInExternalPackages in the mod.yaml which defaults to true. This will prevent reporting of unused translation keys from external assets. Keys that are used for external assets will still be validated, and keys from the mod assets will be both validated and unused keys will be reported.
We default the new flag to true and don't provide an update rule. This means community mods will get the new behaviour. For the default mods, we do want to check the "external" assets, since we control those assets. So the default mods have their mod.yaml updated to disable the flag and retain the existing behaviour of checking everything.
- 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.
When handling the Nodes collection in MiniYaml, individual nodes are located via one of two methods:
// Lookup a single key with linear search.
var node = yaml.Nodes.FirstOrDefault(n => n.Key == "SomeKey");
// Convert to dictionary, expecting many key lookups.
var dict = nodes.ToDictionary();
// Lookup a single key in the dictionary.
var node = dict["SomeKey"];
To simplify lookup of individual keys via linear search, provide helper methods NodeWithKeyOrDefault and NodeWithKey. These helpers do the equivalent of Single{OrDefault} searches. Whilst this requires checking the whole list, it provides a useful correctness check. Two duplicated keys in TS yaml are fixed as a result. We can also optimize the helpers to not use LINQ, avoiding allocation of the delegate to search for a key.
Adjust existing code to use either lnear searches or dictionary lookups based on whether it will be resolving many keys. Resolving few keys can be done with linear searches to avoid building a dictionary. Resolving many keys should be done with a dictionary to avoid quaradtic runtime from repeated linear searches.
This changeset is motivated by a simple concept - get rid of the MiniYaml.Clone and MiniYamlNode.Clone methods to avoid deep copying yaml trees during merging. MiniYaml becoming immutable allows the merge function to reuse existing yaml trees rather than cloning them, saving on memory and improving merge performance. On initial loading the YAML for all maps is processed, so this provides a small reduction in initial loading time.
The rest of the changeset is dealing with the change in the exposed API surface. Some With* helper methods are introduced to allow creating new YAML from existing YAML. Areas of code that generated small amounts of YAML are able to transition directly to the immutable model without too much ceremony. Some use cases are far less ergonomic even with these helper methods and so a MiniYamlBuilder is introduced to retain mutable creation functionality. This allows those areas to continue to use the old mutable structures. The main users are the update rules and linting capabilities.
- Enforce SA1604 ElementDocumentationShouldHaveSummary.
- Enforce SA1629 DocumentationTextShouldEndWithAPeriod.
- Turn off some rules covered by IDExxxx rules.
- Remaining rules are treated as part of OpenRA style.
Multiple layers of Lazy<T>ness are replaced with
an explicit two-part loading scheme.
Sequences are parsed immediately, without the need
for the sprite assets, and tell the SpriteCache
which frames they need. Use-cases that want the
actual sprites can then tell the SpriteCache to
load the frames and the sequences to resolve the
sprites.
An event is added to Map to indicate when the cell projection is changed. This is important as this can mean Map.Contains(CPos) could now return different results for the cell. The HierarchicalPathFinder is made aware of these changes so it can rebuild any out-of-date information. This fixes prevent a crash if a cell that was previously outside the map changes height and becomes inside the map. The local path search will explore the cell as it is inside the map - but if the HPF was unaware if had been updated, it will still consider the cell to be outside the map and unreachable, resulting in a crash.
Replaces the existing bi-directional search between points used by the pathfinder with a guided hierarchical search. The old search was a standard A* search with a heuristic of advancing in straight line towards the target. This heuristic performs well if a mostly direct path to the target exists, it performs poorly it the path has to navigate around blockages in the terrain. The hierarchical path finder maintains a simplified, abstract graph. When a path search is performed it uses this abstract graph to inform the heuristic. Instead of moving blindly towards the target, it will instead steer around major obstacles, almost as if it had been provided a map which ensures it can move in roughly the right direction. This allows it to explore less of the area overall, improving performance.
When a path needs to steer around terrain on the map, the hierarchical path finder is able to greatly improve on the previous performance. When a path is able to proceed in a straight line, no performance benefit will be seen. If the path needs to steer around actors on the map instead of terrain (e.g. trees, buildings, units) then the same poor pathfinding performance as before will be observed.
We observe that most cells within a map lie within a region where no matter their height, their projection would still remain in map bounds. We can utilise this to perform a fast check for such cells and skipping the expensive checks on their actual height. We only need to check the actual height of a cell if this could cause the projection to go out of bounds.
* TSVeinsRenderer now shows border cells on the radar
* BuildableTerrainLayer now uses the radar colors defined on the individual tiles
* CliffBackImpassabilityLayer no longer overrides the underlying terrain color.
