Source Speedrun Tools: practice tools and handy features for Source Engine games https://git.woz.blue/mike/sst/atom?h=v0.5-BETA 2023-06-03T12:25:12+00:00 2023-06-03T12:25:12+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2023-06-02T16:03:47+00:00 urn:sha1:602a18977d500ad068fd63fbedcafb630c29ee72 This is kind of a breaking change but the other code was obviously never released or relied on by anyone - it will be pushed at the same time as this in fact. It still seems worth having the original committed separately to show the progression of development of the feature, however. Technically the standalone vote cooldown resetting could also be added back if ever desired however there doesn't seem to be that much of a use case for that at the moment. This feature ought to be a lot more convenient now as it allows for resetting back to a set starting point no matter where the player is in a run. It isn't universally useful as All Campaigns Legacy solo runs require switching to a different type of server and Main Campaigns co-op runs require restarting the game after Swamp Fever to work around the god mode bug, however it is still useful in a good few situations. Unfortunately this turned out to be pretty complex to implement, first requiring a bunch of interop with valve's rather wacky KeyValues stuff, and then requiring a bunch of especially difficult reverse engineering of L4D1 v1.0.0.5 because it doesn't use said KeyValues stuff and does something else completely different instead. A side effect of all this work is that the nag removal hack is now part of the KeyValues stuff in kvsys.c, which is kind of a comfier place for it than just kind of dumped in the middle of sst.c. 2023-05-21T21:11:16+00:00 Willian Henrique wsimanbrazil@yahoo.com.br 2023-05-08T21:38:48+00:00 urn:sha1:c2bb37238d02e1634242607a9079c5033138ced7 In most versions of L4D2, players cannot call a vote (e.g. switch campaign, change difficulty, restart campaign) more than once every 3 minutes. This makes resetting on a first map a pain, usually requiring reloading the map to reset the vote state. This new sst_l4d_vote_cooldown_reset command empties the list of structures tracking vote callers, allowing all players to vote again immediately. This should make resetting runs a lot easier on versions without unlimited votes. 2022-09-13T21:50:30+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-09-13T20:46:21+00:00 urn:sha1:792463cb133f65645feb48743bbc03ef8eb96bdd Another big one. Here's a list of things: - Since the upcoming C23 standardises typeof(), use it as an extension for the time being in order to allow passing arbitrary types as macro/codegen parameters. It wouldn't have been a big leap to do this even without standardisation since it's apparently an easy extension to implement - and also, to be honest, this project is essentially glued to Clang anyway so who cares. - Likewise, bool, true and false are becoming pre-defined, so pre-pre-define them now in order to get the benefit of not having to remember one header everywhere. - Really ungodly/amazing vcall macro stuff now allows us to call C++ virtual functions like regular C functions. It's pretty cool! - Events can now take arbitrary parameters and come in two types: regular events and predicates. All this makes the base code even uglier but makes the feature implementation nicer. In other words, it places more of the cognitive burden on myself and less on other people who might want to contribute. This is a good tradeoff, because I'm a genius. 2022-08-16T21:52:47+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-07-31T15:01:26+00:00 urn:sha1:9f12b8d3a30fc9137d6707dcc513de30022ffe3e This is for somewhat later. I'd always planned to use it - it existed already in earlier private repos, in fact. I just didn't bother to import it here in case it wouldn't actually be needed, but with the way current plans are going, it's definitely going to be needed, so here it is. 2022-07-23T18:07:03+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-07-20T17:12:00+00:00 urn:sha1:4721f53cb21dfa18dc787581fac0d2a25f0a9690 Copyright note: the stuff Bill wrote is all still in the other file. 2022-07-23T18:02:10+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-07-16T15:37:25+00:00 urn:sha1:8c8680ad112f3ad1360aa5547392119ed4de6581 Also centralise NEXT_INSN macro, into its own header at least for now. 2022-07-23T17:51:28+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-07-02T20:51:50+00:00 urn:sha1:5b8d37094a38aff1b2669056a4011a42450fd9c5 Some of the alias stuff was kind of stolen from earlier figuring-out Bill did. More Bill code is also on the way. :^) 2022-06-02T00:30:26+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-06-02T00:26:45+00:00 urn:sha1:3ebe43eb75806990a402aafd5858de615d5c1cca 2022-05-30T22:37:45+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-05-29T23:57:45+00:00 urn:sha1:165aa899bc9d1ea0bebb7b08351582dfeff8bbde Currently only works in 3420 and 5135 and uses hardcoded offsets with a byte pattern sanity check. Future work includes making it more widely compatible, and also doing the crazy thing I wanted to do but gave up on wherein the actual textures and stuff get patched in memory to sync up all the colours. Oh also, a couple of vtables were erroneously made executable, so I went ahead and fixed that while I was at it. 2022-05-03T15:55:46+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-05-03T03:20:27+00:00 urn:sha1:6d0db0d5bee0201b732149616a691827367cfb35 This was a lot more code than expected, but it might be finally close to time to release the next beta... We'll see if any more rabbit holes present themselves to jump into, though.