Source Speedrun Tools: practice tools and handy features for Source Engine games https://qdb.woz.blue/mike/sst/atom?h=v0.18-BETA 2025-10-11T02:13:18+00:00 2025-10-11T02:13:18+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2025-10-11T02:09:35+00:00 urn:sha1:74f1309af5310fbfa346048f8ecfc7fe1e8a4571 The old GAMESPECIFIC mechanism had worked in practice but was technically a little bit incorrect, oops. 2025-04-07T20:31:32+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2025-04-07T20:31:32+00:00 urn:sha1:58b495650f7613cdebfe78fff9de2b99556f1998 They're legally unnecessary as far as I know, and kind of annoying to maintain on a long-term basis. This was done with the consent of all 3 other contributors, in case anyone was wondering. 2025-04-06T15:41:13+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2025-03-10T02:37:19+00:00 urn:sha1:244fea664121acf12871ab5858a5fe95a2606b52 Also switch to somewhat proper C23 flags while we're at it. This is a huge change. It took me forever, in between being really busy. Sorry about that. But the good news is I'm now free to start integrating the various patches that have accumulated since last release. Well, at least in between still being really busy. Gotta manage expectations. The main benefit of introducing GAMESPECIFIC() is that features that don't apply to a particular game no longer show up *at all*, and less time is wasted on init. It also enables a cool optimisation wherein unnecessary REQUIRE_GAMEDATA() checks can elided at compile time whenever the gamedata is known up-front to always exist in supported games. The DEF_FEAT_CVAR macro family meanwhile makes it easier to manage the lifecycle of cvars/ccmds, with less manual registering, unhiding and such. Originally I was going to try and just hack these features into the existing codegen abomination, but it just got too terrible. This rewrite should make it easier to continue tweaking codegen behaviour in future. It also has slightly better error messages. 2024-05-21T20:25:19+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2024-05-21T20:25:19+00:00 urn:sha1:29389a446859d0d92145ecb395a3b4bff2e0f8be Bill suggested using abi.h for this. Not sure if it's 100% ideal to need to pull in the whole header for this one macro but it's arguably better than most alternatives and definitely better than just continuing to duplicate it ad nauseam. 2023-06-10T15:51:02+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2023-06-10T15:44:19+00:00 urn:sha1:1c4318331663b152b0b298bd2c9e5c971506a86b 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. 2022-05-03T15:55:46+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. 2022-04-25T03:24:52+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-04-25T03:24:52+00:00 urn:sha1:117f3ad6ae3fb6df54bc553bd1efbab080d39606 Default gamedata values actually work the way they're supposed to now. 2022-03-19T04:36:59+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-03-19T04:36:59+00:00 urn:sha1:e5cd34649c09a0a31cd27fc93efb7583de48b078 Sometimes, you just want to Unicode. 2021-11-20T03:18:08+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2021-11-20T03:10:50+00:00 urn:sha1:da6f343032cb01597dc7866e66f091adf3243a62 With code from Bill. Thanks Bill!