Source Speedrun Tools: practice tools and handy features for Source Engine games https://qdb.woz.blue/mike/sst/atom?h=v0.18-BETA 2026-02-16T19:11:24+00:00 2026-02-16T19:11:24+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2025-12-26T23:12:11+00:00 urn:sha1:af370088fc178996a46ee508aaa1a2c46318bbf2 For some reason the DLL got a tiny little bit bigger again but that's fine. This will make orig_ calls more efficient in the inline case, and also make it harder to screw up and hook the wrong thing by mistake. Self-explanatory-ish, apart from the fact it's a fairly large API change of course. And it relies on some more bonkers assembler directive hackery. But it works! The only complaint one might have is that the featsetup functions no longer take an explicit string which occasionally yields slightly less perfect error messages, but I've decided this isn't really a problem and makes the API nicer to use. It's a tradeoff, innit. 2026-02-16T19:11:24+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2025-12-18T21:35:50+00:00 urn:sha1:7a07c08abe46f97f2412f06c77204e9015f97a47 Does away with the need to mark a region as executable on load. Also allows the self-modified stuff and hook trampolines to fit in the same page, so we take up ever-so-slightly less memory. Unfortunately I had issues getting the test binary to build correctly and eventually decided to give up as it wasn't testing much of value anyway. Also note that the build now allows for .c and .S files with the same basename, which required renaming the .o files, so you might want to clean out your .build/ directory before building this one. 2025-04-16T20:31:20+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2025-04-16T01:13:01+00:00 urn:sha1:4fddfa831d2a33ab3eee7ceb5f181c82d5aa78d2 This both simplifies and complicates things, but probably hopefully maybe simplifies things overall. Certainly in cases like the L4D1 demo thing where there's 3 inline hooks at once, it seems simpler to be able to batch the fallible stuff to avoid rollbacks. In cases where you only need one hook, it's a bit more verbose, but what can you do. Thanks bill for discussing this with me pretty exhaustively and giving a lot of good input. I think both of us still kind of hate it actually. 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 2025-03-10T20:37:28+00:00 urn:sha1:daa55cade14146f04814cf8a7ad2028becf4db66 In the future we can also consider moving to {} instead of {0} for initialisers, but my old Clang (16) doesn't support this, so it might be wise to wait longer on that one so people don't need too bleeding-edge of a compiler just to build this thing. 2023-08-26T23:46:09+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2023-08-20T15:20:03+00:00 urn:sha1:a1998f2f7ce4153d670e2e5cb5018366517cc1ca Nothing really works yet, but at least test.h and fastspin are fixed and some of the issues with RTTI and libdl and stuff are maybe kind of sorted, subject to more testing later. The main issue now seems to be the cvar interface not quite lining up and crashing pretty much immediately. That'll probably take a lot more debugging to figure out, which likely still won't be a priority for quite a while. 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. 2022-06-26T23:36:48+00:00 Michael Smith mikesmiffy128@gmail.com 2022-06-26T23:36:48+00:00 urn:sha1:e3fd5ad05a7d933d401de431ce2d27a99d3b9995 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!