This allows games to specify biome cave liquids and avoid the old
hardcoded behaviour, but preserves the ability to have multiple
cave liquids in one biome, such as lava and water.
When multiple cave liquids are defined by the biome definition,
make each entire cave use a randomly chosen liquid, instead of
every small cave segment using a randomly chosen liquid.
Plus an optimisation:
Don't place nodes if cave liquid is defined as 'air'
* Optimize statbar drawing
The texture name of the statbar is a string passed by value.
That slows down the client and creates litter in the heap
as the content of the string is allocated there. Convert the
offending parameter to a const reference to avoid the
performance hit.
* Optimize texture cache
There is an unnecessary temporary created when the texture
path is being generated. This slows down the cache each time
a new texture is encountered and it needs to be loaded into
the cache. Additionally, the heap litter created by this
unnecessary temporary is particularly troublesome here as
the following code then piles another string (the resulting
full path of the texture) on top of it, followed by the
texture itself, which both are quite long term objects as
they are subsequently inserted into the cache where they can
remain for quite a while (especially if the texture turns
out to be a common one like dirt, grass or stone).
Use std::string.append to get rid of the temporary which
solves both issues (speed and heap fragmentation).
* Optimize animations in client
Each time an animated node is updated, an unnecessary copy of
the texture name is created, littering the heap with lots of
fragments. This can be specifically troublesome when looking
at oceans or large lava lakes as both of these nodes are
usually animated (the lava animation is pretty visible).
Convert the parameter of GenericCAO::updateTextures to a
const reference to get rid of the unnecessary copy.
There is a comment stating "std::string copy is mandatory as
mod can be a class member and there is a swap on those class
members ... do NOT pass by reference", reinforcing the
belief that the unnecessary copy is in fact necessary.
However one of the first things the code of the method does
is to assign the parameter to its class member, creating
another copy. By rearranging the code a little bit this
"another copy" can then be used by the subsequent code,
getting rid of the need to pass the parameter by value and
thus saving that copying effort.
* Optimize chat console history handling
The GUIChatConsole::replaceAndAddToHistory was getting the
line to work on by value which turns out to be unnecessary.
Get rid of that unnecessary copy by converting the parameter
to a const reference.
* Optimize gui texture setting
The code used to set the texture for GUI components was
getting the name of the texture by value, creating
unnecessary performance bottleneck for mods/games with
heavily textured GUIs. Get rid of the bottleneck by passing
the texture name as a const reference.
* Optimize sound playing code in GUIEngine
The GUIEngine's code receives the specification of the sound
to be played by value, which turns out to be most likely a
mistake as the underlying sound manager interface receives
the same thing by reference. Convert the offending parameter
to a const reference to get rid of the rather bulky copying
effort and the associated performance hit.
* Silence CLANG TIDY warnings for unit tests
Change "std::string" to "const std::string &" to avoid an
unnecessary local value copy, silencing the CLANG TIDY
process.
* Optimize formspec handling
The "formspec prepend" parameter was passed to the formspec
handling code by value, creating unnecessary copy of
std::string and slowing down the game if mods add things like
textured backgrounds for the player inventory and/or other
forms. Get rid of that performance bottleneck by converting
the parameter to a const reference.
* Optimize hotbar image handling
The code that sets the background images for the hotbar is
getting the name of the image by value, creating an
unnecessary std::string copying effort. Fix that by
converting the relevant parameters to const references.
* Optimize inventory deserialization
The inventory manager deserialization code gets the
serialized version of the inventory by value, slowing the
server and the client down when there are inventory updates.
This can get particularly troublesome with pipeworks which
adds nodes that can mess around with inventories
automatically or with mods that have mobs with inventories
that actively use them.
* Optimize texture scaling cache
There is an io::path parameter passed by value in the
procedure used to add images converted from textures,
leading to slowdown when the image is not yet created and
the conversion is thus needed. The performance hit is
quite significant as io::path is similar to std::string
so convert the parameter to a const reference to get rid of
it.
* Optimize translation file loader
Use "std::string::append" when calculating the final index
for the translation table to avoid unnecessary temporary
strings. This speeds the translation file loader up
significantly as std::string uses heap allocation which
tends to be rather slow. Additionally, the heap is no
longer being littered by these unnecessary string
temporaries, increasing performance of code that gets
executed after the translation file loader finishes.
* Optimize server map saving
When the directory structure for the world data is created
during server map saving, an unnecessary value passing of
the directory name slows things down. Remove that overhead
by converting the offending parameter to a const reference.
* Force send a mapblock to a player.
Send a single mapblock to a specific remote player.
This is badly needed for mods and games where players are teleported
into terrain which may be not generated, loaded, or modified
significantly since the last player visit.
In all these cases, the player currently ends up in void, air, or
inside blocks which not only looks bad, but has the effect that the
player might end up falling and then the server needs to correct for
the player position again later, which is a hack.
The best solution is to send at least the single mapblock that the
player will be teleported to. I've tested this with ITB which does this
all the time, and I can see it functioning as expected (it even shows
a half loaded entry hallway, as the further blocks aren't loaded yet).
The parameter is a blockpos (table of x, y, z), not a regular pos.
The function may return false if the call failed. This is most likely
due to the target position not being generated or emerged yet, or
another internal failure, such as the player not being initialized.
* Always send mapblock on teleport or respawn.
This avoids the need for mods to send a mapblock on teleport or
respawn, since any call to `player:set_pos()` will pass this code.
* Improve readability of debug menu by using '|'
* Restore whitespace to separate yaw and cardinal direction
Co-Authored-By: ClobberXD <ClobberXD@gmail.com>
* Optimize packet construction functions
Some of the functions that construct packets in
connection.cpp are using a const reference to get the raw
packet data to package and others use a value passed
parameter to do that. The ones that use the value passed
parameter suffer from performance hit as the rather bulky
packet data gets a temporary copy when the parameter is
passed before it lands at its final destination inside the
newly constructed packet. The unnecessary temporary copy
hurts quite badly as the underlying class (SharedBuffer)
actually allocates the space for the data in the heap.
Fix the performance hit by converting all of these value
passed parameters to const references. I believe that this
is what the author of the relevant code actually intended
to do as there is a couple of packet construction helper
functions that already use a const reference to get the
raw data.
* Optimize packet sender thread class
Most of the data sending methods of the packet sender thread
class use a value passed parameter for the packet data to be
sent. This causes the rather bulky data to be allocated on
the heap and copied, slowing the packet sending down. Convert
these parameters to const references to avoid the performance
hit.
* Optimize packet receiver thread class
The packet receiver and processor thread class has many
methods (mostly packet handlers) that receive the packed data
by value. This causes a performance hit that is actually
worse than the one caused by the packet sender methods
because the packet is first handed to the processPacket
method which looks at the packet type stored in the header
and then delegates the actual handling to one of the
handlers. Both, processPacket and all the handlers get the
packet data by value, leading to at least two unnecessary
copies of the data (with malloc and all the slow bells and
whistles of bulky classes).
As there already is a few methods that use a const reference
parameter for the packet data, convert all this value passed
packets to const references.
6125 is the time of first full light according to 'get_node_light()',
and the time of first full light visually when basic shaders are on.
This is the optimum default new world start time, taking all possible
games into account.
The previous time assumed a game similar to Minetest Game. Games
should set this setting themselves according to their needs.
It turns out there is no need to return the new value and
preserve the old one in random_turn, the procedure can be
made to modify the value in-place. This saves quite a bunch
of parameter and return value copying.
Previously, when basic shaders were enabled, the function
time_to_daynight_ratio() returned values jumping between 149 and 150
between times 4375 and 4625, and values jumping between 999 and 1000
between times 6125 and 6375, (and the corresponding times at sunset)
due to tiny float errors in the interpolation code.
This caused the light level returned by blend_light() to jump between
14 and 15, which became noticeable recently as those light levels were
given different visual brightnesses.
Add early returns to avoid the problematic interpolation, and to
avoid unnecessary running of the loop.
Makes the liquid waving shader per-nodedef like waving leaves/plants,
instead of being applied to all liquids.
Like the waving leaves/plants shaders, the liquid waving shader can
also be applied to meshes and nodeboxes.
Derived from a PR by t0ny2.
Like randomwalk caves, preserve nodes that have 'is_ground_content = false',
to avoid dungeons that generate out beyond the edge of a mapchunk destroying
nodes added by mods in 'register_on_generated()'.
Issue discovered by, and original PR by, argyle77.
This change permits to use up-to-date compilers, clang-tidy and
clang-format
It also refactor the tidy/format step to drop the binary selection from
scripts and perform it directly in travis
Shorter, simpler, clearer and more consistent with other mapgens,
while preserving functionality.
Base terrain shape is unchanged.
With the 'vary river depth' option disabled, river surface level
is unchanged.
Behaviour of the 4 heat/humidity/river depth options is very
slightly changed due to bugfixes and code cleanup (the mapgen is
'unstable').
Apply heat and humidity gradients above water_level instead of
above y = 0.
I removed the MapNode constructor which takes a nodename and gives the node's id or CONTENT_IGNORE
The code which used this constructor (two places) now handles the situation of not registered nodes correctly:
* minetest.set_node and similar functions make minetest crash when a not registered node is passed
* reverting a node with rollback aborts if the node is not registered
Use "append" method to construct the various game paths
instead of wasteful string concatenation. Additionally, use a
temporary to extract and reuse a result of a few common
subexpressions to further reduce the overhead.
The "what" parameter is being passed by value, most likely by
accident as the type is "const std::string". Convert it to a
reference by adding the missing "&".
* Fix color command line parameter ignorance
* coloured log: Support detecting the tty on windows
* Print an error message when setting something invalid as color mode instead of silently using mode never
* Revert "coloured log: Support detecting the tty on windows"
This reverts commit 4c9fc6366487ac0e6799e181796ca594797bb6f8.
It didn't work for travis and belongs to a separate PR
* Allow adjusting the log color with an environment variable
If --color is not passed to minetest, is used to decide on the log colorization.
Minetest settings can not be used instead of an environment variable because logs may appear before loading them.
* fix empty if body
This loop makes multiple passes over m_stack (type std::list) in order to remove all elements with a specified value. Replacing the loop with a call to std::list::remove does the same job, but in only one pass.
This sends the following header to a remote media server:
Referer: minetest://<server_name>:port
This was verified with CTF and the Minetest Public Remove Media
server. If the servername was a plain IPv6 address it will
contain `:` characters and will be encapsulated in `[]` to
be a valid URI.
The getS16NoEx() handler will return true unless there is a
`[num_emerge_threads]` line in the `minetest.conf` at which
point the excption handler part is reached. Due to the fact that
`defaultsettings.cpp` has a default value set for this setting,
that never will happen.
Because of this, the code will never check the number of threads on
the system, and keep `nthreads = 0`. If that happens, the value is
changed to `1` and only 1 emerge thread will be used.
The default should be set to `1` instead, due to the potential unsafe
consequences for the standard sqlite map files, but that should be a
separate commit that also adds documentation for that setting. This
commit focuses on removing this `hiding` bug instead.
* Drop the ID mapper, use a big u64 instead. This will permit to resync server ids properly with the manager code
* Modernize some code parts (std::unordered_map, auto)
* generate id on client part on U32_MAX + 1 ids, lower are for server ids
The reverted commit 968ce9af598024ec71e9ffb2d15c3997a13ad754
is suspected (through the use of bisection) of causing network slowdowns.
Revert for now as we are close to release.
Store the rotation in the node as a 4x4 transformation matrix internally (through IDummyTransformationSceneNode), which allows more manipulations without losing precision or having gimbal lock issues.
Network rotation is still transmitted as Eulers, though, not as matrix. But it will stay this way in 5.0.
Previously, when using 'place on vmanip' to add a schematic to a
lua voxelmanip, if part of the schematic was outside the voxelmanip
volume, the outside part would often appear in a strange place
elsewhere inside the voxelmanip instead of being trimmed off.
This was due to the out-of-bounds check checking the index.
A position outside the voxelmanip can have an index that satisfies
'0 <= index <= voxelmanip volume', causing the node to be placed
at a strange position inside the voxelmanip.
Use 'vm->m_area.contains(pos)' instead.
Move index calculation to later in the code to optimise.
If a formspec is submitted from a form fields handling
callback of another form (or "formspec shown from another
formspec"), the fields submitted for it can get
rejected by the form exploit mitigation subsystem with a
message like "'zorman2000' submitted formspec
('formspec_error:form2') but server hasn't sent formspec to
client, possible exploitation attempt" being sent to logs.
This was already reported as #7374 and a change was made
that fixed the simple testcase included with that bug
report but the bug still kept lurking around and popping
out in more complicated scenarios like the advtrains TSS
route programming UI.
Deep investigation of the problem revealed that this
sequence of events is entirely possible and leads to the
bug:
1. Server: show form1
2. Client *shows form1*
3. Client: submits form1
4. Server: show form2
5. Client: says form1 closed
6. Client *shows form2*
7. Client: submits form2
What happens inside the code is that when the server in
step 4 sends form2, the registry of opened forms is
updated to reflect the fact that form2 is now the valid
form for the client to submit. Then when in step 5 client
says "form1 was closed", the exploit mitigation subsystem
code deletes the registry entry for the client without
bothering to check whether the form client says was
closed just now is indeed the form that is recorded in
that entry as the valid form. Then later, in step 7 the
client tries to submit its valid form fields, these will
be rejected because the entry is missing.
It turns out the procedure where the broken code resides
already gets the form name so a simple "if" around the
offending piece of code fixes the whole thing. And
advtrains TSS agrees with that.
Reserve space for the list of games in findWorldSubgame. The
performance gain is pretty much negligible but this change
also gets rid of a performance warning by CLANG TIDY.
This patch will make distinguishable mods in modpacks possible in the future
`nil` checks are required to provide backwards-compatibility for fresh configured worlds
The craft definition handling code that collects the names of
the craftable nodes suffers from vector reallocation
performance hits, slowing down instances with lots of
crafting recipes (VanessaE's DreamBuilder and most public
server some to my mind when thinking about this). As in each
instance the size of the resulting vector is already known,
add a reserve() call before the offending loops to allocate
the needed chunk of memory within the result vector in one
go, getting rid of the overhead.
The pathfinder needs quite a bunch of items to add to the
resulting list. It turns out the amount of the space needed
for the finalized path is known in advance so preallocate it
to avoid a burst of reallocation calls each time something
needs to look for a path.
* Fix a crash on Android with Align2Npot2
glGetString can be NULL. If stored in a string it triggers a SIGSEGV.
Instead do a basic strstr and verify the pointer
* Better Align2Npot2 check (+ performance)
* Fix various bugs (Anticheat, Lua helpers)
Anticheat: Use camera position instead of player position for shoot line calculations
Lua helpers: Increase 'i' to not overwrite earlier added table values
* Remove lag compensation
* * 1.5 for larger selection boxes
* PostgreSQL & SQLite3 doesn't setModified(false) on RemotePlayer, then player is saved on each server save call. This results in heavy useless writes.
* PostgreSQL & SQLite3 ack engine meta write whereas db commit hasn't been performed. If commit failed write has failed. We mustn't notify engine write is done.
* serializing player meta must not setModified(false) because it didn't ensure write has been done
* add RemotePlayer::on_successfull_save callback to do the flag update on a successful save
The fallback code shouldn't be needed and is a remnant of the GET
method that old media servers use. Clients using it are likely
to just waste bandwidth and having to download the media again
through the normal transfer from server method. The most reliable
method is to get all missing textures therefore from the server
directly and not spam the remote media server with 404s.
Previously, when the CSM restriction 'LOAD_CLIENT_MODS' was used a
client was still able to add CSM code to 'builtin' to bypass that
restriction, because 'builtin' is not yet verified.
Until server-sent CSM and verifying of 'builtin' are complete, make
'LOAD_CLIENT_MODS' disable the loading of builtin.
Clarify code comments and messages to distinguish between client-side
modding and client-side scripting. 'Scripting' includes 'builtin',
'modding' does not.
GCC and CLang compilers fail to support full IEC559 compliance required for the test, when certain compiler flags are active. This patch implements a heuristic that checks for the most common flag in GCC and CLang, plues an extra check which GCC disables when it's not compliant, to hopefully catch most cases where it can't run.
Move star draw to before sun glow texture draw and before sun draw,
not currently essential but the logical order. Will be necessary if
a 'no far ground' option is added, to draw stars behind the sun.
```
[ 10%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/minetest.dir/client/render/interlaced.cpp.o
cc1plus: warning: -Wabi won't warn about anything [-Wabi]
cc1plus: note: -Wabi warns about differences from the most up-to-date ABI, which is also used by default
cc1plus: note: use e.g. -Wabi=11 to warn about changes from GCC 7
```
Reported by GCC
```
minetest/src/server.cpp:996:42: warning: ‘peer_id’ may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
errorstream << "ProcessData: peer=" << peer_id << e.what() << std::endl;
```
At sunset:
Stars first appear slightly later, at the time the sun disappears over the horizon,
this fixes seeing dark stars in front of the sun horizon glow texture.
Stars reach full brightness slightly earlier at time 20000, not so excessively long
after sunset.
The above behaviour is also applied at sunrise, but of course, time-inverted.
In pitch fly mode, you fly to the exact direction you are pointing at, using the forward key. Other move directions are also pitched accordingly.
It allows smoother and more complex movements.
Can be enabled/disabled by L key by default (set keymap_pitchfly in minetest.conf)
script_get_backtrace() was leaving its return value on the stack, corrupting
subsequent lua operations for functions that did not immediately return.
This problem can specifically be observed in the case of multiple "groupcaps"
entries, each of which provides the legacy "maxwear" property. These cause a
backtrace and thus pollute the stack for the following lua_next() call.
* Adds Lua methods 'set_rotation()' and 'get_rotation'. Also changed some method names to be more clear. Instead of an f32 being sent over network for yaw, now a v3f is sent for rotation on xyz axes. Perserved Lua method set_yaw/setyaw so that old mods still work, other wise to set yaw they would need to switch to set_rotation(0, yaw, 0).
Use the CSM death formspec when CSM is enabled and use the engine death formspec when CSM is disabled.
Move the CSM death formspec code to a dedicated file.
Works by detecting a collision while moving forward and then
simulating a jump. If the simulated jump is more successful,
an artificial jump key press is injected in the client.
Includes setting and key change GUI element for enabling and
disabling this feature.
Use font size 14 for phones.
Use x_inches < 3.7 instead of < 3.5 for small phones.
Add a new category x_inches < 6 for larger phones.
Use HUD scaling 0.85 for larger phones.
Use desktop defaults for tablets.
Previously, each glass face used drawAutoLightedCuboid() to draw a
flat cuboid. This also disallowed backface culling, making the
backface culling inconsistent with 'glasslike'.
Use code from 'glasslike' to draw glass faces using drawQuad().
Remove long-unknown top/bottom textures feature:
Makes the code simpler and cleaner.
Never documented, long-unknown and not of much use.
Previously, 'time_brightness' never fell below the threshold so
night sky colours were not applied.
Increase the threshold value. But now also set it to a value less
sensitive to possible future small changes in 'time_brightness',
by setting it halfway between the 'time_brightness' values for
darkest night and first stage of dawn.
Create CPack WIX msi Installer for RUN_IN_PLACE=0 builds
Correct paths on Windows for RUN_IN_PLACE=0
Install only required font files
Games have their own components, and "minimal" is optional
Mods will now have to initialize the list/slot in order to define the default player hand.
They may use the inventory callbacks to prevent abuse of this list.
Improve codestyle.
Add clarifying comments.
Use 'movement_gravity' setting and physics override instead of hardcoded value.
Halve number of particles in final 'node dug' burst.
Avoid extremely small, near-invisible particles.
Increase velocity to increase number emerging from within a cubic node.
Previously, night clouds were almost indistinguishable from night sky,
especially since a recent commit that made night sky brighter.
They were lacking the beautiful luminosity caused by being lit by the
permanently-full moon.
When 'directional_colored_fog = false' allow the dawn/dusk cloud
brightness boost to apply through the night too.
Set an identical minimum cloud brightness for when
'directional_colored_fog = true'.
Damage flash is shortened from 0.98-1.27s to 0.25s-0.33s to reduce
player in-game blindness, especially useful for combat situations.
It is also visually more comfortable.
Camera hurt tilt is made slightly shorter to match in duration.
Both flash and camera tilt are now of similar length to a typical
damage sound, such as the one used by Minetest Game which is 0.27s.
The 3 effects become more synchronised and unified.
Previously dungeons > decorations > ores.
Decorations depend on the node they are placed on, and ore types are
increasingly able to place large continuous volumes of nodes, such as
strata. Decorations are increasingly being used underground.
The new order avoids a node being changed by ore generation after a
decoration has been placed on it.
The new order also avoids ores appearing in the walls of a dungeon if
the wall nodes match the local stone node.
Make tunnels wider and use the noise parameters of most other mapgens.
All other underground features are already identical to all other
non-mgv6 mapgens, this final change modernises and improves the tunnels.
Also, use a better distance calculation for 'collide with objects'.
Fixes the issue of a vehicle occasionally colliding with its own driver,
causing one of the velocity components to be set to zero.
Add 2 new mapgen flags to make river depth variation and humidity drop
with altitude independently optional, instead of both being enabled by
the 'humid rivers' flag.
Simplify and clarify related code by removing a low priority
optimisation regarding 't_heat'.
Remove unnecessary optimisation bools and use spflags directly instead.
Improve and fix documentation in settingtypes.txt.
A few minor code cleanups.
