changes:
Rewrote scheduler to use a sorted linked-list to store scheduled tasks so that only one element needs to be checked if none of the tasks are ready to fire.
Scheduler now checks tasks every 2 ds.
Adding tasks to an empty scheduler or tasks that are triggered after any existing tasks is fast, but adding tasks that trigger between two existing tasks requires iterating through some of the task list.
It's no addtimer(), but it's something.
changes:
Machines' process() has been separated from auto_use_power().
Lights no longer process() and instead use auto_use_power() for power calculations.
Computers that didn't really need to process() no longer process().
Airlocks now use the scheduler to auto-close instead of process()ing.
Fixed a bug where clicking on an AI Status display to set its status did not work.
This is it. The big one.
Risk: Very large. This modifies or rewrites several important systems.
Some things still need balancing, but that's probably better done if/when this hits dev.
changes:
New smooth lighting system.
Machinery split into three processes: machinery, powernet, pipenet Removed due to breakage. Refactored into multi-step process.
Mob process rewritten.
NanoUI process rewritten.
Objects process rewritten.
Tweaked color output of station lights.
Slime core lights now emit colored light.
Fixed light update frequency issue with fire alarms, hydroponics trays, and airlocks.
Increased light emission from bolted airlocks.
Miscellaneous performance improvements.
New datum pool implementation.
New lighting usage profiler.
Lighting system now tracks UV light, which is not visible to players.
Space now has a parallax effect.
Disabled Spin View verbs due to incompatibility with the new lighting system.
Disabled hallucination view spin due to incompatibility with the new lighting system.
Lighting system now initializes in the lobby before the round starts to reduce BoR deadtime.
Added UV light tracking to lighting engine; dionae now gain energy exclusively from UV light.
Added colored lighting to a few consoles that used default (white) light.
Greatly decreases the number of objects that need to be created (currently 3 event handlers in total vs basically 3 per datum)
The price is a slower lookup of listeners but on a per round basis it should still be much less than the current startup time penalty.
Corrects a number of places where New() did not call ..(), and implements similar changes to attempt to ensure New()/initialize() complete running before qdel() runs.
Cuts down on the number of created items during server start.
