This mirrors the previous refactor of the TextRenderer. All calls to
draw_rect and draw_triangle now buffer vertex data (position and color).
A begin()/flush() system is introduced to manage batching.
Overhauls text rendering to improve performance.
Renderer was really ineffient, sending a separate GPU draw call for
every character rendered. This created a bottleneck, especially with
text-heavy UI stuff like the wallpaper.
- The 'TextRenderer' now generates a single texture atlas for all font
glyhs on load so all characters share a single texture.
- 'begin()' / 'flush()' was added to the 'TextRenderer'. Calls to
'render_text' now buffer vertex data (position, texture coords,
colour) instead of drawing immediately. A single 'flush()' call at the
end of a pass draws all buffered text in one draw call.
- A simple batching introduced some shitty visual layering bugs. to
solve this, a staged flushing architecture has been implemented. Each
logical UI component is now responsible for managing its own rendering
passes, beginning and flushing text batches as needed to ensure correct
back-to-front layering.
Large architecture refactor of the scripting system.
Previous implementation required Lua scripts to return "action
tables" which were interpreted by a large and not very flexible at all
if-else ladder in C++. While fine for the initial implementation, it's
not scalable, and it makes it impossible for players to write their own
meaningful tools.
Client architecture has been refactored to be fully
server-authoritative, remove the previous "hybrid" model that supported
both local and remote command execution, that was a stupid idea.
- Client now connects to server on startup.
- The local command processor and VFS have been removed from the
Terminal class.
- All command processing is now handled by the server.
- The client is now just a thin client essentially
I'll in the future enable single player mode by running the server on
the local machine in a separate thread.
