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EXIT: Layer feature unearthed, now restored
Holey Moley:
Patch
http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.2.8.zip
I discovered the MP3 pathway I implemented has been converting regular WAV files, redundantly. I know I remember checking this code, but I basically had botched the code that determines if a WAV file is compatible with SOM or not. I probably only checked it for the converse.
(Edited: I think possibly this has been exacerbating the trouble I've been having with my disk/disk-controller/something. If so it chokes up when simultaneously reading/writing to the disk. This procedure seems to be especially prone to choking: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/xinput/xinput-and-directinput)
P.S. I've enabled transparent text, which was actually super simple. I thought the the SetTextColor API would surely discard the "alpha" component, but it doesn't...
I've done this because I'm using it with KF2 to make text appear smoother when using the do_stipple extension. I prefer to use it with dithering, in high color, but I found that it is so noticeable on the text that it was making me to prefer the true color mode (which admittedly looks quite good itself nowadays running at a steady 60fps.) With transparent text the edge is less crisp, and so it looks smoother under do_stipple.
On my previous monitor I cannot see do_stipple, but my latest monitor is slightly larger. And individual pixels are visible. I think probably monitors shouldn't be so large, that you can see pixels, but I didn't now this when I placed the order. It's not generally a problem. (Except funny story, the Samsung monitor kind of malfunctions with dithering turned on, depending on its Gamma Mode. I can't fathom why. I thought it was limited to Mode 2, since there is a place you can stand in Moratheia's demo that causes it to malfunction. You can take a screenshot, and look at the picture normally, and it still malfunctions... that was an interesting day. Well, it turns out Mode 1 malfunctions when sweeping over KF2's water. And so I put it into Mode 2 again... which I actually prefer, since it's a darker gamma setting.)
Holey Moley:
EDITED: I've reuploaded a fix for the Pause+S or Pause+Select screenshot feature, which had stopped working with the addition of D3DSWAPEFFECT_FLIPEX mode. It can be useful feature, but I mainly wanted to not have anything broken.
In the FLIPEX mode you can't get a picture from the window. Last night I tried many Direct3D ways to, and they all failed. I realized the way to do it was to use the desktop, and just clip the window out of the desktop, which is the same thing, no better no worse... just a counterintuitive approach.
Holey Moley:
Patch
http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.2.8.zip
I found a much less stinky way to detect the XInput controllers. Some accounts online suggest the documentation's way can take up to a minute. I don't understand where Microsoft is going with some of its COM based APIs, but this is useless, and certainly cannot be used at start up.
http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/commits-libsdl.org/2013-August/007312.html
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/8cc29a668223/src/joystick/windows/SDL_dxjoystick.c
I think I began to have problems with this because my computer may be dying, which is not good if it up and dies while I'm working on a KF2 project and lose a day or so of work. I actually think I may have indirectly hurt it by accidentally hitting a shutdown button while some files were transferring to an external drive... but it would be really stupid if that job did not keep the system from shutting down. I just don't know if a shortcut to a direct shutdown command goes through the same kinds of checks. Anyway, the problem began the next morning after having shut it down. It could be a cosmic blessing to get this egregious code out of the start up sequence.
I thought maybe my SSD disk is working in a bad section, and so I copied my KF2 project, and deleted the old files. It's only been an evening since I did that, but before I did it SOM_PRM couldn't switch tabs without getting stuck for a minute (which prompted me to try this) and after, so far so good.
P.S. This "build" has a new feature where the Attack/Magic buttons don't fire until they are released. It's actually better than before, because it removes 150ms delay, if you can just press faster than that. It's now easier to press all three buttons to run fast without accidentally lashing out. It opens up using the Shift key as a modifier, without dorky side effects. The Menu button will also work this way at some stage, but doesn't just yet.
Holey Moley:
Patch Patch
http://csv.swordofmoonlight.net/SomEx.dll/1.2.2.8.zip
This patch fixes depth buffer issue for items in a menu with a picture background, instead of transparent effect, caused by the new transparent frame feature.
It also uses the linear filter for 2D elements, with the point filter option. I can't think of a single reason to use a point filter for these things. There's no reason wanting the point filter option ought to degrade the menu system.
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