- Updated CMake files to conditionally link against libprotobuf based on the YAZE_PROTOBUF_TARGET variable across various modules (core, net, agent, z3ed).
- Ensured consistent use of the static MSVC runtime to align with vcpkg static triplets.
- Improved clarity in build logs by adding status messages for whole-archive linking conditions.
Benefits:
- Enhances modularity and compatibility of the build system with protobuf.
- Streamlines the build process for different platforms by ensuring appropriate linking based on configuration options.
- Modified CMake settings to ensure consistent use of the Homebrew LLVM/Clang installation on macOS.
- Added a new toolchain file to specify the correct compiler and header search paths, resolving potential conflicts.
- Updated CMake presets to enable the EMU build and set appropriate compiler flags.
Benefits:
- Enhances build reliability and compatibility on macOS by utilizing the Homebrew LLVM toolchain.
- Streamlines the build process with improved configuration management.
- Updated the discover_cmake_libraries function to support new marker comments for auto-maintenance.
- Improved variable extraction logic to handle decomposed libraries and subdirectory detection.
- Removed hardcoded CMake source blocks in favor of auto-discovery, streamlining the management of graphics library sources.
Benefits:
- Simplifies the maintenance of CMake files by automating source list updates.
- Enhances build efficiency and clarity by reducing manual configuration requirements.
- Changed the bitmap depth for message previews from 64 to 8 to support indexed palette mode.
- Updated logging to reflect the new depth in message preview creation.
- Enhanced Bitmap class with a new method to update surface pixels, ensuring proper pixel data handling in rendering.
Benefits:
- Improves compatibility with indexed palette formats in message rendering.
- Enhances the clarity of logging for bitmap creation processes.
- Added methods for applying palettes based on metadata, allowing for flexible palette handling in different bitmap types.
- Introduced a new BitmapMetadata struct to track source format and palette requirements.
- Enhanced ApplyStoredPalette and SetPaletteWithTransparent methods for improved palette application and transparency handling.
- Updated SDL surface pixel management with a new UpdateSurfacePixels method for better pixel data handling.
Benefits:
- Improves the rendering capabilities of the Bitmap class by supporting various palette formats.
- Enhances user experience with more intuitive palette management in graphics operations.
- Added yaze_core_lib to the target_link_libraries for the yaze_emulator in emu_library.cmake, ensuring proper linkage of core functionalities.
- Updated Arena constructor to initialize background layers directly, improving clarity and performance.
Benefits:
- Enhances the emulator's build configuration by ensuring all necessary libraries are linked.
- Improves the initialization process in the Arena class for better resource management.
- Added support for .gitignore patterns to the build_cleaner script, allowing it to respect ignored files during maintenance tasks.
- Implemented auto-discovery of CMake libraries marked for auto-maintenance, improving the automation of source list updates.
- Introduced functions for extracting includes and symbols from source files to suggest missing headers based on usage.
- Updated README to reflect new features and usage instructions.
Benefits:
- Streamlines the build process by automating maintenance tasks and ensuring proper header management.
- Enhances code organization and maintainability by integrating with existing project structures.
- Modified CI configuration to use the D-Bus portal for file dialogs on Linux for improved reliability.
- Updated CMake commands in both CI and release workflows to include the NFD_PORTAL option.
- Removed OpenSSL from vcpkg.json to streamline dependencies.
Benefits:
- Enhances build reliability across different platforms.
- Simplifies dependency management in the project.
- Updated include paths for various graphics-related headers to improve organization and clarity.
- Introduced new types for SNES color, palette, and tile management, enhancing the structure of the graphics subsystem.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new types, ensuring consistency across the codebase.
Benefits:
- Improves maintainability and readability of the graphics code.
- Facilitates future enhancements and optimizations within the graphics subsystem.
- Introduced PaletteManager to handle all palette-related operations, including color modifications, undo/redo functionality, and batch processing.
- Updated PaletteEditor and PaletteGroupCard to utilize PaletteManager for managing palette states and modifications, streamlining the editing process.
- Enhanced user interface with confirmation popups for discard actions and error notifications for save failures.
Benefits:
- Centralizes palette management, improving consistency and reducing code duplication across editors.
- Enhances user experience by providing clear feedback on unsaved changes and simplifying color operations.
- Introduced methods to determine if an editor is card-based and to retrieve its category.
- Implemented a sidebar toggle shortcut (Ctrl+B) for managing card visibility.
- Added functionality to hide current editor cards when switching editors.
- Updated editor initialization to register global shortcuts for activating specific editors.
- Enhanced the Update method to draw a sidebar for the current category editor.
Benefits:
- Improved user experience by organizing editor cards and providing quick access to editor categories.
- Streamlined editor management, making it easier to switch between different editing contexts.
- Moved background rendering functionality from the editor to a dedicated GUI module, enhancing modularity and separation of concerns.
- Introduced layout helpers for consistent theme-aware sizing across the GUI, improving UI consistency and maintainability.
- Updated CMake configuration to reflect the new structure, ensuring proper linkage of the background renderer and layout helpers.
Benefits:
- Improved organization of GUI components, facilitating easier updates and enhancements.
- Enhanced user interface consistency through theme-aware layout management.
- Updated audio buffering strategy to ensure smooth playback by always queuing samples and implementing dynamic rate control.
- Introduced Hermite interpolation for audio resampling, providing better quality than linear interpolation.
- Adjusted audio debug logging for improved monitoring of audio states and buffer management.
Benefits:
- Improved audio playback quality and reduced glitches.
- Enhanced clarity in audio debugging and monitoring processes.
- Refactored CMakeLists.txt to streamline project configuration and improve readability.
- Introduced new utility functions in `utils.cmake` for setting compiler flags and managing dependencies.
- Added `dependencies.cmake` to centralize third-party dependency management, enhancing modularity.
- Updated CI workflows to include new build options and improved logging for better feedback during configuration.
- Implemented precompiled headers in various libraries to speed up compilation times.
Benefits:
- Improved maintainability and clarity of the build system.
- Enhanced build performance through precompiled headers.
- Streamlined dependency management for easier integration of third-party libraries.
- Added a new "Layout Override" section in the DungeonCanvasViewer, allowing users to enable or disable layout overrides for dungeon rooms.
- Implemented a checkbox to toggle the override and a slider to select the layout ID when enabled.
- Removed the previously disabled room layout drawing code to streamline the rendering process.
- Updated the layout management to ensure proper handling of layout IDs and visibility settings.
- Enhanced the overall user interface for better control over dungeon layout visualization.
- Updated file paths for performance-related headers to reflect new directory structure under `app/gfx/performance/`.
- Introduced new `PerformanceDashboard` and `PerformanceProfiler` classes for comprehensive performance monitoring and reporting.
- Enhanced performance metrics collection and visualization capabilities, including real-time updates and detailed reports.
- Improved memory usage tracking and optimization status analysis within the graphics system.
- Ensured compatibility with existing components by updating include directives across multiple files.
- Updated DungeonCanvasViewer to disable room layout drawing to reduce visual clutter, enhancing clarity during object placement.
- Enhanced BackgroundBuffer to skip empty and floor tiles, preventing overwriting of drawn elements and improving rendering efficiency.
- Refined Bitmap palette application to ensure correct transparency handling and marked bitmaps as modified for texture updates.
- Streamlined ObjectDrawer by removing unnecessary debug logs and simplifying object drawing logic, improving performance and readability.
- Adjusted Room rendering methods to utilize palette indirection for accurate color application, ensuring consistent visual output across rooms.
- Added a sub-menu for toggling visibility of object outlines based on type and layer, allowing for more granular control over displayed objects in the dungeon canvas.
- Implemented checkboxes for filtering object outlines by type (Type 1, Type 2, Type 3) and layer (Layer 0, Layer 1, Layer 2) in the debug menu.
- Updated the drawing logic to respect the new filtering options, ensuring only the selected objects are rendered on the canvas.
- Improved the visibility of object ID labels by making them smaller and less obtrusive, enhancing the overall clarity of the canvas display.
- Introduced advanced room properties UI in the Dungeon Editor, allowing users to set effects and tags for rooms through dropdown menus.
- Updated the rendering logic to visualize room layouts, including walls, floors, pits, water, and doors, with appropriate color coding for clarity.
- Improved texture management by processing texture updates immediately to ensure objects appear correctly in the editor.
- Organized ROM address constants into a new header file for better maintainability and clarity in the codebase.
- Refactored existing code to utilize the new constants, ensuring a cleaner and more consistent naming convention.
- Added TextureAtlas class to manage multiple textures packed into a single large texture, improving rendering performance and reducing GPU state changes.
- Implemented methods for allocating regions, packing bitmaps, and drawing regions from the atlas.
- Removed the DrawDungeonTabView function from DungeonCanvasViewer as it is no longer needed with the new EditorCard system.
- Updated CMake configuration to include texture_atlas.cc in the build process.
- Refactored Room class to eliminate dependency on Arena graphics sheets, transitioning to per-room graphics for rendering.
- Added a new document, E5-debugging-guide.md, providing comprehensive strategies for debugging and testing the `yaze` application, including logging practices and testing frameworks.
- Updated E2-development-guide.md to include a new section on debugging and testing, detailing quick debugging methods using command-line flags for specific editors and UI cards.
- Enhanced the main application to support command-line flags for opening specific editors and cards on startup, improving the developer experience.
- Refactored the Controller class to handle startup editor and card initialization based on command-line inputs.
- Implemented controls for toggling visibility of background layers BG1 and BG2 in the DungeonCanvasViewer.
- Added a dropdown for selecting the type of BG2 layer, allowing for different rendering effects (Normal, Translucent, Addition, Dark, Off).
- Updated rendering logic to respect visibility settings and apply the selected alpha values for BG2 layer rendering.
- Enhanced debug logging to provide detailed information about bitmap states and rendering processes for both background layers.
- Implemented default palette application during graphics data loading to ensure immediate visibility of graphics sheets.
- Refactored GraphicsEditor to queue texture creation without palette management, improving performance and clarity.
- Introduced NotifySheetModified method in Arena to handle texture updates across all editors, ensuring consistency in graphics rendering.
- Enhanced logging for better tracking of graphics sheet modifications and texture operations.
- Introduced new shortcut categories for graphics, screen, and sprite editors, improving accessibility and organization.
- Updated DungeonEditorV2 and other editor classes to register cards with the EditorCardManager, allowing for better control and visibility management.
- Refactored shortcut registration for dungeon, graphics, screen, and sprite editors, ensuring consistent user experience across the application.
- Improved initialization processes to handle dynamic card visibility and shortcuts effectively.
- Implemented a Cleanup method in the Emulator class to manage resources effectively during shutdown.
- Added auto-pause functionality to the emulator when the window loses focus, optimizing CPU and battery usage.
- Updated the DoRender method in the Controller class to include frame timing management and a gentle frame rate cap.
- Enhanced texture processing in the Arena class to batch process up to 8 texture commands per frame, improving rendering efficiency.
- Updated Emulator to support optional lazy initialization of the renderer, enhancing flexibility during runtime.
- Introduced a new method in IRenderer for creating textures with specific pixel formats, improving texture management for the emulator.
- Refactored texture command processing in Arena to handle empty queues more gracefully.
- Enhanced SDL2Renderer to support the new texture creation method, ensuring compatibility with emulator requirements.
- Updated the testing guide to clarify the testing framework's organization and execution methods, improving user understanding.
- Refactored CMakeLists to include new platform-specific files, ensuring proper integration of the rendering backend.
- Modified main application files to utilize the new IRenderer interface, enhancing flexibility in rendering operations.
- Implemented deferred texture management in various components, allowing for more efficient graphics handling and improved performance.
- Introduced new methods for texture creation and updates, streamlining the rendering process across the application.
- Enhanced logging and error handling in the rendering pipeline to facilitate better debugging and diagnostics.
- Removed direct renderer calls from LoadLinkGraphics and LoadAllGraphicsData to prepare for future renderer refactor.
- Added LockTexture and UnlockTexture methods to IRenderer and SDL2Renderer for direct pixel access, enhancing texture management capabilities.
- Updated CMake configuration to include the new SDL2Renderer source file, ensuring proper integration within the graphics backend.
- Added IRenderer interface to define abstract rendering operations, decoupling application logic from specific rendering APIs.
- Implemented SDL2Renderer class, providing concrete methods for texture management, rendering primitives, and lifecycle management using SDL2.
- Introduced texture creation, updating, and destruction methods, along with rendering functions to clear the screen and present frames.
- Enhanced backend access for third-party library integration, ensuring flexibility in rendering operations.
- Added critical logging for graphics buffer management in LoadAllGraphicsData to prevent data corruption during ROM loads.
- Updated logging levels from INFO to DEBUG across various components for consistency and to reduce log verbosity.
- Refactored texture creation and palette application logic to allow editors to manage their own rendering, improving flexibility and user experience.
- Improved background buffer handling to ensure fresh bitmap creation only when necessary, optimizing performance.
- Enhanced debugging output for canvas and performance tracking, aiding in better diagnostics during development.
- Updated DungeonCanvasViewer to check and render room-specific graphics, improving rendering efficiency.
- Enhanced LoadAndRenderRoomGraphics to include detailed logging for better debugging.
- Refactored room rendering methods to utilize individual background buffers instead of global arena buffers, ensuring accurate graphics representation.
- Improved room diagnostic functionality to verify background buffer states specific to each room.
- Added critical checks and logging in BackgroundBuffer to ensure proper tile rendering and bitmap management.
- Deleted OverworldEditorManager and OverworldGraphicsManager classes to streamline the codebase and reduce complexity in the overworld editor.
- Updated CMake configuration to remove references to the deleted files, ensuring a clean build environment.
- Adjusted OverworldEditor to handle graphics management directly, improving maintainability and reducing the number of dependencies.
- Enhanced the initialization and update methods in OverworldEditor to accommodate the removal of the manager classes, ensuring continued functionality.
- Cleaned up related header files to reflect the removal of obsolete classes and methods, enhancing clarity and organization.
- Updated file dialog references across the application to utilize a new `util::FileDialogWrapper` for consistent file handling.
- Refactored existing code to replace direct calls to `core::FileDialogWrapper` with the new utility class, enhancing modularity and maintainability.
- Introduced `util::PlatformPaths` for cross-platform directory management, ensuring consistent access to user directories and application data paths.
- Added new utility functions for file operations, improving the overall file handling capabilities within the application.
- Updated CMake configurations to include new utility source files, streamlining the build process.
- Added an option to enable Unity (Jumbo) builds in CMake.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to conditionally set CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD and batch size.
- Removed outdated analysis documentation for overworld implementation.
- Deleted z3ed resources YAML file as it is no longer needed.
- Refactored CMake files to modularize the build system, separating core, editor, gfx, gui, and zelda3 components into library files.
- Added precompiled headers for various libraries to improve compilation times.
- Updated yaze_config.h.in to define IMGUI_DEFINE_MATH_OPERATORS for C++ compatibility.
- Enhanced editor integration tests with necessary includes for ImGui.
- Updated CMakeLists.txt to correct file paths for unit tests.
- Modified DungeonObjectRenderingE2ETests to inherit from BoundRomTest for better ROM management.
- Enhanced DungeonEditorIntegrationTest with improved mock ROM handling and added graphics data setup.
- Introduced a new MockRom class with methods for setting mock data and initializing memory layout.
- Added comprehensive unit tests for RoomObject encoding and decoding, covering all object types and edge cases.
- Refactored DungeonObjectRenderingTests to utilize BoundRomTest, ensuring consistent ROM loading and setup.
- Improved assertions in rendering tests for better clarity and reliability.
- Added option to enable modular build with `YAZE_USE_MODULAR_BUILD`.
- Updated CMake configuration to support modular libraries for core, editor, graphics, GUI, and emulator functionalities.
- Refactored existing libraries to separate concerns and improve build times.
- Introduced new utility library `yaze_util` for low-level utilities.
- Adjusted CI and release workflows to accommodate the new build system.
- Updated various source files to reflect new include paths and modular structure.
- Enhanced YAML configuration handling in the agent component.
- Updated `.clang-tidy` and `.clangd` configurations for improved code quality checks and diagnostics.
- Added new submodules for JSON and HTTP libraries to support future features.
- Refined README and documentation files to standardize naming conventions and improve clarity.
- Introduced a new command palette in the CLI for easier command access and execution.
- Implemented various CLI handlers for managing ROM, sprites, palettes, and dungeon functionalities.
- Enhanced the TUI components for better user interaction and command execution.
- Added AI service integration for generating commands based on user prompts, expanding the CLI's capabilities.
- Introduced BPPFormatManager for handling various bitmap formats (2BPP, 3BPP, 4BPP, 8BPP) with conversion capabilities.
- Enhanced AtlasRenderer to support bitmap addition with BPP format optimization and added methods for optimized rendering.
- Implemented GraphicsOptimizer for analyzing and optimizing graphics sheets based on BPP formats, including memory and performance considerations.
- Developed BppFormatUI for user interface interactions related to BPP format selection and conversion previews.
- Integrated BPP format management into the canvas system, allowing for format selection and conversion within the GUI.
- Updated CMake configuration to include new source files related to BPP management and optimization.
- Merged the old PerformanceMonitor interface into gfx::PerformanceProfiler, providing a unified performance monitoring system.
- Updated header files to maintain backward compatibility with aliases for PerformanceMonitor and ScopedTimer.
- Removed legacy timer methods and integrated memory pool for efficient data handling in performance profiling.
- Enhanced PerformanceDashboard to utilize the new profiler, including controls for enabling monitoring and clearing data.
- Improved performance reporting with detailed statistics and memory usage insights.
- Updated Tile16Editor to utilize a fixed height for the scrollable child window, enhancing user interface consistency.
- Simplified pixel data handling by removing unnecessary remapping for the display tile, ensuring accurate palette representation.
- Enhanced Bitmap palette application logic to directly use the specified index for 8-color palettes, preventing errors in color mapping.
- Improved error handling for palette length validation and ensured the complete palette is retained for compatibility with other editors.
- Updated Tile16Editor to regenerate blockset atlas directly from ROM data, bypassing problematic tile cache.
- Enhanced clipboard functionality to extract tile data directly from the atlas, improving reliability.
- Refactored Arena class shutdown process to ensure safe cleanup of resources, preventing double-free issues.
- Optimized Canvas rendering logic to utilize pre-calculated values for improved performance with large selections.
- Integrated performance profiling using ScopedTimer in GraphicsEditor and ScreenEditor for better timing insights.
- Implemented batch texture updates in GraphicsEditor and ScreenEditor to reduce individual texture update calls, improving rendering efficiency.
- Enhanced tile rendering in ScreenEditor with pre-allocated vectors for batch operations, optimizing drawing performance.
- Added safety checks and validation in various components to prevent crashes and ensure data integrity during rendering operations.
- Updated Bitmap and Arena classes to support improved texture management and synchronization, enhancing overall graphics performance.
- Added RenderBitmap and GetUVCoordinates methods to AtlasRenderer for improved bitmap rendering capabilities.
- Introduced RenderTilesBatch function in Tilemap for batch rendering of tiles using atlas, reducing draw calls and enhancing performance.
- Updated Clear method in AtlasRenderer to properly clean up SDL textures.
- Enhanced performance monitoring in PerformanceDashboard to include atlas renderer statistics.
- Added unit tests to benchmark atlas rendering performance, confirming efficiency improvements over individual rendering.
- Deleted clipboard-related files (clipboard.cc, clipboard.h, clipboard.mm) to streamline the codebase.
- Added a performance dashboard in the EditorManager to monitor performance metrics and improve user experience.
- Integrated performance monitoring capabilities across various editors, allowing for detailed timing of critical operations.
- Updated the graphics system with batch processing for texture updates, significantly improving rendering performance.
- Introduced a memory pool allocator for efficient memory management during graphics operations.
- Introduced a new PerformanceProfiler class for detailed timing and performance measurement across graphics operations.
- Implemented a smart tile cache with LRU eviction in the TileCache structure to optimize memory usage and improve tile rendering efficiency.
- Updated various graphics components to utilize the new caching system, reducing redundant texture updates and enhancing overall performance.
- Added dirty region tracking in Bitmap for efficient texture updates, minimizing the area that needs to be refreshed during rendering.
- Enhanced existing methods to leverage performance monitoring, providing insights into operation durations and potential bottlenecks.
