This moves monitor networking into its own packet, rather than serialising
using NBT. This allows us to be more flexible with how monitors are
serialised.
We now compress terminal data using gzip. This reduces the packet size
of a max-sized-monitor from ~25kb to as little as 100b.
On my test set of images (what I would consider to be the extreme end of
the "reasonable" case), we have packets from 1.4kb bytes up to 12kb,
with a mean of 6kb. Even in the worst case, this is a 2x reduction in
packet size.
While this is a fantastic win for the common case, it is not abuse-proof.
One can create a terminal with high entropy (and so uncompressible). This
will still be close to the original packet size.
In order to prevent any other abuse, we also limit the amount of monitor
data a client can possibly receive to 1MB (configurable).
This is a backport of 1.15's terminal rendering code with some further
improvements. This duplicates a fair bit of code, and is much more
efficient.
I expect the work done in #409 will supersede this, but that's unlikely
to make its way into the next release so it's worth getting this in for
now.
- Refactor a lot of common terminal code into
`FixedWithFontRenderer`. This shouldn't change any behaviour, but
makes a lot of our terminal renderers (printed pages, terminals,
monitors) a lot cleaner.
- Terminal rendering is done using a single mode/vertex format. Rather
than drawing an untextured quad for the background colours, we use an
entirely white piece of the terminal font. This allows us to batch
draws together more elegantly.
- Some minor optimisations:
- Skip rendering `"\0"` and `" "` characters. These characters occur
pretty often, especially on blank monitors and, as the font is empty
here, it is safe to skip them.
- Batch together adjacent background cells of the same colour. Again,
most terminals will have large runs of the same colour, so this is a
worthwhile optimisation.
These optimisations do mean that terminal performance is no longer
consistent as "noisy" terminals will have worse performance. This is
annoying, but still worthwhile.
- Switch monitor rendering over to use VBOs.
We also add a config option to switch between rendering backends. By
default we'll choose the best one compatible with your GPU, but there
is a config option to switch between VBOS (reasonable performance) and
display lists (bad).
When benchmarking 30 full-sized monitors rendering a static image, this
improves my FPS[^1] from 7 to 95. This is obviously an extreme case -
monitor updates are still slow, and so more frequently updating screens
will still be less than stellar.
[^1]: My graphics card is an Intel HD Graphics 520. Obviously numbers
will vary.
This is the behaviour on 1.14 already, so it makes sense to backport to
1.12.
Any mod may now insert files into assets/computercraft/lua/rom, and
they'll be automatically added to the default ROM mount. This allows
other mods to easily register new programs or autorun files.
See #242
Are most of these changes small and petty? Yes. However, IMO they do
make the code more readable. Anyway, a summary of some of the more
interesting changes:
- Expose Abstract*Upgrade classes in the API
- Fix the spelling of Jonathan in the API docs (*shakes fist*)
- Fix bug with printout not working in the offhand.
- Rename any argments/variables accidentally named "m_*", and add an
inspection to prevent it happening again.
- Remove most of the Block*.Properties classes - just inline them in
the parent class.
- Return super.writeToNBT instead of reassigning at the top.
This is largely invisible (it's marked as a child of the main
"computercraft" mod), but allows other mods (such as Plethora) to add
hard/soft dependencies on CC:T in a user-friendly manner.
OK, so let's get this out of the way, there's some actual changes mixed
in here too. I'm really sorry:
- Turtles can now not be renamed with unnamed item tags (previously it
would clear the name, this seemed a little unideal).
- commands.getBlock(s)Data will also include NBT.
Now, onto the horror story which is these inspection changes:
- Make a lot of methods static
- Typo fixes
- Make utility classes final + private constructor
- Lots of reformatting (ifs -> ternary, invert control flow, etc...)
- ???
- Profit!
I'm so going to regret this - can pretty much guarantee this is going to
break something.
- Move container opening (and gui handling) into a separate class
- Move turtle/computer placement code onto the block
- GUIs now use gui{Left,Top} instead of calculating it manually.
- IPeripheralTile is now exposed in the API.
Unlike ComputerThread, we do not have a single source of tasks, and so
need a smarter way to handle scheduling and rate limiting. This
introduces a cooldown system, which works on both a global and
per-computer level:
Each computer is allowed to do some work for 5ms. If they go over that
budget, then they are marked as "hot", and will not execute work on the
next tick, until they have cooled down. This ensures that _on average_
computers perform at most 5ms of work per tick.
Obviously this is a rather large time span, so we also apply a global
10ms to all computers. This uses the same cooldown principle, meaning we
keep to an average of 10ms, even if we go over budget.
- Only have computers implement custom block drop logic: everything
else only drops in creative mode.
- Fix redstone inputs not being received correctly. Introduced in
8b86a954ee, yes I'm a silly billy.
- Only update the neighbour which changed.
FileSystemMount was originally added to allow using ReadableByteChannels
instead of InputStreams. However, as zip files do not allow seeking,
there is no benefit of using them over the original JarMount (which we
need to preserve for backwards compatibility).
Instead of maintaining two near-identical mounts, we remove the
FileSystemMount and rewrite the JarMount implementation with several
improvements:
- Rewrite the jar scanning algorithm to be closer to 1.13+'s data pack
mount. This means we no longer require the jar file to have
directories before the file (though this was not a problem in
practice).
- Add all JarMounts to a ReferenceQueue, closing up the ZipFile when
they have been garbage collected (fixes#100).
- Cache the contents of all files for 60 seconds (with some constraints
on size). This allows us to seek on ROM files too (assuming they are
small), by reading the whole thing into memory.
The cache is shared across all mounts, and has a 64MiB limit, and
thus should not have an adverse impact on memory.
It's rather embarassing that it's been restructured _again_, but I think
this is a nice middle-ground. The previous implementation was written
mostly for Fabric, which doesn't always map perfectly to Forge.
- Move the message identifier into the registration phrase. It's not
really a property of the message itself, rather a property of the
registry, so better suited there.
- Move message handling into the message itself. Honestly, it was just
ending up being rather messy mixing the logic in two places.
This also means we can drop some proxy methods, as it's easier to
have conditionally loaded methods.
- Move network registry into a dedicated class, as that's what we're
doing for everything else.
This means we can avoid several rather ugly instances of getItemBlock
and a cast. We also derive the ItemBlock's registered name from the
block's name, which makes the register a little less ugly.
- Move the "world directory" getter out of the proxy - we can just use
Forge's code here.
- Remove the server proxies, as both were empty. We don't tend to
register any dedicated-server specific code, so I think we can leave
them out.
- All "named" entries (blocks, items, recipes, TEs and pocket/turtle
upgrades) are registeredin one place.
- Most client side models/textures are registered in ClientRegistry -
we can't do item colours or TEs for now, as these aren't event based.
- A little cleanup to how we handle ItemPocketComputer models.
- Move all HTTP tasks to a unified "MonitoredResource" model. This
provides a uniform way of tracking object's lifetimes and disposing
of them when complete.
- Rewrite HTTP requests to use Netty instead of standard Java. This
offers several advantages:
- We have access to more HTTP verbs (mostly PATCH).
- We can now do http -> https redirects.
- We no longer need to spawn in a new thread for each HTTP request.
While we do need to run some tasks off-thread in order to resolve
IPs, it's generally a much shorter task, and so is less likely to
inflate the thread pool.
- Introduce several limits for the http API:
- There's a limit on how many HTTP requests and websockets may exist
at the same time. If the limit is reached, additional ones will be
queued up until pending requests have finished.
- HTTP requests may upload a maximum of 4Mib and download a maximum
of 16Mib (configurable).
- .getResponseCode now returns the status text, as well as the status
code.
- Move configuration loading into a separate file, just so it doesn't
clutter up ComputerCraft.java.
- Normalise property names, so they're all snake_case.
- Split properties into separate categories (http, turtle, peripheral),
so the main one is less cluttered.
- Define an explicit ordering of each category.
- Provide whether a message was binary or text in websocket_message
and handle.receive(). (Fixes#96)
- Provide an optional reason and status code within the websocket_close
event.
Off topic, but also cleanup the file handles a little.
- Remove redundant constructors and super calls
- Standardise naming of texture fields
- Always use postfix notations for loops
- Cleanup several peripheral classes
There's several reasons for this change:
- Try to make ComputerCraft.java less monolithic by moving
functionality into separate module-specific classes.
- Hopefully make the core class less Minecraft dependent, meaning
emulators are a little less dependent on anything outside of /core.
Note we still need /some/ methods in the main ComputerCraft class in
order to maintain backwards compatibility with Plethora and
Computronics.
Some methods act the same on both sides, and so can be in utility
classes. Others are only needed on one side, and so do not really need
to be part of the proxy.
- Remove TurtleVisionCamera. It would be possible to add this back in
the future, but for now it is unused and so should be removed.
- Move frame info (cursor blink, current render frame) into a
FrameInfo class.
- Move record methods (name, playing a record) into a RecordUtil class.
- getPickBlock is now implemented directly on computers and turtles,
rather than on the tile.
- Bounding boxes are handled on the block rather than tile. This ends
up being a little ugly in the case of BlockPeripheral, but it's not
the end of the world.
- Explosion resistance is only implemented for turtles now.
- Only generate resource pack mounts if the desired directory exists.
- Allow mounting files, as well as directories (fixes#90).
As always, also a wee bit of cleanup to some of the surrounding code.
We'd somehow added spaces, which means they weren't registered under the
computercraft domain (rather, the "computercraft " one). We also create
a datafixer to ensure old worlds are handled correctly.
This replaces the existing IMount openFor* method with openChannelFor*
ones, which return an appropriate byte channel instead.
As channels are not correctly closed when GCed, we introduce a
FileSystemWrapper. We store a weak reference to this, and when it is
GCed or the file closed, we will remove it from our "open file" set and
ensure any underlying buffers are closed.
While this change may seem a little odd, it does introduce some
benefits:
- We can replace JarMount with a more general FileSystemMount. This
does assume a read-only file system, but could technically be used
for other sources.
- Add support for seekable (binary) handles. We can now look for
instances of SeekableByteChannel and dynamically add it. This works
for all binary filesystem and HTTP streams.
- Rewrite the io library to more accurately emulate PUC Lua's
implementation. We do not correctly implement some elements (most
noticably "*n", but it's a definite improvement.
- Try to make drop capturing a little more generic. This now allows for
capturing a block's drop at a given position, as well as any drop
within a bounding box (for things which don't play nicely).
- Use as much of Minecraft's block breaking logic as possible,
hopefully simplifying things and making it more consistent with other
mods.
- Add additional maven metadata and strip dependencies
- Shift ICommand registration into the proxy, to avoid class loading
issues. This is probably rather temperamental, but classloading
always is.
These act similarly to conventional wired modems, but with the advantage
that they are a full block. This means they can be attached to
peripherals which are not solid (such as chests). Further more, as they
do not have a direction, they allow wrapping peripherals on all 6 sides.
It's worth noting that wired modems do not require a cable - they will
automatically form connections to adjacent network elements when placed.
