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.
Rendering an item worked in principle, but had several caveats:
- The terminal did not fit well within the item's texture, so we had a
rather large border.
- The "correctness" of this was very tied to Minecraft's item rendering
code. This changed a little in 1.13, causing problems like #208.
Instead we effectively reuse the computer GUI rendering code, though
also handling coloured pocket computers and rendering the modem light.
This fixes#208, and hopefully fixes#212.
- Run optipng on all our images. This has very little effect on most of
them (as they're all so small anyway), but has resulted in a 50%
reduction in some cases.
- Run Proguard on our shadowed dependencies (Cobalt).
- Minify our JSON files, stripping all whitespace. This is mostly
useful for FML's annotation cache, as that's a massive file, but
still a semi-useful optimisation to make.
This has helped reduce the jar by about 110kb, which isn't much but
still feels somewhat worth it.
- Slight airbrush effect for normal turtles. While this is only really
visible when upping the contrast, it's probably nice to fix.
- A few off-colour pixels for advanced turtles
- Adds a 1px margin around every glyph. This is generally empty,
with the exception of teletext characters where it continues their
pattern.
- Uses GL_CLAMP with the font texture.
Closes#300
- Lower case all model and texture names
- Move model registration code into preInit - this ensures we don't
get texture/model errors in the preInit stage.
