Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#8935 closed patch

BS1: Simplified subtitles

Reported by: eriktorbjorn Owned by: eriktorbjorn
Priority: normal Component: Engine: Sword1
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game: Broken Sword 1

Description

After a "brief delay" (the original API discussion was about two years ago), I've decided that the lockScreen() / unlockScreen() functions are, in fact, almost exactly what I need to simplify the drawing of the cutscene subtitles in Broken Sword 1.

(I can't draw them to the decoded frame, because that's one of the decoder's internal buffers, and besides it may be much smaller than the actual screens, so the subtitles might not fit.)

I'm a bit worried that doing it this way will slow things down. I seem to recall that one reason to use the smaller (low-quality) cutscenes was so that hand-held devices would have an easier time playing them. With this patch, there will be full-screen updates every frame. But maybe the bottleneck wasn't the screen updates, but the frame decoding?

Ticket imported from: #2219361. Ticket imported from: patches/1040.

Attachments (1)

bs1-subtitles.diff (3.7 KB ) - added by eriktorbjorn 16 years ago.
Patch against current SVN

Download all attachments as: .zip

Change History (7)

by eriktorbjorn, 16 years ago

Attachment: bs1-subtitles.diff added

Patch against current SVN

comment:1 by sev-, 16 years ago

Owner: set to sev-

comment:2 by sev-, 16 years ago

Owner: changed from sev- to eriktorbjorn

comment:3 by sev-, 16 years ago

Let's commit it and see how it will affect smaller devices. As I understand, it updates most of the screen anyway, so perhaps little or no impact will take place, but the code is much cleaner.

comment:4 by eriktorbjorn, 16 years ago

I can't do it right now, but I'll try to remember to this evening.

You're right that normally most of the screen would be updated. I think only one of the high-quality Smacker cutscenes (which is what our re-encoded cutscenes are made from) is significantly smaller than the screen.

My concern was if you've re-encoded the low-quality Smacker cutscenes instead. I seem to remember some discussion about them working better on hand-held devices. But, as I said, I don't know if the bottleneck is the screen updates, or the frame decoding.

comment:5 by eriktorbjorn, 16 years ago

Status: newclosed

comment:6 by digitall, 6 years ago

Component: Engine: Sword1
Game: Broken Sword 1
Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.