[misc] breaking changes: migration to springlobby x64 on Monday, 21.12.

[abma]

To get up to date visual effects a lot of stuff in the spring engine needs to be updated. Engine wise OpenGL 4 needs to be supported which mostly is done in the current development branch of the engine. Because of further enhancements by the Game Developers the memory usage was also increased and the 4GB RAM limit in some cases isn't enough: 64 Bit has to be used to fix such "out of memory" crashes.

To fully support a 64 bit spring engine on windows springlobby has to be 64 bit, too:

A release of springlobby is planned on next monday, 21. December. When Windows is running at 64 Bit, the migration should happen "automatically" by the updater: if windows is 32 bit only, the springlobby updater should fail with an error.

When the migration is done, springlobby x64 can't use the 32 Bit engines of spring any more: the 64 bit engines needs to be downloaded.

Crossing fingers that everything works!

This step will make the official Spring Engine x32 and SpringLobby x32 builds and releases obsolete.

If someone wants to test the 64 bit build before the release, there already exists a 64 bit development version of springlobby.


A picture how it currently can look like in BAR (thanks ivand):



The map extension relies fully on OpenGL 3/4 core features with no old GL (except for the Fog, which is going to be replaced with core profile version in the next BAR branch build.).
8 extension plates are rendered by means of instanced rendering.

[PepeAmpere]

Start script size limit stays the same?

[abma]

Start script size limit stays the same?

i have only a vague idea what you mean: is there a mantis ticket or pull request wrt your question?

[Silentwings]

Nice work. I guess PepeAmpere means if the max unit/player/smth number limits will change - and afaik no.

[PepeAmpere]

Start script size limit stays the same?

i have only a vague idea what you mean: is there a mantis ticket or pull request wrt your question?

Sorry for not being specific. If I remember correctly current startup parameters passed to the spring during the program start are limited by 64Kb.

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[game]
{
[allyteam1]
{
numallies=0;
startrectbottom=1;
startrectleft=0.82;
startrecttop=0;
startrectright=1;
}
[ai2]
{
host=0;
name=YOU II;
version=;
isfromdemo=0;
team=2;
shortname=Mission AI;
}
[ai4]
{
host=0;
name=YOU IV;
version=;
isfromdemo=0;
team=4;
shortname=Mission AI;
}
[team1]
{
rgbcolor=1.00000 0.39216 0.00000;
allyteam=1;
advantage=0;
side=ARM;
teamleader=0;
handicap=0;
}
....

Typically some projects are using that for passing procedural generation inputs e.g. for maps or hero-like units (so hitting this limit).

[abma]

Sorry for not being specific. If I remember correctly current startup parameters passed to the spring during the program start are limited by 64Kb.

please create a mantis issue then.

[abma]

ok, springlobby 0.271 is released