Merge Tool

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Merge Tool

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We now have a more or less functional merge tool in OpenMW-CS (file->merge). This merged all the loaded content files into a new omwgame file.
As you can see on the screenshot, it still has bugs. Well, one bug at least that I know of. If someone else can find other bugs I would like to hear about that.
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Re: Merge Tool

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Yay!

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So this will be in the 0.37 release?
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Re: Merge Tool

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That depends entirely on how quickly I can find this bug (and on how fast scrawl proclaims the OSG port ready for prime time).
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And there also seems to be a race condition with land record data loading, because the merge tool runs in a separate thread. This looks like a pain in the arse to fix.
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Little update: I think I know how to deal with the race condition. The land texture bug evades me though. I even went into the component/esm code and added debugging statements into the load code. As far as I can tell everything is okay. Both LAND and LTEX records look correct. But the renderer (both in OpenMW and OpenMW-CS) does not agree with me.
Either I am missing something extremely obvious or there is a fundamental error in my understanding on how terrain in MW works. Out of ideas for now. Will sleep over it, but if I won't come up with a new idea, I will have to dig into the terrain renderer code. That could take a while because I haven't the slightest idea how that thing works.
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Re: Merge Tool

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To look up a land texture record from a ESM::Land::mTextures index, you need to subtract 1 from the index. Have you taken that into account?

https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/blob/m ... e.cpp#L283

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        // NB: All vtex ids are +1 compared to the ltex ids
        const ESM::LandTexture* ltex = getLandTexture(id.first-1, id.second);
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Re: Merge Tool

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Bloody hell, who makes up this kind of nonsense? Someone need to suffer for this atrocity.

Anyway, it is working now. Thanks. I will try to finish up the merge tool today.
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Either I am missing something extremely obvious or there is a fundamental error in my understanding on how terrain in MW works.
You were expecting this. ;-)
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Re: Merge Tool

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Yes, I did. Actually I was suspecting that the indexing was somehow off by one. But I couldn't make any sense of it.


Anyway, back to the race condition: The problem here is that the actual land data is loaded only on demand, which can happen from several threads. I disabled this mechanism for now. With the commit that I will push in a bit all land data is loaded during the initial load. We may add some kind of lock mechanism later that allows us to return to the previous approach, but personally I see that as a waste of time.

Reasons:
- No noticeable difference in loading time
- For the vanilla esms memory consumption goes up by about 55 MB (an increase of about 15% on my system), which really isn't much, unless you try to run OpenMW-CS on a toaster
- Delayed loading is actually kinda dangerous because we can not guarantee that the file still exists in an unmodified state later. Someone might load it into a second document and modify it there. Of course you shouldn't do that, but it is an mistake that is easily made and we would have to add a guard against that.
- OpenMW-CS has some functions that need all of the land data to be loaded anyway. Merge is the only one for now, but we will get others (not much) later.
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Re: Merge Tool

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Done. The merge tool is in master now.
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