move animation info into facedata and make it reloadable at runtime
- implement smoothing in the fxix (or better: fxixsx) protocol. - this *enforces* that smoothing is *per face* and not *per archetype*. - no extra bandwidth is needed for map information (unlike in the crossfire 1.x protocol, where smoothlevels are per-mapspace and take up a lot of bandwidth). - no extra storage is required on the client-side (although smoothing for cached map data is then only available for tiles that have been seen). - temporarily supply empty_S.x11 smoothfaces again, as this hack is required because there is no way to specify a smoothlevel but no smoothface otherwise. this should be optimised away at a future point, but this will break gcfclient (but disabling smoothing for that might be a good compromise).
- fix ber encoding - reduce image checksum length to 6 bytes (from 16) - implement fx packet, which reduces face overhead to amortised 10/12 bytes per face instead of 21/32 bytes and allows an unlimited number of faces instead of 2**16.
- rewrote more face handling code - automatically send smooth faces, as the client will need them anyways and it makes little sense to wait for the client to axk for it. of course, gcfclient suffers from weird ordering problems again. - UP_OBJ_FACE was often abused in situations where other things changed, updated lots of spaces, probably more to be done. - update_smooth became so small that inlining it actually clarified the code. similar for update_space, which is not inlined for other reasons. - faces were not initialised properly - add versioncheck for face data - rewrite invisibility handling a bit: god finger etc. now makes you blink, blinking routine has changed to be less annoying and more useful while still indicating invisibleness.
- rewrote smooth face handling, as a side-effect, smoothing seems to work again and smooth faces can be reloaded. - the server now sends the full animation for an object the first time it is seen, this uses slightly more bandwidth initially, but avoids the flickering for objects change their face later.
- MAJOR CHANGE - you now need to use cfutil to install arches. - former bigfaces are broken in the server - bigfaces are no longer supported. at all. - use face numbers instead of pointers * saves lotsa space * saves lotsa indirections * saves lots(?) cpu cycles - completely rewrote face handling - faces can now be added at runtime - reload will add new faces - this does not apply to animations - use a hastable instead of binary search (faster) for faces - face caching is broken - facesets are gone - server always reports MAX_FACES to any client who asks
- rename Animations => animation - rename New_Face => facetile - add but do not implement some generic loader framework classes
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continued simplifying network code, partially removed support for sc protocol 1026
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