LDhewm3 ReARMed

<img src="shot.png"></img><br> LDhewm3 ReARMed is a lowend fork of dhewm3 focusing primarily on tradeoff to ensure a decent enough graphical fidelity whilst being able to run on lowend devices. Current focus is on a PSVita dedicated build.

vitaGL flags

HAVE_WRAPPED_ALLOCATORS=1 NO_DEBUG=1 DRAW_SPEEDHACK=1 CIRCULAR_POOL_SPEEDHACK=1 HAVE_SHADER_CACHE=1 DEPTH_STENCIL_HACK=1

Known Issues

Some moving entity can get stuck (an example is the bridge in the early section of the game you have to cross to progress). If that happens, save a game and load it, it will unstuck the entity.

Changelog

v.0.5

• Made the ETC1 encoder multithreaded. This speeds up runtime texture compression for caching purposes.
• Updated to latest vitaGL and vitasdk.
• Optimized I/O accesses for faster loading of maps.
• Added packaged assets caching for faster loading of maps.
• Removed redunany entities and images loading. This reduces stutter during area transitions.
• Added buffering to I/O operations for faster loading of resources.
• Fixed a bug causing saves to become corrupted.
• Fixed a bug causing video cutscenes to not play correctly.
• Fixed a bug causing touch and rearpad presses to cause game crashes.
• Improved default settings setup for better performances.
• Improved the graphics backend pipeline to use less memory and use vitaGL more efficiently.
• Added an experimental frameskip option that can be enabled via com_frameSkip option in the ini.
• Added r_maxLights option to reduce the max number of active lights at the same time to greatly reduce CPU workload. Defaults to 8.
• Implemented native NEON usage for math operations.
• Made so that entities of all types that reside in deactivated areas of a map or behind portals get set in dormant state to not execute their physics, animation and AI steps every frame.
• Optimized the codepath that handles entities area updates.
• Added LOD system to reduce animations framerate for entities distant from the camera.
• Optimized dynamic lights interactions culling codepath.
• Fixed a bug in MD5 skinning that was causing some animations to break under certain circumstances.
• Enabled pre-decoding and caching for short looping SFX effects.
• Added caching and reduced tickrate for pathfinding of NPCs to improve CPU workload.
• Optimized flashlight dynamic light performances by reducing the frequency at which it updates its light beam.
• Added caching to flashlight beam to prevent needless recalculations of shadow volumes.
• Optimized box culling codepath.
• Implemented virtual keyboard for textbox interactions in the GUI.
• Added caching for objective images to reduce CPU workload when those are on screen.
• Optimized plane tests codepath.
• Disabled shadow casting for weapon muzzle flashes to prevent a shadow volume regeneration every frame.
• Restored sibling calls optimization.

Credits

• emileb for d3es-multithread that was used as original base for this project.