V5.28.1

[bittiez]

This release includes 185 commits over 273 files changed!
One notable change is Vem's new visual effects system, give it a try!

Legion

• Added justice support to API.Virtue() - P.R 938 (bittiez)
• Added API.OpenQuestLog() to open the quest log gump - P.R 938 (bittiez)
• Added API.OpenHelp() to open the help menu - P.R 938 (bittiez)
• Added run parameter to pathfinding methods
• Added .IsParalyzed to mobile objects

Features

• Added a visual effects composition and management system to allow for custom UI effects such as fog and blur. - P.R 958 (yuval-po)
• Added a right-click option to the Journal tab on the top menu bar that opens a context menu with an "Open original journal" option, opening the classic JournalGump instead of the resizable journal
• Added a setting to show heal/cure buttons on pet health bars, separate from the existing all-health-bar and friends-list toggles (bittiez)
• Added current global action queue and main thread queue counts to the Profiler window, along with a button to clear the action queue, all refreshed at 250ms
• Added an option to block walking into closed doors, preventing walk requests that the server rejects and the client bounces back from (bittiez)
• Redesign bandage agent tab UI, and add option to use a server command for self heal (bittiez)
• Added a configurable bandage distance to the Bandage Agent (1-15 tiles, default 3) that controls how far friends and allies must be to be bandaged, replacing the previously hardcoded 3-tile range (bittiez)
• Added a configurable auto-target type option to the Bandage Agent (Neutral/Harmful/Beneficial), replacing the previously hardcoded beneficial target type (bittiez)
• When a pin is placed on a server-sent map gump, the client now prints a message with the deciphered coordinates ("I can't be certain but I believe this is somewhere near {x} and {y}.")
• Corpse grid containers now remember their own position (separate from regular containers), saving and restoring it per profile (bittiez)

Misc

• Replace tooltip override window with a new, easier to view and understand window
• Right click to close should be more accurate now
• Drawing one more tile outside the viewport for smooth static loading
• Clicking login music toggle on login screen should stop music now
• Improved client performance when entering heavily populated areas: network packets are now processed under a per-frame time budget instead of a fixed message cap, unchanged item/mobile updates are skipped, and world object lookups/insertions use single-hash dictionary operations
• Moved the corpse opening settings (auto open corpses, corpse open distance, corpse open options) from the Misc options tab into a "Corpse Opening" container under Gameplay -> Mobiles -> Misc (bittiez)
• Made looting take higher priority over opening corpses except your own corpse and manually opened corpses
• Migrated WASD Movement and Single click to cast spell settings to Global settings, migrated turn delay to server settings (bittiez)
• Add some missing weapon abilities

Fixes

• Fixed a NoAudioHardwareException crash on machines without an audio device: the audio availability probe no longer creates a DynamicSoundEffectInstance (which left a partially-built object for the GC finalizer to crash on) and instead reads SoundEffect.MasterVolume (bittiez)
• Remove presets for auto skinnig knife id's to prevent trying to use the incorrect item on servers (bittiez)
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when a grid container is moved - P.R 958 (yuval-po)
• Fixed the candle flicker effect speeding up while moving: the flicker phase is now seeded from each light's world position instead of its screen position, so it oscillates at a constant speed
• Fixed a NullReferenceException in the counter bar when an item or spell graphic could not be loaded; the icon is now skipped instead of crashing the client (bittiez)
• Fixed stuttering on UltimaLive servers: GetBlockCrc now reads the map/statics block with bulk reads instead of one locked seek+read syscall per byte, terrain updates no longer re-read the same map blocks from disk dozens of times per chunk (cached on stream-based files), chunk reloads triggered by streamed terrain/statics updates are now coalesced and time-throttled (rebuilt at most once per frame, spread across frames instead of all at once), and packet file writes are no longer flushed synchronously on the render thread (flushing moved to a background thread) (bittiez)
• Fixed an ArgumentOutOfRangeException on UltimaLive servers when the client connected: all reads on UltimaLive's dynamically-growing map/statics files are now serialized under a single lock (previously some read paths bypassed it and could race with the background flush thread) (bittiez)
• Fixed a 1-2 second freeze when taking a screenshot: PNG encoding and file writing now run on a background thread so the frame is no longer stalled