StarMade 0.09265: System-Core updates

[schema]

Hello and welcome to StarMade,
this update has some very important updates to the core adding performance and reducing memory usage.

Graphics Updates

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  mag texture filter now nearest (no more near blur). Option is still in the game to switch: This will basically give pixel crisp textures when you are near blocks. You can still switch back if the texture blur is preferred
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  fixed and improved beacon drawing: random beacons will no longer be in sectors. Also bugs with higher count of beacons are fixed, and draw performance has been increased)

Logic updates

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  fixed shield power draw overflow: switched to double precision
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  AI now uses full acceleration.
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  improved physics object management synchronization: may prevent ghost ships and other physics related bugs

Performance updates

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  removed unnecessary client operations for objects that are not in the sector of the client: reduces lag
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  optimized segment-signature and segment requests by using schine's own network transfer buffer: reduced lag for others, faster processing, much less error prone
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  now preventing segments to be HD-cached on client when they are not fully loaded and verified: less bugs when crash occurs
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  fixed drawArray size (faster segment drawing): this should speed up overall segment drawing. It also might fix some display bugs
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  implemented fast billboard picking algorithm
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  improved performance and memory usage of network protocol for primitive variables

Memory usage updates

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  Sectors now use much less memory by default, cutting down the size of sectors being loaded by about 99%, giving especially server a lot more scalability
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  decreased memory usage for all structures

Starmote

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  fixed bug where the system would despawn some used entities even if the option was unused-only

Meanwhile
The galaxy map is being implemented.

EDIT: quickfix thanks to grimzod: Mass Asteroid sectors bug has been found and remove (hopefully). There might still be some leftovers from sectors that got loaded before the update


Thanks for playing StarMade,
- schema