Though where similar calls are checked for nullptr as in those instances of
the use of that function it can actually return nullptr. In other words, write
down the assumption that the function never returns nullptr in an assert.
One question that keeps popping up: "when do we release 2.0?".
NewGRF will force that at least 1.16 will be 2.0, but to not wait
for this, let's drop the "1." and be for ever done with that
conversation.
We are following in the footstep of giants here.
You can do: "startai myai.3", which starts version 3 of "myai".
This is very useful for testing save/load code between different
versions of your AI.
However, when using this syntax, the AI got saved as "myai.3" as
name of the AI, instead of "myai". This caused several problems,
like indicating to the user the AI could not be found, but still
load the AI. But in all cases, the AI never got the chance to
load the saved data, making the whole reason this exists pointless.
By splitting the name and version already in the console command,
the code becomes simpler and AIs started this way now follow the
normal flow after initialization.
CMake works on all our supported platforms, like MSVC, Mingw, GCC,
Clang, and many more. It allows for a single way of doing things,
so no longer we need shell scripts and vbs scripts to work on all
our supported platforms.
Additionally, CMake allows to generate project files for like MSVC,
KDevelop, etc.
This heavily reduces the lines of code we need to support multiple
platforms from a project perspective.
Addtiionally, this heavily improves our detection of libraries, etc.
Allow more direct player-initiated interaction for Game Scripts, by letting the GS put push-buttons on storybook pages. These buttons can either trigger an immediate event, or require the player to first select a tile on the map, or a vehicle.
Additionally this reworks how the storybook pages are layouted and rendered, to allow for slightly more complex layouts, and maybe speeding drawing up a bit.
