The game doesn't require a CPU with AVX2 instructions, our SDK did because of a mistake (I left this compiler flag in after debugging the SDK, and never removed it).
Bit shift operations use the SHLX instructions instead of the widely supported SHL instructions when this flag is issued.
* Renamed 'r5apexsdkd64.dll' to 'gamesdk.dll'.
* Added required dedicated parameters to code instead.
* Bug fixes around CCommandLine class (fixed misaligned VTable indexes).
* SDK now supports being directly launched by the game executable.
The SDK launcher will pass '-launcher' to the game, which indicated its being launched by the launcher. If the game does not receive '-launcher', it assumes its being launched directly from the game executable, which will instead load 'startup_(dedi_)default.cfg'.
The sdk dll's are now added to the game's IAT by their dummy exports allowing for them to be loaded when the exe is loaded (the dll's do everything on init).
* Improve ConVar class (fixed several bugs).
* Hook CEngineAPI::ModInit() and set m_bRestrictServerCommands from there.
* Disable unused ConVar's and purge unused ConCommands in CEngineAPI::ModInit() for dedicated.
* Small relocation of malloc related signatures.
* Dedicated SDK now supports ASLR enabled executables.
* Complete removal of CEngineClient on the dedicated server.
* Complete removal of gHLClient and g_pHLClient on the dedicated server.
* Performance improvements for the dedicated server frame loop.
* ConVar 'CVCallback_t' structure rebuild.
* Reduced overhead throughout SDK.
Migrating to this to initialize all patterns and prototypes in Systems_Init() instead.
This should make debugging missing/not found patterns easier and allow for opting out variable/constant search (some of these require other patterns to be found, thus resulting in seg faults..).
Also added check to detect if user has a eligible CPU to run this SDK.
The game requires SSE and SSE2 instruction sets. Our SDK requires this too due to the use of SSE intrinsics, so we cannot let the game handle this. We have to check it ourselves.
* Move most definitions to implementation file to avoid recompiling whole program for small changes
* Pass strings by reference for where possible.
* Split Module class to dedicated file.
* Add const qualifiers to all eligible methods for address/module class
* Some renaming
Inline every signature defined in the SDK (previously each translation unit had its own copy of the signature and function prototype). DLL init is near instant now (85% speed improvements).
* Added 2 new FileSystem pointers with new features in their classes.
* Register all factory instances created by the GameDLL in the SDK.
* Added new command 'fs_mount_vpk' to mount a specified VPK file.
* Renamed 'fs_decompress_pak' to 'fs_unpack_vpk'.
* Some renaming of Factory and VPK types.
* Some light optimizations/cleanup.
Added 'GetNumHumanPlayers' and 'GetNumFakeClients' to SERVER vm
Changed hardcoded strings in UI 'GetPromoData' to localization keys
TODO: add localization files to SDK
* Adapt codebase to new class to reduce rune-like code.
* Fixed several bugs where the global CClient pointer was used instead of the instance in question to issue bans and display information about a certain client in CBanSystem and Pylon.
* Upgraded CBanSystem and Pylon to use IPv6 instead (including IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses). This breaks all existing banlist files! All bans have to be re-issued or the existing file has to be updated to use IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses and renamed to 'banlist.json', and moved to the root of the 'platform' folder.
The project was never licensed, it only contained third party licenses.
I determined to use the Source SDK 2013 license for this, as the majority of the business logic running this product is based on Valve's (the license has zero restrictions in the scope of our goal with this project).
The licenses has to be included with any depots from now on in the folder 'legal' placed in the root of the project folder (the location of r5apex_ds.exe).
With any new additions of third party code, the 'thirdpartylegalnotices.txt' file has to be updated accordingly.
SERVER and CLIENT functions can now be registered as well.
For checking whether to register for CLIENT or UI, we now check its context instead of comparing pointers. For server, a dedicated function was build.
* Renamed pak_asyncload to pak_requestload
* Added new ConCommand to unload rpaks. It's called pak_requestunload.
* When CHostState requests an rpak unload, it will now print the name of it.
* Turned a few static addresses onto patternscans.
