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== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
Essentially, you will have to implement a subclass of the Engine class. Our Doxygen documentation is your friend and should hopefully explain enough about this: [ | Essentially, you will have to implement a subclass of the Engine class. Our Doxygen documentation is your friend and should hopefully explain enough about this: [https://doxygen.scummvm.org/d8/d9b/class_engine.html Engine class]. | ||
You also must hook yourself into the regular ScummVM main build system. Actually, some ports use a custom build system, but their maintainers will usually add your new engine once it has been added to ScummVM. | You also must hook yourself into the regular ScummVM main build system. Actually, some ports use a custom build system, but their maintainers will usually add your new engine once it has been added to ScummVM. | ||
Finally, you need to make ScummVM aware of your new engine | Finally, you need to make ScummVM aware of your new engine. | ||
== | == Automated Method == | ||
There is a tool that automates creating new skeleton engines which works both with make-based systems like *nix/Mac and with Microsoft Visual Studio. | |||
=== Make-based Systems === | |||
Run <tt>make devtools/create_engine</tt>, then run the <tt>devtools/create_engine/create_engine <engine name></tt>, where <tt>engine name</tt> is the desired engine name. | |||
=== Visual Studio === | |||
If you go to the devtools/create_engine/ folder, you'll see a create_engine.sln solution which you should open and compile. This will create a create_engine.exe executable in the same folder. From the command line prompt, you should then run create_engine with the desired engine name provided as a single parameter. This will create a folder for your new engine as well as set up a batch file in the dists/msvc/ folder with the engine name that you can use as a shortcut to create a ScummVM solution with only that engine enabled. | |||
=== Common Instructions === | |||
There are two styles of engine skeletons supported. The first, if you just specify an engine name, creates a bare bones engine with a sample event loop. The second kind is selected if you also specify -events as an extra parameter after the engine name. In this case, it creates a more sophisticated engine skeleton that has a single centralized event loop, and dispatches events to views, which can be easily switched between. This has benefits of avoiding duplicating event loops in multiple different places, each handling event processing and quit checks. Each view simply has to implement a drawing method and override different event handler methods to handle whichever events it needs. | |||
In either case, once you've got the skeleton engine compiling, your next step should be to update the placeholder detection entry in detection_tables.h. The easiest way is to choose a file in your game's folder that you think is unique, and change the filename in the detection entry to it. If you then run ScummVM and try to add the game, it should prompt you that an unrecognised md5 for the game has been found, and give you the option to copy it to clipboard. You can do so, and then paste it to extract the md5 and filesize for the file, which can be used to update the detection entry. With this done you should be able to add your game, and run the skeleton engine. | |||
As a second optional step, by default everytime your game starts, you'll get an unsupported game warning dialog appear. If you want to suppress it, locate and open your scummvm.ini file, and find the section added for your game. Then add the following line to it: | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | |||
enable_unsupported_game_warning=false | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
== General Conventions == | |||
=== File name conventions === | === File name conventions === | ||
Over the course of its existence, many people will have to deal with the source code of a given engine. Be it to fix bugs in it, modify it to still compile after changes made to the backend code, or to simply add new functionality. It is therefore expected to adhere to various conventions used throughout all engines. Besides source code conventions (see [[Code Formatting Conventions]]), this affects filenames. We suggest you use the following names for specific parts of your engine: | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" width=100% | {| border="1" cellpadding="2" width=100% | ||
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|ENGINENAME.cpp || Contains at least the constructor and destructor of your (primary) Engine subclass, as well as the implementations of the mandatory (i.e. pure virtual) Engine methods. | |ENGINENAME.cpp || Contains at least the constructor and destructor of your (primary) Engine subclass, as well as the implementations of the mandatory (i.e. pure virtual) Engine methods. | ||
|- | |- | ||
|detection.cpp || Code related to game detection. | |detection.cpp || Code related to game detection. | ||
|- | |||
|metaengine.cpp || Contains the implementation of the plugin interface, as described in <code>base/plugins.h</code>. | |||
|- | |- | ||
|saveload.cpp || Code related to savegames | |saveload.cpp || Code related to savegames | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |console.cpp || (console) debugger | ||
|- | |- | ||
|gfx.cpp (alt: graphics.cpp) || Graphics code | |gfx.cpp (alt: graphics.cpp) || Graphics code | ||
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Additionally, the files saved by each engine should be consistent. | Additionally, the files saved by each engine should be consistent. | ||
* '''Saves''': | * '''Saves''': If you use the new loadGameStream & saveGameStream methods, these will automatically be created in the form of <targetid>.### (where ### is the slot id). If you want saves to be consistent across all game variants, you should instead provide your own implementation of loadGameState and saveGameState, and create savefiles using the format <gameid>.###. | ||
* '''Other files''': These should be named <targetid>-<filename> or <gameid>-<filename>. Again the latter when the files can be shared | * '''Other files''': These should be named <targetid>-<filename> or <gameid>-<filename>. Again the latter when the files can be shared across all variants of the game (an example for these type of files would be when a minigame saves a high score record). | ||
Here, only use the <gameid> scheme if you are '''absolutely''' sure that such files can be shared across '''all''' (that is every game platform, every game language, every game patch version, every game release, etc.) versions. If you are not sure whether this is the case, then stick to the <targetid> based scheme. | Here, only use the <gameid> scheme if you are '''absolutely''' sure that such files can be shared across '''all''' (that is every game platform, every game language, every game patch version, every game release, etc.) versions. If you are not sure whether this is the case, then stick to the <targetid> based scheme. | ||
=== Subclassing | === Subclassing AdvancedMetaEngine === | ||
Let's implement the plugin interface:<br> | Let's implement the plugin interface:<br> | ||
You'll have to create a custom | You'll have to create a custom AdvancedMetaEngine subclass. This provides the information and functionality related to the engine that can be used by the launcher without loading and running the game engine, which includes defining keymaps and achievements, listing savegames, and instancing the engine. You'll also have to create a custom AdvancedMetaEngineDetection subclass. This provides the information related to detecting games, which is always included in the main ScummVM executable regardless of whether or not the engine is enabled. | ||
This | |||
The following example illustrates this. It contains the necessary fundamentals of the details of the games and the code to create the engine, as well as REGISTER macros that register the meta engine with ScummVM. For the Quux example, If you create an empty file named quux.txt, the engine will detect it. | |||
=== Subclassing Engine === | === Subclassing Engine === | ||
The generated by the create_engine code gives a simple example of an engine. It contains a few important points: | |||
* It initializes the screen at a given resolution | |||
* It creates a debugger class and registers it with the engine framework. Currently, it's only a skeleton defined in <engine>.h. For a full game, you'd implement it in its own debugger.cpp and .h files | |||
* It has a simple event loop | |||
* It also demonstrates how to read and write savegames | |||
Miscellaneous important: If you end up using the ScummVM GUI manually in your game (g_gui and stuff) you have always to call g_gui.handleScreenChanged() if you received a OSystem::EVENT_SCREEN_CHANGED event, else it could be that your gui looks strange or even crashes ScummVM. | |||
For opening files in your engine, see the [[HOWTO-Open Files|how to open files]] page. | For opening files in your engine, see the [[HOWTO-Open Files|how to open files]] page. | ||
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uint32 | uint32 | ||
Additionally ScummVM offers way of recording all events and then playing them back on request. That could be used for "demoplay" mode. But to ensure that it will work for your engine, you have to register your RandomSource class instance. | Do not use the following functions: | ||
sprintf -> snprintf | |||
strcpy -> strncpy or Common::strlcpy | |||
Additionally ScummVM offers a way of recording all events and then playing them back on request. That could be used for "demoplay" mode. But to ensure that it will work for your engine, you have to register your RandomSource class instance as demonstrated in the generated <engine>.cpp file. | |||
=== True RGB color support === | === True RGB color support === | ||
If you need to support more than 256 colors in your game engine, please refer to [[API-Truecolor|the truecolor API reference page]] for specifications and initialization protocol. | If you need to support more than 256 colors in your game engine, please refer to [[API-Truecolor|the truecolor API reference page]] for specifications and initialization protocol. | ||
=== | == Extended Saves == | ||
To easily support ScummVM-specific metadata in the saves, we implemented the ExtendedSaves interface. | |||
This basically makes your saves look like this: | |||
<DATA> Engine-specific save data | |||
<METAINFO> ScummVM metainfo, including play time, screenshot, save name etc | |||
<OFFSET> 4-bytes offset to the the ScummVM metainfo from the end of the save | |||
Thus, all generic methods like listSaves() are retrieving this information. | |||
In order to benefit from it, do the following: | |||
# | # In MetaEngine::hasFeature(), add kSavesUseExtendedFormat, kSimpleSaveNames, kSupportsListSaves, kSupportsDeleteSave, kSavesSupportMetaInfo, kSavesSupportThumbnail, kSavesSupportCreationDate, and kSavesSupportPlayTime. Also kSupportsLoadingDuringStartup if you intend to support loading savegames directly from the launcher. | ||
# Overload loadGameStream() and saveGameStream() where you parse/save only your engine-specific data | |||
# ... | |||
# PROFIT! | |||
# | |||
# | |||
=== | == General Tips == | ||
* During the initial porting process, it might be preferable to link to C++ STL. In such cases, the `FORBIDDEN_SYMBOL_ALLOW_ALL` define can be used. However, you'll eventually need to get rid of this define. | |||
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