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2020-09-12modules/rtv: rename rtv_skip_module()Vito Caputo
Purely cosmetic change renaming to rtv_should_skip_module() since the function doesn't actually skip anything, it just determines the skip.
2020-09-11modules/rtv: make channels set configurableVito Caputo
This adds a colon-separated channels setting, with a setting of "all" for the existing all-modules behavior. Colon was used since comma is already taken by the settings separator, maybe in the future comma escaping can be added everywhere relevant but for now just keep it simple. The immediate value of this setting is telling rtv to limit itself to a single module, and using its setting randomizer to automatically observe a variety of the available settings in action on a specific module, especially during development. If knobs ever get added in the future I expect this will become even more interesting for watching specific modules under their various settings permutations in combination with their knobs being twisted - especially if rtv reconstructs random signal generator chains for the "knob-twisters" on every channel switch. An immediately interesting TODO complementing this particular change would be optionally preserving module contexts across channel switches, so when the same module is revisited it resumes where it was last seen. But this conflicts with settings changes on channel switching, since contexts should probably always be recreated when settings change - but that's probably a module-specific detail that modules should just be robust enough to tolerate as in they'd safely ignore settings changes without a context recreate, or apply them if they safely can without a context recreate... TODO.
2020-09-11modules/rtv: make durations configurableVito Caputo
This adds three rtv settings: duration, caption_duration, snow_duration
2020-01-25rototiller: introduce ticks and wire up to modulesVito Caputo
Most modules find themselves wanting some kind of "t" value increasing with time or frames rendered. It's common for them to create and maintain this variable locally, incrementing it with every frame rendered. It may be interesting to introduce a global notion of ticks since rototiller started, and have all modules derive their "t" value from this instead of having their own private versions of it. In future modules and general innovations it seems likely that playing with time, like jumping it forwards and backwards to achieve some visual effects, will be desirable. This isn't applicable to all modules, but for many their entire visible state is derived from their "t" value, making them entirely reversible. This commit doesn't change any modules functionally, it only adds the plumbing to pull a ticks value down to the modules from the core. A ticks offset has also been introduced in preparation for supporting dynamic shifting of the ticks value, though no API is added for doing so yet. It also seems likely an API will be needed for disabling the time-based ticks advancement, with functions for explicitly setting its value. If modules are created for incorporating external sequencers and music coordination, they will almost certainly need to manage the ticks value explicitly. When a sequencer jumps forwards/backwards in the creative process, the module glue responsible will need to keep ticks synchronized with the sequencer/editor tool. Before any of this can happen, we need ticks as a first-class core thing shared by all modules. Future commits will have to modify existing modules to use the ticks appropriately, replacing their bespoke variants.
2020-01-06rtv: rework randomized module selectionVito Caputo
Switch to working through the set of modules in a random order, randomizing the order once per cycle. This way no modules get starved for display, which was pretty common in the old method.
2019-12-18modules/rtv: remove stale random settings commentVito Caputo
Since 7a77cc1a landed this is no longer true, the .random member will be used to support randomizing non multiple-choice settings.
2019-11-23rototiller: pass num_cpus to .create_context()Vito Caputo
Back in the day, there was no {create,destroy}_context(), so passing num_cpus to just prepare_frame made sense. Modules then would implicitly initialize themselves on the first prepare_frame() call using a static initialized variable. Since then things have been decomposed a bit for more sophisticated (and cleaner) modules. It can be necessary to allocate per-cpu data structures and the natural place to do that is @ create_context(). So this commit wires that up. A later commit will probably have to plumb a "current cpu" identifier into the render_fragment() function. Because a per-cpu data structure isn't particularly useful if you can't easily address it from within your execution context.
2019-11-20settings: add setting_desc_t.random() methodVito Caputo
To facilitate random setting of these flexible string-oriented settings, support a random helper supplied with the description. This helper would return a valid random string to be used with the respective setting being described. Immediate use case is the rtv module, which also gets fixed up to use it in this commit.
2019-11-19rtv: randomize module settingsVito Caputo
This is just a quick stab at randomizing settings, only multiple choice setings are randomized currently. For modules with settings, a new Settings: field is added to the caption showing the settings as the arguments one would pass to rototiller's module argument.
2019-11-16modules/rtv: conslidate time() callsVito Caputo
Consolidate the time() calls in setup_next_module() by using a now variable.
2019-11-16modules/rtv: fix repeat preventionVito Caputo
This broke when snow was added.
2019-11-16modules/rtv: add captionsVito Caputo
The idea is to have captions similar to how MTV did back in the 80s. It'd be nice to make the text resolution independent, but this is a good first stab for an afternoon of tooling around.
2019-11-14rtv: add some snow between module switchesVito Caputo
This uses the newly added snow module as a transition between modules
2019-11-14rtv: implement "Rototiller TV" rendererVito Caputo
This is sort of a meta renderer, as it simply renders other modules in its prepare_frame() stage. They're still threaded as the newly public rototiller_module_render() utilizes the threading machinery, it just needs to be called from the serial phase @ prepare_frame(). I'm pretty sure this module will leak memory every time it changes modules, since the existing cleanup paths for the modules hasn't needed to be thorough in the least. So that's something to fix in a later commit, go through all the modules and make sure their destroy_context() entrypoints actually cleans everything up. See the source for some rtv-specific TODOs.
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