The old technique was to overlay a semi-transparent red rectangle over an
existing ship image, and then make 50% red pixels transparent. For some reason,
the transparency is not working correctly. Instead, don't overlay anything,
but set the red component of all non-black pixels to the maximum value.
All functions and variables are now defined in graphics.cpp.
Before, the functions would be compiled again and again for every source
file, now it is compiled only once, halving the size of the stripped
starfighter binary.
Most .h files were not used to declare the externally visible variables
and functions of the .cpp files, but only to #include things and declare
things that were needed by that .cpp file itself. This resulted in a lot
of duplication.
Now the .h files only declare what is externally visible from the
corresponding .cpp files. Starfighter.h includes all the other .h files,
and all .cpp files only #include "Starfighter.h". Functions and
variables that were not used outside the .cpp file that contained them
were marked static. Variables defined in .h files were moved to the
appropriate .cpp files.
Guus Sliepen
Guus Sliepen