0005742: Feature: extend asset deprecation to more asset types

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0005742	DarkRadiant	Shader System	public	09.09.2021 21:03	18.01.2026 08:04

Reporter	Dragofer	Assigned To	orbweaver
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	2.13.0
Fixed in Version	3.10.0

Summary	0005742: Feature: extend asset deprecation to more asset types
Description	Orbweaver recently pointed out that DarkRadiant already supports a clean way of deprecating assets so that they're no longer shown in DR: http://orbweaver.gitlab.io/DarkRadiant/#_controlling_asset_visibility Unfortunately this is currently restricted only to models and materials. I think at this point most of TDM's asset base could use some pruning, in particular among entities but also sounds and particles. It'd be nice to be able to properly deprecate all the light entities that are currently listed in various "deprecated" subfolders of the "lights" folder, for instance. Skins and prefabs don't need support because (a) model references can be deleted from skins so they no longer show up in the modelchooser without affecting functionality and (b) prefabs can be deleted at any time.
Additional Information	A small bonus would be if the deprecation list could be called deprecated.lst instead of assets.lst. I think this would allow other and future maintainers to at a glance see what this file is for.
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orbweaver 03.12.2024 19:05 developer ~0016924	For entities, the most natural way of achieving this would probably be to introduce a new spawnarg like "editor_visibility = hidden" which would have the same effect as listing a file as hidden in the assets.lst. This means it could be applied to individual entities by editing the .def file, without needing to create a new file or move defs between different files. Regarding the name, "assets.lst" was chosen to avoid restricting the file to a single purpose. For example, a future feature might allow several different properties to be assigned to an asset, e.g. hidden, visible but marked as deprecated, visible and marked as particularly high-quality, or whatever. This is also why the file uses "model.lwo=hidden" syntax rather than just a bare list of files to hide.

orbweaver 07.05.2025 18:17 developer ~0017028	Turns out this was already implemented in scope of 0005907 for entities, and the functionality still seems to be working. The spawnarg to set is "editor_visibility = hidden". Sounds and particles should be able to use the existing assets.lst mechanism, but some code is needed to activate it for these directories since it is currently only operational for models and materials.

orbweaver 12.06.2025 18:46 developer ~0017037	Sound and particle shaders now support the assets.lst mechanism.

DarkRadiant: master 0c610c7c 07.05.2025 18:34 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: add documentation of editor_visibility spawnarg Hiding of individual entity classes was implemented in 2022, but not mentioned in the manual.	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - doc/manual.adoc	Diff File
DarkRadiant: master ee092ef8 27.05.2025 18:49 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: SoundShader exposes visibility information Elevate getVisibility() to the IDeclaration interface, and add an implementation on SoundShader which returns the visibility value from the source fileinfo.	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - include/ideclmanager.h	Diff File
	mod - libs/scene/EntityClass.h	Diff File
	mod - plugins/sound/SoundShader.cpp	Diff File
	mod - plugins/sound/SoundShader.h	Diff File
	mod - test/SoundManager.cpp	Diff File
DarkRadiant: master a3a54e0f 03.06.2025 19:54 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: hidden sound shaders no longer appear in chooser Use the visibility information now exposed via getVisibility to skip hidden shaders when populating the tree model.	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - radiant/ui/common/SoundShaderSelector.h	Diff File
DarkRadiant: master 5a711735 04.06.2025 18:38 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: ParticleDef now exposes visibility information Add an override of getVisibility which returns the visibility info from the decl source block, just as other classes do.	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - radiantcore/particles/ParticleDef.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/particles/ParticleDef.h	Diff File
	mod - test/Particles.cpp	Diff File
	add - test/resources/tdm/particles/assets.lst	Diff File
	add - test/resources/tdm/particles/hiddenparticles.prt	Diff File
DarkRadiant: master fa68d569 04.06.2025 18:53 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: rename DeclarationBlockSyntax to DeclarationBlockSource	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - include/ideclmanager.h	Diff File
	mod - install/scripts/test.py	Diff File
	mod - libs/decl/DeclarationBase.h	Diff File
	mod - libs/decl/EditableDeclaration.h	Diff File
	mod - libs/scene/EntityClass.cpp	Diff File
	mod - libs/scene/EntityClass.h	Diff File
	mod - libs/wxutil/dataview/ThreadedDeclarationTreePopulator.h	Diff File
	mod - libs/wxutil/sourceview/DeclarationSourceView.cpp	Diff File
	mod - plugins/script/interfaces/DeclarationManagerInterface.cpp	Diff File
	mod - plugins/script/interfaces/DeclarationManagerInterface.h	Diff File
	mod - plugins/script/interfaces/SoundInterface.h	Diff File
	mod - plugins/sound/SoundManager.cpp	Diff File
	mod - plugins/sound/SoundShader.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/materials/editor/MaterialEditor.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/materials/editor/MaterialEditor.h	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/materials/editor/TestModelSkin.h	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/modelselector/ModelSelector.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/particles/ParticleEditor.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/skin/SkinEditor.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/decl/DeclarationFolderParser.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/decl/DeclarationFolderParser.h	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/decl/DeclarationManager.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/decl/DeclarationManager.h	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/particles/ParticleDef.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/particles/ParticleDef.h	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/shaders/CShader.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/shaders/MaterialManager.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/shaders/ShaderLibrary.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/shaders/ShaderTemplate.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/shaders/ShaderTemplate.h	Diff File
	mod - radiantcore/skins/Doom3SkinCache.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/DeclManager.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/EntityClass.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/Materials.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/Models.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/Particles.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/Skin.cpp	Diff File
	mod - test/SoundManager.cpp	Diff File
DarkRadiant: master 71482d6a 10.06.2025 19:09 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: ParticleSelector now excludes hidden particle defs	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - include/iparticles.h	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/particles/ParticleChooserDialog.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/particles/ParticleChooserDialog.h	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/particles/ParticleSelector.cpp	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/particles/ParticleSelector.h	Diff File
	mod - radiant/ui/particles/ThreadedParticlesLoader.h	Diff File
DarkRadiant: master ce03025a 12.06.2025 18:44 orbweaver Details Diff	0005742: update documentation to mention hiding more asset types Update the wording to mention that sound shaders and particles can now be marked as hidden using an assets.lst.	Affected Issues 0005742
	mod - doc/manual.adoc	Diff File

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
09.09.2021 21:03	Dragofer	New Issue
09.09.2021 21:05	Dragofer	Description Updated
09.09.2021 21:32	Dragofer	Summary	Extend asset deprecation to more asset types => Feature: extend asset deprecation to more asset types
10.09.2021 02:30	greebo	Status	new => acknowledged
03.12.2024 19:05	orbweaver	Status	acknowledged => confirmed
03.12.2024 19:05	orbweaver	Note Added: 0016924
06.05.2025 20:01	orbweaver	Assigned To	=> orbweaver
06.05.2025 20:01	orbweaver	Status	confirmed => assigned
07.05.2025 18:17	orbweaver	Note Added: 0017028
12.06.2025 18:46	orbweaver	Status	assigned => resolved
12.06.2025 18:46	orbweaver	Resolution	open => fixed
12.06.2025 18:46	orbweaver	Fixed in Version	=> 3.10.0
12.06.2025 18:46	orbweaver	Note Added: 0017037
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master 0c610c7c
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master ee092ef8
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master a3a54e0f
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master 5a711735
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master fa68d569
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master 71482d6a
18.01.2026 08:04	orbweaver	Changeset attached	=> DarkRadiant master ce03025a

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