Particles: Add option to remove particles on collision

Adds the particle option `collision_removal = bool`

Some particles are hard to use right now since they either go through
solid blocks (without collision detection), and with collision
detection enabled they (e.g. raindrops) would just stop dead on the
floor and sit there until they expire, or worse, scrape along a wall
or ceiling.

We can solve the problem by adding a boolean flag that tells the
particle to be removed if it ever collides with something. This will
make it easier to add rain that doesn't fall through your roof or stick
on the top of it. Or clouds and smoke that don't go through trees.

Particles that collide with this flag are marked expired
unconditionally, causing them to be treated like normal expired
particles and cleaned up normally.

Documentation is adjusted accordingly.

An added bonus of this patch is that particles can potentially collide
many times with nodes, and this reduces the amount of collisions to 1
(max), which may end up reducing particle load on the client.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/particles.h b/src/particles.h
index dda84385c..bc3ca53b7 100644
--- a/src/particles.h
+++ b/src/particles.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 
 struct ClientEvent;
 class ParticleManager;
+class ClientEnvironment;
 
 class Particle : public scene::ISceneNode
 {
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ class Particle : public scene::ISceneNode
 		float expirationtime,
 		float size,
 		bool collisiondetection,
+		bool collision_removal,
 		bool vertical,
 		video::ITexture *texture,
 		v2f texpos,
@@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ private:
 	float m_size;
 	u8 m_light;
 	bool m_collisiondetection;
+	bool m_collision_removal;
 	bool m_vertical;
 	v3s16 m_camera_offset;
 };
@@ -115,6 +118,7 @@ class ParticleSpawner
 		float minexptime, float maxexptime,
 		float minsize, float maxsize,
 		bool collisiondetection,
+		bool collision_removal,
 		bool vertical,
 		video::ITexture *texture,
 		u32 id,
@@ -148,6 +152,7 @@ class ParticleSpawner
 	video::ITexture *m_texture;
 	std::vector<float> m_spawntimes;
 	bool m_collisiondetection;
+	bool m_collision_removal;
 	bool m_vertical;
 
 };