jobs done at Riot

2011-2012:

• improved Coop vs AI (2011/9-2012/4)
• Leaver warning message (flash UI)
• Child particle
• Kha'zix Evolution UI
• directional on-hit particles
• smoother mouseover outline

2013: ToolCUTS

• Champion CTEG: (-May)
• Quinn
• Lissandra
• ToolCUTS: ( May-)
• fix importIni data
• particle editor in ChampionBuilder
• editing/searching

2014: Moved from ToolCUTS to Champion (Feb)

• CAC & Editor
• take ownership of audio code
• Audio legacy data clean up (FMOD2WWise)
• Waffles: adopt particle
• Viktor evolution UI
• Champions:
• Braum
• Gnar
• Reksai

2015:

• Champion:
• Audio debuger in Waffles
• champion alive/zombie/dead state: to fix bad revive/zombie implementation
• improving champion reorganization script
• Bard
• ChampionUpdate:
• Poppy: W: move instigator
• ADC upate: Graves W vision change

2016:

• Damage tag/type refactor
• Mage update
• Cass W
• Yorick rework
• W: circle ghoul wall outline
• Assassin update: Talon 
• E: parkour wall edge tracking and displaying

2017:

• Galio rework
• spline missile
• Evelynn rework
• implement CC state to native C++ code
• global effects for stealthed mode

2018:

• LNP network
• assembling/fragmentation/anticheat
• packet policy
• NPC scripts
• wwise upgrade to 2018 version
• item tooltip migration from tra files to GDS data

2019:

• continue improving NPCScripts
• Squads Spawning 
• predefined squad
• dynamic squad
• Champion only spells targetability, Unit Tag separation
• Designer event with input parameters
• Expansion upon LevelScripts as a feature
• Map Lane Component, Waypoint Rework
• Teamfight Tactics
• mission stats
• customize option menu
• RAM optimization: 
• remove unnecessary assets (audio, SFX), 
• avoid loading unused item data 
• TFT character wizard script
• audio jenkins job optimization/cleanup
• UX structure clean up
• TFT Mobile
• OOG screens, loginqueue, lobby, postgame, settings, loadouts
• make VFX and audio available to OOG screens and support repeated games.

2020:

• Continue TFT Mobile
• new ItemShop UI
• move audio localization build to CID, cut fullbuild from 90 to 30 min, average 4-10min
• arena board local theme music

2021

• RE MapMountain improvements: MapMotionPath, MapAudio, MapThemeMusic, MapActionCyclePropAnimation, MapActionCycleMapParticle
• added memory budget CID tasks: TFTCharacter, TFTArenaSkin + TFTDamageSkin 
• TFT memory usage investigation
• Audio Build maintainance: configure audio build with a regex set
• Set 5 UI: Armory UI, Item Codex UI
• update Riot SDK for TFT Mobile
• AssetBrowser

2022

• HexBattle arena board: new material driver to get owner placement, create hologram clone without locomotion.
• Urgency: update OpenSSL
• memory profiling: change TFTCharacters CID to TFTCharacterSet
• AncientDragon: Contextual clicking, new conditional animation checking owner's level.

Notes about "Inside The C++ Object Model"

Chapter 1 Object Lessons

1. All overhead on layout and memory access result from keyword "virtual":

• invoking virtual function need run-time binding;
• for virtual multi-inherited class, converting to 2nd or later base class will cost more operations.

2. C++ Object model:

• nonstatic data members locates in the object space;
• static data members lies outside all class objects;
• nonvirtual function members lies out of all class objects;
• in order to support virtual function, each class will maintain a virtual table (vtbl), and each class object will has a virtual table pointer (vptr), which points to corresponding virtual table.

3. An Object Distinction

• C++ use the following ways to support polymorphism:
• implicit type conversion, e.g. use base class pointer to refer a derived class object.
• virtual functions
• dynamic_cast and typeid
• How to decide object size
• sum size of all non-static member data
• overhead from alignment
• overhead from virtual function and virtual base class
• Pointer type conversion doesn't change memory layout. Its only change is data type and size when compiler interpret memory.

chapter 2 The Semantics of Constructors

1. clear object space?

Global object memories are ensured to be reset to 0 when launch the program. However, local objects are in stack, and heap objects are in free space, which are not ensured to be reset to 0. Their content will be the data they were used last time.

2. Only 4 cases will create nontrivial default constructor. Otherwise objects without constructor will have an implicit trivial default function, which is actually not created.

• Contains member class objects with default constructor;
• Base class has a default constructor;
• Has a virtual function
• Has virtual base class(es).

The only reason compiler create a default constructor is to avoid itself creating object in a wrong way. If it is not necessary to have any construction operation, compiler will not create a default constructor.

3. Automatically created constructor only satisfy the compiler, not what the program want it to be! They will not give member data a default value!

4. There are 4 cases, in which compiler will create a non-bitwise copy constructor:

1. Class contains any member object which has a copy constructor;
2. Base class has a copy constructor;
3. Class contains any virtual function, and are assigned to a base class object;
4. Class has any virtual base class, and are assigned to a base class object.

The only reason compiler create a copy constructor is to avoid itself doing copy in a wrong way. If bitwise copy works in all possible situation for a class, compiler will not create a copy constructor.