Release after a round of refactering and optimizing

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World drawing opimazations

• Optimizations in world drawing only visable fog of war tiles are drawn
• Optimizations in world drawing the fog of war is recalculated every second instead of every frame
• Optimizations in world drawing fixed redrawing of overdrawn actors, buildings or objects by building could cause them to be revealed in fog of war
• Optimized miniMap drawing routines.
• Minimap fog of war is updated in 16 sectors
• Terrain is only drawn once instead of every refresh
• Objects are only redrawn on change
• Actors are still always updated
• Fog of war sector iterator name changed
• Reduced fog of war update time to a complete update every 3 seconds

Reworked the spawnFoodStoneGold function

• The placement should be more scathered around the map now (it will try to place on a random grid instead of going from left to right for every row. By having grids instead of just a random map tile it will ensure it is not placing two resource groups of the same resource close together.

Redone findRandomFoodSource

• now checks if a source of food is occupied by another player
• claims an unoccupied food source
• lumps food sources close together as food groups
• only retains one food source per food group to prevent players spawning on the same food group
• check to prevent an infinite loop when the are not enough food sources for all players

Templates
(for easy future addition of actors, objects and buildings)
Actor templates
Object templates
Building templates

• Implementation of actor templates for easy addition of new actors
• Implementation of different movement speeds for actors
• fixed building texture error being hardcoded
• getBuildingSprite() now returns a reference
• marked getBuildingTexture for removal
• removed redundant setter functions
• Barrack texture would corrupt because it was set to animate, while the sprite did not have animation

Furter changes

• Const correctness thourgout the project
• Alphabetical ordering of declarations of functions and variables in classes
• Removing duplicate functions, and moving functions to globalfunctions.cpp/h
• All coordinates are now stored and transferd between functions in cords struct
• Made const variables for calculations that were done hunderds of times while the imput was constant
• Checked rounding of percentaged based calculations before casting them to an integer
• map elements now use std::array instead of c-style array
• Messages now disapear after half a minute instead of a minute
• Actually show a loading screen
• Added granulair controll over the amount of food, gold and stone on the map
• correct type casting
• Removed unused int's in drawToolbar
• made all enums scoped
• moved bigSpirteYOffset to templates

Fixed: actor chase function broken after cords refactoring
Fixed: villager order buttons where generated as many times as there where villagers selected
Fixed: Actor selector buttons where drawn in the same place. Now a grid is made so induvidual actors can be selected
Fixed: redrawing of overdrawn actors, buildings or objects by building ould cause them to be revealed in fog of war
Fixed: find alternative resource could call front on an empty and even depricated list.
Fixed: immortal actor: A walking actor could stay visable on the map and become immortal because the actor was occupiing two tiles. Only the tile stored in actorLocation would get cleared

The above changes removed stuttering framerate (noticable when scrolling the map) and made the debug build actually playable since a long time) Suggestions for furter optimization (if needed in the future)

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