dave jones2 bcadd23489 UE-151338 - Implement refactored implicit conversion for math types. ...

Removed container and struct conversions from the script VM. This introduced complexity that the VM doesn't need, nor did it scale for the various struct types that we want to implicitly convert in Blueprints. Instead, the script VM is *only* aware of float<->double conversion. Container and struct conversions have now been moved to BlueprintTypeConversions. Currently, only the existing FVector3f<->FVector3d conversion has been added, but the remaining LWC types will be added in a subsequent change.

During Blueprint compilation of container and struct conversions, we now inject a function call into the bytecode that performs the conversion, which is better suited to the task instead of burdening the VM with the work. One drawback to this technique is that containers are slightly more inefficient when it comes to conversions. They won't know their type(s) ahead of time, which requires dynamically looking up a conversion function at runtime. We can possibly optimize this further, but the generaly recommendation is to avoid implicit conversions of container types when possible.

Additionally, a couple of convenience functions were added to the KismetCastingUtils to help remove a fair amount of boilerplate code that was used for implicit casting in various node types. ScriptCastingUtils.h was also removed since the VM no longer needs to concern itself with complex conversions.

#jira UE-151338
#preflight 629a507fb42820769428c133
#rb phillip.kavan

[CL 20560449 by dave jones2 in ue5-main branch]

2022-06-08 13:50:57 -04:00

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