What Irrlicht calls ShaderConstants is called uniforms by everyone else. So let's mention this at least.
Also reworked setVertexShaderConstant interface had an example for the old interface in the header.
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Fix: When appending to an empty mesh boundingbox has to be initialized with first position
Adding updateBoundingBox parameter as there is a bit costs involved in updating that and it might not be necessary at that point
Default is still to do it - and with the default parameter it's at least compile compatible to old interface (unless users created their own meshbuffers).
Optimizing the copying of vertices in CDynamicMeshBuffer::append by using memset when possible instead of pushing each vertex (which goes through quite a few virtual functions)
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Couldn't allocate enough memory before appending several buffers for all of them as first append shrunk the memory again.
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Doesn't change it's own type - so can still drop data. Or overflow 16-bit buffers (which creates broken models, but no crashes).
But it no longer has a problem adding 16-bit index-buffers to a 32-bit index-buffer for example.
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Some in CMeshBuffer got disabled in svn r1515 (before Irrlicht 1.7) without comment.
I suspect reason might have been that they are a bit unsafe and it was meant to be reworked.
Maybe was planned to put that into MeshManipulator?
And CDynamicMeshBuffer never had them.
Anyway, it's useful stuff and having functions do nothing doesn't help. So now they do at least basic work.
Meaning - as long as index and vertex types are identical it's possible to attach meshbuffers again.
While totally ignoring things like 16-bit index overflow for now (so could be improved).
It would probably be better if attach functions had info about vertex/index types, but just keeping interface as it is/was for now.
This also fixes Bug #310 reported by Gaz.
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SMaterialLayers are now identical when both have identity matrices.
Before it didn't consider them identical when one layer had set the identity matrix explicitly and the other didn't.
Generally didn't matter, just caused very rarely some extra state switches in the drivers. And just as rarely had a cheaper comparison. Just seems more correct this way.
operator= no longer releases texture memory which was allocated at one point.
Unless explicitly requested such memory is now always released later in the destructor.
This can avoid quite a few memory allocations/released in the driver. Usually not a noticeable performance difference on most platforms. But it can help avoid memory fragmentation.
We instead use an extra bool now to tell if the texture memory is used. So slight increase in SMaterialLayer and SMaterial size. But I did a quick performance test and this had no negative influence here, while it did improve speed in the case where it switched between material layers using/not using texture matrices a bit.
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Wasn't ever used by anything and not that well defined anyway.
So they all just passed it on to the drivers. And then sometimes the driver version was called and sometimes the IMaterialRendererServices version. So now everything just calls the driver - all places which need it have access to the driver anyway. Also made the driver version non-virtual for now. If someone actually really needs this for some reason I can add it back as virtual function directly in IVideoDriver. But I doubt it - the interface was hardly accessible until recently and originally only meant for internal stuff.
GLES version still to do, but checked them earlier and they also just do nothing with it.
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So far SceneManager always sorted Nodes per render stage.
Now we allow sorting per mesh-buffer per render stage by creating a new node for each mesh-buffer.
It's only supported for CMeshSceneNode so far.
This allows to enable better transparency sorting for meshes which have transparent buffers.
Previously those always got rendered in the order in which they got added and ignored mesh-buffer bounding-boxes, but just used the bbox of the full mesh. Now they can use the bbox for each meshbuffer which can sometimes avoid render errors.
Also depending on the scene this can be quite a bit faster because it can help reduce texture changes. We sort solid nodes per texture, but only per node. So nodes with several textures had a texture switch between rendering each meshbuffer. And those are rather expensive in Irrlicht right now (and we support no bindless textures yet...)
Lastly it's now also used to buffer the render-stage. Checking this twice (once in registering the node and once in render) constantly showed up in the profiler. Which was a bit surprising really, but anyway - now it's gone.
I tried to keep it working for all cases we had before (all kind of situations, like when people may want to call render() outside the SceneManager). But not (yet) supporting the case of changing the meshbuffers (adding or removing some) without calling setMesh() again. Reason is that this wasn't well supported before either (node materials never updated). So for now I just assume people will call setMesh() again when they change the mesh.
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New AbsPosUpdateBehavior which makes updateAbsolutePosition calls behave as if a node had no parent.
Allows for micro optimizations in cases where we have non-moving root node (all scenenodes are always added to the SceneManager which is generally not moved but it's transformation is still multiplied each frame for each node)
As a side-effect this also allows abusing the SceneManager to group objects without affecting transformations.
No real extra cost since I added ESNUA_TRANSFORM_POSITION already.
Thought turns out those matrix transformations are so fast that I also didn't noticed any difference in tests with > 20.000 nodes.
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This makes it possible to set high-level shader constants (which are attached to shader programs) to be set outside
of OnSetConstants.
IShaderConstantSetCallBack::OnCreate has it set automatically now so it works the same as OnSetConstants.
D3D9 and burnings both work different, so there hadn't been a problem with those.
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Accessing IMaterialRendererServices outside of OnSetConstants can be useful and Irrlicht made this a bit too hard to access.
Also OnCreate allows actually for nicer code where initialization and update of shader constants are strictly separated (see changed example).
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We had changed that once before in the other direction in svn r421
Reason back then was "Sleep(0) doesn't allow any lower priority threads to execute"
But Microsoft changed the behaviour of Sleep(0) after Windows XP so that's no longer true.
And the costs of it is pretty high - due to this using a timer with a 15ms resolutions it meant not just giving up the thread but it also always waited for 15ms on Windows.
I also replaced a few sleep calls in examples for that reason with yield() calls.
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Pretty new internal (protected) variable, so renaming shouldn't break yet too much.
Reason is that VS code completion often showed that variable as first option before the way more used updateAbsolutePosition function. Which was a bit annoying.
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Bitfields for PolygonOffsetDirection, ZWriteEnable and BlendOperation were chosen too small.
As we have pre c++11 code and therefore didn't use unsigned qualifiers for enums they were generally signed (up to compiler in theory, but I think they all choose signed).
Which means the bitfield also had a sign.
So for example setting PolygonOffsetDirection to EPO_FRONT set it to -1 instead of 1.
Which then would fail with comparison checks (PolygonOffsetDirection == EPO_FRONT would be false).
We kind of got lucky that we usually not checked for the last enum inside Irrlicht, so it worked to due being the "else" case.
Or in the ZWriteEnable case the last one was identical to the default return value so it also worked accidentally.
But obviously still wrong and user code could be messed up.
While at it I also re-ordered SMaterial variable so most bitfield variables are close together again to give compiler at least a chance to use packing. Thought at least in my quick debug compile test it didn't seem to use any packing (but maybe on other compilers).
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- Only the getRotationDegrees without parameter is allowed to try fixing scale.
My fault when I added a new function which takes scale parameter, that one is
not allowed to be changed.
On the up-side - we know have for the first time an option which works in cases only
scale and rotation had been used and the user still has the correct scale.
Before any solution for that was broken
- getRotationDegrees fixes 2 places which caused wrong results due to floating point inaccuracies
New test for that got added
- Document the current restrains and problems of getRotationDegrees and getScale some more.
- Improve docs for other matrix4 functions.
- Add some comments about further improvements (I'll try if I find time)
Note: Irrlicht still assumes in at least 2 places (getting bone animations and Collada loader) that matrix
decomposing works. Which it doesn't yet for matrices which switch handedness (or have further transformations like skewing axes)
The bone animation is mostly fine for now with recent workaround (but that might cause other problems as it may be used too often), haven't checked Collada yet in detail.
TL/DR: This improves things with getRotationDegrees, but does not yet fix all troubles.
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ISceneNode::setUpdateAbsolutePosBehavior can now control what ISceneNode::updateAbsolutePosition really does.
Having only the position and not the rotation/scale of a child node affected by the parent transformation was previously impossible inside the scene-graph. So people always had to break the scene-graph and code it themselves.
Old behaviour is default.
Extra check for new variable has a small cost, thought new behaviour can actually be faster when it's used.
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Also documenting some missing feature (decimal places ignored with direct text input)
getValueFor allows to check the value a given text would have
getOldValue can be used to check the previous value in a EGET_SPINBOX_CHANGED event
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First problem was that IGUIElement::getNextElement wasn't passing includeInvisible and includeDisabled flags recursively, so anything deeper than one level could fail if an element was disabled/invisible in between while it was created.
Second problem was that setTabOrder(-1) did ignore disabled elements. So when any parent was disabled when elements were created they never got a tab order.
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(I forgot normal update is certainly also needed on rotation)
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Also only update normals now using inner 3x3 matrix (same result usually as last column is 0,0,0 but faster)
And adding some comments.
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Making it a bit more comfortable for users to implement the class.
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Not optimal, but making this real 32-bit is sadly a bit more work.
This way at lest meshes with mixed 16/32 bit buffers can weld the 16-bit ones.
And hopefully a bit of step in the right direction to fully support 32-bit another day.
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Lazy access function - same as for all other members of S3DVertex (getPosition/getNormal/getTCoords).
Not sure why color was missing, maybe got added later?
Would probably be better to have a getS3DVertex function instead which would cover them all, but it's only some slow (but nice) helper function anyway.
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Cameras can render even when they are not in the scenemanager or onAnimate didn't get called for example because they are their parent are invisible.
So let's be safe and add another call to updateAbsolutePosition(). Some cost, but usually we don't have that many rendering cameras, so shouldn't matter (if it ever matters I suppose we could override OnAnimate and add a flag if it _was_ animated since last render call. Maybe that's even useful in general for SceneNodes?).
Similar CSceneNodeAnimatorCameraFPS was using getAbsolutePosition which was only updated after animators, so it was one frame behind.
And documented ICameraSceneNode functions a bit. Especially updateMatrices is a bit of a confusing name unfortunately.
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Sorry, didn't think it through. Seemed to work at first, but works only if sort() ended up creating the same sorting as is used then for search.
While often the case, this is obviously not guaranteed. And can't do sort per type easily (this works with flags which remember if sorting had been done).
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Previously search functions only worked when called with the same type as the array elements had.
Which forced users sometimes to create dummy objects to be able to search for elements by another type.
linear_search and linear_reverse_search now work with any type for which <T>::operator== is implemented.
Similar binary_search now works when <T>::operator< is implemented in both directions (T < E and E < T).
Note: It might be possible to further improve binary_search so only one operator< is needed (I think STL managed that somehow).
So if someone likes a challenge - have a go at it! :-)
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Avoids lots of const casts and there shouldn't be a good reason to have those non-const.
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Just safer in case we add more cases. Also shuts up code analyser.
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It's to allow image loader to check for sane limits for image sizes.
Idea came from this patch from sfan5 for Minetest: dbd39120e7
Thought solution is a bit different.
Image loader checks not yet added (will come soon).
Also note that limit is to s32. While u32 might work mostly it will run into some troubles with color converter for now (which maybe could be changes). Also 2GB ought to be enough for anybody, right?
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Only needs one addItem function when using default parameters for icon.
Add default parameters for setIcon, insertIcon so they can be used easier with pure text.
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Before the value was checked, but not put into the return variables.
Header update to show that information in kb not bytes (on all systems, was just documented wrong)
Some cleanup of code.
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