Irrlicht generally avoided user pointers in the past, but after trying all kind of ugly workarounds - this is just easier and
not that much downsides really. Tiny speed costs due to additional SMaterial memory size and new comparison tests.
But allows to keep SMaterial alive and useful for a while longer without needing a complete rewrite and it can now be used for stuff like writing PBR shaders.
Using a new interface io::IUserData for this which also allows serialization the user data (that part is untested so far, sorry)
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LensShift got added recently.
Also there was some change in PolygonOffsetDirection longer ago (although that one didn't cause tests to fail)
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Returns now getMipMapsData instead which for now will always be 0 in this case (but might work one day)
Also removing comment about ITexture::lock() mipmapLevel parameter being broken. It got fixed in November 2019.
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We had 4 near identical functions, those now all call buildProjectionMatrixPerspectiveFov
They were a bit hard to check for errors otherwise.
Especially with the tiny confusing non-differences like one using (a-b) and other -(b-a)
Also new one uses matrix template parameter in case someone needs for example a high-precision matrix.
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Did no longer render nodes which were rendered in SceneManager + outside SceneManager if they didn't have the per-buffer-rendering enabled.
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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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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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Basically now the same as GLSL material renderer already worked.
Before it was using IMaterialRendererServices from CD3D9Driver, but there had been several problems with that:
- The d3d9 driver called functions through the CD3D9MaterialRenderer interface, but CD3D9HLSLMaterialRenderer is not (or maybe no longer?) derived from that class. Reason it still worked was accidental luck - the same functions had been in the same order and due to casts the compiler wasn't noticing it was calling the functions of an unrelated class.
- It was making calls to set shader constants depend on the currently set material in the driver. Which was not necessary and just prevents we can use the IMaterialRendererServices interface without setting the material first (how I found the bug).
Still some problems left for now:
- There's 2 ways to call shader constants. One seems to be only used by hi-level shaders which links constants to the shader. The the other only by low-level shaders which uses global (shader independent) registers.
So maybe this should be 2 interfaces? But not certain, glsl material renderer seems to prevent setting the global registers, but maybe those could be used additionally? I've still allowed it for now in HLSL, just in case it had it's uses.
- setBasicRenderStates probably should not be in IMaterialRendererServices. I'm not seeing any case where this isn't just passed on to the driver. And all classes using it have access to the driver unless I missed one. So probably can just avoid that additional indirection and kick that out of the IMaterialRendererServices interface.
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S3DVertexTangents also documents that it's passed as TEXCOORD1 and TEXCOORD2, but easy to miss, so added some comments to the hlsl shader.
Also not all materials work well as base materials.
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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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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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Nothing good could come out of putting negative values into any of those functions.
And they are used a lot in image loaders which often can be tricked into passing large enough values to make those functions be called with negative numbers.
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It's not 100% identical to what we had as I only copied up to MATERIAL_MAX_TEXTURES_USED before, but I think that was rather premature optimiziation.
(the cost for the extra textures is really in other places, don't think the copy here ever matters).
Was a bit based on Mintest patch, but they messed it up: 4931b34625
(because they didn't notice the difference between MATERIAL_MAX_TEXTURES_USED and MATERIAL_MAX_TEXTURES).
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Previously vertex buffer did some invalid casts to references which could cause it to copy whatever was in memory into the vertex-arrays.
Generally it worked up to S3DVertex - but switch from another type to S3DVertex2TCoords or S3DVertexTangents caused it to be filled with whatever was in memory behind it.
Setter functions in IVertexBuffer have now overloads for all known vertex types.
Also adding const version of IVertexBuffer::getData.
And some warnings in comments about using the array functions (if even we mess it up...)
Also de-deprecate IIndexBuffer::pointer() again. I don't like having 2 functions for same stuff, but in the end it doesn't really hurt keeping it around.
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Thanks @sfan5 for patch for Mintest: 4931b34625
Forum: https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=52819
Note - patch is not applied exaclty yet. SMaterial and matrix4 still missing (might be applied later).
Also patch was based on older Irrlicht and we removed a few already earlier this year (around r6280).
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CMeshManipulator::createMeshCopy creates new meshes which have copies of the actual meshbuffers instead of copying everything into SMeshBuffers (which didn't support 32 bit or any of the other special features).
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- IMeshLoader::setPreferredIndexType and getPreferredIndexType allow setting hints for the loaders if users prefer 16 or 32 bit meshbuffers. Loaders are free to ignore those hints (all but .obj will do that for now).
- obj meshloader loads now 32-bit buffers when setPreferredIndexType is set to EIT_32BIT.
NOTE: It's 16 bit meshes use now also an IDynamicMeshbuffer instead of an SMeshBuffer.
That will break the code of people who accessed meshbuffer before by casting to SMeshBuffer*
And might even be somewhat slower (lot's of virtual functions...), but shouldn't really matter and can maybe be a bit improved.
Sorry about that, I considered keeping SMeshBuffer for 16-bit (still considering it), but it would add some overhead in code and I don't think it's worth that. If there are any complains I'll maybe consider it again.
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Avoid creating dummy arrays when we work with non array images.
Just a minor speed improvement.
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Textures involved had all power of two sizes anyway, so no real difference in this case, just a bit cleaner.
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Drawing the screenshot itself before taking final result to see if the problem is in the render or the screenshot
Note: Test-images for software-drivers show some other problems there which this test wasn't about.
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Tests seem to work fine without -Xext and -Xcursor so kicking those out for now.
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That was a bad case of premature optimization.
Multiplication is indeed faster, but when working with floats this can introduce some rather unexpected inaccuracies.
Like x/x suddenly no longer being 1.0 (something guaranteed by division).
If someone really needs this back, then please add some new function which makes it clear we don't just have a typical division here.
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Invisible difference, probably some mip-mapping pixel.
Getting rid of some unnecessary global in example 14
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They all just implemented the same the default functions do.
This causes now warnings with newer gcc -Wdeprecated settings (otherwise they would have had to implement always both, but makes no sense as they did nothing special).
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C++ has undefined behavior for identifiers starting with __ or with _ followed by an uppercase letter.
We still have many more (in IrrCompileConfig.h and in all header-guards), will likely replace those later as well.
As a workaround for users which might use irrlicht defines in their code, I've added the header irrLegacyDefines.h
Including that allows to continue using old defines for a while - or make it easier to have code which compiles
with old and new Irrlicht library versions.
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string has operator== for char_type which can save a lot of string allocations when loading xml's.
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(I was wondering why it worked for UI).
And run some tests (all seem fine... in 64bit, 32-bit has some older problem).
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That makes it easier to use partial screens, while using automatic alignment.
Default is still automatic resizing as before, thought it got changed a bit as it looked a bit strange.
Before it only set the lower-right corner, but compared to driver screensizes, so it behaved a bit strange
when the leftTop corner of the rootGuiElement was changed (different than when the rightBottom corner was set).
Could be the idea before was that only clipping matters.
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