While there are some cases this fixes, like MartinVee's nice example for orthographic camera at https://irrlicht.sourceforge.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51598
it seemed to cause more problems in complex 3d scenes with perspective cameras.
Well anyway - both options are available now for those which need it.
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Adding 2 algorithms to sort by distance to camera plane instead of camera position.
This is better in quite a few situations and extra cost is just one vector subtraction per node and an additional function parameter per call, I think that's worth it. So made the camera-plane to object-center now the new default.
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Until last summer we sorted by object origin to camera distance
Since then we used nearest transformed bbox-extent to camera.
I've now added an enum to allow switching those plus 2 new:
- none (so sorting based on scenegraph instead)
- object center to camera. Which I made the new default as it worked the best in my tests.
I already experimented with a few more ones like different sphere sizes (bbox radius, minimal inbound radius, maximal inbound radius) around center or origin to handle objects with different sizes, but that just gave worse results for all my test cases.
Likely algorithms we should still try:
- Collision point with bounding-box in line between camera and object center (sounds a bit slow, but maybe worth it)
- Distance to camera plane (instead of camera position). But needs additional parameter to distance functions first (maybe normalized view vector will do). That should be useful when working with planar objects.
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Removing includes which were not needed by headers
Note that if you include those headers directly (instead of including irrlicht.h) you may have to add some new includes now.
Thought I generally tried to avoid removing headers where it leads to too much changes in user-code
Reason was mainly that IntelliSense in VisualStudio 17.7 added a new feature which shows those unused headers :)
Has to be used a bit careful as it doesn't know about defines and other platforms
And I only did clean up public headers so far (will probably do some more later or another time)
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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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- allow ICameraSceneNode to accept any values and correct in buildCameraLookAtMatrixLH with normalize_camera_direction.
if disabled defaults to the current v1.9 normalize
b) add initial Rotation to MayaCamera Constructor default 0,0
c) switchToMayaCamera in Examples. Clones FPSCamera default disabled
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1 Meshbuffer with 24 vertices, so each side has it's own vertices.
Normals perpendicular to the cube-sides.
CubeSceneNode accepts now a ECUBE_MESH_TYPE
CubeSceneNode::clone now also clones rotation and scale (not sure why it didn't do that before - hope there was no reason, but can't think of any).
ISceneManager::addCubeSceneNode accepts now a ECUBE_MESH_TYPE and passes it through.
Example 22.MaterialViewer using new cube type. Also a few more beauty fixes there.
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Usually something like __IRR_SOME_GUARD_INCLUDED__ replaced by IRR_SOME_GUARD_INCLUDED.
Removing underscores at the end wasn't necessary, but more symmetric (probably the reason they got added there as well).
While this touches every header it shouldn't affect users (I hope).
Also a few whitespace changes to unify whitespace usage a bit.
And a bunch of spelling fixes in comments.
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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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Thanks @ Bate for the patch (patch #175 with minor changes).
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UI and scenenodes are often connected. And while it was possible to work around this already by using custom draw functions
or deriving from gui and scene-nodes at the same time, it did already lead a few times to uglier code for me.
So I guess adding one more pass to the engine has it's uses.
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