This reduces the total number of different vertex sizes in the system,
allowing more data to share a single CVertexBuffer, therefore reducing
the amount of wasted space in each CVertexBuffer and reducing VRAM
usage.
This was SVN commit r16230.
Previously we had a single culling frustum based on the main camera, and
any object outside the frustum would never get rendered, even if it
should actually contribute to shadows or reflections/refractions. This
caused ugly pop-in effects in the shadows and reflections while
scrolling.
Extend the renderer to support multiple cull groups, each with a
separate frustum and with separate lists of submitted objects, so that
shadows and reflections will render the correctly culled sets of
objects.
Update the shadow map generation to compute the (hopefully) correct
bounds and matrices for this new scheme.
Include terrain patches in the shadow bounds, so hills can cast shadows
correctly.
Remove the code that tried to render objects slightly outside the camera
frustum in order to reduce the pop-in effect, since that was a
workaround for the lack of a proper fix.
Remove the model/patch filtering code, which was used to cull objects
that were in the normal camera frustum but should be excluded from
reflections/refractions, since that's redundant now too.
Inline DistanceToPlane to save a few hundred usecs per frame inside
CCmpUnitRenderer::RenderSubmit.
Fixes#504, #579.
This was SVN commit r15445.
Add shadow filtering (PCF) option.
Fix ugly shadow saturation in old lighting mode.
Fix fancy water shader.
Fix camera matrix computation.
Support scissoring of camera frustum.
Optimise vertex skinning.
Inline various matrix functions.
Support filtering of the list of submitted models before a rendering
pass, for more precise culling.
Optimise water renderer (fixes#721, based on patch by ortalo).
Use scissoring when generating reflection/refraction textures.
Skip reflection/refraction texture generation when no water is visible.
Render alpha-blended objects differently (fixes#434).
Reduce shadow swimming effects.
This was SVN commit r9814.
Change lighting model for new maps to allow better overbrightness.
Cache player colours instead of loading from scripts every time the
renderer wants them.
This was SVN commit r9123.
Add terrain priority rendering mode in Atlas.
Fix terrain painting in Atlas to be less profligate with priority
values.
Support hotloading of blend textures.
Clean up some trivial things.
This was SVN commit r8872.
Replace almost all texture uses with calls to the new system.
Add some anistropic filtering to terrain textures.
Let Atlas load terrain texture previews partly-asynchronously by
polling.
Fix inefficient texture colour determination for minimap.
Remove unused global g_TerrainModified.
Change GUI texcoord computation to be less efficient but to cope with
dynamic texture changes.
Fix GUI renderer effects leaving bogus colour state.
This was SVN commit r8099.
this snowballed into a massive search+destroy of the hodgepodge of
mostly equivalent types we had in use (int, uint, unsigned, unsigned
int, i32, u32, ulong, uintN).
it is more efficient to use 64-bit types in 64-bit mode, so the
preferred default is size_t (for anything remotely resembling a size or
index). tile coordinates are ssize_t to allow more efficient conversion
to/from floating point. flags are int because we almost never need more
than 15 distinct bits, bit test/set is not slower and int is fastest to
type. finally, some data that is pretty much directly passed to OpenGL
is now typed accordingly.
after several hours, the code now requires fewer casts and less
guesswork.
other changes:
- unit and player IDs now have an "invalid id" constant in the
respective class to avoid casting and -1
- fix some endian/64-bit bugs in the map (un)packing. added a
convenience function to write/read a size_t.
- ia32: change CPUID interface to allow passing in ecx (required for
cache topology detection, which I need at work). remove some unneeded
functions from asm, replace with intrinsics where possible.
This was SVN commit r5942.
Color: Moved SColor* structs into SColor.h, so they can be used without
indirectly including CVector[34]D.
Terrain: Added 'base colour', for the Actor Viewer to be able to
modulate the colour of normally-white terrain.
Removed some "using namespace std" (because it doesn't make the code
easier to read, and it defeats the point of namespaces, and the rest of
the code doesn't do it).
This was SVN commit r4392.
- explicitly split ambient and diffuse
- add renderer.shadowZBias to bias depths in the depth texture
and avoid flickering artifacts caused by Z fighting
- cantabrian_generated uses new light values so that shadows aren't
pitch
black
This was SVN commit r3508.
