To render models, we need to know the maximum bounds it takes over the
course of an animation. This depends only on the ModelDef and the
AnimationDef (and thus the SkeletonDef).
Currently, we recompute this data for each model, which is inefficient.
Caching it in ModelDef is faster, particularly avoiding lag spikes at
game start on some maps.
The animations are referred by a unique ID to avoid pointer-related
issues. I would have preferred weak_ptr, but that cannot be stably
hashed for now.
While at it, switch to unique_ptr/vectors.
Differential Revision: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D2967
This was SVN commit r25306.
An actor file, as referenced by the VisualActor, can now define
different actors for different "quality level" setting.
In this initial version, the quality is handled directly by the object
manager.
Actor format impact:
- '<qualitylevels>' may be used as the root node, containing actor nodes
as children.
- such actor nodes can refer to a file, or to an inline actor, or
simply be inlined.
- such actor nodes may have a 'quality' attribute, specifying the
maximum quality level of this actor. By default, 255 (the maximum) is
implied.
- The actor format remains valid, but 'groups', 'variants', 'material',
'castshadow' and 'float' can be given a [minquality, maxquality[ range
via XML attributes. Outside of this range, the XML node is ignored
(making it possible to define, in a single actor file, several quality
levels).
Quality is a 0-255 value, with:
- Range 0-99 intended for lower level-of-detail actors (billboards,
etc.)
- Range 100-200 the 'normal' range for models. 100 is "low", 150
"medium", and 200 "high".
- Range 201-255 used for higher quality actors that might be used for
e.g. cinematics.
The range is wide to make it easier to add intermediate levels in the
future and it seemed easier given that an integer value of some kind was
required anyways.
Engine impacts:
- A new CActorDef class is introduced, wrapping an art/actors XML file
and its different quality levels. ObjectBase remains the definition of a
given 'actor', now at a given quality level.
- CActorDef imposes a maximal # of quality level for a particular actor
definition (5 currently).
- CUnit is made to refer to an Actor Definition explicitly, not a
particular ObjectBase.
- As a minor optimisation, variation keys are calculated on
pointer-to-sets-of-selections, instead of raw sets-of-selections, as
this reduces copying.
- some refactoring, including better const-correctness and hotloading
support via std::shared_ptr.
Differential Revision: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D3787
This was SVN commit r25210.
Introduced in d3f57744d9.
There are 2 mane cases when entity cannot play animation.
1st there are not bones
2nd animation is not valid
These conditions are merged into one.
Differential Revision: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D2416
Reviewed by: @Stan
This was SVN commit r23495.
This moves the renderer options into their own class to:@
- allow one to only include the rendering options, not the whole
renderer header, when one wants access to rendering options.
- centralise rendering changes and their side-effects.
- clean up code.
Tested by: historic_bruno, Freagarach
Commented by: historic_bruno
Differential Revision: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D1929
This was SVN commit r22610.
Done with:
ag -ls 'LOG(MESSAGE|MESSAGERENDER|WARNING|ERROR)' source | xargs sed
-i 's/LOG\(MESSAGE\|MESSAGERENDER\|WARNING\|ERROR\)(L/LOG\1(/g'
This was SVN commit r16183.
Switch all the constant strings in graphics code to use the new
variables.
This avoids the cost of instantiating CStrInterns at runtime every
frame.
This was SVN commit r13906.
Support conditional expressions in shader effect XML files.
Consolidate fixed-function model rendering into the shader system.
Remove lots of now-obsolete renderer code.
Move shader defines from std::map to new class with interned data, for
performance.
Move texture from model into material.
Alleviate singletonitis.
Remove obsolete lodbias setting.
Remove unused terrain shadow transparency.
This was SVN commit r11423.
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.
the old debug_assert always ran and tested the expression, which slows
down release builds. wrapping them in #ifndef NDEBUG is clumsy. the new
ASSERT behaves like assert and ENSURE like the old debug_assert. Let's
change any time-critical but not-super-important ENSURE to ASSERT to
speed up release builds. (already done in bits.h and unique_range.h)
This was SVN commit r9362.
Support emitters that are fully running as soon as the game starts.
Fix particle clumping when moving from off-screen to on-screen, by
computing updates more incrementally.
Fix overzealous culling of models with particle emitters.
Add particles to renderer stats.
This was SVN commit r9345.
Handle most CStr8/CStrW conversions via UTF-8 instead of effectively
assuming Latin-1.
Return UTF-8 strings from Xeromyces API.
This was SVN commit r8929.
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.
Animate props much more sensibly.
Move ammo code out of CUnit.
Move animation logic out of CModel.
Launch projectiles from the correct location.
Use entity's speeds and sounds in actor viewer.
Add -nosound option to disable audio, and allow audio by default in
Atlas.
Remove some obsolete options.
This was SVN commit r7609.
Stop ignoring actor XML animation speeds.
Add decentralised registration of hotloaders.
Move player ID storage into CModel, to simplify CUnit.
Remove obsolete unit ID allocation code.
Remove some material junk.
This was SVN commit r7605.
Make animations trigger sound effects.
Adjust attack animation timings to match simulation.
Simplify the animation speed settings.
This was SVN commit r7438.
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.
Moved COLLADA-loading code into separate class, since it now handles
both PMD and PSA.
Desingletonised CSkeletonAnimManager, moved into CGameView.
Made Atlas load its icons with buffered IO, for possible efficiency.
This was SVN commit r4934.
