This change was motivated by some internal work at Google and has the
benefit of simplifying the gltfio API and implementation. There are 2
major API changes:
(1) Consolidate separate loader entry points for GLB and GLTF.
The distinction between GLB and GLTF can be made from the file content
alone, because GLB has a 4-byte magic string in its header. There is no
need for separate entry points. Clients do not (and should not) need
to check the file name extension.
(2) Remove the distinction between "instanced" and "non-instanced"
glTF assets.
In the new scheme, all assets have at least 1 instance.
Broadly speaking, in gltfio an "asset" is a collection of Filament
objects like textures and vertex buffers, while an "instance" is a
collection of entities and components (e.g. the transform hierarchy).
This API change makes life easier for clients because they no longer
need to decide a priori if they will ever need to add instances.
This change also moves some public-facing methods from FilamentAsset to
FilamentInstance:
- getSkinCount, getSkinNameAt
- getJointCountAt, getJointsAt
- attachSkin, detachSkin
Filament does not yet fully support threads with WASM, but this is a
baby step in that direction.
To enable experimental pthreads support, enable the WEBGL_PTHREADS CMake
option. This will enable pthreads support in `gltfio` and `utils`, which
is known to work, but not when served with GitHub Pages.
The web server must emit COOP, COEP and CORP headers, so our build
instructions now recommend the use of `emrun` for local testing.
This also changes our demos so that they do not use unpkg, which
does not work when using `emrun`, due to cross-origin restrictions.
After the native async functionality landed, there was no way for web
clients to be notified that the decoding has finished. This PR changes
the existing `onDone` callback so that it gets called after all textures
have been decoded. (Previously it was called after downloading rather
than decoding.)
This has the side effect of simplifying the API because clients no
longer need to call a finalize function.
