In addition to the new getters, this change fixes the duplication of
a MaterialInstance, which didn't carry along the following states:
- alpha mask threshold
- specular AA threshold
- specular AA variance
- double sidedness
TODO: stencil state, polygon offset and scissor are stil not queryable
Prior to this change, `recomputeBoundingBoxes` was an opt-in config
parameter in ResourceLoader. It is now a method on FilamentInstance.
The old API did not work for dynamically created instances. Since this
is a relatively obscure feature, we considered removing it completely,
especially since the computation requires the presence of CPU-side
vertex data combined with the transform hierarchy.
Instead of removing the feature, we decided to move it to a better
place. This paves the way for some upcoming improvements, which include
reducing the memory footprint for assets. It also improves overall code
organization and separation of concerns.
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
* new feature level API for backends
backend can now return a "feature level", each level corresponds to a
"bundle" of features.
Level1: ES3.0 capabilities
Level2: ES3.1 capabilities + 31 textures + cubemap arrays
Currently metal always returns level 1, GL and Vulkan return level 2
if 31 textures or more are supported.
* Add public APIs for feature levels
* Add infrastructure to check feature levels in materials
* validate material feature level on use
The validation is done when creating a renderable. If the engine doesn't
support the material's feature level, an exception is thrown (or assert
if exceptions are not enabled).
* material documentation
* activate ESSL 3.10 for feature level 2
also generate #defines to identify available feature levels
* support for cubemap arrays in the public API
if feature level 2 is supported, cubemap arrays can be used from the
public API.
* add release notes
Starting with 3.1.14, embind started to support for `noexcept`
which caused multiple definition errors since we have a workaround
in place that alreadys supplies template instantiations for `noexcept`.
This change should not affect G3 since our JS bindings are not used
in G3.
The upstream fix is here:
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/17140Fixes#5789.
auto-instancing can have some overhead, so when it is known that the
scene doesn't have identical primitives, it is better to disable it.
(disabled by default).
Also add some missing bindings for `enableAccurateTranslations`.
We still use resgen for convience, but the archive is now passed in
from the client application.
This will allow us to shrink the gltfio Android library (stay tuned).
blendOrder was used to control the draw order of blended render
primitive within a Renderable. We now have an option to make the
blend order global, in this case those primitives with a global blend
order are always sorted solely using the blend order value (i.e. the
distance from the camera is not take into account).
* Add JS bindings for Texture class methods
This change introduces bindings for the following methods:
- getWidth
- getHeight
- getDepth
- getLevels
Closes 4492
* Mark level arguments as optional
* Revert docs defs
* Revert docs/webgl/filament.js
When the guard band is enabled, the effective rendering area is
increased by a certain amount (currently 16 pixels on each side) so
that screen-space effects (e.g. SSAO, SSR, DoF) behave better around
the edges of the screen. Of course, this comes at a performance and
memory cost.
Currently the guard band is not configurable other than being optional.
Added c++, java and js bindings.
- For completion, FilamentAsset now has getRenderableEntities(). This is
similar to sister methods getLightEntities() and getCameraEntities()
except there is no need to store a separate array.
- The web helmet demo does not need to enable shadows, they are already
enabled.
- The ViewerGui populateAsset() method was doing two things that are
now decoupled for clarity: setAsset() and populateAsset().
- The updateRootTransform() method is now called only when the autoscale
checkbox is toggled, instead of every frame.
- The getFooEntities() methods in Java now skip doing work for empty
lists. Actually these should not return arrays at all, but let's fix
that later, since it will break backwards compatibility.
The SimpleViewer C++ class was not viewer component like `ModelViewer`
and `<filament-viewer>`. It was actually just the UI builder used
in the `gltf_viewer` desktop app and the remote Android interface.
This adds a new implementation of the TextureProvider interface called
Ktx2Provider.
Tested using the KTX2 variant of the StainedGlassLamp model in the
Khronos samples repo.
Tested on WebGL 2.0 (Chrome v100), Android (Pixel 6 Pro), and Desktop
(Metal, OpenGL, and Vulkan via MoltenVK).
This allows clients to provide their own asynchronous texture decoders
for various mime-typed images. This is a plug-in component for gltfio,
in some ways similar to MaterialProvider.
There are two motivations for this: to decouple gltfio from STB and
to make it easier to integrate support for BasisU textures.
This also has the side effect of simplifying ResourceLoader, since the
texture decoding jobs have been moved out.
As part of this work, I made the "stb" CMake target into a traditional
static library. Previously we had several files called `Image.cpp`
whose sole purpose was to enable STB_IMAGE_IMPLEMENTATION.
mipgen can now emit basis-encoded KTX2 files. Both the desktop and
web "suzanne" samples use this as a test for compressed textures.
This PR does not add KTX2 support to glTF, but it's on the way.
`BasisEncoder` has a builder style API that calls the basis encoder to
create KTX2 files. This hides some low-level BasisU features that we are
not using, like file I/O and mipmap generation.
`Ktx2Reader` is an easy-to-use API for creating Filament textures from
KTX2 files. Its API primarily consists of these two methods:
bool requestFormat(Texture::InternalFormat format);
Filament::Texture* load(const uint8_t* data, size_t size);
The first method is used to build an ordered list of formats that are
supported by your hardware. The second method consumes the contents of a
basis-encoded KTX2 file and attempts to produce a Filament texture with
a preferred format.
IMPORTANT: Our tools still let you use KTX1 for non-compressed images
because it is useful for HDR, but you can no longer use KTX1 for
block-compressed data.
Partial fix for #4771.
Changes:
- Remove the strange header-only variant of libs/image
- Rename KtxBundle => Ktx1Bundle
- Move image/KtxUtility => ktxreader/Ktx1Reader
- Add unit test for Ktx1Reader and test stub for KTX2.
Notes:
- Ktx1Bundle does not depend on Filament and is used by cmgen
and mipgen to generate KTX files.
- Ktx1Reader has a dependency on Filament and should therefore live in
a separate library, which it now does.
Currently there are 8 light channels, both renderables and lights can
be associated to one or several light channel, lighting occurs when
at least one channel is active on both the light and the renderable.
Fixes#4275
We now have an option for evaluating the bent normals from SSAO.
This is used to improve specular AO.
Currently these bent normals are not used for diffuse lighting because
they're "flat" (face normals), which is too distracting.
The bent normal buffer is stored in the SSAO texture, in a separate
layer. This is the first post processing effect that uses 2D array
in order to limit our sampler usage.
This CL also changes how we handle SPECULAR_AO_BENT_NORMALS when
material bent normals are not available: we're now using the "Cones"
algorithm with the regular normal, instead of Lagarde's approximation.
This can have a dramatic effect on SSAO and needs
to be adjusted based on the scene's scale/units.
The default value used to be about 6cm, and has
been changed to 5mm.
This allows clients to obtain the extras strings for the asset and
for individual nodes. Note that extras for buffer views, accessors, etc
are not supported, although C++ clients can access the raw cgltf data
directly if they need to.
New Api:
- Renderer::renderStandaloneView() is a new method that can be used
outside of beginFrame/endFrame on Views that have a RenderTarget
associated. This can be used as a poor man's compute API.
Improvements to Renderer:
- more aggressively skip lighting/shadowing code that won't be
needed by the current view
- Allow up to 64 KiB to be allocated from the render stream, up from
1 KiB
