A material global is a variable seen by all materials. There are 4 such
variable which are all vec4 and they can be set on a per-view basis.
All materials used during Renderer::render() will see the same value.
These variable can be accessed in the materials by using
getMaterialGloabal{0|1|2|3}.
- FogOption::color is now correctly multiplied by the exposure and
environment intensity.
- New option to exclude the skybox from the fog
- better documentation and naming
* Add new alphaToCoverage material property
The alphaToCoverage property lets you enable or disable alpha to coverage
in a material. More importantly it lets you overrides the behavior of
blending: masked which automatically enables alphaToCoverage.
* Update release notes
This change adds a 'SRGB' config flag when creating a SwapChain that
enables linear to sRGB conversion on write.
When using this flag, the linear->srgb conversion in the color grading
post processing should be disabled (or, the whole post-processing
stage should be disabled).
There is also a new query to determine if this flag is supported by
the underlaying platform.
On Metal, this happens automatically when the underlaying layer is sRGB.
This reverts commit 3799e219fc.
There can be up to 4 channels drawing commands can be associated to.
Channels work like "priorities" except it's the strongest command ordering
key, in particular it takes precedence over the object's blending mode.
When more than one view was used, only the first view was cleared with
the ClearOption. This was actually intended when the views are rendering
into the swapchain (e.g. post process disabled), but that's incorrect
when the views render into intermediate buffers.
The clear flags are now associated with the actual rendertarget.
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
This basically adds two settings:
- highPrecision at the View level, which controls the bit depth
of the vsm shadow texture used. This affects all shadowmaps.
- elvsm per shadowmap, which enables Exponential Layered VSM.
the main change in the shaders is that we now always output the
"negative" EVSM, even when it's not enabled. If no shadowmap uses
ELVSM, then the texture is stil an RG texture and the calculation is
lost (with some luck culled by the shader compiler), either way it's
not a lot of math and it's done only once per shadow texel.
During the color pass, on the other hand, we compute the "negative"
EVSM only if enabled.
We were always adjusting the near/far of the view volume based on the
scene content for shadowing, which defeated the "stable" shadows.
Also changed the default cascade splits from a linear split to a
log2 split, because due to the perspective projection, the log2 split
actually looks linear. Also intuitively, it makes more sense to give
more resolution to the shadows close to the camera.
- improve scissor documentation, specify coordinate system and
clipping behavior
- scissor now takes the guard bands into account
- on the backend side the scissor is no longer clipped to the viewport
- clipping to the viewport is now done on the filament side
- don't set scissor when material instance doesn't specify one
(common case)
* Add JNI for TransformManager.getChildCount(), TransformManager.getChildren() and scene.hasEntity()
* Update RELEASE_NOTES.md
* Fixes
* Change getChildren to take a nullable array
* Remove no params TransformManager.getChildren()
* Update RELEASE_NOTES.md
Co-authored-by: Ben Doherty <benjdoherty15@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ben Doherty <bendoherty@google.com>
* 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
The main goal is to allow more flexibility, allow cubemap arrays in
the future and better match vk and metal apis.
Main changes:
- remove updateCubeImage
- remove update2DImage
- update3DImage is now the only texture upload backend API
cubemaps are now treated just like a 2D array of 6 layers.
For this reason, Texture::setImage(..., FaceOFfsets) is deprecated.
Additionally, the 2D versions of Texture::setImage() become inline
helpers.
A side effect of this change is that it is now possible to update only
a single face of a cubemap, but also a region of a face (or faces).
- getNear() and getCullingFar() now return doubles
- updated documentation
- all setProjection() calls can now throw (when enabled) and will
do so if preconditions are not met (instead of setting a default
projection).
- Frustum can now be logged on debug builds
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`.
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).
I think the most important thing here is that we now let users know that
"offset" is not a byte count. This also fixes some small typos, e.g.
"weights" was used in the docstring instead of "positions".
To avoid making API changes, this does not fix a few weird things I
noticed in the Java API. For example, there is a redundant "count"
argument in methods that take an array. Also some methods do not
provide an "offset" argument, which is not consistent with C++.
The API is the same but there are some minor differences, which include:
- Ordering of fields in AmbientOcclusionOptions
- More @NonNull annotations that we forgot
- Javadoc formatting is different
This moves parser into a subpackage to shield it from the various
emitters (this folder structure is similar to what Rob Pike used for his
text templating library). This also adds a WIP Java code generator,
currently disabled.
This adds a code generator, implemented in Go.
This PR also prepares `Options.h` (the ground truth) by simplifying its
syntax just a bit. The ground truth file must have very simple C++
syntax, which is described in the README:
https://github.com/google/filament/blob/pr/codegen2/tools/codegen-options/README.md
This process revealed a small bug: `Filter.MEDIAN` was bound to the
incorrect value in Java.
The generated code is not yet used, stay tuned.
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.
Also deprecate some fields of DisplayInfo this shouldn't be a problem
because they were not actually used.
This change should allow an external-to-filament code to manage
frame pacing (e.g. something like swappy).
