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}.
* Add way to retrieve the user world-space in materials
added `getUserWorldFromWorldMatrix()` and `getUserWorldPosition()` to
retrieve the API-level (user) world position in materials.
Deprecated `getWorldOffset()`
`getWorldOffset` didn't work when an IBL rotation was applied.
* fix large scenes with an ibl rotation
Rotate the IBL around the camera instead of the world so that the camera
is always at the origin regardless of the rotation.
* 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 is because most android devices only support 16 texture in the
shaders (94.4%), so we can't realistically have feature level 2 demand
that.
Instead feature level 2 enables compute/ES3.1 features.
* 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
With VERTEX_DOMAIN_DEVICE the vertex shader doesn't apply the
projection (since the vertices are already in clip space), however,
both TAA and guard bands need to jitter/offset the clip space, and
it is done at the projection level.
We now store the clip space offset separately so that it can be applied
to VERTEX_DOMAIN_DEVICE vertices.
We also introduce a new material parameter, vertexDomainDeviceJittered,
a boolean that controls whether clip space offset (above) is applied.
This is because a VERTEX_DOMAIN_DEVICE material that uses the built-in
projection matrices generally ends-up with the jitter already applied,
this is the case with the Skybox for instance.
Fixes#5917
This boolean parameter is used with materials that need to access
`getInstanceIndex()` (filament's equivalent to `gl_InstanceIndex`).
It is false by default, and getInstanceIndex() is not accessible.
This is intended to be used in concert with
`RenderableManager::Builder::instances()`.
A "safe" mip-level is one that has exactly half the dimensions of
the current level. In other words, we guarantee that we can halve the
dimensions 4 times without loss (i.e. odd dimension).
This is achieved by effectively padding the viewport (i.e. making the
viewport's dimensions multiple of 16). The post-processing passes
eventually take care of cropping the extra padding so the final
image is unchanged.
This is a more generic solution to dynamic resolution padding, helps
with memory allocations and helps all the algorithms that depend on
mipmaping (e.g. DoF, SSAO, Bloom).
One important improvement brought by this change is that all "final"
post-processing effects are now able to handle a sub-region of the
source, including: color-gradding, fxaa and upscaling.
The `demo_*` web samples were using unpkg to refer to the Filament build
rather than using the local copy, which was inconsistent with the other
web samples.
We now use the local copy of Filament for everything except the
drag-and-drop viewer, which always uses the latest version of Filament.
The existing behavior was surprising for users who draw opaque objects
into a semitransparent views, and this was especially evident with
the labels in `TextureLinearInterpolationTest`.
We now disable blending for MASKED, which is what our existing materials
documentation already says. We also now set the fragment alpha to 1 when
the fragment is not discarded, which prevents the "punch through"
effect. This is consistent with ThreeJS.
Fixes#4576.
