glDispatchCompute requires Android API level 21, however bumping our
required minimum from 19 to 21 caused some clients' builds to fail.
Commenting-out that line for now to proceed with the 1.28.0 upgrade.
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.
* minimal backend support for compute
- added api to dispatch a compute shader
- added api to create and bind a ssbo
- added api to read back a buffer
Only implemented in the gl backend
* Add a backend compute test suite
* basic support for compute shaders in matc
this is still very much work-in-progress.
We're not supporting images nor ssbo for now.
* rename UniformInterfaceBlock to BufferInterfaceBlock
* augment BufferInterfaceBlock to support ssbo features
- add support for std430
- add support for ssbo
- add support for variable-size array
- add support for memory qualifiers
* reformat MaterialBuilder
* material format: move subpasses outside of parameters
subpasses now are their own json property instead of being a
"parameter".
* refactor parameter() methods to match Buffer/SamplerInterfaceBlock
We're just shuffling the arguments.
* add support for buffers in .mat files
* filamat now generates buffer blocks (ssbo)
* take feature level into consideration when optimizing shaders
* don't store the 'uniform binding' chunk for level 2 materials
this includes some refactoring/cleanups of MaterialParser
* matinfo: fixes for compute
- separate subpasses from parameters
- don't attempt to print material properties
This is a feature request from Google. It allows users to "preload" an
asset, ie you can now create all VertexBuffer objects, Texture objects,
etc, without actually creating any entities or renderable components.
In the past we used TransformManager to help out with computing the big
asset-level bounding box, but now we use `gltf_node_transform_world()`
because entities might not yet exist.
One minor side effect is that `FilamentAsset::getBoundingBox()` now
returns the AABB that was determined at load time, and does not account
for instances. As a result, our `gltf_instances` sample app looks
slightly different but this is expected.
- 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)
gltfio can now ask the material provider plugin which `Material` would
be used for a given set of requirements. Prior to this change, gltfio
could only create a new `MaterialInstance`.
This method is necessary to support an upcoming gltfio feature.
* 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>
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
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`.
