* 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
Fixed a comment that said "We store 64 bytes per bone.". The actual
number is 32.
Developers who know their users have powerful devices may wish to exceed
ES3.0 minspec constraints to allow more bones and / or morph targets.
Fixes#5785.
The custom release callback that I provided was in the wrong place; it
was only being used for a path string, not the actual buffer content.
The cgltf API is a bit awkward in this area.
No need to update RELEASE_NOTES because this will be cherry picked to
the RC branch, which is where the bug introduced.
Fixes#5918.
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.
This feature can improve load time when textures are downloaded from the
web on non-filesystem platforms like Android.
More specifically, this allows downloaded texture assets to arrive after
the user calls asyncBeginLoad(), which means that decoding and
downloading can occur concurrently.
Prior to this PR, we already used JobSystem for decoding, but we did not
kick off any jobs until after all assets were downloaded.
Still TBD: add this feature for external vertex data.
Partial fix for #5909.
Earlier versions of cgltf did not support file reader customization.
This was fixed back in Dec 2019 but at the time I did not notice, so
we never bothered cleaning up our usage.
In the future we would like WebGL + Android builds to permit texture
downloads to occur concurrently with the texture decoder jobs. This PR
is basically a preparatory refactoring, but with the nice side effect of
removing a memcpy.
StructureOfArray always aligned each array to the same alignment as
malloc (usually 8 bytes), but that was not enough if one of its type
has stricter alignment requirements.
StructureOfArray now always honors at least the alignment requirement
of each array.
Also removed dependency on EntityInstance.h
Fixes#5727
In most places this is simply replaced by `std::string_view`.
We also change a few internal/private headers so they accept
`std::string_view` instead of `utils::CString`.
Internally we use std::string_view and the public API is augmented
with APIs that take a length for strings, which makes them useable
with string_view parameters.
Also fix exception specification for all setParameter methods, which
can throw if exceptions are enabled (or exit the program otherwise).
I have disabled building SDL with headless EGL, because
SDL_config_minimal.h doesn't work with EGL, and I don't know how to
implement a an SDL config that would work with EGL.
I have verified that this works in a separate project, and that it
compiles in this project.
```
$ ./build.sh -e release
$ find ./out/ -name "*EGL*"
./out/cmake-release/filament/backend/CMakeFiles/backend.dir/src/opengl/platforms/PlatformEGL.cpp.o
./out/cmake-release/filament/backend/CMakeFiles/backend.dir/src/opengl/platforms/PlatformEGLHeadless.cpp.o
./out/cmake-release/libs/bluegl/CMakeFiles/bluegl.dir/src/BlueGLLinuxEGL.cpp.o
```
GL_ES_30 becomes MOBILE
GL_CORE_41 becomes DESKTOP
ShaderModel controls which flavor of GLSL (GL or ES) is used both when
reading and outputting materials.
It's also used to set default quality settings and the default precision
of all fragment shaders.
Technically, Vulkan and Metal don't need this distinction, but the GL
backend does.
This is not intended to be used yet because we're not currently
checking that cubemap array are actually supported, however, if they
are, they should work.
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).
BlobDictionary and LineDictionary were storing blobs as map keys to
achieve simple compression, but they also stored duplicates of
in a vector for index-based lookup.
Now, the vector is storage and the map has keys that are string_view.
- 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`.
Reflects a change from Betty and should be cherry picked to v1.23.3
Users could customize the ImGuiHelper camera, but they had no control
over the scissor coordinates. This allows them to use vertically flipped
coordinates, which, unfortunately, is required for MediaPipe
integration.
This was too tricky, it highlights that we definitely need refactor this
to share code with the flattener / unflattener pipeline. I'll look at
that next.
* BlueVKDarwin: Simplify the build and loading process.
Some of our CMake logic was not necessary because we do not staticly
link against anything for Vulkan. All entry points are dynamically
loaded.
Some of the load-time code was also needlessly complicated. In fact the
ICD environment variable that we were setting is now deprecated.
I tested this PR with:
- macOS + June LunarG SDK
- Android on a Pixel 6
* Fix up, further simplification.
This will allow us to fix the validation error related to
VK_KHR_portability_enumeration.
Also, macOS comes with Python 3 nowadays so we're upgrading the script
from Python 2.
