* 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
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.
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
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.
- 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.
