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.
Some (poorly authored) glTF assets have several `image` elements
that all refer to the same URL or buffer view. When this occurs,
we create only 1 Filament Texture.
These assets regressed after PR 6051, which consolidated the texture
related fields in `FilamentAsset`, but did not include an ownership flag
in the new `TextureInfo` struct.
The asset previously had three confusing fields related to textures:
mTextures, mTextureSlots, and mTextureBindings.
These are now consolidated into a single field, which simply has one top
level array item per `cgltf_texture`.
The memory footprint is smaller because we no longer bother to store
`TextureSampler` objects, instead we simply defer their construction
until calling setParameter.
Last but not least, we now assert in debug builds if the usages of a
particular texture have inconsistent sRGB flags. In the past,
inconsistent sRGB would be silently ignored.
In other words, we will now assert if you try to use the same texture
for `baseColor` and `normalMap`, whereas in the past we would simply
exhibit non-deterministic behavior in this situation (with respect to
sRGB semantics).
This broke asyncGetLoadProgress() and caused WebGL to crash reliably
because ResourceLoader got destroyed too soon.
Bug was introduced with de7dfc2ea6.
I intend to cherry pick this to rc/1.27.0, which is where it was
introduced, so there's no need to update the release notes.
For each "cgltf_material", we now create one "MaterialInstance", even
if a given asset has multiple instances. In the future, we might make
this behavior configurable to make better use of Filament's
auto-instancing feature.
This change is a feature request from Google, but also this behavior is
more consistent with the code comments.
Also some related cleanup:
(1) Use FixedCapacityVector instead of robin_map.
(2) Move the cache to move out of the asset and into the loader,
because it is only used at load time.
The immutable inverse bind matrices can be shared among instances, so
they are now stored in Asset, not in Instance.
Also, there are now two "load" phases for skinning data:
(1) storing the inverse bind matrices
(2) building the Entity mappings (for animation efficiency)
Phase 1 is done in `ResourceLoader` because inverse bind matrices can
live in an external bin file.
Phase 2 is done during Instance creation, because that's when entities
are created.
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
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.
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.
This optimizes and cleans up some code from a 3P contributor.
When computing a bounding box, there was no need for an inner loop
through the entire skins array.
Tested using the torus model in #4973 and the `-r` flag in gltf_viewer.
* gltfio: Clear texture caches before loading resources
* iOS gltf-viewer: add double-tap to reload model for debugging
* iOS samples: add instructions on ASan / UBSan debugging
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.
In the past there was an API gotcha because users had to "get" the
animator before releasing the glTF source data. This could have been
surprising because it was a getter method, not a factory method.
This was due to overeager optimization on my part, I wanted to avoid
animator overhead for non-animated models, when in fact it has very
little overhead.
Moreover, the animator is conceivably useful even when there are no
pre-supplied animations (e.g. for applying skins), so let's just create
it unconditionally.
Motivated by #5299.
__ANDROID__ is always set by the toolchain and less likely to cause
conflicts than ANDROID. This change also removes the -DANDROID flag
we set ourselves in our toolchain CMake files since we don't need
it anymore.
Fixes the "triangle count is zero" assertion with the big car model.
We do have nominal support for points and lines, but we should not
attempt to compute tangents for these.
As a reminder, glTF also supports loops, strips, and fans; this is the
only way in which Filament is non-conformant.
Fixes issue seen with Vulkan + the quantized version of Avocado.
We already support the quantized glTF extension, which is when this
comes up. Technically this is only needed for Vulkan but gltfio does
not (and should not) know which backend is being used, so we simply
apply these transformations assuming the worst.
In practice this code usually won't be activated, and if even when it
is, it won't hurt loading time as much as other things like large
textures.
The vertex data for glTF morph targets are deltas rather than final
values, so we were passing incorrect data into the SurfaceOrientation
helper.
This has been a long-standing bug that affected models with morphing,
including Buster Drone. However in practice we have observed visual
issues only with AnimatedMorphCube.
Tested against AnimatedMorphCube, Buster Drone, Cesium Man, Fox, and
Littlest Tokyo.
Fixes#1609
Recall that we now use shared_ptr to simplify lifetime management of
cgltf source data (#3413).
Before this commit, we were only using shared_ptr to retain the source
data during buffer uploads. After this commit, we are using it to retain
source data during texture decoding.
Fixes#3428.
I tested this by viewing CesiumMan with our `gltf_instances` sample app.
There is now a need for some general refactoring in gltfio. I feel that
the high-level objects have become too tightly coupled to each other.
Fixes#3137.
The gltfio API allows users to destroy ResourceLoader or FilamentAsset
even when various asynchronous work (e.g. uploading buffers to the GPU)
has not yet been completed. This was achieved in an error-prone manner
using manual reference counting and an internal management object called
AssetPool.
This PR refactors gltfio by wrapping cgltf_data in shared_ptr, which I
usually try to avoid. However in this case it provides the precisely the
functionality that is needed.
I tested this PR for memory leaks and crashes by hacking gltf_viewer
and monitoring memory usage in Activity Monitor.
This fixes#3383 and makes it easier to implement some missing features,
such as animation support for instanced assets.
