On ES2 devices (or in forceES2 mode), we emulate the sRGB swapchain
in the shader if the h/w doesn't support it. In that case, the emulation
is controlled by a uniform that technically lives in the frameUniforms
block. However, the frameUniforms buffer is not updated, instead,
the uniform is manually set. Unfortunately, the UBO emulation
overrides it with the uninitialized variable.
BUGS=[377913730]
Feature flags are intended to be used when a new feature is added to
filament and have generally two purposes:
1) during feature development, the feature can be implemented but
disabled which can help developing large features. This way the
feature can be tested by stakeholders while it's being developed
without impacting other clients.
2) once a feature is ready, its flag can be enabled by default, but
in case the feature breaks something or has unintended consequence,
clients have the option to turn it off.
Feature flags are intended to have a relatively short life span, i.e.
once a feature is stable, the flag fill be removed.
There two types of feature flags. Constant feature flags can only be
set during Engine initialization via Engine::Builder. Non-constant
feature flags can be set at any time.
Feature flags SHOULD NOT be used as configuration or settings.
Feature flags are designed with a few ideas in mind:
- they are very cheap to check inside the engine
- non-constant flags can easily be toggled using ImGUI
We are seeing a cluster of crashes that could be due to using an
EGLSurface whose ANativeWindow has become invalid. This could happen if
we continued to use (i.e. draw with) an EGLSurface after
SurfaceHolder::onSurfaceDestroyed() has returned.
This new flag enables an assertion that the native window is valid at
the time of makeCurrent(), which happens early in the frame.
BUG=[330392256]
Add Renderer::skipFrame() which should be called when intentionally
skipping frames, for instance because the screen content hasn't changed,
allowing Filament to performance needed periodic tasks, such as
cache garbage collection and callback dispatches.
We also improve the ResourceAllocator cache eviction policy:
- the cache is aggressively purged when skipping a frame
- we aggressively evict entries older than 3 frames
The default Config is now set to a more agressive setting.
The ResourceAllocator used to be global and owned by the Engine, this
was causing some issues when using several Renderers because each
one could cause the eviction of cache data for another.
We now have a ResourceAllocator per Renderer, which makes more sense
because most resources are allocated by the FrameGraph.
We also introduce a ResourceAllocatorDisposer class, which is used
for checking in and out a texture from the cache, and destroy the
texture when it's checked-out. That objet is still global.
- remove deprecated morphing APIs
- repair gltfio, samples and tests
The new API doesn't allow a MorphTargetBuffer per RenderPrimitive,
instead the MorphTargetBuffer is specified per Renderable.
gltfio separates RenderPrimitives from Renderables, in particular all
RenderPrimitives are created before their Renderable; this was
problematic for this change because all primitives must share
a single MorphTargetBuffer living in the Renderable.
To fix this, we're no longer initializing the morphing paramters
at RenderPrimitive creation, instead we store a reference to the
BufferSlot in the Primtive structure, so that later, when the Renderable
is created we can finally retrieve the BufferSlot and initialize its
morphing paramters, which are not available. The "morphing parameters"
are now expanded to contain the MorphTargetBuffer as before (except now
it's always the same for all the primitives of a Rendrable), as well
as the offset within the buffer and the vertex count.
The number of SH bands used for the indirect light irradiance
computations can be set to 1, 2 or 3 (default) in Material::Builder.
For e.g. in lower-end devices w/ non HDR content, it might be
beneficial to set this value to 2.
BUGS=[341971013]
The current API allowed to have a buffer for each primitive in a
renderable. We instead restrict the API so that there is a single
MorphTargetBuffer for the whole renderable, shared by all primitives.
The buffer can be shared thanks to the "offset" parameter on
setMorphTargetBufferAt().
Also
- fix FMorphTargetBuffer::updateDataAt()
- add support for the "offset" parameter of setMorphTargetBufferAt()
- Add option to build.sh to build for paritcular stereo
techniques (default to NONE). Only applies to samples.
- Consoldiate viewer checkbox for debugging stereo rendering
- Add DriverConfig flag for stereoscopic type so that it can
be used to determine availability of the feature and
(to be completed) enable corresponding GPU features.
Co-authored-by: Mathias Agopian <mathias@google.com>
* Add an Engine debug setting to force GLES 2.0
This setting is only meaningful on GLES backends, it's otherwise
ignored. When set to true, the backend will try to force a ES2 context
if supported. If not supported by the platform,
the backend will pretend it's a ES2 context.
This setting is currently only taken into account by the EGL platform.
* Update filament/backend/include/backend/Platform.h
Co-authored-by: Powei Feng <powei@google.com>
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Co-authored-by: Powei Feng <powei@google.com>
* don't crash if we don't have a Camera set on View
- also add a method to query if a camera was set
* Update android/filament-android/src/main/java/com/google/android/filament/View.java
Co-authored-by: Powei Feng <powei@google.com>
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Co-authored-by: Powei Feng <powei@google.com>
