This is supported only by the PlatformEGL currently. There is not much
that can be done with it either at this point. A protected swapchain is
one that can only be written by a protected context, however, there
is currently no way to create such context.
* Add Material.compile() Java binding.
* Add Engine.flush() java binding
* Add Scene.forEach java binding
update the Android gltf-viewer sample to precompile all variants of all
materials in the scene, similarly to the desktop sample.
Moving setFrontFaceWindingInverted to MaterialInstance will enable
finer control over face inversion and aligns better with Vulkan's
pipeline definition (see VkGraphicsPipelineCreateInfo).
Enable a limited subset of materials in PostProcessManager for FL0.
Create new function Material::getFeatureLevel() in C++ and Java.
Create missing Material::getReflectionMode() method in Java.
This change does three main things. First, it adds an option to the Engine
Builder to pick the feature level at which to instantiate Filament. The only
real practical purpose of allowing this is to be able to instantiate at feature
level 0. Secondly, it allows feature level 0 to properly work on non-ES2
devices. Thirdly, it changes both Android and desktop hellotriangle samples to
explicitly opt-in to feature level 0.
Unfortunately, feature levels are used in two different, somewhat contradictory
ways presently in Filament, which can make reasoning about this change a bit
confusing. From a client perspective, feature levels refer to buckets of
capabilities which are guaranteed to be supported. Internally, there is a
separate "feature level" stored internally at the Driver subclass level which
generally corresponds to the maximum supported feature level, but is also
referenced when activating workarounds for limited devices. For example, Uniform
Buffer Objects are not supported in ES2, however, Filament supports emulating
them such that the client does not need to care at all; a supported feature is a
supported feature. But internally, Filament uses this "Driver" feature level to
determine whether or not a given workaround is needed. There were several cases
where the "active feature level" was being examined in order to activate these
workarounds rather than the "driver feature level", which was incorrect.
Why should non-ES2-only devices want to activate feature level 0? Allowing this
behavior 1. makes feature level 0 more consistent with the behavior of other
feature levels and 2. allows clients a layer of validation that their software
will work on all devices supported by Filament if they explicitly opt into it.
Consistency: Filament guarantees that any given device which supports a given
feature level will also support running on every feature level below, except for
feature level 0. This change removes that exception.
Validation: It's not perfect, and there will likely be bugs and unexpected
differences in behavior between ES2 and non-ES2 devices that crop up in the
future between two devices running on the same feature level. However, it's at
least a basic high level layer of validation that enables more rapid testing
workflows directly via desktop versions of Filament rather than having to fiddle
with something like ANGLE to get perfect GLES 2.0 compliance. Additionally, it
expands options for automated testing (with the same caveats).
This change has been tested on both the desktop and Android versions of
hellotriangle.
* prevent public classes from being created on the stack
- we used to to this by deleting operator delete, but this prevented
the internal "F" classes from being virtual; which can be useful
when using EntityManger::Listener.
now we just make the destructor protected in each class.
- EntityManger::Listener now has a virtual destructor so that
objects could be correctly destroyed from Listener*
* improve EntityManger and Component managers
- all component managers now have the same "base" API
- getComponentCount()
- empty()
- getEntity()
- getEntities()
- Scene now has getEntityCount()
- EntityManager now has getEntityCount()
- all component manager implement gc() the same way, by calling destroy()
- SingleInstanceComponentManager::gc() that calls removeComponent() has
been removed because it's dangerous. removeComponent() is often
not enough, some additional cleanup might be needed.
This features didn't work well, had a lot of artifacts and generally
wasn't very useful. This kind of effect should be accomplished
differently.
This is an API break because BloomOptions::anamorphism has been removed.
- don't rely on it being 32-bits
- update the jni code to store SamplerParams in a long (64 bits)
instead of a int. This gives us some future-proofing of the java side.
Fog can now be opted-out on a per renderable basis. When fog is disabled
on a renderable it removes the requirement that this renderable's
materials have the FOG variant.
This works by making the fog an entity which can be used to create
a TransformManager component an participate to the transform hierarchy.
This feature can be used as more advanced way to set the fog's floor,
which now can have an orientation (essentially be a plane).
This is useful for coordinate systems that are not y-up.
A material global is a variable seen by all materials. There are 4 such
variable which are all vec4 and they can be set on a per-view basis.
All materials used during Renderer::render() will see the same value.
These variable can be accessed in the materials by using
getMaterialGloabal{0|1|2|3}.
- FogOption::color is now correctly multiplied by the exposure and
environment intensity.
- New option to exclude the skybox from the fog
- better documentation and naming
* Add new alphaToCoverage material property
The alphaToCoverage property lets you enable or disable alpha to coverage
in a material. More importantly it lets you overrides the behavior of
blending: masked which automatically enables alphaToCoverage.
* Update release notes
This change adds a 'SRGB' config flag when creating a SwapChain that
enables linear to sRGB conversion on write.
When using this flag, the linear->srgb conversion in the color grading
post processing should be disabled (or, the whole post-processing
stage should be disabled).
There is also a new query to determine if this flag is supported by
the underlaying platform.
On Metal, this happens automatically when the underlaying layer is sRGB.
This reverts commit 3799e219fc.
There can be up to 4 channels drawing commands can be associated to.
Channels work like "priorities" except it's the strongest command ordering
key, in particular it takes precedence over the object's blending mode.
In addition to the new getters, this change fixes the duplication of
a MaterialInstance, which didn't carry along the following states:
- alpha mask threshold
- specular AA threshold
- specular AA variance
- double sidedness
TODO: stencil state, polygon offset and scissor are stil not queryable
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.
* 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>
* 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`.
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).
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.
Also deprecate some fields of DisplayInfo this shouldn't be a problem
because they were not actually used.
This change should allow an external-to-filament code to manage
frame pacing (e.g. something like swappy).
We can now specify an "instance count" per renderable during creation.
This instance count applies to all render primitives in the
Renderable.
This will simply draw the renderable "instance count" times. A new
method available to vertex shaders, getInstanceIndex(), allows the
material to discriminate the instances and adjust the position/transform
accordingly.
Typically this is used for particle systems.
