SceneGraph: show how to implement object culling on the drawable group.

doc/snippets/MagnumSceneGraph.cpp

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include <algorithm>
 
 #include "Magnum/Math/Matrix4.h"
+#include "Magnum/Math/Intersection.h"
 #include "Magnum/SceneGraph/Animable.h"
 #include "Magnum/SceneGraph/AnimableGroup.h"
 #include "Magnum/SceneGraph/AbstractGroupedFeature.h"
@@ -349,4 +350,34 @@ camera.draw(drawableTransformations);
 /* [Drawable-draw-order] */
 }
 
+{
+Object3D cameraObject;
+SceneGraph::Camera3D camera{cameraObject};
+SceneGraph::DrawableGroup3D drawableGroup;
+/* [Drawable-culling] */
+struct CullableDrawable3D: SceneGraph::Drawable3D {
+    Range3D aabb; /* Relative to world origin */
+
+    // ...
+};
+
+/* Camera frustum relative to world origin */
+auto frustum = Frustum::fromMatrix(camera.projectionMatrix()*camera.cameraMatrix());
+
+/* Erase all items that don't pass the frustum check */
+std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<SceneGraph::Drawable3D>, Matrix4>>
+    drawableTransformations = camera.drawableTransformations(drawableGroup);
+drawableTransformations.erase(std::remove_if(
+    drawableTransformations.begin(), drawableTransformations.end(),
+    [&](const std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<SceneGraph::Drawable3D>, Matrix4>& a) {
+        Range3D aabb = static_cast<CullableDrawable3D&>(a.first.get()).aabb;
+        return !Math::Intersection::rangeFrustum(aabb, frustum);
+    }),
+    drawableTransformations.end());
+
+/* Draw just the visible part */
+camera.draw(drawableTransformations);
+/* [Drawable-culling] */
+}
+
 }

src/Magnum/SceneGraph/Camera.h

@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@ template<UnsignedInt dimensions, class T> class Camera: public AbstractFeature<d
         /**
          * @brief Drawable transformations
          *
-         * Returns calculated transformations for given group of drawables.
-         * Useful in combination with @ref draw(const std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<Drawable<dimensions, T>>, MatrixTypeFor<dimensions, T>>>&)
-         * to provide custom draw order. See @ref SceneGraph-Drawable-draw-order
-         * for more information.
+         * Returns calculated camera-relative transformations for given group
+         * of drawables. Useful in combination with @ref draw(const std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<Drawable<dimensions, T>>, MatrixTypeFor<dimensions, T>>>&)
+         * to implement custom draw order or object culling. See
+         * @ref SceneGraph-Drawable-draw-order for more information.
          */
         std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<Drawable<dimensions, T>>, MatrixTypeFor<dimensions, T>>> drawableTransformations(DrawableGroup<dimensions, T>& group);
 
@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ template<UnsignedInt dimensions, class T> class Camera: public AbstractFeature<d
          * @brief Draw given drawables with transformations
          *
          * Useful in combination with @ref drawableTransformations() for
-         * drawing in a custom order. See @ref SceneGraph-Drawable-draw-order
-         * for more information.
+         * implementing custom draw order or object culling. See
+         * @ref SceneGraph-Drawable-draw-order for more information.
          */
         void draw(const std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<Drawable<dimensions, T>>, MatrixTypeFor<dimensions, T>>>& drawableTransformations);
 

src/Magnum/SceneGraph/Drawable.h

@@ -111,17 +111,28 @@ parameters once for whole group instead of setting them again in each
 
 @snippet MagnumSceneGraph-gl.cpp Drawable-multiple-groups
 
-@section SceneGraph-Drawable-draw-order Custom draw order
+@section SceneGraph-Drawable-draw-order Custom draw order and object culling
 
-By default the contents of a drawable group are drawn in the order they were
+By default all contents of a drawable group are drawn, in the order they were
 added. In some cases you may want to draw them in a different order (for
 example to have correctly sorted transparent objects) or draw just a subset
-(for example to cull invisible objects way). That can be achieved using @ref Camera::drawableTransformations()
-in combination with @ref Camera::draw(const std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<Drawable<dimensions, T>>, MatrixTypeFor<dimensions, T>>>&) and applying @ref std::sort() with a custom
-predicate on the drawable transformation list:
+(for example to cull invisible objects away). That can be achieved using
+@ref Camera::drawableTransformations() in combination with
+@ref Camera::draw(const std::vector<std::pair<std::reference_wrapper<Drawable<dimensions, T>>, MatrixTypeFor<dimensions, T>>>&).
+For example, to have the objects sorted back-to-front, apply @ref std::sort()
+with a custom predicate on the drawable transformation list:
 
 @snippet MagnumSceneGraph.cpp Drawable-draw-order
 
+Another use case is object-level culling --- assuming each drawable instance
+provides an *absolute* AABB, one can calculate the transformations, cull them
+via e.g. @ref Math::Intersection::rangeFrustum() and then pass the filtered
+vector to @ref Camera::draw(). To be clear, this approach depends on AABBs
+provided as relative to world origin, the actual object transformations don't
+get used in any way except being passed to the draw function:
+
+@snippet MagnumSceneGraph.cpp Drawable-culling
+
 @section SceneGraph-Drawable-explicit-specializations Explicit template specializations
 
 The following specializations are explicitly compiled into @ref SceneGraph