Could make sense to eventually turn those into --magnum-whatever options
and have them available always. There's however the yet-unanswered
question of how to provide help for those if a GL/Vk context has its own
set of options, and how to make them not warn about mutually invalid
options.
Such as Emscripten or Android. The hypothetical use case is converting
shader files directly on an Android device to debug things, or having a
Node.js build of a scene/image converter for "portability".
Static plugins can be linked to these if Magnum is built together with
Magnum Plugins in a CMake superproject and the plugins are then linked
via the MAGNUM_*CONVERTER_STATIC_PLUGINS CMake variable.
The fontconverter and distanceconverter tools cause a CMake error on
Emscripten as it's not currently possible to access the GPU through a
command-line Node.js app. On Android they work though.
About time this got done. This also has an XFAIL for the case where a
distance field image is processed with an offset, have to fix the
underlying issue in TextureTools first.
Also added a range assertion for the distance field image setter to
match what the abstract base does, together with a corresponding getter.
The web isn't broken enough yet, apparently. Support for both of those
extensions was added in early 2020 (and I think I remember even seeing
them listed as supported in some browsers), one of them was renamed
mere two months later, one in January 2023.
And I discovered just by accident, the browsers *of course* don't even
bother advertising both to have some transition period. Or maybe that
transition period happened, for 3 weeks in January, and if some
developer didn't notice in that time, "it's their fault". Or maybe it's
my fault, for attempting to use an extension that was stuck in a "draft
status" for four years. THE WHOLE WEB IS EITHER IN A "DRAFT STATUS" OR
"DEPRECATED", THERE'S NOTHING IN BETWEEN, FFS!
Constant needless churn, UGH.
Those caused a warning to be printed to console during construction on
platforms without explicit uniform locations, and setting them with an
explicit location apparently causes a GL error on Qualcomm Adreno. They
*are* there in the input source, just DCE'd.
I won't argue whether that's a valid driver behavior or not. Just simply
not doing this anymore and silently skipping those uniforms instead.
There's still a TODO to actually support those properly, i.e. to be able
to change wireframe width or smoothness on a GS-less rendering. Then
they won't be DCE'd and this workaround wouldn't be needed anymore.
With the workarounds moved to the GL::Shader class itself, it's just a
complicated wrapper for adding the compatibility.glsl file and a rather
strange way to define a file-local helper for resource import on static
builds. Do that directly instead.
As this is now documented, it means 3rd party code can now directly make
use of these without having to reinvent the same logic, or worse,
rediscover the same driver bugs.
The compatibility.glsl file however stays private -- I don't expect
real-world projects needing *that much* diversity in their supported
GLSL versions, often the baseline is GLES 3.0 which makes a large part
of the file unnecessary, and the projects might choose to for example
always have implicitly queried uniform locations to not have to
maintain two code paths.
The KTX and glTF plugins now print a commit identifier in their
generator string for better tool trackability, have to disable that to
have predictable output.
The DDS plugin now Y-flips compressed pixel formats, leading to a
different message. Disabling the flip to not have to deal with any
message at all.
It should be returning twice the value, this is the half-angle. Sad that
this went unnoticed for so long, extra bad points for me to have a
complicated test but not actually verifying that the returned value
makes sense, sigh.
A *nasty* option would be to just fix it, but -- even though there's a
chance nonbody ever used it since nobody ever complained -- it would
introduce breakages to any code that fixed it and that's something to
definitely not do in a trusted codebase. So it's instead deprecated,
firing an annoying warning to whoever might have called it, and there's
a (temporary) replacement called halfAngle() that does exactly the same
but is named appropriately.
Then, once the deprecated angle() is removed (the usual deprecation
period, so a year or the span of two releases, whichever takes longer)
and enough time passes (so another year at least), I'll reintroduce it
with a correct return value.
Vladimír Vondruš