I need a bunch of new test images for shader tests and this was rather
easy to do, considering RLE images are ten times smaller. Not doing the
converter side yet due to time constraints, temporarily relying on
imagemagick to handle that (StbImageConverter does RLE also, but
interestingly it produces larger files than imagemagick).
Originally wanted to offload this to someone else, but then realized I
need those for generic vertex attribute definitions, which I need for
instancing, which I need now. So here it is, at the bottom of the
dependency chain.
It now supports both color+texture (instead of just one or the other)
which made it much simpler to use (and implement as well), also can
reference normal maps and specify texture coordinate transformation now.
The old APIs are depecated, but no tests or other code is updated yet in
order to ensure everything continues to work as before.
Except MeshVisualizer and VertexColor, which don't have any texturing,
so there it's not needed. In most cases the tests are reusing existing
ground truth files and only modifying transformations / flipping images.
As usual, the old APIs are still present, but marked as deprecated.
Existing code is not updated yet to ensure I didn't break anything with
this.
This way it's much more intuitive and makes the code shorter and nicer
in many cases. Shaders are now also able to hide irrelevant
draw/dispatch APIs to avoid accidents.
The combineIndexArrays() and combineIndexedArrays() API is replaced with
a more generic combineIndexedAttributes(), and thanks to that we also
don't need STL-based duplicate() and removeDuplicates().
GL was missing a check whether given format is available on a target
(for example double types are not on ES), and for Vulkan we need something
similar to pixel format mapping as well.
The internals don't use any std::vector anymore, only the icosphere
needs an std::unordered_map to do duplicate removal. Additionally, the
most simple primitives are now simply views on constant data,
being completely zero-allocation.
On a Mac this resulted in the dylib going down from 1.5 MB to 418 kB in
Debug, and from 129 kB to 90 kB in Release. Quite nice.
The tests are not ported away from MeshDataXD yet as I want to ensure
the behavior is *exactly* as before.
For backwards compatibility these will delegate to the new MeshData
interfaces for 3D (and nothing for 2D, because so far there were no 2D
scene importers).
This was originally meant to be an interleave() that operates on
MeshData, but later I realized I need the same logic in duplicate(), so
turned it into a private function. Now I am pretty sure I'll be using
this function in *many* importer plugins :D