This allows to better describe memory ownership and transfer it instead
of forcing the plugins to allocate their own local copy if the import
happens in-place on the imported data. Right now that's mainly for the
openFile() use case, which implicitly allocated an Array with file
contents only to pass it to openData() which then made a copy because it
could not make any assumption about data scope.
In other words, certain plugins (TgaImporter, KtxImporter, DdsImporter,
CgltfImporter and possibly others) will now have their peak memory usage
*halved*.
There will be Flag::FlipY for images at some point, enabled by default
for compatibility with existing GL code, and so it makes sense to start
discouraging setFlags() as early as possible to avoid people resetting
the default by accident.
Also update the imageconverter, sceneconverter and shaderconverter utils
to use these instead of setFlags().
Makes more sense as the function isn't expected to fail (and thus any
kind of lazy population is not possible as it would be too late for
error checks anyway).
*Not* updating interface strings even though this is an ABI break
because we're doing that right after the skin import interface bump.
The plugin interface version got bumped to avoid ABI issues when loading
plugins that weren't updated for the change, but apart from that this
shouldn't be a breaking change, as the API returns a type that can be
both an Optional and a Pointer.
Until now, except for an attribute-less index-less mesh, the vertex
count was only implicitly taken from passed attributes, but it was
severely limiting:
- There was no way to set vertex count for an attribute-less
indexed mesh, which didn't make sense
- All code that made non-owning MeshData instances referencing another
MeshData had to explicitly handle the attribute-less corner case to
avoid vertex count getting lost
- Offset-only attributes couldn't be used to specify static layout of
meshes with dynamic vertex count, causing unnecessary extra
allocations especially in the Primitives library.
Similar to image mip level import, but this is largely left to be
importer-specific. For example PLY defines per-face data and sometimes
one might want to import them as-is, without them being turned into a
per-vertex property.
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).
It'll get used outside of the root namespace and since the callbacks tend
to be quite complex, it would be silly to require users to implement one
callback for Trade, one for Text and one for Audio, for example.
The original implementation had a few problems:
- If a file callback was set, openFile() was unconditionally calling
right into doOpenData(), making it impossible for the importer to
know the original path for correctly supplying paths to additional
files. Now, if the importer supports Feature::FileCallback,
doOpenFile() is always called. It's also possible for the importer to
save the path and then just delegate to the base doOpenFile()
implementation -- it will handle the file callbacks correctly too.
- If the importer supported neither FileCallback nor OpenData and
callbacks were set, the original doOpenFile() implementation was
called without any warning or anything, doing silently a bad thing.
Now in this case setFileCallbacks() asserts -- programmer has to
check for feature support first.
- It was not possible for the file callback to indicate file opening
failure -- in general, empty files are valid, so a nullptr ArrayView
is also a valid file. Now the callback return an Optional instead.
Vladimír Vondruš