Originally this was done in order to make handling of deserialized data
much simpler (as for those attributes also need to only contain an
offset into some unknown data array), but seems this could be very
useful elsewhere as well -- for example when the layout is known
beforehand but the actual data not yet -- such as in the Line and
Gradient primitives (going to switch them to this in the next commit).
What still unfortunately has to be known in advance is the actual vertex
count (as supplying it directly to MeshData would mean adding 6 new
constructor overloads, and there's enough of those already). Might
revisit later.
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
It makes sense, but this ordering also helps to avoid bug in Doxygen
1.8.6+ which merges next non-xrefitem section with the previous one (so
e.g. the TODO list contained the following @see block, which is not
desired).
The point of this change is to allow greater flexibility and reduce
confusion.
When instanced meshes are implemented, MeshTools::interleave() can be
used for creating interleaved buffers with per-instance data and then
the call to Mesh::setCount() will be harmful and/or confusing, becuase
the user would in fact want to call Mesh::setInstanceCount() instead.
Similarly, MeshTools::compressIndices() can be used to create index
buffer for more than one mesh.
GL 4.4 has ARB_buffer_storage, which (in relatively distant future) will
mean that the current way of Buffer::setData() will be deprecated in
favor of Buffer::setStorage(), similarly as Texture::setStorage()
replaced Texture::setImage(). Thus any function which calls
Buffer::setData() internally is not future-proof.
The old MeshTools::compressIndices() and MeshTools::interleave()
overloads are marked as deprecated and will be removed in future
release.
Only one value from these two was used in the end, wasting precious
bytes. Also these two values were used to differentiate between indexed
and non-indexed mesh (instead of relying on actual index buffer being
bound), which was very confusing. This approach looks more clean. The
MeshView class is not yet updated, as the change would expose some
features that aren't possible in current implementation (base vertex
specification).
Merged Mesh::setVertexCount() and Mesh::setIndexCount() into one
Mesh::setCount(), the two original functions are now guarded aliases to
the new one, are marked as deprecated and will be removed in future
release, similarly for the getters.
In particular, if the mesh is indexed, setVertexCount() does nothing and
vertexCount() returns 0. The setIndexCount() and indexCount() do and
return the same regardless of whether the mesh is indexed or not.
Basically a version of interleave() which takes existing buffer instead
of creating new zero-initialized one. The last bit needed for real
runtime usage.
Everything are now pure functions, no shared state, no useless functor
class wrapping. Still needed to wrap attribute count and stride
computation functions in struct to make proper overload resolution
working without the need to deinline the functions (they have cyclic
dependencies).
The only places where they aren't absolute are:
- when header is included from corresponding source file
- when including headers which are not part of final installation (e.g.
test-specific configuration, headers from Implementation/)
Everything what was in src/ is now in src/Corrade, everything from
src/Plugins is now in src/MagnumPlugins, everything from external/ is in
src/MagnumExternal. Added new CMakeLists.txt file and updated the other
ones for the moves, no other change was made. If MAGNUM_BUILD_DEPRECATED
is set, everything compiles and installs like previously except for the
plugins, which are now in MagnumPlugins and not in Magnum/Plugins.
Fixed old references to Buffer::Usage, fixed parameter order in Image
constructor, fixed some function references. Added explicit references
to linkable stuff.
Buffer usage is used as parameter in many functions, e.g. in
*Framebuffer::read() and *Texture::image(), but they are rather seldom
used and including whole Buffer.h file just for one enum is just
overkill. The old Buffer::Usage is now alias to BufferUsage, it is
marked as deprecated and will be removed in future release.