The output is now *much* closer to the Vector shader output (mean
difference went from ~6 to 1.79), and in the multi-draw case it's
clearly visible that it's no longer slightly weirdly uneven.
The test files are now also much smaller as the originals were created
before RLE was implemented in TgaImageConverter.
Not that C++ STL and exceptions would be anything to take inspiration
from, but there's std::out_of_range. Python IndexError is also specified
as "index out of range", not "bounds".
Partially needed to avoid build breakages because Corrade itself
switched as well, partially because a cleanup is always good. Done
except for (STL-heavy) code that's deprecated or SceneGraph-related APIs
that are still quite full of STL as well.
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.
Interesting, didn't know this kind of feature support was possible. I
guess it's still better than no GLES3.2 at all. Also, it's a phone from
2017, so probably not all that important to care about anymore anyway.
Most of the testing scaffolding here is a preparation for the actually
complex formats like BC6/7 or ASTC. Also, it's great to be able to use
Magnum from Python to prepare data for testing the C++ Magnum APIs.
The perf cost is just too great for these to be enabled always. The only
place where the assertions are kept always is in the batch APIs -- there
it's assumed the function is called on large enough data to offset this
overhead, plus since it's often dealing with large blocks of data the
memory safety is more important than various FP drifts which were the
usual case why other assertions were firing.
The UBO definitons are not tied to GL in any way, so they should be
available always. MeshTools::generateLine() now is as well, and this
made the tests fail to link on ES2 builds due to the debug operator not
being present.
This is unfortunately a breaking change to compileLines(), which now
takes the output of generateLines() instead of a line mesh. There's a
new assertion that'll blow up if the code is used the previous way,
sorry for the breakage.
What's however very useful about this change is that now it's possible
to take those generated line meshes and concatenate() them together,
achieving what's otherwise not implemented yet, such as drawing several
disconnected line strips or loops together.
It's all still partially private (the custom mesh attribute names are)
and I'm marking both APIs as experimental now to hint that it's not in
the final form/functionality yet. In particular, the data layout
optimizations described in the shader docs aren't used by these tools
yet, and if/once the line-specific vertex attributes become builtin,
compileLines() will not need to exist anymore as compile() will handle
that directly.
Done this way only in the Phong shader, everywhere else it's just the
MAGNUM_ASSERT_GL_EXTENSION_SUPPORTED() macro. Some WIP code that I
forgot to clean up?
So it's possible to have light culling enabled on, say, 64 lights, but
with only at most 3 applied each draw, allowing the shader compiler to
unroll the loop if it makes sense. This also better prepares for SSBO
support where the total light count would be unbounded and thus the
value ignored, and thus the value can be 0.
This prepares for SSBO support where the total count is unbounded (and
thus the value is ignored, thus it can be 0).
Also regroup the doc paragraphs so it's clear what's related to UBO
usage and what applies to classic uniforms as well.
I still expect the API to change slightly to accomodate for line
stipple or textured lines (such as possibly having different smoothness
alongside and across the segment), plus there are some TODOs that might
change how it behaves in certain corner cases.
Currently just the bare minimum, more features such as handling
multiple contiguous strips and loops inside a single mesh or an
overlapping layout will come later.
The shader requires the input data to be laid out in a rather specific
way, and there will be a dedicated MeshTools utility for it in the
following commits. For independence though, the shader tests use a
custom helper.
The initial implementation has certain corner cases which will be
eventually resolved. For now they are pinned down with repro cases in
the test. But apart from that, it's pretty much usable in practice.
Remaining join styles (round and miter-clip) as well as stipple support
will eventually follow as well.
Vladimír Vondruš