Before neither of the lerp(), slerp() had the shortest path check, while
sclerp() had it. Now, to be consistent, none of them has it and there
are lerpShortestPath(), slerpShortestPath() and sclerpShortestPath()
functions that have the shortest path check.
This is different from other engines, where there's usually only the
shortest path interpolation by default and either an optional
"non-shortest-path" interpolation or no alternative at all. I like to
give the users a choice, so there's both versions and the
non-shortest-path version is the default, because -- at least in case of
lerp() -- this results in a quite significant perf difference (15%
faster), so why not have it. Preprocess your data instead ;)
It's a straight copy of the code for quaternions -- it could probably be
simplified a bit, but I don't have the necessary brain cells at the
moment. I tried the following but failed:
retun Complex::rotation(acos(cosAngle)*t)*normalizedA;
If and only if the quaternions to interpolate are equal, the angle between
them is 0.0 and we therefore cannot safely divide by the sin of that angle.
Credits to @wivlaro for finding this one.
Fixes#117.
Signed-off-by: Squareys <Squareys@googlemail.com>
It should generate the same (constexpr) code, but this way it doesn't
go through replicating the zero value four times and just
zero-initializes the data array in vector. Also fixes "not a constexpr"
issues with GCC 4.6 in compatibility branch (but these shouldn't be
there anyway).
Useful for squeezing out last bits of performance, e.g. in this case:
Vector3 a;
a[0] = something++;
a[1] = something++;
a[2] = something++;
In the code all elements are first zeroed out and then overwritten
later, thus it might be good to avoid the zero-initialization:
Vector3 a{Math::NoInit};
a[0] = something++;
a[1] = something++;
a[2] = something++;
This will of course be more useful in far larger data types and arrays
of these.
Previously only matrices allowed to be created either as an identity or
zero-initialized. Now all Math classes support that, including (dual)
complex numbers and quaternions.
Some classes are by default constructed zero-filled while other are set
to identity and the only way to to check this is to look into the
documentation. This changes the default constructor of all classes to
take an optional "tag" which acts as documentation about how the type is
constructed. Note that this result in no behavioral changes, just
ability to be more explicit when writing the code. Example:
// These two are equivalent
Quaternion q1;
Quaternion q2{Math::IdentityInit};
// These two are equivalent
Vector4 vec1;
Vector4 vec2{Math::ZeroInit};
Matrix4 a{Math::IdentityInit, 2}; // 2 on diagonal
Matrix4 b{Math::ZeroInit}; // all zero
This functionality was already present in some ugly form in Matrix,
Matrix3 and Matrix4 classes. It was long and ugly to write, so it is
now generalized into the new Math::IdentityInit and Math::ZeroInit tags,
the original Matrix::IdentityType, Matrix::Identity, Matrix::ZeroType
and Matrix::Zero are deprecated and will be removed in the future
release.
Math::Matrix<7, Int> m{Math::Matrix<7, Int>::Identity}; // before
Math::Matrix<7, Int> m{Math::IdentityInit}; // now
It is often annoying to write e.g. this, especially in generic code:
T dot = Math::Vector<size, T>::dot(a, b);
When this is more than enough and the compiler can infer the rest from
the context:
T dot = Math::dot(a, b);
There are more downsides and confusing cases (you can call
Math::Vector<3, T>::dot(), Math::Vector3<T>::dot() and Color3::dot() and
it is still the same function), so I made these as free functions in
Math namespace. You can now also abuse ADL for the calls, but I would
advise against that for better readability:
T d = dot(a, b); // dot?! what on earth is dot? and what is a?
The only downside found when porting is that you need to specify the
type somehow when having both parameters as initializer lists:
T d = dot({2.0f, -1.5f}, {1.0f, 2.5f}); // error
T d = dot(Complex{2.0f, -1.5f}, {1.0f, 2.5f}); // okay
But that's probably reasonable (and it's also highly corner case,
the functions were used this way only in tests).
The original static member functions are of course still present, but
marked as deprecated and will be removed at some point in future.
Vladimír Vondruš