This better reflects that the functions modify a global state instead of
a shader-local state and so rebinding may be necessary (unlike with
uniforms, which get preserved).
The old set*() functions are now inline aliases to the bind*()
functions, are marked as deprecated and will be removed in some future
release.
Why did I do this:
* It is more clean, shorter and nice looking with method chaining,
i.e. instead of:
shader.setColor(...)
.setOtherParam(5);
texture1.bind(MyShader::Texture1Layer);
texture2.bind(MyShader::Texture2Layer);
We now have this:
shader.setColor(...)
.setOtherParam(5)
.setTexture1(texture1)
.setTexture2(texture2);
* It is now also clear which texture type is expected, the layer
constant did not say anything about type.
* Also it is possible to use new features (multi bind, bindless
textures etc.) while preserving the same public API.
The only potential disadvantage is that the textures don't stay bound
like uniform values do, but this become a non-issue with bindless
textures. As usual, the old way is now deprecated and will be removed in
some future release.
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.
Advantages:
* The enums were large (600-800 lines) and they polluted the header,
now they are in separate files (except for BufferTexture, which has
the enum small enough to be left in the same file).
* Image classes now don't need to include OpenGL headers, as they were
needed only for the enum values. With advantage of C++11's forward
enum declarations there is no need to include the enum headers
anywhere in implementation, only when particular values are needed.
* The values are now less verbose:
AbstractTexture::InternalFormat::RGB8 // before
TextureFormat::RGB8 // now
* Resolved another "trivial choice" problem (thanks @JanDupal for
introducing this term to me): how to specify the format if there are
ten ways to do it (some being massively confusing):
Image2D::Format f = AbstractImage::Format::RGB; // too long...
Image2D::Format f = Image3D::Format::RGBA; // why 3D? this works?
Image2D::Format f = BufferImage1D::Format::RGBA; // wat?
It is even worse (and more verbose) with textures:
Texture2D::InternalFormat f =
CubeMapTextureArray::InternalFormat::RGB8; // this is allowed?
To have consistent naming this change was done also with
BufferTexture::InternalFormat (now BufferTextureFormat), although there
were no trivial choice issues and the enum isn't too large. But at least
it is now less typing.
Thanks to DimensionTraits it is now possible to e.g. conveniently access
components by name or pass size as combination of vector and scalar:
GLsizei width = image.size().x();
image.setData({xy, 1}, ...);
Instead of previous inconvenient ways:
GLsizei width = image.size()[0];
Math::Vector2<GLsizei> size(xy, 1);
image.setData(size, ...);
Not using the specialized type for internal functions and storage, as it
wouldn't cause any other improvements. This way it is virtually possible
to forward-declare the specialized types without including them in the
headers.
SizeTraits class provides suitable types for given data size at compile
time, SizeBasedCall can call suitable templated overload based on given
data size at runtime.
Also added meta classes Pow and Log for computing powers and logarithms
at compile time, usable mainly in conjunction with SizeTraits. Their
implementation is checked at compile-time using static_cast().
Vladimír Vondruš