Please note that in ES3 there is a behavioral change -- geometry shader
is no longer explicitly disabled, but it is enabled by default and you
have to disable it if you don't have the required extension or don't
want to use it.
I wanted to preserve the parameter-less constructor of tests, but WINAPI
requires fairly ugly entagled set of functions, passing HWND around,
which required storing it in a global var and hoping it is properly
initialized when querying it for it to be passed to application
constructor.
When this was done, it was now fairly easy to support passing also
argv/argc to application constructor, which in the future will enable
selective disabling of extensions for even better test coverage.
This however needed slightly different main() function and thus we now
have MAGNUM_GL_TEST_MAIN() instead of CORRADE_TEST_MAIN(). Using the
latter will result in an assert inside std::optional.
Each class/function that needs to access the resources first checks
whether the group exists and the group is registered if not. Thus there
is now no difference and annoying special cases when using static build.
Each shader now has sample image, example mesh configuration and example
rendering setup. Also properly documented all attribute types and made
introductory chapter for whole Shaders namespace.
Forward declarations of templated types don't have named template
parameters and thus Doxygen (sometimes) used these for documentation. It
then looked like this:
Magnum::Math::RectangularMatrix<std::size_t, std::size_t, class>
which isn't helpful at all. After the change it looks like this (much
better):
Magnum::Math::RectangularMatrix<cols, rows, T>
No backward compatibility issues should exist, as the class is in most
(if not all) cases used with unscoped name:
class MyShader: public AbstractShaderProgram {
public:
typedef Attribute<0, Vector3> Position;
// ...
};
New in 2.8.9, much cleaner than the previous "solution". Also cleaned up
the surroundings a bit. Fixed cases where PIC was forced independently
of the settings, for plugins the PIC is now also set only when
needed/requested.
WebGL mandates that array subscription is done with constant expression,
ANGLE too (but I think that has also something to do with D3D9
limitations). This is however allowed by OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, so
enabling the workaround only for WebGL and ANGLE (i.e., this won't apply
to Native Client using native GL drivers).
Makes it possible to have both debug and release libraries installed. If
both libraries are present when finding the package, proper version is
used based on what configuration is used in depending project.
Until now the textures were bound to layers, which was rather confusing,
especially when binding layered textures to layers (gaah). Also the
wording might have implied that each texture must be in some layer in
order to make it usable in shader. This is no longer the case with (yet
unimplemented) bindless texture, so another reason to remove the
confusion.
All occurences of texture layers were replaced texture binding units to
follow OpenGL naming. It was mostly in the docs, except for
already-deprecated *Layer enums in shaders, but they will be removed
soon anyway.
Compiling fragment and vertex shader simultaenously, at least. Nothing
more can be done for now.
Also removed weird duplicate compile/link calls from MeshVisualizer,
went unnoticed since b9a72bd3d1. Why did I
do that?!
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.
Previously the API didn't encourage the user to set up and activate
shader before drawing the meshes, leading to unintuitive behavior:
// Can I just call draw() or do I have to fully understand the
// meaning of the universe before?
mesh.draw();
Now the draw() needs the shader passed explicitly as parameter, which
should hint that the shader must be set up somehow:
// Right, so this needs just a shader and that's all. Expecting this
// I fortunately *did* configure all the uniforms before this call.
mesh.draw(shader);
It is also possible to pass the shader as rvalue, in case the drawing is
just a one-off thing and is already fully configured.
mesh.draw(MyShader{});
As usual, the original API is kept, is marked as deprecated and will be
removed in some future release.
As we are now using absolute includes, there is no need to prefix
everything with "magnum<Namespace>" etc. All generated configuration
files are renamed to configure.h and their path is included _before_
everything else to avoid accidental collisions.
Vladimír Vondruš