Adding 2 algorithms to sort by distance to camera plane instead of camera position.
This is better in quite a few situations and extra cost is just one vector subtraction per node and an additional function parameter per call, I think that's worth it. So made the camera-plane to object-center now the new default.
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Until last summer we sorted by object origin to camera distance
Since then we used nearest transformed bbox-extent to camera.
I've now added an enum to allow switching those plus 2 new:
- none (so sorting based on scenegraph instead)
- object center to camera. Which I made the new default as it worked the best in my tests.
I already experimented with a few more ones like different sphere sizes (bbox radius, minimal inbound radius, maximal inbound radius) around center or origin to handle objects with different sizes, but that just gave worse results for all my test cases.
Likely algorithms we should still try:
- Collision point with bounding-box in line between camera and object center (sounds a bit slow, but maybe worth it)
- Distance to camera plane (instead of camera position). But needs additional parameter to distance functions first (maybe normalized view vector will do). That should be useful when working with planar objects.
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Lots of places where coders did not realize our Printer::log with hint adds a ": " string between message and hint
Which caused uglier messages in a few places (added documentation for that, maybe helps?)
Some added info in a few places
Some whitespace unification
Some spelling unification
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- allow ICameraSceneNode to accept any values and correct in buildCameraLookAtMatrixLH with normalize_camera_direction.
if disabled defaults to the current v1.9 normalize
b) add initial Rotation to MayaCamera Constructor default 0,0
c) switchToMayaCamera in Examples. Clones FPSCamera default disabled
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1 Meshbuffer with 24 vertices, so each side has it's own vertices.
Normals perpendicular to the cube-sides.
CubeSceneNode accepts now a ECUBE_MESH_TYPE
CubeSceneNode::clone now also clones rotation and scale (not sure why it didn't do that before - hope there was no reason, but can't think of any).
ISceneManager::addCubeSceneNode accepts now a ECUBE_MESH_TYPE and passes it through.
Example 22.MaterialViewer using new cube type. Also a few more beauty fixes there.
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C++ has undefined behavior for identifiers starting with __ or with _ followed by an uppercase letter.
We still have many more (in IrrCompileConfig.h and in all header-guards), will likely replace those later as well.
As a workaround for users which might use irrlicht defines in their code, I've added the header irrLegacyDefines.h
Including that allows to continue using old defines for a while - or make it easier to have code which compiles
with old and new Irrlicht library versions.
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Thanks @ Bate for the patch (patch #175 with minor changes).
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UI and scenenodes are often connected. And while it was possible to work around this already by using custom draw functions
or deriving from gui and scene-nodes at the same time, it did already lead a few times to uglier code for me.
So I guess adding one more pass to the engine has it's uses.
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Fix bug that AnimatedMeshSceneNode ignored ReadOnlyMaterials flag when checking materials for transparent render passes.
Make IVideoDriver::getMaterialRenderer const.
Fix bugs in COctreeSceneNode, CMeshSceneNode and CAnimatedMeshSceneNode where check for transparency in OnRegisterSceneNode() and in render() where no longer identical (those got added after Irrlicht 1.8).
Some notes for future:
- Maybe we should have a getRenderPass instead of just needsTransparentRenderPass, but this way the code didn't need so much changes and behaves (aside from fixes) pretty much as before.
- Still wondering if the default implementation in CNullDriver::needsTransparentRenderPass should always return false when SMaterial.ZWriteEnable is set to EZW_ON.
This might be nicer with another material flag. Thought then we might want a material enum to choose the renderpass and that's more work.
And we get some recursion as needsTransparentRenderPass might want to check result of getWriteZBuffer which calls needsTransparentRenderPass, so we might need a second function or an additional flag there.
But return false when SMaterial.ZWriteEnable == EZW_ON could still be done as EZW_ON is a new flag so existing behavior shouldn't break. I just don't know right now if having an extra render pass for transparent nodes might still make sense even when zbuffer is not written or if that's really the only reason to do that. Any feedback anyone?
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