while not a major issue per-se, the sheer number of times the engine has to jump back in memory and backfill data in a given class can add up. First run of... many.,
renderPrePassMgr.cpp related:
A) shifting .addFeature( MFT_XYZ); calls from ProcessedShaderMaterial::_determineFeatures to ProcessedPrePassMaterial::_determineFeatures
B) mimicking the "// set the XXX if different" entries from RenderMeshMgr::render in RenderPrePassMgr::render
C) fleshing out ProcessedPrePassMaterial::getNumStages() so that it shares a 1:1 correlation with ProcessedShaderMaterial::getNumStages()
D) causing inline void Swizzle<T, mapLength>::ToBuffer( void *destination, const void *source, const dsize_t size ) to silently fail rather than fatally assert if a source or destination buffer is not yet ready to be filled. (support for #customTarget scripted render targets)
Reflections:
A) removing reflectRenderState.disableAdvancedLightingBins(true); entries. this would otherwise early out from prepass and provide no color data whatsoever.
B) removing the fd.features.addFeature( MFT_ForwardShading ); entry forcing all materials to be forward lit when reflected.
C) 2 things best described bluntly as working hacks:
C1) when reflected, a scattersky is rotated PI along it's z then x axis in order to draw properly.
C2) along similar lines, in terraincellmaterial, we shut off culling if it's a prepass material.
Skies: scattersky is given a pair of rotations for reflection purposes, all sky objects are given a z value for depth testing.
- Fix for issue https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D/issues/525 This
fix takes into account the skewed view into the world when you have a
projection offset and the ability to see further into the scene at the
edges opposite to the offset.
- SceneCullingState now has two frustum rather than one: a culling
frustum and camera frustum.
- The camera frustum should be referenced when you need the projection
matrix or don't want a skewed frustum.
- The culling frustum should be referenced during any scene culling or
when determining what dynamic geometry to render. It currently skews
itself to take into account any projection offset (automatically
calculated in SceneCullingState constructor).
- When there is no projection offset, the camera frustum and culling
frustum are the same. This usually means any time when not using the
Oculus Rift.
