SPECIAL NOTE: highly suggest https://github.com/GarageGames/Torque3D/pull/1441 or a variation thereof to prevent debug spew and false-postives for occlusion results.
With significant research, development and prototyping assistance from both @andr3wmac (shaders and partial hook work), and @LuisAntonRebollo (additional culling)
System operates as follows:
1) materials are given an additional castDynamicShadows boolean entry. (Default at time of writing is true by request. Personal usage at time of writing defaults to false. value is default-initialized in materialDefinition.cpp. script/gui exposed)
2) lights are given a staticRefreshFreq and dynamicRefreshFreq (in milliseconds). script/gui exposed
3) materials are (effectively) sorted into dynamic and static shadowmap render lists based on flag. (see shadowMapPass.cpp)
4) initial shadowmaps are generated for each light and 'list'.
5) as each refreshFreq times out, the relevant shadowmap for a given light is refreshed.
Special notes:
dynamicRefreshFreq for all lights is set to a (script exposed) 8MS refresh timer.
StaticRefreshFreq for the lions share of lights defaults to 250 MS (1/4 of a second)
scattersky's embedded light, which is intended to operate in a mobile manner, defaults to 8
to reiterate, these are all customizable per-light via script/inspector gui in the case of alternate project needs.
A lot of instances where some function args are not actually modified in any way, meaning that it is better for performance to convert them into const references. This prevents an additional copy, which can help performance.
Many instances of a function or expression being used repeatedly, which can lower performance.
Fixed it in these cases by creating on local var, reference or pointer that's used instead.
* Made use of dStrIsEmpty in more locations (and fixed it :P)
* Removed commented-out code
* Corrected default params
* Fixed some console warning formats
* Removed tabs
* Corrected setExtent API
OpenGL and DirectX11 not support FFP, and GFDevice::disableShaders has not the necessary information to decide the shader to be used.
GFDevice::SetupGenericShaders is used instead of GFDevice::disableShaders.
GFDevice::disableShaders will be deprecated on T3D 4.0
- check for an empty shapName, not just a NULL one twice
- fix "&s" in printf
- fix potential memory leak
- GFXCopyPixels wasn't checking the height properly which could result in some meory corruption unpleasantness
