This makes some tweaks to the engine to support this, specifically, it tweaks the hardcoded shaderpaths to defer to a pref variable, so none of the shader paths are hardcoded.
Also tweaks how post effects read in texture files, removing a bizzare filepath interpretation choice, where if the file path didn't start with "/" it forcefully appended the script's file path. This made it impossible to have images not in the same dir as the script file defining the post effect.
This was changed and the existing template's post effects tweaked for now to just add "./" to those few paths impacted, as well as the perf vars to support the non-hardcoded shader paths in the engine.
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.,
- Supports GL, D3D9 & D3D11
- Extends vertex formats & shadergen to support blend indices and weights
- Adds basic support for using 4x3 matrices for shader constants
- Supports software fallback
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.
