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.
Many places utilize post-incrementation with iterators, but it's better performance to use pre-incrementation.
Resolved by changing the iter++ instances to ++iter;
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
- Be sure to delete all prefs.cs files following this change.
- Changes the console types of the missing, unavailable and warning
texture paths. The old type was causing string corruption when saving
preferences.
- Changes the console type of the TSShapeConstructor collision shapes.
The old type was causing string corruption when saving preferences.
- Changed missing texture reference in ProcessedMaterial from String to
const char*.
- displaySplashWindow() now takes an optional path to a bitmap file.
- Missing, unavailable and warning texture paths now come from
GFXTextureManager static methods.
Pull Request #125 was to fix Issue #124. However, as reported by a
user, this fix broke the water. This is a partial reversion of those
changes to get the water working again. The fix from Pull #125 will
need to be examined.
- Prevent stack corruption in a few places
- Use correct type in printfs
- Reduce type conversions in EngineApi & dAto*
- Fix compilation on GCC
- Tidy up code
- ConsoleValue class is now the base value class.
- ConsoleValueRef is now used to supply function parameters. Values are disposable.
- Script functions return values instead of just strings where possible.
- Variables can be disposable strings
- Bytecode changed
Fix the issues with console method parameters and fields which prevented missions from loading.
