* the glsl plugin now supports processing #includes. The file extension sets the shader type.
* the registry releases gl objects of the shared state manager
"
requests to a removed archive file. ReaderWriterTXP::getArchiveName
will create an archive if it doesn't exist. This is causing a crash
if the terrain is removed and there are outstanding database requests
in the database pager. The request will create a new archive, and as
the archive is newly create doesn't have the materials etc to support
the subtile that was just loaded. To fix the problem getArchiveName
will only return existing archives. createArchiveName was added to
create archives.
"
(with a great 'crease angle' feature), which will crash if the normal
array is already set but without BIND_PER_VERTEX. I just believe that
we should reallocate the normal array in these cases, as the old
implementation does.
"
setup the log level to INFO it does not work. It's because of this line:
OSG_INFO << " GetGeoTransform == "<<
dataset->GetGeoTransform(geoTransform)<<"
I have just put the function outside of an stream stuff, and it works.
It's possible we have other code like that in other plugins, I guess
it's a side effect of the MACRO stuff about notification."
I found two indirect calls to the glTexEnv in the file Text.cpp:
state.applyTextureAttribute(0,getActiveFont()->getTexEnv());
In the attached fix I surrounded these calls with #ifdef's checking for OSG_GL_FIXED_FUNCTION_AVAILABLE to ensure that the above function is only called when the fixed function pipeline is available.
"
- CMakeLists.txt
-- don't look for GL when compiling for iOS (device or simulator), look for OGLES instead
-- use architecture i386 for simulator
-- removed iphoneos-version-min for simulator
- examples/osgviewerIPhone/CMakeLists.txt
-- added build dependencies for osgdb_osg, osgdb_freetype, osgdb_imageio
-- added framework QuartzCore link dependency
- src/osgDB/CMakeLists.txt
-- don't link against Carbon on iOS (device or simulator)
- src/osgPlugins/freetype/CMakeLists.txt
-- don't link against OpenGL on iOS device or simulator
- src/osgViewer/CMakeLists.txt
-- link against OpenGLES on iOS (device or simulator)
- src/osgPlugins/imageio/CMakeLists.txt
-- compile ReaderWriterImageIO_IOS.cpp as Objective-C++
"
hpux. I have skipped irix this time as irix is too dead to keep osg building
there.
As usual, solaris does not like member templates in stl containers.
Some headers missing and link problems due to missing libraries."
There was some performance problems after a long run, because textures created with copyTexImage2D were not reused.
After investigation, there is a problem with the Texture Pool when a texture object is created with an empty profile, and then move after creation to TextureObjectSet with good profile using setAllocated method.
I have just changed a little bit the code of Texture2D::copyTexImage2D, to generate the texture object with the good profile at the start."
A few things remain to do:
* The binding between a uniform block in a shader program and a buffer indexed target number is fixed, like a vertex attribute binding. This is too restrictive because that binding can be changed without relinking the program. This mapping should be done by name in the same way that uniform values are handled i.e., like a pseudo state attribute;
* There's no direct way yet to query for the offset of uniforms in uniform block, so only the std140 layout is really usable. A helper class that implemented the std140 rules would be quite helpful for setting up uniform blocks without having to link a program first;
* There's no direct support for querying parameters such as the maximum block length, minimum offset alignment, etc. Having that information available outside of the draw thread would make certain instancing techniques easier to implement."
attached you'll find the second part of the IOS-submission. It contains
* GraphicsWindowIOS, which supports external and "retina" displays,
multisample-buffers (for IOS > 4.0) and multi-touch-events
* an ios-specific implementation of the imageio-plugin
* an iphone-viewer example
* cMake support for creating a xcode-project
* an updated ReadMe-file describing the necessary steps to get a
working xcode-project-file from CMake
Please credit Thomas Hogarth and Stephan Huber for these changes.
This brings the ios-support in line with the git-fork on github. It
needs some more testing and some more love, the cmake-process is still a
little complicated.
You'll need a special version of the freetype lib compiled for IOS,
there's one bundled in the OpenFrameworks-distribution, which can be used."
Notes, from Robert Osfield, modified CMakeLists.txt files so that the IOS specific paths are within IF(APPLE) blocks.
recently we noticed a little mistake for 3DS files using instances of the same meshs: Every groupnode gets the same name instead of the (correct) instance name of the object. The fix only consists of two additional lines which check whether an instance_name is given for the object and then uses this one instead of the node name."
* support for NPOT-textures on IOS
* support for FBOs (only renderToTexture for now) on IOS (should work
for other OpenGL ES 1/2 targets, too)
* FileUtils-support for IOS"
serializers and dotosgwrappers. It includes reading/writing supports
for the two new shader types and the GL_PATCHES enum. The
setParameterfv() method is not wrapped at present because it is still
not finished.
Enum serialziers don't require back-compatibility checks if only
add/remove enum items, so I'm not going to use the new
UPDATE_TO_VERSION macro this time."
2: minor tweak for a DebugHUD drawn improperly case when multiple slave views shared one window. It now uses slave view viewport to correctly position DebugHUD.
3: deactivated ConvexPolyhedron notifications (they were accidentaly activated when you replaced osg::notify calls with OSG_NOTIFY macro). These warnings are useful only for shadow map developer working on shadow volume optimizations. So there is no sense in having them active all the time."
Problem 1 :
With GLSL, multi pass to apply each shadow map is not required.
Problem 2 :
GLSL code use "shadow2DProj" build-in function to look up in shadow texture.
Projection is orthogonal so "shadow2D" build-in function is sufficient.
Problem 3:
Bad calcul in
osgShadow::ParallelSplitShadowMap::calculateLightViewProjectionFormFrustum(..)
provide some visual error in specific configuration.
to reproduce pssm_bug.jpg, you need to add a light direction in osgshadow.cpp example (done in joint osgshadow.cpp file)
then "osgshadow --noUpdate --pssm --maxFarDist 500 --minNearSplit 500 --mapcount 6 --debug-color model_test.3ds"
As you can see in pssm_bug.jpg and pssm_fix.jpg, performance is really better when Problem 1 is fixed.
"
osgGA. My approach is to bundle all touchpoints into one custom data
structure which is attached to an GUIEventAdapter.
The current approach simulates a moving mouse for the first touch-point,
so basic manipulators do work, sort of.
I created a MultiTouchTrackballManipulator-class, one touch-point does
rotate the view, two touch-points pan and zoom the view as known from
the iphone or other similar multi-touch-devices. A double-tap (similar
to a double-click) resets the manipulator to its home-position.
The multi-touch-trackball-implementation is not the best, see it as a
first starting point. (there's a demo-video at http://vimeo.com/15017377 )"
serialization libraries. My submission mainly includes:
1. Add two new macros USE_DOTOSGWRAPPER_LIBRARY and
USE_SERIALIZER_WRAPPER_LIBRARY. Applications using static OSG must
include corresponding static-link libraries and use these two macros
to predefine native format wrappers. Please see osgstaticviewer and
present3D in the attachment for details.
2. Add a LibraryWrapper.cpp file in each
osgWrappers/deprecated-dotosg/... and osgWrappers/serializers/...
subfolder, which calls all USE_...WRAPPERS macros inside. The
LibraryWrapper file is automatically generated by the
wrapper_includer.cpp (with some slight fixes), which is also attached
for your reference. The deprecated-dotosg/osgAnimation is not included
because it doesn't us REGISTER_DOTOSGWRAPPER to define its wrappers.
3. Modify the ReaderWriterOSG.cpp to prevent calling loadWrappers()
when static build.
4. An uncorrelated fix to Serializer and ObjectWrapper.cpp, which
ensures version variables of serialziers are initialized, and
serializers out-of-version are not written to model files.
"
templated constructor of std::pair not being able to automatically
convert 0 to a pointer. Rather than use preprocessor checks and
#defines, I think a cleaner solution is to cast the std::pair arguments
to the appropriate types to help the compiler out. I attached an updated
version of the file implementing this."
Initial email from Tim : "I've implemented using a timestamp, available with ARB_timer_query and OpenGL 3.3, to gather GPU stats. This is nice because it can accurately fix the GPU draw time with respect to the other times on the stats graph, rather than having to estimate the wall time of the end of GPU drawing. This also prevents anomalies like the GPU phase starting before the draw phase..."
Changes to Tim's submission by Robert: Removal of need for swap buffer callback in ViewerBase.cpp, by
integrating a osg::State::frameCompleted() method that does the stats timing collection. Introduction of a
GraphicsContext::swapBuffersCallbackOrImplementation() method that calls the State::frameCompleted() and
the swap buffers callback or the swapImplementation as required.
functionalities. It includes two main parts: a version checking macro
for handling backward-compatiblity since 3.0, and enhencement of
current schema mechanism. I also change the option handling process to
use getPluginStringData(), and add new USE_SERIALIZER_WRAPPER macro in
the Registry header to allow for static-link usage as well.
The enhencement of schema machanism just tells the type of each
serializer while outputting them, such as:
osg::Group = Children:1
The meaning of the number can be found in the osgDB/Serializer header,
BaseSerializer::Type enum. It may help 3rdparty utilities understand
the structure of the wrapper and do some reflection work in the
future.
The new macro UPDATE_TO_VERSION can help indicate the InputStream (no
affect on the writer) that a serializer is added/removed since certain
OSG version. An example wrapper file is also attached. The
Geode_modified.cpp is based on the serializers/osg/Geode.cpp file
(hey, don't merge it :-), but assumes that a new user serializer
'Test' is added since version 65 (that is, the OSG_SOVERSION):
REGISTER_OBJECT_WRAPPER( Geode, ... )
{
ADD_USER_SERIALIZER( Drawables ); // origin ones
UPDATE_TO_VERSION( 65 )
{
ADD_USER_SERIALIZER( Test ); // a serializer added from version 65
}
}
All kinds of ADD_... macros following UPDATE_TO_VERSION will
automatically apply the updated version. The braces here are only for
typesetting!
While reading an osgt/osgb/osgx file, OSG will now check if the file
version (recorded as the writer's soversion, instead of previous
meaningless "#Version 2") is equal or greater than Test's version, and
try reading it, or just ignore it if file version is lesser.
And we also have the REMOVE_SERIALIZER macro will mark a named
serializer as removed in some version, with which all files generated
by further versions will just ignore it:
UPDATE_TO_VERSION( 70 )
{
REMOVE_SERIALIZER( Test );
}
This means that from version 70, the serializer Test is removed (but
not actually erased from the list) and should not be read anymore. If
the read file version is less than 70 (and equal or greater than 65),
Test will still be handled when reading; otherwise it will be ignored
to keep compatiblity on different OSG versions.
"
As it works (for our needs at least) I've done and attached a tar.gz file for the VRML2 plugin with a new part to write a VRML2 file from an osg one.
The read part is the same as in osg 2.9.9.
The write part code is in convertToVRML.cpp and .h files. It works for some osg nodes (group, geode, matrixTransform, positionAttitudeTransform and geometry). Textures are converted to jpeg (if not translucent) or png (if translucent).
There are some options that could be given to the writer (with -O switch) :
convertTextures=0 to copy textures without converting them to jpeg or png
convertTextures=-1 do not copy textures, keep them in their original format and location
convertTextures=-2 do not use textures, parse only geometry
convertTextures=-3 (default) convert textures to jpeg or png ones.
textureUnit=X in case of multiple textures, X= texture unit to use (default value=0)
directoryTexture=aPath when texture will be copied, it will be in this directory, not in the current one."
Also I've done the osguserstats example. I've kept the "toy example" that was in the modified osgviewer.cpp I had sent you, because they show different uses of custom stats lines (a value displayed directly, a value without bars and a value with bars and graph). I also added a function and a thread that will sleep for a given number of milliseconds and record this time in the stats. I think it clearly shows how to record the time some processing takes and add that to the stats graph, whether the processing takes place on the same thread as the viewer or on another thread.
BTW, feel free to modify the colors I've given to each user stats line... I'm not very artistic. :-)
I've also added more doc comments to the addUserStats() method in ViewerEventHandlers, so hopefully the arguments are clear and the way to get the results you want is also clear. Maybe I went overboard, but the function makes some assumptions that may not be obvious and has many arguments, so I preferred to be explicit."
A new AutoRotateMode was added. I named it ROTATE_TO_AXIS to be
consistent with the other AutoRotateModes, even though it changes from
how is called in Billboard (AXIAL_ROT).
Setters and getters for rotation axis and normal were also added to the
AutoTransform class interface.
The implementation is mainly a copy-paste from Billboard code.
"
- Algorithm doesn't try to merge double and single precision arrays together
- Algorithm doesn't try to merge incompatible geometries (ex: one with "vertices + texoords", and another with only vertices)
2. Better TextureAtlasBuilder
Algorithm is still sub-optimal, but it now tries to fill more blanks, using "unused space in the current line".
(Don't know if I already submitted it, but I guess not)
One day, someone should try to find a good solution to this NP-problem... For instance : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.140.200&rep=rep1&type=pdf
"
ReadDDSFile warning: couldn't read mipmapData
The issue is caused, when the last block of data is read from the file (less than chunk size of 16384 bytes). The read operation in ReaderWriterGZ::read() then sets the eof and fail bit in the stream and the lines
if (fin.fail())
{
(void)inflateEnd(&strm);
return false;
}
causes the reading to be aborted with the last read data not beeing inflated.
Please find the attached fix for this problem."
video and sound pins by type rather than searching for them by name
since the names of the pins can change based on what kind of file you
are opening. This also removes the need for an explicit check to see
if the file is a .wmv file.
Also changes to the directshow plugin's CMakeLists.txt.
It is not necessary to link against d3dx9 to build the plugin.
"
Now we can use ffmpeg to render webcam video (using the vfwcap device) under Windows:
osgmovie 0 -e ffmpeg -O "format=vfwcap frame_rate=25"
The number 0 just indicates a default device number in ffmpeg.
I think this can work under Linux, too, and should be a bit better than comparing the filename with a '/dev/' string. Just type:
./osgmovie /dev/yourcam -e ffmpeg -O "format=video4linux2 frame_rate=30 size=320x240""
The user calls statsHandler->addUserStatsLine() providing:
- the label they want for that line in the graph
- the text and bar colors they want in the graph
- the stats names they want queried (one for time taken, one for begin and one for end time) and a few settings for how these will be displayed.
Then all they have to do is call viewer->getViewerStats()->setAttribute(framenumber, name, value) for their three attributes each frame and they'll have their stats in the graph.
They can also give only a time taken attribute (or some other numerical value they want printed, which can be averaged or not), or only begin+end attributes, and the graph will accordingly display only the (average or not) numerical value or only the bars.
Along the way I cleaned up the existing code a bit:
* Each time the setUpScene() or createCameraTimeStats() methods added a line to the graph, they did pretty much the same thing, so I moved that into a separate method called createTimeStatsLine() which is called by setUpScene() and createCameraTimeStats().
* I moved the font, characterSize, startBlocks and leftPos variables to member variables, since they were being passed around everywhere but were set only once at the beginning.
* The geode on which stats lines are added is also kept in a member variable, and createCameraTimeStats() adds the per-camera lines to this geode instead of returning a new Group with a new Geode. This further reduces the number of variables the createCameraTimeStats() method needs as input.
"
In osg::isGLExtensionOrVersionSupported in src/osg/GLExtensions.cpp when
using indirect X11 rendering,
glGetIntegerv( GL_NUM_EXTENSIONS, &numExt );
is leaving numExt uninitilized causing the following glGetStringi to
return NULL when the extension number isn't present. Passing NULL to
std::string() then crashes. This is with the following nVidia driver.
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 256.35
I went ahead and initialized some of the other variables before
glGetInitegerv in other files as well. I don't know for sure
which ones can fail, so I don't know which are strictly required.
"
In the attached file (src/osgWrappers/deprecated-dotosg/osgParticle/IO_Particle.cpp) I have added a check for the existence of the drawable before writing it to the file.
"
- using m.getPerspective( fovy, tmp, tmp, tmp ) to get only FOV does not work.
The reason is that getPerspective is taking tmp as reference - thus all the three variables points to the same memory location. Then, zNear (third parameter) is used inside the method, while zNear content was spoiled by zFar that was written to the same place, resulting in fovy set to nan. I consider that it is the right of programmers to use 3 times tmp as parameter and I fixed the code in the method. I have done the same for getFrustum and getLookAt.
- I fixed makeFrustum to accept infinite zFar. (Some graphics techniques like shadow volumes require placing zFar to infinity to avoid visual artifacts.)"
Note from Robert Osfield, change the local near & far variable names to temp_near and temp_far MS Visual Studio has a record of using near and far names.
This problem caused because osgManipulator::Dragger uses matrices of top camera instead last
absolute Camera in NodePath.
I attached modified osgManipulator/Dragger.cpp file, where added code for finding last absolute
camera. With this changes draggers works in HUD.
Example for demonstrate this problem you can find in osg-users list [1].
Mikhail.
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.openscenegraph.user/62636
"
attached. The problem was that the output files were not properly
setting the debug/release libs due to this cmake bug. What occurred was
the release lib was set in all configurations."
to download the texture object to graphics card.
Calling IncrementalCompileOperation::assignForceTextureDownloadGeometry() assigns a geometry
to the job.
changed extensions from .c to .cpp and got compiling as C files as part of the osg core library.
Updated and cleaned up the rest of the OSG to use the new internal GLU.
change was to use doubles for reading and writing matrices regardless of type of Matrix
being serialized.
Change does break backwards compatibility though, so code
path supporting original format has been left in for the
time being. However, this code is not reliable enough and
is over complicated compared to the simplified handling. Once
the new code has been bedded down for a while I'll remove this code block.
a discrepancy in getOrCreateObserverSet. For the atomic- and
mutex-codepaths the newly created observerset gets manually ref'ed, but
not in the codepath used when OPENTHREADS_ATOMIC_USE_MUTEX is defined. I
added the manual ref and tadaaa, the crash went away."
I also uderstand that there is a need to select system wide default method and have also modified DisplaySettings to contain swapMethod parameter. Swap method in Traits uses value set in DisplaySettings as default. Proper environment and command line args were added. Its possible to define default DeisplaySettings swap method in standard way via system flags or with comand line.
Env Vars:
OSG_SWAP_METHOD = DEFAULT | COPY | EXCHANGE
or Command Line:
--swap-method DEFAULT | COPY | EXCHANGE
I also added handling of WM_ERASEBKGND in GraphicsWindowWin32. It may be unneccessary but code should be safer this way than without handling it. I have placed a comment explaining the reason above the change.
Changes were made against today trunk.
PS. I tested only Windows code. I briefly checked X11 & Cocoa files but have not noticed SwapMethod to be used there.
"
compatability regression that was introduced almost 2 years ago in
r8834. The IVE version number was bumped to 32 because of the change
in binary layout, but the guard for reading/writing the new field was
checked against 31. Of course this only causes a problem (as for us)
when you've produced IVE files at version 31, which no longer load (or
crash) when loaded by newer OSG/IVE versions."
I also fixed a possible bug in osgDB::XmlParser that doesn't handle control characters (like " to ") when reading node attributes, because the writeWrappedString() and readWrappedString() now depend heavily on control characters. An additional improvement is that osgx now supports comments."
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp: In
function ?std::string getFileName(const std::string&)?:
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp:88:
warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp: In
function ?bool is83(const std::string&)?:
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp:102:
warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp: In
function ?bool is3DSpath(const std::string&, bool)?:
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp:118:
warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type
/Users/uli/Projects/osg/OpenSceneGraph/src/osgPlugins/3ds/WriterNodeVisitor.cpp:121:
warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
The code was using 'unsigned int' in places where it should've used 'size_t' for correct
comparison with 'std::string::npos' (which is size_t).
"
performance option, I added a flag to control whether the depth writing
pass is performed.
Since text is alpha-blended when rendering, it is placed in the
transparent bin and rendered back to front. Writing to the depth buffer
should therefore be unnecessary. Indeed, rendering something behind text
(or any blended object) after that object is drawn will give incorrect
results whether the depth buffer is written or not. I therefore think it
is safe to keep this option off by default. Users can turn it on for any
special needs they have.
I did not fix the existing backdrop implementations to work with the new
code since this new method of rendering intrinsically handles backdrops
correctly. Its results are more accurate than all of the existing
backdrop implementations. Its only downside is that it requires two
passes if depth buffer updates are desired, whereas DEPTH_RANGE and
POLYGON_OFFSET achieve their (less accurate) results in one pass. The
NO_DEPTH_BUFFER method also only uses one pass, but it disables depth
tests and not depth writes so will have serious problems if anything is
drawn in front of the text before OR after the text is drawn.
Given the better all-around behavior of the new method, I believe the
other backdrop implementations can be safely removed. Code that adjusts
the backdrop implementation will of course be broken if the member
functions are removed. For this reason I left them in, but set the new
rendering method as the default backdrop implementation. At the very
least I think the old backdrop implementations should be deprecated and
removed at a later date.
"
Note from Robert Osfield, testing this submission with osgtext I found that the
text would not render correctly when different text labels were overlapping
in deth and screen space. I change _enableDepthWrites to default to true and
found the that which artifacts still occurred around the alpha blended edges
the artifacts where better than issue with occlusion of nearer pixels that was
happening with _enableDepthWrites set to false.I therefore set the
_enableDepthWrites to true as I feel it's the lesser of the two artefacts.
The following code snippet will reproduce this issue:
Code:
osg::Vec2 vec(0.f, 0.f);
osg::Array* sharedArray = new osg::Vec2Array(1, & vec);
// create 2 geometries sharing same array
osg::Geometry* geom0 = new osg::Geometry;
osg::Geometry* geom1 = new osg::Geometry;
geom0->setVertexArray(sharedArray);
geom1->setVertexArray(sharedArray);
osg::ref_ptr<osg::Geode> geode = new osg::Geode;
geode->addDrawable(geom0);
geode->addDrawable(geom1);
std::stringstream buffer;
// write node
osg::ref_ptr<osgDB::Options> options = new osgDB::Options("Ascii");
osgDB::ReaderWriter* rw = osgDB::Registry::instance()->getReaderWriterForExtension("osgt");
osgDB::ReaderWriter::WriteResult wr = rw->writeNode(*geode, buffer, options.get());
// print result; array will be written twice with full content, though with same ID
std::cout << buffer.str() << std::endl;
// trying to read back node will print warnings about unmatched properties
osgDB::ReaderWriter::ReadResult rr = rw->readNode(buffer, options.get());
To fix this i made a change in OutputStream::writeArray().
I think the same issue applies to OutputStream::writeObject(). So i made the same change there.
"
I move declaration of classes TestResult, QueryGeometry from cpp to header file and made a void createSupportNodes() a virtual method.
Now is possible to inherit from class OcclusionQueryNode."
1. When an outline object was occluded by another object, the backfacing wireframe was exposed. To fix that, I removed the disabling of GL_DEPTH_TEST.
2. In some cases, the outline color was the same color as the geometry being drawn instead of the specified color. I'm not sure I have completely fixed this issue, but I did make some changes to match up to how we do a scribe effect."
Goals:
- to handle INCR_WRAP values nicely if not supported by OpenGL (old hardware)
- to support two side stenciling of OpenGL 2.0. Current implementation does not work on ATI as it uses Nvidia extension.
Ready for commit:
- Stencil and Stencil.cpp - please, review them
Ready with "hack":
- StencilTwoSided.cpp: please, see the line 113 in apply():
glEnable(GL_STENCIL_TEST_TWO_SIDE);
This line used to be in getModeUsage() as
usage.usesMode(GL_STENCIL_TEST_TWO_SIDE);
but it produces OpenGL errors on ATI as it is unknown value there (it is Nvidia extension).
Problems with my "glEnable" solution:
- it enables two side stenciling forever, and it will disturb any other single-side stenciling in the scene graph.
"
All size() methods are now renamed to volume(). At present only the CompositePlacer will use it for randomly choose a place according to the volumes of all children.
"
type is supported at present. The attached osgparticleshader.cpp will
show how it works. It can also be placed in the examples folder. But I
just wonder how this example co-exists with another two (osgparticle
and osgparticleeffect)?
Member variables in Particle, including _alive, _current_size and
_current_alpha, are now merged into one Vec3 variable. Then we can
make use of the set...Pointer() methods to treat them as vertex
attribtues in GLSL. User interfaces are not changed.
Additional methods of ParticleSystem are introduced, including
setDefaultAttributesUsingShaders(), setSortMode() and
setVisibilityDistance(). You can see how they work in
osgparticleshader.cpp.
Additional user-defined particle type is introduced. Set the particle
type to USER and attach a drawable to the template. Be careful because
of possible huge memory consumption. It is highly suggested to use
display lists here.
The ParticleSystemUpdater can accepts ParticleSystem objects as child
drawables now. I myself think it is a little simpler in structure,
than creating a new geode for each particle system. Of course, the
latter is still compatible, and can be used to transform entire
particles in the world.
New particle operators: bounce, sink, damping, orbit and explosion.
The bounce and sink opeartors both use a concept of domains, and can
simulate a very basic collision of particles and objects.
New composite placer. It contains a set of placers and emit particles
from them randomly. The added virtual method size() of each placer
will help determine the probability of generating.
New virtual method operateParticles() for the Operator class. It
actually calls operate() for each particle, but can be overrode to use
speedup techniques like SSE, or even shaders in the future.
Partly fix a floating error of 'delta time' in emitter, program and
updaters. Previously they keep the _t0 variable seperately and compute
different copies of dt by themseleves, which makes some operators,
especially the BounceOperator, work incorrectly (because the dt in
operators and updaters are slightly different). Now a getDeltaTime()
method is maintained in ParticleSystem, and will return the unique dt
value (passing by reference) for use. This makes thing better, but
still very few unexpected behavours at present...
All dotosg and serialzier wrappers for functionalities above are provided.
...
According to some simple tests, the new shader support is slightly
efficient than ordinary glBegin()/end(). That means, I haven't got a
big improvement at present. I think the bottlenack here seems to be
the cull traversal time. Because operators go through the particle
list again and again (for example, the fountain in the shader example
requires 4 operators working all the time).
A really ideal solution here is to implement the particle operators in
shaders, too, and copy the results back to particle attributes. The
concept of GPGPU is good for implementing this. But in my opinion, the
Camera class seems to be too heavy for realizing such functionality in
a particle system. Myabe a light-weight ComputeDrawable class is
enough for receiving data as textures and outputting the results to
the FBO render buffer. What do you think then?
The floating error of emitters
(http://lists.openscenegraph.org/pipermail/osg-users-openscenegraph.org/2009-May/028435.html)
is not solved this time. But what I think is worth testing is that we
could directly compute the node path from the emitter to the particle
system rather than multiplying the worldToLocal and LocalToWorld
matrices. I'll try this idea later.
"
Texture.cpp:applyTexImage2D_subload:
<code>
unsigned char* data = = (unsigned char*)image->data();
if (needImageRescale) {
// allocates rescale buffer
data = new unsigned char[newTotalSize];
// calls gluScaleImage into the data buffer
}
const unsigned char* dataPtr = image->data();
// subloads 'dataPtr'
// deletes 'data'
</code>
In effect, the scaled data would never be used.
I've also replaced bits of duplicate code in Texture1D/2D/2DArray/3D/Cubemap/Rectangle
that checks if the texture image can/should be unref'd with common functionality in
Texture.cpp.
"
osgWidget::Input:
[Functional changes]
- Previously, the field would be filled with spaces up to its max length, and typing would just replace the spaces. Also, there was a _textLength variable that kept track of the real length of text in the field, since the osgText::Text's length just reflected the length of spaces+text entered. This was not great, as you could still select the spaces with the mouse and it just feels hacky. So I changed it to only contain the text entered, no spaces, and _textLength was removed since it's now redundant (the osgText::Text's length is used instead).
- Fixed the selection size which (visually only) showed one more character selected than what was really selected.
- Fixed selection by dragging the mouse, it would sometimes not select the last character of the string.
- Cursor will now accurately reflect whether insert mode is activated (block cursor) or we're in normal mode (line cursor) like in most editors.
- Implemented Ctrl-X (cut)
- Added a new clear() method that allows the field to be emptied correctly. Useful for a command line interface, for example (hint, hint).
- Mouse and keyboard event handler methods would always return false, which meant selecting with the mouse would also rotate the trackball, and typing an 's' would turn on stats.
[Code cleanup]
- Renamed the (local) _selectionMin and _selectionMax variables which are used in a lot of places, as the underscores would lead to think they were members. Either I called them selection{Min|Max} or delete{Min|Max} where it made more sense.
- Fixed some indenting which was at 3 spaces (inconsistently), I'm sure I didn't catch all the lines where this was the case though.
- Put spaces between variable, operator and value where missing, especially in for()s. Again I only did this where I made changes, there are probably others left.
The result is that delete, backspace, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and typing behaviour should now be consistent with text editor conventions, whether insert mode is enabled or not. I hope. :-)
Note, there's a nasty const_cast in there. Why isn't osgText::Font::getGlyph() declared const?
Also, as a note, the current implementation of cut, copy and paste (in addition to being Windows only, yuck) gets and puts the data into an std::string, thus if the osgText::String in the field contains unicode characters I think it won't work correctly. Perhaps someone could implement a proper clipboard class that would be cross-platform and support osgText::String (more precisely other languages like Chinese) correctly? Cut, copy and paste are not critical to what I'm doing so I won't invest the time to do that, but I just thought I'd mention it.
"
crash with some files.
Actually, itr was incremented into the loop and after the test with
nlist.end().
Then, the unreferencing of itr when nlist is equals to nlist.end() caused
the crash."
The current version crashes when encountering global materials, as also reported in the forum by the author of the plugin.
The problem in mesh.cpp (app. ln 247) is, that references to global materials that are given in curly brackets {} are not supported by the reader. However, curly brackets seem to be common, according to Bourke. Unfortunately, I found no specification. However, also the DirectX model viewer that comes with the DirectX-SDK (August 2009) expects curly brackets and refuses models without them.
My fix checks 2 more cases ("{ aMaterial }" -> 3 tokens and "{aMaterial}" -> 1 token), and extracts the material name for the lookup. I don't know if this is the most elegant solution, but the tokenizer seems to split based on white spaces.
You can reproduce the bug with the attached model (box.x), which loads fine in other tools, such as 3DSmax, DeepExploration or the DirectX model viewer. When I remove the curly brackets at the reference of "myGlobalMaterial", it loads in osgviewer, but is not standard conform.
"
submission email from Nathan: "I discovered a problem with POINT_ROT_EYE billboards in IntersectionVisitor: because we pass in just the model matrix to Billboard::computeBillboardMatrix, the billboard gets the wrong up vector. It really needs to take the view matrix into account to get the correct up vector.
This version of IntersectionVisitor.cpp is made against today's SVN. It corrects the problem by computing the billboard matrix using the complete modelview, and then multiplies by the inverse of the view matrix before pushing onto IntersectionVisitor's model stack. The only code I changed is in apply(Billboard&)."
notes from Robert, refactored the matrix multiplication code and the use of RefMatrix to make Nathan's changes more efficient.
