set.
The optimization is based on the observation that matrix matrix multiplication
with a dense matrix 4x4 is 4^3 Operations whereas multiplication with a
transform, or scale matrix is only 4^2 operations. Which is a gain of a
*FACTOR*4* for these special cases.
The change implements these special cases, provides a unit test for these
implementation and converts uses of the expensiver dense matrix matrix
routine with the specialized versions.
Depending on the transform nodes in the scenegraph this change gives a
noticable improovement.
For example the osgforest code using the MatrixTransform is about 20% slower
than the same codepath using the PositionAttitudeTransform instead of the
MatrixTransform with this patch applied.
If I remember right, the sse type optimizations did *not* provide a factor 4
improovement. Also these changes are totally independent of any cpu or
instruction set architecture. So I would prefer to have this current kind of
change instead of some hand coded and cpu dependent assembly stuff. If we
need that hand tuned stuff, these can go on top of this changes which must
provide than hand optimized additional variants for the specialized versions
to give a even better result in the end.
An other change included here is a change to rotation matrix from quaterion
code. There is a sqrt call which couold be optimized away. Since we divide in
effect by sqrt(length)*sqrt(length) which is just length ...
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PositionAttitudeTransform, removed the equivialnt callbacks once found in these
transform classes.
Changed the NodeCallback class so its derived from osg::Object instead of
osg::Referenced to allow it to be saved out in the .osg format.
Added support for Update and Cull callbacks into the .osg file format.
Added support for AnimationPathCallback into the .osg file format.
osg::PositionAttitudeTransform::AnimationPathCallback which us an app callback
which uses an AnimationPath to specify the new positions of the transform.
Added AnimationPath code to osglight to animate the positional light.
Added CullVisitor::setCullingMode() code into SceneView so that SceneView's
CullingMode is now properly passed onto CullVisitor. Note, this work
had been done before, but must has been lost in a merge. Umm...
which objects have values that vary over the lifetime of the object (DYNAMIC)
and ones that do not vary (STATIC). Removed the equivalent code in
osg::Transform, StateSet and StateAttribute, as these are now encompassed
by the new DataVariance field.
Removed MatrixMode enum from Matrix, and associated fields/parameters from
osg::Transfrom and osg::NodeVisitor, since MatrixMode was not providing
any useful functionality, but made the interface more complex (MatrixMode
was an experimental API)
Added ReferenceFrame field to osg::Transform which allows users to specify
transforms that are relative to their parents (the default, and previous behavior)
or absolute reference frame, which can be used for HUD's, camera relative
light sources etc etc. Note, the view frustum culling for absolute Transform
are disabled, and all their parents up to the root are also automatically
have view frustum culling disabled. However, once passed an absolute Transform
node culling will return to its default state of on, so you can still cull
underneath an absolute transform, its only the culling above which is disabled.
by adding a ComputeTransformCallback to osg::Transform, and have now removed
the recently added AutoTransform since it is nolonger required. Have also
updated CullVisitor to account for the new ways for tracking transformation
matrices in the scene.
and getWorldToLocalMatrix(), computeLocalToWorld() and computeWorldToLocal()
methods.
Have updated the CullVisitor, IntersectVisitor and Optimizer to use the
new osg::Transform::getLocalToWorldMatrix() which has the same functionality
as the old getMatrix() but is now supports subclasses of osg::Transform
transparently.
Have added osg::PositionAttitudeTransform as subclass of osg::Transform
which manages the transform as position and attitude via a Vec3 and Quat
respectively.
