different types of optimization on the scene graph - state optimization,
flattening static transforms, combining LOD's and removing redundent groups.
The new Optimizer replaces the once seperate OptimizerStateVisitor.
should be applied to a node or its child with the new osg::Node::setCullingActive()
flag. A mechanism has been implemented so that if child has its culling disabled
then their parents, all the way up to the root are also have their culling
implicitly disabled.
The osg::CullVisitor has updated to take account of
both the explicit control via setCullingActive and the implicit culling
disabling through children being disabled.
This feature is useful for nodes which don't have a bounding volume to cull
against, earth sky implementations and light sources.
The default osg::Node::_cullingActive is true, i.e. culling is enabled by
default.
these global attributes are created by cloning any attributes which are
applied during rendering, the clone in a shallow copy, which will set up
default valus for that attribute. This should prevent attribute bleed
from one stateset to the next when the global StateSet doesn't contain
an attribute used within the scene graph.
for settings options in osgDB::Registry, and added the paramter to all of the
reaader/writer plugins. The Options structure by default has an string attached
for packing basic options, however, it also can be subclassed to encapsulate
any users defined option data. In the later case both the client code *and*
the plugin need to be aware of subclass, the plugin will need to use
dynamic_cast<> to assertain its type.
and have updated GeoSet to use mutable values for the _numverts etc, allowing
osg::GeoSet::computeNumVerts() to be a const operation. osg::GeoSet::getNumVerts
is now a const once more, so avoiding compilation problems. Also chaned the new
osgconv orientation code to use a Drawable::AttributeFunctor so it can work on
other Drawables other than just GeoSets.
updated the ReaderWriterBMP.cpp (mods sent in my Geoff Michel) and
moved the osgUtil::Statistics to osg::Statistics in preperation to adding it
to the the Drawable base class.
Also move osg across to using radians for angular paramters by default.
By defining USE_DEGREES_INTERNALLY you can get the OSG to revert to
the old style degrees. This later feature is deprecated and only meant
for helping comptability in the interim.
added support in osgUtil::OptimizeStateVisitor for removing duplicate
StateSet's from the scene graph, previously only duplicated StateAttributes
we're removed.
Also added Matrix::ensureRealized() to support the lazy initialization of Matrix, whilest keeping the implementation robust so that external calls to Matrix which get values do so on an initialized matrix.
2) cleaned up osg::Timer, still in progress. My intent has been to
pave the way for support for other OS's.
3) new osg::FrameStamp class which has a frame number, reference
time for each frame to be app, culled and drawn. The FrameStamp
also can be passed to other machines (i.e. cluster) and the
FrameStamp can be used with the slaves own app,cull and draw.
I've also added the beginings of a calander time data to the
FrameStamp to allow time or day and year to be used in setting
up position of sun/moon etc. etc.
4) The osg::State now has contains a pointer to the last applied
osg::Camera and the current osg::FrameStamp, so that drawables
can use both pieces of information for creating effects such
CLOD, earth/sky etc. The osg::NodeVisitor also now allows you
to attach a FrameStamp to support syncronization of actions on
the scene graph.
graph and builds up a map of all StateAttributes and StateSets
and then removes the duplicates. This promotes state sharing
throughout the scene graph which inturn can significantly improve
performance thanks to reduced state changing. Particularily
effective on datasets where a great deal of duplicated state
exists.
o Added pure virtual compare(const osg::StateAttribute&)
method to osg::StateAttribute, and implemented it in all the
subclasses from StateAttribute. Added <,== & != operator
on StateAttribute and Matrix to support new StateOptimizeVisitor.
o Added META_Object, META_Node and META_StateAttribute macros to
Object, Node and StateAttribute respectively which define the
standard pure virtual methods such as clone, className
& isSameKindAs. Changed all the appropriate header files to
use these macro's rather define them in each header, these cleans
up the headers considerably.
o Corrected the implementation of osg::Light::getType so it correctly
uses a unique type for each of the OpenGL lights (GL_LIGHT0..
GL_LIGHT7 relates to osg::StateAttriburte::LIGHT_0..LIGHT_7.
o Changed the definition of osg::StateStateAttribute::Type to
is now a unsigned int rather than an enum, and have changed the
name of the previous Type enum list to be Types. This makes it
more consistent with the difination of values found in
StateAttribute
and also easier to extend with having to cast to an enum.
o From Pail Fredrikson, updated Maitrx.new implemention which uses
the same matrix orientation as the original Matrix implemention.
but getting there.
o First cut of osgcluster demo. Very simple beginings. Alas
I only one PC here so I can't test it in its current guise.
o New support for NodeCallbacks, via AppCallback attached to
osg::Node's, and a default osgUtil::AppVisitor which calls them on
each frame.
o Support for traversal masks in osg::NodeVisitor, osg::Node
which allows nodes to be switched on or off via a bit mask.
o Suppport for traversal number (frame number) and reference time
into osg::NodeVisitor to handle syncronization of app and cull
traversals. This also assist clustering as traversal number
master to slaves.
