This PR adds a table entry that allows modders to specify the RGBI values for the damage and emp arc colors (which were previosuly hardcoded).
This option adds the table entry to `Game_settings.tbl` under `#Graphic Settings` with the lines:
```
$EMP Arc Color:
+Primary Color Option 1: rgb
+Primary Color Option 2: rgb
+Secondary Color Option 1: rgb
$Damage Arc Color:
+Primary Color Option 1: rgb
+Primary Color Option 2: rgb
+Secondary Color Option 1: rgb
```
This provides a cleaner fix for the bug where using show ship caused detail_box calculations to incorrectly work on the player's ship.
It also reverts the changes made by PR #2018.
This PR fixes issue #2015, which is a bug where using `show ship` caused detail_box calculations to incorrectly use world coordinates for submodels on the player's ship, rather then the correct local coordinates.
Add a submodel property that overrides the hard-coded distance
multipliers applied to the distances at which details boxes & spheres
are rendered. The distance multipliers are set by the "model detail"
setting in the options screen. Note that this is different to the LOD
distance multipliers which are not hard-coded.
This allows some more creative uses of detail boxes & spheres, e.g. to
stop models subobjects from being rendered when they're out of player
view. Past testing showed a reasonable performance improvement with
complicated models.
This is a submodel property rather than global, or a ship flag, to allow
flexibility, i.e. a single model could choose this option only for the
submodels that want to use detail boxes/spheres in this fashion, which
other detail boxes/spheres use the conventional approach.
Code & ideas originally from zookeeper, I've just packaged it up for
the PR.
This has been rebased & squashed based on feedback in the PR
This is a system for storing arbitrary data in the config file and then
easily retrieving it later on. This has full Lua support for exposing
the available options in a custom UI and changing the values of the
options. This ported some of the existing command line options over to
the new system which is opt-in for the moment by using a mod_table flag.
In commit 9e4c6df219 (PR #1265), the model_render_params::set_replacement_textures() override that accepts a vector of texture replacements was added, which includes allocating its own Replacement_textures array. However, unlike its counterpart from missionparse.cpp, this array doesn't then have all of its elements set to -1. Since it works just fine there, I copied that code here so both versions should behave the same.
This adds support for rendering models using thick lines (that means
lines wider than 1 pixel) which is required by the hardpoint HUD gauge.
This feature was present before the switch to OpenGL code and had to be
removed since the core profile does not support rendering lines wider
than 1 pixel.
This uses a geometry shader for converting all the triangles from a
model to 3 quads along the triangle lines which are as thick as set by
the model renderer. Geometry shaders are quite slow if they generate a
lot of geometry (and this generates 4 times the usual amount of geometry
in the shader) so it's probably not a very fast rendering operation but
it is only needed once per frame so it shouldn't be too bad.
I also added support for the RenderDoc API since I needed that for
debugging and it might be useful in the future. It will only become
active if RenderDoc is actually attached to the process so in most cases
the new code will do nothing.
There were actually two bugs here that were fixed:
1. The model draw list code disabled the fog rendering when it thought
it was it deferred rendering mode but did not account for explicitly
disabling the deferred renderer.
2. The fog effect was applied to both the emissive color and the base
color simultaneously which caused visual errors when rendering fogged
objects using the deferred renderer.
This fixes#1717.
The rendering material used by the model render list was reused by
multiple draw call submissions so a non-transparent mesh would reset the
fog value set before which would break meshes submitted after that.
There are still some issues with how the fog is rendered which causes
differences between how opaque and transparent meshes are drawn but I
will fix that in another pull request.
This fixes#1645.
The previous method of rendering nebula fog didn't work correctly with
deferred shading since it changed the color of the material which
obviously caused some issues when it received light from a beam or a
weapon. This wasn't very noticable before because the directional lights
were handled correctly but since all the lighting operations have been
moved into the deferred shading phase it is very obvious that something
is wrong with our nebula rendering.
This fixes that by introducing a new shader which does a fullscreen pass
after resolving all the lights. It applies the usual fog formula based
on the depth of the fragment but it can only use a fixed distance range.
FSO support specifying a range for every object type but the default
range I chose should work properly for all ship types.
The new code only applies to opaque meshes. Transparent meshes are
fogged using the standard formula.
There were actually multiple issues here. The addition of color mask and
stencil state to the material system overwrote the state set by the
hardpoint renderer so the stencil buffer was never written or read
correctly. I fixed this by introducing three new model render flags
(there were a few open slots in the bit mask so I used those) which set
the correct state using the material system. That also makes setting up
the rendering environment much easier.
Second, gr_opengl_stencil_set used mixed up parameter values which were
probably broken when I introduced more detailed stencil state tracking.
I restored those values to how they were in 3.8.
This fixes the other issue reported in #1640.
This moves all lighting operations into the deferred shading phase of
the rendering pipeline. Previously, directional lights were applied to
all objects while they were being rendered. This was probably done to
avoid doing multiple full screen passes later but caused some problems
since the color information in the G-buffers was not correct for doing
later lighting operations.
This was especially noticable in dark scenes where point lights would
appear to ignore the color of the rendered objects. This should be fixed
with these changes.
I did some performance testing and to my surprise this actually improves
performance in very demanding scenes. My guess would be that applying
the shadows while rendering the objects caused a lot of overdraw which
is not the case anymore since shadows are only computed for visible
pixels. In simple scenes the opposite happens which leads to decreased
performance in those cases but in my opinion the improvement in
demanding scenes outweights this performance decrease.
This changes the model loading code such that all index and vertex data
is packed in a single GPU buffer for each data type (index and vertex
data are still in separate buffers). This reduces the amount of buffer
rebinding needed when rendering a scene which will reduce the CPU
overhead. Furthermore, this opens up possibilities of future
improvements for which it is beneficial if all data is in the same
buffer (e.g. MultiDrawIndirect rendering).
To manage where to put the data in the GPU buffer I implemented a
custom HeapAllocator which manages where data can be put. It uses a very
primitive first-fit algorithm but that is sufficient for this usage
type. This does add quite a lot of overhead while allocating GPU model
data (I did some tracing and some allocation calls took as long as
130ms).
This fixes#1457.
This was previously not enforced and some code did not call this
function at the correct time which caused crashes since data was not
initialized correctly. This adds a check to ensure that the function was
called and fixes the code that uses the model_draw_list.
This uses UBOs for building a buffer object of uniform data before
using that data to draw objects. This should reduce the CPU overhead by
reducing the amount of glUniform calls required for executing a single
draw call. This is especially useful if rendering is limited by the CPU
which should help performance for people with slower CPUs.
This fixes#910.
There is nothing specific to OpenGL in that code anymore since it's all
handled in the shaders at this point. This will make the lighting
information available in the normal graphics code which allows to use
those values when filling the uniform buffer for the model rendering.
All transformations are now handled by shaders so there is nothing
special going on in the graphics API specific code anymore. Since model
uniform buffers require access to these matrices I moved the matrix
handling out of the graphics API code.
The new design is centered around the Event Trace JSON format but it
should still be possible to adapt it for other profiling tools. The old
profiling system has been removed.
The codebase had quite a few instances of .size() being called and then checked to see if it was 0 or not (or less than 1, or greater-than-or-equal-to 1, which are basically equivalent), when .empty() could be called instead (negated or not, depending on what the original condition was).
This fixes a few of the bad design descisions of previous shader
iterations. This uses a dedicated class for managing the resources and
uniform locations of a shader program.
Uniforms are also stored in this object which makes a lot more sense
than storing them in the OpenGL state where they had to be reset every
time a new shader was used.
There are still a lot of possible enhancments to make, e.g. by using
uniform blocks and buffers instead of standard uniforms which would make
uniform location handling easier.
Another optimization that I will investigate is reducing the amount or
different compiled shaders by turning some of the current compile-time
defines into bool uniforms.
This uses GL_KHR_debug for exposing debug group information. This is
very useful for tools like apitrace where it's used for assiciating
OpenGL commands with a specific application function.
The groups are created using a utility macro which is removed in release
builds so it should have no impact on the release performance.
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