Use dynamic linked list to handle scenegraph rather than dumb scan
of the whole tree. The performance improvement depends on the fraction
of moving objects. If most objects are static, the speed up is
considerable. The following table compares the time spent on
scenegraph before and after this commit on a scene with 10000 objects
in various configuratons:
Scenegraph time (ms) Before After
(includes culling)
All objects static, 8.8 1.7
all visible but small fraction
in the view frustrum
All objects static, 7,5 0.01
all invisible.
All objects moving, 14.1 8.4
all visible but small fraction
in the view frustrum
This tables shows that static and invisible objects take no CPU at all
for scenegraph and culling. In the general case, this commit will
speed up the scenegraph between 2x and 5x. Compared to 2.48a, it should
be between 4x and 10x faster. Further speed up is possible by making
the scenegraph cache-friendly.
Next round of performance improvement will be on the rasterizer: use
the same dynamic linked list technique for the mesh slots.
Realtime modifiers applied on mesh objects will be supported in
the game engine with the following limitations:
- Only real time modifiers are supported (basically all of them!)
- Virtual modifiers resulting from parenting are not supported:
armature, curve, lattice. You can still use these modifiers
(armature is really not recommended) but in non parent mode.
The BGE has it's own parenting capability for armature.
- Modifiers are computed on the host (using blender modifier
stack).
- Modifiers are statically evaluated: any possible time dependency
in the modifiers is not supported (don't know enough about
modifiers to be more specific).
- Modifiers are reevaluated if the underlying mesh is deformed
due to shape action or armature action. Beware that this is
very CPU intensive; modifiers should really be used for static
objects only.
- Physics is still based on the original mesh: if you have a
mirror modifier, the physic shape will be limited to one half
of the resulting object. Therefore, the modifiers should
preferably be used on graphic objects.
- Scripts have no access to the modified mesh.
- Modifiers that are based on objects interaction (boolean,..)
will not be dependent on the objects position in the GE.
What you see in the 3D view is what you get in the GE regardless
on the object position, velocity, etc.
Besides that, the feature is compatible with all the BGE features
that affect meshes: armature action, shape action, relace mesh,
VideoTexture, add object, dupligroup.
Known problems:
- This feature is a bit hacky: the BGE uses the derived mesh draw
functions to display the object. This drawing method is a
bit slow and is not 100% compatible with the BGE. There may
be some problems in multi-texture mode: the multi-texture
coordinates are not sent to the GPU.
Texface and GLSL on the other hand should be fully supported.
- Culling is still based on the extend of the original mesh.
If you have a modifer that extends the size of the mesh,
the object may disappear while still in the view frustrum.
- Derived mesh is not shared between replicas.
The derived mesh is allocated and computed for each object
with modifiers, regardless if they are static replicas.
- Display list are not created on objects with modifiers.
I should be able to fix the above problems before release.
However, the feature is already useful for game development.
Once you are ready to release the game, you can apply the modifiers
to get back display list support and mesh sharing capability.
MSVC, scons, Cmake, makefile updated.
Enjoy
/benoit
* long time due: copy the executables to the install/msvc9 or install/msvc9d dir instead of keeping them in the source tree in the bin folder!
* copy the new ui scripts to the install dir
Added occlusion culling capability in the BGE.
More info: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.49/Game_Engine#BGE_Scenegraph_improvement
MSVC, scons, cmake, Makefile updated.
Other minor performance improvements:
- The rasterizer was computing the openGL model matrix of the objects too many times
- DBVT view frustrum culling was not properly culling behind the near plane:
Large objects behind the camera were sent to the GPU
- Remove all references to mesh split/join feature as it is not yet functional
- added missing files
- cleanup of some project settings
- RNA building has dependency issue: had to add interface_api.c to the makesrna project and makesrna and rna projects now include editors.
- added debug libraries for OpenExr, please update lib/windows/openexr to get them
User guide:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/Fisheye_Dome_Camera
Fixed two bugs from original patch:
- deleting a text will clear the warp field from Game framing settings
- removed spurious black dots along the edge of the cube map in the gameplayer
Known limitation:
- resizing of the screen doesn't work in the gameplayer
Known bugs:
- Texture with reflexion are not rendered correctly
- Spurious problems with light
This commit contains a number of performance improvements for the
BGE in the Scenegraph (parent relation between objects in the
scene) and view frustrum culling.
The scenegraph improvement consists in avoiding position update
if the object has not moved since last update and the removal
of redundant updates and synchronization with the physics engine.
The view frustrum culling improvement consists in using the DBVT
broadphase facility of Bullet to build a tree of graphical objects
in the scene. The elements of the tree are Aabb boxes (Aligned
Axis Bounding Boxes) enclosing the objects. This provides good
precision in closed and opened scenes. This new culling system
is enabled by default but just in case, it can be disabled with
a button in the World settings. There is no do_version in this
commit but it will be added before the 2.49 release. For now you
must manually enable the DBVT culling option in World settings
when you open an old file.
The above improvements speed up scenegraph and culling up to 5x.
However, this performance improvement is only visible when
you have hundreds or thousands of objects.
The main interest of the DBVT tree is to allow easy occlusion
culling and automatic LOD system. This will be the object of further
improvements.
Notes:
* Sequence transform strip uses G.scene global, this is commented
out now, should be fixed.
* Etch-a-ton code was most difficult to merge. The files already in
2.5 got merged, but no new files were added. Calls to these files
are commented out with "XXX etch-a-ton". editarmature.c and
transform_snap.c were complex to merge. Martin, please check?
* Game engine compiles and links again here for scons/make/cmake
(player still fails to link).
* added filter buttons to header
* changed large icon for movie files to match small icon
* fixed small stack corruption in interface_draw.c (Matt, check if this is ok)
* moved nice display of file size to storage.c, where string is created.
further cleanup:
- moved struct FileList* back to SpaceFile
- fix for memory related errors and freeing operator in file_free
- removed wmSubWindowSet, we're not doing OpenGL select in filebrowser
- removed drawing of load button when invoked from windowtype pupmenu
2.5 MSVC projectfiles:
- slipped in removal of multires_firstlevel.c in blenkernel
- basic drawing of list and thumbnail view (switchable through 'favourits' icon in header)
- selection of files and directories (bookmarks) works with the RMB (right mouse button)
- load operator for files still unstable (no check for correct file type) and incomplete. (WM_operator_free missing)
immediate TODOS:
- fix load file operator
- finish drawing of buttons in header
- drawing of detailed list with all file info.
- finish selection and execute operators (LMB and MMB execute)
later todos:
- parent dir
- keymap for all the shortcuts
- append/link and databrowse
- ...
updates:
* editors/transform: added all files
* editors/animation: keyframes_general.c
* editors/space_node: node_state.c
note: had to remove WITH_VERSE from editors, due to BIF_verse not beeing ported (yet?)
updates:
* new file editors/interface/interface_panel.c
* new files in editors/space_node
* new file editors/space_buttons/buttons_scene.c
* new files in editors/space_script
* new files in editors/object
* update for editors/animation editors/space_outliner and editors/screen
* also fix compile error when INTERNATIONAL is set (will likely be solved with new font API)
* fix lost declaration and missing includes after blenlib cleanup.
* bump warning level to W3 for Debug in a few libraries for MSVC9 projectfiles. Others will follow.
DONE:
* moved almost all declarations from BLI_blenlib.h into their own proper header files.
* BLI_blenlib.h still includes all the declarations for convenience and to avoid changes in existing code
* split util.c into several files, where it wasn't done already
* DynamicList -> dynamiclist,
* ListBase -> listbase,
* String utility functions -> string.c
* removed a few unused macros and functions, if they're needed back, they're still in svn ;)
TODO:
* btempdir global
* further cleanup in the code of the different modules (especially util.c)
* DNA_packedFile_types: added rna definitions for packed files
* also experimentally filled in correct struct 'PackedFile' in image rna for testing.
* updated MSVC projectfiles (also for rna_curve.c and rna_vfont.c)
Note:
I removed PackedFile->flags, I did grep through source and a complete recompile of blender trunk svn without them too, so they obviously aren't needed anymore. A bit of cleaning up :)
== MSVC projectfiles ==
- update for python RNA API
- update for editors: ed_util.c
- fixed RNA_rna library project, doesn't need the c files included in rna.c
* Moved View2D data from space-data to ARegion (aka regions). This has been done because drawing occurs in regions not areas anymore. The View2D struct is currently stored in the ARegion struct (not as pointer), given that most of the regions in use will be 2D anyway (only the 3d-view's "window" region is the exception).
Added version patch code for outliner and timeline only for now. Headers are also likely to need this.
* Added separate keymap for View2D operators. All regions that use View2D will need this added. This includes headers too.
* Pan view operator (ED_View2D_OT_view_pan), currently works for Outliner and Timeline. Use MMB-drag as before.
- It currently doesn't exposed any parameters for redo (via RNA-ID-Props), but only uses some customdata. Suggestions on what these parameters could be are welcomed.
- I've yet to implement the necessary axis-locking features for this panning (which is required in Timeline for example to prevent vertical panning, which moves the markers out of view).
Part 3/3: new icons
- Icon set done by jendrzych! Great job!
- cleaned up unnecessary includes and removed commented out code
- preview icons (for materials, textures,..) don't work yet, have to be ported to new event system
updated VisualStudio 9 projectfiles for blender 2.50
notes:
- still WIP
- dependencies have to be reviewed
- gameengine has been removed from build for now, needs to be added back at some point
- time, outliner and view3d editors have been added, other editors will have to be added when ported
