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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrea Weikert
8fdaa263c0 MSVC 9 projectfiles
* Added GLEW_STATIC where necessary to make Blender compile again
* First attempt at compiling blenderplayer again - compiles, but doesn't link yet 
* removed deprecated SND_ functions from blenderplayer
2009-11-22 13:15:36 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
1483fafd13 Merge of itasc branch. Project files, scons and cmake should be working. Makefile updated but not tested. Comes with Eigen2 2.0.6 C++ matrix library. 2009-09-24 21:22:24 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
c8b4cf9206 2.50:
svn merge https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender -r19820:HEAD

Notes:
* Game and sequencer RNA, and sequencer header are now out of date
  a bit after changes in trunk.
* I didn't know how to port these bugfixes, most likely they are
  not needed anymore.
  * Fix "duplicate strip" always increase the user count for ipo.
  * IPO pinning on sequencer strips was lost during Undo.
2009-06-08 20:08:19 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
42557f90bd BGE performance, 3rd round: culling and rasterizer.
This commit extend the technique of dynamic linked list to the mesh
slots so as to eliminate dumb scan or map lookup. It provides massive 
performance improvement in the culling and in the rasterizer when 
the majority of objects are static.

Other improvements:
- Compute the opengl matrix only for objects that are visible.
- Simplify hash function for GEN_HasedPtr
- Scan light list instead of general object list to render shadows
- Remove redundant opengl calls to set specularity, shinyness and diffuse
  between each mesh slots.
- Cache GPU material to avoid frequent call to GPU_material_from_blender
- Only set once the fixed elements of mesh slot
- Use more inline function

The following table shows the performance increase between 2.48, 1st round
and this round of improvement. The test was done with a scene containing 
40000 objects, of which 1000 are in the view frustrum approximately. The
object are simple textured cube to make sure the GPU is not the bottleneck.
As some of the rasterizer processing time has moved under culling, I present
the sum of scenegraph(includes culling)+rasterizer time

Scenegraph+rasterizer(ms)       2.48      1st round       3rd round

All objects static,            323.0           86.0             7.2
all visible, 1000 in 
the view frustrum

All objects static,            219.0           49.7             N/A(*)
all invisible.

All objects moving,            323.0          105.6            34.7
all visible, 1000 in 
the view frustrum

Scene destruction              40min          40min              4s

(*) : this time is not representative because the frame rate was at 60fps.
      In that case, the GPU holds down the GE by frame sync. By design, the
      overhead of the rasterizer is 0 when the the objects are invisible. 

This table shows a global speed up between 9x and 45x compared to 2.48a
for scenegraph, culling and rasterizer overhead. The speed up goes much
higher when objects are invisible.

An additional 2-4x speed up is possible in the scenegraph by upgrading
the Moto library to use Eigen2 BLAS library instead of C++ classes but
the scenegraph is already so fast that it is not a priority right now.

Next speed up in logic: many things to do there...
2009-05-07 09:13:01 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
d11a5bbef2 BGE: Support mesh modifiers in the game engine.
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
2009-04-21 11:01:09 +00:00
Andrea Weikert
369bdcc702 == MSVC project files ==
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
2008-11-16 16:53:37 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
61a83d2fba Add MSVC90 project files - part 3. Extern and Intern projects are merged in projectfiles_vc9\blender\blender.sln solution, you just need to open that solution to compile everything with VS2008. 2008-11-10 21:22:22 +00:00