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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brecht Van Lommel
cb12337363 Code cleanup: remove source/kernel module, this wasn't really the kernel of
anything, only contained a hash map and functions to pass command line args
to the game engine. Moved those to container and BlenderRoutines modules.
2011-05-06 20:18:42 +00:00
Nathan Letwory
79f79e0cac doxygen: BGE Network, Physics, Rasterizer 2011-02-22 12:42:55 +00:00
Campbell Barton
ed338da8c9 - WITH_CXX_GUARDEDALLOC working again
- CMake building without python or fluidsim working again (broke in recent commit)
- remove BLI_short_filename(), it wasnt used anywhere.
2010-06-06 01:15:44 +00:00
Campbell Barton
081c1205a3 correct fsf address 2010-02-12 13:34:04 +00:00
Campbell Barton
f12f238062 svn merge https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender -r22875:22935
Note, missing r22897, schlaile
source/blender/src/hddaudio.c
2009-09-01 18:49:33 +00:00
Campbell Barton
6b3351c327 bugfix [#19254] KX_PolyProxy returns improper VertexIndex with triangles, using .getVertexIndex() and .v1, .v2, etc.
Surprising this wasn't noticed before. Any mix of quads/tris caused the face verts of either quads/tries (whichever comes last).

Tested by exporting the KX_MeshProxy and re-importing as an OBJ.

This fix assumes there are only 2 m_darray's per face array which is currently true, but wont be if edge support is added back.
2009-08-31 03:36:02 +00:00
Campbell Barton
14d33b3c1f BGE guardedalloc, Uses WITH_CXX_GUARDEDALLOC but gives a string to MEM_mallocN for better tracking memory usage.
* off by default.
* new/delete are at the bottom of each class
* python BGE objects have the new/delete in the Py_Header macro.
2009-08-18 15:37:31 +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* Game and sequencer RNA, and sequencer header are now out of date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
Brecht Van Lommel
874c29cea8 2.50: svn merge https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender -r19323:HEAD
Notes:
* blenderbuttons and ICON_SNAP_PEEL_OBJECT were not merged.
2009-04-20 15:06:46 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
53fd3847bc BGE: restore a feature that was lost in 2.48: sharing of display lists between duplicated objects. 2009-04-18 09:14:51 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
51b4145841 BGE Scenegraph and View frustrum culling improvement.
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.
2009-04-07 22:14:06 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
cb89decfdc Merge of first part of changes from the apricot branch, especially
the features that are needed to run the game. Compile tested with
scons, make, but not cmake, that seems to have an issue not related
to these changes. The changes include:

* GLSL support in the viewport and game engine, enable in the game
  menu in textured draw mode.
* Synced and merged part of the duplicated blender and gameengine/
  gameplayer drawing code.
* Further refactoring of game engine drawing code, especially mesh
  storage changed a lot.
* Optimizations in game engine armatures to avoid recomputations.
* A python function to get the framerate estimate in game.

* An option take object color into account in materials.
* An option to restrict shadow casters to a lamp's layers.
* Increase from 10 to 18 texture slots for materials, lamps, word.
  An extra texture slot shows up once the last slot is used.

* Memory limit for undo, not enabled by default yet because it
  needs the .B.blend to be changed.
* Multiple undo for image painting.

* An offset for dupligroups, so not all objects in a group have to
  be at the origin.
2008-09-04 20:51:28 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
908337bee1 Game Engine: alpha blending and sorting
=======================================

Alpha blending + sorting was revised, to fix bugs and get it
to work more predictable.

* A new per texture face "Sort" setting defines if the face
  is alpha sorted or not, instead of abusing the "ZTransp"
  setting as it did before.
* Existing files are converted to hopefully match the old
  behavior as much as possible with a version patch.
* On new meshes the Sort flag is disabled by the default, to
  avoid unexpected and hard to find slowdowns.
* Alpha sorting for faces was incredibly slow. Sorting faces
  in a mesh with 600 faces lowered the framerate from 200 to
  70 fps in my test.. the sorting there case goes about 15x
  faster now, but it is still advised to use Clip Alpha if
  possible instead of regular Alpha.
* There still various limitations in the alpha sorting code,
  I've added some comments to the code about this.

Some docs at the bottom of the page:
http://www.blender.org/development/current-projects/changes-since-246/realtime-glsl-materials/

Merged some fixes from the apricot branch, most important
change is that  tangents are now exactly the same as the rest
of Blender, instead of being computed in the game engine with a
different algorithm.

Also, the subversion was bumped to 1.
2008-07-29 15:48:31 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
99fdf27af9 Sync with Apricot Game Engine
=============================

* Clean up and optimizations in skinned/deformed mesh code.
* Compatibility fixes and clean up in the rasterizer.
* Changes related to GLSL shadow buffers which should have no
  effect, to keep the code in sync with apricot.
2008-07-10 12:47:20 +00:00
Chris Want
5d0a207ecb Patch from GSR that a) fixes a whole bunch of GPL/BL license
blocks that were previously missed; and b) greatly increase my
ohloh stats!
2008-04-16 22:40:48 +00:00
Benoit Bolsee
1f0ae739cb BGE memleak fix: OpenGL Display Lists not deleted when switching scene
This fix also improves performance of Display List for replica objects: Display List ID caching is now enabled for replica objects which avoids a tree search on each frame and for each replica.
2008-03-09 22:02:32 +00:00
Erwin Coumans
6839ec6640 applied Charlies patch for game engine graphics. display list support, and bumpmapping shader improvements. 2006-04-02 21:04:20 +00:00
Erwin Coumans
e4790aef46 Improved OpenGL Shader Language support for game engine. The python interface is much simplified. Drawback is that scripts need to be updated next release. Testfiles:
http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=demos-2.42.zip

patch by Charlie Carley (snailrose @ elysiun.com)
2006-02-13 05:45:32 +00:00
Kester Maddock
3b91ea4309 Unified KX_BlenderPolyMaterial & GPC_PolygonMaterial into KX_PolygonMaterial.
Make game engine materials use Zoffs in Materials.
Added Python material hooks.
2005-01-16 06:02:06 +00:00
Kester Maddock
90fb631526 Port a few rasterizer changes from tuhopuu2:
Up the max batch size.
Clean up some of the code - move code in headers to source files etc.
2004-07-17 05:23:17 +00:00
Kester Maddock
c9b4585618 Switch to using floats instead of shorts for normal data - they're supposed to be faster.
Also use shorts instead of ints for the index data, since index arrays are limited anyhow.
2004-06-30 13:41:19 +00:00
Kester Maddock
4c53f38756 Minor Fixes:
Better use of booleans for python
#include fixes for Windows
Python Doc fixes
Use the farthest vertex as the face position when z sorting faces. (Camera is on -z axis!)
2004-06-26 09:15:41 +00:00
Kester Maddock
e78ef29a59 Depth sorting for alpha mesh objects.
- Mesh Objects are sorted by depth (based on object centre.)  Using object centre means the user has control over the sort.
- Polygons are not sorted.
- Polygons are not split.
- O(nlog(n))
2004-05-21 08:55:12 +00:00
Kester Maddock
f03fa79d28 Fix for bug #945 getVertexArrayLength(x) returns different values on different runs of the game engine.
http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=945&group_id=9&atid=125

The material buckets were being sorted by pointer (ie their location in memory.)

Also fixed find shared verticies.
2004-05-04 09:34:02 +00:00
Nathan Letwory
00291b5cf4 [GameEngine] Commit all Kester's changes made to the gameengine to restore 2.25 like physics.
[SCons] Build with Solid as default when enabling the gameengine in the build process
[SCons] Build solid and qhull from the extern directory and link statically against them

That was about it.

There are a few things that needs double checking:

* Makefiles
* Projectfiles
* All the other systems than Linux and Windows on which the build (with scons) has been successfully tested.
2004-03-22 22:02:18 +00:00
Kent Mein
f1c4f705a1 Removed the config.h thing from the .h's in the source dir.
So we should be all set now :)

Kent
--
mein@cs.umn.edu
2002-12-27 13:11:01 +00:00
Kent Mein
b9a19f1ea7 Did all of the .h's in source
(adding)
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>
#endif

also the Makefile.in's were from previous patch adding
the system depend stuff to configure.ac

Kent
--
mein@cs.umn.edu
2002-11-25 11:16:17 +00:00
Kent Mein
01bff70383 fixed spacing in the headers to get rid of some warnings and some other
little minor spacing issues.
2002-10-30 02:07:20 +00:00
Hans Lambermont
12315f4d0e Initial revision 2002-10-12 11:37:38 +00:00