Boolean arguments for functions are pretty evil and usually
lead to combinatorial explosion of parameters in case multiple
settings are added.
In the case of the COGL texture constructors we have a boolean
argument for enabling the auto-mipmapping; it is conceivable that
we might want to add more settings for a COGL texture without
breaking API or ABI compatibility, so the boolean argument should
become a bitmask.
The internals have not been changed: instead of checking for
a non-zero value, we check for a bitmask being set.
This better reflects the fact that the api manages sets of vertex attributes,
and the attributes really have no implied form. It is only when you use the
attributes to draw that they become mesh like; when you specify how they should
be interpreted, e.g. as triangle lists or fans etc. This rename frees up the
term "mesh", which can later be applied to a concept slightly more fitting.
E.g. at some point it would be nice to have a higher level abstraction that
sits on top of cogl vertex buffers that adds the concept of faces. (Somthing
like Blender's mesh objects.) There have also been some discussions over
particle engines, and these can be defined in terms of emitter faces; so some
other kind of mesh abstraction might be usefull here.
Okey; to summarise the changes...
We have converted Clutter and Cogl over to using floating point internally
instead of 16.16 fixed, but we have maintained the cogl-fixed API as a
utility to applications in case they want to implement their own optimizations.
The Clutter API has not changed (though ClutterFixed and ClutterUnit are now
internally floats) but all Cogl entry points have been changed to accept floats
now instead of CoglFixed.
To summarise the rationale...
There have been a number of issues with using fixed point though out Clutter
and Cogl including: lack of precision, lack of range, excessive format
conversion (GPUs tend to work nativly with IEEE floats) and maintainability.
One of the main arguments for fixed point - performance - hasn't shown
itself to be serious in practice so far since we seem to be more limited
by GPU performance and making improvements regarding how we submit data to
OpenGL[ES]/the GPU has had a more significant impact.
Ref: The recent multiple rectangle queuing changes + the
cogl-texture-agressive-batching branch which show significant performance
gains, and that recent tests on the ipodtouch (ARM + MBX) also showed no
loss of performance running with floats.
So finally; please forgive the inevitable fallout, this is a far reaching
change. There are still a few known issues with the fixed to float
conversion but enough works for all our conformance tests to pass, and the
remaining issues hopefully wont be too tricky to solve. For reference two
tags will be available either side of this change: "cogl-fixed-end" and
"cogl-float-start"
To deal with all the corner cases that couldn't be scripted a number of patches
were written for the remaining 10% of the effort.
Note: again no API changes were made in Clutter, only in Cogl.
This is the result of running a number of sed and perl scripts over the code to
do 90% of the work in converting from 16.16 fixed to single precision floating
point.
Note: A pristine cogl-fixed.c has been maintained as a standalone utility API
so that applications may still take advantage of fixed point if they
desire for certain optimisations where lower precision may be acceptable.
Note: no API changes were made in Clutter, only in Cogl.
Overview of changes:
- Within clutter/* all usage of the COGL_FIXED_ macros have been changed to use
the CLUTTER_FIXED_ macros.
- Within cogl/* all usage of the COGL_FIXED_ macros have been completly stripped
and expanded into code that works with single precision floats instead.
- Uses of cogl_fixed_* have been replaced with single precision math.h
alternatives.
- Uses of COGL_ANGLE_* and cogl_angle_* have been replaced so we use a float for
angles and math.h replacements.
It looks like the changes to cogl-gles2-wrapper.h were accidentally
committed to the actual file instead of the patch in commit
de27da0e. This commit moves the changes back into the patch so
cogl-gles2-wrapper.h is reverted back to master.
The patches have been updated to apply cleanly.
The patches for the g_warnings in clutter-actor.c have been removed
because master now uses CLUTTER_UNITS_FORMAT so they aren't
necessary. The clutter-units.h patch now sets CLUTTER_UNITS_FORMAT to
'f'.
The changes from the GL version of cogl-texture.c have been mirrored
in the GLES version. This adds the cogl_texture_new_from_bitmap
function and fixes the build errors.
* async-textures:
Whitespace fixes in ClutterTexture
[async-loading] Do not force the texture size on async load
[async-loading] Update asynchronous image loading
Add API for extracting image size from a file
Update/clean and apply the async-texture patch from bug #1144
* animation-improvements:
[docs] Add ClutterAnimatable to the API reference
Add license notice to ClutterAnimation files
[docs] Update the ClutterAnimation section
[animation] Extend ClutterAnimation support to all objects
[animation] Use ClutterAnimatable inside Animation
[animation] Add ClutterAnimatable
[animation] Allow registering custom progress function
[animation] Interval::compute_value should return a boolean
Animate ClutterColor properties
The GLES 2 wrapper needs to set up some state before each
draw. Previously this was acheived by wrapping glDrawArrays. Since the
multiple-texture-rectangle branch merge, glDrawElements is used
instead so we also need a wrapper for that.
It was also directly calling glBindTexture. GLES 2 uses a wrapper for
this function so that it can cope with GL_ALPHA format textures. The
format of the current texture needs to be stored as well as the target
and object number for this to work.
For the asynchronous loading we need a function call that parses
a file, given its path, and retrieves the image width and height.
This commit adds cogl_bitmap_get_size_from_file() to the CoglBitmap
API.
* animatable-iface:
[docs] Add ClutterAnimatable to the API reference
Add license notice to ClutterAnimation files
[animation] Use ClutterAnimatable inside Animation
[animation] Add ClutterAnimatable
Bug 1289 - Draw multiple glyphs at once
The multiple-texture-rectangle branch adds a new Cogl texture function
called cogl_texture_multiple_rectangles which is used to draw multiple
rectangles out of a texture using a single GL call. This is
significantly faster than drawing the rectangles with individual calls
on some platforms. The Pango renderer now uses this to speed up
rendering.
The conflicts are just due to the whitespace fixes in cb569a5.
Conflicts:
clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.c
clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.h
clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-texture.c
Merge branch 'text-actor'
* text-actor: (108 commits)
Re-align ClutterText header file
[text] Fix cursor sizing
Comments and whitespace fixes to ClutterText
[docs] Add newly added :single-line-mode accessors
Update the ignore file
[tests] Add text field interactive test
[text] Add single-line-mode to ClutterText
[text] Fix the deletion actions
[text] Use cached length when possible
[tests] Add unit for the ClutterText:password-char property
[docs] Update the Text section
[text] Coalesce text visibility and password character
Allow localizations to change the text direction
Clean up the update_pango_context() function
Pass the PangoContext, not the MainContext
Revert the logic of the PangoContext check
Remove the binding pool entry from the list
Remove BindingPool::list_actions()
Add ClutterActor::create_pango_context()
Rename the PangoContext creation functions
...
The rest of Cogl expects the texture mode to be GL_MODULATE so it
needs to be restored after calling cogl_material_rectangle. Otherwise
cogl_texture_rectangle will fail to blend with the Cogl color properly
and all of the labels will be black.
* units-rework:
[texture] Do not mix fixed point and units values
[tests] Fix the actor detection
[units] Do not use fixed point and units interchangeably
The API has been changed to take an explicit length for the number of
texture coordinates passed, and it's now documented that if there are
more layers to the current material than the number of texture coords
passed, then default coordinates will be generated for the other
layers.
cogl_material_rectangle should now handle the case where a single
sliced texture is supplied as a material layer by falling back to
cogl_texture_rectangle. We are nearly at the point that
cogl_texture_rectangle could be deprecated. A few issues remain
though, such as not considering waste in cogl_material_rectangle.
The other colors of a material; such as the ambient and diffuse color are
only relevent when we can enable lighting. This adds a basic unlit
color property.
Later cogl_set_source_color can be integrated to either modify the color
of the current source material, or maintain a special singlton CoglMaterial
that is modified by calls to cogl_set_source_color and implicitly made
current.
This flattens the three functions: cogl_material_flush_gl_material_state,
.._flush_gl_alpha_func and .._flush_gl_blend_func into one:
cogl_flush_material_gl_state which doesn't takes a material handle. (the handle
is instead taken from the context.)
This has allows us to avoid re-submitting some state to OpenGL when the
material has not been replaced.
Note: Avoiding redundant state changes for material layers isn't dealt with
in this patch.
Removed trailing white space from the following files:
- clutter-clone-texture.c
- clutter-texture.c
- clutter-texture.h
- cogl/cogl-texture.h
- cogl/gl/cogl-context.c
- cogl/gl/cogl-texture.c
- cogl/gl/cogl-context.h
test-cogl-material now runs on GLES 1 using the PVR GLES1 SDK (though since
only 2 texture units are supported the third rotating light map doesn't show)
Note: It currently doesn't build for GLES 2.0
My previous work to provide muti-texturing support has been extended into
a CoglMaterial abstraction that adds control over the texture combine
functions (controlling how multiple texture layers are blended together),
the gl blend function (used for blending the final primitive with the
framebuffer), the alpha function (used to discard fragments based on
their alpha channel), describing attributes such as a diffuse, ambient and
specular color (for use with the standard OpenGL lighting model), and
per layer rotations. (utilizing the new CoglMatrix utility API)
For now the only way this abstraction is exposed is via a new
cogl_material_rectangle function, that is similar to cogl_texture_rectangle
but doesn't take a texture handle (the source material is pulled from
the context), and the array of texture coordinates is extended to be able
to supply coordinates for each layer.
Note: this function doesn't support sliced textures; supporting sliced
textures is a non trivial problem, considering the ability to rotate layers.
Note: cogl_material_rectangle, has quite a few workarounds, for a number of
other limitations within Cogl a.t.m.
Note: The GLES1/2 multi-texturing support has yet to be updated to use
the material abstraction.
Multitexturing allows blending multiple layers of texture data when texturing
some geometry. A common use is for pre-baked light maps which can give nice
lighting effects relativly cheaply. Another is for dot-3 bump mapping, and
another is applying alpha channel masks.
The dot-3 bump mapping would be really nice one day, but currently cogl doesn't
support lighting so that's not dealt with in this patch.
notable limitations:
- It can only texture rectangles a.t.m - and like cogl_texture_rectangle there
is no support for rotated texturing.
- Sliced textures are not supported. I think I've figured out how to handle
layers with different slice sizes at least for rectangular geometry, but I'm
not sure how complex it becomes once rotations are possible and texturing
arbitrary cogl_polygons.
- Except for this new API, cogl still doesn't know about more than one texture
unit, and so has no way of caching any enables related to other units. So that
things don't break it's currently necessary to disable anything to do with
additional units as soon as we are done with them which isn't ideal.
- No clutter API yet.
* cairo-texture:
[cairo-texture] Remove the construct only restriction on surface size
[cairo-texture] Silently discard 0x0 surfaces
Re-indent ClutterPath header
Add a test case for the new cairo path functions
Add clutter_path_to_cairo_path and clutter_path_add_cairo_path
Warn instead of returning in the IN_PAINT check
Small documentation fixes
Print a warning when creating a cairo_t while painting
Do not set the IN_PAINT flag inside the Stage paint
Set the IN_PAINT private flag
[docs] Add ClutterCairoTexture to the API reference
Add ClutterCairoTexture
Require Cairo as a Clutter dependency
Conflicts:
Fix merge conflict in clutter/clutter-path.h
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-defines.h.in:
* clutter/cogl/gl/cogl-context.h:
* clutter/cogl/common/cogl-mesh.c: Rename the glBufferDataSub
function to glBufferSubData. When calling glXGetProcAddress with
the former Mesa returns a stub dispatch function which will
segfault if you try to use it. With NVIDIA it returns NULL so
_cogl_features_init decides the card doesn't have VBO support.
There's no point in clearing the index array because it is always the
same sequence of indices regardless of the vertices. Instead it is
just added to when there are more vertices than ever before.
