Using 'r' to name the third component is problematic because that is
commonly used to represent the red component of a vector representing
a color. Under GLSL this is awkward because the texture swizzling for
a vector uses a single letter for each component and the names for
colors, textures and positions are synonymous. GLSL works around this
by naming the components of the texture s, t, p and q. Cogl already
effectively already exposes this naming because it exposes GLSL so it
makes sense to use that naming consistently. Another alternative could
be u, v and w. This is what Blender and Direct3D use. However the w
component conflicts with the w component of a position vertex.
This adds a publicly exposed experimental API for a 3D texture
backend. There is a feature flag which can be checked for whether 3D
textures are supported. Although we require OpenGL 1.2 which has 3D
textures in core, GLES only provides them through an extension so the
feature can be used to detect that.
The textures can be created with one of two new API functions :-
cogl_texture_3d_new_with_size
and
cogl_texture_3d_new_from_data
There is also internally a new_from_bitmap function. new_from_data is
implemented in terms of this function.
The two constructors are effectively the only way to upload data to a
3D texture. It does not work to call glTexImage2D with the
GL_TEXTURE_3D target so the virtual for cogl_texture_set_region does
nothing. It would be possible to make cogl_texture_get_data do
something sensible like returning all of the images as a single long
image but this is not currently implemented and instead the virtual
just always fails. We may want to add API specific to the 3D texture
backend to get and set a sub region of the texture.
All of those three functions can throw a GError. This will happen if
the GPU does not support 3D textures or it does not support NPOTs and
an NPOT size is requested. It will also fail if the FBO extension is
not supported and the COGL_TEXTURE_NO_AUTO_MIPMAP flag is not
given. This could be avoided by copying the code for the
GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP TexParameter fallback, but in the interests of
keeping the code simple this is not yet done.
This adds a couple of functions to cogl-texture-driver for uploading
3D data and querying the 3D proxy
texture. prep_gl_for_pixels_upload_full now also takes sets the
GL_UNPACK_IMAGE_HEIGHT parameter so that 3D textures can have padding
between the images. Whenever 3D texture is uploading, both the height
of the images and the height of all of the data is specified (either
explicitly or implicilty from the CoglBitmap) so that the image height
can be deduced by dividing by the depth.
Under big GL, glext.h is included automatically by gl.h. However under
GLES this doesn't appear to happen so it has to be included explicitly
to get the defines for extensions. This patch changes the
clutter_gl_header to be called cogl_gl_headers and it can now take a
space seperated list of multiple headers. This is then later converted
to a list of #include lines which ends up cogl-defines.h. The gles2
and gles1 backends now add their respective ext header to this list.
There are many places in the texture backend that need to do
conversion using the CoglBitmap code. Currently none of these
functions can throw an error but they do return a value to indicate
failure. In future it would make sense if new texture functions could
throw an error and in that case they would want to use a CoglBitmap
error if the failure was due to the conversion. This moves the
internal CoglBitmap error from the quartz backend to be public in
cogl-bitmap.h so that it can be used in this way.
We can use this error in more unsupported situations than just when we
have a Cogl feature flag for the error. For example if a non-sliced
texture is created with dimensions that are too large then we could
throw this error. Therefore it seems good to rename to something more
general.
Previously when comparing whether the settings for a layer are equal
it would only check if one of them was enabled. If so then it would
assume the other one was enabled and continue to compare the texture
environment. Now it also checks whether the enabledness differs.
This adds a COGL_OBJECT_INTERNAL_DEFINE macro and friends that are the
same as COGL_OBJECT_DEFINE except that they prefix the cogl_is_*
function with an underscore so that it doesn't get exported in the
shared library.
Previously COGL_OBJECT_DEFINE would always define deprecated
cogl_$type_{ref,unref} functions even if the type is new or if the
type is entirely internal. An application would still find it
difficult to use these because they wouldn't be in the headers, but it
still looks bad that they are exported from the shared library. This
patch changes it so that the deprecated ref counting functions are
defined using a separate macro and only the types that have these
functions in the headers call this macro.
Since 365605cf42, materials and layers are represented in a tree
structure that allows traversing up through parents and iterating down
through children. This re-works the related typedefs and reparenting
code so that they can be shared.
Under big GL, _cogl_texture_driver_size_supported uses the proxy
texture to check whether the given texture size is supported. Proxy
textures aren't available under GLES so previously this would just
return TRUE to assume all texture sizes are supported. This patch
makes it use glGetIntegerv with GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE to give a second
best guess.
This fixes the sliced texture backend so that it will use slices when
the texture is too big.
When an intermediate buffer is used for downloading texture data it
was using the wrong byte length for a row so the copy back to the
user's buffer would fail.
The fallback for when glGetTexImage is not available renders the
texture to the framebuffer to read the data using glReadPixels. This
patch just sets the COGL_MATERIAL_FILTER_NEAREST filter mode on the
material before rendering to avoid linear filtering which would alter
the texture data.
The fallback for when glGetTexImage is not available draws parts of
the texture to the framebuffer and uses glReadPixels to extract the
data. However it was using cogl_rectangle to draw and then immediately
using raw glReadPixels to fetch the data. This won't cause a journal
flush so the rectangle won't necessarily have hit the framebuffer
yet. Instead it now uses cogl_read_pixels which does flush the
journal.
There were a few problems flushing texture overrides so that sliced
textures would not work:
* In _cogl_material_set_layer_texture it ignored the 'overriden'
parameter and always set texture_overridden to FALSE.
* cogl_texture_get_gl_texture wasn't being called correctly in
override_layer_texture_cb. It returns a gboolean to indicate the
error status but this boolean was being assigned to gl_target.
* _cogl_material_layer_texture_equal did not take into account the
override.
* _cogl_material_layer_get_texture_info did not return the overridden
texture so it would always use the first texture slice.
There was a lot of common code that was copied to all of the backends
to convert the data to a suitable format and wrap it into a CoglBitmap
so that it can be passed to _cogl_texture_driver_upload_subregion_to_gl.
This patch moves the common code to cogl-texture.c so that the virtual
just takes a CoglBitmap that is already in the right format.
Previously cogl_texture_get_data would pretty much directly pass on to
the get_data texture virtual function. This ended up with a lot of
common code that was copied to all of the backends. For example, the
method is expected to return the required data size if the data
pointer is NULL and to calculate its own rowstride if the rowstride is
0. Also it needs to convert the downloaded data if GL can't support
that format directly.
This patch moves the common code to cogl-texture.c so the virtual is
always called with a format that can be downloaded directly by GL and
with a valid rowstride. If the download fails then the virtual can
return FALSE in which case cogl-texture will use the draw and read
fallback.
For point sprites you are usually drawing the whole texture so you
most often want GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE. This patch removes the override for
COGL_MATERIAL_WRAP_MODE_AUTOMATIC when point sprites are enabled for a
layer so that it will clamp to edge.
This adds a new API call to enable point sprite coordinate generation
for a material layer:
void
cogl_material_set_layer_point_sprite_coords_enabled (CoglHandle material,
int layer_index,
gboolean enable);
There is also a corresponding get function.
Enabling point sprite coords simply sets the GL_COORD_REPLACE of the
GL_POINT_SPRITE glTexEnv when flusing the material. There is no
separate application control for glEnable(GL_POINT_SPRITE). Instead it
is left permanently enabled under the assumption that it has no affect
unless GL_COORD_REPLACE is enabled for a texture unit.
http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2047
Recently I added a _cogl_debug_dump_materials_dot_file function for
debugging the sparse material state. This extends the state dumped to
include the graph of layer state also.
We were mistakenly only initializing layer->layer_index for new layers
associated with texture units > 0. This had gone unnoticed because
normally layers associated with texture unit0 have a layer index of 0
too. Mutter was hitting this issue because it was initializing layer 1
before layer 0 for one of its materials so layer 1 was temporarily
associated with texture unit 0.
* cally-merge:
cally: Add introspection generation
cally: Improving cally doc
cally: Cleaning CallyText
cally: Refactoring "window:create" and "window:destroy" emission code
cally: Use proper backend information on CallyActor
cally: Check HAVE_CONFIG_H on cally-util.c
docs: Fix Cally documentation
cally: Clean up the headers
Add binaries of the Cally examples to the ignore file
docs: Add Cally API reference
Avoid to load cally module on a11y examples
Add accessibility tests
Initialize accessibility support on clutter_init
Rename some methods and includes to avoid -Wshadow warnings
Cally initialization code
Add Cally
Toolkits and applications not written in C might still need access to
the Cally API to write accessibility extensions based on it for their
own native elements.
Previously cogl_set_fog would cause a flush of the Cogl journal and
would directly bang the GL state machine to setup fogging. As part of
the ongoing effort to track most state in CoglMaterial to support
renderlists this now adds an indirection so that cogl_set_fog now just
updates ctx->legacy_fog_state. The fogging state then gets enabled as a
legacy override similar to how the old depth testing API is handled.
Since we'll want to share the fallback logic with CoglVertexArray this
moves the malloc based fallback (for when OpenGL doesn't support vertex
or pixel buffer objects) into cogl-buffer.c.
Explicitly warn if we detect that a CoglBuffer is being freed while it
is still mapped. Previously we silently unmapped the buffer, but it's
not something we want to encourage.
This makes CoglBuffer track the last used bind target as a private
property. This is later used when binding a buffer to map instead of
always using the PIXEL_UNPACK target.
This also adds some additional sanity checks that code doesn't try to
nest binds to the same target or bind a buffer to multiple targets at
the same time.
This adds three new feature flags COGL_FEATURE_TEXTURE_NPOT_BASIC,
COGL_FEATURE_TEXTURE_NPOT_MIPMAP and COGL_FEATURE_TEXTURE_NPOT_REPEAT
that can tell you if your hardware supports non power of two textures,
npot textures + mipmaps and npot textures + wrap modes other than
CLAMP_TO_EDGE.
The pre-existing COGL_FEATURE_TEXTURE_NPOT feature implies all of the
above.
By default GLES 2 core supports npot textures but mipmaps and repeat
modes can only be used with power of two textures. This patch also makes
GLES check for the GL_OES_texture_npot extension to determine if mipmaps
and repeating are supported with npot textures.
glDisableVertexAttribArray was defined to glEnableVertexAttribArray so
it would probably cause crashes if it was ever used. Presumably
nothing is using these yet because the generic attributes are not yet
tied to shader attributes in a predictable way.
For testing purposes, either to identify bugs in Cogl or the driver or
simulate lack of PBO support COGL_DEBUG=disable-pbos can be used to
fallback to malloc instead.
The pango renderer was causing lots of override materials to be allocated
because the vertex_buffer API converts AUTOMATIC mode into REPEAT for
backwards compatibility. By explicitly setting the wrap mode to
CLAMP_TO_EDGE when creating the glyph_material then the vertex_buffer
API will leave it untouched.
This allows you to tell Cogl that you are planning to replace all the
buffer's data once it is mapped with cogl_buffer_map. This means if the
buffer is currently being accessed by the GPU then the driver doesn't
have to stall and wait for it to finish before it can access it from the
CPU and can instead potentially allocate a new buffer with undefined
data and map that.
This changes the cogl_is_XYZ function prototypes generated when using
the COGL_OBJECT_DEFINE macro to take a void * argument instead of a
CoglHandle argument.
This removes cogl_pixel_array_new which just took a size in bytes.
Without the image size and pixel format then the driver often doesn't
have enough information to allocate optimal GPU memory that can be
textured from directly. This is because GPUs often have ways to
spatially alter the layout of a texture to improve cache access patterns
which may require special alignment and padding dependant in the images
width, height and bpp.
Although currently we are limited by OpenGL because it doesn't let us
pass on the width and height when allocating a PBO, the hope is that we
can define a better extension at some point.
The usage hint should be implied by the CoglBuffer subclass type so the
public getter and setter APIs for manually changing the usage hint of a
CoglBuffer have now been removed.
Instead of having to extend cogl_is_buffer with new buffer types
manually this now adds a new COGL_BUFFER_DEFINE macro to be used instead
of COGL_OBJECT_DEFINE for CoglBuffer subclasses. This macro will
automatically register the new type with ctx->buffer_types which will
iterated by cogl_is_buffer. This is the same coding pattern used for
CoglTexture.
This adds a _cogl_debug_dump_materials_dot_file function that can be
used to dump all the descendants of the default material to a file using
the dot format which can then be converted to an image to visualize.
In _cogl_material_pre_change_notify if a material with descendants is
modified then we create a new material that is a copy of the one being
modified and reparent those descendants to the new material.
This patch ensures we drop the reference we get from cogl_material_copy
since we can rely on the descendants to keep the new material alive.
The commit to split the fragment processing backends out from
cogl-material.c (3e1323a636) broke the GLES 1 and 2 builds the
fix was to guard the code in each backend according to the
COGL_MATERIAL_BACKEND_XYZ defines which are setup in
cogl-material-private.h.
The documentation for cogl_vertex_buffer_indices_get_for_quads was
using ugly ASCII art to draw the diagrams. These have now been
replaced with PNG figures.
CoglMaterialWrapMode was missing from the cogl-sections.txt file so it
wasn't getting displayed. There were also no documented return values
from the getters.
The tesselator code uses some defines that it expects to be in the GL
headers such as GLAPI and GLAPIENTRY. These are used to mark the entry
points as exportable on each platform. We don't really want the
tesselator code to use these but we also don't want to modify the C
files so instead they are #defined to be empty in the stub glu.h. That
header is only included internally when building the tesselator/ files
so it shouldn't affect the rest of Cogl.
GLES also doesn't have a GLdouble type so we just #define this to be a
regular double.
cogl_material_copy was taking a reference on the original texture when
making a copy. However it then calls _cogl_material_set_parent on the
material which also takes a reference on the parent. The second
reference is cleaned up whenever _cogl_material_unparent is called and
this is also called by _cogl_material_free. However, it seems that
nothing was cleaning up the first reference. I think the reference is
entirely unnecessary so this patch removes it.
We had several different ways of exposing experimental API, in one case
the symbols had no special suffix, in two other ways the symbols were
given an _EXP suffix but in different ways.
This makes all experimental API have an _EXP suffix which is handled
using #defines in the header so the prototypes in the .c and .h files
don't have the suffix.
The documented reason for the suffix is so that anyone watching Cogl for
ABI changes who sees symbols disappear will hopefully understand what's
going on.
This grabs the latest code for libtess from git Mesa. This is mostly
so that we can get the following commit which fixes a lot of compiler
warnings in Clutter:
commit 75acb896c6da758d03e86f8725d6ca0cb2c6ad82
Author: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed Jun 30 12:41:11 2010 +0100
glu: Fix some compiler warnings in libtess
When compiled with the more aggressive compiler warnings such as
-Wshadow and -Wempty-body the libtess code gives a lot more
warnings. This fixes the following issues:
* The 'Swap' macro tries to combine multiple statements into one and
then consume the trailing semicolon by using if(1){/*...*/}else.
This gives warnings because the else part ends up with an empty
statement. It also seems a bit dangerous because if the semicolon
were missed then it would still be valid syntax but it would just
ignore the following statement. This patch replaces it with the more
common idiom do { /*...*/ } while(0).
* 'free' was being used as a local variable name but this shadows the
global function. This has been renamed to 'free_handle'
* TRUE and FALSE were being unconditionally defined. Although this
isn't currently a problem it seems better to guard them with #ifndef
because it's quite common for them to be defined in other headers.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28845
As part of the ongoing effort to remove CoglHandle from the API this
switches the cogl_material API to use a strongly typed CoglMaterial
pointer instead of CoglHandle.
This splits the fragment processing backends (glsl, arbfp and fixed) out
from cogl-material.c into their own cogl-material-{glsl,arbfp,fixed}.c
files in an effort to help and keep cogl-material.c maintainable.
This adds two new API calls- cogl_path_set_fill_rule and
cogl_path_get_fill_rule. This allows modifying the fill rule of the
current path. In addition to the previous default fill rule of
'even-odd' it now supports the 'non-zero' rule. The fill rule is a
property of the path (not the Cogl context) so creating a new path or
preserving a path with cogl_path_get_handle affects the fill rule.
The scanline path rasterizer has been removed because the paths can be
drawn with the tesselator instead. The option therefore no longer does
anything.
Instead of drawing paths using the stencil buffer trick, it now
tesselates the path into triangles using the GLU tesselator and
renders them directly. A vbo is created with one vertex for each node
on the path. The tesselator is used to generate a series of indices
into the vbo as triangles. The tesselator's output of strips and fans
is converted into GL_TRIANGLES so that it can be rendered with a
single draw call (but the vertices are still shared via the
indices). The vbo is stored with the path so that if the application
uses retained paths then Cogl won't have to tessellate again.
The vertices also have texture coordinates associated with them so
that it can replicate the old behaviour of drawing a material with a
texture by fitting the texture to the bounding box of the path and
then clipping it. However if the texture contains waste or is sliced
then the vertex buffer code will refuse to draw it. In this case it
will revert back to drawing the path into the stencil buffer and then
drawing the material as a clipped quad.
The VBO is used even when setting up the stencil buffer for clipping
to a path because the tessellated geometry may cover less area.
The old scanline rasterizer has been removed because the tesselator
should work equally well on drivers with no stencil buffer.
This copies the files for the GLU tesselator from Mesa. The Mesa code
is based on the original SGI code and is released under a BSD license.
The memalloc.h header has been replaced with one that forces the code
to use g_malloc and friends. The rest of the files are not altered
from the original so it should be possible to later upgrade the files
by simply overwriting them.
There is a tesselator.h header which is expected to be included by
rest of Cogl to use the tesselator. This contains a trimmed down
version of glu.h that only includes parts that pertain to the
tesselator. There is also a stub glu.h in the GL directory which is
just provided so that the tesselator code can include <GL/gl.h>
without depending on the system header. It just redirects to
tesselator.h
Some of the arguments to the material and path functions were taking a
pointer to a CoglColor or an array of floats that was not intended to
be written to but were not marked with const.
in _cogl_material_prune_empty_layer_difference we sometimes unref the
given layer before dereferencing it to get a pointer to its parent. This
defers the unref until after we have fetched the parent pointer.
Commit 7fae8ac051 changed cogl-defines.h.in so there is only a
single copy in clutter/cogl/ instead of one for each driver. However
the old files were still mentioned in the EXTRA_DIST of the
Makefile.am so make distcheck was failing.
A pedantic change to get_fbconfig_for_depth() so that we don't need to
make any assumptions about the GLXFBConfig typedef or what values
we can overload to indicate an invalid config.
get_fbconfig_for_depth() now simply returns FALSE if it fails to find a
config.
This is a publicly exposed texture backend to create a texture which
contains the contents of an X11 pixmap. The API is currently marked as
experimental.
The backend internally holds a handle to another texture. All of the
backend virtuals simply redirect to the internal texture.
The texture can optionally be automatically updated if the
automatic_updates parameter is TRUE. If set then Cogl will listen for
damage events on the pixmap and update the texture accordingly.
Alternatively a damage object can be created externally and passed
down to Cogl.
The updates can be performed with XGetImage, XShmGetImage or the
GLX_EXT_texture_pixmap extension. If the TFP extension is used it will
optionally try to create a rectangle texture if the driver does not
support NPOTs or it is forced through the
COGL_PIXMAP_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE or CLUTTER_PIXMAP_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE
environment variables.
If the GLXFBConfig does not support mipmapping then it will fallback
to using X{Shm,}GetImage. It keeps a separate texture around for this
so that it can later start using the TFP texture again if the texture
is later drawn with mipmaps disabled.
This will be defined in cogl-defines.h whenever Cogl is built using a
winsys that supports X11. This implies CoglTexturePixmapX11 will be
available.
To make this work the two separate cogl-defines.h.in files have been
merged into one. The configure script now makes a @COGL_DEFINES@
substitution variable which contains the #define lines to put in
rather than directly having them in the seperate files.
This is similar to clutter_x11_{,un}trap_errors except that it stores
the previous trap state in a caller-allocated struct so that it can be
re-entrant.
Make _cogl_xlib_trap_errors re-entrant
(this will be squashed into an earlier commit)
The _cogl_texture_needs_premult_conversion function was already
checking whether the source format had an alpha channel before
returning TRUE, but it also doesn't make sense to do the premult
conversion if the destination format has no alpha. This patch adds
that check in too.
This adds the framework needed to check for winsys specific extensions
(such as GLX extensions) using a similar mechanism to the
cogl-feature-functions header. There is a separate
cogl-winsys-feature-functions header which will contain macros to list
the extensions and functions. cogl_create_context_winsys now calls
_cogl_feature_check for each of these functions. _cogl_feature_check
has had to be changed to accept the driver prefix as the first
parameter so that it can prepend "GLX" rather than "GL" in this case.
The Clutter X11 backend now passes all events through
_cogl_xlib_handle_event. This function can now internally be hooked
with _cogl_xlib_add_filter. These are added to a list of callbacks
which are all called in turn by _cogl_xlib_handle_event. This is
intended to be used internally in Cogl by any parts that need to see
Xlib events.
Cogl now also has an internally exposed function to set a pointer to
the Xlib display. This is stored in a global variable. The Clutter X11
backend sets this.
_cogl_xlib_handle_event and _cogl_xlib_set_display can be removed once
Cogl gains a proper window system abstraction.
This creates a separate struct to store the fields of the context that
are specific to the winsys. This is all stored in one file but ideally
this could work more like the CoglContextDriver struct and have a
different header for each winsys.
This adds an internal rectangle texture backend which is mostly based
on the CoglTexture2D backend. It will throw assert failures if any
operations are attempted that rectangle textures don't support, such
as mipmapping or hardware repeating.
Instead of the ensure_mipmaps virtual that is only called whenever the
texture is about to be rendered with a min filter that needs the
mipmap, there is now a pre_paint virtual that is always called when
the texture is about to be painted in any way. It has a flags
parameter which is used to specify whether the mipmap will be needed.
This is useful for CoglTexturePixmapX11 because it needs to do stuff
before painting that is unrelated to mipmapping.
Instead of having a hardcoded series of if-statements in
cogl_is_texture to determine which types should appear as texture
subclasses, they are now stored in a GSList attached to the Cogl
context. The list is amended to using a new cogl_texture_register_type
function. There is a convenience macro called COGL_TEXTURE_DEFINE
which uses COGL_HANDLE_DEFINE_WITH_CODE to register the texture type
when the _get_type() function is first called.
This macro is similar to COGL_HANDLE_DEFINE_WITH_CODE except that it
allows a snippet of code to be inserted into the _get_type()
function. This is similar to how G_DEFINE_TYPE_WITH_CODE
works. COGL_HANDLE_DEFINE is now just a wrapper around
COGL_HANDLE_DEFINE_WITH_CODE.
_cogl_texture_2d_externally_modified is a function specific to the
CoglTexture2D texture backend that should be called whenever the
contents of the texture are modified without the backend knowing about
it. It simply marks the mipmap tree as invalid.
The include path for the winsys and driver folder was given relative
to $(srcdir) so it would end up relative to the driver folder which is
wrong. It is now specified as $(srcdir)/../../winsys to get the right
location. The driver folder is removed because it is actually just
$(srcdir) and that is already included.
GLES2 doesn't provide user clip planes (you would have to use a vertex +
fragment shader to achieve the same kind of result) so we make sure not
to call glEnable/Disable with any of the GL_CLIP_PLANE0..3 defines.
http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2177
The function had a line like:
CoglMaterial *material =
material = _cogl_material_pointer_from_handle (material_handle);
where the duplicate "material =" wasn't intended, so this patch removes
it.
Under WGL, any functions that were defined after GL 1.1 are not
directly exported in the DLL so we need to reference them via the
function pointers. A new call to glActiveUnit was missed in
cogl-context.c
The window headers contain the line
#define near
so it's not possible to use the symbol 'near' in code that's portable
to Windows. This replaces it with 'near_val'.
I think the define is meant to improve compatibility with code written
for Windows 3.1 where near would be a keyword to make it a smaller
pointer size.
We don't need to generate a new ARBfp program for every material created
if we can find an ancestor whos state will result in the same program
being generated.
The more code we can have adopt the coding pattern of deriving their
materials from other similar materials using cogl_material_copy() the
more likely this metric will be good enough on its own to minimize the
set of arbfp programs necessary to support a given application.
Previously in _cogl_material_pre_change_notify we manually freed the
layer caches of a material if we caused a reparent, but it makes more
sense to have _cogl_material_set_parent do this directly instead.
This adds a _cogl_material_weak_copy() function that can be used to
create materials that don't count as strong dependants on their parents.
This means the parent can be modified without worrying about how it will
affect weak materials. The material age of the parent can potentially be
queried to determine if a weak material might need to be re-created.
