With this PR we refactor a `premultiplied alpha` user string set by `characterpreview.cpp` into a more flexible mechanism allowing us to assign any state to GUI textures. We can consider these changes more future proof than the previous approach.
This PR aims to spark the retirement of a questionable pattern I have found all over our code base. I will illustrate how this pattern encourages code duplication, lacks type safety, requires documentation and can be prone to bugs.
```
std::map<std::string, Object> mMap; // Stored in all lowercase for a case-insensitive lookup
std::string lowerKey = Misc::StringUtils::lowerCase(key);
mMap.emplace(lowerKey, object);
std::string lowerKey = Misc::StringUtils::lowerCase(key);
mMap.find(lowerKey);
mMap.find(key); // Not found. Oops!
```
An alternative approach produces no such issues.
```
std::unordered_map<std::string, Object, Misc::StringUtils::CiHash, Misc::StringUtils::CiEqual> mMap;
mMap.emplace(key, object);
mMap.find(key);
```
Of course, such an alternative will work for a `map` as well, but an `unordered_map` is generally preferable over a `map` with these changes because we have moved `lowerCase` into the comparison operator.
In this PR I have refactored `Animation::mNodeMap` accordingly. I have reviewed and adapted all direct and indirect usage of `Animation::mNodeMap` to ensure we do not change behaviour with this PR.
This PR fixes a crash caused by the improperly ensured lifetime of RigGeometry::mSourceGeometry. mSourceGeometry was not adequate to ensure mSourceGeometry would outlive mGeometry because we extend mGeometrys lifetime beyond this lifetime by passing mGeometry to the draw traversal instead of this.
In addition,
We add important comments.
We detect and prevent generally unsafe operations in high level code.
We add a sprinkling of const to help clarify intentions.
Currently, we use an `UnrefQueue` which supposedly aims to transfer destruction costs to another thread. The implications of this unusual pattern can not be well understood because some allocators might free resources more efficiently if they are freed by the same thread that allocated them. In addition, `UnrefQueue` complicates the validation of thread safety in our engine. Lastly, our current usage of `UnrefQueue` triggers `ref()`, `unref()` atomic operations as objects are passed into the queue. These operations could be more expensive than the actual destruction.
With this PR we thus remove `UnrefQueue`. We can expect these changes to have a minor impact at most because we free most resources elsewhere in `ResourceSystem::updateCache`.
Currently, we use a peculiar mapping of ESM classes by their std::type_info::name. This mapping is an undefined behaviour because std::type_info::name is strictly implementation defined. It could return a non-unique value on some platforms. With this PR we use the unsigned int sRecordId of the ESM class as a more efficient lookup type that does not build on undefined behaviour. We can expect marginally faster save-game loading with these changes as well.
Currently, we always traverse the scene graph an additional time with a ComputeLightSpaceBounds visitor during shadow casting. ComputeLightSpaceBounds is only useful when the shadow casting mask allows us to shrink the bounds of the rendered scene, so we guard its traversal with a check against getCastsShadowTraversalMask. In practice, this guard never works because we build the traversal mask inclusively.
With this PR we limit the getCastsShadowTraversalMask check to relevant masks. This new check allows us to skip a superfluous ComputeLightSpaceBounds traversal with most settings.
We now use PositionAttitudeTransform for unmerged nodes because I have been informed PositionAttitudeTransform's scene graph performance is measurably faster than MatrixTransform's. We still need to use MatrixTransform for merged nodes because the Optimizer has limited support for non-MatrixTransform nodes. These MatrixTransforms will be removed in the merging process anyway.
As we discovered in #3148, `Transform` nodes and their low level equivalence `pushModelViewMatrix` are somewhat costly involving a `Matrix::invert` operation per frame.
With this PR we avoid one `Transform` node for sun flashes and avoid another `pushModelViewMatrix` call in case the sun is fully visible.
With this PR we test out osg's shader define system for a somewhat harmless feature. As we can see, our code becomes more concise and efficient in this case. Most importantly, we no longer create unneeded vertex shader objects.
* avoids creating empty statesets on drawables
Currently, we attempt to skip creating state on drawable nodes when this state matches the default state. This attempt is incomplete because we still create an avoidable empty stateset in the default case.
* renderingmanager.cpp
* nifloader.cpp
* nifloader.cpp
* shadervisitor.cpp
* avoids creating empty statesets on drawables
Currently, we attempt to skip creating state on drawable nodes when this state matches the default state. This attempt is incomplete because we still create an avoidable empty stateset in the default case.
* renderingmanager.cpp
* nifloader.cpp
Simple Physics API modification for Lua
See merge request OpenMW/openmw!1216
(cherry picked from commit d88494c90b501d0832ae0330a0ca81d8b8e5aa50)
02dd055a Save hitObject in castSphere() just like in castRay()
0793d0bf Allow to override collision mask and group for castSphere() as for castRay()
* consolidate node mask checks
This PR simplifies a few checks against node masks in object paging by using the osg provided `setTraversalMask`.
* objectpaging.cpp
