It provides a lean way how to render TRIANGLE_STRIP primitives: needs just n+2 vertices for n triangles (one Ribbon = one strip). There are no faces, no indices, everything is rendered in one simple drawArray call.
Vertex colors are supported, normals not yet.
- removed unnecessary normal matrix computation in hierarchies (this is already done in renderer)
- removed unnecessary enabling of attribute arrays in every frame (it's enough to do it when shader program is created)
- depth test is now only set if it changed
- getters/setters are no more in Vector3
- object hierarchies thus don't use "isDirty"
- this was completely killing performance for anything that was touching a lot of Vector3 like creation of meshes and dynamic buffers
- even without this, performance of hierarchies went up (a lot)
- objects do not get passed renderer anymore
- camera was almost also removed, but this is useful for LOD (though there may be some cleaner way to do this?)
- material ids are now unified, this makes "geometry.sortFacesByMaterial" faster (thus scene init / GUI blocking is shorter)
- all WebGL examples should work now (render-to-texture has weird lights and in some camera control feels different)
- CanvasRender still broken, despite many efforts :(
- currently only points and lines work, faces don't show up. I think this may need assistance from mrdoob.
We have been very lucky - setters / getters were not supported till just 2 hours ago (so fresh, I had to build Closure myself from their repo ;).
http://code.google.com/p/closure-compiler/issues/detail?id=249
Also some refactoring plus added hackish animation offset feature.
That was painful; hopefully since now it should be easier to have it in every WebGL example.
It's enough to add one line (ideally as the first thing that gets executed):
if ( ! THREE.Supports.webgl ) THREE.Supports.addGetWebGLMessage();
This will add message box with default styling centered near top of the window. Optional parameters "parent" and "id" can be specified for further customization and integration with the document, also message DOM element is returned for easier access.
var messageElement = THREE.Supports.addGetWebGLMessage( { parent: container, id: "my_message" } );
By default, message is added to document.body and has id "oldie" (can be styled with CSS).
Created "THREE.Supports" object, which should centralize this stuff. So far it detects <canvas>, WebGL and WebWorkers; later it could detect for example GPU capabilities.
Not sure about name or location, but it's pretty tiring go through all examples when something changes, so it should be somewhere in the library.
Code duplication is bad: even html snippets with error message should be centralized somewhere, so that when new browsers arrive we wouldn't have to keep changing them in many places.
This is to be able to control depth buffer writing / testing on per geometry chunk level (before it was possible just to hack it on per scene level via exposed GL context).
Disabling depth test is useful for example for additively blended particles, handling of transparency or for having background textured quad.
Another option would be to have it on per object level, but then this could prevent different handling of objects with both transparent and opaque parts.
Also in this commit:
- more progress towards mesh vertex colors
- less matrix multiplications in render call
- fixed ugly bug in doubleSided / flipSided handling
- cleanup of materials
- added a lot of missing stuff in debug strings and parameters handlers
- normal and depth materials now have opacity parameter
- wrote comments for non-obvious things
Renamed: setClearColor( hex, opacity ) => setClearColorHex( hex, opacity )
New: setClearColor( color, opacity )
In this way it's a bit cheaper to animate clear color.
Hope I didn't break examples - I searched for "setClearColor" and changed it in one place where it was used.
Work in progress, caveats:
- sort happens just inside one ParticleSystems, so everything gets messed up when more ParticleSystems are in the same screen space
- not yet solved proper order of operations, if you change object transform, you need to update ParticleSystem object matrix manually before rendering (so that sort works, otherwise it will use transform from previous frame)
Also fixed transparency in fog and did small optimizations in WebGLRenderer.
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