Dynamic terrain example now creates a specular texture from the color texture. That saves 2.17 MB download.
Just I had to drop materials pre-initialization, for some reason this doesn't play nice with having extra scene / render target :S.
In theory also detail normal texture could be computed from the color texture, just we need some nicer normal map filter (Gimp plugin has 9 different ones).
It was quite a pain - ArrayBuffers / Typed Arrays are fussy about byte alignment - but seems to be worth it.
Parsing times are down (modest gains for small objects / Firefox, bigger gains for large objects / Chrome, performance gains from 10% - 200%).
Also as a positive side effect, changing interleaved face arrays into uniform arrays seems to have helped a bit with gzip compression (about 6% smaller size for gzipped 526K Lucy).
Fixed Blender importer to work with Blender 2.60, add option for importing workers or non-worker models.
Fixed more examples to use worker-less format. All examples should work now.
Only Max exporter should be left to change.
Work-in-progress => do not merge yet.
OBJ converter, JSONLoader, BinaryLoader and some examples are done. Still need to do Blender exporter, SceneLoader and more examples.
Advantages:
- faster parse times
- bypass array initializer size limit in Firefox
- no more crashes in Chrome 15 (caused by too many concurrently active workers)
Disadvantages:
- more browser UI freezing
- multiple models tend to appear all at once with the last one (instead of popping up progressively)
Removed LOD text example. I think LOD example is good enough.
Ubiquity test working again.
Tweaked README to show the new pattern (Scene first thing created).
I had to resurrect parts of old code (keeping track of scene graph changes).
Good news: performance is great, new scene graph gains compound with buffers optimizations and non-array materials refactoring. Together we gained about 15% for rotating cubes performance test (pushing max to 2650 cubes at 60 fps).
Still broken with new scene graph: lod, skinning, collisions, AnaglyphWebGLRenderer, ParallaxBarrierWebGLRenderer, multi-canvas circle example.
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