I never liked that some of the macros needed the type as a parameter
(yay typeof and __auto_type) or those that returned a value hid the
return statement so they couldn't be used in assignments.
Still "some" more to go: a pile to do with transforms and temporary
entities, and a nasty one with host_cbuf. There's also all the static
block-alloc lists :/
Light styles and shadows aren't implemented yet.
The map's entities are used to create the lights, and the PVS used to
determine which lights might be visible (ie, the surfaces they light).
That could do with some more improvements (eg, checking if a leaf is
outside a spotlight's cone), but the concept seems to work.
Double benefit, actually: faster when building a fat PVS (don't need to
copy as much) and can be used in multiple threads. Also, default visiblity
can be set, and the buffer size has its own macro.
Useful for avoiding a pile of wrapper functions that merely pass on
command-specific data to the actual implementation. Used to clean up the
wrappers in nq and qw cl_input.c
This is the first step towards component-based entities.
There's still some transform-related stuff in the struct that needs to
be moved, but it's all entirely client related (rather than renderer)
and will probably go into a "client" component. Also, the current
components are directly included structs rather than references as I
didn't want to deal with the object management at this stage.
As part of the process (because transforms use simd) this also starts
the process of moving QF to using simd for vectors and matrices. There's
now a mess of simd and sisd code mixed together, but it works
surprisingly well together.
The plan is to have a fully component based entity system. This adds
hierarchical transforms. Not particularly useful for quake itself at
this stage, but it will allow for much more flexibility later on,
especially when QuakeForge becomes more general-purpose.
This seems to be pretty close to as fast as it gets (might be able to do
better with some shuffles of the negation constants instead of loading
separate constants).
It's not used yet as work needs to be done to better support generic
entities, but this is the next step to real-time lighting (though, to be
honest, I expect it will be too slow to be usable).
The main purpose is to allow fluent-style:
const char *targetname = PL_String (PL_ObjectForKey (entity, "targetname"));
if (targetname && !PL_ObjectForKey (targets, targetname)) {
PL_D_AddObject (targets, targetname, entity);
}
[note: the above is iffy due to ownership of entity, but the code from
which the above comes works around the issue]
Static lights are yet to come (so the screen is black most of the time),
but dynamic lights work very nicely (and look very good) despite the
falloff being incorrect.
While I could reconstruct the position from the screen coords and depth,
this is easier and good enough for now. Reconstruction is an
optimization thing.
Lighting doesn't actually do lights yet, but it's producing pixels.
Translucent seems to be working (2d draw uses it), and compose seems to
be working.
After getting lights even vaguely working for alias models, I realized
that it just wasn't going to be feasible to do nice lighting with
forward rendering. This gets the bulk of the work done for deferred
rendering, but still need to sort out the shaders before any real
testing can be done.
The order in which keys are added to the dictionary object is
maintained. Adding a key after removing an old key adds the new key to
the end of the list rather than reusing the old key's spot.
PL_ParseLabeledArray works the same way as PL_ParseArray, but instead
takes a dictionary object. The keys of the items are ignored, and the
order is not preserved (at this stage), but this is a cleaner solution
to getting an array of objects when the definitions of those objects
need to be accessible by name as well.
It's not entirely there yet, but the basics are working. Work is still
needed for avoiding duplication of objects (different threads will have
different contexts and thus different tables, so necessary per-thread
duplication should not become a problem) and general access to arbitrary
fields (mostly just parsing the strings)
This allows plist objects to be accessed directly from cexpr expressions
using struct.field syntax for dictionary objects and array[index] syntax
for array objects.
The node struct was 72 bytes thus two cache line. Moving the pointer
into the brush model data block allows nodes to fit in a single cache
line (not that they're aligned yet, but that's next). It doesn't seem to
have made any difference to performance (at least in the vulkan
renderer), but it hasn't hurt, either, as the only place that needed the
parent pointer was R_MarkLeaves.
It's not quite as expected, but that may be due to one of msaa, the 0-15
range in the palette not being all the way to white, the color gradients
being not quite linear (haven't checked yet) or some combination of the
above. However, it's that what should be yellow is more green. At least
the zombies are no longer white and the ogres don't look like they're
wearing skeleton suits.
Doesn't seem to make much difference performance-wise, but speed does
seem to be fill-rate limited due to the 8x msaa. Still, it does mean
fewer bindings to worry about.
