The improved allocation overheads have been implemented for gl and sw,
and glsl no longer uses malloc. Using array textures will have to wait
as the current texture loading code doesn't support them.
Really, this won't make all that much difference because alias models
with more than one skin are quite rare, and those with animated skin
groups are even rarer. However, for those models that do have more than
one skin, it will allow for reduced allocation overheads, and when
supported (glsl, vulkan, maybe gl), loading all the skins into an array
texture (since all skins are the same size, though external skins may
vary), but that's not implemented yet, this just wraps the old one skin
at a time code.
For now, the functions check for a null hunk pointer and use the global
hunk (initialized via Memory_Init) if necessary. However, Hunk_Init is
available (and used by Memory_Init) to create a hunk from any arbitrary
memory block. So long as that block is 64-byte aligned, allocations
within the hunk will remain 64-byte aligned.
The dynamic array macros made this much easier than last time I looked
at it, especially when it came to figuring out the bad memory accesses
that I seem to remember from my last attempt 9 years ago.
For now, only the glsl loader disables caching, but it stores the frame
vertices in GL memory, so its hunk usage is relatively lower (and will be
lower still when I get skins sorted out).
After getting in contact with serplord, I now know that the sw alias
loading was correct. Turns out the gl loaders was mostly correct, just a
mistaken subtract rather than add. And with that, I can implement alias-16
support in glsl. better yet, since all the work is done in the loader, the
renderer doesn't know anything about it :) However, I need to create some
16-bit models for testing.
code into the sw model loading code, remove all refs to r_pixbytes from the
sw renderer (it was never anything but 1), kill libQFmodels_sw32, remove
all the 16 bit code from the 8 bit sw renderer.
code. This fixes blather's `melted models' (sw), the nq alt player model
skins (gl), the arbitrary limits on skins and skin groups in gl, and the
incorrect timing of group skins (animated) in gl.
create a field_offset macro that takes a structure type and a field and
returns the offset of the field within the structure
everything else:
use field_offset to calculate the size of variable sized structs
r_local.h, r_shared.h, client.h and render.h at the same time (couldn't get
away from that:/) verly likely to be lots of breakage (eg, player and eye
models are NOT checksummed atm), but everything builds
2001-05-10 06:01:11 +00:00
Renamed from qw/source/sw_model_alias.c (Browse further)
