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.
This is a big step towards a cleaner api. The struct reference in
model_t really should be a pointer, but bsp submodel(?) loading messed
that up, though that's just a matter of taking more care in the loading
code. It seems sensible to make that a separate step.
I've decided that alias model skins should be in a single four-level
array texture rather than spread over four textures, but there's no way
I want to write that code again: getting it right was hard enough the
first time :P
It now takes a context pointer (opaque data) that holds the buffers it
uses for the temporary strings. If the context pointer is null, a static
context is used (making those uses of va NOT thread-safe). Most calls to
va use the static context, but all such calls have been formatted
consistently so they are easy to find when it comes time to do a full
audit.
It's a tad bogus as it's the lights close to the camera, but it should
at least be a good start once things are working. There's currently
something very wrong with the state of things.
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.
This makes tex_t more generally useable and probably more portable. The
goal was to be able to use tex_t with data that is in a separate chunk
of memory.
The sky texture is loaded with black's alpha set to 0. While this does
hit both layers, the screen is cleared to black so it shouldn't be a
problem (and will allow having a skybox behind the sheets).
Glow map and sky sheet and cube need to wait until I can get some
default textures going, but the world is rendering correctly otherwise
(though a tad dark: need to do a gamma setting).
It now uses the ring buffer code I wrote for qwaq (and forgot about,
oops) to handle the packets themselves, and the logic for allocating and
freeing space from the buffer is a bit simpler and seems to be more
reliable. The automated test is a bit of a joke now, though, but coming
up with good tests for it... However, nq now cycles through the demos
without obvious issue under the same conditions that caused the light
map update code to segfault.
Vulkan validation (quite rightly) doesn't like it when the flush range
goes past the end of the buffer, but also doesn't like it when the flush
range isn't cache-line aligned, so align the size of the buffer, too.
I had originally planned on mixing the stage management with general
texture support code like I did in glsl, but I think that was a mistake
and I did keep looking for scrap.[ch] when I wanted to edit something to
do with the scrap...
This cleans up texture_t and possibly even improves locality of
reference when running through texture chains (not profiled, and not
actually the goal).
It optionally generates mipmaps, and supports the main texture types
(especially for texture packs), including palettes, but is otherwise
rather unsophisticated code. Needs a lot of work, but testing first.
This allows the array in which the command buffers are allocated to be
allocated on the stack using alloca and thus remove the need to
malloc/free of relatively small chunks.
The scrap texture did very good things for the glsl renderer and the
better control over data copying might help it do even better things for
vulkan, especially with lots of little icons.
It's never actually used (the texture can be fetched using
GLSL_ScrapTexture) and gets in the way of sharing the scrap system with
the vulkan renderer.
r_screen because of SCR_UpdateScreen, and r_cvar because the cvars
really should never have been in a plugin in the first place (and
r_screen needed access).
First pixels! This was a nightmare of little issues that the validation
layers couldn't help with: incorrect input assembly, incorrect vertex
attribute specs. Though the layers did help with getting the queues
working. Still, lots of work to go but this is a major breakthrough as
I now have access to visual debugging for textures and the like.
Short wrappers for Draw functins are in vid_render_vulkan.c so the
vulkan context can be passed on to the actual functions. The 2D shaders
are set up similar to those in glsl, but with full 32-bit color (rgba)
support instead of paletted. However, the textures are not loaded yet,
nor is anything bound.
The way I wound up using the field meant that exprctx should not "own"
the hashlinks chain, but rather just point to it. This fixes the nasty
access errors I had.
Dependencies on vkparse.hinc were spreading through the code which I
didn't want as that removes a lot of the automation from the automake
files. This keeps all parser code internal to vkparse.c's scope, and any
accesses required for enum and struct (not yet) definitions can be
fetched by name.
I want to be able to use name references, but that requires string
items, so anything that would normally be dictionary or array (or
binary, even) would also need to accept string. This seemed to be the
cleanest solution. Any custom parser would then need to check the type
and act appropriately, but any inappropriate types have already been
pre-filtered by the standard parsers.
Care needs to be taken to ensure the right function is used with the
right arguments, but with these, the need to use qconj(d|f) for a
one-off inverse rotation is removed.
They're binned by powers of two (with in between sizes going to the
smaller bin should I make cache-line allocations NPOT (which I think
might be worthwhile). However, there seems to still be a bug somewhere
causing a nasty leak as now my hacked qfvis consumes 40G in less than a
minute.
The idea is to not search through blocks for an available allocation.
While the goal was to speed up allocation of cache lines of varying
cluster sizes, it's not enough due to fragmentation.
They take advantage of gcc's vector_size attribute and so only cross,
dot, qmul, qvmul and qrot (create rotation quaternion from two vectors)
are needed at this stage as basic (per-component) math is supported
natively by gcc.
The provided functions work on horizontal (array-of-structs) data, ie a
vec4d_t or vec4f_t represents a single vector, or traditional vector
layout. Vertical layout (struct-of-arrays) does not need any special
functions as the regular math can be used to operate on four vectors at
a time.
Functions are provided for loading a vec4 from a vec3 (4th element set
to 0) and storing a vec4 into a vec3 (discarding the 4th element).
With this, QF will require AVX2 support (needed for vec4d_t). Without
support for doubles, SSE is possible, but may not be worthwhile for
horizontal data.
Fused-multiply-add is NOT used because it alters the results between
unoptimized and optimized code, resulting in -mfma really meaning
-mfast-math-anyway. I really do not want to have to debug issues that
occur only in optimized code.
Shaders can be built as spv files and installed into
$libdir/quakeforge/shaders or as spvc files and compiled into the
engine. Loading supports $builtin/name to access builtin shaders,
$shader/path to access external standard shaders and quake filesystem
access for all other paths.
It is capable of parsing single expressions with fairly simple
operations. It current supports ints, enums, cvars and (external) data
structs. It is also thread-safe (in theory, needs proper testing) and
the memory it uses can be mass-freed.
This was inspired by
Hoard: A Scalable Memory Allocator
for Multithreaded Applications
Emery D. Berger, Kathryn S. McKinley, Robert D. Blumofe, Paul R.
Wilson,
It's not anywhere near the same implementation, but it did take a few
basic concepts. The idea is twofold:
1) A pool of memory from which blocks can be allocated and then freed
en-mass and is fairly efficient for small (4-16 byte) blocks
2) Tread safety for use with the Vulkan renderer (and any other
multi-threaded tasks).
However, based on the Hoard paper, small allocations are cache-line
aligned. On top of that, larger allocations are page aligned.
I suspect it would help qfvis somewhat if I ever get around to tweaking
qfvis to use cmem.
The calculation fails (produces NaN) if the vectors are anti-parallel,
but works for all other combinations. I came up with this implementation
when I discovered Unity's Quaternion.FromToRotation could did not work
with very small angles. This implementation will produce a usable
quaternion below 0.00255 degrees (though it will be slightly larger than
unit). Unity's failed such that I could see KSP's skybox snap while it
rotated around my test vessel.
PL_ParseDictionary itself does only one level, but it takes care of the
key-field mappings and property list item type checking leaving the
actual parsing to a helper specified by the field. That helper is free
to call PL_ParseDictionary recursively.
The first line of the parsed item is stored and can be retrieved using
PL_Line. Line numbers not stored for dictionary keys yet. Will be 0 for
any items generated by code rather than parsed from a file or string.
There's still some cleanup to do, but everything seems to be working
nicely: `make -j` works, `make distcheck` passes. There is probably
plenty of bitrot in the package directories (RPM, debian), though.
The vc project files have been removed since those versions are way out
of date and quakeforge is pretty much dependent on gcc now anyway.
Most of the old Makefile.am files are now Makemodule.am. This should
allow for new Makefile.am files that allow local building (to be added
on an as-needed bases). The current remaining Makefile.am files are for
standalone sub-projects.a
The installable bins are currently built in the top-level build
directory. This may change if the clutter gets to be too much.
While this does make a noticeable difference in build times, the main
reason for the switch was to take care of the growing dependency issues:
now it's possible to build tools for code generation (eg, using qfcc and
ruamoko programs for code-gen).
This should keep things nicely extensible, since additional data can be
done in the data space and found using defs. This gets the compilation
units into the sym file.
The compilation unit stores the directory from which qfcc was run and
any source files mentioned. This is similar to dwarf's compilation unit.
Right now, this is the only data in the new debug space, but more might
come in the future so it seems best to treat the debug space separately
in the object files.
I decided that stopping in between function calls that are on the same
line is a good thing as it gives a chance to skip over the first but
step into the second.
This allows a debugger to do any symbol lookups and other preparations
between loading progs and the first code execution. .ctors are called as
per normal if debug_handler is not set.
When a type is aliased, the alias has two type chains: the simple type
chain with all other aliases stripped, and the full type chain. There
are still plenty of bugs in it, but having the clean type chain takes
care of the major issue that was in the previous attempt as only the
head of the type-chain needs to be skipped for type comparison.
Most of the bugs are in finding the locations where the head needs to be
skipped.
