The buffer offset was encoded in the VAO which would be shared across all
submeshes. Instead, don't encode the buffer offset into the VAO but apply it
with glDrawElementsBaseVertex().
glDrawElements needs an IBO when using a core profile. The particle
system's IBO is actually quite static since it's always a triangle
strip with 2 triangles followed by a PRI. Therefore, this reduces the
amount of data we have to send to the GPU compared to the previous
solution.
Also, remove the workaround when glPrimitiveRestartIndex is not
available since it is always available with OpenGL 3.1 and when using
a core profile we are guaranteed to have OpenGL 3.1 anyway.
This is required for glDrawElements() with a core profile. Furthermore, for
meshes that have a fixed face ordering (non-transparent meshes at 100%
completion), this puts more static data on the GPU that we don't have to
upload every frame.
For meshes with non-fixed face ordering, we still have to upload faces every
frame, since the ordering might change if the mesh rotates. We could still
improve this by figuring out if the order actually changed after the sort
step, and only update to the GPU if it has. In many cases it hasn't, so there
is some potential for more optimization there. But that's for later.
This code was basically never used anyway, since the
ARB_non_power_of_two extension is always available since OpenGL 2.0.
The GLEW check for the extension fails however as soon as we select
a OpenGL 3 core profile, and the texture sizes will be unnecessarily
adjusted again.
Basically add another layer of indirection around accessing VAOs. The problem
is that VAOs are not shared between OpenGL contexts. This mechanism allows to
treat them mostly as if they were shared if they are only accessed through
the API defined in CStdGL.
This is accomplished by caching all existing VAOs per context. If a VAO is
being accessed, it is checked whether that VAO exists in the currently
selected context. If yes, return it, otherwise create a new VAO and return it,
together with a flag that indicates that the VAO needs to be initialized.
The former is not available in a OpenGL 3 core profile, but glGenerateMipmap
is available since OpenGL 3.0, and so is always available when we have a
core profile.
This prevents a crash when an incompatible engine function is used as an
engine callback function.
Unfortunately, this breaks any scripts that have wrong type information in
engine callbacks and only worked because those were ignored.
* all non-diggable materials are now in front of diggable materials
* except: firestone and coal are still in front of rock
At least this change makes it necessary to test every scenario we have if there are any problems with the landscape
Armin Burgmeier