The last row of the bone transformation matrix always is 0,0,0,1 so
there's no point in uploading it. Also reducing the max bone count to 80
which means the uniform array will fit into the available space on 6000
and 7000 series Geforce GPUs.
If we're short on uniform components, don't transpose the transformation
matrix before sending it to the shader, and transpose it in the shader
itself instead, saving 4 components per bone.
Adds text to local TODO.txt file. Useful for taking notes quickly e.g. when testing new scenarios in a network game.
TODO filenames are configurable. Default file is TODO.txt in the scenario file (if it's unpacked) and TODO.txt on the current path if access to the first location failed.
Doing skinning on the GPU shows a noticeable performance improvement in
pretty much any situation, but especially so in scenes with lots of
animated objects with high polygon counts.
Instead of transforming all vertices on the CPU every time an animation
progresses, we now only recalculate the skeleton, leaving the heavy
lifting for the GPU. This also means we no longer have to push all
vertices onto the bus every frame, because the mesh isn't changing and
can therefore be stored in a GL_STATIC_DRAW VBO when it's first loaded.
The downside of this approach is that there's only a limited number of
uniforms and vertex attributes we can pass to the shader. At the moment
these limits are a maximum of 128 bones per skeleton, and no vertex can
be influenced by more than 8 bones at once. So far this is no problem,
as the most complex skeleton in the base game uses less than 64 bones
and no more than 6 bone weights per vertex.
Instead of having the default vertex shader hard-coded into the engine,
allow to load it from Graphics.ocg. There's still a fall-back version
wired into the engine because we can't return an error from
GetVertexShaderCodeForPass.
A line object must have at least two points to plot a line through. At
any vertex count less than that, we were accessing invalid memory by
dereferencing the first element of an empty vector (VtxNum==1), or
issuing an OOB read from the vertex data (VtxNum==0).