Version 0.12.0

Important Changes

• Now using RenderGraph to build a frame graph.
• Now using bindless textures.
• Implemented MultiDrawIndirect.
• Implemented a loading screen.
• Implemented texture animations (tile maps and transforms).
• Implemented scene node animations.

New features

Generic plugins

• Added DrawEdges plugin, to detect and draw edges.
• Implemented basic ocean rendering plugin.
• Implemented FFT based ocean rendering plugin.
• Implemented water rendering.
• Implemented toon materials collection.

ToneMapping plugins

• Added ACES tone mapping plugin.

Tools

• Added HeightMapToNormalMap and fixed normal maps generation.

Modifications

CastorUtils

• Added support for tile maps.
• Added conversion from array map to tile map
• Added AsyncJobQueue, based on ThreadPool.
• Added GliImageWriter.
• Added optional FreeImageLoader, when FreeImage library is found.
• Added compression to BC1/BC3 to image loading, using cvtt.
• Created SpinMutex implementation
• TextWriter now writes to a castor::StringStream.
• Image loading now also generates mipmaps.
• Integrated additional parsers.
• Reworked FileParser to parse files in two steps.

Castor3D

• Added frustum culling for point lights shadow maps.
• Added support for multiple rendering devices.
• All post effects are now created in the render target, to be enabled or disabled at will.
• Allowed scene import through mesh importer.
• Added Blinn-Phong pass.
• Generalised shaders, using intermediate classes : LightingModel, ReflectionModel and LightMaterial.
• Added TextureCache, and using it to merge pass textures.
• Added a way to have non pickable nodes.
• Added rotate mesh options to importers.
• Added support for a secondary UV set.
• Added support for custom additional render technique passes.
• Added support for hull/domain shaders in scene render passes.
• Added support for passes without lighting.
• Added support for safe bands in Camera.
• Allowed textures components remapping on scene import.
• Depth prepass now also writes normals.
• Enabled LPV for point lights, and fixed spot lights'.
• Events can now be skipped.
• Merged PBRMR and PBRSG lighting models to a single one, internally.
• Objects can now be excluded from culling tests.
• Removed gamma correction for textures and materials, images use srgb formats when needed.
• Removed specific PassBuffers.
• Reworked Pass text writing and parsing.
• Moved SSS Profiles to their own shader buffer.

CastorGui

• Introduced style classes to handle that.

DiamondSquareTerrain

• Allowed random seed disabling (for testing).
• Now tiling UVs

AssimpImporter

• Improvements regarding materials.
• Improvements regarding animations processing.
• Added scene nodes and light sources import.

GuiCommon

• Added custom render passes configuration.
• PostEffects configuration has been added to the tree.
• Removed materials list and some duplicates in scene view.

Fixed Bugs

CastorUtils

• Fixed Matrix2x2 and Matrix3x3 inversion.
• Fixed aligned alloc on win32.

Castor3D

• Fixed a crash when skinning keyframe is not found.
• Fixed background pass, regarding fog.
• Fixed interaction between indirect diffuse and reflections.
• Fixed crash with morphing that could happen on release builds
• Fixed import/export of morphing animations.
• Fixed indirect lighting handling in forward passes.
• Fixed point shadow maps.
• Fixed spot shadow maps.
• Fixed render loop cleanup events processing.
• Fixed render target creation, to have the right size and format.
• Fixed swapchain reset while RenderWindow is initialising.
• Fixed tone mapping switch.

GuiCommon

• Fixed a crash in LanguageFileParser.
• Fixed crash on light GI type change
• Fixed crashes when trying to load hdr images.
• Fixed texture properties display.

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0