ogre

The versioning scheme changed with this release. This is the successor to Ogre 1.12 and the porting efforts are comparable with porting from 1.11 to 1.12.

• Main
  • move
    • deprecated std wrappers into OgreDeprecated.h
    • SceneType enum to OgreDeprecated.h
    • StaticCache to Deflate, which is the only consumer
    • StaticFaceGroup to BSP plugin
  • hide
    • implementations of built-in image codecs
    • macros of OgreDynLib.h
    • OGRE_LOG_THRESHOLD
    • OgreMeshFileFormat.h
    • OgreSearchOps.h
    • ParamCommand classes
    • private parts
    • RadixSort
    • stroto*_l internal aliases
  • drop
    • "Custom Render Queues" support
    • deprecated SceneLoader API
    • identifiers for compilers gone long ago
    • long-standing hard deprecations
    • most of texture_alias API
    • ParticleIterator
    • some deprecated functions with low impact
    • _StringBase & _StringStreamBase indirection
    • subroutine API in favor of specialization constants
    • support for TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • Compositor
    • avoid evaluating Techniques twice
    • CompositorChain - correct clearBuffers value for "input previous"
    • drop read_back_as_texture option
    • fix auto clear colour and use it in "scene previous"
    • improve error reporting
    • throw on compositor not found
    • CompositorPass - group data by type
    • simplify RSStencilOperation
  • SceneManager
    • createLight - add convenience param to specify Type
    • default to PF_BYTE_RGBA for shadow textures
    • factor out ShadowTextureListener
    • getDebugDrawer should be const
    • SceneNode - drop deprecated WireBox field
    • change SceneNode::setDirection TS_LOCAL > TS_PARENT
  • StaticGeometry
    • allow swapping material at runtime
    • assert that we get an indexBuffer
    • minor code cleanup
    • use more robust prepareForShadowVolume
    • use the entity material and not the mesh one
    • fix StaticGeometry not casting shadows
  • InstanceManager
    • assert that technique is supported
    • unshare LODs as well (#2000)
    • Make sure cloned vertex data is deleted.
  • ShadowRenderer
    • also consider lightmask in shadow visibilitymask
    • check whether pass is actually programmable
    • drop unused fields
    • ensure shadow caster material is not a receiver
    • handle dynamically changing receivers
  • Root
    • catch bad config options in restoreConfig
    • drop createRenderWindows
  • Image
    • consistently use uint32 for dimensions
    • drop unsupported Filter enum values
  • TRect
    • add asserts to merge & intersect
    • clarify that rects extend downwards.
  • Particle & Billboard
    • store packed colour to safe memory
    • reduce memory footprint
  • ParticleEmitter
    • provide default _getEmissionCount
    • add burst mode
  • UnifiedGpuProgram
    • add final annotation
    • drop priorisation support
  • GpuProgramParams
    • drop RenderSystemData
    • use unified constant storage
  • GpuSharedParameters
    • batched up & download
    • drop unused fields
    • use sized int for version field
  • FileSystemLayer
    • do not change paths already pointing inside snap
    • also look relative to lib for configs on Linux
  • add API for exporting scene hierarchy + dotscene implementation
  • add copy of miniz/ zip
  • alias deprecated caps to RSC_VERTEX_PROGRAM
  • always use MovableObjectFactory::destroyInstance
  • Capabilities - drop deprecated and generally supported caps
  • catch empty GpuProgram sourceFile
  • Codec - drop deprecated parts and move the rest to ImageCodec
  • consistently use float for depth and uint16 for stencil values
  • convert guarded ERR_INVALIDPARAMS to OgreAssert
  • DDSCodec - disable mips instead of decompressing
  • DefaultDebugDrawer -Skip bounding boxes that are infinite.
  • DepthBuffer - simplify API
  • Disable vptr checks for Singleton constructor (#2032)
  • Export ScriptTranslatorManager (#2031)
  • factor out GLSL_GL3Support include and use it in RTSS
  • fix texture_unit name setting
  • Frustum - stop inheriting from Renderable
  • GpuNamedConstants - drop generateConstantDefinitionArrayEntries
  • GpuProgram - const correctness fixes
  • HardwareBufferManager - stop superfluos Buffer tracking
  • HardwarePixelBuffer - unify SliceTRT handling
  • HL GpuProgram - make populateParameterNames final
  • Log::Stream should only be movable as per STL streams
  • make custom int types forward to stdint.h
  • make HighLevelGpuProgramPtr an alias for GpuProgramPtr
  • make log of RSC_AUTOMIPMAP_COMPRESSED descriptive
  • make remaining createImpl overrides private
  • make STL usage more specific, by slimming down OgreStdHeaders.h
  • Material - drop needless pointer indirection
  • MaterialSerializer - do not export RTSS techniques by default
  • Math - add missing limits include (#2051)
  • Math - Use Möller-Trumbore ray-triangle intersection algorithm
  • merge HighLevel & GpuProgramManager
  • Node - drop DebugRenderable
  • OgreAssert - behave like standard assert and print expression
  • ParticleSystem - use vector instead of list to collect Particles
  • Particle - always use own dimensions
  • Pass - drop shadow_*_program_ref API
  • Pass - inline trivial accessors & use float for storage
  • PixelFormat - inline alias functions and improve docs
  • Prefabs - drop no longer needed Prefab_Axes
  • Rect - use int32 as base type for MSVC/ GCC consistency
  • RenderQueueGroup - drop unused argument from constructor
  • RenderSystem - make setStencilState the primary stencil API
  • RenderTarget - drop ColourDepth property
  • RenderTarget - drop unused StatFlags enum
  • RenderWindow - setFullscreen & reposition are optional
  • replace HardwareUniformBuffer by plain HardwareBuffer
  • replace zzip & libz with zip/ miniz
  • ResourceBackgroundQueue - hide details
  • Resource - clarify unprepareImpl documentation
  • ResourceGroupManager - replace WorldGeometry by CustomStage
  • ResourceManager - const correctness
  • ResourceManager - fix compilation in legacy mode
  • ScriptTranslator - catch invalid material references in compositor
  • ScriptTranslator - fix applyTextureAliases fallback
  • ShadowCameraSetupFocused - make some members private
  • ShadowCaster - simplify getShadowVolumeRenderableList API
  • Simplify DefaultHardwareBuffer creation
  • simplify & inline getElement(N) helper functions
  • Skeleton - fix addLinkedSkeletonAnimationSource
  • Skeleton - make mAnimationsList available to derived classes
  • slightly clean up TextureUnitState
  • slightly refactor FocusedShadowCameraSetup
  • StreamSerialiser - improve error reporting with OgreAssert
  • StringInterface - add SimpleParamCommand template
  • StringInterface - directly use name instead of ParameterDef
  • StringUtil::normalizeFilePath - default to keep case
  • Texture - allow manually overriding image mips
  • TextureManager - add removeAllNamedSamplers
  • unify ShadowRenderable implementations
  • unify SharedPtr typedef names as Ptr
  • use int in TextureUnitState::getTextureDimensions
  • use typed enums and update field order to reduce padding
  • use unnamed SceneNodes as possible
  • UtilSSE - assert correct stride in softwareVertexMorph
  • VertexElementType - make VET_COLOUR* an alias for VET_UBYTE4_NORM
  • Viewport - disable clearBuffers if clearEveryFrame is off
  • reduce availability of iteratorwrapper by using forward declarations
  • rename Media/ShadowVolume to Media/Main
  • Mark public shader functions with @public-api
• Bites
  • ApplicationContext - drop platform shader discovery heuristics
  • ApplicationContext - skip resource location check on emscripten
  • Trays - ensure Font is loaded before using it
  • Trays - ensure glyph info is loaded
• RTSS
  • add WBOIT SRS and extend Transparency Sample
  • allow injecting data via local variables (PSSM, Lighting, Texture)
  • allow passing SPC_TANGENT_OBJECT_SPACE to FS
  • auto param data can only be float/ uint32
  • be greedy about lights to avoid shader trashing
  • decouple normal-mapping from lighting stage
  • drop Cg support
  • drop deprecated functions
  • FFPFog - use autoconstants
  • fix use of non-unit light direction when scaling is present
  • Fog - follow the preAddToRenderState protocol
  • GLSL - check that sampler is used before binding
  • GLSL - dont flag optimized away texture samplers
  • hide default shader writers and processors
  • hide FFP SRS that can be used with generic API only
  • hide HardwareSkinning implementations
  • hide lighting renderstates
  • make shader libs and entry-points private
  • merge FFPLib_Texturing
  • move TextureAtlas SRS to samples
  • move unrelated shaders to Samples
  • ProgramManager - drop superfluous cast
  • PSSM3 - add support for colour shadows
  • remove unused iterator leftovers
  • ShaderProgram - only support one "main" function
  • Shadows - use shadow2D instead of texture for HLSL compatibility
  • slightly refactor Operand writing
  • Texturing - only sample texture if necessary
  • UniformParameter::bind - paramsPtr cannot be null
  • UniformParameter - do not duplicate GpuConstantDefinition queries
  • UniformParameter - uint8 is sufficient to store elementsize
• SWIG
  • add %template for CameraMap
  • consistently name containers _type_List and _type_Map
  • enable director for OverlayElementFactory
  • fix compilation with SWIG4.0
  • stdi.i is needed after recent sized int typdef changes
  • Python: dont try to use strings as sequences
• Terrain
  • Delete plane when shutting down.
  • fix dynamic shadows not working in LOD1
  • make waitForDerivedProcesses public
  • MaterialGenerator - drop description field
  • QuadTreeNode - drop unused quadrant field
  • Return early if rect doesn't match node.
  • RTSS Transform - take advantage that Material is Terrain local
  • use RTSS to generate LOD1 technique
  • use uint for coordinates that must not be < 0
• Overlay
  • Font
    • remove Texture to allow reloading
    • position glyphs using bearing and advance instead of width
  • ImGui
    • move into separate SWIG module
    • update to 1.83
  • hide builtin Element factories
  • hide ParamCommand classes
  • remove separation between templates and elements
  • typedef DisplayString to String and replace UTFString
  • use stb_truetype if freetype is not found
• ParticleFX
  • hide all factory classes
  • ScaleAffector - add scale_range parameter
• DotScene
  • export visibility for light & entity
  • implement export of entity local material
  • Add instancing support
  • fix DTD and add test
• add GLSLang shader compiler plugin
• Assimp: blacklist bsp loader found in recent versions
• STBICodec: update stb image to 2.27
• PCZSceneManager: register as listener instead of using inheritance
• HLMS: drop the component
• CI
  • run vtests on GL3+ for full RTSS coverage
  • run VTests using headless EGL
• CMake
  • bump required version to 3.10
  • clean up dependencies discovery
  • default to OGRE_ASSERT_MODE 2
  • dont install additional find scripts
  • dont put patch in sovesion in accordance to semver
  • drop vcproj_userfile - not needed any more
  • proper fix for building SampleBrowser bundle
  • stop installing sample code
• RenderSystems: make parentWindowHandle an alias to externalWindowHandle on all platforms
• D3D*: drop unused "Backbuffer Count" option
• D3D11
  • also support "OgreUniforms" as default cbuffer
  • drop non-standard HLSL defines
  • drop _renderUsingReadBackAsTexture
  • drop unused "Floating-point mode" option
  • HLSLProgram - align buffer memory & update params with one memcpy
  • HLSLProgram - avoid leaking mSerStrings
  • HLSLProgram - minor code cleanups
  • implement hardware shared_params
  • introduce CHECK_DEVICE_ERROR macro
  • reduce mSerStrings usage
• D3D9
  • properly register assembly language support
  • rename "Multi device memory hint" > "Auto buffer management"
• GL*
  • GLSL - warn if there is a default value, that we would overwrite
  • use getResourceLogName for better error reporting
• GLSupport
  • Android - use finaliseWindow as well
  • CPreprocessor - add basic concatenation support
  • EGL - search maximal supported context version like GLX
  • EGL - try harder to find a suitable default display
  • fix compilation with Android NDK 20+
  • GLX - select maximal supported context version
  • OSX - drop "hidden" global RS option
• GL3+ & GLES2: simplify GLSLProgramFactory
• GL3Plus
  • enable "Separate Shader Objects" by default
  • fix usage of UBOs for default params
  • implement UBO storage for non shared params
  • drop ABO support - SSBOs do the same with a less esoteric API
  • rename "spirv" to "gl_spirv" as it is indeed a different syntax
• GLES2: Fixing warning in a deprecated String::toString case (#2054)
• Metal: Program - fix physical index retrieval
• Docs
  • add hardware shared_params section
  • fix ColourInterpolator Affector formatting
  • improve _createRenderWindow miscParam docs
  • improve & regroup Compositor script docs
  • improve stencil shadow algorithm documentation
  • Manual - add cross-platform shaders section and restructure RTSS
  • port static geometry tutorial from wiki
  • RTSS - mention shader generation control & update init sample code
  • setColourOperationEx note no longer applies to D3D9+
  • StencilState - improve & unify compositor script reference
  • use RenderDoc images in Deferred Tutorial
• Samples
  • AndoidJNI - update sample to show Input Event handling
  • Browser - use getRenderWindowDescription
  • clean-up Grass (static-geometry) sample
  • DeferredShading - disable RTSS lights if we dont need them
  • DeferredShading - exclusively use the RTSS for GBuffer shaders
  • fix B&W compositor for HLSL
  • move RTSS materials to sample media
  • simplify DeferredShading Demo
• Tests
  • fix geometry shader test after resource lookup changes
  • move ogretestmap.zip to BSP resources
  • Terrain - extend to test (de)serialization
  • TextureShadowsCustomReceiverMat - use FFP API to avoid Cg
  • TextureShadows - use FFP API to avoid Cg
  • MeshUpgrader - clean up CLI options after colour simplification
• VRMLConverter: fix warning messages about shadowing 'end' variable with std::ios::end stl variable (#2057)
• VTests: also consider -rs option on initial run
• VTests: fix StaticGeometry tests

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• Main
  • Instances Make sure cloned vertex data is deleted.
  • add API for exporting scene hierarchy + dotscene implementation
  • catch empty GpuProgram sourceFile
  • CompositorChain - correct clearBuffers value for "input previous"
  • Compositor - fix auto clear colour and use it in "scene previous"
  • DDSCodec - disable mips instead of decompressing
  • DefaultDebugDrawer -Skip bounding boxes that are infinite.
  • Disable vptr checks for Singleton constructor (#2032)
  • Export ScriptTranslatorManager (#2031)
  • FileSystemLayer - also look relative to lib for configs on Linux
  • FileSystemLayer - do not change paths already pointing inside snap
  • fix StaticGeometry not casting shadows
  • InstanceManager - unshare LODs as well (#2000)
  • make log of RSC_AUTOMIPMAP_COMPRESSED descriptive
  • MaterialSerializer - do not export RTSS techniques by default
  • ParticleEmitter - new take on burst mode
  • PixelFormat - inline alias functions and improve docs
  • Root - catch bad config options in restoreConfig
  • SceneManager::createLight - add convenience param to specify Type
  • ScriptTranslator - catch invalid material references in compositor
  • ShadowRenderer - also consider lightmask in shadow visibilitymask
  • ShadowRenderer - ensure shadow caster material is not a receiver
  • Skeleton - fix addLinkedSkeletonAnimationSource
  • StaticGeometry - assert that we get an indexBuffer
  • StaticGeometry - use more robust prepareForShadowVolume
  • TextureManager - add removeAllNamedSamplers
  • TRect - add asserts to merge & intersect
  • TRect - clarify that rects extend downwards.
  • Viewport - disable clearBuffers if clearEveryFrame is off
• Bites: ApplicationContext - skip resource location check on emscripten
• Overlay: Font - Texture must be removed to allow reloading
• CMake: proper fix for building SampleBrowser bundle
• RTSS
  • be greedy about lights to avoid shader trashing
  • fix use of non-unit light direction when scaling is present
  • Shadows - use shadow2D instead of texture for HLSL compatibility
• SWIG
  • add %template for CameraMap
  • enable director for OverlayElementFactory
  • Python: dont try to use strings as sequences
• Terrain
  • Delete plane when shutting down.
  • fix dynamic shadows not working in LOD1
  • Return early if rect doesn't match node.
• DotScene
  • DotScene - fix DTD and add test
  • implement export
• D3D11: HLSLProgram - avoid leaking mSerStrings
• GL*: GLSL - warn if there is a default value, that we would overwrite
• GLSupport
  • Android - use finaliseWindow as well
  • CPreprocessor - add basic concatenation support
  • EGL - search maximal supported context version like GLX
  • EGL - try harder to find a suitable default display
  • fix compilation with Android NDK 20+
  • GLX - select maximal supported context version
• Docs
  • fix ColourInterpolator Affector formatting
  • improve _createRenderWindow miscParam docs
  • improve & regroup Compositor script docs
  • RTSS - mention shader generation control & update init sample code
  • setColourOperationEx note no longer applies to D3D9+
  • StencilState - improve & unify compositor script reference
  • use RenderDoc images in Deferred Tutorial
• Samples: DeferredShading - disable RTSS lights if we dont need them

Development is funded by your contributions
If your company uses Ogre, consider supporting its development in return:

highlight: node animation support in DotScene Plugin

• Main
  • add SceneNode::loadChildren
  • ArchiveManager - use consistent wording in messages
  • CompositionPass - avoid compiling material twice
  • Compositor
    • allow creating cubemaps
    • allow overriding camera in render_scene
    • allow referencing specific cubemap slices
  • DDSCodec - make DDS constants static
  • deprecate unused includeOverlays parameter in _renderScene
  • Exception - avoid referencing dangling strings
  • FileSystemLayer
    • also look in XDG_DATA_HOME for configs
    • also look relative to dll for configs on Windows
    • also look relative to dylib for configs on OSX
    • simplify getConfigFilePath
  • Frustum - fix description of getNearClipDistance (#1901)
  • HardwareBufferManager - assert that this is the correct manager
  • InstanceManager - fixed invalid EdgeData after unshareVertices
  • Log - replace setLogDetail by setMinLogLevel
  • make resource lookup robust to reloaction on Linux
  • move shared FOURCC macro to internal header
  • ResourceGroupListener - drop unused worldGeometryPrepare* methods
  • Root - use actual stack instead of mSceneManagerStack
  • SceneManager - improve error messages at compositor resolution
  • SceneManager - preserve the previous material scheme
  • ScriptCompiler - allow abstract compositor target sections
  • ScriptCompiler - simplify toggling AST debug output
  • slightly simplify SceneManager::_renderScene
  • TangentSpaceCalc - prevent leaking buffer lock
  • UnifiedProgram - forward compile errors & handle res not found
  • build fix on NetBSD: remove #ifdef FreeBSD (#1911)
• Bites
  • add OGRE_BITES_STATIC_PLUGINS CMake option to skip plugins.cfg
  • Android - fix crash on surface recreation
  • Android - properly parse RenderSystem ConfigOptions
  • print which resources.cfg is being parsed
  • warn about non-existant locations in resources.cfg
• RTSS
  • fix AlphaTest shaders for GLES2
  • GLSL - explicitly bind output buffer location if possible
  • handle BuildDstTechnique flag inside SGTechnique
  • log program names when caching to disk to aid debugging
  • ProgramWriter - the only program we ever write is main
  • PSSM - avoid scalar swizzling for compatibility
  • simplify handling of HLSL targets
  • Texturing - also override texture type for cubic reflection
• Overlay:
  • add setVisible to OgreOverlay and OgreOverlayElement
  • Element - inline trivial accessors
  • improve BorderPanelOverlayElement documentation
  • Revert "[OGRE-155] TextAreaOverlayElement: fix for mSpaceWidth field getting stuck with wrong value in certain cases."
• Terrain
  • add SWIG bindings for CSharp
  • TerrainGroup - deprecate getTerrainIterator
• SWIG
  • allow iterating over SceneNodes
  • Fixed output params of suggestTangengtVectorBuildParams (#1928)
  • instantiate GpuProgramParametersPtr
  • instantiate SplitPointList (#1927)
  • wrap MovableObjectMap
• Csharp: forward operator overloads on Vector for convenience
• Python
  • weakly link libpython to allow relocation
  • add build system for python wheels
• CMake
  • also install dependencies on OSX
  • Dependencies - update SDL2 to 2.0.14
  • fix Framework linking with recent CMake & Xcode
  • fix PrecompiledHeader.cmake for old CMake versions (#1942)
  • make InstallDependencies available on all platforms
  • make OGRE_BIN_DIRECTORY configurable
  • respect user CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH
  • use relative paths in resources.cfg on OSX
  • Revert "allow/ fix static build of python component"
• Plugins: export Plugin classes for direct linkage
• DotSceneLoader
  • correct angle parsing (#1902)
  • Add DotScene usage scenarios (#1892)
• ParticleFX: TextureAnimator - fix speed calculation
• D3D9
  • fix auto HardwareBuffer management
  • fix wrong cast in createBuffer
  • HardwareBuffer - fix comparison that turned into assignment
  • reduce dependance on d3d9x
• GL
  • disable unused GLU include
  • HardwareBuffer - fix readData and destruction
• GLSupport
  • EGL - catch client extension failure on android
  • EGL - Emscripten does not support PBuffers
  • EGL - export "Content Scaling Factor" on Android
  • fix wrong VERSION value on OSX/GL3+
  • OSX - only contentScaling 1 and 2 is supported
• Tools: MeshUpgrader
  • Fix some formatting regarding console output (#1946)
  • Fix some input prompts and logname (#1940)
  • set log file path (#1948)
  • Throw an exception if the material name is empty (#1934)
  • Tidy up whitespaces (#1938)
• Docs:
  • correct documentation of OgreOverlayElement
  • 1.12 Notes - add noteworthy post 1.12.0 additions
  • Add section about empty Material Names (#1944)
  • BuildingOgre - fix target names for OSX which is case-sensitive
  • document "Content Scaling Factor" RenderSystem Option
  • fix typo in InstanceManager (#1906)
  • format corrections in "iteration" section (#1897)
  • improve PixelBuffer and Texture parts
  • Light - correct some erroneous wording and apply consistency. (#1909)
  • RenderQueueListener fix formatting
  • small typo in the description of setStencilBufferParams (#1904)
  • improve override documentation
• Samples
  • add Java sample
  • Android - fix TextureOES sample
  • Compositor - update blacklist
  • CSM - correct capabilities check
  • CubeMap - port to new compositor functionality
  • Deferred - drop unused "profiles" parameter
  • enable LightShafts for GLES2
  • factor out requireMaterial/ use it to check compatibility
  • Fresnel - port to compositors
  • PBR - allow shader upgrading on GL3+/OSX
  • Python - simplify bootstrap sample

Development is funded by your contributions
If your company uses Ogre, consider supporting its development in return:

highlights: new Software RenderSystem and headless mode on Linux

• Main
  • DefaultHardwareVertexBuffer - correctly set used BufferMgr
  • fix getCastsShadows when inherting from MovableObject + Renderable
  • fix inconsistently named PF_RG8
  • fix warning in RenderQueueGroup::merge
  • ShadowRenderer - fix culling not propagated to RTSS passes
  • Image - fix getData() const overload
  • add Ogre::to_string(..) alias for unified access to such functions
  • add simplified Material::clone overload
  • AutoConstantEntry - clean up storage type
  • Camera - allow to sort by depth and not by distance
  • Compositor - allow referencing global textures again
  • DDSCodec - implement writing PF_FLOAT16_R
  • GpuProgramParams - only set variability if requestedSize > 0
  • GpuProgramParams - simplify two-param AutoConst overloads
  • GpuProgramParams - use templated _writeRawConstant & update docs
  • GpuProgramParams - use templates instead of copy & paste
  • HardwareBuffer - allow acting as facade for real implementation
  • HardwarePixelBuffer - consider depth in size computatiuon
  • minor code cleanup around _getProgramByName
  • Node - inline some trivial setter overloads
  • Particle - implement sprite sheet texture animation
  • ParticleSystem - fix autoupdate of AABB
  • ParticleSystem - fix setMaterialName lookup
  • ParticleSystem - forward shadow casting flag to renderer
  • ParticleSystem - logError instead of assert on null material
  • RenderSystem - add "VSync Interval" as common option
  • RenderSystem - do not require validateConfigOptions
  • RenderSystem - provide default *TexelOffset implementations
  • RenderSystem - unified derived depth bias update
  • use RenderWindow::resize to react to size change instead of querying
  • replace "depth" by "distance" to match the computations
  • ScriptTranslator - avoid multiple lookups for translateProgramRef
  • ScriptTranslator - flag unexpected parameter
  • ShadowCameraFocused - receiverBB should be intersected with
  • unify fsaaHint documentation
  • unify null material logging
  • unify PixelBuffer locking between rendersystems
  • Animation - deprecate IteratorWrapper based access
  • deprecate RenderTarget::Impl
  • RenderQueueGroup - deprecate getIterator
  • GpuProgramParams - deprecate setConstantFromTime
  • fix spelling errors reported by lintian
• CMake
  • allow/ fix static build of python component
  • clean-up feature summary
  • GL* - prevent exporting OgreGLSupport for linking
  • use OGRE_LIB_DIRECTORY when determining OGRE_PLUGIN_PATH for OGREConfig.cmake
  • use PATH_VARS in configure_package_config_file
  • Bites - only add D3D include_directories when needed
• RTSS
  • assert that we have a sceneManager in synchronizeWithLightSettings
  • provide overloads taking material directly instead of by name
  • PSSM3 - cast shadows on "lighting_enabled false" surfaces
  • ShaderGenerator - do not index SceneManagers by name
• Overlay
  • OverlayContainer - drop wrong cast
  • OverlayElement - warn if we are about to change the material
  • TextArea - ensure glyphinfo is loaded/ avoid superfluos lookups
• Bites
  • ApplicationContextBase - catch if no RenderSystems are available
  • Input - add Gamepad support
  • make GLXConfigDialog optional, relaxing the Xaw dependency
  • StaticPluginLoader - add Assimp and TinyRenderSystem
• SWIG
  • add Vector.setitem and missing NodeObjectMap
  • wrap ParticleSystemRenderer
  • Python - enable implicit conversion from float to Radian
• Volume: TextureSource - skip GPU round-trip and allow different formats
• Assimp: respect resource group when creating material
• STBICodec: encodeToFile - improve error message
• UnifiedShader: add texture2DLod
• Tiny: implement Software Renderer
• D3D*
  • drop superfluous MinGWSupport headers
  • fix braindead CSAA naming and mode selection
• GL*
  • clean up display frequency configOption handling
  • immediately parse vendor instead of caching string
• D3D11: turn D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_DEBUG into runtime option
• GL3Plus: turn GL_DEBUG_OUTPUT into runtime option and improve msg format
• D3D9
  • port to delegate buffer API
  • RenderSystem - remove fields duplicated from RenderWindow
  • use staging buffer instead of downgrading all manual textures
• GL
  • gl.h and glext.h are unused (#1841)
  • port to delegate buffer API
• GLSupport
  • correctly request 3.0+ core context
  • EGL - also query client extensions
  • EGL - provide PBuffer based Window for transparent fallback
  • EGL - Window do not require methods only used on X11
  • resurrect EGLRenderTexture
  • X11EGLWindow - fix shadowing warnings
  • GLX - recover from more XRandR failure cases
• Docs
  • add missing copyright statements
  • add grouping to BillboardSet documentation
  • Bites - fix doxygen grouping
  • CodingStandards - add SPDX-License-Identifier
  • describe the camera coordinate system
  • drop references to AGP memory
  • improve Scripts part
  • improve WinRT build instructions
  • Manual - improve SceneManager overview
  • manual - unify GPU Program docs below Scripts
  • slightly overhaul basictutorials
  • Tutorial3 - reference texture splatting wikipedia article
  • unify ParticleFX and particle script docs
  • update and reference RenderSystem::setConfigOption
  • update RTSS docs
• Samples
  • Emscripten - fix build
  • fix reference to a non existing object in filament.material
  • Python - fix crash at shutdown
  • VolumeTerrain - store data as half-float to reduce SDK size
• PlayPenTests
  • fix missing BSP scene manager RTSS registration
  • fix Overlay material warning
  • port some tests to UnifiedShader

highlight: native GLES2 support on Windows via WGL

• Main
  • add & improve error messages on missing materials
  • add OGRE_MIN_VERSION convenience macro
  • Any - deprecate operator<<
  • deprecate dummy operator<< that only exist due to Ogre::Any deficiency
  • move handling of missing RSC_POINT_SPRITES support to RTSS
  • BillboardSet - fix removeBillboard
  • BillboardSet - refactor vertex generation
  • BillboardSet - simplify ActiveBillboards handling
  • ParticleEmitter - ensure uniform distribution of emitter direction
  • ColourValue - add conversion for native-endian byte formats
  • ColourValue - inline comparison operators
  • DefaultDebugDrawer - fix Frustum drawing
  • DefaultSphereSceneQuery - use scaled & cached WorldBoundingSphere
  • drop wrong PFF_HASALPHA for PF_DXT1
  • Entity - make SchemeHardwareAnimMap a vector
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - set lineFilename support explicitly
  • make Image class more versatile
  • Image - add casting getData
  • Image - add create for 2-phase allocation
  • Image - only re-allocate buffer if needed
  • Image - simplify combineTwoImagesAsRGBA
  • Image - simplify encoding paths
  • Image - simplify resize & scale using create
  • Image::FILTER_LINEAR/ BILINEAR is identical
  • inline several hot methods
  • MovableObject - factor out getBoundingRadiusScaled
  • MovableObject - make getVisibilityFlags getQueryFlags virtual
  • MovablePlane - use static BOX_NULL
  • ParticleSystem - tell renderer about bounding box
  • BillboardParticleRenderer - export setTextureStacksAndSlices
  • Pass - inhibit _dirtyHash if being deleted
  • Pass - inhibit recompile if being deleted
  • PixelUtil - bulkPixelConversion use production assert
  • PSSM Camera Setup - skip custom culling frustum (#1781)
  • RadixSort - add iterator based overload
  • RenderSystem - backport RSC_DEPTH_CLAMP from next
  • RenderSystem - document setConfigOption
  • RenderSystem - provide default thread registration functions
  • SceneLoaderManager - forward groupName to Codec implementations
  • SceneManager - do not cull texture shadow casting lights
  • SceneManager - fix crash in manualRender(Renderable*)
  • ShadowRenderer - assert that a custom caster material has passes
  • ShadowRenderer - simplify visibility test
  • simplify several AABB computations
  • StringConverter::parse - keep value unchanged on error
  • unify baseVertexPointerToElement into templated implementation
  • VertexBufferBinding - inline hasInstanceData
  • VES - alias DIFFUSE/ SPECULAR to COLOUR1/2
  • enable AutoParams for RenderToVertexBuffer shaders
  • fix build with OGRE_CONFIG_DOUBLE
  • Math - float is always sufficient for trigonometric functions
  • Quaternion - always use float storage
  • deprecate obsolete compute_group_dimensions
  • drop usage of deprecated RenderSystemCapabilities
  • deprecate getDisplayMonitorCount
  • deprecate RSC_INFINITE_FAR_PLANE
  • deprecate RSC_VERTEX_FORMAT_UBYTE4
  • drop remains of Symbian OS detection
• CMake
  • Dependencies - always use static build, if we build our own deps
  • DirectX11 - fix discovery when using MINGW and having W10SDK
• RTSS
  • correctly handle SPS_BLEND_INDICES & drop workaround
  • implement FFPRenderStateBuilder as TargetRenderState::link
  • move resolveColourStageFlags fixup method to TargetRenderState
  • Program - add convenience resolveParameter overload
  • RenderState - add stringvector link overload
  • RenderState - drop template in generic funcs
  • ShaderFunction - refactor resolve*Parameter
  • SubRenderState - add generic setParameter
  • swap resolveLocalParameter arguments for consistency
  • transfer TargetRenderState ownership to Pass
• Bites
  • OSXConfigDialog - use new ogre logo and a tighter layout
  • Trays - fix broken mouse-wheel handling & update SampleBrowser
• UnifiedShader: inital metal support
• ParticleFX: simplify colour related computations
• Overlay
  • update imgui to 1.79
  • ImGuiOverlay - avoid recreating buffers at every draw call
  • ImGuiOverlay - fix off-by-one in strncpy
  • Font - implement simple writing to BillboardSet
  • Font - fix tight glyph packing. Obsoleting character_spacer cfg
  • suppress warnings in imgui
• SWIG
  • Add cast from OverlayElement to PanelOverlayElement and TextAreaOverlayElement (#1741)
  • Added cast from OverlayElement to OverlayContainer
• AssimpCodec
  • fixes for getScale function
  • add support for point- and line-list meshes
• DotSceneLoader: attach loaded TerrainGroup to rootNode as UserAny
• D3D11
  • drop unused mSceneAlpha* members
  • fix HBL_DISCARDed HBU_GPU_ONLY buffers not being updated
  • fix reinterpretGSForStreamOut
  • fully disable rasterization with streamout
  • HardwarePixelBuffer - correct HBU check
  • log selected device feature level
  • fix RenderTargetView for Texture3D
• D3D*: use common Ogre implementation for #include handling
• GL3+: drop unused scratch buffer implementation
• GL
  • GLSLLinkProgram::activate - drop pre-use glGetError
  • TextureBuffer::blit - disable HW FBO blit again to fix PG Impostors
• GLSupport
  • GLX - simplify context creation and re-enable fallback
  • Win32 - use CreateContextAttribs
• Metal:
  • add alpha to coverage support
  • enable runtime #include support through Ogre
  • Hardware*Buffer - also update shadow buffer in copyData
  • implement _setPolygonMode
• Terrain
  • factor out TerrainTransforms.glsl
  • improve getPointTransform API
  • LayerBlendMap - use Image for storage
  • move uv multiplication from vertex into fragment shader
  • replace more raw malloc calls by Ogre::Image
  • use Image for CPU staging buffers
  • use RTSS shaders for depth shadows
  • use RTSS shaders for Fog & Lighting
  • QuadTreeNode - deprecate getAABB
  • QuadTreeNode - use private inheritance instead of aggregation
• Docs
  • improve building instructions
  • improve PixelFormat documentation
  • make sure Assimp and FreeImage show up in Plugins
  • Manual - clean up Particle System Attributes
  • Manual - improve introduction
  • Terrain - add method grouping
• Samples
  • CSM - add back required Cg caster program
  • Instancing - fix VTF techniques after TerrainHelpers refactor
  • ParticleGS - finish D3D11 implementation
  • ParticleGS - refactor display shaders to use VS radius
  • ParticleGS - simplify Generate material
  • ParticleGS - fix HLSL shader
  • Python - slight cleanup
  • RTSS - drop superfluous checks after resolve*Parameter
  • update terrain sample and tutorial
  • Water - render "circles" using BillboardSet
• Tests
  • add Image.Resize test
  • avoid loading plugins
  • add BillboardText test

highlight: merge ogre-assimp as Codec_Assimp and OgreAssimpConverter Tool

• Main
  • Any - enable implicit conversion constructor following std::any
  • Billboard - inline trivial getters & setters
  • BillboardParticleRenderer - inline facade methods
  • BillboardSet - avoid segfault if MaterialPtr is NULL
  • BillboardSet - inline and devirtualise trivial getters/ setters
  • BillboardSet - simplify per Billboard property handling
  • cleaned definition to fix build for macOS on ARM64
  • clean-up/ refactor HBU flags
  • Codec - refactor API to make it generally usable
  • Camera - use inherited mManager property instead of duplicating
  • deprecate ParticleVisualData
  • deprecate Root::convertColourValue
  • deprecate SceneLoaderManager API in favor of new Codec API
  • HighLevelGpuProgramManager::isLanguageSupported - add const
  • ManualObject - allow using transparent pass with detached MO
  • Mesh - introduce MeshCodec indirection to allow different formats
  • MovableObjectFactory - provide default destroyInstance impl
  • ParticleEmitter - use inherited Particle pos
  • ParticleSystem::clear - do not leak emitters into free list
  • ParticleSystem - set owner on creation instead of status change
  • ScriptTranslator - allow multi-language programs
  • Serializer - const correctness
  • ShadowRenderer - fix FT_MIP setting being overwritten
  • StringUtil.normalizeFilePath - properly handle absolute unix paths
  • Swig - extend PixelBox by method returning data as void pointer (#1674)
  • UnifiedShader - add texture1D alias for HLSL
  • use new HBU flags for code appearing in docs
  • Make resource paths relative to resources.cfg-location
  • use mesh provided HardwareBufferManager to create hardware buffers
  • unify debug drawing in the DefaultDebugDrawer class
• Bites
  • use new logo in GLX config dialog
  • use new logo in Win32 config dialog
  • Add OGRE_CONFIG_DIR envvar
• RTSS: AlphaTest - pass is a reserved keyword in HLSL
• Overlay
  • Font - improve freetype related error messages
  • update imgui to 1.77
• SWIG
  • enable imgui with C# and Java as well
  • export LogListener
  • Overlay - add workaround for setting DisplayString parameters
• Terrain
  • simplify - blendmap format is always PF_BYTE_RGBA
  • use OgreUnifiedShader for shader generation
• GL*: properly translate HBU setting
• D3D11
  • HardwarePixelBuffer - properly use staging buffers
  • properly use HBU setting instead of abusing systemMemory flag
  • re-use shadow buffer for temporary staging
• D3D9
  • auto-disable FFP fog, when fragment shader is present
  • drop D3DPOOL_MANAGED for buffers & discard HBU_DETAIL_DISCARDABLE
  • properly respect HBU_CPU_ONLY setting
• Emscripten
  • avoid needless switchFullScreen call
  • load RenderSystem settings from ogre.cfg
  • Fixes issue preventing use of latest emscripten versions (#1698)
• Docs
  • make sure per-component docs are correctly picked up by doxygen
  • manual - bring hardware buffer section up to date
  • merge cpp and manual docs of VertexData
  • RTSS - add note about automatic shader re-generation
• Samples
  • ImGui - fix "NewFrameSanityChecks(): Assertion" again
  • merge GLSL150 and GLSLES shaders that all were GLSL100
  • PBS - use OgreUnifiedShader to make it HLSL compatible
  • redeclare Cg shaders as HLSL
  • SdkSample - use unique_ptr to manage mControls
• Tests: allow RTSS to pass TextureShadowsTransparentCaster VTest
• Tools: XMLConverter - createOrRetrieve Material

• Main
  • update ShadowTextureConfig with actually chosen texture format
  • add RSC_TEXTURE_2D_ARRAY and fix array texture detection/ handling
  • add OgreUnifiedShader.h and unify ShadowVolume shaders
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - correctly resolve #include in #include
  • pass native shader version to shaders as e.g. OGRE_HLSL=4
  • ShadowRenderer - improve default caster material for PF_DEPTH use
  • ShadowRenderer - handle dynamically changing RTSS caster materials
  • ASTCCodec - fix typo in validating blockDims
  • deprecate shadow_receiver_*_program_ref
  • document the current lighting and material model
  • fix RENDER_QUEUE_MAX being treated as RENDER_QUEUE_COUNT
  • HardwareBuffer - guard lock usage with runtime asserts
  • MaterialSerializer - escape special chars in material attributes
  • Material - turn isManual notice into warning
  • Pass - hard deprecate setShadow*Program
  • unify and deprecate RenderSystem::_createRenderWindows
  • unify RenderSystem::_createRenderWindow checks & log output
• RTSS
  • include OgreUnifiedShader.h unconditionally
  • always write GLSL types - will be handled by UnifiedShader defines
  • HLSL - support Shadow & Array samplers
  • PSSM - slightly refactor shader invocation
  • PSSM - use 4 taps for HW PCF too, configurable split count
  • TextureAtlas - GLSLES compatibility
  • unify ShaderLib as GLSL and improve OgreUnifiedShader.h
  • use #include based dependency resolution for GLSLES as well
• Bites: respect selected monitor, when creating SDL window
• Overlay: use cmake to download imgui instead of git submodule
• SWIG: add read access to elements of Matrix4 (#1608)
• DotSceneLoader: appease unique_ptr destructor when building w/o Terrain
• Tools: simplify argument parsing & use logError for error reporting
• Python
  • allow using buffer types instead of raw pointers
  • allow using sequences instead of Vector and ColourValaue
• D3D11 & D3D9
  • use sane fallback if no "target" is set
  • use sane fallback format for PF_DEPTH*
• D3D11
  • fix HRESULT formatting in exception description
  • fix wrong d3dcompiler version, when compiled with MinGW 9.3
  • introduce OGRE_CHECK_DX_ERROR macro to reduce boilerplate code
  • PF_DEPTH texture support
  • reversed-depth fixes
• Docs
  • add citation for Terrain LOD algorithm
  • disable inlining inherited members
  • fix Pass references in ACT_SURFACE_ALPHA_REJECTION_VALUE docstring
  • fix warnings uncovered by doxygen v1.8.17
  • hide friend compounds
  • hide ogre internal defines from function signatures
  • Manual - MeshUpgrades does LOD, not XMLConverter
  • move ComPtr to D3D11 module
  • specify unit of "rotate" in material scripts
  • use named member groups to improve readability
• Emscripten
  • implement graceful degradation from WebGL2 to WebGL1
  • CMake: precompiled headers do not work on emscripten
• GL*: use sane fallback format for PF_DEPTH*
• GLES2
  • enable PF_DEPTH16 with WebGL2
  • ignore GL_OES_vertex_array_object on emscripten
• GLSupport
  • make __VERSION__ available in preprocessor
  • CPreprocessor: forbid numerical defines
• Samples
  • Browser - do not add Trays UI to Unit Tests
  • clean up Bumpmapping sample
  • Csharp - add Windows.Forms integration sample
  • Emscripten - add PSSM/shadow_caster material
  • LightShafts - port from Cg to OgreUnifiedShader
  • request PF_DEPTH for shadow mapping, where possible
  • ShaderSystem - fix LayeredBlending controls
• Tests: clean up TextureShadowsTransparentCaster VTest

• Main
  • PixelCountLodStrategy - fix wrong estimation of boundingArea
  • respect element count for ACT_FOG_COLOUR
  • ScriptTranslator - revert to legacy "alpha" keyword translation
  • allow constructing Box from TRect
  • provide some builtin defines for shaders
  • BillboardSet - clean up setTextureCoords API
  • Compositor - avoid needless Texture lookups by name
  • convert SkyRenderer to SceneManager::Listener
  • split SkyRenderer into Plane, Box and Dome classes
  • correctly return getDefaultParameters by const reference
  • InstanceBatchVTF - assert the correct texture format
  • Light - clarify shadowFarDistance vs. shadowFarClipDistance
  • ManualObject - inline hot methods to speed up dynamic creation
  • ManualObject - slightly clean up API
  • Pose - add mutable vertex access for offline tools
  • Root::loadPlugins - log Exception as error
  • ShadowCaster - de-virtualise hasEdgeList
  • slightly clean-up MeshLod code
  • ImageCodec - fix missing include
  • Only include <sys/sysctl.h> for iOS
  • VertexElementType - deprecate VET_COLOUR*
  • RenderSystem - deprecate getColourVertexElementType
  • add deprecation message to OgreIteratorWrappers.h
  • Camera - add missing deprecation markers
  • deprecate remaining texture_alias functions
  • SceneNode - deprecate some bounding box related functions
  • Light - _deriveShadowFarClipDistance deprecate Camera* param
  • add OGRE_IGNORE_DEPRECATED macros to allow using deprecated API
  • add Renderable::DEFAULT_PRIORITY for use instead of the define
• CMake
  • clean-up swig lookup & add quiet flag for optional dependencies
  • Fix OSX platform libs
  • Use the right variable to determine if Qt was found
• RTSS
  • Fog - drop redundant computations and simplify code
  • PSSM3 shadows - correctly handle sampling behind far plane
  • PSSM3 shadows - add debug mode, visualizing the shadow splits
• Overlay
  • ImGui - drop D3D9 colour conversion, by using correct VET
  • ImGuiOverlay - update API to avoid NewFrame/ EndFrame mismatch
  • make OverlaySystem a Singleton
  • OverlayContainer - deprecate getChildIterator
• Terrain
  • avoid needless Texture lookups by name
  • CompositeMap - fix ortho window size
  • enable vertex compression with GLSL
  • fix specular lighting computation with GLSL
  • GLSL - fix construction of the TBN matrix
  • ShaderHelper - fix and simplify lighting calculation
  • simplify Composite-Map Scene
  • use Rect::intersect where applicable
• Tools
  • XMLConverter & MeshUpgrader add -byte option to use ubyte4_norm
  • XMLConverter - use VET_COLOUR resolution in OgreMain
  • XMLSerializer - respect colour channel order at exporting to XML
• SWIG
  • drop deprecated IteratorWrapper instances
  • flatnested is only needed with python
  • wrap PixelCountLodStrategy
• RenderSystem:
  • use default destroyVertexDeclarationImpl everywhere
• D3D11
  • clear shader reflection data to fix reloading
  • D3D11HLSLProgram - remove unused and broken setShaderMacros
  • port to Sampler object. Enables caching of ID3D11SamplerState
• Metal: backport to Ogre 1.12 from ogre-next v2-1
• Docs
  • Frustum - remove reference to non-existing method
  • improve doxygen module association of Main
  • port meshlod tutorial from wiki
  • Tutorial3 - mention the composite map explicitly
  • PCZSceneManager - convert documentation to proper Doxygen
• Samples
  • Browser - only refresh carousel geometry when needed
  • PBR - Added example how to use filament shaders
  • ImGui - avoid unmatched NewFrame if Window becomes inactive
  • ImGui - drop mControls from input chain. It is not created yet
  • MeshLOD - the displayed value is the pixel count, not distance
  • port CSM Shadows Sample
  • resurrect PCZTestApp and convert it to SdkSample
  • Shadows - fix crash due to accessing NULL mCameraMan
  • Terrain - drop D3D11 workaround for vertex compression
  • Triplanar Texturing - fix reference to deleted textures

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

• Main
  • allow overriding PluginFolder with OGRE_PLUGIN_DIR env variable
  • make ResourceHandle size_t to avoid using 64bit atomics on 32bit
  • deinline non performance-critical methods to improve compile speed
  • EmbeddedZipArchiveFactory - prevent leaking Archives
  • GpuSharedParameters - Fixed param offset calculation
  • Fix build on FreeBSD.
  • add riscv64 as 64bit architecture
  • Skeleton - do import in prepare() to allow background loading
  • Texture - allow different PixelFormat for different cubemap faces
  • Texture - allow generally reinterpreting luminance as alpha
  • provide default implementations for ResourceLoadingListener
  • RenderSystem - fix FunctionInvocation leak
  • RenderSystem - require implementation of setColourBlendState
  • RenderSystem - use Ogre::Rect to represent scissor & viewport rect
  • ScriptTranslator - flag invalid pixelformats
  • ShadowRenderer - forward visibility flags (#1511)
  • Android: APKFileSystemArchive - properly set stream name to filename
  • Fixes compilation error C2338 when building with double precision (#1505)
  • improve wording of old mesh format warning
  • MeshManager - silence warnings in MeshBuildParams initialization
  • RenderSystem - hard-deprecate non-atomic _setDepthBufferParams
  • Texture - deprecate treatLuminanceAsAlpha
  • deprecate ParticleIterator
  • deprecate Skeleton::LinkedSkeletonAnimSourceIterator
  • ResourceGroupManager - deprecate getResourceManagerIterator
  • factor out Math::lookRotation
  • factor out StencilState struct & use it to simplify code
  • move findShadowCastersForLight to ShadowRenderer
  • move RenderSystemCapabilies logging to Root
  • Node & SceneNode - define private & use protected API
  • Resource - define private & use protected API
  • SceneManager - factor out resolveShadowTexture
  • refactor Codec API
  • unify RenderSystem::reinitialise
  • Zip - replace deprecated std::bind2nd with a lambda
• RTSS
  • log source material name if shader compilation fails
  • PSSM - fix ambient passes receiving shadows
  • Transform - disable instancing on GLES2 devices
• Bites
  • add Qt implementation of ApplicationContext
  • fix discarded mouse motion events on OSX
  • OSXConfigDialog - use dynamic config options list
  • OSX - scale input according to content scaling factor
• CMake
  • Fix definition of OGRE_PLUGIN_DIR in OGREConfig.cmake on Windows
  • Dependencies - switch to stable zzip release
  • Replace FindSDL2.cmake by sdl2-config.cmake (#1530)
  • drop extra win libs with SDL2 linking
  • drop remains of OGRE_SDK_BUILD
  • iOS - fix warnings, resources, instructions
  • OSX - clean up framework linking
  • OSX - fix linking against the Ogre Frameworks
  • silence SWIG warnings with recent cmake
  • slightly clean up build option handling
• Docs:
  • clarify Image::getSize and HardwarePixelBuffer::lock
  • doxygen - fixed remaining issues or added workarounds
  • move config file description to setup tutorial
  • update links on mainpage and use local licensebutton copy
  • Add vcpkg installation instructions
  • FileSystemLayer - fix locations in documentation
• DotSceneLoader - fix compilation w/o Terrain, fix crash on parse error
• SWIG
  • enable ResourceLoadingListener
  • Overlay - make createOverlayElement actually useful
  • extend Matrix3, Matrix4 and Affine3 by non member operator overloads
• Terrain
  • ShaderHelper - simplify generateVertexProgramSource
  • TerrainMaterialGenerator - deprecate getDescription
• D3D*: use common _beginFrame
• GL*
  • HardwarePixelBuffer - drop unused mFace member
  • simplify scissor test handling
• GL3Plus:
  • improve OSX shader hot-patching
  • fix "WARNING: Could not find vertex shader attribute ..."
• GL
  • add ConfigOption to disable FFP
• GLES2
  • iOS - suppress attribute warnings
• GLSupport
  • EGL - fix currentGLContext support
  • OSX - correctly set Window visible to receive updates
  • added macro recursion feature to GLSLPreprocessor
• Samples
  • simplify directory structure and build
  • simplify Sample info handling
  • unify SdkSample and VisualTest API in Sample
  • Browser - add OGREDEPS to RPATH on OSX
  • Browser - disentangle main and android_main
  • Browser - fix superficial link on OSX
  • Browser - move iOS specific parts to SampleBrowser_iOS
  • BSP - fix accessing CameraMan before it is created
  • correctly mark GLSL300ES shaders as such
  • drop unused Cocoa NIB files
  • LightShafts - multiply out alpha, as we use additive blending
  • LightShafts - use standard depth texture & spotlight params
  • OSX - correctly set rpath for browser
  • Terrain - replace proprietary nvidia textures by cc0textures

• XMLConverter
  • correctly warn about dropped flags
  • fix unitialised colourElementType
  • handle meshes with bad material references

• CI: enable Qt in SDK build and switch to relwithdebinfo

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

• Main
  • Box - introduce getSize & getOrigin convenience functions
  • deprecate Codec::dataType()
  • deprecate HardwareUniformBuffer methods
  • deprecate multiple map iterator wrapper accessors
  • deprecate Renderable::RenderSystemData
  • deprecate shadow_caster_*_program_ref for shadow_caster_material
  • deprecate texture_alias in favor of script variables
  • deprecate RSC_VERTEX_PROGRAM & RSC_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM
  • make RSC_ATOMIC_COUNTERS an alias for RSC_READ_WRITE_BUFFERS
  • StringConverter - deprecate converting ColourBufferType
  • Entity - replace @copydoc comments by explicit override annotation
  • Frustum - introduce Corners typedef for Vector3[8]
  • GpuProgram - correctly do parameter creation in postLoadImpl
  • GpuProgramParameters - parse index instead of using dummy entries
  • GpuProgramParams - avoid dirty flag on download & unify error msgs
  • GpuProgram - skip loadImpl and postLoadImpl on compile error
  • HardwarePixelBuffer::blit - rewrite with blitToMemory
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - fix line numbers when handling #include
  • HW BufferManager - provide default impl for non essential buffers
  • InstanceBatchShader - make performance warning actually a warning
  • merge HW Uniform and Counter Buffers
  • refactor RenderSystemCapabilities logging
  • ScriptTranslator - flag invalid properties inside shared_params
  • ScriptTranslator - universally use Error::getDescription
  • ShadowCaster - deprecate getShadowVolumeRenderableIterator
  • ShadowRenderer - make sure render system specific sampler is used
  • StaticGeometry - deprecate Iterator based API
  • Texture - assert that we are not loading an empty image
  • Fixed possible crash in the addImpl() method of the ResourceManager class
  • compatibility with musl libc
• CMake
  • request legacy GL discovery mode
  • samples should be only installed when they are also built
  • deprecate the HLMS component
  • Android - only derive activity label if EXTRA_ACTIVITIES exist
  • use standard (cmake 3.16+) PCH paths if possible
• Bindings:
  • Added overloaded addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  • Added template for ConfigOptionMap
  • Changed Swig SharedPtr to Ogre SharedPtr.
  • CSharp: compile C# dll instead of installing source files
  • Fixed memory management for SceneManager::createRayQuery, added RayTestResult as a SWIG type.
  • Void Pointer and casting of MovableObject (#1413)
  • SWIG: allow building Overlay bindings without imgui
  • Java: suppress new warnings in build
• RTSS
  • allow InTexcoord parameters of arbitrary type
  • correctly reset default shadow receiver material
  • DualQuaternionSkinning - fix interplay with projective texturing
  • fix bug with single pass parallax mapping & adapt sample
  • fix vertex output compacting
  • GBuffer - change TL_DEPTH_NORMAL to TL_NORMAL_VIEWDEPTH
  • GL - implement SPC_POSITION_PROJECTIVE_SPACE FS input
  • GLSL - legacy GLSL should be only use when targeting <= GLSL120
  • GLSL - use #include instead of shader attachment
  • GLSL Writer - get rid of wrong and unneeded cast
  • implement GBuffer output SubRenderState
  • implement hardware instancing support
  • implement parallax mapping and use it in respective sample
  • NormalMapLighting - do not transform normal if there are no lights
  • Program - create entry point in constructor
  • PSSM3 - fix scalar on GLSL swizzling which requires GLSL420
  • ScriptTranslator - log error when encountering unknown parameter
  • TextureAtlas - drop #extension as it does not work with #include
• Terrain: fix wrong light direction of composite map
• GLSupport
  • drop unused GLSLProgramCommon::isSkeletalAnimationIncluded
  • GLSLProgramManagerCommon - drop needless GL type indirection
  • GLSLProgramManagerCommon - drop unused shared param parsing
• GL*
  • further unify GLSLProgramManagerCommon
  • further unify GLSLShaderCommon
  • allow matrix types in texcoord semantic
  • GLSLProgram - store member shaders as array in GLSLProgramCommon
  • GLSLShaderCommon - drop the loadFromSource -> compile indirection
• D3D11/ D3D9/ Cg: set entry point to "main" by default
• D3D11
  • prevent DefaultHardwareVertex/Index/UniformBuffer creation
  • VertexDeclaration - be specific which semantic index is missing
• GL3Plus/ GLES2
  • fix loading monolithic programs from microcode cache
  • attach uniform blocks to shared params for CPU <> GPU sync
  • factor out new linkSeparable() API for SSO
• GL3Plus
  • clean up blitFromTexture
  • clean up GLSLProgramManager::extractUniformsFromProgram
  • fix linking of spirv SSOs
  • fix RenderToVertexBuffer with monolithic shaders
  • HardwareBuffer::lock - use more appropriate error message
  • merge UBO and SSBO classes
  • SSO - expose uniform locations through param_indexed
  • TextureBuffer::download - fix crash when dest type differs
  • unify microcode read/ write like in GLES2
• GL/GL3+:
  • deprecate the "attach" mechanism in favor of #include
  • enable hardware texture blit, verified working
• GLES2: implement limited hardware texture blit w/o scaling
• D3D9: do not spam unsupported HLSL targets & correct VTF format check
• BSPSceneManager
  • fire RenderSingleObject, so RTSS passes are updated
  • make BspLevel Renderable to use standard rendering path
• Tools: MeshUpgrader - allow two SubMeshes reference the same Material
• Docs
  • Compositor - document quad_normals pass attribute
  • fixed several doxygen errors
  • Manual - improve formatting of "Parameter specification"
  • Material - document the interplay of TUS and Sampler
  • Resource Management - include data retrieval in diagram
  • Tutorials - update deferred shading resource links
  • update regarding shadow_caster_material
• Samples
  • Compositor - HDR merge GLSL and GLSLES shaders
  • Deferred Shading - merge GLSL and GLSLES shaders
  • Deferred Shading - use HLSL instead of Cg for D3D11 compat
  • Deferred - SSAO use standard instead of custom data sources
  • drop white.bmp that was only used as a placeholder
  • fixup for wrong matrix construction in last commit
  • GLSL - fix several errors discovered by strict SSO checking
  • Instancing - fix shadow casting and matrix types with GLSL
  • Instancing - user better lighting setup
  • Instancing - use RNG from std and make output consistent
  • Instancing - use RTSS for accurate shader based technique
  • ParticleGS - use point sprites with GLSL
  • port DeferredShading to RTSS
  • Shadows - convert to the "standard" PSSM/shadow_caster material
  • Shadows - simplify setup by properly using integrated shadows
  • SkeletalAnimation - set hardware skinning parameters via script
  • SSAO - fix RTSS material initialisation
  • SSAO - port to gbuffer RTSS stage
  • BSP - replace chiopteraDM by OpenArena oa_rpg3dm2
  • BSP - drop quakemap.cfg indirection for Android compatibility
  • AtomicCounters - finish the sample and drop obsolete code
• Tests
  • convert ImageCombine PlayPen to Unit test
  • fix additive offset mapping test
  • test resource loading listener discarding only element in group
  • VTests: PlayPen_BlitSubTextures - use hardware blit path

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

• Main
  • Compile Remotery.c as cpp-file
  • Fixed wrong material name in ManualObjectSection
  • InstanceBatch: Initialize frame number in constructor.
  • Revert "OgreResourceBackgroundQueue: disable when OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT == 3"
  • remaining fixes for OGRE_CONFIG_DOUBLE
  • add converting constructors to Matrix4 and Affine3 + Test
  • AutoParamDataSource - use Vector4f, when float precision is enough
  • Camera - add #ifdef NODELESS_POSITIONING
  • Camera - simplify with nodeless positioning enabled
  • deprecate AtomicScalar
  • deprecate OgreVector2.h, OgreVector3.h and OgreVector4.h
  • fixed inability to properly parse 'import "longQuotedFilename"'
  • further reorder fields to reduce padding
  • GpuProgram - add safePrepare to account for throwing overloads
  • GpuProgram - move reading from file to prepare
  • GpuProgramParams - use typed overloads for Vector4 float & double
  • Lexer - do not repeat the filename in each ScriptToken
  • Light - add #ifdef NODELESS_POSITIONING
  • make sure directional lights are always sorted in front
  • make TransfromBase compatible when T is not Real
  • merge HighLevelGpuProgram::loadHighLevel with GpuProgram::loadImpl
  • move CmdPreprocessorDefines to HighLevelGpuProgram
  • replace in memory spot_shadow_fade.png by on disk .dds file
  • Resource::calculateSize - use sizeof(*this)
  • SceneManager - move destroyShadowTextures to clearScene
  • ScriptCompiler - avoid vector of SharedPtr
  • ScriptCompiler - deprecate unused internal API
  • ScriptCompiler - throw error on invalid import statements
  • ScriptLexer - get rid of Ptr to vector antipattern
  • ScriptLexer - only record lexeme when type is not sufficient
  • ScriptParser - factor out unquoted function
  • ScriptTranslator - unify GpuProgram translation
  • ShadowRenderer - bind shadow texture to correct Pass with RTSS
  • ShadowRenderer - fix spot shadow fade with the RTSS
  • slightly refactor shadowrenderer
  • switch internal HighLevelGpuProgramFactory API to GpuProgram*
  • TextureManager - assert that total texture size is not zero
  • UnifiedHighLevelProgram - allow delegating to low-level programs
  • Node - make getLocalAxes more numerically stable
  • Matrix3 - make several functions inline for re-use and refactor

• Bites
  • add keypad key support for Dear ImGui.
  • map Dear ImGui to SDL_TEXTINPUT for correct text character processing.
  • Move check for Xaw to Bites.

• CMake
  • expose OGRE_NODELESS_POSITIONING
  • disable imgui, if it is not found out and add nodeless to summary
  • Make OGRE_BUILD_TESTS depend on Ogre Bites.
  • RTTS - drop separation between core and ext shaders
• Overlays
  • imgui - correctly handle RGB > BGR conversion for D3D9
  • restore script loading hack to allow re-loading groups
• RTSS
  • FFPLib - add missing FFP_Transform variant
  • fix linear skinning shaders and replace existing sample by them
  • HarwareSkinning - only include light calculations when needed
  • LinearSkinning - add missing normal transformation
  • make hardware skinning work with GLES3+
  • properly handle uniform arrays of non square matrices
  • Texturing - switch back to inspecting srcPass
  • Texturing - use ACT_TEXTURE_VIEWPROJ_MATRIX for projection matrix
  • use the RTSS to generate Hardware Skinning shadow caster shaders
  • use uint4 for BLENDINDICES for HLSL4 compatibility
• D3D9/ D3D11: allow background shader compilation in prepare()
• D3D11
  • HLSL - drop shared_ptr juggling and remove according hack in Main
  • make sure PF_RGB correctly falls back to PF_XRGB instead of RGBA
  • Switched ID3D11DeviceContext::ClearState and ID3D11DeviceContext::Flush as recommend by Microsoft.
• D3D9: retain monitorIndex of the "Rendering Device" config option
• GL*
  • delete background contexts before destroying the HBM
  • fix uploading sampler array uniforms
  • Non-square matrices are always row-major in Ogre with no
    conversion, so force off transposition.
• GL
  • explicitly convert matrices to float for OGRE_CONFIG_DOUBLE
  • fix crash & error due to type mismatch
  • get rid of GLSLGpuProgram and consolidate GLSL code in GLSupport
• GLSupport
  • add the 'externalGLControl' option to Cocoa render windows
  • factor out common GLWindow class
  • move background context registration to GLRenderSystemCommon
• Docs: add background resource loading tutorial
  • Basic Tutorial 2 - use additive lighting
  • improve VTF section
  • manual - improve GPU Program documentation
  • Manual - slightly improve Shadows section
  • Manual: document GLSL non-square matrix translation behavior
  • RTSS - add hardware_skinning section
  • update License.md - added pugixml, dropped nedmalloc

• Samples
  • add clarifying comment when using the ImGuiOverlay() in custom apps (#1333)
  • Do not build demo installer when SampleBrowser is disabled
  • BumpMapping - use HLSL instead of Cg
  • clean up Shadows sample
  • do not build imgui sample, if it is disabled
  • drop obsolete HadwareSkinning materials & shaders
  • enable Fresnel Sample for D3D11 by using HLSL instead of Cg
  • fix depth shadow caster for HLSL4
  • OffsetMapping - finalize cleanup and fix multilight setting
  • OffsetMapping - use HLSL instead of Cg and simplify material
  • Browser - improve UI layout on Mobile

• Tests
  • PlayPen - port to nodeless positioning by using helper class
  • unify glow shaders

• Main
  • allow reading zip archives from unicode paths
  • Compositor - allow setting auto clear colour from script
  • deprecate QuadMaterialMap typedef
  • deprecate TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • deprecate _writeRawConstant(size_t, Real, size_t count)
  • fix GpuParameters not being updated if preRender returns false
  • make reverse-Z a ConfigOption and check compatibility in GL3Plus
  • Pass - setPointSpritesEnabled. Check for RSC_POINT_SPRITES
  • properly handle MRT depth attachments
  • removed extra unlock, which caused assert failure. (#1273)
  • SkyRenderer - correctly apply orientation to SkyBox
  • TextureUnitState::setTextureName - do not reset the TextureType
  • Added support for 32 bit floating point depth buffer (#1290)
  • Provide copy and assign ctors where needed.
  • Fixed exit from Matrix3::SingularValueDecomposition when reaching max iteration count
• CMake
  • add dotscene plugin and imgui support to feature summary
  • enable unicode path support on MSVC by default
• Bites
  • ApplicationContext - implement destroying windows
  • Input - specify return value and add InputListenerChain
• Overlay
  • allow injecting derived Overlay classes
  • merge ogre-imgui into Overlay & Bites
  • Implemented pixel ratio for HiDPI
• RTSS
  • HLSL use SM4 sampling functions if available
  • PSSM3 - fix shader generation for depth textures with HLSL
  • PSSM3 - fix depth texture, no split with reversed depth with GLSL
• Terrain
  • generate SM4 compatible shaders
  • fix shadows with reversed-z & depth textures
• Docs
  • improve Compositor script documentation
  • fix a bunch of doxygen warnings
  • Install Linux docs in /usr/share/doc/OGRE
  • add reversed depth tutorial
• GL*
  • drop unneeded calls to glReadBuffer
  • Texture - keep driver default parameters for initial upload to avoid stalls
• GL3+
  • allow FBOs with depth and non-depth texture attachments
  • Reverse depth buffer implementation for OpenGL3+
  • fix leak when a program object is created but one already exists
• GL3+/ GLES2: fix handling of PF_A8 textures & add test
• D3D11 & GL3+: consider reversed-Z for texture compare & texture border
• GL: remove some version checks - we globally require GL 1.5
• GLSupport:
  • EGL - fix emscripten build
  • EGL - use the standard FSAA name on Emscripten & Android
  • GLSLPreprocessor: fixup #elif support + test
  • GLSLPreprocessor: use std::forward_list instead of ad-hoc solution
  • Android: export viewport scale through getViewPointToPixelScale
  • Android - query ANativeWindow instead of EGL for window size
• D3D11
  • drop RSC_POINT_SPRITES, which is not supported
  • use precise depth format mappings that we have now
  • add reversed-Z support
• D3D9 & D3D11: ps_2_x & vs_2_x are not HLSL profiles
• Samples
  • add Imgui demo
  • introduce HLSL_SM4Support.hlsl to unify Cg/ HLSL4 shaders
  • clean up Example_Basic.{cg, hlsl} mess
  • Browser - make sure Trays are not tiny on Android
  • Context - use isCurrentSamplePaused to make code more readable
  • drop Sample::getRequiredRenderSystem
  • ShowUV - fix varying matching in GLSL shaders
  • SkyBox materials must not use normals - D3D11 is picky here
  • SSAO - merge Cg & HLSL post processing shaders
  • fix depth shadow caster for HLSL4
• Tests:
  • make PlayPen_VertexTexture compatible with D3D11
  • fix MinGW build
  • PlayPen_DepthShadowMap - add normals to satisfy D3D11

• Main:
  • DefaultHardwareBufferManager - fix order of destruction
  • deprecate getMovableObjectFactoryIterator
  • deprecate RenderSystem::bindGpuProgramPassIterationParameters
  • deprecate SceneManager::getMovableObjectIterator
  • factor out internal _openFileStream method
  • Frustum - correct extent computation for customProjMatrix
  • remove logging from Exception constructor altogether
  • TRect - add operator==
  • use the idiomatic addElement().getSize() chaining for VertexDeclarations
• CMake
  • disable precompiled headers on MinGW
  • export unicode paths option on MSVC
• Csharp: install source files for easier consumption and fix build
• D3D9: implement bindGpuProgramPassIterationParameters by general means
• GLSupport
  • EGL - add HWgamma support
  • EGL - correctly handle windowMovedOrResized with parent win
  • implement the 'currentGLContext' parameter for cocoa windows on macOS
  • unify EGL/ GLX debug output
• GL3+
  • support loading SPIRV shaders
  • update glcorearb.h to OpenGL 4.6
• GL*
  • GLSL - some code simplification
  • GpuProgram - implement pass iteration params binding using mask
  • unify uniform block handling in GLSupport
• Plugins
  • add DotSceneLoader plugin
  • STB image - update to latest upstream
• XMLConverter
  • replace tinyxml by pugixml
  • simplify code
• Samples
  • add volumetric light shafts sample
  • avoid SampleBrowser swallowing sample input events
  • Tutorials - Added CXX 11 as it does not build without it
• Tests
  • fix gtest discovery when built locally
  • test Camera::setCustomProjectionMatrix
  • update gtest and build it like the rest of the deps
• Docs
  • update dependencies and document cmake options
  • use aliases to annotate shader specific pass parameters
  • update "Binding vertex attributes" section

• Main
  • add optimized PF_R8 scaling & conversion
  • add overloads for MaterialPtr ManualObject
  • improve Singleton documentation
  • properly export RenderOperation
  • Texture - also unset TU_AUTOMIPMAP when mNumMipmaps == 0
  • update SSE2NEON to fix softwareVertexSkinning
  • use general softwareVertexSkinning implementation instead of NEON
  • Add missing nullptr_t constructor for SharedPtr
  • Do not replace existing entries in ResourceGroup index
  • use std::map::emplace instead of std::map::insert to simplify code
  • OgreETCCodec: KTX container: add support for a subset of ASTC textures
  • OgrePixelFormat: fix obvious typo in computing astc_slice_size()
• XMLConverter
  • do not attempt to create "" named materials
  • use Listener to keep material references for mesh2xml
• CMake
  • Android - fix installation of core resources
  • Android - port build to gradle
• SWIG: export VertexElementList and ignore some deprecated stuff
• Overlay
  • fix TextArea Font and material change
  • Add _setMaterial method to Font
• Bites: Trays - allow interacting with widgets using the system cursor
• Terrain: use material group for composite map
• D3D11: Replaced the use of getCustomAttribute() methods by new D3D11RenderTarget interface (#1212)
• D3D9: fix uninitialised memory in lighting
• GLSupport: [OSX] Avoid leaking and over releasing of mGLContext and mGLPixelFormat - always store retained, always release. Initialize mGLPixelFormat in externalGLContext case too. Cleanup.
• GL3+
  • correct building shader programs when compute shader is present
  • Make GLSL part of GL3Plus private implementation (#1188)
• GLES2: fix PixelFormat assert and compilation with GLStateCache
• GLES2/ GL3+: use compile time assert in PixelFormat
• RTSS: add missing forward declare
• Samples
  • AndroidJNI - properly request Camera permissions
  • correct path for AndroidJNI samples
• Test correct resource location priority
• Docs:
  • clarify light-related SceneManager comments
  • improve documentation of ManualResourceLoader
  • improve RTSS documentation
  • update building instructions for android

• Main
  • fix building without ZIP
  • fix combinedUVW for separate images & deprecate separateUV setting
  • fix default texture filtering value set to the value other than FO_NONE for TE_EXTERNAL_OES and TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • fix integer overflow when num threads and use a sane limit of 2
  • fix segfault when set_texture_alias arguments are missing
  • Fixed Matrix3::SingularValueDecomposition for bidiagonal matrices
  • fix negative particle size when scale affector decrease size
  • MaterialManager - fix leak of mDefaultSettings passes
  • SceneManager - fix finite and infinite extrusion params pointers
  • add ACT camera world position for camera relative rendering
  • add PF_DEPTH32 and map it in GL3+
  • add proper deprecation notes for legacy HardwareBufferLockGuard
  • add SSE2NEON for NEON SIMD support
  • correctly handle the case of identityView && cameraRelative
  • correctly mark DebugRenderable for export
  • DepthBuffer - make FSAA API consistent with RTT API
  • disambiguate ResourceManager overloads
  • drop DIRECTXMATH support now that we have NEON everywhere
  • Mesh - make default constructor match createOrRetrieve
  • Node - deprecate getChildIterator
  • OptimisedUtil - log ticks instead of requiring a breakpoint
  • OptimizedUtil - fix compilation with DO_PROFILE
  • ParticleEmitter - add asserts to catch invalid velocity values
  • PixelFormat - move byte aliases to end to fix big endian build
  • PlatformInformation - NEON does not depend on a specific CPU arch
  • Quaternion - inline several trivial member functions
  • ResourceGroupManager - allow disabling throwing in openResource
  • SceneManager - allow to disable throwing in getSceneNode
  • SceneManager - deprecate shadow config iterator access
  • Script - fully deprecate single argument cubic_texture
  • ScriptTranslator::getConstantType - catch unsupported types
  • ShadowCameraSetup - add static create() to accommodate bindings
  • ShadowRenderer - do not pool depth for PF_DEPTH
  • simplify AxisAlignedBox
  • slightly speed up TextureUnitState::recalcTextureMatrix
  • Texture - add native layer array support
  • Texture - slightly refactor code and avoid errors on corner cases
  • TextureUnitState - deprecate isCubic() & is3D()
  • TextureUnitState - refactor setAnimatedTextureName
  • Vector3 - return IDENTITY in getRotationTo for zero-sized vectors (#1045)
  • ZipArchive - improve zzip error messages
  • Matrix3 - Increase precision of SVD decomposition
  • SceneManager: O(1) complexity for destroySceneNode()
  • SceneManager: restore log(N) complexity for named node lookup
  • SIMDHelper: drop unused __mm_rsqrt_nr_ps
  • spare the Quaternion coversion when we only need a Matrix3
  • stop using deprecated setCubicTexture internally
  • Support PixelBox::getSubVolume with slice granularity for compressed textures - no need for relaxed checks
  • VTF instancing with HLSL (#1167)
  • parse #include directive in GLSL shaders
• CMake
  • Bites - issue a warning if SDL2 was not found
  • set CMP0068 and default CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to x86_64
  • Fix the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable is not set in 3rd party libraries
  • FreeImageCodec: fix error message when FreeImage_LIBRARIES is empty
• Bites
  • disable ConfigDialog on MinGW until we have resolved #1064
  • generate Shaders for all registered RTSS schemes
  • Trays - ensure window update on first call
  • Trays - fix jumping Slider handle
  • TraysManager - limit progress bar update rate to 4fps
  • use exception safe buffer unlocking everywhere
  • Ensure that requesting partial copy of compressed texture will lead to exception rather than silent data corruption. Partial copy is implemented in Ogre v2.1
• RTSS
  • add FFPLib_AlphaTest.cg, accidentally dropped in refactoring
  • add templated createSubRenderState overload
  • correctly apply specular normalisation before addition
  • fix resolving params with autoConstantIntData != 0
  • merge remaining parts of glsl & glsles RTShaderLib
  • ~SGTechnique - fix use after free
  • update PSSM3 split point documentation
• Terrain
  • MaterialGenerator - actually disable normal maps if requested
  • TerrainGroup - add loadLegacyTerrain for 1.7 style terrain.cfg
• SWIG
  • add repr to Affine3
  • fix MSVC builds of Python, Csharp and Java
  • fix MSVC CI build
  • fix wrapping of Billboard{Set, Chain} that also derive from MO
  • make VectorBase* available for wrapepd Vector* classes
  • Java: add install targets
• Media: drop the unused old instancing shaders
• Overlay: fix crash when tasking out of full screen
• GLSupport
  • "contentScalingFactor" option to scale Android back buffer (#1033)
  • move getPass*States override to GL
  • CPreprocessor: skip duplicate strlen call
• GLES2
  • EAGL2Window: derive from GLRenderTarget as required
  • Fix crash when opening GLES2 Mali emulator
• GL*
  • allow MRT with different formats if supported
  • fix FBO format logging
  • Revert "GL*: do not needlessly bind zero texture"
• GL
  • do not cache programs containing geometry shaders
  • fix GLArbGpuProgram::loadFromSource exception code & message
  • fix warning flood with Copy & PBuffer RTT
• D3D11:
  • allow D3D11DeviceResource to create and destroy self or other D3D11DeviceResources in notifyDeviceLost/Restored handlers
  • D3D11HardwarePixelBuffer: Create staging buffer with only single subresource, ret immediately after usage
  • D3D11VertexDeclaration - add useful information to exception
  • Dead code removed (offset was always zero)
  • Restored the ability to differentiate between identically named adapters
  • Reuse field declared in the base class (mLockBox => mLockedBox)
  • We need to clean only one texture slot as there is only one depth texture (stored in mDSTResView) even for D3D11MultiRenderTarget
• Docs
  • manual - improve shadows section
  • slight corrections for Compositor Scripts
• Samples
  • Python - drop deprecated ApplicationContext parameter
  • TexturedFog - fix errors with strict mode
• Tests
  • add Matrix3SVD test
  • VTests: drop superficial calls to buildTangentVectors on knot.mesh

• Main

  • add ACT camera world position for camera relative rendering
  • add DefaultTextureManager and NullTexture for software fallbacks
  • add PF_DEPTH32 and map it in GL3+
  • add proper deprecation notes for legacy HardwareBufferLockGuard
  • add SSE2NEON for NEON SIMD support
  • Any - throw std::bad_cast instead of InvalidParametersException
  • append "_d" in DynLib instead of getConfigFilePath
  • assert instead of segfaulting if volume materials are unavailable
  • CompositionTechnique - except if texture name is not unique
  • Compositor - factor out resolveTexReference
  • CompositorManager - stop using ptr to std::vector antipattern
  • Compositor - reuse common methods of CompositorInstance & use uint
  • correctly handle the case of identityView && cameraRelative
  • correctly mark DebugRenderable for export
  • define a common OGRE_TOKEN_PASTE macro for LINE concat
  • DepthBuffer - make FSAA API consistent with RTT API
  • _destroySceneNode - fix destroying last item in mSceneNodes
  • disambiguate ResourceManager overloads
  • drop deprecated RenderSystem API
  • drop deprecations with low impact
  • drop DIRECTXMATH support now that we have NEON everywhere
  • drop RSC_CUBEMAPPING by bumping required D3D9 feature level to 9.1
  • drop support for separateUV
  • drop useless RSC_COMPLETE_TEXTURE_BINDING
  • DynLib - fix WinRT build
  • Entity - use vector based storage for child objects
  • factor out OGRE_BUILD_* settings to OgreComponents.h
  • factor out ShadowVolumeExtrudePrograms to filesystem
  • FileSystemLayer - do not force the Ogre subdir upon consumers
  • fix android build without Zip
  • fix building without ZIP
  • fix combinedUVW for separate images & deprecate separateUV setting
  • fix default texture filtering value set to the value other than FO_NONE for TE_EXTERNAL_OES and TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • fix integer overflow when num threads and use a sane limit of 2
  • fix segfault when set_texture_alias arguments are missing
  • GpuProgramManager - provide default noop loadImpl
  • HardwareBufferLockGuard - assert that buffer is not null
  • hide OgreParticleEmitterCommands.h
  • hide OgrePrefabFactory
  • hide ShadowTextureManager
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - fix #line directive filename refrencing
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - unify preprocessor define parsing
  • implement ACT_NORMAL_MATRIX
  • install new OgreComponents.h
  • introduce Vector4f and use it to store attenuation
  • ManualObjectSection - factor out convertToSubMesh
  • MaterialManager - fix leak of mDefaultSettings passes
  • MaterialSerializer - fix writing texture_unit section + tests
  • Math - factor out common makePerspectiveMatrix
  • Matrix4 - make converting constructors explicit
  • Mesh - make default constructor match createOrRetrieve
  • MeshManager - load prefabs only on demand
  • MeshManager - move ManualResourceLoader API into separate class
  • move auto window creation logic from RenderSystem to Root
  • move DisplayMode from Profiler to Overlays
  • move more code from SceneManager to ShadowRenderer
  • Node - deprecate getChildIterator
  • Node - use PrefabFactory to create DebugRenderable
  • OptimisedUtil - log ticks instead of requiring a breakpoint
  • OptimizedUtil - fix compilation with DO_PROFILE
  • parametrize TransformBase to make it universally usable
  • ParticleEmitter - add asserts to catch invalid velocity values
  • Pass - fix wrong assignment of attenuation parameters
  • PixelFormat - move byte aliases to end to fix big endian build
  • PlatformInformation - NEON does not depend on a specific CPU arch
  • Profile - add remotery support
  • Profile - avoid allocations for event names, fill swapBuffers hole
  • Profiler - clear the whole hierarchy when enabled mid-frame
  • Profiler - ignore mEnabled with Remotery
  • Profiler - make Profile RAII helper inline
  • Quaternion - inline several trivial member functions
  • reduce private SceneManager API usage in ShadowRender
  • RenderSystem - add back some deprecated internal API
  • RenderSystem - drop advanced TextureUnit settings
  • RenderSystem - drop obsolete hasAnisotropicMipMapFilter
  • RenderSystem - fix _setProjectionMatrix fallback code
  • RenderSystem - pass FFP params through GpuProgramParameters
  • RenderTarget::writeContentsToTimestampedFile - use ISO 8601 order
  • replace some useless comments by "override" keyword
  • ResourceGroupManager - allow disabling throwing in openResource
  • Root - fix auto creation of Window
  • SceneManager - allow to disable throwing in getSceneNode
  • SceneManager - also use fog_override values for auto fog_params
  • SceneManager - convert _TYPE_MASK members to enum
  • SceneManager - deprecate SceneType & fix some deprecation warnings
  • SceneManager - deprecate shadow config iterator access
  • SceneManager - fix finite and infinite extrusion params pointers
  • ScriptCompiler - drop useless CE_UNSUPPORTEDBYRENDERSYSTEM
  • ScriptCompiler - hide abstract bases from OverlayTranslator
  • Script - fully deprecate single argument cubic_texture
  • ScriptTranslator::getConstantType - catch unsupported types
  • ShadowCameraSetup - add static create() to accommodate bindings
  • ShadowRenderer - do not pool depth for PF_DEPTH
  • simplify AxisAlignedBox
  • slightly speed up TextureUnitState::recalcTextureMatrix
  • String - fix doxygen inline comment
  • SubEntity - move trivial getters to header to allow inlining
  • SubMesh - store MaterialPtr instead of material name
  • Texture - add native layer array support
  • Texture - fix fallout from layer array refactor
  • Texture::getBuffer - return by const ref
  • Texture - slightly refactor code and avoid errors on corner cases
  • TextureUnitState - deprecate isCubic() & is3D()
  • TextureUnitState - drop useless binding types
  • TextureUnitState - fix fallout after using NULL frame for blank
  • TextureUnitState - refactor setAnimatedTextureName
  • Timer - use fixed width uint64_t for time duration
  • turn some #if OGRE_PROFILING into runtime options
  • TUS - fix one more instance of NULL for blank & add tests
  • use Matrix3x4f TransformBase typedef in InstancedEntity
  • Vector3 - return IDENTITY in getRotationTo for zero-sized vectors (#1045)
  • ZipArchive - improve zzip error messages
  • Unify enum TextureUsage between v1.11 and v2.1 (TU_NOTSHADERRESOURCE => TU_NOT_SRV, +TU_UAV, +TU_UAV_NOT_SRV)
  • use exception safe buffer unlocking everywhere
  • move OgreUTFString to Overlay component, get rid of no longer needed OGRE_UNICODE_SUPPORT
  • spare the Quaternion coversion when we only need a Matrix3
  • stop using deprecated setCubicTexture internally
  • Support PixelBox::getSubVolume with slice granularity for compressed textures - no need for relaxed checks
  • Math: Matrix3 - Increase precision of SVD decomposition
  • SceneManager: O(1) complexity for destroySceneNode()
  • SceneManager: restore log(N) complexity for named node lookup
  • SIMDHelper: drop unused __mm_rsqrt_nr_ps
  • Ensure that requesting partial copy of compressed texture will lead to exception rather than silent data corruption. Partial copy is implemented in Ogre v2.1
  • Fixed for Emscripten/Webassembly port to work again
  • Fixed Matrix3::SingularValueDecomposition for bidiagonal matrices
  • fix negative particle size when scale affector decrease size
  • parse #include directive in GLSL shaders
  • VTF instancing with HLSL (#1167)
  • remove superficial OgreExport to fix MinGW build

• Bites

  • add workaround for swig crashing on ApplicationContext
  • ApplicationContext - add fallback locations for RTSS media
  • ApplicationContext - default to "Ogre3D" as appName
  • ApplicationContext - update fallback internal media locations
  • ApplicationContext - windows must be destroyed in reverse order
  • correctly update director flags after ApplicationContext rename
  • disable ConfigDialog on MinGW until we have resolved #1064
  • extract ApplicationContextBase to allow multiple implementations
  • generate Shaders for all registered RTSS schemes
  • put RTShaderLib paths in resources.cfg instead of guessing them
  • SWIG - correctly handle OgreComponents.h
  • Trays - ensure window update on first call
  • Trays - fix jumping Slider handle
  • TraysManager - limit progress bar update rate to 4fps

• SWIG

  • add repr to Affine3
  • fix MSVC builds of Python, Csharp and Java
  • fix MSVC CI build
  • fix wrapping of Billboard{Set, Chain} that also derive from MO
  • make VectorBase* available for wrapepd Vector* classes
  • Python: organize all modules in parent Ogre package
  • Java: add install targets

• CMake

  • Bites - issue a warning if SDL2 was not found
  • drop obsolete Android Toochain - we use the one shipped with NDK
  • set CMP0068 and default CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to x86_64
  • silence warning about deprecated swig_add_module
  • WinRT - drop support for WindowsPhone and old MSVC
  • -Wno-inconsistent-missing-override, so we can incrementally add them
  • Fix the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable is not set in 3rd party libraries#
  • FreeImageCodec: fix error message when FreeImage_LIBRARIES is empty

• RTSS

  • add FFPLib_AlphaTest.cg, accidentally dropped in refactoring
  • add material serializer test
  • add templated createSubRenderState overload
  • allow manually triggering shader generation & add test for this
  • allow using PSSM3 SRS for normal depth shadow mapping too
  • Colour - drop useless stage flags to simplify code
  • const correctness for updateGpuProgramsParams
  • correct and simplify FunctionInvocation Operand comparison + test
  • correctly apply specular normalisation before addition
  • disable hardware PCF for now as it has issues on e.g. Intel
  • drop deprecated functions
  • drop deprecated functions
  • drop SGX_TransformPosition and one SGX_TransformNormal overload
  • drop specular mapping support in normalmapping SRS
  • FFPRenderStateBuilder - just use constructor & destructor
  • FFPTexturing - simplify setTextureUnit preconditions
  • fix PSSM shader for GLSLES
  • fix resolving params with autoConstantIntData != 0
  • fix SGX_ModulateScalar fallout
  • GLSL - factor out getGL3CompatDefines
  • hide SGMaterialSerializerListener implementation
  • Lighting - clean up internal API
  • Lighting - drop unused uniform surface parameters
  • Lighting - simplify code by using ACT_NORMAL_MATRIX
  • Lighting - simplify shaders by using inout semantics
  • Lighting - there will never be specular input for per pixel lights
  • lighting - use the autoparam data source to feed data
  • make code testable and add basic shadergen test
  • make resolve* funcs never return NULL and drop respective checks
  • merge per-pixel and normal-map lighting
  • merge remaining parts of glsl & glsles RTShaderLib
  • move acquirePrograms/ releasePrograms to TargetRenderState
  • move bindUniformParameters to TargetRenderState
  • move CPU program creation to TargetRenderState
  • move example SRS shaders into Samples/Media
  • move getCustomFFPSubState to FFPRenderStateBuilder
  • move UserObjectBinding management to TargetRenderState
  • Operand - delay null check until FunctionInvocation
  • PerPixel - directional lights must not unset viewpos request
  • properly use FunctionAtom base class
  • PSSM3 - fix fallout in parameter resolve check
  • PSSM3 - fix hardware PCF and auto enable it for PF_DEPTH
  • PSSM3 - speed up shader code & use hardware PCF if available
  • refactor NormalMapLighting
  • RenderState - use std::unique_ptr for aggregation & slight cleanup
  • replace FFP_FUNC_ADD/MODULATE/SUBTRACT by BinaryOpAtom
  • ~SGTechnique - fix use after free
  • ShaderGenerator - hide listener adapters
  • ShaderGenerator - manage aggregated classes using std::unique_ptr
  • simplify FFPRenderStateBuilder and default to per-pixel lighting
  • simplify Operand::OpMask enum and use strict typing for it
  • slightly simplify Lighting parameter resolution
  • Texturing - mPSOutDiffuse always contains the "current" value
  • Texturing - remove superficial assignment to temporary
  • update PSSM3 split point documentation
  • use dynamic_cast instead of getType() String comparison
  • use Vector3i for lightCount

• MeshLOD

  • Let Lod0Stripifier use Mesh::getHardwareBufferManager() for buffer creation
  • MeshLodGenerator: wrong assertions removed

• Media

  • drop the unused old instancing shaders
  • factor out top level "core" Media folder
  • fix mrttestfp_quad.glsl after stdquad refactoring
  • inherit border attributes in SdkTrays.overlay
  • merge GLSL / GLSL150 StdQuad_vp and dependent compositors
  • merge some HLSL and Cg programs in HLSL_Cg
  • unify DepthShadowmap* programs as GLSL120
  • unify GLSLES and GLSL120 shaders as GLSL where possible
  • unify SwizzleGP.glsl, fixing the GL2 version
  • PSSM: unify shaders and assume window depth instead of NDC depth on GL

• Overlay

  • do not call _notifyViewport on adding elements
  • fix crash when tasking out of full screen
  • fix fallout introduced by the new ScriptTranslator
  • hide OgreOverlayElementCommands.h
  • Overlays - use "new" Script Compiler introduced in OGRE 1.6
  • use shadowbuffer to avoid stall caused by VBO mapping (#1162)

• Terrain

  • force checkQuadIntersection inline and make it private
  • MaterialGenerator - actually disable normal maps if requested
  • move helper shader code to filesystem
  • slightly clean up TerrainMaterialGeneratorA
  • speed up calculateHeightDeltas
  • TerrainGroup - add loadLegacyTerrain for 1.7 style terrain.cfg
  • use #include directive to append TerrainHelpers
  • use non-linear depth for depth shadows

• GLSupport

  • add "contentScalingFactor" option to scale Android 3D buffer (#1033)
  • drop unused ErrorHandlerFunc abstraction
  • GLX - drop broken window icon loading code
  • move getPass*States override to GL
  • move legacy EXT_geometry_shader4 functionality to GL
  • OSX - eliminate confusing variable name
  • unify implementations as GLDepthBufferCommon
  • CPreprocessor: skip duplicate strlen call

• D3D11:

  • allow D3D11DeviceResource to create and destroy self or other D3D11DeviceResources in notifyDeviceLost/Restored handlers
  • D3D11HardwarePixelBuffer: Create staging buffer with only single subresource
  • D3D11VertexDeclaration - add useful information to exception
  • Dead code removed (offset was always zero - the only reason why there were no cr
  • Rename D3D11Texture::getTexture() => getSrvView()
  • Restored the ability to differentiate between identically named adapters
  • Reuse field declared in the base class (mLockBox => mLockedBox)
  • We need to clean only one texture slot as there is only one depth texture (stored in mDSTResView) even for D3D11MultiRenderTarget

• GL*

  • simplify createMultiRenderTarget - only supported with FBOs
  • Revert "GL*: do not needlessly bind zero texture"
  • allow MRT with different formats if supported
  • DepthBuffer - drop unused mMultiSampleQuality field
  • fix FBO format logging
  • GL3+/ GLES2: simplify RTT Manager as only FBOs are supported
  • GLES2/ GL3+: disable separable programs by default

• GLES2:

  • EAGL2Window: derive from GLRenderTarget as required
  • Fix crash when opening GLES2 Mali emulator
  • auto insert precision qualifier into fragment shaders

• GL3+

  • bump minimal required OpenGL context to 3.3
  • do not implicitly dispatch compute during _render

• D3D9: Texture - remove unused mCubeFaceNames

• GL

  • actually throw on invalid outputOperationType
  • do not cache programs containing geometry shaders
  • fix GLArbGpuProgram::loadFromSource exception code & message
  • fix warning flood with Copy & PBuffer RTT

• FreeImageCodec/ STBICodec: make methods public (#1047)

• Docs

  • differentiate between the profiler instance and instrumentation
  • fix ogre 1.12 refactoring warnings
  • fix several doxygen warnings
  • fix wrong auto param type in samples
  • improve preprocessor_defines documentation
  • improve "setup" Tutorial
  • manual - improve shadows section
  • port basictutorial3 to doxygen & adapt Terrain sample accordingly
  • reorganize GLSL legacy feature documentation
  • several fixes for 1.11 refactoring
  • slight corrections for Compositor Scripts
  • specify what "compatibility with older cards" exactly means
  • update Entity documentation formatting and references
  • update profiler documentation for remotery support
  • update RTSS sequence diagrams and description
  • use new Ogre logo
  • Tip for install via MSVC without Visual Studio

• Samples

  • drop DualQuaternion_Common.hlsl
  • Instancing - fix remaining HLSL techniques and merge with Cg
  • Instancing - use RTSS instead of custom shader for ground plane
  • NewInstancing - fix depth shadows on all RenderSystems
  • Python - drop deprecated ApplicationContext parameter
  • Terrain - use RTSS for depth shadows
  • TexturedFog - fix errors with strict mode

• Tests

  • add Matrix3SVD test
  • add SplitBaseFilename tests
  • add TransformBaseArrayLoading test
  • fix PlayPen_DepthShadowMap and port it to RTSS
  • drop superficial calls to buildTangentVectors on knot.mesh
  • fix PlayPen_ManualObject2D
  • reset RTSS after each test to avoid state leaking

• Tools: update MeshUpgrader and XMLSerializer for SubMesh changes

• Main
  • AnimationStateControllerValue - add create() and addTime option
  • Controller - add static ::create() member to Function & Value
  • DeflateStream - Avoid assert when read is satisfied by cache
  • DeflateStream - call destroy[ZStream] in close()
  • Fixed memory leak in MemoryDataStream.
  • fix various warnings/ issues discovered by clang analyzer
  • GpuProgramParametersSharedPtr -> const GpuProgramParametersPtr&
  • handle empty resources - throw in RGM and return false in Archive
  • Math - deprecate intersects(.. list ..)
  • Math - move simple function definitions to header
  • Math - typedef RayTestResult and inline some ::intersect funcs
  • Node::DebugRenderable - draw over existing geometry
  • Plane - move all definitions to header to allow inlining
  • RESOURCE_GROUP_NAMEs should be the same regardless of STRICT_MODE
  • Root - fix shutdown() after oneTimePostWindowInit() was called
  • TextureUnitState::setBlank - restore pre 1.11 semantics
  • unify handling of blank textures
• CMake
  • Dependencies - switch to upstream zzip
  • install swig interfaces for consumption by external modules
• RTSS
  • add option to use energy preserving blinn-phong reflectance
  • ShaderProgram - allow preprocessor defines
• Bites
  • ApplicationContext - add public getFSLayer
  • ApplicationContext - call Root::saveConfig() after shutdown()
  • CameraMan - add setPivotOffset for manual offset control
  • Input - corrected the SDLK_PAGEDOWN value (#989)
  • Input - forward MouseButtonEvent::clicks
  • OgreCameraMan - allow disabling fixed camera yaw
  • add hacky workaround for black window on OSX
• Terrain
  • checkQuadIntersection - drop superficial normalization
  • speed up getHeightAtTerrainPosition
• SWIG
  • add C# bindings component
  • wrap AnimationStateMap
  • wrap Ogre::TRect
  • wrap RaySceneQueryResult
  • wrap RenderTarget::FrameStats
• Python: add version module version number
• GL*: fix various issues discovered by clang analyzer
• GLSupport: fix GLXWindow::resize for non-toplevel windows
• D3D11: also use _getTextureBindFlags for 3D textures
• GLES2: fix building with hlsl2glsl
• D3D9
  • do not crash when moving window to the second screen
  • drop actually unsupported RSC_AUTOMIPMAP_COMPRESSED
  • we must use TU_DYNAMIC for mipmap generation on D3D9Ex
• Docs: Manual - improve references/ formatting in Animation chapter
• Samples
  • Android - merge both samples into single project/ directory
  • correct (lower) shader requirements of terrain related samples
  • InstancedViewports - fix GLSL using preprocessor defines

• Main:
  • add top level aliases for resource groups e.g. RGN_DEFAULT
  • add two-argument OGRE_EXCEPT using __FUNCTION__ as src
  • CompositionPass - allow specifying the type at creation
  • CompositorManager - const correctness and method naming updates
  • deprecate RenderSystem::_makeProjectionMatrix method family
  • fix loading PF_BYTE_LA - add correct masks and shifts
  • GpuProgramManager - clean up Microcode Cache API
  • PassTranslator - auto assign inline defined GpuPrograms
  • properly use std:: math overloads instead of casting to Real
  • RenderSystem - drop commented out methods
  • ResourceManager - prevent creation of "" named resources
  • SceneManager - fireRenderSingleObject after updating light lists
  • SceneManager - let AutoParamDataSource handle the world matrices
  • ScriptLexer - print error instead of throwing on syntax errors
  • ScriptTranslator - also special case targets property
  • ScriptTranslator - use atom->id to parse CompositionPass::PassType
  • ShadowVolumeExtrudeProgram - use cg as backwards compatible hlsl
  • Texture & RenderTarget - add simplified getCustomAttribute
  • Texture - unify loading between all rendersystems
  • TextureUnitState - fix wrong type check in setTexture
  • use Matrix4::CLIPSPACE2DTOIMAGESPACE in AutoParamDataSource
  • add TEX_TYPE_EXTERNAL_OES and android sample of its usage (#914)
  • use source code instead of program names as microcode cache key
  • fix Wconversion warnings in public headers
  • DataStream: clear access mode on close, avoid repetitive compression by DeflateStream when close is called explicitly and then implicitly in .dtor
  • DeflateStream: allow to specify required stream wrapping among supported by ZLib - mostly for GZip variation. Default is ZLib for backward compatibility.
  • use Math::calculateBasicFaceNormal instead of ad-hoc solutions
  • APKFileSystemArchive - only erase elements that existed in the map
• CMake:
  • fill version info from project() instead of parsing header
  • Use system freetype library if found
  • Fixed the inconsistency use of CMAKE_BINARY_DIR and CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR in some cases. Instead, they are replaced by PROJECT_BINARY_DIR and PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR correspondingly.
• Bites:
  • Android - return created render window/ native window pair instead of null values (#964)
  • ApplicationContext - shader cache was truncated with no changes
• RTSS
  • New "Next Gen" API
    • introduce FunctionStageRef for simplified function invocation
    • add resolve{Input,Output}Parameter by content only overload
    • automatically create parameters if content is not found
    • allow resolving input parameters by ParameterPtr
    • add resolveParameter overload for simple autoconstants
    • add SampleTextureAtom to remove FFP_SampleTexture() indirection
    • track unused parameters and skip binding them
    • ShaderFunction - deprecate static getParameter* API
    • replace g_AutoParameters by AutoConstantDictionary from Main
  • merge Cg and HLSL program writers
  • use shared HLSL_Cg shader lib based on Cg variants
  • skip binding samplers on HLSL and Cg
  • merge FFP Lighting and SGX PerPixelLighting
  • add FFP_Lerp(vec3, vec3, vec3) as needed by BLEND_DIFFUSE_COLOUR
  • use AutoParamDataSource for lights and merge update methods
  • Cg - clamp lighting values as well
  • clean up resolveLocalParameter functions
  • do not special case HLSL4 semantics as we use the compat profile
  • do not transform normal if it is not needed
  • fix renaming of custom uniform input parameters
  • GLSL
    • add compatibility defines for sampling function names
    • also redefine texture1D() as texture()
    • consistently clamp per-pixel and ffp lighting
    • ShaderGLSLProgramWriter - allow MRT output from fragment shader
  • GLSLES
    • add support for GL_OES_EGL_image_external
    • write forward declarations to resolve dependencies
    • avoid emitting texture1D code instead of filtering it
  • hardware skinning - do not generate unused local world position
  • SampleTextureAtom - move out argument to end for consistency
  • ShaderGenerator - add overloads for known source technique
  • Texturing - fixes for BLEND_DIFFUSE_ALPHA and BLEND_DIFFUSE_COLOUR
  • TriplanarTexturing - correctly resolve input params
  • SegmentedLights - use fmod which is supported by hlsl and cg
  • ShaderExNormalMapLighting - clamp supported lights to 8
• Overlay: make error message more useful if component is not a container
• PageManager: call Camera::removeListener on destruction (#922)
• Terrain: use Cg shadergen for HLSL as well
• Java: use proper java 1.5+ enums
• MeshLod:
  • collapseVertex() can erase more then one vertex from mCollapseCostHeap, therefore we must ask size each time. Fortunately, it's constant time operation.
  • consequently use uint16 leveraging the new Math::uint16Cast
  • LodData structures layout optimization
• D3D11:
  • only support loading DDS using Ogre Codecs
  • Texture - do not overload/ use loadImage internally
  • use a better heuristic for naming the rendertextures
• D3D9: use Ogre Codecs instead of D3D9X to load DDS files
• GL3+/GLES2: drop areFixedFunctionLightsInViewSpace as there is no FFP
• GLSupport
  • GLX - correctly handle windowMovedOrResized with parent win
  • Fixed incorrect EGL config id return as EGL config
  • introduce internal GLRenderTarget & GLFBOCommon interfaces
  • Added support for assigning custom windowProc
  • AndroidEGLWindow: handle the parameter "externalGLControl" in when create (#963)
  • remove dependency on legacy libGL.so
• Docs
  • correctly use ScriptTranslator in TextureSource UML
  • document "windowProc" _createRenderWindow parameter
  • make explicit that top level Overlay components must be containers
  • Resource Management - add sequence diagram and fix declaration part
  • Resource Management - group information on a single manual page
  • RTSS - document "fog_stage" attribute
  • update RTSS documentation for latest features
  • use short RGN_DEFAULT alias
  • Texture & RenderTarget - document getCustomAttribute keys
• Samples
  • Emscripten - do not trap on integer overflow in WASM
  • Ocean - refactor to use unified programs
• Tests
  • make ONLY_COMMON_GL_TESTS an environment variable
  • PlayPen_SkeletonAnimationOptimise use modulative shadowing

• Main
  • unify Vector classes using a template with configurable type
  • Vector - add explicit converting constructor and define Vector2/3i
  • add StringUtil::format and replace various usages of sprintf
  • TextureUnitState: factor out Sampler class
  • RenderSystem: implement _setSampler in all RenderSystems
  • implement "compute" compositor pass
  • Compositor - allow RTSS to pick up render_quad materials
  • factor out ColourBlendState and make it the preferred codepath
  • respect create() returning null as per resourceCollision handler
  • unify Texture::mSurfaceList across RenderSystems
  • ResourceManager - mention resource type in item identity exception
  • CompositorInstance - do not set DepthBufferPool for depth textures
  • GpuProgramParams - drop remains of boolean parameter storage
  • GpuProgramParams - merge int and uint storage
  • refactor GpuProgramParams to avoid duplicate code
  • MurmurHash3 - fix fallthrough warnings
  • PF_DEPTH16 is an integer format
  • PixelFormat - depth formats are accessible nowadays
  • prevent compositor instances from having empty render targets
  • RenderSystem - do not use Textures where load is failing
  • RenderSystem - make W-Buffer a RenderSystemCapability
  • SceneManager::_destroySceneNode - fix segfault in error path
  • slightly clean up compositors code
  • TextureUnitState - reduce verbosity of logged error message
  • unify TextureManager::isHardwareFilteringSupported
  • update Texture::createShaderAccessPoint interface
  • PixelBox - initialize data pointer to avoid invalid memory access
  • adjust shadows extrusion distance for non-uniformly scaled objects that casts non-uniformly scaled shadows
  • Avoid McGuire dark caps generations if angular size of object is too high, causing interpolated points extruded not far enough, and became potentially visible even for well tesselated mesh
  • Script: do not treat single '$' as variables and print var name on error
  • Script: add sampler and sampler_ref to define and reference samplers
  • Script: allow using PF_BYTE_RGB[A] in scripts
  • ScriptCompiler: formatErrorCode - handle CE_OBJECTBASENOTFOUND
  • ScriptCompiler: introduce CE_DEPRECAEDSYMBOL warning level
  • ScriptTranslator: declaring an unsupported GpuProgram is not an error
  • ScriptTranslator: add unknown parameter values to error messages
  • deprecate complex StringConverter::toString for integer types
  • deprecate SceneNode::getAttachedObjectIterator
  • Script: deprecate compare_func keyword
  • RenderSystem - deprecate FFP clip plane API
  • deprecate PixelUtil::getBNFExpressionOfPixelFormats
• CMake
  • forward CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH so Dependencies see each other
  • use the ZLIB imported target
  • do install dependencies for Emscripten too.
  • fixed OgreTargets to take different configurations into account
  • install DeferredShading resources on android
• Emscripten
  • use emscripten_set_canvas_element_size (#865)
  • properly handle canvas resize events
  • GLES2: enable glTexStorage for WebGL2
  • GLES2: PRIMITIVE_RESTART_FIXED_INDEX is on unconditionally on WebGL2
• GL*
  • do not needlessly bind zero texture
  • do not switch back to GL_TEXTURE0 which would prevent state caching
  • fix isHardwareFilteringSupported for floating point textures
  • implement TextureUnitCompareFunction
  • make sure StateCache is fully disabled when not explicitly enabled
• D3D11 & GL3+: factor out dispatchCompute method
• D3D11
  • Fixed stencil for texture render targets
  • unify pixelformat fallback path for luminance formats
• GL3+/ ES2: consistently use PixelUtil::isDepth for depth format checking
• GL3+ use glSampler objects for backing Ogre::Sampler if possible
• GLES2: make sure that we use PF_BYTE_RGBA for copyContentsToMemory
• GL: implement PF_DEPTH16 format for FBOs
• Terrain: really reduce requirements to GLSL120
• RTSS
  • fixed shader generation for (additive) illumination passes
  • normal map lighting - port to Sampler & deprecate old style usage
  • SGX_ConstructTBNMatrix - fix binormal direction
• BSPSceneManager
  • clean up logging to avoid trivial message spam
  • use StringUtil::splitBaseFilename to avoid segfault
• Cg: exclude mat arrays from definition renaming with glsl profile
• Docs
  • ResourceLoadingListener: document resourceCollision parameters
  • FileSystemLayer: document getConfigFilePath/ getWritablePath lookup
  • basictutorial1 - clean up cfg files and drop unused media.cfg
  • CompositorScript - improve texture directive description
  • document compare_test and comp_func texture unit properties
  • improve documentation on resource groups
  • manual - improve referencing in Shadows chapter
  • manual - merge MaterialManager docs with API description
  • manual - update "Mesh Tools" section
  • restructure compositor script section
  • RTSS - improve debugging tips
  • update Material formatting & references
  • update Trays tutorial for common pitfalls and up to date API
  • update descriptions of Shadow options
  • update deferred tutorial wording
• Samples
  • BumpMapping/MultiLight - drop wrong shaders in decal pass
  • BumpMapping - only require GLSL120
  • clean up Fresnel materials - only require GLSL120
  • fix GLSLES BumpMapping shaders
  • Fresnel & CubeMap - use visibility masks instead of listeners
  • simplify Compute Sample using the new compute compositor pass
  • SSAO/Post - let RTSS handle simple shaders
  • Character - use FocusedShadowCameraSetup
  • DynTex - use blitFromMemory to allow pixel format conversion
• Media
  • Cg - drop arb?p1 profiles and make sure GLSL is used instead
  • Cg - use common DualQuaternion shadow shaders from RTShaderLib
• Tests
  • test ResourceLoading::CollsionUseExisting
  • modify MaterialSerializer test to still work without RenderSystem

• Main:
  • add OGRE_NODISCARD macro and annotate source code as applicable
  • add RSC_WIDE_LINES & line_width support for materials
  • move the adjacency flag to render operation where it belongs
  • AxisAlignedBox - fix wrong index in getAllCorners (#802)
  • correctly initialize mBoneWorldMatrices
  • do not use Real for colour values which are always stored as float
  • extend colour writing to be enabled/disabled per channel (#811)
  • GpuProgramManager - use StreamSerialiser for storing shader cache
  • GpuProgramParams - use BaseConstantType to define GpuConstantType
  • introduce PF_DEPTH16 as an explicit alias for PF_DEPTH
  • ManualObject - take float instead of Real as we never store double
  • move ConfigOptionMap and common initConfigOptions to RenderSystem
  • PrefabFactory - drop superficial calls to _setBoundingSphereRadius
  • refactor StringConverter to make it more versatile
  • ScriptCompiler - do not override named objects by index
  • ScriptTranslator - add helper for parsing single arg properties
  • ScriptTranslator - drop 1D Texture fallback, does not belong there
  • ScriptTranslator - extend single arg properties helper to enums
  • ScriptTranslator - use getColour for specular as well
  • simplify some getSquaredViewDepth computations
  • slightly clean up ColourValue
  • SceneManager: also set uniform parameters in compute shaders
  • SceneManager: set the ambient (scene) colour in renderObjects
  • ScriptTranslator: error if custom property is unsupported by GpuProgram
  • ScriptTranslator: print the undefined reference on the respective error
  • ScriptTranslator: refactor gpu parameter translation
  • Pass: correctly initialise and copy lineWidth
  • Pass: drop auto naming by index. Overriding by index is not supported
  • OgreMatrix4.h: add ctor that takes pointer to 16 floats (#809)
  • CompositorChain: removeCompositor - fix using index == LAST
  • drop MSC_VER workarounds for MSVC version that we no longer support
  • GpuProgramParams: warn if a matched shared param cannot be copied
  • deprecations
    • StringConverter - deprecate parse*Long functions
    • deprecate PreciseReal
    • CompositorChain: deprecate OgreIterator based API
    • RenderSystem - deprecate _setTextureCoordSet
• Bites
  • ApplicationContext - deprecate openAPKFile
  • StaticPluginLoader - fix licensing header
• CMake
  • Android - always select first (and possibly only) target
  • correctly disable respective Components when SWIG is unavailable
  • correctly set CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH when cross compiling
  • drop OGRE_FULL_RPATH in favor of CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH
  • drop unused Doxygen settings
  • fix FindOpenGLES2 lib detection on Emscripten
  • OGREConfig - add missing Codec Plugins
• RTSS: simplify texcoord calculations by separating texture matrix
• GL3Plus
  • do not swallow shared parameter binding errors
  • shared params always GPV_GLOBAL - avoid redundant binding
• GLES2
  • do not advertise 1D textures, they are not supported
  • [iOS] Fixed window size updating - call to window->resize(..) does not work for views in presented view controllers, and is ideologically wrong for external views
• GL*
  • fold GLSupport classes into GLRenderSystems
  • move hasMinGLVersion to GLRenderSystemCommon
  • validateConfigOptions is a noop everywhere
• GLSupport
  • EGL - allow "sRGB Gamma Conversion" in ogre.cfg
  • EGL/X11 fix some warnings
  • fix crash in Win32Window::create (#816)
  • unify ConfigOption processing in GLRenderSystemCommon
  • EGL - only delete X11 window if it is toplevel
• SWIG (Python & Java)
  • update ignore patterns of deprecated API
  • update interface file
  • wrap overloaded ResourceManager methods
  • fix compilation of Java Component and correct outpath for Android
• Tests
  • Android - remove spurious -Wl,-pie
  • make unsigned parsing tests more useful
  • MaterialSerializer - set exportDefaults=true
  • implement BitwiseTests.Half
• Docs
  • add manual mesh creation tutorial
  • improve external texture source tutorial
  • manual - improve indentation in script chapter using @par/ @param
  • Pass - merge manual section and code comments
  • TextureUnitState - merge manual section and code comments
• Samples
  • Character - fix NUM_ANIMS definition and handling
  • OffsetMappingShadows also works fine with legacy GL
  • Python - fix segfaults on shutdown
  • Python - update raw sample to 1.11 API
  • SSAO - no need to re-add compositor on uniform changes
  • VolumeTex - fix bounds computations
  • VolumeTex - fix segfaults
  • PNTriangles: fixed exception in light setup