OpenFlipper Changelog

What's new in OpenFlipper 2.1

• GENERAL:
• Refactored multiple classes in order to separate glew from Qt5GL.
• ACG:
• Algorithms:
• EdgeConvexPolygonIntersection added to Algorithms
• Drawmesh:
• new feature: flexible vertex layout in drawmesh
• Remove second copy of vertex buffer, preparation for flexible vertex layout
• remove face-colors from drawmesh vertex format
• GL:
• DrawModes: Convenience function to add property based drawmodes. refs 1895
• Rendering: Fix for wireframe/hiddenline on poly meshes.
• Rendering: unified edge rendering for triangle and poly meshes refs
• Support shininess in lighting code
• improve MSAA support in FBO
• rename MSFilterWeights file to AntiAliasing
• documentation update in FBO, AntiAliasing, IRenderer
• check link status before calling glUseProgram refs #2064
• fix resizing of msaa fbos
• update msaa helper utils
• FBO: init texparams only for non msaa textures to avoid glerrors
• GLMatrix: extraction of clipping planes in a projection matrix
• GLSL::Shader: add suppport for tessellation shaders
• Add convenience functions to property layers of DrawMode
• Added own glError to String function to avoid the glu version which is deprecated on mac
• IRenderer:
• Additional functions to make sure, the fbos are handled correctly
• Convenience functions added:
• save/restoreActiveFbo(fboId, viewport)
• copyDepthToBackBuffer(tex, scale)
• Fix specular lighting of directional lights in the shader pipeline
• add setting for alpha testing function in render objects refs #398
• compute size of attributes for missing input buffers refs #2069
• Renderobjects can request a depth map of the scene, which is optionally rendered in a z-prepass
• new feature: scene layer and overlay layer with RenderObjects
• Line Node:
• use quad extrusion shader in line node to control the width refs #1305
• MaterialNode:
• Made MaterialNode's JSON (de)serialization Qt5 compatible.
• MeshNode:
• Fixed 0 pointer deref in meshnode. Closes 2048
• RenderObjects of the MeshNode: fetch texture bound to opengl slot 0, if no textureMap was specified refs #2050
• apply small depth offset in wireframe shaders refs #2081
• optimized picking in meshnode (via shaders)
• disable optimized face,edge picking for point clouds refs #2139
• MeshCompiler and DrawMesh:
• Fix for face colors on wrong faces by Christopher.
• const correctness in mesh compiler refs #2060
• implemented GL_TRIANGLES_ADJACENCY mode in meshcompiler
• more robust estimation of split-count in MeshCompiler refs #2195
• Picking Implementation:
• Introduced a new shader based picking which is way faster and uses less memory for its buffers
• ShaderGenerator:
• Add support for include statement in ACG shader load function
• Write source location of shader input files as comments into code
• ShaderGen: control glsl version in shader descriptor
• Extension to replace lightingcode
• Add comments to shaders to keep track of input files used to compose shaders
• Tesselation Shader support
• Support for relative paths
• ShaderCache:
• Added clear function
• add function which compares shader files with the last modified timestamp
• Add support to query static shader programs from the shader cache
• Shader Pipeline:
• Shader based pipeline takes the global ambient light into account now.
• Lighting in fixed function and shader pipeline should be unified now.
• TextureNode:
• npot texture support in TextureNode refs #2218
• Tools:
• Unified color generator interfaces.
• workaround for memory corruption, when a multisampled FBO is resized
• New TextureBuffer class in ACG for opengl texture buffers
• ACG Textures can now be bound to any texture slot by passing the texture unit to bind()
• Add filter weight computation for reading from multisampled textures
• Uniform Pool:
• fix wrong storage type for integer uniforms
• Mesh Tools:
• Added function to grow edge selections.
• Documentation:
• Renderer tutorial
• CORE:
• General:
• Output more information on crash
• Disallow copy construction of Stackwalker
• Improved view decoding
• Interface:
• PluginFunctions: Added fovy function.
• ViewerProperties: Added const accessor for glState.
• remove double updating of menubar it fixed crash on macos refs #2036
• Added setViewAndWindowGeometry to core scripting functions.
• Improved PluginFunctions::getSaveFileName
• Function to invalidate pick caches via plugin functions.
• IO:
• Fixed crash in save functions, not correctly checking if the object to be saved exists
• UI:
• add gui elements for shader timestemp function (see options -> files) and reload shaders
• Added F2 shortcut for Viewer Snapshot
• QtBaseViewer:
• Cleaned up QtBaseViewer code a bit.
• Let the glwidget do the buffer clearing, not the renderers (simplified renderer plugins)
• Fixed opaque rendering of background for screenshots with alpha channel
• fix snapshot output format for transparent objects
• Refactored glWidget::decodeView.
• Fixed ortho projection when moving multiple objects #2234
• PLUGINS:
• Components:
• Add nogui support
• Datacontrol:
• Allow copy and pasting of materials (Requires json support)
• add functions for adding empty groups. thanks to Vladimir Chalupecky for providing the code closes #2219
• update layout when object is deleted, fix ungroup-visibility problem closes #2222
• Depth Peeling:
• Code refactoring and cleanup
• Front to back peeling back to work
• User can switch between dual peeling and front to back peeling via options menu
• Post-processor support: Output of front depth layers in hardware depth buffer
• File-OBJ:
• fix: load pointclouds from obj files doesn't insert a face anymore refs #1995
• fix grouping with non manifold geometry closes #2130
• File-PTS:
• use default OpenFlipper settings instead of arbitrary default options for loading PTS files
• update the viewport once a PTS file is opened
• File-VTK:
• fix wrong count in the POLYGONS header (Thanks to Vladimir Chalupecky for the patch)
• Info Meshobject:
• set minimum size of the bounding box image closes #2121
• set minimum size for the whole window refs #2121
• adjust size of dialog after setting all the variables
• add scrollbar
• reduces base height closes #2121
• Added face valence info. (Important for PolyMeshes.)
• MemInfo:
• Added better measurement of free memory for Linux platforms.
• Move:
• no crash, if the manipulator is sized too small
• Provide Manipulator context menu for all plugins that use a manipulator
• Primitives:
• Added Sphere generator based on subdivision (Thanks to Vladimir Chalupecky for the original patch). closes #2041
• PropertyViz:
• Added new vector viz mode.
• Visualization (and picking) of Vec2*.
• Remesher:
• Fix cppcheck warning in Remesher
• Fixed boundary errors in Remesher
• Renderer Toon:
• Add options dialog for toon renderer
• Selection MeshObject:
• patch for lasso selection of point clouds, mapping function is correct refs #2056
• Simplified sphere mesh selection code closes #2129
• Added trace edge path function
• Shader Pipeline:
• Stereo support and new buffer handling in shader pipeline renderer
• Skeletal Animation:
• ui updating fix refs 2046
• Subdivider:
• Sripting slots don't use ui anymore ( Thanks to Vladimir Chalupecky for the patch)
• Added more user output to inform on errors or unsupported algorithms.
• Fixed slot descriptions ( the subdivider is not a smoother ;-) )
• Updated Vsi xml
• Toon Shader:
• Added new renderer plugin for toon shading
• DATA TYPES:
• HexahedralMesh and TypePolyHedralMesh:
• Added convenience functions to get a hexahedral or polyhedral mesh directly from the object id. closes #2199
• Plane Object:
• update plane for the new renderer
• deferred updating and creation of the plane vbo it fixes gpu crash on mac refs #1896
• PolyLine:
• Added preimage handling to polylines
• Mesh Object:
• avoid initialization of ward shader, which might cause trouble on intel graphics refs #2064
• remove old ward shader refs #2068
• VolumeMesh Object:
• Fixed issue #2061 -> Comparison of boolean to itself.
• BUILD SYSTEM:
• set debug/release output_dir for mac with bundles enabled closes 1993
• enable stacktrace for macos refs #2055
• remove duplicates in the argument list of moc closes #2062
• Find tetgen quietly, Prefer global 1.5 version of tetgen
• Get cgal path from environment variable
• Find 64 bit poco dir
• Strange glut include fixed
• Added pbr lib finder
• Windows packaging support for VS2013 redistributable
• Qt5: Fixed RCC Resource compiler problems (wrong path!)
• Don't use ftgl anymore and don't warn
• QWT6 Integration
• Speedup for cmake generators
• DOCUMENTATION:
• Raised Doxygen version of files to 1.8.7
• Added documentation for shader generator
• update docu in ACG IRenderer.hh
• Strange parser error in doxygen fixed