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Sparky March 2016 Release Notes
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| Sparky March 2016 Release Notes | |
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| Major New Features: | |
| - Sparky now supports Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) | |
| - Sparky now supports rendering in both OpenGL and Direct3D 11 | |
| - Custom 3D model format (SPM - Sparky Model) | |
| - Build tool for converting from Autodesk FBX to SPM | |
| - Custom memory allocation and control | |
| - Matrix maths is now row-major | |
| The following is the full list of changes included in this month's release: | |
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| - Sparky now supports OpenGL and Direct3D 11 as rendering APIs | |
| - Refactored entire graphics engine to support multiple rendering APIs | |
| - Changed FreeType-GL to provide pixel data rather than OpenGL textures, so that it could be used with DX | |
| - Fixed window sometimes not closing when the close button was pressed (Win32) | |
| - Fixed mouse release events getting lost because the window was not capturing mouse clicks properly (Win32) | |
| - Added window focus and resize events (Win32) | |
| - Fixed window resizing not propagating to appropriate renderers | |
| - Changed font rendering to work with OpenGL and Direct3D | |
| - Sparky now supports Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) | |
| - Added normal mapping support for PBR | |
| - Added Disney diffuse model and GGX specular model for PBR lighting (mostly taken from Frostbite's PBR paper) | |
| - Added Image-Based Lighting (IBL) for PBR (similar to Frostbite's model) | |
| - Added Depth Textures and basic shadow rendering (now obsolete after render API changes) | |
| - Added basic deferred rendering support (now obsolete after render API changes) | |
| - Sparky now uses a custom 3D model format (SPM - Sparky Model) for meshes | |
| - Added SPMBuild tool for FBX-to-SPM conversion | |
| - Created PBRMaterial class for convenience | |
| - Added cubemap texture support (TextureCube) (GL and DX) | |
| - Added Material render flags | |
| - Fixed uniform struct alignment to work with DX (16-byte aligned, MSVC only) | |
| - Created Renderer class for render API specific states (eg. depth-testing, blend modes, etc.) | |
| - Added FreeImage to Solution. Sparky now compiles FreeImage as a static library, along with selected FreeImage utilities | |
| - Created render API independent blend modes and buffer types | |
| - BufferLayouts now work with GL and DX | |
| - Rewrote Shader class | |
| - Converted Forward Renderer to use system uniforms | |
| - Added booleans to debug menu | |
| - Added first-person camera (FPSCamera) | |
| - Added custom Allocator class for future development | |
| - Added spnew and spdel macros for memory management | |
| - Added MemoryManager for tracking memory allocations | |
| - Added dynamic shader reloading (GL only) | |
| - Added Debug Renderer (currently broken due to API changes) | |
| - Added plenty of resources to Sandbox (PBR materials, cubemaps, models) | |
| - Added signed and unsigned integer typedefs (int8, int16, int32, etc.) | |
| - Fixed MSVC compiler warnings | |
| - Organised Visual Studio filters for Sparky-core project | |
| - Removed ChernoCraft | |
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| Known Issues: | |
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| See Github issues. |
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