Occasionally with the right orientation, degenerate triangles will appear as
they are no longer zero-area triangles which OGL can cull during rendering. The
issue comes from having to manually ensure each primitive in the rendering
pipeline sent to the render groups were correctly marked with degenerate
vertexes.
Instead, we can now just pass the vertex points straight through, using
a begin() and end() structure which will append the start and ending degenerate
vertexes for us.
Asteroids move and are a part of the entity sytem. Added some debug markers for
memory usage and fixed a bug in logic causing degenerate triangles to show up
depending on the angle of approach towards the origin.
Switch to something of smaller scope in aim to be able to finish a project from
start to finish. Also allow refreshed eyes to review the existing API and see
what can be improved on after taking a short break from the project.
No longer repeatedly invoke malloc for retrieving memory. Some operations still
leak memory (notably audio streaming). We introduce notion of Transient and
Permanent storage. Transient memory is used for data in memory that is
temporarily allocated (i.e. graphics for that frame's output), and permanent as
more like game state storage.
We now give out pointers from a pre-allocated block of memory, so we have no
allocation cost and benefits of reduced memory leaks. The transient block gets
reset every frame. Any memory allocated within is cleared at no cost simply by
rearranging the base pointer of the memory block.
Premultiply transformation matrix onto vertices before sending onto GPU to
preserve transformation properties of entities before being batched into
a general group. This removes the model matrix from the shader pipeline- instead
in rendering code we deal in world space (which works out to be more intuitive).
Only in the last step in GLSL we convert back to normalised coordinates.
Incorrect assumption that strings only needed degenerate vertexes at the start
and end of each string instead of characters causing render "wings" between
separate strings.
Fix render-group not switching to next group if current group is full.
Degenerate triangles allows a single triangle strip call to be called on
multiple independent triangles without "connecting" strips inbetween the
triangles.
Render all entities with the same texture in one call. Currently only
implemented for humanoid entities. Since we are rendering using triangle strips,
between entities there is invalid rastered data between entities. Using
degenerate triangles this may be mitigated, by indicating to OGL which triangles
it can skip in the rendering process.
Attempting to add child weapon data to an entity has revealed the need for an
entity origin to which children start transformations from. Worth exploring
scene graphs in the future.
Parse input was computing irrelevant data. The function has been inlined
and extraneous computations in the function has been moved to the
appropriate locations.
