Add “instancing” Graphics Feature constant.
Add love.graphics.drawInstanced(mesh, instancecount, x, y, …) which draws the mesh multiple times in a single draw call. Each instance of the mesh will appear in the exact same spot unless one of the following are used:
- Add an optional vertex attribute step type argument to Mesh:attachAttribute. “pervertex” is the default. “perinstance” causes the attribute to be per-instance instead of per-vertex, when the mesh is drawn.
- Add love_InstanceID as a built-in read only int variable in GLSL 3 vertex shaders. It is always 0 except when a Mesh is drawn with more than 1 instance specified in the draw call. It can be used to manually compute or index into per-instance values in a shader.
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The above are batched together into a single draw call when called without other drawing calls in between, as long as the following criteria are met:
- The texture is the same.
- The primitive type is the same (points cannot be batched with non-points).
- The love.graphics state is the same (aside from the current color - i.e. setColor - and the transform state).
- The active shader’s uniform values are the same.
You can examine the ‘drawcalls’ field of love.graphics.getStats() to help determine if your code is allowing for optimum batching.
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- Added Mesh:attachAttribute(name, mesh, nameInMesh) which retargets the attribute name in the specified Mesh (3rd argument) to a new name for this mesh (1st argument).
- Added Mesh:attachAttribute(name) which detaches any attached attributes from other meshes for that attribute name.
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Each sprite in a SpriteBatch has 4 vertices in the following order: top-left, bottom-left, top-right, bottom-right. The index returned by SpriteBatch:add (and used by SpriteBatch:set) can be multiplied by 4 to determine the first vertex in a specific sprite.
Added new love.graphics.newMesh variants: newMesh(vertexformat, vertices [, drawmode, meshusage]) and newMesh(vertexformat, numvertices [, drawmode, meshusage]).
Replaced the regular love.graphics.newMesh variants with newMesh(vertices [, drawmode, meshusage]) and newMesh(numvertices [, drawmode, meshusage]). To use an image or canvas with a mesh, use Mesh:setTexture.
vertexformat is a table with the following prototype:
{
{attributename, datatype, components},
{attributename, datatype, components},
...
}
Where attributename is the name of the vertex attribute (can be the built-in names 'VertexPosition', 'VertexTexCoord', or 'VertexColor', or a custom name for use in a vertex shader), datatype is the type of values used for the attribute ('float' or 'byte'), and components is the number of components in the vertex attribute (between 1 and 4.)
The vertex format is used to determine the layout of the vertices in the mesh, for example the 'regular' newMesh variants use this vertex format:
format = {
{"VertexPosition", "float", 2},
{"VertexTexCoord", "float", 2},
{"VertexColor", "byte", 4},
}
The mesh usage parameter accepts the same constants as the spritebatch usage hint in love.graphics.newSpriteBatch - "dynamic", "static", and "stream".
Mesh:setVertex now sets *all* vertex attributes for a specific vertex in the Mesh.
Added Mesh:setVertexAttribute(vertexindex, attributeindex, attributevalue1, ...), which sets the values for a specific vertex attribute in a specific vertex in the Mesh (resolves issue #784.)
Added Mesh:getVertexFormat and Mesh:flush.
Added Mesh:setAttributeEnabled(attributename, enable) and Mesh:isAttributeEnabled(attributename), to enable or disable the use of a specific attribute when drawing the Mesh.
Added Mesh:attachAttribute(attributename, mesh), which makes the Mesh use a vertex attribute from another mesh when drawing the Mesh. This can be used to separate out vertex attributes which are updated at different rates into different meshes, and to share vertex data between multiple meshes.
Removed Mesh:setVertices, Mesh:getVertices, and Mesh:setVertexColors.
Wireframe mode should only be used for debugging: the wireframe lines behave differently than regular lines, their widths aren't affected by the graphics scale, and the mode isn't available on OpenGL ES.
If no vertex map is set, this restricts the drawn vertices to those whose indices in the vertex array are between [min, max] inclusive.
If a vertex map is set, this restricts the values used in the vertex map to those whose indices in the vertex map array are between [min, max] inclusive.
Added Mesh constructor variant: love.graphics.newMesh(vertexcount, texture, drawmode). Creates a Mesh with a certain number of vertices with x,y,u,v,r,g,b,a values of (0,0,0,0,255,255,255,255).
love.graphics.draw(mesh) will draw the mesh instancecount times, using hardware instancing when available. The only way to draw individual instances differently from each other is to use the love_InstanceID variable in a vertex shader.
Added love.graphics.isSupported(“instancing”). Hardware instancing is supported if true, otherwise a (slower) pseudo-instancing fallback is used internally when drawing instanced meshes.
Canvases and Images are now subclasses of the new Texture class.
Added setTexture and getTexture methods for Meshes, ParticleSystems, and SpriteBatches (the old set/getImage methods are deprecated but not removed.)
Canvas texture coordinates are no longer flipped.
This should *only* be used for debugging: the wireframe lines behave differently from regular love.graphics lines, and the functionality may not work on OpenGL ES.
Alex Szpakowski
Bart van Strien