If a shader uses gl_PointSize then it can only be used when drawing points. If a shader doesn't use gl_PointSize then it can't be used when drawing points.
Added 'ConstantPointSize' and 'CurrentDPIScale' built-in shader uniforms.
ConstantPointSize is in DPI-scaled points, whereas gl_PointSize is in pixels, so to get the correct default behaviour a shader needs to do gl_PointSize = ConstantPointSize * CurrentDPIScale
Allows buffers created with love.graphics.newBuffer to only allocate VRAM data. Previously they had a copy of their contents in RAM.
Also makes it easier to implement Buffers in other graphics APIs and to implement more types of Buffers in the future.
GLSL 3+ shaders can read from texel buffers by declaring a uniform samplerBuffer variable and calling texelFetch with a 0-based index, in the shader code. All attributes in a texel buffer's format array must have the same data format (e.g. all 'floatvec4' formats).
Shader:send accepts a texel Buffer for samplerBuffer uniforms.
Added 'texelbuffer' to love.graphics.getSupported (requires GLSL 3+ and desktop OpenGL).
Added 'texelbuffersize' to love.graphics.getSystemLimits. Returns the max number of values in a texel buffer (array length multiplied by the number of attributes declared in the buffer's format array).
- Add Texture:setDepthSampleMode(comparemode). Only works on textures with depth pixel formats. A texture with the depth sample mode set will only work with a depth sampler.
- Add DepthImage, DepthArrayImage, and DepthCubeImage sampler keywords to glsl3.
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- Add love.graphics.newArrayImage, newCubeImage, and newVolumeImage.
- Add love.graphics.newCanvas(w, h, layers) and newCanvas(w, h, layers, settings). Add ‘type’ field to the settings table of newCanvas.
- Add new love.graphics.setCanvas variants: setCanvas(canvas, slice), and setCanvas(canvastable) where canvastable is in the format: {{canvas1, layer=2}, {canvas2, face=5}}
- Add Texture:getTextureType, getDepth, getLayerCount, getMipmapCount, and getFormat.
- Remove Image:getData and Image:refresh.
- Add Image:replacePixels(imagedata [, slice] [, mipmap]).
- Update Canvas:newImageData to accept a slice argument.
- Add love.image.newCubeFaces(imagedata).
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To use GLSL 3 in a shader, the first line of the shader has to be: #pragma language glsl3
glsl1 is the default language.
Added “glsl3” graphics feature as part of the table returned by love.graphics.getSupported().
Added love.graphics.validateShader(boolean gles, shadercode). It returns a boolean along with an error string if the shader code has errors for its target language and platform (gles or desktop).
Implemented support for Core Profile OpenGL 3.3 in love.graphics.
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It now defers uploading the uniforms to the program object until the shader becomes active again, instead of activating the shader program and deactivating it each time Shader:send is called.
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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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Also allow arrays of images/samplers in shaders, although driver support is iffy and you have to index into the array using a compile-time constant (which might exclude loop indexing).
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- Removed love.graphics.set/getCanvas, Canvas:renderTo, Canvas:newImageData, love.graphics.clear, love.graphics.discard, and love.graphics.newScreenshot.
- Added love.graphics.beginPass and love.graphics.endPass. All rendering must happen within a pass. love.draw is now called while a render pass to the main screen is active.
- Added love.graphics.renderPass, which is a wrapper for begin/endPass which calls the supplied function argument in between a begin/end. This is similar to the old Canvas:renderTo.
- Added love.graphics.isPassActive, getPassCanvases, getPassWidth, getPassHeight, and getPassDimensions.
- Added love.graphics.captureScreenshot.
- Added a new love.run callback love.drawpasses, which is called after love.update and before love.draw. It is the place to render to Canvases using beginPass or renderPass, since love.draw now always draws to the main screen.
- Renamed the ‘canvasswitches’ field in the table returned by love.graphics.getStats to ‘renderpasses’.
love.graphics.beginPass has the following variants (and renderPass mirrors them with an additional function argument at the end):
- love.graphics.beginPass(), begins rendering to the main screen without clearing it.
- love.graphics.beginPass(r, g, b [, a]), begins rendering to the main screen and clears the screen to the specified color.
- love.graphics.beginPass(canvas [, willstencil]), begins rendering to the specified Canvas without clearing it. love.graphics.stencil can only be used within the Canvas if ‘willstencil’ is true.
- love.graphics.beginPass(canvas, r, g, b [, a] [, willstencil]), beings rendering to the specified Canvas and clears it to the specified color. love.graphics.stencil can only be used within the Canvas if ‘willstencil’ is true.
- love.graphics.beginPass(info), where ‘info’ is a table in the following form:
{
{canvas [, r, g, b, a]}, — A canvas and an optional color to clear the Canvas to when the pass begins.
{canvas2, [r, g, b, a]}, — Additional Canvases and optional clear colors for multi-canvas rendering.
…,
stencil = false, — Optional boolean field to specify whether love.graphics.stencil is allowed within this pass. False by default.
}
The pass info table can be created once up-front and used for multiple beginPass/renderPass calls.
love.graphics.endPass can take an optional callback function argument, which causes endPass to capture the contents of the Canvas drawn to in the render pass to a new ImageData and passes it to the supplied function (this replaces Canvas:newImageData). This does not work on the main screen.
love.graphics.captureScreenshot replaces love.graphics.newScreenshot. It takes a callback function argument which causes love.graphics.present to capture the contents of the screen to a new ImageData and passes it to the supplied function. captureScreenshot can only be called before drawing to the main screen begins in the current frame (e.g. in love.keypressed, love.update, etc.)
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Fixed the memory layout of matrices sent to shaders via Shader:send. Note that this is a breaking fix and will probably cause matrices designed to work with older versions of LÖVE to be transposed in shaders compared to what they were previously, if Shader:send or sendMatrix was used to put them in the shader.
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Type and value checking is now completely based on the shader uniform's information, instead of on the arguments to Shader:send. This means Shader:send now converts numbers to integers or floats depending on the uniform's type, and matrices can now be passed in as a flat array (without requiring the 'dimension' field that shader:sendMatrix previously needed).
As a result, Shader:sendTexture, Shader:sendMatrix, Shader:sendInt, and Shader:sendFloat are all deprecated in favour of Shader:send.
Performance of Shader:send has also increased, especially when sending small amounts of values per call.
The basic APIs are:
video = love.graphics.newVideo("myvideo.ogv")
love.graphics.draw(video, ...) -- Video objects are Drawables.
video:play(), video:pause()
video:getDuration(), video:tell(), video:rewind(), video:seek(seconds)
video:getSource()
video:getWidth(), video:getHeight(), video:setFilter(min, mag)
More advanced APIs include video:setSource(source), video:getStream(), and videostream:setSync.
To use a custom pixel shader when drawing a Video, call the new TexelVideo(texcoords) function instead of Texel(texture, texcoords) in order to get the pixel colors of a video frame.
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.
Alex Szpakowski
Bart van Strien