The Issue
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For a long time now MinGW has been unsupported and unmaintained and at this point,
it looks like something that we should just leave behind and move on.
Why Remove
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One of the big motivations for MinGW back in the day is that it was free compared to MSVC which was licensed based.
However, now that this is no longer true we have basically stopped updating the need CMake files.
Along with the CMake files, there are several patches to the extern libs needed to make this work. For example, see:
https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/extern/carve/patches/mingw_w64.patch
If we wanted to keep MinGW then we would need to make more custom patches to the external libs and
this is not something our platform maintainers are willing to do.
For example, here is the patches needed to build python: https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-python3
Fixes T51301
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2648
You can capture and stream video in the BGE using the DeckLink video
cards from Black Magic Design. You need a card and Desktop Video software
version 10.4 or above to use these features in the BGE.
Many thanks to Nuno Estanquiero who tested the patch extensively
on a variety of Decklink products, it wouldn't have been possible without
his help.
You can find a brief summary of the decklink features here: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/GameEngine/Decklink
The full API details and samples are in the Python API documentation.
bge.texture.VideoDeckLink(format, capture=0):
Use this object to capture a video stream. the format argument describes
the video and pixel formats and the capture argument the card number.
This object can be used as a source for bge.texture.Texture so that the frame
is sent to the GPU, or by itself using the new refresh method to get the video
frame in a buffer.
The frames are usually not in RGB but in YUV format (8bit or 10bit); they
require a shader to extract the RGB components in the GPU. Details and sample
shaders in the documentation.
3D video capture is supported: the frames are double height with left and right
eyes in top-bottom order. The 'eye' uniform (see setUniformEyef) can be used to
sample the 3D frame when the BGE is also in stereo mode. This allows to composite
a 3D video stream with a 3D scene and render it in stereo.
In Windows, and if you have a nVidia Quadro GPU, you can benefit of an additional
performance boost by using 'GPUDirect': a method to send a video frame to the GPU
without going through the OGL driver. The 'pinned memory' OGL extension is also
supported (only on high-end AMD GPU) with the same effect.
bge.texture.DeckLink(cardIdx=0, format=""):
Use this object to send video frame to a DeckLink card. Only the immediate mode
is supported, the scheduled mode is not implemented.
This object is similar to bge.texture.Texture: you need to attach a image source
and call refresh() to compute and send the frame to the card.
This object is best suited for video keying: a video stream (not captured) flows
through the card and the frame you send to the card are displayed above it (the
card does the compositing automatically based on the alpha channel).
At the time of this commit, 3D video keying is supported in the BGE but not in the
DeckLink card due to a color space issue.
bge.logic.setRender(flag) to enable/disable render.
The render pass is enabled by default but it can be disabled with
bge.logic.setRender(False).
Once disabled, the render pass is skipped and a new logic frame starts
immediately. Note that VSync no longer limits the fps when render is off
but the 'Use Frame Rate' option in the Render Properties still does.
To run as many frames as possible, untick the option
This function is useful when you don't need the default render, e.g.
when doing offscreen render to an alternate device than the monitor.
Note that without VSync, you must limit the frame rate by other means.
fbo = bge.render.offScreenCreate(width,height,[,samples=0][,target=bge.render.RAS_OFS_RENDER_BUFFER])
Use this method to create an offscreen buffer of given size, with given MSAA
samples and targetting either a render buffer (bge.render.RAS_OFS_RENDER_BUFFER)
or a texture (bge.render.RAS_OFS_RENDER_TEXTURE). Use the former if you want to
retrieve the frame buffer on the host and the latter if you want to pass the render
to another context (texture are proper OGL object, render buffers aren't)
The object created by this function can only be used as a parameter of the
bge.texture.ImageRender() constructor to send the the render to the FBO rather
than to the frame buffer. This is best suited when you want to create a render
of specific size, or if you need an image with an alpha channel.
bge.texture.<imagetype>.refresh(buffer=None, format="RGBA", ts=-1.0)
Without arg, the refresh method of the image objects is pretty much a no-op, it
simply invalidates the image so that on next texture refresh, the image will
be recalculated.
It is now possible to pass an optional buffer object to transfer the image (and
recalculate it if it was invalid) to an external object. The object must implement
the 'buffer protocol'. The image will be transfered as "RGBA" or "BGRA" pixels
depending on format argument (only those 2 formats are supported) and ts is an
optional timestamp in the image depends on it (e.g. VideoFFmpeg playing a video file).
With this function you don't need anymore to link the image object to a Texture
object to use: the image object is self-sufficient.
bge.texture.ImageRender(scene, camera, fbo=None)
Render to buffer is possible by passing a FBO object (see offScreenCreate).
bge.texture.ImageRender.render()
Allows asynchronous render: call this method to render the scene but without
extracting the pixels yet. The function returns as soon as the render commands
have been send to the GPU. The render will proceed asynchronously in the GPU
while the host can perform other tasks.
To complete the render, you can either call refresh() directly of refresh the texture
to which this object is the source. Asynchronous render is useful to achieve optimal
performance: call render() on frame N and refresh() on frame N+1 to give as much as
time as possible to the GPU to render the frame while the game engine can perform other tasks.
Support negative scale on camera.
Camera scale was previously ignored in the BGE.
It is now injected in the modelview matrix as a vertical or horizontal flip
of the scene (respectively if scaleY<0 and scaleX<0).
Note that the actual value of the scale is not used, only the sign.
This allows to flip the image produced by ImageRender() without any performance
degradation: the flip is integrated in the render itself.
Optimized image transfer from ImageRender to buffer.
Previously, images that were transferred to the host were always going through
buffers in VideoTexture. It is now possible to transfer ImageRender
images to external buffer without intermediate copy (i.e. directly from OGL to buffer)
if the attributes of the ImageRender objects are set as follow:
flip=False, alpha=True, scale=False, depth=False, zbuff=False.
(if you need to flip the image, use camera negative scale)
Did a full compile of debug build with C++11 enabled, it all passed compilation
apart from some deprecated type used in GE's Video Texture. Solved it inside of
ifdef block now.
In the future we should uncomment the MSVC part of it, it should all be safe and
correct (MSVC2013 does not define new C++ version but supports C++11). The reason
it is commented is to have absolutely no effect on the upcoming release.
This patch supports "Image or Movie" and "Environment map" types of world texture for the viewport.
It supports:
- "View", "AngMap" and "Equirectangular" types of mapping.
- Different types of texture blending (according to BI world render).
- Same color blending as when it lacked textures (but render via glsl).
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Example: {F275180}
Original author: @valentin_b4w
Regards,
Alexander (Blend4Web Team).
Reviewers: sergey, valentin_b4w, brecht, merwin
Reviewed By: merwin
Subscribers: campbellbarton, merwin, blueprintrandom, youle, a.romanov, yurikovelenov, AlexKowel, Evgeny_Rodygin
Projects: #rendering, #opengl_gfx, #bf_blender:_next
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1414
While SCons building system was serving us really good for ages it's no longer
having much attention by the developers and started to become quite a difficult
task to maintain.
What's even worse -- there started to be quite serious divergence between SCons
and CMake which was only accumulating over the releases now. The fact that none
of the active developers are really using SCons and that our main studio is also
using CMake spotting bugs in the SCons builds became quite a difficult task and
we aren't always spotting them in time.
Meanwhile CMake became really mature building system which is available on every
platform we support and arguably it's also easier and more robust to use.
This commit includes:
- Removal of actual SCons building system
- Removal of SCons git submodule
- Removal of documentation which is stored in the sources and covers SCons
- Tweaks to the buildbot master to stop using SCons submodule
(this change requires deploying to the server)
- Tweaks to the install dependencies script to skip installing or mentioning
SCons building system
- Tweaks to various helper scripts to avoid mention of SCons folders/files
as well
Reviewers: mont29, dingto, dfelinto, lukastoenne, lukasstockner97, brecht, Severin, merwin, aligorith, psy-fi, campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1680
This class did nothing but print out extensions if they were found.
Instead, the code from bge.logic.PrintGLInfo() is now printed as the
Rasterizer is initialized. This gives better information, and it removes
some GL code from KX_PythonInit.cpp (the PrintGLInfo method now calls
the Rasterizer to print the information).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D438
The issue was caused by the following construction:
def = env['SOMETHING']
defs.append('SOMETHING_MORE')
Since first assignment was actually referencing environment option it was totally
polluted hawing weird and wonderful side effects on all other areas of Blender.
The expression module now uses an EXP prefix and it follows a
distribution similar to blender.
Additionally the hash function in EXP_HashedPtr.h was simplified and the
files EXP_C-Api.h &.EXP_C-Api.cpp were deleted because were unused.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, moguri, sybren, hg1
Projects: #game_engine
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1221
This patch attempts to improve and review the documentation of bge.texture, as requested in the [[ http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/GameEngine#Video_Texture | TODO list ]].
More specifically, it
- fixes the rst syntax, including titles of the examples bge.texture.py and bge.texture.1.py;
- adds, standardizes and reviews description of the API elements, particularly signatures, types, etc.
- adds SOURCE_* constants to the doc
- splits the doc into thematical parts (Video, Image, Texture, and Filter Classes, Functions, Constants).
Notes:
- The parameter "mode" of ImageBuff.plot has to be described better. Actually, the whole set of IMB_BLEND_* constants (from IMB_imbuf.h) should be exposed to Python. I'll do that in a future diff, and complete the doc at the same moment (adding those IMB_BLEND_* constants to the Constants part of this doc).
- The option of using webcams in VideoFFmpeg is still particularly not well documented. I am planning to make a proposal about fixing T18634 (and its corresponding TODO in the list) by integrating OpenCV in the BGE (and Blender?). The idea would then probably be to add a new class, f.ex. ImageWebcam, making this functionnality more specialized. So for now I don't think it is worth to document that part much.
This patch fixes T44284 too.
Reviewers: moguri, kupoman, campbellbarton, panzergame, lordloki
Reviewed By: panzergame, lordloki
Subscribers: hg1
Projects: #game_engine, #game_python, #documentation
Maniphest Tasks: T44284
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1352
This is essential for video projection, and the alternative until now was to manually change the projection matrix via Python.
( http://www.blender.org/manual/game_engine/camera/introduction.html#camera-lens-shift
- this page will be removed as soon as I commit this)
Also this is working for perspective and orto cameras BUT if the sensor is not AUTO it will only look correct in blenderplayer (this is an unrelated bug, but just in case someone runs into it while testing this, now you know why you got the issue).
Kudos for the BlenderVR project for supporting this feature development.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1379
Now we use color converted (if we do a color management) by the setter for background color in VideoTexture (ImageRender & ImageMirror).
Reviewers:panzergame
Now internally the variables are processed as floats avoiding int->float->char conversions that are causing precision lost.
A check for int numbers is maintained to keep compatibility with old behaviour.
Reviewers: ben2610, campbellbarton, moguri, hg1
Reviewed By: moguri, hg1
Subscribers: campbellbarton
Projects: #game_engine
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1301
rendering
Make scene background color as default for render-to-texture instead of
current blue color (0, 0, 255).
It is very useful for mirrors setups.
Reviewers: moguri, ben2610, sybren, panzergame, hg1
Reviewed By: panzergame, hg1, moguri
Subscribers: mpan3
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1287
In quad-buffer stereo mode, the GE render pass ends with the right eye on the right buffer, but we need to draw on the left buffer to capture the render.
Reviewed By: agoose77, HG1
Code clean up for BGE world mist, background and global ambient color.
Move mist render update to BlenderWolrdInfo
Reviewers: moguri, brecht
Reviewed By: moguri, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D152
All of the initXPythonBinding functions are changed to always creating the module instead of importing if previously existing.
I can instead only remove the module return when the import is ok, so that it always inits. But then, I don't see the point in importing.
I make sure that these functions are called only once per run, inside initBGE.
This was not the case with GameTypes. I moved initPyTypes inside of initGameTypesPythonBinding due to that.
I reorganized initGamePlayerPythonScripting and initGamePythonScripting so that they run things in the same order.
initGamePlayerPythonScripting imports mathutils and aud, the other only aud. Shouldn't it be the same for both?
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Subscribers: sybren
Projects: #game_engine, #game_python
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1070
ImageFFmpeg objects will not refresh properly because the image
file is closed immediately after creation. Therefore refresh()
should have no effect on them.
This was causing problems with ImageMix using ImageFFmpeg as
sources: refreshing the ImageMix object is required to update
the mix but it has the side effect of refreshing the underlying
sources, hence the need to skip refresh on fixed images.
Yep, at last it's here!
There are a few minor issues remaining but development can go on in
master after discussion at blender institute.
For full list of features see:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/Painting
Thanks to Sergey and Campbell for the extensive review and to the
countless artists that have given their input and reported issues during
development.
In collaboration with Benoit Bolsee (mainly doing it under his
directions).
Note: FFmpeg lib needs to be compiled with rtsp support for this to
work.
Bug 1/2 of T41004
This is mostly the same fix as before, but now code depending on culling
checks is executed after KX_Scene->CalculateVisibleMeshes(). As a
side-effect, LoD checks and animation culling now use the current
frame's culling information rather than the previous frame's.
The ultimate goal is to only allow the rasterizer to handle OpenGL and bf_gpu
calls. This commit creates a RAS_ILightObject interface and a RAS_OpenGLLight
implementation.
