Removed infinite details and went for decreasing details with the distance instead (like the axis aligned ortho view auto sized grid).
Separate drawing of the Z axis into 2 pass (using shading group) to render ordered transparency with the main grid pass.
We render selected meshes into another buffer and use a screen space shader to expand the color out of the mesh silouhette.
Pros: only one additionnal render pass is needed (like old outline code), and we have occluded informations.
Cons: memory usage is a problem. This method needs 2 color buffer to ping pong when expanding the outline and 1 depth buffer to test occluded fragments. This gives a 88 bits/pix memory footprint.
Idea: Since we don't need all color range but only some uniform colors (theme colors) we could manipulate only the color ID instead of the whole color this could cut the color buffer size and lower the memory footprint to 58 bits/pix.
It also adds nice occluded silouhette information for selected objects that are behind visible objects.
This methods is really heavy because it needs to render the wires twices.
All engines are now called by the draw manager. Engines are separate entities that cannot interfer with each others.
Also separated draw_mode_pass.c into the mode engines.
Based on the previous overlay shader from merwin.
This shader takes care of clipped vertex cases and do all edit mode face info in one pass (except face centers).
As the shading is done one the triangle itself the visual can't go beyond the surface of the mesh. That leads to half displayed edges on the outline of the mesh.
This problem can be fixed by a second pass.
This is work in progress.
This should give the overall direction to whom wants to finish it.
- Renamed EDIT mode engine to EDIT_MESH mode engine
- Introduce EDIT_ARMATURE mode engine
- Started to port legacy drawarmature.c to draw_armature.c
