- Unify GPUMaterial creation (world/mesh).
- Support for multiple shader variations (not used for now).
- Convert GPUInputs to DRWUniforms to be used with the draw manager.
- Nodetree Update is not supported. The only way to refresh the shaders is to change render engine.
- Cleanup in GPUPass.
- Add new temporary Node Compatibility type. Compatibility types should be removed in the future.
- Use uniform color world for the world probe.
- Refactored the Fresnel expression to be better with Area Lights.
- Squared the roughness for default materials.
- Added New Batch cache routine to get the split mesh for each material. (optimization needed)
- Did some shader modifications to create default_frag and support a somwhat correct fresnel for lamps (to finish)
For now only compute GGX convolution. The GGX LUT used for the split sum approximation (UE4) is merged with the LTX mag LUT that uses the same parameters (theta and roughness)
Using Texture Arrays to store shadow maps so less texture slots are used when shading. This means a large amount of shadows can be supported.
Support Projection Shadow Map for sun like in old BI/BGE.
Support Cube Shadow Map for Point/Spot/Area lights. the benefit of using it for spot light is that the spot angle does not change shadow resolution (at the cost of more memory used). The implementation of the cubemap sampling is targeted for 3.3 core. We rely on 2D texture arrays to store cubemaps faces and sample the right one manualy. Significant performance improvement can be done using Cubemap Arrays on supported hardware.
Shadows are only hardware filtered. Prefiltered shadows and settings comming next.
Using Linear Transform Cosines to compute area lighting. This is far more accurate than other techniques but also slower.
We use rotating quad to mimic sphere area light. For a better approximation, we use a rotating octogon.
