Ogre Animation is finally shaping up. There’s a lot to do, namely: Add TagPoints Add NEON support Document & samples I have to say I’m glad to see that the new animation component is 2x-3x faster and is able to use 60% of the CPU cores (out of a quad […]
So, I fired the profiler and SkeletonInstance::resetToPose appeared in the hotspot list. Since it’s not theoretically a performance sensitive function, that felt strange. I looked at the generated code, and to my surprise, it was awful. These pictures summarize it all. It affects Visual Studio 2008, 2012, 2013 (and probably […]
I really hope Microsoft employees (from the Visual Studio team) or the management read this post. We all are internally talking about it, but don’t say it out loud. I don’t like pretending speaking for everyone else, Here’s a shocker: latest revisions of Visual Studio are failing to satisfy the […]
Debugging on Linux sucks. Let’s try to make it suck a little less. I was debugging a bug in Ogre, and after giving up with Linux, in MSVC the issues came up almost instantly after looking at this screenshot (note the bug has been fixed in this shot): With a […]
You may have seen on Mike Acton’s twitter account that he posted a review code on OgreNode.cpp. Seems like some community members are waiting for my response, I made a few comments on bounceapp but due to my inexperience with that site I didn’t realize changes had to be saved. […]
When Ogre 1.x users are far from origin, things begin to shake. Animations flicker. Eyes pop out of their sdockets. Playstation(R) 1 artifacts all over the place. This is because of precision problems with floating point when using large numbers. To help mitigate those artifacts, SceneManager had a setting called “setCameraRelativeRendering”. […]
I’ve upload a DRAFT of Ogre 2.0 Porting Manual. It can be downloaded in PDF format from the following two mirrors: MIRROR 1 MIRROR 2 For those interesting in write access, you can download it in ODT format. The forum thread has been updated as well as the wiki. The idea […]
Phew! GSoC is over. It’s been rough. A lot of fun. I’d hope it could last 3 more months, and we would get Ogre in an awesome state. Well, back to our weekends-only contributions; though I’ll probably be making a few more commits as I’m still accelerated and with some […]
The OpenGL API sucks. It has gotten better over time, but still is miles away from what it should be. And probably, the API needs a redesign from scratch, something that was promised a long time ago but never happened. There’s often a talk about “API wars” or “DirectX vs […]
I’ve spent a lot of time bragging explaining and showing Ogre 2.0 performing faster than it’s predecessor. However something came up while I was doing some testing: Objects with animations were running slower. A closer look blamed the culprit: All animations are being updated every frame. Regardless of whether they […]
