WIP

[Lecrapouille]

Progress bar:

• Update README: tutorial on Scene Graph: explanation on virtual update()
• Version 0.6: add a framebuffer. Rethink examples. finalize moving headers in include/ and write in README a small Makefile for using this lib.
• Version 0.7: check VBO size + add primitives + finish draw() (method with an implicit number of vertices, inheritance, dirty element for texture, hide private classes like GLLocation, VBO sizes checked)
• Version 0.8:
• Version 0.9: reworking folders of workspace
• [WIP] Version 0.10: simplifying API, reworking/adding basic classes: Materials/Geometry, Fog, make Camera, Light as nodes of SceneGraph, Renderer. Access to attributes and location even if shaders have not yet been compiled. Renderer(Scene, Camera). Add BoundingBox for scene nodes.
• Version 0.11: cleaning API. Add TrueType Fonts, float textures (update Mesa?), add more materials: bump mapping textures, GLSL includes, inside texture, working back to FrameBuffer
• Version 0.12: UniformCollection, FloatTextures.
• Version 1.0: Add GPUonlyTexture, GPUonlyVAO (no storage on CPU), Rethink how GLProgram stores Attributes and Uniforms

High:

• [API] draw batch of elements
• [API] Replace prog.draw(vao, ...) by vao.draw()
• [CRITICAL] aa = VBO[i] makes pending the ith element while we are just reading it (= get()). No solution on how distinguish between set and get. To be tested: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19217813/operator-c-get-set
• WIP [API] Rework SceneGraph, Camera. Implement Light class. All are SceneGraph nodes.
• [API] Create a Mesh class (Geometry class holding shaders). Make hide code vao.bind(); prog.draw(vao);
• [API] Implement Renderer for SceneGraph.
• [API] Replace GLProgram::setInitVBOSize(x) by bind(vao, x=0) ?
• [FEATURE] Manage #include inside GLShaders https://github.com/tntmeijs/GLSL-Shader-Includes/blob/master/Shadinclude.hpp
• [IMPROV] glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER) + glEnableVertexAttribArray seems not necessary to be called every time this can save important OpenGL calls.
• [FEATURE] GLumpy collection to be implemented
• [CRITICAL] cannot attach local variables of shaders to GLProg because prog will hold pointers of local variables and be compiled outside this fonction and therefore using wrong references.
• [MATHS] Check if *= does the product vector and no longer do componentProduct.
• https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-OpenGL/Instancing
• [BUG] Matrix transformation are transposed. Wrong results obtained in 07_AlphaTest.cpp
• [TODO] Refresh Projection/view matrix on the scene tree for camera nodes when window resized/mouse moved.
• [TODO] move vao->texture() to material->texture(). Fix DepthMaterial needs a loaded texture while not needed it.

Medium:

• [FEATURE] GLWindow fullscreen mode. Add mask for glwindows and events: mouse move ... avoid calling dummy callbacks.
• [FEATURE] GLWindow: create the callback onKeyPressed and onKeyReleased Update examples.
• [FEATURE] Adapt GLWindow to manage multiple windows. See https://gist.github.com/SnopyDogy/a9a22497a893ec86aa3e
• [API] Add iterator with a stack for iterating on SceneGraph nodes (see HeadFirst Design Pattern) (wont do)
• [API] SceneGraph => visitor (like done in three_cpp)
• [API] Load *.obj files
• [API] BumpMapping textures.
• [QUALITY] In example1 let suppose we forget to load a texture, a warning message occurred ERROR:GLTextures.hpp:246 Cannot setup texture with width or height set to 0 but this is not enough explicit: we need the VAO name ...
• [QUALITY] Check number of VBOs (<= 16) inside VAO ? Idem for max number of framebuffers, uniforms.
• [BUG] Wrong error message: Failed OpenGL program has not been bound to a VAO + Failed setting-up graphics => terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): The GLFW library is not initialized
• [TUTO] Redo and simplify tutorials: Split README into several tutorial files. Separate OpenGL wrapper examples from finale API (hiding OpenGL wrapper).

Low:

• Rename SceneGraph to Scene. Make a class 3DObject a SceneNode holding Material and Geometry. Do not let the user to have to write the recursivity for rendering or updating matrices.
• [API] Reload Shaders? https://github.com/tntmeijs/GLSL-Shader-Includes
• [API] release() as public or private ?
• [API] Complete FrameBuffer class.
• [BUG] FrameBuffer: resize window => image is broken.
• [API] Not possible to do: m_vao_floor.texture2D("texID").interpolation(xx).load(...) because missing of virtual load() method in IGLTexture.
• [API] Implement Node3D_SP operator[](std::string const& name) but fucked up by shared_from_this.
• [FEATURE] PendingContainer modifies GPUMemory() but this container may be used without OpenGL and no data transferred to GPU. Change GPUMemory() only way data are transferred to GPU.
• [FEATURE] Texture1D, Texture2DDepth, Texture3D (WIP: make an Example of texture3D http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~thormae/lectures/graphics1/code_v2/Texture3D/glut/Texture3D.cpp), TextureCube, Texture2DFloat to be implemented (for float check if the mesa has the good version supporting it https://www.mesa3d.org/index.html).
• [FEATURE] Implement in IGLTexture::update() conversion to pending data to texture x,y,w,h (FIXME: OpenGL does not like it).
• [FEATURE] VAO.VBOs and VAO.Textures holding data on CPU may be consuming too much RAM ie for a game. PendingContainer is only used for loading data during the startup of the project not anymore. Do a VBO and texture without pending container (maybe an identifier to pass in constructor and GLProgram knows how to interpret it and have an alternative of createVBO. Idea: VAO uses pointers for textures, VBOs and index ?
• [MAKEFILE] Update Makefile to compile with OS X (see dev branch but the code is messy)
• [API] Make this project to be a header-only project. (won't do)
• [API] Wrapper for VectorXf and MatrixXXf for choosing the desired matrix library (glm, Armadillo, Eigen ...). And rename glwrap::Vector3f to glwrap::vec3f or glwrap::fvec3. Idea

#if MATRIX_LIB == USE_GLM
#include <glm>
using glwrap::Vector3f = glm::vec3f; 
#elif MATRIX_LIB == USE_ARMADILLO
#include <armadillo>
using glwrap::Vector3f = arma::fvec3; 
#elif MATRIX_LIB == USE_EIGEN
#include <egein>
using glwrap::Vector3f = egein::Vector3f; 
#else // Builtin
#include "Math/Matrix.hpp"
#endif

Armadillo:

// g++ -W -Wall armad.cpp -o prog -larmadillo -llapack -lblas
#include <armadillo>

int main()
{
  arma::fmat44 A; A.ones();
  std::cout << A * A << std::endl;
  std::cout << A * 4.0 << std::endl;
  std::cout << A.eye() * 4.0 << std::endl;

  arma::fvec3 x({1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f});
  arma::fvec3 y({0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f});
  std::cout << arma::dot(x, y) << std::endl;
  std::cout << arma::cross(x, y) << std::endl;
  return 0;
}

• [API] Hide unnecessary classes to the developer (GLLocations, GLUniforms, Sampler ...)

• [UNIT-TESTS] Check if OpenGL context is not yet created no segfault occurs by calling OpenGL functions

• [UNIT-TESTS] Add more unit tests as checks on robustness when OpenGL context is not created or for example bind VAO to uncompiled program (or defining attributes before compiling a GLProgram).

• [UNIT-TESTS] Complete unit tests and add Travis-CI

• [UNIT-TESTS] Check destructor for every class (especially texture2D, Location)

• [UNIT-TESTS] Add unit test: attrib and uniform with the same name. Is this possible?

• [UNIT-TESTS] Can we do: m_prog.vector3f("textColor") = Vector3f({r, g, b}); when m_prog is not compiled ?

• [LICENSE] Change to MIT ?

• is possible to use sttruct => VBO:

struct Vertex { Vector3f Position; Vector4f Color; Vector2f TexCoords; };
attrib1.set<Vertex, Position>();
attrib2.set<Vertex, Color>();
attrib3.set<Vertex, TexCoords>(); 

Done:

• Compute GPU memory. (TODO: also compute shader memory)
• Pour compiler les exemples on utilise explicitemement le nom libopenglcppwrapper.a-0.6
• Reserve an GLIndexBuffer inside VAO ? See Example 07
• [API] Texture: Add new constructor(width, height) . Use pendingContainer for storing SOIL data instead of C array.
• [API] Texture: Conflict between SOIL_LOAD_RGBA vs TextureOptions::cpuPixelFormat = PixelFormat::RGBA; (dev-textures branch)
• [URGENT FEATURE] Move hpp files into include/. Install them through Makefile and generate and install a pkg-config .pc file for using my lib in another project.
• [URGENT FEATURE] be sure that prog.attribute<>("foo") = xx; is the same thing than vao.attribute<>("foo") = xx; ==> make VAO::attribute() { return m_binded_prog.bind(this); m_binded_prog.attribute<>("foo"); }
• [URGENT FEATURE] Maybe because of previous point we can simply:
  1. forbid prog.attribute("foo") ==> vao.T("foo") = ... ;
  2. replace prog.uniform<T>("foo") = ...; by prog.T("foo") = ...;
  3. I don't understand why vao1.VBO<Vector3f>("a_position") = { ... }; does not work when adding operator= in PendingContainer => I have to place this operator in GLVBO
• [URGENT FEATURE] Implement a GLProgram method checking if all VBOs and uniforms have been set and VBOs have the same size. (WIP FIXME: cannot compile)
• [API] missing GLProgram with a constructor with a reserved number of elements.
• [URGENT FEATURE] Implement a GLProgram method checking if the VAO we want to bind with is compatible with the program (2 GLProgram creating each 1 VAO, the user bind a VAO to the wrong program)
• ~~[URGENT FEATURE] Texture sampler has to follow the bound VAO (currently in Example1 texture is destroyed and created again at each cycle of the render loop). Add unit tests+ regression unit test: Example2 VAO not bound ~~
• [URGENT FEATURE] Finish draw() methods: test and give an example with index buffer. Finish draw with an implicit number of vertices. Pass VAO as param to draw() methods.
• [URGENT FEATURE] Remove unnecessary private classes like Logger, File, Maths, Singleton
• [FEATURE] Framebuffer class to be implemented. (WIP still buggy)
• [FEATURE] Rethink inheritance for Texture. Rename Texture3D as TextureCube and implement Texture3D.
• [IMPROV] PendingContainer: std::valarray is not the best container (todo: add unit tests)
• [IMPROV] Replace raw pointers by smart pointers in SceneGraph
• [API] add namespace.
• [API] Make GLBuffer and GLTexture2D have a common class ancestor (PendingContainer)
• [API] throw OpenGL exceptions instead of std::exception
• [API] Do not compile imgui into the lib but inside examples. Let compile the imgui wrapper. (wont do)
• [API] Convert OpenGL constant into C++ enum when they are required into public API.
• [API] Pass number of elements to reserved when creating VBOs
• [API] Make opengl::createContext() more generic (initially made for gtkmm)
• [API] Add SimTaDyn logger
• [API] Fix license in headers
• [API] Proper installation: move header code into include dir. Compile static and dynamic lib.
• [API] use shaders 330 in examples.
• [MATHS] Updating Vector.hpp and Matrix.hpp: uses method names from https://stanford.edu/class/ee103/julia_slides/julia_vectors_slides.pdf
  1. define template functions one() and zero(). See Implement functions one() and zero() for Matrix class BacASable#1
  2. make alias method for magnitude() and norm(), length()
  3. add: addScaledVector(Vect, scal)
  4. change code operator*() for doing scalar product. Rename old code to: componentProduct()
  5. can be nice to add deviation, rms ...
• [TUTO] Rewrite the SimTaDyn SceneGraph tutorial with this API (in debug)
• [TUTO] Add the imgui SceneGraph as example.
• [TUTO] Add an example with draw + index (EBO)
• [TUTO] Framebuffer example
• [TUTO] Multi-textures example
• [TUTO] With some examples (ie 13), when resizing the window, the projection matrix is not correctly applied while others are ok (ie 04, 06).
• [DOC] Missing document differences with glumpy and opengl4csharp
• [CRASH] Fix in Example02 if we invert the position of m_cube and m_prog. This will produce a crash: the program wants to use a GPU released object.
• [QUALITY] GLProgram output error when shaders failed to compile is totally messy with carriage returns!
• [QUALITY] Init Makefile and directory for unit tests.

[Lecrapouille]

• Shape3D needs to starts the OpenGL program but when instances are member variables of GLWindow they are called before OpenGL context creation called inside GLWindow constructor.
• SceneGraph: reused idea of OpenInventor: NodeSeparator, SwitchNode, LevelOfDetail, Separator ...
• Make GLProgram check what uniform has not been set. Fix the regression (comment) GLProgram does not check Attribute sizes.
• Replace BufferUsage::DYNAMIC_DRAW by BufferUsage::STATIC_DRAW
• Shape3D: creer Material, passer option: GL_TRIANGLE, index8, ne pas heriter de Transformable mais a un Transform, add static create(), static GLProgram, compute face and vertice normals
• add a factory Geometry3D::create(CUBE) => example 07.hpp replace m_cylinder by m_shape
• add nbTriangle() depending on mode GL_TRIANGLE, STRIP, LOOP https://github.com/vahlers/scg3/blob/master/scg3/src/GeometryCore.cpp#L109
• add classes Color, AABB,
• make SkyBox a TextureCube with SepareNode3D
• GLProgram returns list of failed textures
• Remove all setup() { ... matrix44f("projection") = xxx; } because we are no sure than init fromonWindowSizeChanged()
• Find nice solution concerning: OnWindowChange => update all projection matrices
• Implement PendingContainer as https://github.com/seed93/vector/blob/master/vector.hpp or https://bitbucket.org/bitsquid/foundation/src/default/array.h remove unnecessary methods and define LNI_VECTOR_MAX_SZ = VBO_MAX_SIZE
• Ex15: commuting shape not changed + fix transformation not applied
• VBO add method applyMatrix. Shape3D apply on Position and normals
• Add Frustum (culling)
• Implement GLProgram::color3(string& name) as well for color4, uv, vertex
• Shader/Camera: modelViewMatrix or viewMatrix * modelMatrix

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• Replace dynamic cast by Any structure for holding uniforms, attributes in Prog. Same idea for VBO and texture for VAO
• Fucked up: ScenGraph: Currently Node3D::m_parent* would be better to be a weak_ptr in the aim to have uniform API: Node3D_SP getRoot() or finishing getNode() but enable_from_this suxx. Solution: Replace Node3D by uint32_t ?
• URGENT: cannot access to uniforms while program is not compiled
• Material::init() smashes values set by the user
• TBD: Material: texture is linked to VAO: was made to avoid to define multiple materials but we want to write material.texture().load("xxx.jpg") instead of vao.texture().load("xxx.jpg")
• URGENT: rework GLProgram for managing uniforms and attributes nicely: use https://gieseanw.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/a-true-heterogeneous-container-in-c/ but find a solution to be C++11 or maybe https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44105058/how-does-unitys-getcomponent-work
• Geometry: simplify: remove all methods such as normals() use directly m_normals as public. Remove materials() because the material should not be changed ?
• Fog is not working and how to set it up in the scene (root node only ? or fog by node ?) Cannot be placed on no-renderable nodes.
• FlyWeight for duplicating mesh in scene nodes
• Missing value for ALPHATEST
• Add imgui in example with basic material for changing values (ie fog color, near, far ...)
• Bug: onKeyboardEvent() is always called (07_AlphaTest)
• Matrix transformation: I do not remember why glm matrix is transposed but seems that rotation and translation are buggy (07_AlphaTest)
• Camera/Transformation: inheritance from a class Axis { m_front, m_right, m_up; };
• Implement https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-OpenGL/Instancing pass an additional param to draw() (duplicated: see draw batch)
• Allow to create Uniform Buffer Objects (UBO https://learnopengl.com/Advanced-OpenGL/Advanced-GLSL) instead of uniform. Use it for camera and view/projection matrix . Hack for the developper to indicate if he wants uniform or UBO: use in GLSL #define UBO uniform + in shaders scan for UBO indicates it to prog which will instanciate the UBO inside the VAO.

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Profiling performance to optimize:

• Texture loading: 2.1ms for Texture2D::doLoad(): 2ms for SOIL and 0.062ms for copying SOIL data to vector.
• 00_MisxLookAt (1000 cones to render) : draw() 12,9 ms = update 0.943 ms + render = 5.9 ms + clear buffers = 6.3 ms

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TODO:

• http://dia-installer.de/shapes/scenegraph/index.html
• Add unit test from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur2ksHAw9SM
• Intrinsic matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XM2Rb2pfyQ
• Peut on utiliser Curiously recurring template pattern pour GLObject afin de virer les methodes virtuelles onCreate() ... ? Idee GLObject::begin() { o.create(); o.bind(); ... } au lieu de virtual methods
  DONE:
• https://github.com/SebLague/Gamedev-Maths/blob/master/PointInTriangle.cs
• https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Basics/UnrealEngineForUnityDevs/index.html (broken link)