v1.12.7

• Main
  • PixelCountLodStrategy - fix wrong estimation of boundingArea
  • respect element count for ACT_FOG_COLOUR
  • ScriptTranslator - revert to legacy "alpha" keyword translation
  • allow constructing Box from TRect
  • provide some builtin defines for shaders
  • BillboardSet - clean up setTextureCoords API
  • Compositor - avoid needless Texture lookups by name
  • convert SkyRenderer to SceneManager::Listener
  • split SkyRenderer into Plane, Box and Dome classes
  • correctly return getDefaultParameters by const reference
  • InstanceBatchVTF - assert the correct texture format
  • Light - clarify shadowFarDistance vs. shadowFarClipDistance
  • ManualObject - inline hot methods to speed up dynamic creation
  • ManualObject - slightly clean up API
  • Pose - add mutable vertex access for offline tools
  • Root::loadPlugins - log Exception as error
  • ShadowCaster - de-virtualise hasEdgeList
  • slightly clean-up MeshLod code
  • ImageCodec - fix missing include
  • Only include <sys/sysctl.h> for iOS
  • VertexElementType - deprecate VET_COLOUR*
  • RenderSystem - deprecate getColourVertexElementType
  • add deprecation message to OgreIteratorWrappers.h
  • Camera - add missing deprecation markers
  • deprecate remaining texture_alias functions
  • SceneNode - deprecate some bounding box related functions
  • Light - _deriveShadowFarClipDistance deprecate Camera* param
  • add OGRE_IGNORE_DEPRECATED macros to allow using deprecated API
  • add Renderable::DEFAULT_PRIORITY for use instead of the define
• CMake
  • clean-up swig lookup & add quiet flag for optional dependencies
  • Fix OSX platform libs
  • Use the right variable to determine if Qt was found
• RTSS
  • Fog - drop redundant computations and simplify code
  • PSSM3 shadows - correctly handle sampling behind far plane
  • PSSM3 shadows - add debug mode, visualizing the shadow splits
• Overlay
  • ImGui - drop D3D9 colour conversion, by using correct VET
  • ImGuiOverlay - update API to avoid NewFrame/ EndFrame mismatch
  • make OverlaySystem a Singleton
  • OverlayContainer - deprecate getChildIterator
• Terrain
  • avoid needless Texture lookups by name
  • CompositeMap - fix ortho window size
  • enable vertex compression with GLSL
  • fix specular lighting computation with GLSL
  • GLSL - fix construction of the TBN matrix
  • ShaderHelper - fix and simplify lighting calculation
  • simplify Composite-Map Scene
  • use Rect::intersect where applicable
• Tools
  • XMLConverter & MeshUpgrader add -byte option to use ubyte4_norm
  • XMLConverter - use VET_COLOUR resolution in OgreMain
  • XMLSerializer - respect colour channel order at exporting to XML
• SWIG
  • drop deprecated IteratorWrapper instances
  • flatnested is only needed with python
  • wrap PixelCountLodStrategy
• RenderSystem:
  • use default destroyVertexDeclarationImpl everywhere
• D3D11
  • clear shader reflection data to fix reloading
  • D3D11HLSLProgram - remove unused and broken setShaderMacros
  • port to Sampler object. Enables caching of ID3D11SamplerState
• Metal: backport to Ogre 1.12 from ogre-next v2-1
• Docs
  • Frustum - remove reference to non-existing method
  • improve doxygen module association of Main
  • port meshlod tutorial from wiki
  • Tutorial3 - mention the composite map explicitly
  • PCZSceneManager - convert documentation to proper Doxygen
• Samples
  • Browser - only refresh carousel geometry when needed
  • PBR - Added example how to use filament shaders
  • ImGui - avoid unmatched NewFrame if Window becomes inactive
  • ImGui - drop mControls from input chain. It is not created yet
  • MeshLOD - the displayed value is the pixel count, not distance
  • port CSM Shadows Sample
  • resurrect PCZTestApp and convert it to SdkSample
  • Shadows - fix crash due to accessing NULL mCameraMan
  • Terrain - drop D3D11 workaround for vertex compression
  • Triplanar Texturing - fix reference to deleted textures

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

v1.12.6

• Main
  • allow overriding PluginFolder with OGRE_PLUGIN_DIR env variable
  • make ResourceHandle size_t to avoid using 64bit atomics on 32bit
  • deinline non performance-critical methods to improve compile speed
  • EmbeddedZipArchiveFactory - prevent leaking Archives
  • GpuSharedParameters - Fixed param offset calculation
  • Fix build on FreeBSD.
  • add riscv64 as 64bit architecture
  • Skeleton - do import in prepare() to allow background loading
  • Texture - allow different PixelFormat for different cubemap faces
  • Texture - allow generally reinterpreting luminance as alpha
  • provide default implementations for ResourceLoadingListener
  • RenderSystem - fix FunctionInvocation leak
  • RenderSystem - require implementation of setColourBlendState
  • RenderSystem - use Ogre::Rect to represent scissor & viewport rect
  • ScriptTranslator - flag invalid pixelformats
  • ShadowRenderer - forward visibility flags (#1511)
  • Android: APKFileSystemArchive - properly set stream name to filename
  • Fixes compilation error C2338 when building with double precision (#1505)
  • improve wording of old mesh format warning
  • MeshManager - silence warnings in MeshBuildParams initialization
  • RenderSystem - hard-deprecate non-atomic _setDepthBufferParams
  • Texture - deprecate treatLuminanceAsAlpha
  • deprecate ParticleIterator
  • deprecate Skeleton::LinkedSkeletonAnimSourceIterator
  • ResourceGroupManager - deprecate getResourceManagerIterator
  • factor out Math::lookRotation
  • factor out StencilState struct & use it to simplify code
  • move findShadowCastersForLight to ShadowRenderer
  • move RenderSystemCapabilies logging to Root
  • Node & SceneNode - define private & use protected API
  • Resource - define private & use protected API
  • SceneManager - factor out resolveShadowTexture
  • refactor Codec API
  • unify RenderSystem::reinitialise
  • Zip - replace deprecated std::bind2nd with a lambda
• RTSS
  • log source material name if shader compilation fails
  • PSSM - fix ambient passes receiving shadows
  • Transform - disable instancing on GLES2 devices
• Bites
  • add Qt implementation of ApplicationContext
  • fix discarded mouse motion events on OSX
  • OSXConfigDialog - use dynamic config options list
  • OSX - scale input according to content scaling factor
• CMake
  • Fix definition of OGRE_PLUGIN_DIR in OGREConfig.cmake on Windows
  • Dependencies - switch to stable zzip release
  • Replace FindSDL2.cmake by sdl2-config.cmake (#1530)
  • drop extra win libs with SDL2 linking
  • drop remains of OGRE_SDK_BUILD
  • iOS - fix warnings, resources, instructions
  • OSX - clean up framework linking
  • OSX - fix linking against the Ogre Frameworks
  • silence SWIG warnings with recent cmake
  • slightly clean up build option handling
• Docs:
  • clarify Image::getSize and HardwarePixelBuffer::lock
  • doxygen - fixed remaining issues or added workarounds
  • move config file description to setup tutorial
  • update links on mainpage and use local licensebutton copy
  • Add vcpkg installation instructions
  • FileSystemLayer - fix locations in documentation
• DotSceneLoader - fix compilation w/o Terrain, fix crash on parse error
• SWIG
  • enable ResourceLoadingListener
  • Overlay - make createOverlayElement actually useful
  • extend Matrix3, Matrix4 and Affine3 by non member operator overloads
• Terrain
  • ShaderHelper - simplify generateVertexProgramSource
  • TerrainMaterialGenerator - deprecate getDescription
• D3D*: use common _beginFrame
• GL*
  • HardwarePixelBuffer - drop unused mFace member
  • simplify scissor test handling
• GL3Plus:
  • improve OSX shader hot-patching
  • fix "WARNING: Could not find vertex shader attribute ..."
• GL
  • add ConfigOption to disable FFP
• GLES2
  • iOS - suppress attribute warnings
• GLSupport
  • EGL - fix currentGLContext support
  • OSX - correctly set Window visible to receive updates
  • added macro recursion feature to GLSLPreprocessor
• Samples
  • simplify directory structure and build
  • simplify Sample info handling
  • unify SdkSample and VisualTest API in Sample
  • Browser - add OGREDEPS to RPATH on OSX
  • Browser - disentangle main and android_main
  • Browser - fix superficial link on OSX
  • Browser - move iOS specific parts to SampleBrowser_iOS
  • BSP - fix accessing CameraMan before it is created
  • correctly mark GLSL300ES shaders as such
  • drop unused Cocoa NIB files
  • LightShafts - multiply out alpha, as we use additive blending
  • LightShafts - use standard depth texture & spotlight params
  • OSX - correctly set rpath for browser
  • Terrain - replace proprietary nvidia textures by cc0textures

• XMLConverter
  • correctly warn about dropped flags
  • fix unitialised colourElementType
  • handle meshes with bad material references

• CI: enable Qt in SDK build and switch to relwithdebinfo

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

v1.12.5

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

• Main
  • Box - introduce getSize & getOrigin convenience functions
  • deprecate Codec::dataType()
  • deprecate HardwareUniformBuffer methods
  • deprecate multiple map iterator wrapper accessors
  • deprecate Renderable::RenderSystemData
  • deprecate shadow_caster_*_program_ref for shadow_caster_material
  • deprecate texture_alias in favor of script variables
  • deprecate RSC_VERTEX_PROGRAM & RSC_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM
  • make RSC_ATOMIC_COUNTERS an alias for RSC_READ_WRITE_BUFFERS
  • StringConverter - deprecate converting ColourBufferType
  • Entity - replace @copydoc comments by explicit override annotation
  • Frustum - introduce Corners typedef for Vector3[8]
  • GpuProgram - correctly do parameter creation in postLoadImpl
  • GpuProgramParameters - parse index instead of using dummy entries
  • GpuProgramParams - avoid dirty flag on download & unify error msgs
  • GpuProgram - skip loadImpl and postLoadImpl on compile error
  • HardwarePixelBuffer::blit - rewrite with blitToMemory
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - fix line numbers when handling #include
  • HW BufferManager - provide default impl for non essential buffers
  • InstanceBatchShader - make performance warning actually a warning
  • merge HW Uniform and Counter Buffers
  • refactor RenderSystemCapabilities logging
  • ScriptTranslator - flag invalid properties inside shared_params
  • ScriptTranslator - universally use Error::getDescription
  • ShadowCaster - deprecate getShadowVolumeRenderableIterator
  • ShadowRenderer - make sure render system specific sampler is used
  • StaticGeometry - deprecate Iterator based API
  • Texture - assert that we are not loading an empty image
  • Fixed possible crash in the addImpl() method of the ResourceManager class
  • compatibility with musl libc
• CMake
  • request legacy GL discovery mode
  • samples should be only installed when they are also built
  • deprecate the HLMS component
  • Android - only derive activity label if EXTRA_ACTIVITIES exist
  • use standard (cmake 3.16+) PCH paths if possible
• Bindings:
  • Added overloaded addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
  • Added template for ConfigOptionMap
  • Changed Swig SharedPtr to Ogre SharedPtr.
  • CSharp: compile C# dll instead of installing source files
  • Fixed memory management for SceneManager::createRayQuery, added RayTestResult as a SWIG type.
  • Void Pointer and casting of MovableObject (#1413)
  • SWIG: allow building Overlay bindings without imgui
  • Java: suppress new warnings in build
• RTSS
  • allow InTexcoord parameters of arbitrary type
  • correctly reset default shadow receiver material
  • DualQuaternionSkinning - fix interplay with projective texturing
  • fix bug with single pass parallax mapping & adapt sample
  • fix vertex output compacting
  • GBuffer - change TL_DEPTH_NORMAL to TL_NORMAL_VIEWDEPTH
  • GL - implement SPC_POSITION_PROJECTIVE_SPACE FS input
  • GLSL - legacy GLSL should be only use when targeting <= GLSL120
  • GLSL - use #include instead of shader attachment
  • GLSL Writer - get rid of wrong and unneeded cast
  • implement GBuffer output SubRenderState
  • implement hardware instancing support
  • implement parallax mapping and use it in respective sample
  • NormalMapLighting - do not transform normal if there are no lights
  • Program - create entry point in constructor
  • PSSM3 - fix scalar on GLSL swizzling which requires GLSL420
  • ScriptTranslator - log error when encountering unknown parameter
  • TextureAtlas - drop #extension as it does not work with #include
• Terrain: fix wrong light direction of composite map
• GLSupport
  • drop unused GLSLProgramCommon::isSkeletalAnimationIncluded
  • GLSLProgramManagerCommon - drop needless GL type indirection
  • GLSLProgramManagerCommon - drop unused shared param parsing
• GL*
  • further unify GLSLProgramManagerCommon
  • further unify GLSLShaderCommon
  • allow matrix types in texcoord semantic
  • GLSLProgram - store member shaders as array in GLSLProgramCommon
  • GLSLShaderCommon - drop the loadFromSource -> compile indirection
• D3D11/ D3D9/ Cg: set entry point to "main" by default
• D3D11
  • prevent DefaultHardwareVertex/Index/UniformBuffer creation
  • VertexDeclaration - be specific which semantic index is missing
• GL3Plus/ GLES2
  • fix loading monolithic programs from microcode cache
  • attach uniform blocks to shared params for CPU <> GPU sync
  • factor out new linkSeparable() API for SSO
• GL3Plus
  • clean up blitFromTexture
  • clean up GLSLProgramManager::extractUniformsFromProgram
  • fix linking of spirv SSOs
  • fix RenderToVertexBuffer with monolithic shaders
  • HardwareBuffer::lock - use more appropriate error message
  • merge UBO and SSBO classes
  • SSO - expose uniform locations through param_indexed
  • TextureBuffer::download - fix crash when dest type differs
  • unify microcode read/ write like in GLES2
• GL/GL3+:
  • deprecate the "attach" mechanism in favor of #include
  • enable hardware texture blit, verified working
• GLES2: implement limited hardware texture blit w/o scaling
• D3D9: do not spam unsupported HLSL targets & correct VTF format check
• BSPSceneManager
  • fire RenderSingleObject, so RTSS passes are updated
  • make BspLevel Renderable to use standard rendering path
• Tools: MeshUpgrader - allow two SubMeshes reference the same Material
• Docs
  • Compositor - document quad_normals pass attribute
  • fixed several doxygen errors
  • Manual - improve formatting of "Parameter specification"
  • Material - document the interplay of TUS and Sampler
  • Resource Management - include data retrieval in diagram
  • Tutorials - update deferred shading resource links
  • update regarding shadow_caster_material
• Samples
  • Compositor - HDR merge GLSL and GLSLES shaders
  • Deferred Shading - merge GLSL and GLSLES shaders
  • Deferred Shading - use HLSL instead of Cg for D3D11 compat
  • Deferred - SSAO use standard instead of custom data sources
  • drop white.bmp that was only used as a placeholder
  • fixup for wrong matrix construction in last commit
  • GLSL - fix several errors discovered by strict SSO checking
  • Instancing - fix shadow casting and matrix types with GLSL
  • Instancing - user better lighting setup
  • Instancing - use RNG from std and make output consistent
  • Instancing - use RTSS for accurate shader based technique
  • ParticleGS - use point sprites with GLSL
  • port DeferredShading to RTSS
  • Shadows - convert to the "standard" PSSM/shadow_caster material
  • Shadows - simplify setup by properly using integrated shadows
  • SkeletalAnimation - set hardware skinning parameters via script
  • SSAO - fix RTSS material initialisation
  • SSAO - port to gbuffer RTSS stage
  • BSP - replace chiopteraDM by OpenArena oa_rpg3dm2
  • BSP - drop quakemap.cfg indirection for Android compatibility
  • AtomicCounters - finish the sample and drop obsolete code
• Tests
  • convert ImageCombine PlayPen to Unit test
  • fix additive offset mapping test
  • test resource loading listener discarding only element in group
  • VTests: PlayPen_BlitSubTextures - use hardware blit path

v1.12.4

Note: imgui is not included - workaround

• Main
  • Compile Remotery.c as cpp-file
  • Fixed wrong material name in ManualObjectSection
  • InstanceBatch: Initialize frame number in constructor.
  • Revert "OgreResourceBackgroundQueue: disable when OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT == 3"
  • remaining fixes for OGRE_CONFIG_DOUBLE
  • add converting constructors to Matrix4 and Affine3 + Test
  • AutoParamDataSource - use Vector4f, when float precision is enough
  • Camera - add #ifdef NODELESS_POSITIONING
  • Camera - simplify with nodeless positioning enabled
  • deprecate AtomicScalar
  • deprecate OgreVector2.h, OgreVector3.h and OgreVector4.h
  • fixed inability to properly parse 'import "longQuotedFilename"'
  • further reorder fields to reduce padding
  • GpuProgram - add safePrepare to account for throwing overloads
  • GpuProgram - move reading from file to prepare
  • GpuProgramParams - use typed overloads for Vector4 float & double
  • Lexer - do not repeat the filename in each ScriptToken
  • Light - add #ifdef NODELESS_POSITIONING
  • make sure directional lights are always sorted in front
  • make TransfromBase compatible when T is not Real
  • merge HighLevelGpuProgram::loadHighLevel with GpuProgram::loadImpl
  • move CmdPreprocessorDefines to HighLevelGpuProgram
  • replace in memory spot_shadow_fade.png by on disk .dds file
  • Resource::calculateSize - use sizeof(*this)
  • SceneManager - move destroyShadowTextures to clearScene
  • ScriptCompiler - avoid vector of SharedPtr
  • ScriptCompiler - deprecate unused internal API
  • ScriptCompiler - throw error on invalid import statements
  • ScriptLexer - get rid of Ptr to vector antipattern
  • ScriptLexer - only record lexeme when type is not sufficient
  • ScriptParser - factor out unquoted function
  • ScriptTranslator - unify GpuProgram translation
  • ShadowRenderer - bind shadow texture to correct Pass with RTSS
  • ShadowRenderer - fix spot shadow fade with the RTSS
  • slightly refactor shadowrenderer
  • switch internal HighLevelGpuProgramFactory API to GpuProgram*
  • TextureManager - assert that total texture size is not zero
  • UnifiedHighLevelProgram - allow delegating to low-level programs
  • Node - make getLocalAxes more numerically stable
  • Matrix3 - make several functions inline for re-use and refactor

• Bites
  • add keypad key support for Dear ImGui.
  • map Dear ImGui to SDL_TEXTINPUT for correct text character processing.
  • Move check for Xaw to Bites.

• CMake
  • expose OGRE_NODELESS_POSITIONING
  • disable imgui, if it is not found out and add nodeless to summary
  • Make OGRE_BUILD_TESTS depend on Ogre Bites.
  • RTTS - drop separation between core and ext shaders
• Overlays
  • imgui - correctly handle RGB > BGR conversion for D3D9
  • restore script loading hack to allow re-loading groups
• RTSS
  • FFPLib - add missing FFP_Transform variant
  • fix linear skinning shaders and replace existing sample by them
  • HarwareSkinning - only include light calculations when needed
  • LinearSkinning - add missing normal transformation
  • make hardware skinning work with GLES3+
  • properly handle uniform arrays of non square matrices
  • Texturing - switch back to inspecting srcPass
  • Texturing - use ACT_TEXTURE_VIEWPROJ_MATRIX for projection matrix
  • use the RTSS to generate Hardware Skinning shadow caster shaders
  • use uint4 for BLENDINDICES for HLSL4 compatibility
• D3D9/ D3D11: allow background shader compilation in prepare()
• D3D11
  • HLSL - drop shared_ptr juggling and remove according hack in Main
  • make sure PF_RGB correctly falls back to PF_XRGB instead of RGBA
  • Switched ID3D11DeviceContext::ClearState and ID3D11DeviceContext::Flush as recommend by Microsoft.
• D3D9: retain monitorIndex of the "Rendering Device" config option
• GL*
  • delete background contexts before destroying the HBM
  • fix uploading sampler array uniforms
  • Non-square matrices are always row-major in Ogre with no
    conversion, so force off transposition.
• GL
  • explicitly convert matrices to float for OGRE_CONFIG_DOUBLE
  • fix crash & error due to type mismatch
  • get rid of GLSLGpuProgram and consolidate GLSL code in GLSupport
• GLSupport
  • add the 'externalGLControl' option to Cocoa render windows
  • factor out common GLWindow class
  • move background context registration to GLRenderSystemCommon
• Docs: add background resource loading tutorial
  • Basic Tutorial 2 - use additive lighting
  • improve VTF section
  • manual - improve GPU Program documentation
  • Manual - slightly improve Shadows section
  • Manual: document GLSL non-square matrix translation behavior
  • RTSS - add hardware_skinning section
  • update License.md - added pugixml, dropped nedmalloc

• Samples
  • add clarifying comment when using the ImGuiOverlay() in custom apps (#1333)
  • Do not build demo installer when SampleBrowser is disabled
  • BumpMapping - use HLSL instead of Cg
  • clean up Shadows sample
  • do not build imgui sample, if it is disabled
  • drop obsolete HadwareSkinning materials & shaders
  • enable Fresnel Sample for D3D11 by using HLSL instead of Cg
  • fix depth shadow caster for HLSL4
  • OffsetMapping - finalize cleanup and fix multilight setting
  • OffsetMapping - use HLSL instead of Cg and simplify material
  • Browser - improve UI layout on Mobile

• Tests
  • PlayPen - port to nodeless positioning by using helper class
  • unify glow shaders

v1.12.3

• Main
  • allow reading zip archives from unicode paths
  • Compositor - allow setting auto clear colour from script
  • deprecate QuadMaterialMap typedef
  • deprecate TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • deprecate _writeRawConstant(size_t, Real, size_t count)
  • fix GpuParameters not being updated if preRender returns false
  • make reverse-Z a ConfigOption and check compatibility in GL3Plus
  • Pass - setPointSpritesEnabled. Check for RSC_POINT_SPRITES
  • properly handle MRT depth attachments
  • removed extra unlock, which caused assert failure. (#1273)
  • SkyRenderer - correctly apply orientation to SkyBox
  • TextureUnitState::setTextureName - do not reset the TextureType
  • Added support for 32 bit floating point depth buffer (#1290)
  • Provide copy and assign ctors where needed.
  • Fixed exit from Matrix3::SingularValueDecomposition when reaching max iteration count
• CMake
  • add dotscene plugin and imgui support to feature summary
  • enable unicode path support on MSVC by default
• Bites
  • ApplicationContext - implement destroying windows
  • Input - specify return value and add InputListenerChain
• Overlay
  • allow injecting derived Overlay classes
  • merge ogre-imgui into Overlay & Bites
  • Implemented pixel ratio for HiDPI
• RTSS
  • HLSL use SM4 sampling functions if available
  • PSSM3 - fix shader generation for depth textures with HLSL
  • PSSM3 - fix depth texture, no split with reversed depth with GLSL
• Terrain
  • generate SM4 compatible shaders
  • fix shadows with reversed-z & depth textures
• Docs
  • improve Compositor script documentation
  • fix a bunch of doxygen warnings
  • Install Linux docs in /usr/share/doc/OGRE
  • add reversed depth tutorial
• GL*
  • drop unneeded calls to glReadBuffer
  • Texture - keep driver default parameters for initial upload to avoid stalls
• GL3+
  • allow FBOs with depth and non-depth texture attachments
  • Reverse depth buffer implementation for OpenGL3+
  • fix leak when a program object is created but one already exists
• GL3+/ GLES2: fix handling of PF_A8 textures & add test
• D3D11 & GL3+: consider reversed-Z for texture compare & texture border
• GL: remove some version checks - we globally require GL 1.5
• GLSupport:
  • EGL - fix emscripten build
  • EGL - use the standard FSAA name on Emscripten & Android
  • GLSLPreprocessor: fixup #elif support + test
  • GLSLPreprocessor: use std::forward_list instead of ad-hoc solution
  • Android: export viewport scale through getViewPointToPixelScale
  • Android - query ANativeWindow instead of EGL for window size
• D3D11
  • drop RSC_POINT_SPRITES, which is not supported
  • use precise depth format mappings that we have now
  • add reversed-Z support
• D3D9 & D3D11: ps_2_x & vs_2_x are not HLSL profiles
• Samples
  • add Imgui demo
  • introduce HLSL_SM4Support.hlsl to unify Cg/ HLSL4 shaders
  • clean up Example_Basic.{cg, hlsl} mess
  • Browser - make sure Trays are not tiny on Android
  • Context - use isCurrentSamplePaused to make code more readable
  • drop Sample::getRequiredRenderSystem
  • ShowUV - fix varying matching in GLSL shaders
  • SkyBox materials must not use normals - D3D11 is picky here
  • SSAO - merge Cg & HLSL post processing shaders
  • fix depth shadow caster for HLSL4
• Tests:
  • make PlayPen_VertexTexture compatible with D3D11
  • fix MinGW build
  • PlayPen_DepthShadowMap - add normals to satisfy D3D11

v1.12.2

• Main:
  • DefaultHardwareBufferManager - fix order of destruction
  • deprecate getMovableObjectFactoryIterator
  • deprecate RenderSystem::bindGpuProgramPassIterationParameters
  • deprecate SceneManager::getMovableObjectIterator
  • factor out internal _openFileStream method
  • Frustum - correct extent computation for customProjMatrix
  • remove logging from Exception constructor altogether
  • TRect - add operator==
  • use the idiomatic addElement().getSize() chaining for VertexDeclarations
• CMake
  • disable precompiled headers on MinGW
  • export unicode paths option on MSVC
• Csharp: install source files for easier consumption and fix build
• D3D9: implement bindGpuProgramPassIterationParameters by general means
• GLSupport
  • EGL - add HWgamma support
  • EGL - correctly handle windowMovedOrResized with parent win
  • implement the 'currentGLContext' parameter for cocoa windows on macOS
  • unify EGL/ GLX debug output
• GL3+
  • support loading SPIRV shaders
  • update glcorearb.h to OpenGL 4.6
• GL*
  • GLSL - some code simplification
  • GpuProgram - implement pass iteration params binding using mask
  • unify uniform block handling in GLSupport
• Plugins
  • add DotSceneLoader plugin
  • STB image - update to latest upstream
• XMLConverter
  • replace tinyxml by pugixml
  • simplify code
• Samples
  • add volumetric light shafts sample
  • avoid SampleBrowser swallowing sample input events
  • Tutorials - Added CXX 11 as it does not build without it
• Tests
  • fix gtest discovery when built locally
  • test Camera::setCustomProjectionMatrix
  • update gtest and build it like the rest of the deps
• Docs
  • update dependencies and document cmake options
  • use aliases to annotate shader specific pass parameters
  • update "Binding vertex attributes" section

v1.12.1

• Main
  • add optimized PF_R8 scaling & conversion
  • add overloads for MaterialPtr ManualObject
  • improve Singleton documentation
  • properly export RenderOperation
  • Texture - also unset TU_AUTOMIPMAP when mNumMipmaps == 0
  • update SSE2NEON to fix softwareVertexSkinning
  • use general softwareVertexSkinning implementation instead of NEON
  • Add missing nullptr_t constructor for SharedPtr
  • Do not replace existing entries in ResourceGroup index
  • use std::map::emplace instead of std::map::insert to simplify code
  • OgreETCCodec: KTX container: add support for a subset of ASTC textures
  • OgrePixelFormat: fix obvious typo in computing astc_slice_size()
• XMLConverter
  • do not attempt to create "" named materials
  • use Listener to keep material references for mesh2xml
• CMake
  • Android - fix installation of core resources
  • Android - port build to gradle
• SWIG: export VertexElementList and ignore some deprecated stuff
• Overlay
  • fix TextArea Font and material change
  • Add _setMaterial method to Font
• Bites: Trays - allow interacting with widgets using the system cursor
• Terrain: use material group for composite map
• D3D11: Replaced the use of getCustomAttribute() methods by new D3D11RenderTarget interface (#1212)
• D3D9: fix uninitialised memory in lighting
• GLSupport: [OSX] Avoid leaking and over releasing of mGLContext and mGLPixelFormat - always store retained, always release. Initialize mGLPixelFormat in externalGLContext case too. Cleanup.
• GL3+
  • correct building shader programs when compute shader is present
  • Make GLSL part of GL3Plus private implementation (#1188)
• GLES2: fix PixelFormat assert and compilation with GLStateCache
• GLES2/ GL3+: use compile time assert in PixelFormat
• RTSS: add missing forward declare
• Samples
  • AndroidJNI - properly request Camera permissions
  • correct path for AndroidJNI samples
• Test correct resource location priority
• Docs:
  • clarify light-related SceneManager comments
  • improve documentation of ManualResourceLoader
  • improve RTSS documentation
  • update building instructions for android

v1.12.0

• Main
  • add ACT camera world position for camera relative rendering
  • add DefaultTextureManager and NullTexture for software fallbacks
  • add PF_DEPTH32 and map it in GL3+
  • add proper deprecation notes for legacy HardwareBufferLockGuard
  • add SSE2NEON for NEON SIMD support
  • Any - throw std::bad_cast instead of InvalidParametersException
  • append "_d" in DynLib instead of getConfigFilePath
  • assert instead of segfaulting if volume materials are unavailable
  • CompositionTechnique - except if texture name is not unique
  • Compositor - factor out resolveTexReference
  • CompositorManager - stop using ptr to std::vector antipattern
  • Compositor - reuse common methods of CompositorInstance & use uint
  • correctly handle the case of identityView && cameraRelative
  • correctly mark DebugRenderable for export
  • define a common OGRE_TOKEN_PASTE macro for LINE concat
  • DepthBuffer - make FSAA API consistent with RTT API
  • _destroySceneNode - fix destroying last item in mSceneNodes
  • disambiguate ResourceManager overloads
  • drop deprecated RenderSystem API
  • drop deprecations with low impact
  • drop DIRECTXMATH support now that we have NEON everywhere
  • drop RSC_CUBEMAPPING by bumping required D3D9 feature level to 9.1
  • drop support for separateUV
  • drop useless RSC_COMPLETE_TEXTURE_BINDING
  • DynLib - fix WinRT build
  • Entity - use vector based storage for child objects
  • factor out OGRE_BUILD_* settings to OgreComponents.h
  • factor out ShadowVolumeExtrudePrograms to filesystem
  • FileSystemLayer - do not force the Ogre subdir upon consumers
  • fix android build without Zip
  • fix building without ZIP
  • fix combinedUVW for separate images & deprecate separateUV setting
  • fix default texture filtering value set to the value other than FO_NONE for TE_EXTERNAL_OES and TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • fix integer overflow when num threads and use a sane limit of 2
  • fix segfault when set_texture_alias arguments are missing
  • GpuProgramManager - provide default noop loadImpl
  • HardwareBufferLockGuard - assert that buffer is not null
  • hide OgreParticleEmitterCommands.h
  • hide OgrePrefabFactory
  • hide ShadowTextureManager
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - fix #line directive filename refrencing
  • HighLevelGpuProgram - unify preprocessor define parsing
  • implement ACT_NORMAL_MATRIX
  • install new OgreComponents.h
  • introduce Vector4f and use it to store attenuation
  • ManualObjectSection - factor out convertToSubMesh
  • MaterialManager - fix leak of mDefaultSettings passes
  • MaterialSerializer - fix writing texture_unit section + tests
  • Math - factor out common makePerspectiveMatrix
  • Matrix4 - make converting constructors explicit
  • Mesh - make default constructor match createOrRetrieve
  • MeshManager - load prefabs only on demand
  • MeshManager - move ManualResourceLoader API into separate class
  • move auto window creation logic from RenderSystem to Root
  • move DisplayMode from Profiler to Overlays
  • move more code from SceneManager to ShadowRenderer
  • Node - deprecate getChildIterator
  • Node - use PrefabFactory to create DebugRenderable
  • OptimisedUtil - log ticks instead of requiring a breakpoint
  • OptimizedUtil - fix compilation with DO_PROFILE
  • parametrize TransformBase to make it universally usable
  • ParticleEmitter - add asserts to catch invalid velocity values
  • Pass - fix wrong assignment of attenuation parameters
  • PixelFormat - move byte aliases to end to fix big endian build
  • PlatformInformation - NEON does not depend on a specific CPU arch
  • Profile - add remotery support
  • Profile - avoid allocations for event names, fill swapBuffers hole
  • Profiler - clear the whole hierarchy when enabled mid-frame
  • Profiler - ignore mEnabled with Remotery
  • Profiler - make Profile RAII helper inline
  • Quaternion - inline several trivial member functions
  • reduce private SceneManager API usage in ShadowRender
  • RenderSystem - add back some deprecated internal API
  • RenderSystem - drop advanced TextureUnit settings
  • RenderSystem - drop obsolete hasAnisotropicMipMapFilter
  • RenderSystem - fix _setProjectionMatrix fallback code
  • RenderSystem - pass FFP params through GpuProgramParameters
  • RenderTarget::writeContentsToTimestampedFile - use ISO 8601 order
  • replace some useless comments by "override" keyword
  • ResourceGroupManager - allow disabling throwing in openResource
  • Root - fix auto creation of Window
  • SceneManager - allow to disable throwing in getSceneNode
  • SceneManager - also use fog_override values for auto fog_params
  • SceneManager - convert _TYPE_MASK members to enum
  • SceneManager - deprecate SceneType & fix some deprecation warnings
  • SceneManager - deprecate shadow config iterator access
  • SceneManager - fix finite and infinite extrusion params pointers
  • ScriptCompiler - drop useless CE_UNSUPPORTEDBYRENDERSYSTEM
  • ScriptCompiler - hide abstract bases from OverlayTranslator
  • Script - fully deprecate single argument cubic_texture
  • ScriptTranslator::getConstantType - catch unsupported types
  • ShadowCameraSetup - add static create() to accommodate bindings
  • ShadowRenderer - do not pool depth for PF_DEPTH
  • simplify AxisAlignedBox
  • slightly speed up TextureUnitState::recalcTextureMatrix
  • String - fix doxygen inline comment
  • SubEntity - move trivial getters to header to allow inlining
  • SubMesh - store MaterialPtr instead of material name
  • Texture - add native layer array support
  • Texture - fix fallout from layer array refactor
  • Texture::getBuffer - return by const ref
  • Texture - slightly refactor code and avoid errors on corner cases
  • TextureUnitState - deprecate isCubic() & is3D()
  • TextureUnitState - drop useless binding types
  • TextureUnitState - fix fallout after using NULL frame for blank
  • TextureUnitState - refactor setAnimatedTextureName
  • Timer - use fixed width uint64_t for time duration
  • turn some #if OGRE_PROFILING into runtime options
  • TUS - fix one more instance of NULL for blank & add tests
  • use Matrix3x4f TransformBase typedef in InstancedEntity
  • Vector3 - return IDENTITY in getRotationTo for zero-sized vectors (#1045)
  • ZipArchive - improve zzip error messages
  • Unify enum TextureUsage between v1.11 and v2.1 (TU_NOTSHADERRESOURCE => TU_NOT_SRV, +TU_UAV, +TU_UAV_NOT_SRV)
  • use exception safe buffer unlocking everywhere
  • move OgreUTFString to Overlay component, get rid of no longer needed OGRE_UNICODE_SUPPORT
  • spare the Quaternion coversion when we only need a Matrix3
  • stop using deprecated setCubicTexture internally
  • Support PixelBox::getSubVolume with slice granularity for compressed textures - no need for relaxed checks
  • Math: Matrix3 - Increase precision of SVD decomposition
  • SceneManager: O(1) complexity for destroySceneNode()
  • SceneManager: restore log(N) complexity for named node lookup
  • SIMDHelper: drop unused __mm_rsqrt_nr_ps
  • Ensure that requesting partial copy of compressed texture will lead to exception rather than silent data corruption. Partial copy is implemented in Ogre v2.1
  • Fixed for Emscripten/Webassembly port to work again
  • Fixed Matrix3::SingularValueDecomposition for bidiagonal matrices
  • fix negative particle size when scale affector decrease size
  • parse #include directive in GLSL shaders
  • VTF instancing with HLSL (#1167)
  • remove superficial OgreExport to fix MinGW build
• Bites
  • add workaround for swig crashing on ApplicationContext
  • ApplicationContext - add fallback locations for RTSS media
  • ApplicationContext - default to "Ogre3D" as appName
  • ApplicationContext - update fallback internal media locations
  • ApplicationContext - windows must be destroyed in reverse order
  • correctly update director flags after ApplicationContext rename
  • disable ConfigDialog on MinGW until we have resolved #1064
  • extract ApplicationContextBase to allow multiple implementations
  • generate Shaders for all registered RTSS schemes
  • put RTShaderLib paths in resources.cfg instead of guessing them
  • SWIG - correctly handle OgreComponents.h
  • Trays - ensure window update on first call
  • Trays - fix jumping Slider handle
  • TraysManager - limit progress bar update rate to 4fps
• SWIG
  • add repr to Affine3
  • fix MSVC builds of Python, Csharp and Java
  • fix MSVC CI build
  • fix wrapping of Billboard{Set, Chain} that also derive from MO
  • make VectorBase* available for wrapepd Vector* classes
  • Python: organize all modules in parent Ogre package
  • Java: add install targets
• CMake
  • Bites - issue a warning if SDL2 was not found
  • drop obsolete Android Toochain - we use the one shipped with NDK
  • set CMP0068 and default CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to x86_64
  • silence warning about deprecated swig_add_module
  • WinRT - drop support for WindowsPhone and old MSVC
  • -Wno-inconsistent-missing-override, so we can incrementally add them
  • Fix the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable is not set in 3rd party libraries#
  • FreeImageCodec: fix error message when FreeImage_LIBRARIES is empty
• RTSS
  • add FFPLib_AlphaTest.cg, accidentally dropped in refactoring
  • add material serializer test
  • add templated createSubRenderState overload
  • allow manually trigger...

v1.11.6

• Main
  • fix building without ZIP
  • fix combinedUVW for separate images & deprecate separateUV setting
  • fix default texture filtering value set to the value other than FO_NONE for TE_EXTERNAL_OES and TEX_TYPE_2D_RECT
  • fix integer overflow when num threads and use a sane limit of 2
  • fix segfault when set_texture_alias arguments are missing
  • Fixed Matrix3::SingularValueDecomposition for bidiagonal matrices
  • fix negative particle size when scale affector decrease size
  • MaterialManager - fix leak of mDefaultSettings passes
  • SceneManager - fix finite and infinite extrusion params pointers
  • add ACT camera world position for camera relative rendering
  • add PF_DEPTH32 and map it in GL3+
  • add proper deprecation notes for legacy HardwareBufferLockGuard
  • add SSE2NEON for NEON SIMD support
  • correctly handle the case of identityView && cameraRelative
  • correctly mark DebugRenderable for export
  • DepthBuffer - make FSAA API consistent with RTT API
  • disambiguate ResourceManager overloads
  • drop DIRECTXMATH support now that we have NEON everywhere
  • Mesh - make default constructor match createOrRetrieve
  • Node - deprecate getChildIterator
  • OptimisedUtil - log ticks instead of requiring a breakpoint
  • OptimizedUtil - fix compilation with DO_PROFILE
  • ParticleEmitter - add asserts to catch invalid velocity values
  • PixelFormat - move byte aliases to end to fix big endian build
  • PlatformInformation - NEON does not depend on a specific CPU arch
  • Quaternion - inline several trivial member functions
  • ResourceGroupManager - allow disabling throwing in openResource
  • SceneManager - allow to disable throwing in getSceneNode
  • SceneManager - deprecate shadow config iterator access
  • Script - fully deprecate single argument cubic_texture
  • ScriptTranslator::getConstantType - catch unsupported types
  • ShadowCameraSetup - add static create() to accommodate bindings
  • ShadowRenderer - do not pool depth for PF_DEPTH
  • simplify AxisAlignedBox
  • slightly speed up TextureUnitState::recalcTextureMatrix
  • Texture - add native layer array support
  • Texture - slightly refactor code and avoid errors on corner cases
  • TextureUnitState - deprecate isCubic() & is3D()
  • TextureUnitState - refactor setAnimatedTextureName
  • Vector3 - return IDENTITY in getRotationTo for zero-sized vectors (#1045)
  • ZipArchive - improve zzip error messages
  • Matrix3 - Increase precision of SVD decomposition
  • SceneManager: O(1) complexity for destroySceneNode()
  • SceneManager: restore log(N) complexity for named node lookup
  • SIMDHelper: drop unused __mm_rsqrt_nr_ps
  • spare the Quaternion coversion when we only need a Matrix3
  • stop using deprecated setCubicTexture internally
  • Support PixelBox::getSubVolume with slice granularity for compressed textures - no need for relaxed checks
  • VTF instancing with HLSL (#1167)
  • parse #include directive in GLSL shaders
• CMake
  • Bites - issue a warning if SDL2 was not found
  • set CMP0068 and default CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES to x86_64
  • Fix the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable is not set in 3rd party libraries
  • FreeImageCodec: fix error message when FreeImage_LIBRARIES is empty
• Bites
  • disable ConfigDialog on MinGW until we have resolved #1064
  • generate Shaders for all registered RTSS schemes
  • Trays - ensure window update on first call
  • Trays - fix jumping Slider handle
  • TraysManager - limit progress bar update rate to 4fps
  • use exception safe buffer unlocking everywhere
  • Ensure that requesting partial copy of compressed texture will lead to exception rather than silent data corruption. Partial copy is implemented in Ogre v2.1
• RTSS
  • add FFPLib_AlphaTest.cg, accidentally dropped in refactoring
  • add templated createSubRenderState overload
  • correctly apply specular normalisation before addition
  • fix resolving params with autoConstantIntData != 0
  • merge remaining parts of glsl & glsles RTShaderLib
  • ~SGTechnique - fix use after free
  • update PSSM3 split point documentation
• Terrain
  • MaterialGenerator - actually disable normal maps if requested
  • TerrainGroup - add loadLegacyTerrain for 1.7 style terrain.cfg
• SWIG
  • add repr to Affine3
  • fix MSVC builds of Python, Csharp and Java
  • fix MSVC CI build
  • fix wrapping of Billboard{Set, Chain} that also derive from MO
  • make VectorBase* available for wrapepd Vector* classes
  • Java: add install targets
• Media: drop the unused old instancing shaders
• Overlay: fix crash when tasking out of full screen
• GLSupport
  • "contentScalingFactor" option to scale Android back buffer (#1033)
  • move getPass*States override to GL
  • CPreprocessor: skip duplicate strlen call
• GLES2
  • EAGL2Window: derive from GLRenderTarget as required
  • Fix crash when opening GLES2 Mali emulator
• GL*
  • allow MRT with different formats if supported
  • fix FBO format logging
  • Revert "GL*: do not needlessly bind zero texture"
• GL
  • do not cache programs containing geometry shaders
  • fix GLArbGpuProgram::loadFromSource exception code & message
  • fix warning flood with Copy & PBuffer RTT
• D3D11:
  • allow D3D11DeviceResource to create and destroy self or other D3D11DeviceResources in notifyDeviceLost/Restored handlers
  • D3D11HardwarePixelBuffer: Create staging buffer with only single subresource, ret immediately after usage
  • D3D11VertexDeclaration - add useful information to exception
  • Dead code removed (offset was always zero)
  • Restored the ability to differentiate between identically named adapters
  • Reuse field declared in the base class (mLockBox => mLockedBox)
  • We need to clean only one texture slot as there is only one depth texture (stored in mDSTResView) even for D3D11MultiRenderTarget
• Docs
  • manual - improve shadows section
  • slight corrections for Compositor Scripts
• Samples
  • Python - drop deprecated ApplicationContext parameter
  • TexturedFog - fix errors with strict mode
• Tests
  • add Matrix3SVD test
  • VTests: drop superficial calls to buildTangentVectors on knot.mesh

v1.11.5

• Main
  • AnimationStateControllerValue - add create() and addTime option
  • Controller - add static ::create() member to Function & Value
  • DeflateStream - Avoid assert when read is satisfied by cache
  • DeflateStream - call destroy[ZStream] in close()
  • Fixed memory leak in MemoryDataStream.
  • fix various warnings/ issues discovered by clang analyzer
  • GpuProgramParametersSharedPtr -> const GpuProgramParametersPtr&
  • handle empty resources - throw in RGM and return false in Archive
  • Math - deprecate intersects(.. list ..)
  • Math - move simple function definitions to header
  • Math - typedef RayTestResult and inline some ::intersect funcs
  • Node::DebugRenderable - draw over existing geometry
  • Plane - move all definitions to header to allow inlining
  • RESOURCE_GROUP_NAMEs should be the same regardless of STRICT_MODE
  • Root - fix shutdown() after oneTimePostWindowInit() was called
  • TextureUnitState::setBlank - restore pre 1.11 semantics
  • unify handling of blank textures
• CMake
  • Dependencies - switch to upstream zzip
  • install swig interfaces for consumption by external modules
• RTSS
  • add option to use energy preserving blinn-phong reflectance
  • ShaderProgram - allow preprocessor defines
• Bites
  • ApplicationContext - add public getFSLayer
  • ApplicationContext - call Root::saveConfig() after shutdown()
  • CameraMan - add setPivotOffset for manual offset control
  • Input - corrected the SDLK_PAGEDOWN value (#989)
  • Input - forward MouseButtonEvent::clicks
  • OgreCameraMan - allow disabling fixed camera yaw
  • add hacky workaround for black window on OSX
• Terrain
  • checkQuadIntersection - drop superficial normalization
  • speed up getHeightAtTerrainPosition
• SWIG
  • add C# bindings component
  • wrap AnimationStateMap
  • wrap Ogre::TRect
  • wrap RaySceneQueryResult
  • wrap RenderTarget::FrameStats
• Python: add version module version number
• GL*: fix various issues discovered by clang analyzer
• GLSupport: fix GLXWindow::resize for non-toplevel windows
• D3D11: also use _getTextureBindFlags for 3D textures
• GLES2: fix building with hlsl2glsl
• D3D9
  • do not crash when moving window to the second screen
  • drop actually unsupported RSC_AUTOMIPMAP_COMPRESSED
  • we must use TU_DYNAMIC for mipmap generation on D3D9Ex
• Docs: Manual - improve references/ formatting in Animation chapter
• Samples
  • Android - merge both samples into single project/ directory
  • correct (lower) shader requirements of terrain related samples
  • InstancedViewports - fix GLSL using preprocessor defines