Codename Daedalus

For more information, see the manual

For porting information see What's new in Ogre 2.3 (Markdown version) and Root Layouts and Ticket [#101]

See SW & HW Requirements See platforms supported See Ogre 2.1 FAQ See What's new in Ogre 2.3

New features

• Vulkan now supports being provided an external device. See Sample_VulkanExternal sample
• Headless Vulkan support
• Root::installPlugin now requires an options pointer. Can be nullptr. This is needed for full external device support in Vulkan

What's Changed

• Bugfix scissors were not working using GL3Plus by @ronaldta in https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre-next/pull/267

Full Changelog: https://github.com/OGRECave/ogre-next/compare/v2.3.0...v2.3.1

Changelog

• Add Tutorial_VulkanExternal sample. dllStartPlugin now has an argument.
• [Vk] Add ability to pass an external VkInstance
• Root::installPlugin now supports optional parameters
• [Vk] Add msFinalTextureBuffer & msMsaaTextureBuffer via getCustomAttribute
• Remove extra space in log
• Move PSO debug dumping to lower level
• [Vk] Avoid spamming the log unnecessarily
• Add debug log to identify when a new PSO is created
• [Vk] Fix data hazard if user deallocates and alloc a resource too fast
• [Vk] Fix messages from Synchronization layer
• OGRE_CONFIG_UNIX_NO_X11 now affects Vulkan
• [Vk] Backport from 3.0 to fix Laplace shader
• [Vk] Add EglHeadless to WIN32 compilation
• [Vk] Move FSAA settings to VulkanSupport
• [Vk] Add multiple interface support
• [Vk] added VulkanWindowNull, that could be used as fake initial window or for headless operations
• [Vk] Don't crash if VulkanRenderSystem::validateSampleDescription is called before first window creation
• build_ogre_iOS.sh was building deps for macOS instead of iOS (#299)
• [Vk] Fix unflushed caches when reading from GPU memory on Mali & PowerVR
• Add VctCascadedVoxelizer::popCascade
• Fix UnitTesting not being used with main samples
• Fix EmptyProject under macOS & iOS
• Prevent UnitTesting.cpp from asking for JSON in EmptyProject
• Fix wrong paths in EmptyProject script
• Fix EmptyProject trying to compile both macOS & iOS files
• Fix crash when trying to add index-buffer-less meshes
• Fix crash when the VctVoxelizer scene is empty
• [Vk] Fix WAW hazard validation in _autogenerateMipmaps
• Optimize Posptrocessing FXs for Mobile
• [Vk] Fix WAW hazard detected by sync validation
• Add ParticleSystemManager::setSimulationTickRate
• Fix ParticleFX rendering bugs during the first frame
• Add OGRE_MAKE_VERSION macro
• [Vk] Mali doesn't support clip distance. Don't set RSC_USER_CLIP_PLANES
• [CIVCT] Fix bad voxelization if Item has orientation
• [Vk] Window screenshots are flipped in X axis
• [Vk] Fix Terra + Forward+ shader compiler error
• Fix crash when creating using billboards with an unloaded material
• [Vk] Fix RGB -> BGR swap in billboards and PFXs
• Fix CMake error in older versions (#206)
• [CIVCT] Fix missing Items
• [Vk]Flush command buffers before ending a GPU capture
• [CIVCT] Fix exception if mesh to voxelize is too thin
• [GL3+] Fix crash when using BlendChannelForceDisabled
• Bugfix scissors were not working using GL3Plus
• [Metal] Fix GPU-specific crashes during reflection (#251)
• Fix misleading indentation in Terra shader
• Fix declared functions that are never defined (#265)
• Add Readback test
• Fix Refractive transparency mode not being loaded by JSON
• Fix shader build error when using Terra w/out a shadow node (#239)
• fixup! [Vk] Fix uninitialized clear values when FBO is already shared
• Update SPIRV-Reflect to latest to fix out of bound read
• [Vk] Fix uninitialized clear values when FBO is already shared
• [Vk] Add "(default)" device like in D3D11
• [GL3+] Fix wrong call when setting sampler into compare mode
• Update docs to include macOS & iOS build scripts
• Add build scripts for macOS & iOS
• Add documentation about CIVCT
• Document PluginsOptional change