Fastbird Engine Monthly Log 2014. 7.
### July 2014
#### 2014-07-02 voxelizer
The first voxelized model. 256*256*256 voxel space.
* Reference for voxelizing technique : Andreas Kolb, Lars John. Volumetric Model Repair for Virtual Reality Applications, EUROGRAPHICS 2001
* Rendering is too slow. drawing 994,800 vertices, 27,714 draw calls at framerate '4'. T.T
* bottleneck candidates
* vertex buffers are all unique. need to share.
* use indices
* consider instance rendering
* do not calc combined world-view-proj matrix on the cpu
* do not map constants buffers to update data dynamically. not sure.
* combine to one geom?
* need robust lod system for rendering thousands of voxel models.
* create a dedicated render object for voxel models. Currently it is using ten-thousands of normal mesh objects.
* profile culling speed.
#### 2014-07-04
* bottleneck candidates
* vertex buffers are all unique. need to share. -> doesn't help much.
* use indices -> doesn't help much because almost all vertices are unique, doesn't save the transferring size of vertex buffer.
* consider instance rendering
* do not calc combined world-view-proj matrix on the cpu -> doesn't help much. this is unexpected.
* do not map constants buffers to update data dynamically. not sure.
* combine to one geom?
* need robust lod system for rendering thousands of voxel models.
* create a dedicated render object for voxel models. Currently it is using ten-thousands of normal mesh objects.
* profile culling speed.
* Every object with a different material has to be drawn in a separate drawcall. Each drawcall adds some overhead / slowdown to the engine. At any given point of view in the level, there should never be more than 2000 drawcalls. - from crytek man page.
* current draw call is 20,000. each draw call comsumes 40 microseconds. 40 microseconds * 20,000 = 800 milliseconds. crazy.
* instancing.... or merge..... if I merge the voxels into one mesh, it may be hard to show destruction effect like voxels aparting from its hull.
* need to research other voxel based games.
#### 2014-07-05
merged voxels for the framerate.
* Merging could be the best solution for moving voxels in a group.
* If I use instancing, I have to calculate every world matrix for every voxels that could cause serious performance penalty.
* attaching and detaching a voxel from the merged mesh is a problem in this method.
* picking also a problem. if the voxels have no movement, it might ok but moving massive voxels... terrible.
* may need to divide a parts group. octree.... sub group. then number of draw calls could increase but might acceptable.
* before making a decision, decrease the voxel space from 256*256*256 to 128*128*128.
#### 2014-07-06 Movie
#### 2014-07-08 work log
* Engine
* added feature to support sub meshes(material groups)
* fixed keyboard input bug which was propergated for all input handlers
* Re-structured object classes. Now vertex buffer, index buffer, materials
* should manually declared in the inherited classes.
* Dust and far-sizde Star rendering.
* Game
* Controlling Initiator
* Added a database for ships.
#### 2014-07-09 work log
* Rendering modules using geometry shader.
* Mouse capturing while camera is rotating.
* Camera offsetting in third person mode.(while the right mouse button down)
* Added mouse move mode while both mouse button down.
* Name changed. compound ship -> modular ship
* Added console variables.
* Added a feature loading initial modular ships from xml.
* Add some columns into module cms and part cms.
* +1072, -426
A modular ship rendered with geometry shader.
Star and dust are rendered.
#### 2914-07-13 Edge rendering
* Rendering with tangent space
* Created NormalMap, SpecularMap, AO map for modules.
* Module edge rendering and glow.
* +836, -266
#### 2014-07-14 Picking & Detachable modules
* Ray-AABB collision
* Picking
* Boundary rendering.
* Detaching modules.
* Flock simulation for detached modules
* Added Module Holding UI
* Highlighitng ImageBox UI
* +1925, -243
#### 2014-07-15 Ataching Module & Mesh Group
* Attaching modules
* Help Mesh Renderer
* Added MeshGroup class.
* Tweaked flock simulation for modules.
* Added shortcut keys for HoldingModuleUI
* fixed imagebox highlight bug.
* parsing scene information and building MeshGroup.
* +961, -222
#### 2014-07-16 Physically-based rendering
* Physically based rendering.
* Cook-Torrance microfacet specular shading model.
* Reflections from environment map needs to be cared more.
* fixed bugs on mesh group feature.
* Handling missing materials.
* Changing camera target by user inputs. (ctrl+click)
* function to merge sphere bounding volumes.
* Adding hammersley point set
* +1171, -181
The weapon is rendered with the physically-based shading model. Reflection needs to be tweaked more.
Model is created by SONGKRO at blendswap.com
#### 2014-07-17 SkySphere
* Rendering SkySphere
* using Cylindrical projection explained http://paulbourke.net/geometry/transformationprojection/
* but artifacts stretching v direction is found, let's try other method.
* Fixed reflection bug. - reflect() function implementation was wrong.
* +348, -29
#### 2014-07-20 Procedural space environment and PBR
* Procedural space environment rendering
* changed pbr method from spec+gross to metallic+roughness.
* +350 -84
changed pbr from specular+gross to metallic+roughness which is mainly supported by Substance Painter.
New mesh. Environment is too dark or too bright. Currently it is a perfect mirror.
Since the environment map is procedurally generated, need to generate again in the object space when it rendered. This might be ok if there are not many overdraws and I can generate burrry environment map in the same pass.
May be I need to capture the procedural images and create a paranomic texture.
* contributors
* not stated contributors already commented in the previous dev log.
* Procedural space environment: 'Star Nest' originally developed by Pablo Roman Andrioli. You can find the original cool space screen effects at https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dfGDM
* space ship by speedypro at blendswap.com
#### 2014-07-21 Cube Map test
* Bug on cube environment mapping is very annoying.
* I had changed coordinates system from the d3d left handed to opengl right handed at the initial stage of development. This causes the cube map problem.
* I solved this problem by changing the order of faces to ( x, -x, z, -z, y, -y) and negative reflect.yz.
* references
* http://www.3dcpptutorials.sk/index.php?id=24
* Cubic Environment Mapping in the d3d document(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb204881%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)
* http://www.opengl.org/registry/doc/glspec21.20061201.pdf 3.86
#### 2014-07-21 enemy squad
* Engine
* cube environment mapping
* calculate environment distribution
* cache for MeshObject and MeshGroup
* clone mesh group.
* Game
* Waves Manager.
* fixed picking bug
* adding flock simul for enemy squad.
* +1749, -249
#### 2014-07-22 Movement AI for enemy ships.
* Movement AI for Enemy ships.
* Added MessageDispatcher
* all interaction between units will use message system. This might be a good choice for update whole units in serveral threads every frame.
* Added SpatialGameObject class handling transformations and bounding volumes.
* +965, - 184
#### 2014-07-23 Flock Simulation
* Flock simulation for enemy ships
* Engine
* added circular buffer
* adding particle system
* fixed line debug draw bugs.
* Game
* Added SpatialGameObject. now all spatial objects inherited from it.
* Tweaked flock simulation for enemy squad(FlockDebug console command added)
* removed ModuleManager. ModularShip(unit) absorbed the functions.
* name chnaged. Initiator -> CommandModule
* +2275, -1688
#### 2014-07-26 particle system
* added ParticleSystem
* added AABB Bounding Volume for particle emitters
* +1610, -545
#### 2014-07-27 Weapon System
* fixed Particle Renderer bugs.
* Adding weapon system
* +757, -174
#### 2014-07-28 Weapons free.
'''Engine'''
* Convert to VS 2013.
* Define transformations in dae file.(like weapon positions)
* Stop function for particle emitters
* Adding Laser Renderer
'''Game'''
* Added ammo manager.
* change name 'UnitClient' -> 'ModelClient' for generalization.
* Attach weapon managers to ships.
* Added the spatial object hierarchy structure.
* added ParticleMap database.
* Missile, Bullet inherited from ammo. Laser will be handled seperately.
* Bullet collisions.
* +1566, -254
#### 2014-07-29 2014 July released!
https://github.com/fastbird/fastbirdEngine/releases/tag/v0.1-2014-July
#### 2014-07-29 Visible Weapon attaching / rendering.
'''Engine'''
* fixed schedular bug. (never finish a task in release mode)
* fixed infinite wait problem on schedular
* fixed mesh group transformation bug.
* Cleaning for release. (2014-July)
'''Game'''
* Adding Yaw-Pitch tracking weapons
* Added Engine App example.
* Visible weapons attaching / rendering.
* +1049, -406
#### 2014-07-30 Yaw-Pitch-seperated weapons.
* Added yaw_pitch-seperated weapon type - _PART_YAW, _PART_PITCH is the key string.
* Iterating camera targets - [, ] : for friendly, comma(,) and period(.) : for enemy
* Improved flock simulation for fighters.
* +835, -238
#### 2014-07-31 Hexagonal Context Menu.
Adding Hexagonal context menu rendering in the screen space using geometry distance method.<br>
I prototyped it at the shadertoy. ( https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MsfSDj )
And built in the actually engine.
need to work for outlines and background color variation.
Using geometric distance method in the screen space could be a good choice for me in the lack of art support.
* Engine
* Added hexagonal context menu rendering
* Fixed file change monitor
* Game
* added hexagonal context menu
* Added construction arrow and face marker for indicating selected face.
* Vertical speed control
* New method for building a modular ship.
* (Dropped the feature attaching stock modules to the command module)
* (Stock module is just conceptional. not visual.)
**Cleaned module / ship creation codes.
**Module types are changed. Engine is dropped. Residence and combat modules are added.
* +1070, -282
#### 2014-07-02 voxelizer
The first voxelized model. 256*256*256 voxel space.
* Reference for voxelizing technique : Andreas Kolb, Lars John. Volumetric Model Repair for Virtual Reality Applications, EUROGRAPHICS 2001
* Rendering is too slow. drawing 994,800 vertices, 27,714 draw calls at framerate '4'. T.T
* bottleneck candidates
* vertex buffers are all unique. need to share.
* use indices
* consider instance rendering
* do not calc combined world-view-proj matrix on the cpu
* do not map constants buffers to update data dynamically. not sure.
* combine to one geom?
* need robust lod system for rendering thousands of voxel models.
* create a dedicated render object for voxel models. Currently it is using ten-thousands of normal mesh objects.
* profile culling speed.
#### 2014-07-04
* bottleneck candidates
* vertex buffers are all unique. need to share. -> doesn't help much.
* use indices -> doesn't help much because almost all vertices are unique, doesn't save the transferring size of vertex buffer.
* consider instance rendering
* do not calc combined world-view-proj matrix on the cpu -> doesn't help much. this is unexpected.
* do not map constants buffers to update data dynamically. not sure.
* combine to one geom?
* need robust lod system for rendering thousands of voxel models.
* create a dedicated render object for voxel models. Currently it is using ten-thousands of normal mesh objects.
* profile culling speed.
* Every object with a different material has to be drawn in a separate drawcall. Each drawcall adds some overhead / slowdown to the engine. At any given point of view in the level, there should never be more than 2000 drawcalls. - from crytek man page.
* current draw call is 20,000. each draw call comsumes 40 microseconds. 40 microseconds * 20,000 = 800 milliseconds. crazy.
* instancing.... or merge..... if I merge the voxels into one mesh, it may be hard to show destruction effect like voxels aparting from its hull.
* need to research other voxel based games.
#### 2014-07-05
merged voxels for the framerate.
* Merging could be the best solution for moving voxels in a group.
* If I use instancing, I have to calculate every world matrix for every voxels that could cause serious performance penalty.
* attaching and detaching a voxel from the merged mesh is a problem in this method.
* picking also a problem. if the voxels have no movement, it might ok but moving massive voxels... terrible.
* may need to divide a parts group. octree.... sub group. then number of draw calls could increase but might acceptable.
* before making a decision, decrease the voxel space from 256*256*256 to 128*128*128.
#### 2014-07-06 Movie
GPU Accelerated Voxelizer.
#### 2014-07-08 work log
* Engine
* added feature to support sub meshes(material groups)
* fixed keyboard input bug which was propergated for all input handlers
* Re-structured object classes. Now vertex buffer, index buffer, materials
* should manually declared in the inherited classes.
* Dust and far-sizde Star rendering.
* Game
* Controlling Initiator
* Added a database for ships.
#### 2014-07-09 work log
* Rendering modules using geometry shader.
* Mouse capturing while camera is rotating.
* Camera offsetting in third person mode.(while the right mouse button down)
* Added mouse move mode while both mouse button down.
* Name changed. compound ship -> modular ship
* Added console variables.
* Added a feature loading initial modular ships from xml.
* Add some columns into module cms and part cms.
* +1072, -426
A modular ship rendered with geometry shader.
Star and dust are rendered.
#### 2914-07-13 Edge rendering
* Rendering with tangent space
* Created NormalMap, SpecularMap, AO map for modules.
* Module edge rendering and glow.
* +836, -266
#### 2014-07-14 Picking & Detachable modules
* Ray-AABB collision
* Picking
* Boundary rendering.
* Detaching modules.
* Flock simulation for detached modules
* Added Module Holding UI
* Highlighitng ImageBox UI
* +1925, -243
#### 2014-07-15 Ataching Module & Mesh Group
* Attaching modules
* Help Mesh Renderer
* Added MeshGroup class.
* Tweaked flock simulation for modules.
* Added shortcut keys for HoldingModuleUI
* fixed imagebox highlight bug.
* parsing scene information and building MeshGroup.
* +961, -222
#### 2014-07-16 Physically-based rendering
* Physically based rendering.
* Cook-Torrance microfacet specular shading model.
* Reflections from environment map needs to be cared more.
* fixed bugs on mesh group feature.
* Handling missing materials.
* Changing camera target by user inputs. (ctrl+click)
* function to merge sphere bounding volumes.
* Adding hammersley point set
* +1171, -181
The weapon is rendered with the physically-based shading model. Reflection needs to be tweaked more.
Model is created by SONGKRO at blendswap.com
#### 2014-07-17 SkySphere
* Rendering SkySphere
* using Cylindrical projection explained http://paulbourke.net/geometry/transformationprojection/
* but artifacts stretching v direction is found, let's try other method.
* Fixed reflection bug. - reflect() function implementation was wrong.
* +348, -29
#### 2014-07-20 Procedural space environment and PBR
* Procedural space environment rendering
* changed pbr method from spec+gross to metallic+roughness.
* +350 -84
changed pbr from specular+gross to metallic+roughness which is mainly supported by Substance Painter.
New mesh. Environment is too dark or too bright. Currently it is a perfect mirror.
Since the environment map is procedurally generated, need to generate again in the object space when it rendered. This might be ok if there are not many overdraws and I can generate burrry environment map in the same pass.
May be I need to capture the procedural images and create a paranomic texture.
* contributors
* not stated contributors already commented in the previous dev log.
* Procedural space environment: 'Star Nest' originally developed by Pablo Roman Andrioli. You can find the original cool space screen effects at https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dfGDM
* space ship by speedypro at blendswap.com
#### 2014-07-21 Cube Map test
* Bug on cube environment mapping is very annoying.
 |
| incorrect cube mapping |
 |
| fixed. |
* I solved this problem by changing the order of faces to ( x, -x, z, -z, y, -y) and negative reflect.yz.
* references
* http://www.3dcpptutorials.sk/index.php?id=24
* Cubic Environment Mapping in the d3d document(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb204881%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)
* http://www.opengl.org/registry/doc/glspec21.20061201.pdf 3.86
#### 2014-07-21 enemy squad
* Engine
* cube environment mapping
* calculate environment distribution
* cache for MeshObject and MeshGroup
* clone mesh group.
* Game
* Waves Manager.
* fixed picking bug
* adding flock simul for enemy squad.
* +1749, -249
#### 2014-07-22 Movement AI for enemy ships.
* Movement AI for Enemy ships.
* Added MessageDispatcher
* all interaction between units will use message system. This might be a good choice for update whole units in serveral threads every frame.
* Added SpatialGameObject class handling transformations and bounding volumes.
* +965, - 184
#### 2014-07-23 Flock Simulation
* Flock simulation for enemy ships
 |
| Enemy squad attacking the modular ship. |
 |
| Debug mode for flock simulation |
* Engine
* added circular buffer
* adding particle system
* fixed line debug draw bugs.
* Game
* Added SpatialGameObject. now all spatial objects inherited from it.
* Tweaked flock simulation for enemy squad(FlockDebug console command added)
* removed ModuleManager. ModularShip(unit) absorbed the functions.
* name chnaged. Initiator -> CommandModule
* +2275, -1688
#### 2014-07-26 particle system
* added ParticleSystem
* added AABB Bounding Volume for particle emitters
* +1610, -545
#### 2014-07-27 Weapon System
* fixed Particle Renderer bugs.
* Adding weapon system
* +757, -174
#### 2014-07-28 Weapons free.
'''Engine'''
* Convert to VS 2013.
* Define transformations in dae file.(like weapon positions)
* Stop function for particle emitters
* Adding Laser Renderer
 |
| defining hot spots. |
'''Game'''
* Added ammo manager.
* change name 'UnitClient' -> 'ModelClient' for generalization.
* Attach weapon managers to ships.
* Added the spatial object hierarchy structure.
* added ParticleMap database.
* Missile, Bullet inherited from ammo. Laser will be handled seperately.
* Bullet collisions.
* +1566, -254
#### 2014-07-29 2014 July released!
https://github.com/fastbird/fastbirdEngine/releases/tag/v0.1-2014-July
#### 2014-07-29 Visible Weapon attaching / rendering.
'''Engine'''
* fixed schedular bug. (never finish a task in release mode)
* fixed infinite wait problem on schedular
* fixed mesh group transformation bug.
* Cleaning for release. (2014-July)
'''Game'''
* Adding Yaw-Pitch tracking weapons
* Added Engine App example.
* Visible weapons attaching / rendering.
* +1049, -406
#### 2014-07-30 Yaw-Pitch-seperated weapons.
* Added yaw_pitch-seperated weapon type - _PART_YAW, _PART_PITCH is the key string.
* Iterating camera targets - [, ] : for friendly, comma(,) and period(.) : for enemy
* Improved flock simulation for fighters.
* +835, -238
#### 2014-07-31 Hexagonal Context Menu.
Adding Hexagonal context menu rendering in the screen space using geometry distance method.<br>
I prototyped it at the shadertoy. ( https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MsfSDj )
 |
| The result of prototyping hexagonal context menu rendering. |
And built in the actually engine.
 |
| Hexagonal context menu in the engine. |
need to work for outlines and background color variation.
Using geometric distance method in the screen space could be a good choice for me in the lack of art support.
* Engine
* Added hexagonal context menu rendering
* Fixed file change monitor
* Game
* added hexagonal context menu
* Added construction arrow and face marker for indicating selected face.
* Vertical speed control
* New method for building a modular ship.
* (Dropped the feature attaching stock modules to the command module)
* (Stock module is just conceptional. not visual.)
**Cleaned module / ship creation codes.
**Module types are changed. Engine is dropped. Residence and combat modules are added.
* +1070, -282
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