- Started working on PowerScaling with some initial changes
- Faking the stars by blending with the abuffer
- Changed texture filtering for planets, looks better in my opinion
Added functionality:
- New class renderablesphericalgrid is repurposed code from powerscaledsphere class.
Due to z-buffer issues used as reference grid to confirm planetary orbits are correct.
This has been a major problem as prior we had no visual reference.
Now we have a Galactic-, Celestial- and Ecliptic-coordinate grid.
To this also added separate shader: grid_vs.glsl / grid_fs.glsl
These grids have a static-rotational matrix derived from partiview (thanks to Brian)
since spice req. to-from frame to compute rotational matrix.
Time dependency:
- Added struct RuntimeData - which for now only contains openspace time and is passed to all renderables
- All renderables accept runtimeData, keep private reference and use for computation of rotational matrix
- This obviously carries corresponding changes to Scenegraph and ScenegraphNode.
Spicemanager:
- Added function that more easily provides access to rotational matrix used in spice
(used in renderableplanet for computing planetary objects spin around axis)
Ephemeris-classes:
- Now compute ephemeris from spice based on timeepoch in runtimedata
TODO: once z-buffer fixed - set ephemeris correctly as meters (not kilometers)
Renderengine:
- Advances time with the advanceTime method in RuntimeData struct
ISSUES:
- Our Y axis NOT same as SPICE or star-catalogue, all renderables rotated now 90deg, needs redefinition,
lots of debugging and major headaches before this conclusion.
- Depth buffer needs to be fixed in order to properly place planets.
- Spice kernels have finite time-range, when time stops - simulation ends - ugly fix: reset time to zero.
Possible fix: kernels de431 (part 1-2) cover huge timespan and most likely have functions to extrapolate time,
drawback is that they are 1,7 gb each.
TODO:
- Compute and draw dynamic ephemeries for each renderable. Either do full year sweep then update for each point or
create a tail of linesegments for each planet. Dont know yet how to do this, would like spicephemeris to be
sub-class of Renderable (have own render() method) - good/bad?
- added shader-side B-V (blue-visible band) index conversion to standard RGB 0-255
- distance-modulus is computed correctly (to the 9th decimal) from one of the interleaved parameters of the vbo
- the apparent magnitudes are in relation to the cameras position in space. (needs a proper overlook / calibration)
- sprite quads are scaled with the apparent magnitude in heuristic fashion (ogl coordinates have really no real relation to empirical data)
TODO:
- Look over the quad scaling which right now is scaled using the z-distance and apparent magnitude, wont work properly if we move outside of the solar system
- Determine if scale of universe is proper
- When zooming out the camera stops at #INF and gets stuck ( had no time to look into this )
- Very red stars need dimming, probably a threshold operation
- Global shader settings can now be added.
- ShaderCreator builds the shader and stores a generated shader file
with all included source.
- Small TransferFunction bugfix
- Pointing to bugfixed Ghoul
- Pointing to Ghoul with Linux file callback
- Fixed interaction distance control bug when moving to close
- Distance control with mouse wheel added
- Kameleonwrapper normalization based on histogram
- ABuffer seems to work with small issues
- Moved all OpenSpace headers to separate include directory
- Added OpenSpaceTests binary with OPENSPACE_HAVE_TESTS define
- Added CMake setting of BASE_DIR
- Added OpenSpace initial tests for SceneGraph and SceneGraphNodes
- Added OpenSpace initial tests for psc and pss
- Restructured OpenSpace so no GL functions are called in constructors
to make the classes testable
- Todo: Make the base dir possible to set through command line argument
and configuration file
- Refactored several files
- Implemented PositionInformation subclasses
- Added standard shaders in the shader directory
- Removed SceneGraphLoader, now integrated in the SceneGraph
- TODO: Further testing and improvements to the PowerScale coordinate
system
- Has support for SceneGraph loading using lua and ghoul dictionary
- SceneGraphNode can be initialized using ghoul::Dictionary
- Todo: PositionInformation classes
- Todo: TemplateFactory singleton
added OpenSpaceEngine
added ConfigurationManager
added query functions
removed GLEW-related Windows warning
added old external control classes
more restructuring
Alexander Bock