History: GhadamonNotes

Welcome to the ChangeLog and porting notes for OGRE 1.9.0 "Ghadamon" - work in progress

ChangeLog

• CgProgramManager: Added support for high-level output profiles glslv/glslf/glslg and hlslv/hlslf (glslg not fully working yet)

Porting notes

• None yet

Annotated roadmap

• Android Port (Owner: Wolfmanfx)
  • Remove eclipse based android port [done]
  • CMake based build support
    • Create find Ant / NDK packages (currently Ant and the NDK must be in the global path)
    • Generate android make files for the sample browser [done]
    • Use android tool chain to compile OGRE as static lib [done]
  • Cleanup RTSS (Remove OgreStringSerialiser) [done]
  • Improve platform integration
    • Add Android log listener into OgreRoot [done]
    • Disable Filesystem- / Zip- / EmbeddedZip- Archives on android [done]
    • Resource system improvements
      • OgreAPKFileSystemArchive to handle file access inside the APK [done]
      • OgreAPKZipArchive so we can handle zip files inside the APK (APK is also compressed using zip) [done]
  • Improve EGL support
    • Create concrete subclasses of EGL-Support/Window/Context [done]
    • Handle context creation / configs inside OGRE [done]
    • Resource recreation / Handle it like DX device lost / restore
      • Add managed resource class which every resource derive from (only active on Android - handled via macros) [done]
      • Recreation of Texture, Shader, HardwareVertexBuffer [done]
      • Recreation of FBO's (not working atm)
  • ETC1 texture codec
    • PKM support [done]
    • KTX support
  • Sample browser
    • Add touch input support [done]
    • Build a APK file via CMake command line [done]
    • Add rotation support [done]
    • Fix / Enable more samples
      • Compositor not working
  • Improve CPU/ vendor detection [done]
  • Add how to build it on Linux / OSX / Win32
  • Provide pre-compiled dependencies
  • Fix our dependencies so the can compile against the android tool chain
• RTSS
  • Changed error handling of RTSS sub-render state parameter creation. Sub-render state now throws exception on errors [done]
  • Added 2 new demo samples: multiple lights and textured fog [done]
• DirectX 11 render system
  • Add tessellation shaders support. [done]
  • Add tessellation sample. [done]
  • Add dynamic linking support. [done]
• Windows Metro style application (WinRT)
  • Add support as a new platform (named WinRT). [done]
  • Create a WinRT project for the sample browser. [done]
  • Create a how to compile file. [done]
  • Get all existing samples to work with the D3D11 render system.
  • Multi monitor\device support.
• OpenGL render system
  • Add tessellation shaders support.

Talks about it

• Roadmap to 1.9 and 2.0 (forum thread)