- made public headers compilable individually
- easier access to settings section delegates
- removed module singleton accessor
- moved non-trivial definitions into cpp files
- code & documentation cleanup
#UpgradeNotes:
- instead of ISettingsModule::Get() use FModuleManager::GetModulePtr<ISettingsModule>("Settings")
- instead of using FSettingsSectionDelegates assign delegates directly through the new ISettingsSection methods
[CL 2340711 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
Now editor will tick at a decent frame rate while building shaders / caching textures.
#codereview Josh.Adams, Daniel.Wright, Matthew.Griffin
[CL 2318857 by Daniel Lamb in Main branch]
Device Services Refactoring to create the concept of a physical device.
Game launcher and device viewer UI changes to show these new concepts.
#codereview Max.Preussner, Matt.Kuhlenschmidt
[CL 2290918 by Chris Gagnon in Main branch]
Followed pattern set out by texture streaming so that each chunk of audio data resides in its own bulkdata struct. It is currently possible to split audio into chunks when SoundWaves are marked for streaming but there is no way of doing this exposed at present.
Changed the parameters of FAudioDevice::GetRuntimeFormat so that the relevant SoundWave must be passed in, to allow for different formats for individual sounds/streaming options.
USoundWave::FreeResources no longer resets the NumChannels as it is unnecessary and causes sounds to be unable to play after the OGG data is flushed when attempting to switch to OPUS.
[CL 2099012 by Matthew Griffin in Main branch]
TTP# 337136 - SETTINGS: Target Platform settings polish
TTP# 337652 - EDITOR: Limit Project supported Android icons down to 1
TTP# 337650 - EDITOR: There is only 1 icon for Apple for Project Supported Platforms
DesktopPlatform now contains a static array of FPlatformInfo. This can be used to query UE4 about its available platforms, even when they're not available as a target platform.
FPlatformInfo contains the information required by the editor (such as a localized display name and icon), as well as whether a platform is a variation ("flavor") of another, and if so, whether the flavor affects the build output (eg, Win32 or Win64), or the cook output (eg, Android_XYZ). This lets the editor build up nested menus for the "Package Project" and "Cook Project" options, rather than just showing everything as a flat list.
ReviewedBy Thomas.Sarkanen, Max.Preussner
[CL 2095796 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
* Provides mid-range stable AO for dynamic rigid meshes
* Movable sky lights are now supported, and distance field AO is used for shadowing Movable sky lighting from dynamic scenes
* Static meshes are preprocessed into signed distance field volumes at mesh build time when the r.AllowMeshDistanceFieldRepresentations project setting is enabled
* Non-uniform scaling does not work with this method (mirroring is fine), animating through world position offset also causes artifacts as the two representations diverge
* Occlusion is computed along cones to reduce over-shadowing, object distance fields are operated on directly (no hierarchy) to obtain enough resolution to prevent leaking, visibility traces are done with cone stepping to allow better parallelization, and shading is done adaptively in space and time using the surface cache.
[CL 2093556 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
User can now select target RHI's for windows under: Edit->Project Preferences->Windows->Targeted RHIs
Split up GetShaderFormats into GetAllPossibleShaderFormats and GetAllTargetedShaderFormats.
D3D11 and D3D10 remain the only two on, by default, for windows.
#ReviewedBy Nick.Penwarden
[CL 2068025 by Terence Burns in Main branch]
Up until this change, project settings caused a lot of confusion amongst users, because they were changed to the user's local INI files. The local INI files, however, would be ignored when packaging a project, which means that local setting changes would not be applied to a packaged project and cause unexpected behavior. With this change the project settings will always save to the default INI file and will therefore be included in packaged projects. We will see how this works out for everyone, and we may change this behavior to something else if we can come up with a better, more intuitive workflow for project settings.
Upgrade Notes:
- If you have changes for Project Settings in your local INI files, you may want to 'Set as Default' in the Editor and then delete the local INI
- The default INI files (i.e. DefaultEngine.ini) of your project need to be writable. If you use source control, make sure you check out the corresponding files before changing project settings
[CL 2066019 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
XP support is off by default and currently only supported for win32 builds using Visual Studio 2013
I have updated a lot of platform atomic calls to use 32 bits as 64 is not supported on windows xp.
Added extra checks in d3d11 to ensure that these cached shaders are for that platform.
Added a validity check to the TextInputMethodSystem before we try and process input.
128 bit atomics disabled for header generator. Causes issues with xp compilation. Reviewed by Steve Robb.
Texture Memory size stats changed to from bytes to kilobytes to satisfy dependency for 32 bit atomics.
Note: OpenGL is the default RHI for WindowsXP.
[CL 2057787 by Terence Burns in Main branch]
