* Useful to hide window frames in the distance field to work around over-occlusion
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: daniel.wright
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 19416394 via CL 19416400
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v928-19376421)
[CL 19417073 by daniel wright in ue5-main branch]
#rb michael.galetzka
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: stu.mckenna
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 19311513 via CL 19313582 via CL 19315919 via CL 19315942
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v926-19321884)
[CL 19347739 by stu mckenna in ue5-main branch]
* Added r.MeshCardRepresentation.Debug for surface cache debugging. It skips DDC reads and writes, allows to regenerate per static mesh on demand and appends extra debug visualization data to every generated mapping
* Surfels are now weighted by opacity - ratio of rays which hit in a given cell, and by visibility - how many rays can hit a given Surfel from outside the mesh. This helps to select most important surfaces to cover when hitting limits
* Removed distance constraint. It�s no longer needed when card discontinuities are already handled inside the surface cache sampling code. This allows to generate larger and more optimal cards
* Limit max number of surfels to prevent generation time from exploding, as dense two sided meshes like large trees can generate many more surfels than simple walls
[FYI] Daniel.Wright
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: krzysztof.narkowicz
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 19304117 via CL 19304128
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v926-19321884)
[CL 19346860 by krzysztof narkowicz in ue5-main branch]
These both trim detail from the Nanite data that is stored to disk and can be used to optimize disk size after import. Should be a super useful tool late in production.
#rb rune.stubbe
#lockdown michal.valient
#preflight 61fb25e6033a864b77e11ed6
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: brian.karis
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18838594 in //UE5/Release-5.0/... via CL 18838602 via CL 18838937
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Test -> Main) (v910-18824042)
[CL 18838962 by brian karis in ue5-main branch]
Changed fallback settings to be largely error based with new property FallbackRelativeError.
Nanite builder will now provide the LOD fallbacks for all autogenerated LOD levels which is far faster than generating them from scratch.
#rb graham.wihlidal
#preflight 61f9e1fe9e4d23cd93b8d556
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: brian.karis
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18820056 in //UE5/Release-5.0/... via CL 18820070 via CL 18822916
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Test -> Main) (v910-18824042)
[CL 18825066 by brian karis in ue5-main branch]
* First mesh is voxelized by tracing rays in every voxel
* Then voxel faces are clustered in parallel to build continuos cards. Clustering follows voxel distance, card ratio, density and other metrics
* Finally a specificied number of cards is selected per mesh (user parameter). This allows to tradeoff between coverage and runtime overhead
Other:
* Added surface cache coverage view mode for debugging coverage issues - r.Lumen.Visualize.Mode 6
* Fixed r.LumenScene.SurfaceCache.CardMinResolution to be able to go below 2
#preflight 61d478acdb0309127dfaf8ec
#rb Daniel.Wright
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: krzysztof.narkowicz
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18519098 in //UE5/Release-5.0/... via CL 18519102
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-Engine-Staging -> Release-Engine-Test) (v899-18417669)
[CL 18519115 by krzysztof narkowicz in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
#rb sebastien.nordgren
#preflight 61af8895ee6e47a827e8ca45
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: jason.stasik
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18397192 via CL 18402589 via CL 18402955 via CL 18402999 via CL 18434850 via CL 18437275
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-Engine-Staging -> Release-Engine-Test) (v897-18405271)
[CL 18437332 by jason stasik in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
Added UI for changing minimum residency
Decoupled imposter data allocation from root page allocation
Removed convoluted logic around a page's dependencies including itself for legacy reasons
Made streaming of imposter data optional (r.Nanite.Streaming.Imposters)
#rb andrew.lauritzen, ola.olsson
#preflight 6163f8f8eaa06c0001e409ee
#lockdown michal.valient
#ROBOMERGE-OWNER: jon.nabozny
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: rune.stubbe
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 17770690 via CL 17986013 via CL 18368123 via CL 18368152
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-Engine-Staging -> Release-Engine-Test) (v895-18170469)
[CL 18368223 by jon nabozny in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
This represents UE4/Main @18073326, Release-5.0 @18081140 and Dev-PerfTest @18045971
[CL 18081471 by aurel cordonnier in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
This represents UE4/Main @17911760, Release-5.0 @17915875 and Dev-PerfTest @17914035
[CL 17918595 by aurel cordonnier in ue5-release-engine-test branch]
The scheme solves issues where meshes would no longer align properly after converting them to Nanite. It also solves the precision issues in clusters with triangles of non-uniform size.
By default the precision is heuristically selected by Nanite, but the user also has the ability to override with an explicit precision to solve issues or optimize for disk size.
Clusters store the coordinate components using the minimal number of bits required to span the range of values in the cluster.
Apart from fixing issues, the default quality seems no worse than before and is typically ~5-10% smaller than before.
Added Position Precision to the top left of Mesh viewer along with the other mesh stats.
Added Position Precision dropdown to Nanite import settings.
Added debug mode "r.nanite.visualize PositionBits" that shows the vertex position bit sizes for clusters.
New quantization code now updates float positions and cluster bounds to reflect the quantized coordinates.
#rb brian.karis, graham.wihlidal
#JIRA UE-102722
#preflight 607d56774df3b60001ef477c
[CL 16049335 by Rune Stubbe in ue5-main branch]
