#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
#rb none
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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 3244756 on 2017/01/03 by Marcus.Wassmer
Copying //Tasks/UE4/Dev-Niagara@3244743 to Dev-Rendering (//UE4/Dev-Rendering)
Change 3248667 on 2017/01/05 by Olaf.Piesche
Resaving default asset because of engine verison issue; maybe unnecessary, but resaving niagara engine content to be sure
#jira UE-40160
Change 3249324 on 2017/01/06 by Marcus.Wassmer
Resave with an actual version to stop cook warning
Change 3249611 on 2017/01/06 by Marcus.Wassmer
Just remove warning-causing niagara data for now.
Change 3308052 on 2017/02/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Check for Vulkan SDK, and only use it if it's newer or the same as the headers we distribute
Change 3308109 on 2017/02/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Upgrade glslang to 1.0.39.1
Change 3308111 on 2017/02/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Update Vulkan distribution to 1.0.39.1
Change 3308153 on 2017/02/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Updated glslang libs
Change 3308842 on 2017/02/17 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fixed copy/paste
Change 3310007 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
Back out CL 3221219 - causing MIC generation issues and superseded by CL 3273971.
#jira UE-37792
Change 3310154 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
Assert when attempting to add a custom material attribute already in the base attributes list.
Change 3310155 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
PR #3231: Validate material index before accessing (Contributed by projectgheist)
#jira UE-41774, UE-41788
Change 3310162 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
PR #3252: Added MobileMaterialInterface to UsedMaterials (Contributed by projectgheist)
#jira UE-41823, UE-41950
Change 3310176 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
Merging CL 3233886: AMD HDR support (requires r.AMDSupportsHDRDisplayOutput=1 in ini).
Update to AGS 5.0.5.
Partial code tidy up.
Change 3310187 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
Preserve constant expressions rather than always casting after translating a material attribute. Losing the notion of constant means we can't correctly detect used properties and falsely enable e.g. PDO. Happened because of the incorrect component masks in BreakMaterialNodes which then had to be downcast to the correct type which is done as an inline fragment rather than swizzle expression.
#jira UE-41594
Change 3310215 on 2017/02/17 by Chris.Bunner
Prevent SpeedTree node compiling for skeletal meshes (not supported as uses more UV sets than available).
More descriptive error for missing Cubemap UV input on TextureSample material node .
#jira UE-33098
Change 3310838 on 2017/02/18 by Joe.Graf
Moved some private functions to public for a licensee
#CodeReview: matt.kuhlenschmidt
#rb: n/a
Change 3311876 on 2017/02/20 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Expose skin cache cvar r.SkinCache.AccumulationBufferSizeInKB
#jira UE-42014
Change 3314139 on 2017/02/21 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Minor cleanup pass
- Remove FVulkanPendingState
- Renamed some classes for clarity
- Hoist pending UAVs for flush out to pending compute state
Change 3314642 on 2017/02/21 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Some more renaming
Change 3315431 on 2017/02/21 by Ben.Salem
Properly set default values for test time out and tick. We now will default to ticking once per second, and tracking the macro stats of GPU/Render/Game thread time.
#tests Ran showdown demo several times
Change 3316710 on 2017/02/22 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - hlslcc - Fix refract intrinsic
Change 3316718 on 2017/02/22 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - hlslcc - Built libs to pick up change from 3316710 - refract fix
Change 3316820 on 2017/02/22 by Benjamin.Hyder
updating Tm-TrigNodes map
Change 3317192 on 2017/02/22 by Benjamin.Hyder
Updating QA-Decals map
Change 3317528 on 2017/02/22 by Benjamin.Hyder
Updating QA-Decals map
Change 3317639 on 2017/02/22 by Benjamin.Hyder
Updating Decal on Complex Mesh example in QA-Decals
Change 3317764 on 2017/02/22 by Benjamin.Hyder
Final updates to QA-Decals
Change 3318319 on 2017/02/22 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - minor reorg/rename
Change 3318379 on 2017/02/22 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - more cleanup
Change 3321181 on 2017/02/24 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix GL bug
Change 3321247 on 2017/02/24 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix misc bugs
Change 3321898 on 2017/02/24 by Chris.Bunner
Only issue clear TLV dispatch if required.
#jira UERNDR-193
Change 3321904 on 2017/02/24 by Chris.Bunner
Added comment for potential future optimization.
Change 3322013 on 2017/02/24 by Uriel.Doyon
Fixed separate translucency being affected by Gaussian DOF
#jira UE-40489
Change 3322517 on 2017/02/24 by Uriel.Doyon
Fixed issue with InvestigateTexture command removing budget limit.
Fixed StreamingBounds show flag not working. It nows shows the streaming bound for the currently selected textures.
#jira UE-40485
Change 3323470 on 2017/02/27 by Chad.Garyet
Removing DDC job from dev-rendering
Change 3323479 on 2017/02/27 by Chad.Garyet
Removing RDU agent type
Change 3323519 on 2017/02/27 by Chad.Garyet
removing NCL/LHR/SEA agent types to clean up space
Change 3323639 on 2017/02/27 by Benjamin.Hyder
More updates to QA-Decals
Change 3324207 on 2017/02/27 by Uriel.Doyon
Fixed typo ScaleTexturesByGlobalMyBias -> ScaleTexturesByGlobalMipBias
Removed bad merge in FStreamingTextureLevelContext::GetBuildDataIndexRef
Change 3324396 on 2017/02/27 by Uriel.Doyon
Fixed an issue with the Streaming Bounds show flag interferring with the static level data initialization
#jira UE-40485
Change 3325227 on 2017/02/28 by Chris.Bunner
Fix-up AMD AGS libs.
Change 3325566 on 2017/02/28 by Uriel.Doyon
Fixed possible out-of-bound access in GetUsedTexture() when passing ERHIFeatureLevel::Num
Change 3326009 on 2017/02/28 by Uriel.Doyon
Better fix for 3325566, as the previous fix would ignore the material instance overrides.
Change 3327058 on 2017/03/01 by Benjamin.Hyder
Preparing TM_Shadermodels map for automation
Change 3328222 on 2017/03/01 by Chris.Bunner
Prevent decals from drawing in separate translucency pass. Whilst user control and material relevance were already removed, if the flag was checked before being disabled (by swapping to decal domain) this was still being read in the render loop, now explicitly ignores decals.
#jira UE-42449, UE-42446
Change 3329848 on 2017/03/02 by Uriel.Doyon
Added some extra logs to help track UE-42168
Change 3329977 on 2017/03/02 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix bad clear value
Change 3330008 on 2017/03/02 by Benjamin.Hyder
More preparations for QA-Decals automation
Change 3330754 on 2017/03/02 by Daniel.Wright
Prominent comment explaining reflection env async compute usage and why it's not overlapped with anything
Change 3331451 on 2017/03/03 by Marc.Olano
Manually unroll simplex noise loop to avoid PSO bug on AMD/Metal
Change 3331839 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - hlslcc - add missing file to project
Change 3332247 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix for integrated intel
PR #3305
#jira UE-42393
Change 3332259 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix bad index into pixel formats
PR #3237
#jira UE-41855
Change 3332305 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - OpenGL SRV for index buffers
PR #3271
#jira UE-32618
Change 3332313 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix for integrated intel (properly)
PR #3305
#jira UE-42393
Change 3332317 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - OpenGL SRV for index buffers (properly)
PR #3271
#jira UE-32618
Change 3332368 on 2017/03/03 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Minor fixes so -sm4 and -sm5 can be used on windows with OpenGL/Vulkan
Change 3333690 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Changing movable skylight properties no longer affects static draw lists
Change 3333693 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Added 'r.AOListMeshDistanceFields' which dumps out mesh distance fields sorted by memory size, useful for directing content optimizations
Change 3333705 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Mesh distance fields are now 8 bit fixed point by default, but can be changed back to 16 bit floating piont with a project setting.
* 8 bit uses half memory but introduces error for thin surfaces or large meshes.
Change 3333721 on 2017/03/06 by David.Hill
DecalProxy:
Copy float FadeScreenSize to FDeferredDecalProxy for use in the render thread. This avoids pointer chasing to the UDecalComponent (game thread component).
Change 3333772 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Scene motion blur data is only updated for the main renderer frames. Fixes scene captures and planar reflections breaking object motion blur.
Change 3333790 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Mesh distance field generation uses Embree, for a 2.5x speedup
* Can switch back to old kDOP generation with 'r.DistanceFieldBuild.UseEmbree 0' for debugging
Change 3333822 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Moved mesh distance field code into MeshDistanceFieldUtilities.cpp
* Moved FMeshUtilities to its own header so the 8k line MeshUtilites.cpp file can be further split up
Change 3333827 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Range compress 8bit distance fields - gets one extra bit of precision on average
Change 3333828 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Raised High ShadowQuality to 2048 as 1024 for CSM is way too low
Change 3333831 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
Non-editor compile fix
Change 3333836 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Workaround for gobal distance field volume textures being bloated by 4x on PS4 due to the recommended tiling modes. They now use a 2d tiling mode which avoids the bloat, saving 96Mb.
Change 3333843 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Added OcclusionExponent to skylight component
* Useful for brightening up indoors without losing contact shadows as MinOcclusion does
Change 3333845 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Capsule shadow BP functions
Change 3333850 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Added OcclusionCombineMode to skylight component
Change 3333854 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Gnm properly registers clears as GPU work so those events show up in profilegpu
Change 3333857 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Clear light attenuation for local lights with a quad covering their screen extents
* Clearing the entire light attenuation buffer costs .1ms on PS4. This optimization lowers the minimum cost of a shadow casting light from .15ms -> .03ms.
* Shadowed lights in Fortnite with 25 lights 3.7ms -> 1.42ms on PS4
Change 3333860 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Flush deferred deletes when reallocating distance field atlas to reduce peak memory
Change 3333861 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Disable all distance field features on Intel cards as HD 4000 hangs in the RHICreateTexture3D call to allocate the large atlas
Change 3333869 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Volumetric Fog using a volume texture mapped to the camera frustum
* Volumetric fog can be enabled on an Exponential Height Fog component with additional controls
* Lights have a VolumetricScatteringIntensity
* New cvars r.VolumetricFog, r.VolumetricFog.GridPixelSize, r.VolumetricFog.GridSizeZ, r.VolumetricFog.DepthDistributionScale
* Lighting features supported:
* Directional light with CSM and a light function
* Point / spot lights without shadows / light functions / IES profiles
* Skylight with occlusion from distance fields
* Analytical height fog covers the view range past where the volumetric fog ends
* Temporal reprojection is used on the volumetric fog scattering and extinction to achieve stability
* Translucency integrates properly into volumetric fog
* Height fog StartDistance is not supported by volumetric fog and should be set to 0.
Change 3333894 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Initialize GDummyVolumetricFogGlobalDataUniformBuffer outside of parallel rendering
Change 3333902 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Better handling of volumetric fog enabled with distance of 0
Change 3333903 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Fixed volumetric fog trying to render light functions for a point light
Change 3333908 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Volumetric materials
* Added new material domain Volume, which can output Scattering, Absorption and Emissive. All properties are in world space densities.
* Particle systems using the Volume domain are voxelized based on their ParticlePosition and ParticleRadius
* Volumetric fog integration is now energy conservative - scattering is integrated against transmission over the depth of each slice.
* Added bOverrideLightColorsWithFogInscatteringColors to exponential height fog, which can be enabled to make Volumetric Fog match Height fog more closely
Change 3334134 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy from Michael Trepka] Added Embree 2.14.0 and changed MeshUtilities to use it as this solves issues with Embree leaking TLS keys. UnrealLightmass is still using older Embree 2.7.0 until we can find time to properly test it with the new version. Also, invalidated distance field DDC to force it to rebuild with updated Embree.
Change 3334420 on 2017/03/06 by Daniel.Wright
Fixed RTDF shadows
Change 3335467 on 2017/03/07 by Benjamin.Hyder
Initial submission of QA-Decals map to EngineTest
Change 3335556 on 2017/03/07 by Daniel.Wright
Changed mesh distance field default format back to R16f
Change 3338020 on 2017/03/08 by Daniel.Wright
Disable volumetric fog in vertex shaders for feature levels which don't support it
Change 3339394 on 2017/03/09 by Chris.Bunner
Correctly handle material texture translation error edge case.
#jira UE-42579, UE-42670
Change 3339992 on 2017/03/09 by Daniel.Wright
Only compile volumetric fog shaders on supporting platforms
Change 3341858 on 2017/03/10 by Arne.Schober
Copying //UE4/Dev-Rendering-PSO to Dev-Rendering (//UE4/Dev-Rendering)
#RB Rolando.Caloca, Marcus.Wassmer, Daniel.Wright, Nick.Penwarden, Mark.Satterthwaite
Change 3342004 on 2017/03/10 by Arne.Schober
Copying //UE4/Dev-Rendering-PSO to Dev-Rendering (//UE4/Dev-Rendering)
Fix unity build
#RB Marcus.Wassmer
Change 3343307 on 2017/03/13 by Marcus.Wassmer
Update showflags when we are guaranteed it will happen in all possible ways to spawn the scenecapture. (drag into editor, PIE, -game, etc)
Change 3343732 on 2017/03/13 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Vulkan compute pipeline & refactor
Change 3344846 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Android compile fixes
Change 3344883 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Add missing stencil load/store to PSO initializer
Change 3344985 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Made load/store actions uint8
Change 3345141 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Rework render pass hash
Change 3345304 on 2017/03/14 by Benjamin.Hyder
Updating TM-Distancefields map to include TemplateFloor mesh
Change 3345387 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Add _RenderThread calls for Create*Shader so RHIs can choose not to stall when creating
Change 3345388 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Do not stall when creating shaders on Vulkan
Change 3345722 on 2017/03/14 by Chris.Bunner
PR #3357: MinimalAPI add to many material expressions (Contributed by DeanoC)
#jira UE-42752
Change 3345723 on 2017/03/14 by Chris.Bunner
Reduce log verbosity causing spamming during landscape editing.
#jira UE-42714
Change 3345725 on 2017/03/14 by Chris.Bunner
[Duplicate 3341860] Fixed material translation error with multiple connections from custom interpolator nodes.
Change 3345726 on 2017/03/14 by Chris.Bunner
Typo fixes.
Change 3345732 on 2017/03/14 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Decouple vertex declaration off BSS
Change 3345746 on 2017/03/14 by Chris.Bunner
Added sign() intrinsic material graph node and delisted material function workaround.
Change 3346042 on 2017/03/14 by Chris.Bunner
Implement missing size query interface for FRenderTargetResources.
#jira UE-41672
Change 3346387 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Added VolumetricScatteringIntensity to particle lights
Change 3346389 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Clamp Volumetric material attributes to fp16 range to avoid INFs
Disable volumetric fog when the fog show flag is disabled
Change 3346392 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Fixed skylight being much too bright on volumetric fog
Change 3346406 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] CSM resolution is now controlled by r.Shadow.MaxCSMResolution.
* Changed HighPC to use 1024 MaxShadowResolution (max for all non-CSM shadows), saves 60Mb in Fortnite
Change 3346412 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] TexCreate_ReduceMemoryWithTilingMode for translucency lighting 3d textures, saves 13Mb
Change 3346414 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] TexCreate_ReduceMemoryWithTilingMode for volumetric fog 3d textures, saves 13Mb
Change 3346415 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Missing file from cl 3338451
Change 3346421 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Fixed NaNs in volumetric fog due to rendering when height fog is disabled
* Volumetric fog converts NaNs to black now so they don't spread
Change 3346422 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Fixed NaN in volumetric fog with low density values
Change 3346423 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Changed default VolumetricFogScatteringDistribution to .2
Change 3346430 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] New translucent material option to compute fog per pixel instead of the default per vertex
Change 3346432 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Moved Volumetric Fog parameters to view uniform buffer for translucency pass
Fixed lifetimes of temporary Volumetric Fog render targets
Change 3346526 on 2017/03/14 by Daniel.Wright
[Copy] Volumetric Fog supports point and spot light shadows
* These lights are injected separately so that per-light resources can be bound (shadow depth map, static shadow depth map)
* Forward lighting of local lights can be forced with 'r.VolumetricFog.InjectShadowedLightsSeparately 0'
* Shadowed lights come at a cost: 2.9ms for volumetric fog on 970 -> 4.2ms with shadowing
Change 3347053 on 2017/03/15 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - android compile fix
Change 3347384 on 2017/03/15 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix merge issue
Change 3347643 on 2017/03/15 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix some bugs with the 'disable stationary skylight ffor the project' feature.
Fixes lighting in Persona on Paragon.
Change 3347979 on 2017/03/15 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Allow to automatically apply cached rendertargets to PSO initializer
Change 3348024 on 2017/03/15 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Remove NullPS on Vulkan to avoid deadlock
Change 3348303 on 2017/03/15 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix for debugging SCW with material SRT
Change 3348357 on 2017/03/15 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix stencildither and a stencilref bug that was probably breaking decals sometimes.
Change 3348549 on 2017/03/15 by Marcus.Wassmer
Hopefully fix static analysis for potential nullptr access.
Change 3348614 on 2017/03/15 by Marcus.Wassmer
Duplicate some switch changes to fix crash on launch.
Change 3349369 on 2017/03/16 by Gil.Gribb
Fixed botched merge
Change 3349947 on 2017/03/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix for mismatched primitive type
Change 3349956 on 2017/03/16 by Benjamin.Hyder
initial updates to TM-DistanceFields map
Change 3350151 on 2017/03/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix UT compile issue
Change 3350155 on 2017/03/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Catch mismatched primitive type on PSOs on D3D11
Change 3350192 on 2017/03/16 by Daniel.Wright
Fix for point light shadow depths rendering with wrong cull mode due to PSO refactor
Change 3350736 on 2017/03/16 by Daniel.Wright
Fixed formatting from merge
Change 3350881 on 2017/03/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix texture arrays as UAVs on Metal
Change 3350927 on 2017/03/16 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Fix warning
Change 3350935 on 2017/03/16 by Daniel.Wright
Fix for materials with non-Surface domains being skipped in mesh passes
Change 3351583 on 2017/03/17 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix clang platforms
Change 3351917 on 2017/03/17 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix linux compile
Change 3351973 on 2017/03/17 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix mismatched rendertargetformat
Change 3352038 on 2017/03/17 by Daniel.Wright
Enabled GetAndOrCreateGraphicsPipelineState ensures in Development for testing
Change 3352110 on 2017/03/17 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix missing RT PSO apply
Change 3352695 on 2017/03/17 by Arne.Schober
DR - Remove PSO Rendertarget check in DX12 Resolve with Shader.
#RB Rolando.Caloca
Change 3352960 on 2017/03/17 by Arne.Schober
DR - Fix some things that slipped trough the PSO merge
#RB none
Change 3353150 on 2017/03/18 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - compile fix
Change 3353205 on 2017/03/18 by Arne.Schober
DR - Fix Incremental Compile and PS4 runtime error where CMASK is not allowed for ThickTile Mode
#RB none
Change 3353207 on 2017/03/18 by Arne.Schober
DR - Fix Confusion
#RB none
Change 3355183 on 2017/03/20 by Nick.Bullard
Fixed up Content orginzation for Decals automation tests in EngineTest
Change 3355627 on 2017/03/20 by Arne.Schober
DR - [UE-43094] - removed ensure in comporiton graph as control of the clear color cannot be gurantueed.
Change 3356342 on 2017/03/21 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix clang errors
Change 3356591 on 2017/03/21 by Arne.Schober
DR - Fix ensure message
#RB none
Change 3356873 on 2017/03/21 by Arne.Schober
DR - Fix comparission of undefined values in RendertargetApply Check
Change 3357261 on 2017/03/21 by Marcus.Wassmer
Fix LinuxEditor compile
Change 3357294 on 2017/03/21 by Marcus.Wassmer
Add missing SSE functions
Change 3357351 on 2017/03/21 by Frank.Fella
Fix win32 and linux compiler errors
Change 3357370 on 2017/03/21 by Arne.Schober
DR - disable ensure in test builds
#RB Marcus.Wassmer
[CL 3357449 by Marcus Wassmer in Main branch]
#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
#rb none
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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 3209340 on 2016/11/23 by Ben.Marsh
Convert UE4 codebase to an "include what you use" model - where every header just includes the dependencies it needs, rather than every source file including large monolithic headers like Engine.h and UnrealEd.h.
Measured full rebuild times around 2x faster using XGE on Windows, and improvements of 25% or more for incremental builds and full rebuilds on most other platforms.
* Every header now includes everything it needs to compile.
* There's a CoreMinimal.h header that gets you a set of ubiquitous types from Core (eg. FString, FName, TArray, FVector, etc...). Most headers now include this first.
* There's a CoreTypes.h header that sets up primitive UE4 types and build macros (int32, PLATFORM_WIN64, etc...). All headers in Core include this first, as does CoreMinimal.h.
* Every .cpp file includes its matching .h file first.
* This helps validate that each header is including everything it needs to compile.
* No engine code includes a monolithic header such as Engine.h or UnrealEd.h any more.
* You will get a warning if you try to include one of these from the engine. They still exist for compatibility with game projects and do not produce warnings when included there.
* There have only been minor changes to our internal games down to accommodate these changes. The intent is for this to be as seamless as possible.
* No engine code explicitly includes a precompiled header any more.
* We still use PCHs, but they're force-included on the compiler command line by UnrealBuildTool instead. This lets us tune what they contain without breaking any existing include dependencies.
* PCHs are generated by a tool to get a statistical amount of coverage for the source files using it, and I've seeded the new shared PCHs to contain any header included by > 15% of source files.
Tool used to generate this transform is at Engine\Source\Programs\IncludeTool.
[CL 3209342 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
#lockdown nick.penwarden
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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 2932679 on 2016/04/04 by Martin.Mittring
remove hack/cvar that is not longer needed as we fixed the bug
#rb:Bob.Tellez
#code_review:Bob.Tellez
Change 2932681 on 2016/04/04 by Martin.Mittring
fixed cvars in consolevariables.ini can affect engine even if marked with cheat (no longer load consolevariables.ini in shipping and test), unified 3 code path, added testcase, cvars with cheat in ini file other than consolevariables.ini now trigger ensure, =on/off/true/false/.. works in all ini files,
added enure if non scalability setting are used in ScalabilityIni (get now ignored)
#rb:David.Hill
#code_review:Marcus.Wassmer, Michael.Noland
Change 2932719 on 2016/04/04 by Marcus.Wassmer
Merge 3 band SH back to DevRendering
#rb Daniel.Wright
Change 2932760 on 2016/04/04 by Zabir.Hoque
Migrating high resolution cubemaps for skylight and reflection probes.
#rb: Daniel.Wright
Change 2933121 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Fix free blocks not getting joined
- Fix compile issue
Change 2933122 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Do not shorten dumped shaders path
Change 2933126 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Index Buffers using new resource management
Change 2933127 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Extract multibuffer off index buffer
Change 2933131 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Transition to vb's using mutlibuffer
Change 2933136 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Change staging buffers to use resource allocation system
- Fix free block not getting joined
- Remove define
Change 2933140 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - 'static' textures now use resource mgmt
- Release free pages back to the OS
- Remove ensure
Change 2933152 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Fix aliasing granularity
- Fix renderpass end/copy buffer ensure
Change 2933155 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - SCW - Fix for -directcompile to directly load file for preprocessor
Change 2933158 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - hlslcc - Error on Metal if trying to R & W on RWTextures
- Fix indices on RW reads to be unsigned
#codereview Mark.Satterthwaite, Michael.Trepka
Change 2933169 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Move header to public to match changes on DevMobile
Change 2933173 on 2016/04/05 by David.Hill
Deferred decal rendering with negative scale
#rb:Matrin.Mittring
#jira:UE-27389
Change 2933273 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Fix renderdoc markers
Change 2933274 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Support for -AttachDebugger
Change 2933316 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - vk - Compile fix whene enabling define
Change 2933334 on 2016/04/05 by Rolando.Caloca
DR - Compile fix
#codereview Martin.Mittring
Change 2933805 on 2016/04/05 by Brian.Karis
Temporal AA dynamic antighosting.
Fixed DOF
Change 2933811 on 2016/04/05 by Brian.Karis
Fixed area light NaNs. Improvements to area lights. Horizen handling for wrap around.
Change 2933812 on 2016/04/05 by Brian.Karis
Fixed fresnel on SSS skin.
Change 2933813 on 2016/04/05 by Brian.Karis
Tessellation fix
Change 2933816 on 2016/04/05 by Brian.Karis
Improved forward shading support
[CL 2943241 by Gil Gribb in Main branch]
* New command 'r.PreCullIndexBuffers' which will process all static mesh triangles in the scene, generating culled per-instance index buffers that remove triangles completely inside another mesh (using distance fields), completely underneath the Landscape, or completely inside a PreCullVolume.
* New command 'r.TogglePreCulledIndexBuffers' to toggle the use of the culled index buffers. This is useful for inspecting triangle savings at runtime along with 'stat rhi'
* Instanced index buffer memory is reported by 'stat memorystaticmesh'
* Requires the Renderer Project setting 'GenerateMeshDistanceFields' to be enabled locally, and only works on PC D3D11
* Results are not saved or outdated correctly on static mesh reimport / edit
[CL 2709950 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
* Added r.AOHistoryDistanceThreshold with default to 20, can be tweaked to avoid ghosting behind characters while not causing too much flickering
* Distance fields are now culled to each surface cache record before ray tracing for AO, saves a bit of GPU time
[CL 2496263 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
* Disabled by default, need a movable skylight with r.DistanceFieldGI enabled at load time (ConsoleVariables.ini)
* Surfels (oriented disks) are placed on mesh surfaces and capture diffuse color by evaluating the material with actual UVs and world position
* Surfels are lit and shadowed by ray tracing through mesh distance fields (directional light only so far)
* Irradiance cache records are lit with nearby Virtual Point Lights created from lit surfels. Only using camera based LOD of the surfel representation and object based surfel culling, no hierarchy yet.
* Shadowing of the VPLs is provided by distance field cone tracing. A depth visibility function is constructed along each of the 9 cone trace directions, and used to shadow the incoming VPL lighting.
* Component reregistration and transform updating causes surfels to be generated again which can be slow. In the future only the material needs to be re-evaluated.
* Geometry shaders with stream out are now supported, by implementing FShader::GetStreamOutElements
* Compute shaders can now evaluate materal attributes like BaseColor
* SkyLight MaxOcclusionDistance increased to 10m, which is the minimum useful amount for GI
[CL 2424208 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
Marcus Wassmer
Ben Marsh
Gil Gribb
Matthew Griffin
Daniel Wright
Mike Fricker