* Moved dllexport from type to methods/staticvar in all Engine runtime code. This improves compile times, memory and performance in dll builds
[CL 26082269 by henrik karlsson in ue5-main branch]
- If there is some material that do not find a match, those materials will stay in the imported order. The import will output a log message saying the material names do not match.
- If there is less material in the hires mesh description, the import will create empty section in the hires mesh to ensure the order of the materials. No log message will be output in that case.
-If there is more material in the hires mesh description, the import will transfer extra material section triangle to the first valid hires material section data (i.e. this should be matching the LOD 0 first material section)
We do this reorder when we import a hires nanite mesh and also if we have already a hires mesh description and we re-import the LOD 0 base mesh. This ensure we always have the hires meshdescription materials in the same order of the LOD 0.
#jira UE-179144
#rb jeanluc.corenthin
#rnx
#preflight 6426fd09c463fac9c8833dcd
[CL 24876565 by alexis matte in ue5-main branch]
Highlights:
* Only allocate and use a wedge map for non-Nanite LODs, or if the mesh is sub 300kindices and it will be cache optimized
* Only allocate and use a remap if there are no overlapping corners
* When the Nanite landscape mesh is created, we now ensure the mesh description is fully compacted, computed, and optimized prior to committing it, along with making sure there are no overlapping corners.
* Since Nanite landscape is checked to ensure no overlapping corners before the build, we can also now skip computing the overlapping corners, which was an intense number of tiny allocations.
* When Nanite landscape is being built as a static mesh, we now avoid super expensive temporary copies of the mesh description, knowing that no actual mutation will occur.
* The original code (after building) would release the memory from the mesh description copy, but it would not release the original immutable cached copy from memory (now that is released too)
* Fixed NaniteLODIndex incorrectly creating a mesh description at a LOD other than the expected 0
* Removed a full loop over all vertex positions by calculating the bounding box while we're building the vertex buffer (and already processing every vertex)
* Added a NeedsCompact() helper to MeshDescription to avoid expensive and unnecessary Compact() calls that do lots of reallocs/copies even if the mesh description is already contiguous\packed in memory.
* Skip building distance field and mesh card representations for the Nanite landscape mesh, which also avoids more cached mesh description deserialization and copies into memory.
Note: In the near future the APIs around this wil be cleaned up further.
#rb richard.talbotwatkin, yuriy.odonnell
[FYI] zousar.shaker, brian.karis, rune.stubbe, juan.canada, danny.couture
#preflight 640b7390482188d710464d39
[CL 24601442 by graham wihlidal in ue5-main branch]
#rb Per.Larsson
#jira none
#rnx
#preflight 63c96c19c76cdd32a45a4467
- Ultimately I'd like to be able to remove FEditorBulkData::GetPayloadSize all together but there are a few places that use the byte length to make estimates about memory usage.
- To move towards this goal, this change removes a number of calls to ::GetPayloadSize which only check if the length is or isn't zero, which can be accomplished with a call to ::HasPayloadData instead.
[CL 23788105 by paul chipchase in ue5-main branch]
Change consist of only forward declaration and additional includes
#preflight 63789c1de30d438849c48188
#rb none
[CL 23218412 by henrik karlsson in ue5-main branch]
Before:
3648 unity files
Total CPU Time: 47886.140625 s
Total time in Parallel executor: 498.81 seconds
After:
3548 unity files
Total CPU Time: 46643.828125 s
Total time in Parallel executor: 486.06 seconds
#jira
#preflight
[CL 22173263 by marc audy in ue5-main branch]
Headers are updated to contain any missing #includes needed to compile and #includes are sorted. Nothing is removed.
#ushell-cherrypick of 21065896 by bryan.sefcik
#preflight 62d4b1a5a6141b6adfb0c892
#jira
#ROBOMERGE-OWNER: Bryan.sefcik
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: bryan.sefcik
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 21150156 via CL 21151754 via CL 21154719
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v972-20964824)
#ROBOMERGE-CONFLICT from-shelf
[CL 21181076 by Bryan sefcik in ue5-main branch]
#rb Per.Larsson
#rnx
#jira UE-151377
#preflight 628364050039ea57a52d6989
### Virtualization
- [Core.ContentVirtualization] in the engine ini file now supports an array called 'DisabledAsset' which can be used to name asset types that should not virtualize their payloads.
-- By default (in BaseEngine.ini) we have disabled the StaticMesh asset as we know it will crash if a payload is missing and the SoundWave asset as it still is pending testing.
- This new way to disable virtualization is data driven. The older hard coded method has not been removed but will likely be reworked in a future submit.
- Now when an editor bulkdata is adding it's payload to the package trailer builder during package save it will poll the virtualization system with a call to the new method ::IsDisabledForObject by passing in it's owner.
-- If the owner is valid and was present in the 'DisabledAsset' array then the method will return true and the EPayloadFlags::DisableVirtualization flag will be applied.
### Package Trailer
- The pre-existing functionality of enum EPayloadFilter has been moved to a new enum EPayloadStorageType as will only filter payloads based on their storage type.
- EPayloadFilter has been modified to filter payloads based on functionality although at the moment the only thing it can filter for is to return payloads that can be virtualized, it is left for future expansion.
- EPayloadFlags has been reduced to a uint16 with the remaining 2bytes being turned into a new member EPayloadFilterReason.
- This new member allows us to record the exact reason why a payload is excluded from virtualization. If it is zero then the payload can virtualize, otherwise it will contain one or more reasons as to why it is being excluded. For this reason the enum is a bitfield.
- Added overloads of ::GetPayloads and ::GetNumPayloads that take EPayloadFilter rather than a EPayloadStorageType
- Added wrappers around all AccessMode types for FLookupTableEntry.
- FPackageTrailerBuilder has been extended to take a EPayloadFilterReason so that the caller can already provide a reason why the payload cannot be virtualized.
-- As a future peace of work this will probably be changed and we will ask the caller to pass in the owner UObject pointer instead and then we will process the filtering when building the package trailer to a) keep all of the filtering code in one place b) keep the filtering consistent
### PackageSubmissionChecks
- The virtualization process in will now request the payloads that can be virtualized from the package trailer, which respects the new payload flag, rather than requesting all locally stored payloads.
### UObjects
- There is no need for the SoundWave or MeshDescription classes to opt out of virtualization on construction. This will be done when the package is saved and is now data driven rather than being hardcoded.
### DumpPackagePayloadInfo
- The command has been updated to also display the filter reasons applied to each payload
[CL 20240971 by paul chipchase in ue5-main branch]
Deprecation of FPlatformMath::IsNegative*() functions.
New FPlatformMath::IsNegativeOrNegativeZero().
Fix up of existing usage to either use < 0 or IsNegativeOrNegativeZero where appropriate.
Fixes for aliasing problems in various FMath functions, including IsNegative*().
Resubmission of CL# 19833778 with fixes for problematic Mac and Android toolchains, causing spurious errors while building PCHs.
#rb devin.doucette, charles.bloom, will.damon, chris.babcock
#jira UE-148435
#preflight 6260764d91376845adf9893f
[CL 19840896 by Steve Robb in ue5-main branch]
