-Add new variations: bubbleT3D, crob, hexaplay3D, hexcrop, hexes, hexnix3D, loonie2, loonie3, nBlur, octapol and synth.
-Allow for pre/post versions of dc_bubble, dc_cylinder and dc_linear whereas before they were omitted.
-When saving a file with multiple embers in it, detect if time values are all the same and if so, start them at zero and increment by 1 for each ember.
-Allow for numerous quality increases to be coalesced into one. It will pick up at the end of the current render.
-Show selection highlight on variations tree in response to mouse hover. This makes it easier to see for which variation or param the current mouse wheel action will apply.
-Make default temporal samples be 100, whereas before it was 1000 which was overkill.
-Require the shift key to be held with delete for deleting an ember to prevent it from triggering when the user enters delete in the edit box.
-This wasn't otherwise fixable without writing a lot more code.
--Bug fixes
-EmberGenome was crashing when generating a sequence from a source file with more than 2 embers in it.
-EmberGenome was improperly handling the first frame of a merge after the last frame of the loop.
-These bugs were due to a previous commit. Revert parts of that commit.
-Prevent a zoom value of less than 0 when reading from xml.
-Slight optimization of the crescents, and mask variations, if the compiler wasn't doing it already.
-Unique file naming was broken because it was looking for _# and the default names ended with -#.
-Disallow renaming of an ember in the library tree to an empty string.
-Severe bug that prevented some variations from being read correctly from params generated outside this program.
-Severe OpenCL randomization bug. The first x coordinates of the first points in the first kernel call of the first ember of a render since the OpenCL renderer object was created were not random and were mostly -1.
-Severe bug when populating xform selection distributions that could sometimes cause a crash due to roundoff error. Fix by using double.
-Limit the max number of variations in a random ember to MAX_CL_VARS, which is 8. This ensures they'll look the same on CPU and GPU.
-Prevent user from saving stylesheet to default.qss, it's a special reserved filename.
--Code changes
-Generalize using the running sum output point inside of a variation for all cases: pre, reg and post.
-Allow for array variables in variations where the address of each element is stored in m_Params.
-Qualify all math functions with std::
-No longer use our own Clamp() in OpenCL, instead use the standard clamp().
-Redesign how functions are used in the variations OpenCL code.
-Add tests to EmberTester to verify some of the new functionality.
-Place more const and override qualifiers on functions where appropriate.
-Add a global rand with a lock to be used very sparingly.
-Use a map instead of a vector for bad param names in Xml parsing.
-Prefix affine interpolation mode defines with "AFFINE_" to make their purpose more clear.
-Allow for variations that change state during iteration by sending a separate copy of the ember to each rendering thread.
-Implement this same functionality with a local struct in OpenCL. It's members are the total of all variables that need to change state within an ember.
-Add Contains() function to Utils.h.
-EmberRender: print names of kernels being printed with --dump_kernel option.
-Clean up EmberTester to handle some of the recent changes.
-Fix various casts.
-Replace % 2 with & 1, even though the compiler was likely doing this already.
-Add new file Variations06.h to accommodate new variations.
-General cleanup.
-Add a new dialog for editing QSS stylesheets. Allow for saving, reloading and setting styles as default.
--Include a dark style with the installation called dark.qss.
--Also add support for themes such as Fusion.
--Resize some controls to better fit with the new style.
-Add an option to specify the number of random embers generated on startup. 1 is the minimum and the default.
--Bug fixes
-Properly enable/disable thread priority label in final render dialog in response to enable/disable of the OpenCL checkbox.
-Remove all inline stylesheets.
-Show xaos spinners with 6 decimal places.
--Code changes
-Remove redundant comparisons to nullptr, use ! instead;
-Give some controls valid names instead of the auto generated ones.
-DoubleSpinBoxTableItemDelegate.h: Add virtual keyword to overridden functions.
--User changes
Thread image writing in EmberAnimate and when doing animation sequence in final render dialog.
Add total time output for verbose mode in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
--Bug Fixes
Fix incorrect parsing of legacy "symmetry" xform Xml element.
Fix incorrect iters ran/requested percentage in EmberAnimate to match EmberRender.
Fix motion blur being disabled when doing animations in final render dialog.
Allow for boolean command line options which default to true to be set to false.
--Code Changes
Add resource files for Ember and EmberCL.
Capture work since the last release in VersionHistory.txt.
--Adjust xaos cells when any group modification is made, such as random, clear, or row/col change.
--Remove some old style sheet code on the xforms tab that doesn't seem to make sense and was probably just a workaround for a transient Qt bug, of which there are hundreds.
-Add support for multiple GPU devices.
--These options are present in the command line and in Fractorium.
-Change scheme of specifying devices from platform,device to just total device index.
--Single number on the command line.
--Change from combo boxes for device selection to a table of all devices in Fractorium.
-Temporal samples defaults to 100 instead of 1000 which was needless overkill.
--Bug fixes
-EmberAnimate, EmberRender, FractoriumSettings, FinalRenderDialog: Fix wrong order of arguments to Clamp() when assigning thread priority.
-VariationsDC.h: Fix NVidia OpenCL compilation error in DCTriangleVariation.
-FractoriumXformsColor.cpp: Checking for null pixmap pointer is not enough, must also check if the underlying buffer is null via call to QPixmap::isNull().
--Code changes
-Ember.h: Add case for FLAME_MOTION_NONE and default in ApplyFlameMotion().
-EmberMotion.h: Call base constructor.
-EmberPch.h: #pragma once only on Windows.
-EmberToXml.h:
--Handle different types of exceptions.
--Add default cases to ToString().
-Isaac.h: Remove unused variable in constructor.
-Point.h: Call base constructor in Color().
-Renderer.h/cpp:
--Add bool to Alloc() to only allocate memory for the histogram. Needed for multi-GPU.
--Make CoordMap() return a const ref, not a pointer.
-SheepTools.h:
--Use 64-bit types like the rest of the code already does.
--Fix some comment misspellings.
-Timing.h: Make BeginTime(), EndTime(), ElapsedTime() and Format() be const functions.
-Utils.h:
--Add new functions Equal() and Split().
--Handle more exception types in ReadFile().
--Get rid of most legacy blending of C and C++ argument parsing.
-XmlToEmber.h:
--Get rid of most legacy blending of C and C++ code from flam3.
--Remove some unused variables.
-EmberAnimate:
--Support multi-GPU processing that alternates full frames between devices.
--Use OpenCLInfo instead of OpenCLWrapper for --openclinfo option.
--Remove bucketT template parameter, and hard code float in its place.
--If a render fails, exit since there is no point in continuing an animation with a missing frame.
--Pass variables to threaded save better, which most likely fixes a very subtle bug that existed before.
--Remove some unused variables.
-EmberGenome, EmberRender:
--Support multi-GPU processing that alternates full frames between devices.
--Use OpenCLInfo instead of OpenCLWrapper for --openclinfo option.
--Remove bucketT template parameter, and hard code float in its place.
-EmberRender:
--Support multi-GPU processing that alternates full frames between devices.
--Use OpenCLInfo instead of OpenCLWrapper for --openclinfo option.
--Remove bucketT template parameter, and hard code float in its place.
--Only print values when not rendering with OpenCL, since they're always 0 in that case.
-EmberCLPch.h:
--#pragma once only on Windows.
--#include <atomic>.
-IterOpenCLKernelCreator.h: Add new kernel for summing two histograms. This is needed for multi-GPU.
-OpenCLWrapper.h:
--Move all OpenCL info related code into its own class OpenCLInfo.
--Add members to cache the values of global memory size and max allocation size.
-RendererCL.h/cpp:
--Redesign to accomodate multi-GPU.
--Constructor now takes a vector of devices.
--Remove DumpErrorReport() function, it's handled in the base.
--ClearBuffer(), ReadPoints(), WritePoints(), ReadHist() and WriteHist() now optionally take a device index as a parameter.
--MakeDmap() override and m_DmapCL member removed because it no longer applies since the histogram is always float since the last commit.
--Add new function SumDeviceHist() to sum histograms from two devices by first copying to a temporary on the host, then a temporary on the device, then summing.
--m_Calls member removed, as it's now per-device.
--OpenCLWrapper removed.
--m_Seeds member is now a vector of vector of seeds, to accomodate a separate and different array of seeds for each device.
--Added member m_Devices, a vector of unique_ptr of RendererCLDevice.
-EmberCommon.h
--Added Devices() function to convert from a vector of device indices to a vector of platform,device indices.
--Changed CreateRenderer() to accept a vector of devices to create a single RendererCL which will split work across multiple devices.
--Added CreateRenderers() function to accept a vector of devices to create multiple RendererCL, each which will render on a single device.
--Add more comments to some existing functions.
-EmberCommonPch.h: #pragma once only on Windows.
-EmberOptions.h:
--Remove --platform option, it's just sequential device number now with the --device option.
--Make --out be OPT_USE_RENDER instead of OPT_RENDER_ANIM since it's an error condition when animating. It makes no sense to write all frames to a single image.
--Add Devices() function to parse comma separated --device option string and return a vector of device indices.
--Make int and uint types be 64-bit, so intmax_t and size_t.
--Make better use of macros.
-JpegUtils.h: Make string parameters to WriteJpeg() and WritePng() be const ref.
-All project files: Turn off buffer security check option in Visual Studio (/Gs-)
-deployment.pri: Remove the line OTHER_FILES +=, it's pointless and was causing problems.
-Ember.pro, EmberCL.pro: Add CONFIG += plugin, otherwise it wouldn't link.
-EmberCL.pro: Add new files for multi-GPU support.
-build_all.sh: use -j4 and QMAKE=${QMAKE:/usr/bin/qmake}
-shared_settings.pri:
-Add version string.
-Remove old DESTDIR definitions.
-Add the following lines or else nothing would build:
CONFIG(release, debug|release) {
CONFIG += warn_off
DESTDIR = ../../../Bin/release
}
CONFIG(debug, debug|release) {
DESTDIR = ../../../Bin/debug
}
QMAKE_POST_LINK += $$quote(cp --update ../../../Data/flam3-palettes.xml $${DESTDIR}$$escape_expand(\n\t))
LIBS += -L/usr/lib -lpthread
-AboutDialog.ui: Another futile attempt to make it look correct on Linux.
-FinalRenderDialog.h/cpp:
--Add support for multi-GPU.
--Change from combo boxes for device selection to a table of all devices.
--Ensure device selection makes sense.
--Remove "FinalRender" prefix of various function names, it's implied given the context.
-FinalRenderEmberController.h/cpp:
--Add support for multi-GPU.
--Change m_FinishedImageCount to be atomic.
--Move CancelRender() from the base to FinalRenderEmberController<T>.
--Refactor RenderComplete() to omit any progress related functionality or image saving since it can be potentially ran in a thread.
--Consolidate setting various renderer fields into SyncGuiToRenderer().
-Fractorium.cpp: Allow for resizing of the options dialog to show the entire device table.
-FractoriumCommon.h: Add various functions to handle a table showing the available OpenCL devices on the system.
-FractoriumEmberController.h/cpp: Remove m_FinalImageIndex, it's no longer needed.
-FractoriumRender.cpp: Scale the interactive sub batch count and quality by the number of devices used.
-FractoriumSettings.h/cpp:
--Temporal samples defaults to 100 instead of 1000 which was needless overkill.
--Add multi-GPU support, remove old device,platform pair.
-FractoriumToolbar.cpp: Disable OpenCL toolbar button if there are no devices present on the system.
-FractoriumOptionsDialog.h/cpp:
--Add support for multi-GPU.
--Consolidate more assignments in DataToGui().
--Enable/disable CPU/OpenCL items in response to OpenCL checkbox event.
-Misc: Convert almost everything to size_t for unsigned, intmax_t for signed.
-Add Simon Detheridge's name to the About Box.
--Bug fixes
-Fix bug in OpenCL atomic string, which is never used.
-Wrong hist and accum allocation size in RendererCL when using float-only buffers now.
-Move some kernel initialization to a place where it's done once per render, rather than on every interactive iter chunk.
--Code changes
-Make ConvertCarToRas() just assign to the member rather than return a struct.
-Make kernel string accessor functions in IterOpenCLKernelCreator, FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator and DEOpenCLKernelCreator be const and return a const string reference.
-Don't include atomic string unless locking on the GPU, which is never.
-Remove Hue as a saved parameter, as well as animation parameters associated with it. It's now a GUI-only field that is never saved.
-Make histogram, density filter buffer, and all associated fields always float, even when using double. In that case, only the iteration calculations are now double. Suggested by Thomas Ludwig.
-Print all three kernels in EmberRender when the --dump_kernel option is specified.
-Apply variations filter to randoms.
--Bug fixes
-Fix bug where hue was not being preserved when switching controllers and embers. Very hard to repro bug, but mostly overcome by eliminating hue as a saved parameter.
--Code changes
-De-templatized DEOpenCLKernelCreator and FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator. They now just take a bool as a parameter to specify double precision.
-To accommodate the buffers being float, introduce a new #define types in EmberCL called real4_bucket, and real4reals_bucket.
-Density and spatial filtering structs now use this type.
-ConvertDensityFilter() and ConvertSpatialFilter() no longer return a value, they just assign to the member.
