-Add new preset dimensions to the right click menu of the width and height fields in the editor.
-Change QSS stylesheets to properly handle tabs.
-Make tabs rectangular by default. For some reason, they had always been triangular.
--Bug fixes
-Incremental rendering times in the editor were wrong.
--Code changes
-Migrate to Qt6. There is probably more work to be done here.
-Migrate to VS2022.
-Migrate to Wix 4 installer.
-Change installer to install to program files for all users.
-Fix many VS2022 code analysis warnings.
-No longer use byte typedef, because std::byte is now a type. Revert all back to unsigned char.
-Upgrade OpenCL headers to version 3.0 and keep locally now rather than trying to look for system files.
-No longer link to Nvidia or AMD specific OpenCL libraries. Use the generic installer located at OCL_ROOT too.
-Add the ability to change OpenCL grid dimensions. This was attempted for investigating possible performance improvments, but made no difference.
This has not been verified on Linux or Mac yet.
-Allow for saving EXR as full 31-bit float per component per pixel.
-Allow for saving the output from the final render dialog as a different image format without starting the rendering process over.
--Code changes:
-Make StripsRender() handle memsetting the final output image so calling code no longer has to.
-Make FinalRenderEmberController<T>::SaveCurrentRender() return the path that the image was actually saved to.
--Add support for Exr files which use 32-bit floats for each RGBA channel. Seems to come out too washed out.
--Allow for clearing an individual color curve.
--Allow for saving multiple image types in EmberRender and EmberAnimate. All writes are threaded.
--Remove --bpc command line argument. Add format png16 as a replacement.
--Remove --enable_jpg_comments and --enable_png_comments command line arguments, and replace them with --enable_comments which applies to jpg, png and exr.
--Add menu items to variations and affine spinners which allow for easy entry of specific numeric values like pi.
--Make final render dialog be wider rather than so tall.
Bug fixes:
--Fix some OpenCL compile errors on Mac.
--Remove ability to save bitmap files on all platforms but Windows.
Code changes:
--New dependency on OpenEXR.
--Allow Curves class to interact with objects of a different template type.
--Make m_Curves member of Ember always use float as template type.
--Set the length of the curves array to always be 2^17 which should offer enough precision with new 32-bit float pixel types.
--Set pixel types to always be 32-bit float. This results in a major reduction of code in the final accumulation part of Renderer.h/cpp.
--Remove corresponding code from RendererCL and FinalAccumOpenCLKernelCreator.
--Remove Transparency, NumChannels and BytesPerPixel setters from Renderer.h/cpp.
--Add new global functions to format final image buffers and place all alpha calculation and scaling code in them.
--Blending is no longer needed in OpenGLWidget because of the new pixel type.
--Make new class, AffineDoubleSpinBox.
--Attempt to make file save dialog code work the same on all OSes.
--Remove some unused functions.
--User changes
-Add many tooltips to help clarify functionality.
-Select multiple flames in library for del/move. Still only one allowed to be set as the current.
-Show checkbox for current flame. Remember this is not necessarily what's selected.
-User can now drag a square to select xforms, which keeps in sync with checkboxes.
-Remove --nframes from command line. Replace with new params: --loopframes, --interpframes, --interploops.
-Add two new options to EmberGenome: --cwloops --cwinterploops to specify whether rotation should go clockwise instead of the default counter clockwise.
-Add these to Fractorium as checkboxes.
-Apply All now also works for toggling animate flag on xforms.
-Options dialog now allows user to set whether double click toggles spinners, or right click does.
--Bug fixes
-Selecting final and non-final xforms, and then dragging the non-final did not drag the final with it.
-Selecting all xforms when a final was present, then deleting crashed the program.
-Remove support for ppm files in the command line programs, it's an outdated format.
-Switching between SP and DP kept reapplying the palette adjustments.
--Code changes
-Move build system to Visual Studio 2015 and Qt 5.6.
-SSE used during addition of points to the histogram.
-Remove last remnants of old flam3 C code and replace with C++.
-Remove unused code involving tbb::task_group.
-Make settings object a global shared_ptr singleton, so it doesn't have to be passed around.
-Really fix locking of affine scale.
--Code changes
-Remove dependency projects from the solution. Move to a project design where they are built once via command line and stored in a /Deps folder.
--Because of this, libpng is built as a static lib instead of a dll because that's what its command line makefile supports.
--Remove libpng16.dll from Wix installer.
-Remove all configs except for debug and release.
-Remove all platforms except for x64.
-Add #define __TBB_NO_IMPLICIT_LINKAGE 1 to prevent tbb from locking for tbb_debug.lib by default on debug builds.
-Put Ember.rc in a filter folder in the project.
-Place pragma warning disable statements in PCH files rather than in projects. This makes it easier when using Qt Creator.
-Move all resource files to the MSVC folder.
-Set all targets in QtCreator project to their lowercase names to be more *nix friendly. Set -l link statements to use these new lowercase names for ember and embercl.
-Rework projects to favor shadow builds.
-Remove the symlinks.sh file and all references to it. It was never needed. Instead, just specify multiple include and link paths in the .pro files.
-Change WIN32 to _WIN32.
-Fix a few code warnings.
-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.
Make xaos display a matrix rather than a single column. This will be moved out into its own tab since it's no longer xform dependent, but that will be in a future commit.
Remove xaos from/to button since it's no longer applicable.
Add test function to Isaac to return just one random byte. Might be used in the future.
