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You may alternatively use this source under the terms of a specific version of the OGRE Unrestricted License provided you have obtained such a license from Torus Knot Software Ltd. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef __Technique_H__ #define __Technique_H__ #include "OgrePrerequisites.h" #include "OgreIteratorWrappers.h" #include "OgreBlendMode.h" #include "OgreCommon.h" #include "OgrePass.h" namespace Ogre { /** Class representing an approach to rendering this particular Material. @remarks Ogre will attempt to use the best technique supported by the active hardware, unless you specifically request a lower detail technique (say for distant rendering). */ class _OgreExport Technique { protected: // illumination pass state type enum IlluminationPassesState { IPS_COMPILE_DISABLED = -1, IPS_NOT_COMPILED = 0, IPS_COMPILED = 1 }; typedef std::vector Passes; /// List of primary passes Passes mPasses; /// List of derived passes, categorised into IlluminationStage (ordered) IlluminationPassList mIlluminationPasses; Material* mParent; // raw pointer since we don't want child to stop parent's destruction bool mIsSupported; IlluminationPassesState mIlluminationPassesCompilationPhase; /// LOD level unsigned short mLodIndex; /** Scheme index, derived from scheme name but the names are held on MaterialManager, for speed an index is used here. */ unsigned short mSchemeIndex; String mName; // optional name for the technique /// Internal method for clearing illumination pass list void clearIlluminationPasses(void); public: /// Constructor Technique(Material* parent); /// Copy constructor Technique(Material* parent, const Technique& oth); ~Technique(); /** Indicates if this technique is supported by the current graphics card. @remarks This will only be correct after the Technique has been compiled, which is usually done from Material::compile. */ bool isSupported(void) const; /** Internal compilation method; see Material::compile. @returns Any information explaining problems with the compile. */ String _compile(bool autoManageTextureUnits); /** Internal method for splitting the passes into illumination passes. */ void _compileIlluminationPasses(void); /** Creates a new Pass for this Technique. @remarks A Pass is a single rendering pass, ie a single draw of the given material. Note that if you create a pass without a fragment program, during compilation of the material the pass may be split into multiple passes if the graphics card cannot handle the number of texture units requested. For passes with fragment programs, however, the number of passes you create will never be altered, so you have to make sure that you create an alternative fallback Technique for if a card does not have enough facilities for what you're asking for. */ Pass* createPass(void); /** Retrieves the Pass with the given index. */ Pass* getPass(unsigned short index); /** Retrieves the Pass matching name. Returns 0 if name match is not found. */ Pass* getPass(const String& name); /** Retrieves the number of passes. */ unsigned short getNumPasses(void) const; /** Removes the Pass with the given index. */ void removePass(unsigned short index); /** Removes all Passes from this Technique. */ void removeAllPasses(void); /** Move a pass from source index to destination index. If successful then returns true. */ bool movePass(const unsigned short sourceIndex, const unsigned short destinationIndex); typedef VectorIterator PassIterator; /** Gets an iterator over the passes in this Technique. */ const PassIterator getPassIterator(void); typedef VectorIterator IlluminationPassIterator; /** Gets an iterator over the illumination-stage categorised passes. */ const IlluminationPassIterator getIlluminationPassIterator(void); /// Gets the parent Material Material* getParent(void) const { return mParent; } /** Overloaded operator to copy on Technique to another. */ Technique& operator=(const Technique& rhs); /// Gets the resource group of the ultimate parent Material const String& getResourceGroup(void) const; /** Returns true if this Technique involves transparency. @remarks This basically boils down to whether the first pass has a scene blending factor. Even if the other passes do not, the base colour, including parts of the original scene, may be used for blending, therefore we have to treat the whole Technique as transparent. */ bool isTransparent(void) const; /** Internal load method, derived from call to Material::load. */ void _load(void); /** Internal unload method, derived from call to Material::unload. */ void _unload(void); // Is this loaded? bool isLoaded(void) const; /** Tells the technique that it needs recompilation. */ void _notifyNeedsRecompile(void); // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- // The following methods are to make migration from previous versions simpler // and to make code easier to write when dealing with simple materials // They set the properties which have been moved to Pass for all Techniques and all Passes /** Sets the point size properties for every Pass in this Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setPointSize */ void setPointSize(Real ps); /** Sets the ambient colour reflectance properties for every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setAmbient */ void setAmbient(Real red, Real green, Real blue); /** Sets the ambient colour reflectance properties for every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setAmbient */ void setAmbient(const ColourValue& ambient); /** Sets the diffuse colour reflectance properties of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setDiffuse */ void setDiffuse(Real red, Real green, Real blue, Real alpha); /** Sets the diffuse colour reflectance properties of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setDiffuse */ void setDiffuse(const ColourValue& diffuse); /** Sets the specular colour reflectance properties of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setSpecular */ void setSpecular(Real red, Real green, Real blue, Real alpha); /** Sets the specular colour reflectance properties of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setSpecular */ void setSpecular(const ColourValue& specular); /** Sets the shininess properties of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setShininess */ void setShininess(Real val); /** Sets the amount of self-illumination of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setSelfIllumination */ void setSelfIllumination(Real red, Real green, Real blue); /** Sets the amount of self-illumination of every Pass in every Technique. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setSelfIllumination */ void setSelfIllumination(const ColourValue& selfIllum); /** Sets whether or not each Pass renders with depth-buffer checking on or not. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setDepthCheckEnabled */ void setDepthCheckEnabled(bool enabled); /** Sets whether or not each Pass renders with depth-buffer writing on or not. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setDepthWriteEnabled */ void setDepthWriteEnabled(bool enabled); /** Sets the function used to compare depth values when depth checking is on. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setDepthFunction */ void setDepthFunction( CompareFunction func ); /** Sets whether or not colour buffer writing is enabled for each Pass. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setColourWriteEnabled */ void setColourWriteEnabled(bool enabled); /** Sets the culling mode for each pass based on the 'vertex winding'. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setCullingMode */ void setCullingMode( CullingMode mode ); /** Sets the manual culling mode, performed by CPU rather than hardware. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setManualCullingMode */ void setManualCullingMode( ManualCullingMode mode ); /** Sets whether or not dynamic lighting is enabled for every Pass. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setLightingEnabled */ void setLightingEnabled(bool enabled); /** Sets the type of light shading required @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setShadingMode */ void setShadingMode( ShadeOptions mode ); /** Sets the fogging mode applied to each pass. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setFog */ void setFog( bool overrideScene, FogMode mode = FOG_NONE, const ColourValue& colour = ColourValue::White, Real expDensity = 0.001, Real linearStart = 0.0, Real linearEnd = 1.0 ); /** Sets the depth bias to be used for each Pass. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setDepthBias */ void setDepthBias(float constantBias, float slopeScaleBias); /** Set texture filtering for every texture unit in every Pass @note This property actually exists on the TextureUnitState class For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current TeextureUnitState, If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass and TextureUnitState instances and set the property there. @see TextureUnitState::setTextureFiltering */ void setTextureFiltering(TextureFilterOptions filterType); /** Sets the anisotropy level to be used for all textures. @note This property has been moved to the TextureUnitState class, which is accessible via the Technique and Pass. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current TeextureUnitState, If you need more precision, retrieve the Technique, Pass and TextureUnitState instances and set the property there. @see TextureUnitState::setTextureAnisotropy */ void setTextureAnisotropy(unsigned int maxAniso); /** Sets the kind of blending every pass has with the existing contents of the scene. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setSceneBlending */ void setSceneBlending( const SceneBlendType sbt ); /** Allows very fine control of blending every Pass with the existing contents of the scene. @note This property actually exists on the Pass class. For simplicity, this method allows you to set these properties for every current Pass within this Technique. If you need more precision, retrieve the Pass instance and set the property there. @see Pass::setSceneBlending */ void setSceneBlending( const SceneBlendFactor sourceFactor, const SceneBlendFactor destFactor); /** Assigns a level-of-detail (LOD) index to this Technique. @remarks As noted previously, as well as providing fallback support for various graphics cards, multiple Technique objects can also be used to implement material LOD, where the detail of the material diminishes with distance to save rendering power. @par By default, all Techniques have a LOD index of 0, which means they are the highest level of detail. Increasing LOD indexes are lower levels of detail. You can assign more than one Technique to the same LOD index, meaning that the best Technique that is supported at that LOD index is used. @par You should not leave gaps in the LOD sequence; Ogre will allow you to do this and will continue to function as if the LODs were sequential, but it will confuse matters. */ void setLodIndex(unsigned short index); /** Gets the level-of-detail index assigned to this Technique. */ unsigned short getLodIndex(void) const { return mLodIndex; } /** Set the 'scheme name' for this technique. @remarks Material schemes are used to control top-level switching from one set of techniques to another. For example, you might use this to define 'high', 'medium' and 'low' complexity levels on materials to allow a user to pick a performance / quality ratio. Another possibility is that you have a fully HDR-enabled pipeline for top machines, rendering all objects using unclamped shaders, and a simpler pipeline for others; this can be implemented using schemes. @par Every technique belongs to a scheme - if you don't specify one, the Technique belongs to the scheme called 'Default', which is also the scheme used to render by default. The active scheme is set one of two ways - either by calling Viewport::setMaterialScheme, or by manually calling MaterialManager::setActiveScheme. */ void setSchemeName(const String& schemeName); /** Returns the scheme to which this technique is assigned. @see Technique::setSchemeName */ const String& getSchemeName(void) const; /// Internal method for getting the scheme index unsigned short _getSchemeIndex(void) const; /** Is depth writing going to occur on this technique? */ bool isDepthWriteEnabled(void) const; /** Is depth checking going to occur on this technique? */ bool isDepthCheckEnabled(void) const; /** Exists colour writing disabled pass on this technique? */ bool hasColourWriteDisabled(void) const; /** Set the name of the technique. @remarks The use of technique name is optional. Its usefull in material scripts where a material could inherit from another material and only want to modify a particalar technique. */ void setName(const String& name); /// Gets the name of the technique const String& getName(void) const { return mName; } /** Applies texture names to Texture Unit State with matching texture name aliases. All passes, and Texture Unit States within the technique are checked. If matching texture aliases are found then true is returned. @param aliasList is a map container of texture alias, texture name pairs @param apply set true to apply the texture aliases else just test to see if texture alias matches are found. @return True if matching texture aliases were found in the Technique. */ bool applyTextureAliases(const AliasTextureNamePairList& aliasList, const bool apply = true) const; }; } #endif