sparks v0.0.49

SPARKS

(experimental) WebGL 2D/3D Rendering for Games.

TO-DO

• Face culling
• Preserving original z-axis orientation (lesser is far)
• Change alpha to opacity
• Alpha blending
• Review transforms
• Cached uniform locations
• Source organization
• Re-think texture/atlas workflow
• CameraOrtho and CameraPerspective
• Tint
• Z-Sorting with perspective
• Use the CPU to project viewModels
• Mouse interaction
• Camera settings ortho/perspective
• Remove interaction from clipped objects
• Save only one buffer for each model
• Sort objects by type
• Object enable/disable
• Clear redundant calls
• Shader improvements
• Look-at
• Text rendering
• Render loop optimizations
• Better text handling
• Spheres
• Deal with texture mapping for cubes, spheres, etc
• Rework the material/texture setup
• Solve sphere face culling
• Rework mesh and buffers system
• Sphere frame texture
• Testing z for interaction
• Delegate triangle hit test to meshes
• Wireframes
• Texture repeat
• Texture transparency
• Texture frame rotation
• Fill gaps between textures
• Look-at for objects
• Draw call reduction
• Screen/world point conversion
• Point hit test to all meshes
• Color conversion, RGB, RGBA
• Handle lost context
• Label enhancements
• Vertex methods (access, modify)

BUGS

• Textures that spends 1 frame to appear
• Billboard ignoring parent/child transforms
• Some labels presenting clipped text
• Very poor performance on Safari

NICE TO HAVE

• Raycast (or tools for make one, at least)
• Light
• Material/shaders
• Particles

TO THINK ABOUT

• Remove mouse events from the engine. REMOVED!
• Sacrifice camera as an Object3D to reduce the render loop.
• Delete Loader and Resources, or write a better version of them.