KlayGE v4.16 Release Notes
Release Date: 2019-12-31 // over 4 years ago-
The highlighted features of KlayGE 4.16 are:
👌 Improvements in engine
- Enable to render to multiple viewports in one pass. It’s a solid step for efficient high-quality VR/AR rendering.
- A more convenient way to dynamically switch material.
- 🏗 Struct support in fxml for building more complicated effects.
- ↔ Integrate motion blur effect into deferred rendering framework.
- 👌 Support occlusion map in deferred rendering framework.
- 🆕 New skin rendering algorithm, the performance is 5x of the original one.
- 🔌 A new memory allocator increases the performane of D3D12 plugin for 5%. It can be further improved in the future.
- ➕ Add a com_ptr to improve the efficiency of referencing COM objects, and reduce the binary sizes.
- 👉 Use cppwinrt instead of WRL.
👌 Improvements in engineering
- 🏗 Most 3rd party libraries are synced from their original gir repository, and patching them before building.
- 👍 GCC9 support.
- Introduce in C++20 features.
- Introduce GSL in
- 👍 Better cross-compiling support.
Others
- 🐛 Bug fixes.
Previous changes from v4.15
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The highlighted features of KlayGE 4.15 are:
👌 Improvements in engine
- Switch to complete entity-component-system architecture.
- Separated shader stage objects.
- 🐎 Multi-threaded shader compiling to improve the loading performance.
- ↔ Integrate DoF effect into deferred rendering framework.
- 👌 Improved PBR material system.
- Predefined cbuffer to reduce rendering overhead.
- 👍 Better high-DPI handling.
👌 Improvements in engineering
- 🐎 One unified CMake project for higher building performance.
- More 3rd party libraries are managed by git.
- 🏗 Enable to use Ninja to speed up building.
- Introduce in more 3rd party libraries, such as zlib, openal-soft, etc.
- 👉 Use clang-format to re-enforce the coding standard.
- 👍 VS2019 support.
Others
- 🐛 Bug fixes.
- 👍 Better compatibility to Intel GPUs.