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• Enabled Vulkan on iOS
• Major improvements to OpenGL backend
• Replaced AntTweakBar UI library with dear imgui
• Added GLTF2.0 loader and PBR renderer
• Added GLTF Viewer
• Added Shadowing Component and Shadows Sample
• Added Dear Imgui demo
• Added Tutorial13 - Shadow Map
• Added Tutorial14 - Compute Shader
• Added Tutorial15 - Multiple Windows
• A lot of API updates

Full release notes

• Added cmake options to disable specific back-ends and glslang
• Improved engine support of GLES3.0 devices
• Added new module - DiligentFX, a high-level rendering framework
• Added Tutorial12 - Render Targets (credits to @dolphineye for contribution)
• Lots of API improvements, see full release notes

• Enabled MinGW build
• Enabled Vulkan on MacOS via MoltenVK
• Implemented split barriers (https://github.com/DiligentGraphics/DiligentCore/issues/43)
  • Added STATE_TRANSITION_TYPE enum and STATE_TRANSITION_TYPE TransitionType member to StateTransitionDesc structure
• Added Metal backend stub
• Samples:
  • Added rendering backend selection dialog on Win32 and Mac

• Added explicit resource state transitions
• API Changes
  • Added RESOURCE_STATE enum that defines the resource state
  • Added RESOURCE_STATE_TRANSITION_MODE enum that controls resource state transition mode
  • Added DRAW_FLAGS enum that controls state validation performed by Draw command
  • Added Flags member to DrawAttribs structure (values from DRAW_FLAGS)
  • Added IndirectAttribsBufferStateTransitionMode member to DrawAttribs and DispatchComputeAttribs structures (values from RESOURCE_STATE_TRANSITION_MODE)
  • Added StateTransitionDesc structure that describes resource state transition barrier
  • Added IDeviceContext::TransitionResourceStates(Uint32 BarrierCount, StateTransitionDesc* pResourceBarriers) method
  • Added IBuffer::SetState(), IBuffer::GetState(), ITexture::SetState(), ITexture::GetState() methods
  • Added IShaderResourceBinding::InitializeStaticResources() to explicitly initialize static resources and avoid problems in multi-threaded environments
  • Added InitStaticResources parameter to IPipelineState::CreateShaderResourceBinding() method to allow immediate initialization of static resources in a SRB
  • Removed default SRB object
  • Renamed/moved IBuffer::UpdateData() to IDeviceContext::UpdateBuffer()
  • Renamed/moved IBuffer::CopyData() to IDeviceContext::CopyBuffer()
  • Renamed/moved IBuffer::Map() to IDeviceContext::MapBuffer()
  • Renamed/moved IBuffer::Unmap() to IDeviceContext::UnmapBuffer()
    • Removed MapFlags parameter
  • Renamed/moved ITexture::UpdateData() to IDeviceContext::UpdateTexture()
  • Renamed/moved ITexture::CopyData() to IDeviceContext::CopyTexture()
  • Renamed/moved ITexture::Map() to IDeviceContext::MapTextureSubresource()
  • Renamed/moved ITexture::Unmap() to IDeviceContext::UnmapTextureSubresource()
  • Moved ITextureView::GenerateMips() to IDeviceContext::GenerateMips()
  • Added state transition mode parameters to IDeviceContext::UpdateBuffer(), IDeviceContext::UpdateTexture(), IDeviceContext::CopyBuffer(), IDeviceContext::CopyTexture(), IDeviceContext::SetVertexBuffers(), IDeviceContext::SetIndexBuffers(), IDeviceContext::ClearRenderTargets(), and IDeviceContext::ClearDepthStencil() methods
  • Replaced COMMIT_SHADER_RESOURCES_FLAGS enum with RESOURCE_STATE_TRANSITION_MODE
  • Added ITextureD3D12::GetD3D12ResourceState(), IBufferD3D12::GetD3D12ResourceState(), IBufferVk::GetAccessFlags(), and ITextureVk::GetLayout() methods
  • Added CopyTextureAttribs structure that combines all paramters of IDeviceContext::CopyTexture() method

• Enabled Vulkan backend on Linux
• API Changes
  • Implemented separate texture samplers:
    • Added UseCombinedTextureSamplers and CombinedSamplerSuffix members to ShaderCreationAttribs structure
    • When separate samplers are used (UseCombinedTextureSamplers == false), samplers are set in the same way as other shader variables via shader or SRB objects
  • Removed BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_RESET_BINDINGS flag, renamed BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_KEEP_EXISTING to BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_KEEP_EXISTING. Added BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_UPDATE_STATIC, BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_UPDATE_MUTABLE, BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_UPDATE_DYNAMIC, and BIND_SHADER_RESOURCES_UPDATE_ALL flags
• Using glslang to compile HLSL to SPIRV in Vulkan backend instead of relying on HLSL->GLSL converter

• Core

  • Added IFence interface and IDeviceContext::SignalFence() method to enable CPU-GPU synchronization
  • Added BUFFER_MODE_RAW mode allowing raw buffer views in D3D11/D3D12.
  • Moved Format member from BufferDesc to BufferViewDesc
  • Removed IsIndirect member from DrawAttrbis as setting pIndirectDrawAttribs to a non-null buffer already indicates indirect rendering

• Samples:

  • Added Tutorial 10 - Data Streaming

Implemented Vulkan backend plus multiple other updates/improvements.

• Enabled Win32 build targeting Windows 8.1 SDK
• Enabled build customization through custom build config file
• Implemented PSO compatibility: if two pipeline states share the same shader resource layout, they can use SRB
• Added Tutorial09 - Quads objects interchangeably
• Fixed the following issues:
  • Messy #include structure?
  • Move GetEngineFactoryXXXType and LoadGraphicsEngineXXX to Diligent namespace
  • Customizable build scripts
  • Win32FileSystem releated functions should use wchar_t (UTF-16)

• Enabled MacOS and iOS
• Fixed multiple issue on Android

• Removed legacy Visual Studio solution and project files
• Added API reference
• Added tutorials 1-8