v0.7.1-alpha1

What's Changed

New Features

• Github CI now tests Examples which are not added with EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL to the meta-example project
• IGeometry, IPolygonGeometry classes
• Polygon Geometry can be used with Asset Converter from day one
• CGeometryCreator making basic geometries like cubes, cones, disks, etc.
• IGeometryLoader base class (Mesh loaders are back!)
• PLY Geometry Loader
• Mitsuba Serialized Geometry Loader
• CAD Example can now do Digital Terrain Models and display isolines and heightshading on tringular and grid meshes
• Precompile your Shaders to SPIR-V using NSC (with all our STL headers) and also as a CMake command!
• Precompile Shader Permutations with different JSON generated Device Capability Traits (we also have C++ autogen utilities that let you resolve the keys to them depending on device capabilities)
• Normal and Quaternion quantization caches done with our HLSL types
• CGeometryManipulator stub, more functionality from deprecated MeshManipulator to come
• finished the AABB.hlsl shape
• added transform, union and intersect functions which can be specialized for shapes in the HLSL library

Removals

• IRenderpassIndependentPipeline
• IMesh and IMeshBuffer
• MeshPackers V1 and V2, we encourage programmable pulling from BDA now

Improvements

• made the refctd_memory_resource::allocate and deallocate virtual so they can be overriden (the STD::pmr didn't make sense here)
• created a adoption_memory_resource
• most of algorithm.hlsl also compiles as C++ Host code
• Builtin resource and PCH improvements
• LRU Cache and Doubly Linked List Container improvements for resizability etc.
• Replaced Parallel Hashmap with Greg's Template Library as the submodule
• skip duplicate validation for SPIR-V optimizer
• Updated DXC
• Boost-Wave Shader preprocessor now its own Translation Unit, can be always compiled with optimizations (so even Debug builds don't take minutes preprocessing the input to DXC)
• target SPIR-V version is now a shader preprocessor option (because of __SPIR_V_MAJOR__ and friends)
• fast_affine.hlsl for doing mathematical abominations like multiplying 3x4 matrices with 3x1 vectors as if they're padded 4x4 and 4x1
• cofactor and fast inverse HLSL utilities (useful for nice fast normal matrix calc)
• IUtilities has a create factory which can fail if it can't allocate the amount of HOST_VISIBLE memory you requested
• split MonoAssetManagerAndBuiltinResourceApplication into two classes
• alPreviousStages and allLaterStages sync utlitity functions
• emulated_vector now has length_helper specialization, and inversesqrt for emulated_float64
• constexpr findLSB variant
• 3x3 matrix from quaternion HLSL utility

Bugfixes

• DeferredFreeFunctor actually tested and works now
• AccelerationStructure::validBuildFlags infinite recursive call
• Shader compiler adopt_memory typo
• keep boost-wave compile options consistent and encapsulate/don't leak it

Full Changelog: v0.7.0-alpha1...v0.7.1-alpha1