v0.1.5 Dynamic strands physics, editor improvements.

What's Changed

• Better breaking strategy, rotation correction from bundle constraint. by @edisonlee0212 in #115
• Fixed a bug in post-processing. by @edisonlee0212 in #116
• Improvement on rendering by @edisonlee0212 in #117
• Updated resources. by @edisonlee0212 in #119
• Removed projects and will add these as submodules. by @edisonlee0212 in #121
• Fixed issue when no renderlayer present. by @edisonlee0212 in #122
• Fixed TriangleIlluminationEstimator for DigitalAgriculturePlugin. by @edisonlee0212 in #123
• Bug fix for ImGui Tree Nodes that caused an assertion to fail. by @nikolasschwarz in #124
• Dynamic Strands texture coordinates. by @edisonlee0212 in #126
• Rewrote data generation pipeline. by @edisonlee0212 in #128
• Properly implemented meshing by group by @nikolasschwarz in #129
• Foliage, atmosphere, and trees by @edisonlee0212 in #130
• Now operators can be used within Scene camera window. by @edisonlee0212 in #134
• Implemented new flag for uniform particles is_single_strand_particle … by @nikolasschwarz in #138
• Implemented foliage drop physics. by @edisonlee0212 in #139
• Setup render pipeline for small segments. by @edisonlee0212 in #140
• Setup additional compute shader pipeline for filtering tetrahedron. by @edisonlee0212 in #142
• Finished implementation of small segments rendering. by @edisonlee0212 in #143
• Fix normal computation and split tetrahedron compute shader in two by @nikolasschwarz in #144
• Introduced sharp tip for splinters. by @edisonlee0212 in #145
• Properly implemented physics for DynamicSkeleton. by @edisonlee0212 in #146
• Optimized out all InsideAlpha calls on neighbors by @nikolasschwarz in #148
• Interactive mesh extrusion by @nikolasschwarz in #151
• Shader debugging, shader optimization, prepare for snow simulation. by @edisonlee0212 in #152
• Snow simulation. by @edisonlee0212 in #153
• Deterministic tree growth, wind physics. by @edisonlee0212 in #155
• Compute bark and use it for meshing by @nikolasschwarz in #157
• General improvement on Dynamic Strand Physics. by @edisonlee0212 in #158
• Fixed all heat map for visualization. by @edisonlee0212 in #159
• Physics demo initial setup. by @edisonlee0212 in #163
• Better breaking strategy. by @edisonlee0212 in #164
• Supporting inner wood material. by @edisonlee0212 in #166
• General physics improvement. by @edisonlee0212 in #167
• Stabilize normal computation by @nikolasschwarz in #168
• Introduce new inside flag for initialization only by @nikolasschwarz in #170
• Allowing breaking in substeps. by @edisonlee0212 in #171
• Fixed execution order. Wood damage/strength by @edisonlee0212 in #172
• Implement mesh breaking based on SegmentPair connectivity by @nikolasschwarz in #173
• General physics improvement. by @edisonlee0212 in #177
• Physics demo setup. by @edisonlee0212 in #178
• Compute normals for uniform particles at the end of strands and flag them as interior by @nikolasschwarz in #179
• More experiment setups. by @edisonlee0212 in #180
• Fix normal computation for correct orientation by @edisonlee0212 in #182
• Collider size demo. by @edisonlee0212 in #183
• Tree experiments. by @edisonlee0212 in #184
• Supporting visualization for strand segments. by @edisonlee0212 in #185
• Supporting all operators in scene camera. by @edisonlee0212 in #186
• Add in-keyword to several functions by @nikolasschwarz in #188
• Introduced new experiments for exploring fracture types. by @edisonlee0212 in #191
• Tree experiment setup. Splinter rendering improvement. by @edisonlee0212 in #193
• Flag single bark particles and color them by @nikolasschwarz in #194
• Do not check group index at initialization and reset normals by @nikolasschwarz in #196
• Added stop all operator. by @edisonlee0212 in #197
• AssetManager and FileManager, asset folder. by @edisonlee0212 in #202
• Asset scanning. by @edisonlee0212 in #203

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v0.1.5

v0.1.4 Bug fixes, editor improvements

What's Changed

• Framework termination, shadow map fix, Linux support by @edisonlee0212 in #84
• Framework successfully work without RenderLayer. by @edisonlee0212 in #85
• RenderInstanceStorage external input. by @edisonlee0212 in #87
• Foliage simulation for dynamic strands. by @edisonlee0212 in #88
• Viewport supported. by @edisonlee0212 in #97
• Foliage rendering complete. by @edisonlee0212 in #102
• Bug fix & Physics improvement. by @edisonlee0212 in #104
• Introduced Point/Axis/Transform Pivot. by @edisonlee0212 in #105
• Bug fix, editor update. by @edisonlee0212 in #108
• Reorganize shader, improved icons by @edisonlee0212 in #114

Full Changelog: v0.1.3...v0.1.4

v0.1.3 Render system overhaul. Post-processing stack, shader hot reload, etc.

What's Changed

• Improvement on tree modeling & segment grouping. by @edisonlee0212 in #63
• Structure improved. Removed connections. by @edisonlee0212 in #64
• Bug fix for segment grouping. by @edisonlee0212 in #65
• Optimize breaking logic, more editing operators. by @edisonlee0212 in #66
• Compute normals, tangents and UV coordinates by @nikolasschwarz in #67
• CPU/Compute shader-based/OptiX Ray Tracer refactoring. by @edisonlee0212 in #68
• DynamicStrands: Merged particles to segments. by @edisonlee0212 in #69
• fix crash caused by computing UV coordinates for experiments by @nikolasschwarz in #70
• Fixed crash when creating sorghum mesh without BTF Material. by @edisonlee0212 in #71
• Gpu normals fix by @nikolasschwarz in #72
• Fixed crash/undefined behavior caused by manually setting Platform::Constants::support_ray_tracing to false. by @edisonlee0212 in #73
• Refactored code in RenderLayer, RenderInstance. by @edisonlee0212 in #74
• RenderLayer overhaul. by @edisonlee0212 in #75
• DynamicStrands rendering. by @edisonlee0212 in #76
• Supporting shader hot reload. by @edisonlee0212 in #77
• Camera Post-Processing Stack by @edisonlee0212 in #78

Full Changelog: v0.1.2...v0.1.3

Physics simulation on strands, cross-platform support.

What's Changed

• Added NsightAftermath for saving gpu minidump for debugging, ray tracing pipeline. by @edisonlee0212 in #5
• Mesh shader for basic debug visualization. Compute shader infrastructure for physics simulation. by @edisonlee0212 in #6
• Redesigned skeleton structure, so it can fit on GPU easier. by @edisonlee0212 in #7
• Auto clear shader binaries as post build command in CMake. by @edisonlee0212 in #8
• Quick fix for DynamicStrands to avoid crash for unfinished physics im… by @edisonlee0212 in #9
• Better data structure for strand segment (added strand particle). by @edisonlee0212 in #10
• alpha shape meshing by @nikolasschwarz in #11
• Removed glm dependencies for LogWood implementations for Swift translation by @edisonlee0212 in #12
• Setting up DynamicStrands simulation pipeline. by @edisonlee0212 in #13
• Implemented "Position And Orientation Based Cosserat Rods" by @edisonlee0212 in #14
• Introduced connectivity constraint. by @edisonlee0212 in #15
• Fixed precompiled headers, improved folder layout for Visual Studio. by @edisonlee0212 in #16
• Implemented scan mode for scanning sorghum without occlusion. by @edisonlee0212 in #17
• Visualizing bend/twist/shear/stretch/connectivity strains. by @edisonlee0212 in #18
• Introduced twin particles for segment split by @edisonlee0212 in #19
• Fixed shader import. by @edisonlee0212 in #20
• Restored python binding for EvoEngine, EcoSysLab, and DigitalForestry by @edisonlee0212 in #22
• Improved menu for JoeScanner. Simplified process. by @edisonlee0212 in #23
• Improved physics simulation framework. by @edisonlee0212 in #24
• Fixed bug for not being able to debug with Nvidia NSight. by @edisonlee0212 in #25
• Introduced substep for more stiff material. by @edisonlee0212 in #26
• Physics system overhaul. by @edisonlee0212 in #27
• Drag force and Box selection finished. by @edisonlee0212 in #28
• Neighbor constraint, branch breaking. by @edisonlee0212 in #29
• Transferred Nikolas's implementation to the framework. by @edisonlee0212 in #30
• Adding alternatives of CGAL. by @edisonlee0212 in #31
• Stretch/Shear breaking by @edisonlee0212 in #32
• Offset particle's position during ComputeDelaunay so it finds neighbor correctly. by @edisonlee0212 in #33
• Fixed incorrect descriptor set binding for render function. by @edisonlee0212 in #34
• Re-introduce random constraint. by @edisonlee0212 in #43
• Cocentric properties, Sorghum waviness, etc. by @edisonlee0212 in #45
• Finished implementation UniformParticle for rendering. by @edisonlee0212 in #46
• Entity Selection, DsPhysics. by @edisonlee0212 in #47
• Regularized segment position. by @edisonlee0212 in #48
• Fixed multiple rods experiment. by @edisonlee0212 in #49
• More experiment setups, more collider types. by @edisonlee0212 in #52
• EcoSysLabLayer GUI code refactoring by @edisonlee0212 in #54
• GUI improvements for EcoSysLab and Python API for DigitalAgriculture. by @edisonlee0212 in #55
• Better visualization, code refactoring by @edisonlee0212 in #56
• Improved stiff rod constraint calculation and visualization. by @edisonlee0212 in #57
• Implemented Dynamic Hashed Grid. by @edisonlee0212 in #58
• GPU Alpha Shape by @edisonlee0212 in #59
• Enabled Linux platform, setup GitHub workflow for Linux build. by @edisonlee0212 in #61
• Supporting MacOS. Added GitHub workflow for MacOS build. by @edisonlee0212 in #62

New Contributors

• @nikolasschwarz made their first contribution in #11

Full Changelog: v0.1.1...v0.1.2

v0.1.1

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

v0.1.0

What's Changed

• Simplify 3rdParty libs and setup Github workflow by @edisonlee0212 in #1
• Added basic implementation of GPU ray tracer with compute shader

Full Changelog: https://github.com/edisonlee0212/EvoEngine/commits/v0.1.0