commit
For testing the new iteration, the texture cache disk download was written
into the main thread instead of into the separate threads. Now they're back
in separate threads again.
Also I think some of these files probably should have been in the previous
commit.
specific code
The new rendering system is now starting to work as planned, however it is
still not as complete as the iteration before. But this should be a more
robust design moving forward. Work was also done towards splitting off all
OpenGL-specific worker code into a derived class. The hope is to have no
hard dependency on OpenGL and make swapping it out with other backends
straight-forward.
Once again, conceptually this system should work, however it does not seem to
be the most efficient and it wouldn't surprise me if the multithreading was
eventually upgraded to an even more coherent system one day. However for
"core principles" this should be fairly decent.
The new rendering pipeline strives to simplify the nodes themselves as much
as possible and move much of the logic to an external rendering engine. This
change removes all of the responsibilities that no longer belong to the
nodes themselves and will soon be folded into the renderer.
The previous iteration was fairly OpenGL-heavy. It's now been separated into
a base class that is OpenGL independent and a derived class that is
OpenGL-based. Over time this should allow for portability away from OpenGL
if necessary.
Previous iteration used probably an excessive amount of threads to make
everything work. New iteration intends to use precisely the amount of logical
threads available and using a moved QObject rather than a subclassed QThread
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