TextureManager.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_TEXTUREMANAGER
#define INCLUDED_TEXTUREMANAGER

#include "Texture.h"

#include "lib/ogl.h"
#include "lib/file/vfs/vfs.h"
#include "lib/res/handle.h"

#include <boost/weak_ptr.hpp>

class CTextureProperties;
class CTextureManagerImpl;

/**
 * Texture manager with asynchronous loading and automatic DDS conversion/compression.
 *
 * Input textures can be any format. They will be converted to DDS using settings defined
 * in files named "texture.xml", in the same directory as the texture and in its parent
 * directories. See CTextureConverter for the XML syntax. The DDS file will be cached
 * for faster loading in the future.
 *
 * Typically the graphics code will initialise many textures at the start of the game,
 * mostly for off-screen objects, by calling CreateTexture().
 * Loading texture data may be very slow (especially if it needs to be converted
 * to DDS), and we don't want the game to become unresponsive.
 * CreateTexture therefore returns an object immediately, without loading the
 * texture. If the object is never used then the data will never be loaded.
 *
 * Typically, the renderer will call CTexture::Bind() when it wants to use the
 * texture. This will trigger the loading of the texture data. If it can be loaded
 * quickly (i.e. there is already a cached DDS version), then it will be loaded before
 * the function returns, and the texture can be rendered as normal.
 *
 * If loading will take a long time, then Bind() binds a default placeholder texture
 * and starts loading the texture in the background. It will use the correct texture
 * when the renderer next calls Bind() after the load has finished.
 *
 * It is also possible to prefetch textures which are not being rendered yet, but
 * are expected to be rendered soon (e.g. for off-screen terrain tiles).
 * These will be loaded in the background, when there are no higher-priority textures
 * to load.
 *
 * The same texture file can be safely loaded multiple times with different GL parameters
 * (but this should be avoided whenever possible, as it wastes VRAM).
 *
 * For release packages, DDS files can be precached by appending ".dds" to their name,
 * which will be used instead of doing runtime conversion. This means most players should
 * never experience the slow asynchronous conversion behaviour.
 * These cache files will typically be packed into an archive for faster loading;
 * if no archive cache is available then the source file will be converted and stored
 * as a loose cache file on the user's disk.
 */
class CTextureManager
{
    NONCOPYABLE(CTextureManager);

public:
    /**
     * Construct texture manager. vfs must be the VFS instance used for all textures
     * loaded from this object.
     * highQuality is slower and intended for batch-conversion modes.
     * disableGL is intended for tests, and will disable all GL uploads.
     */
    CTextureManager(PIVFS vfs, bool highQuality, bool disableGL);

    ~CTextureManager();

    /**
     * Create a texture with the given GL properties.
     * The texture data will not be loaded immediately.
     */
    CTexturePtr CreateTexture(const CTextureProperties& props);

    /**
     * Returns a magenta texture. Use this for highlighting errors
     * (e.g. missing terrain textures).
     */
    CTexturePtr GetErrorTexture();

    /**
     * Work on asynchronous texture loading operations, if any.
     * Returns true if it did any work.
     * The caller should typically loop this per frame until it returns
     * false or exceeds the allocated time for this frame.
     */
    bool MakeProgress();

    /**
     * Synchronously converts and compresses and saves the texture,
     * and returns the output path (minus a "cache/" prefix). This
     * is intended for pre-caching textures in release archives.
     * @return true on success
     */
    bool GenerateCachedTexture(const VfsPath& path, VfsPath& outputPath);

private:
    CTextureManagerImpl* m;
};

/**
 * Represents the filename and GL parameters of a texture,
 * for passing to CTextureManager::CreateTexture.
 */
class CTextureProperties
{
    friend class CTextureManagerImpl;
    friend struct TextureCacheCmp;
    friend struct TPequal_to;
    friend struct TPhash;

public:
    /**
     * Use the given texture name, and default GL parameters.
     */
    explicit CTextureProperties(const VfsPath& path) :
        m_Path(path), m_Filter(GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR),
        m_WrapS(GL_REPEAT), m_WrapT(GL_REPEAT), m_Aniso(1.0f)
    {
    }

    /**
     * Set min/mag filter mode (typically GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR, GL_NEAREST, etc).
     */
    void SetFilter(GLint filter) { m_Filter = filter; }

    /**
     * Set wrapping mode (typically GL_REPEAT, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, etc).
     */
    void SetWrap(GLint wrap) { m_WrapS = wrap; m_WrapT = wrap; }

    /**
     * Set wrapping mode (typically GL_REPEAT, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE, etc),
     * separately for S and T.
     */
    void SetWrap(GLint wrap_s, GLint wrap_t) { m_WrapS = wrap_s; m_WrapT = wrap_t; }

    /**
     * Set maximum anisotropy value. Must be >= 1.0. Should be a power of 2.
     */
    void SetMaxAnisotropy(float aniso) { m_Aniso = aniso; }

    // TODO: rather than this static definition of texture properties
    // (especially anisotropy), maybe we want something that can be more
    // easily tweaked in an Options menu? e.g. the caller just specifies
    // "terrain texture mode" and we combine it with the user's options.
    // That'd let us dynamically change texture properties easily.
    //
    // enum EQualityMode
    // {
    //   NONE,
    //   TERRAIN,
    //   MODEL,
    //   GUI
    // }
    // void SetQuality(EQualityMode mode, float anisotropy, float lodbias, int reducemipmaps, ...);
    //
    // or something a bit like that.

private:
    VfsPath m_Path;
    GLint m_Filter;
    GLint m_WrapS;
    GLint m_WrapT;
    float m_Aniso;
};

/**
 * Represents a texture object.
 * The texture data may or may not have been loaded yet.
 * Before it has been loaded, all operations will act on a default
 * 1x1-pixel grey texture instead.
 */
class CTexture
{
    friend class CTextureManagerImpl;
    friend struct TextureCacheCmp;
    friend struct TPequal_to;
    friend struct TPhash;

    // Only the texture manager can create these
    explicit CTexture(Handle handle, const CTextureProperties& props, CTextureManagerImpl* textureManager);

    NONCOPYABLE(CTexture);

public:

    ~CTexture();

    /**
     * Returns the width (in pixels) of the current texture.
     */
    size_t GetWidth() const;

    /**
     * Returns the height (in pixels) of the current texture.
     */
    size_t GetHeight() const;

    /**
     * Returns whether the current texture has an alpha channel.
     */
    bool HasAlpha() const;

    /**
     * Returns the ARGB value of the lowest mipmap level (i.e. the
     * average of the whole texture).
     * Returns 0 if the texture has no mipmaps.
     */
    u32 GetBaseColour() const;

    /**
     * Bind the texture to the given GL texture unit.
     * If the texture data hasn't been loaded yet, this may wait a short while to
     * load it. If loading takes too long then it will return sooner and the data will
     * be loaded in a background thread, so this does not guarantee the texture really
     * will be loaded.
     */
    void Bind(size_t unit = 0);

    /**
     * Returns a ogl_tex handle, for later binding. See comments from Bind().
     */
    Handle GetHandle();

    /**
     * Attempt to load the texture data quickly, as with Bind().
     * Returns whether the texture data is currently loaded.
     */
    bool TryLoad();

    /**
     * Returns whether the texture data is currently loaded.
     */
    bool IsLoaded();

    /**
     * Activate the prefetching optimisation for this texture.
     * Use this if it is likely the texture will be needed in the near future.
     * It will be loaded in the background so that it is likely to be ready when
     * it is used by Bind().
     */
    void Prefetch();

private:
    /**
     * Replace the Handle stored by this object.
     * If takeOwnership is true, it will not increment the Handle's reference count.
     */
    void SetHandle(Handle handle, bool takeOwnership = false);

    const CTextureProperties m_Properties;

    Handle m_Handle;
    u32 m_BaseColour;

    enum {
        UNLOADED, // loading has not started
        PREFETCH_NEEDS_LOADING, // was prefetched; currently waiting to try loading from cache
        PREFETCH_NEEDS_CONVERTING, // was prefetched; currently waiting to be sent to the texture converter
        PREFETCH_IS_CONVERTING, // was prefetched; currently being processed by the texture converter
        HIGH_NEEDS_CONVERTING, // high-priority; currently waiting to be sent to the texture converter
        HIGH_IS_CONVERTING, // high-priority; currently being processed by the texture converter
        LOADED // loading has completed (successfully or not)
    } m_State;

    CTextureManagerImpl* m_TextureManager;

    // Self-reference to let us recover the CTexturePtr for this object.
    // (weak pointer to avoid cycles)
    boost::weak_ptr<CTexture> m_Self;
};

#endif // INCLUDED_TEXTUREMANAGER