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Author SHA1 Message Date
Kelsi
98fb6b47da Add 9-tap PCF soft shadows and normal-offset bias to all fragment shaders
Replaces single-tap shadow sampling with 3x3 grid PCF (36-sample equivalent
with hardware bilinear filtering) for smooth shadow edges. Adds normal-offset
bias to eliminate shadow acne on oblique surfaces without peter-panning.
2026-02-23 04:14:27 -08:00
Kelsi
9eeb9ce64d Add normal mapping and parallax occlusion mapping for character models
Extends the WMO normal mapping/POM system to character M2 models with
bone-skinned tangents. Auto-generates normal/height maps from diffuse
textures using luminance→height, Sobel→normals (same algorithm as WMO).

- Expand vertex buffer from M2Vertex (48B) to CharVertexGPU (56B) with
  tangent vec4 computed via Lengyel's method in setupModelBuffers()
- Tangents are bone-transformed and Gram-Schmidt orthogonalized in the
  vertex shader, output as TBN for fragment shader consumption
- Fragment shader gains POM ray marching, normal map blending, and LOD
  crossfade via dFdx/dFdy (identical to WMO shader)
- Descriptor set 1 extended with binding 2 for normal/height sampler
- Settings (enable, strength, POM quality) wired from game_screen.cpp
  to both WMO and character renderers via shared UI controls
2026-02-23 01:40:23 -08:00
Kelsi
67e63653a4 Stabilize Vulkan shadow pipeline diagnostics and compatibility path
- Fix shadow depth image layout transitions by tracking per-frame old/new layouts.
- Update receiver shadow projection to Vulkan clip-depth convention.
- Test inverted shadow compare op path (GREATER_OR_EQUAL).
- Switch shadow compare samplers to NEAREST filtering for broader Vulkan compatibility.
- Expand shadow caster coverage by disabling caster cull filtering in WMO/M2/Character shadow pipelines.
- Keep light-space matrix path on stable character-centered framing.
2026-02-22 10:25:33 -08:00
Kelsi
83b576e8d9 Vulcan Nightmare
Experimentally bringing up vulcan support
2026-02-21 22:04:17 -08:00