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Daniel Chia
c3a46822e1 Cascaded shadow maps. (#7064)
Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com>

# Objective

Implements cascaded shadow maps for directional lights, which produces better quality shadows without needing excessively large shadow maps.

Fixes #3629

Before
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1222141/210061203-bbd965a4-8d11-4cec-9a88-67fc59d0819f.png)

After
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1222141/210061334-2ff15334-e6d7-4a31-9314-f34a7805cac6.png)


## Solution

Rather than rendering a single shadow map for directional light, the view frustum is divided into a series of cascades, each of which gets its own shadow map. The correct cascade is then sampled for shadow determination.

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## Changelog

Directional lights now use cascaded shadow maps for improved shadow quality.


## Migration Guide

You no longer have to manually specify a `shadow_projection` for a directional light, and these settings should be removed. If customization of how cascaded shadow maps work is desired, modify the `CascadeShadowConfig` component instead.
2023-01-25 12:35:39 +00:00
Aceeri
ddfafab971 Windows as Entities (#5589)
# Objective

Fix https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4530

- Make it easier to open/close/modify windows by setting them up as `Entity`s with a `Window` component.
- Make multiple windows very simple to set up. (just add a `Window` component to an entity and it should open)

## Solution

- Move all properties of window descriptor to ~components~ a component.
- Replace `WindowId` with `Entity`.
- ~Use change detection for components to update backend rather than events/commands. (The `CursorMoved`/`WindowResized`/... events are kept for user convenience.~
  Check each field individually to see what we need to update, events are still kept for user convenience.

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## Changelog

- `WindowDescriptor` renamed to `Window`.
    - Width/height consolidated into a `WindowResolution` component.
    - Requesting maximization/minimization is done on the [`Window::state`] field.
- `WindowId` is now `Entity`.

## Migration Guide

- Replace `WindowDescriptor` with `Window`.
    - Change `width` and `height` fields in a `WindowResolution`, either by doing
      ```rust
      WindowResolution::new(width, height) // Explicitly
      // or using From<_> for tuples for convenience
      (1920., 1080.).into()
      ```
- Replace any `WindowCommand` code to just modify the `Window`'s fields directly  and creating/closing windows is now by spawning/despawning an entity with a `Window` component like so:
  ```rust
  let window = commands.spawn(Window { ... }).id(); // open window
  commands.entity(window).despawn(); // close window
  ```

## Unresolved
- ~How do we tell when a window is minimized by a user?~
  ~Currently using the `Resize(0, 0)` as an indicator of minimization.~
  No longer attempting to tell given how finnicky this was across platforms, now the user can only request that a window be maximized/minimized.
  
 ## Future work
 - Move `exit_on_close` functionality out from windowing and into app(?)
 - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/5621
 - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/7099
 - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/7098


Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2023-01-19 00:38:28 +00:00
Taras Palczynski III
c7791ad9b3 Organized scene_viewer into plugins for reuse and organization (#6936)
# Objective

This PR reorganizes majority of the scene viewer example into a module of plugins which then allows reuse of functionality among new or existing examples.  In addition, this enables the scene viewer to be more succinct and showcase the distinct cases of camera control and scene control.

This work is to support future work in organization and future examples.  A more complicated 3D scene example has been requested by the community (#6551) which requests functionality currently included in scene_viewer, but previously inaccessible.  The future example can now just utilize the two plugins created here.  The existing example [animated_fox example] can utilize the scene creation and animation control functionality of `SceneViewerPlugin`.

## Solution

- Created a `scene_viewer` module inside the `tools` example folder.
- Created two plugins:  `SceneViewerPlugin` (gltf scene loading, animation control, camera tracking control, light control) and `CameraControllerPlugin` (controllable camera).
- Original `scene_viewer.rs` moved to `scene_viewer/main.rs` and now utilizes the two plugins.
2022-12-25 00:23:13 +00:00