Candera Device

Uniform Location Caching

Introduced Uniform Caching for Auto uniforms to increase performance. Calls to GetUniformLocation now pass semantic instead of names as parameter, which speeds up comparison within cache.

Maximum Element Index capability

RenderDeviceCapabilities structure contains a new field for the maximum value of vertex index that is supported by the device.

RenderDevice::DrawVertexBuffer

RenderDevice::DrawVertexBuffer handles drawing of a VertexBuffer, regadless of its configuration (primitive types, index formats, upload location).

Added formats on DirectTextureImage

Additional formats have been added to DirectTextureImage::Format, unpacked RGBA and BGRA texture format.

Shader Upload functions now support Upload of precompiled binary shaders.

The function RenderDevice::CompileAndLoadShaderPair only supports the fixed Upload of text or binary shader objects. In order to provide a more flexible handling of shader Upload, this function has been split up into RenderDevice::UploadShaderSource, RenderDevice::UploadShaderBinary and RenderDevice::UploadShaderBinaryProgram. Additionally the function RenderDevice::UploadShader has been added which calls the appropriate shader upload function transparently to the user. This interface enables the user to choose whether shader shall be available as binary or source shader objects.