Exercise 10 Kore::Image, Kore::Texture, threads

[PicoJr]

Hallo/Hello,

I have several questions regarding Exercise 10 instructions:

reload darmstadt.jpg for every box,...

What does reload mean here? I guess it does not mean reload image from disk...

...pretend that every box has a different texture

Does it mean each image should be loaded once for each cube? or rather that each image could be loaded only once while textures are instantiated/updated for each cube?

Beware, neither OpenGL nor Direct3D is thread safe - you can't just create a Texture in a second thread. But you can create a Kore::Image in another thread, access it's pixels in the main thread and put them in a Kore::Texture using lock/unlock.

I'm a bit lost here =/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumo ... e_threads/

using lock/unlock: use the lock/unlock methods of the Kore::Texture class? or declare our own mutex instead?

What does access it's pixels mean here? is it image.data? Ideally I would like to write something similar to:

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cubeNear.getTexture().setImage(highResImage);

But sadly I could not find such method... what method should we use in order to put them (pixels) in a Kore::Texture?

So far I have managed to make textures disappear (they appear black) when close enough ^^'

Thanks for your help,

Best Regards,

PicoJr.

[RobDangerous]

It does mean "reload from disk" and each image should be loaded once for each cube. lock/unlock refers to the Texture, that's what you use to put pixels in there (setImage basically becomes pointer = tex.lock(); memcpy(pointer, highResImage); tex.unlock();).

[PicoJr]

Hello/Hallo,

Thank you for your reply =)

I now understand why .lock() returns u8*.

However I don't understand how memcpy can be used to supply a bigger image:

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memcpy(pointer_to_16x16_image, pointer_to_64x64_image, size_of_64x64_image)

will segfault isn't it?

The following code snippet segfaults.

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// cubeTex contains the lower res texture
Graphics1::Image darmstadt64 = Graphics1::Image("darmstadt64.png", true);
u8* pointer = cubeTex->lock();
memcpy(pointer, darmstadt64.data, (size_t) (darmstadt64.width * darmstadt64.height * darmstadt64.sizeOf(darmstadt64.format))); // use high res texture
cubeTex->unlock();

Even when I supply the lower res texture (that way it does not segfault), it is not displayed:

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// cubeTex contains the higher res texture
Graphics1::Image darmstadt16 = Graphics1::Image("darmstadt16.png", true);
u8* pointer = cubeTex->lock();
memcpy(pointer, darmstadt16.data, (size_t) (darmstadt16.width * darmstadt16.height * darmstadt16.sizeOf(darmstadt16.format))); // use low res texture
cubeTex->unlock();

Thanks for your help,

Best regards,

PicoJr.

[RobDangerous]

Create more images in the correct sizes beforehand. But the last one should work, what systems was that?

[PicoJr]

Hallo/Hello

System:

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OpenGL Config

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» glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0  screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086)
    Device: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail  (0xf31)
    Version: 17.0.7
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 1536MB
    Unified memory: yes
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 3.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.0
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Bay Trail 
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00

Best regards,

PicoJr.

[RobDangerous]

It works fine for me in a Ubuntu VM. Do you do the lock/unlock in the render thread?

[PicoJr]

Hallo/Hello,

Thanks for your reply =)

I was doing the lock/unlock inside the stream thread.

I tried doing the lock/unlock in the update method (main thread).
It works better:

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std::memcpy(pointer, darmstadt16.data, (size_t) (darmstadt16.width * darmstadt16.height * darmstadt16.sizeOf(darmstadt16.format)));

does make visible changes: the top part of the high res texture is replaced by the lower res texture when displayed (see below).

memcpy_darmstadt_small.png (21.26 KiB) 774 mal betrachtet

(update 0) when updating the texture width and height:

memcpy_darmstadt_small_2.png (24.13 KiB) 773 mal betrachtet

(update 1) this is how it currently looks like:

textures_16_32_64.png (20.46 KiB) 739 mal betrachtet

I still cannot figure out how to display lower res textures correctly =/

Best regards,

PicoJr.

[RobDangerous]

You will have to figure that out yourself. But it's not hard, you just need to think about how the image data is represented in memory and do a bit more than just a memcpy. But you are also free to create multiple image objects instead and use the one which fits.

[PicoJr]

Hallo/Hello,

Thanks for your reply =)

Understood, I'll give it more thoughts.

(Update 0)

memcpy and textures

memcpy.png (10.77 KiB) 714 mal betrachtet

(Update 1)

texture streaming almost

texture-streaming-4.gif (296.59 KiB) 705 mal betrachtet

Best regards,

PicoJr.