After a long development phase we’ve reached a long-term milestone.
We’ve implemented the rendering basis for METAL and VULKAN context rendering.

NOTICE: Even though a lot of features still missing and for sure not all of your projects might already work, it’s the beginning and took a lot of effort and refactoring we want to share!

Download & Install: https://gorilla3d.de/files/packages/13.1.0/Gorilla3D_Delphi_C%2B%2B_13.1.0_1.2.0.3656.zip

OR via our Installer-Tool: https://gorilla3d.de/download/Gorilla3DInstaller.zip

• Vulkan Support:
  • GLSL to SPIR-V Conversion via ShaderC library
  • Basic rendering pipeline: Frame-Buffers, Uniform-Buffers, Mesh-Buffers, Texturing, WBOIT-Rendering, MSAA, Emission, DefaultMaterial, Reflection, Refraction, Material-Behaviours, Gorilla-Mesh rendering,  Instancing, animated models, gpu cached animations, 2D/cubemap textures, skybox component, water material, splatmap material
  • Not working yet:
    • textures added at design time – runtime loading works
    • other texture formats than BGRA
    • normal texture mapping (affects PBR, POM, Normal-Mapping)
    • 3D textures + Volume-Rendering
    • Particle-System
    • Global illumination
    • Render-Passes: Shadow-Mapping, FXAA, PostFX
    • Various Materials: TTextureMaterialSource, TLightMaterialSource
  • Activate it by including “ Gorilla.Context.Backend ” unit in your *.DPR and calling “ GorillaGraphicsBackend := gbVulkan; ” before “Application.Initialize”
  • Platform: Windows X64

• Metal Support:
  • Metal Shader Language (MSL) support – NOT OPENGL!
  • GLSL shaders translated to MSL by embedded parser and translator
  • Write GLSL as you know it and Gorilla3D is taking care of it to convert it into MSL
  • Basic rendering pipeline: Frame-Buffers, Uniform-Buffers, Mesh-Buffers, Texturing, WBOIT-Rendering, DefaultMaterial, Material-Behaviours, Gorilla-Mesh rendering, Instancing, animated models, gpu cached animations, 2D/cubemap textures, skybox component
  • Not working yet: see above and further things like MSAA, FXAA, emission, reflection/refraction, water, splatmap, and more.
  • Platform: OSX64

• NEW FEATURES:
  • 13.1 Support for Windows X86/X64, Android 32-/64-Bit, Linux X64, OSX64, Windows ARM64EC compilable (but no package support)
  • DesignTime Navigation:
    • ALT + left mouse button > orbit
    • ALT + right mouse button > shift on X/Z axis in camera direction
    • ALT + SHIFT + left mouse button > shift X/Y axis
    • Navigation speed configurable
  • Gizmo Control:
    • “G” key to switch between gizmo control and drag & drop mode
    • In gizmo mode: drag left mouse button /SHIFT/CTRL to move on axis
    • After a 3D object was selected in gizmo mode use ESC to leave editing
    • Step size configurable
  • High level input controller switchable by property
    • The original low-level input controller blocked at debug time
    • You can now switch to high level (slower) input detection without blocking
    • This is much better for debugging
  • OpenAL audio library implemented with support for MP3 and OGG Vorbis
    • TGorillaFMODAudioManager and TGorillaOpenALManager are now both inherited from TGorillaAudioManager
    • Sound and channel handling
    • Effect handling is platform dependent
  • Dialogue ImageList’s introduced: automatically load image references by <images><image /></images> tags and add an “image-index” attribute to dialogues and items to link
  • Default-Material: ShaderData has now a new property “Specs” to store additional texture info, like if it’s a normal-map
  • TerrainMaterial: Optional normal mapping:
    • Each level has now a sub-bitmap to load a normal map into
    • Relative/Untransformed and Absolute/Transformed Level-Detection
  • Audio Playlist non-visual and visual component
    • Gorilla.Audio.Playlist with TGorillaAudioPlaylist and manageble TPlaylistItem’s
    • FMOD & OpenAL Support
    • TAudioPlayerFrame now contains playlist management
  • TGorillaTimer: EnqueuedOnce introduced to enqueue only if the previous enqueued operation was handled
  • TGorillaMesh: multiple instance modification now encapsulatable by BeginInstancesEditing/EndInstancesEditing

• BUGFIXES
  • TGorillaModel cached animations not working on multiple instances
  • TGorillaModel with cached animation only ended up invisible
  • TGorillaTerrainCVLOD: on-demand mesh generation
  • CharacterController height modification to make it more transparent
  • GorillaScript:
    • Performance optimization on loops and nested loops fixed
    • Scripting-Record type
    • Type-Support: Int64 and UInt8/UInt16/UInt32/UInt64
    • Property field method access fixed
    • Inherited method calls implemented for scripting objects
    • VAR/OUT/CONST parameters fixed
    • Floating point values with exponent (“e,E-/+123”) parsing fixed
    • New system functions: SizeOf, TypeName, TypeOf
  • Inventory groups also with images
  • SkillSystem ignoring comment tags within
  • TerrainMaterial: overblended transition area rendering issue fixed
  • TGorillaTerrain: picking / raytracing mechanism causing issues on selecting objects above
  • TGorillaDefaultMaterial: measure time issues with different platforms fixed
  • ScreenSpaceShadow rendering optimization
  • Duplicated FMOD audio sound playback crashed
  • TGorillaTimer: shutdown issues fixed