3.17.2

This small release mainly brings a new type of render queue that specializes in rendering multiple instances of a single mesh, where each instance uses the same material. This new render queue can render such meshes faster than the regular one. Additionally, submitting and rendering models now uses cache for node transformations, which decreases number of operations required before a mesh is submitted/rendered and hence increases performance. Building terrain meshes was also optimized.

Changelog:

• Added new interface BBMOD_IMeshRenderQueue, which is an interface for render queues that can draw meshes.
• Replaced arguments _vertexBuffer, _vertexFormat, _primitiveType and _materialIndex of methods DrawMesh, DrawMeshAnimated and DrawMeshBatched of BBMOD_RenderQueue with a single _mesh argument, which is the Struct.BBMOD_Mesh to be rendered!
• Struct BBMOD_RenderQueue now implements the BBMOD_IMeshRenderQueue interface.
• Fixed methods BBMOD_RenderQueue.DrawMeshBatched not setting uniform BBMOD_U_MATERIAL_INDEX.
• Added new struct BBMOD_MeshRenderQueue, which is a render queue specialized for rendering of multiple instances of a model, where all instances are using the same material. You can use this instead of BBMOD_RenderQueue to increase rendering performance.
• Methods submit and render of BBMOD_Model now use caching to increase rendering performance of models that are either fully static or fully vertex-skinned. Models that consist from both static and vertex-skinned meshes cannot utilize this cache.
• Greatly improved performance of method BBMOD_Terrain.build_mesh.