GraphX Alpha Six

Keys You Can Press!

• Left and Right to load new Theatres (including custom Theatres loaded externally)
• F turn your flashlight on and off (if the current Theatre has a LightFlashlight Actor)
  • Q toggle the color of your flashlight to a pure red and back to the original color
• R reset all PhysicsActors to their initial orientation (use this to watch the cubes fall again!)
• Tab to open and close the debug menu
• [ and ] to cycle between the Blinn-Phong and Phong shaders
• 1-5 to switch to different debugging shader outputs
  • 1 will isolate the diffuse output (flat colors and brightness)
  • 2 will isolate the specular output (the "shiny" reflection of light sources on surfaces)
  • 3 will isolate the ambient output (a simple, flat version of "global illumination")
  • 4 will show all the outputs combined (this is the default, and how the shader is supposed to look)
  • 5 will show the normal values for every mesh as different colors
    • I converted the range from -1 -> 1 to 0 -> 1 (resulting in desaturated colors)
• G toggle ambient lighting on/off
• J if you're debugging GraphX, this should toggle Jolt's asserts on and off
• Esc to exit GraphX

What's New?

• New Blinn-Phong shading now used by default
• Use [ and ] to cycle between the Blinn-Phong and Phong shaders
• More details in the debug menu
• Actors and Devices now show the settings supplied to them via the GraphXTheatre file
• Actors can now handle inputs directly (e.g: GraphXPlayer now handles mouse and keyboard input itself, instead of through the GLFW key callback function)
• New template functions for finding any instance of a specific Actor/Device sub-class in a Theatre
• Keep in mind, these functions will only return the first instance they find or, if none exist, a new instance (to avoid crashing)
• The functions getCurrentPlayer and getCurrentEnvironment will create a new GraphXPlayer or Environment, respectively, if none exist in the current Theatre
  • They are also much safer and have much better printouts
• Safeguarded multiple crash points when loading a new Theatre
• Various bug-fixes and minor additions