Memory Use Optimizations

[lucasdamianjohnson]

Voxel Data

• [x] Condense all voxel data including physics collider ids into the voxel data buffer.

  Mesher

  It occurred to me that the size of the meshes the engine produces can be dramatically reduced with some extra work in the shader.

• [x] Condense RGB light colors, sunlight colors, AO, and face states into one number per vertex.
  • Set the stride to 1.
  • Use bitwise operations to get the colors and state out.
  • Store everything in one 32 bit float number which will be cast to a Uint in the shader.

Bit Range Map

1 - 16	17 - 24	25 - 32
light values	AO value	face state data

• [x] Condense all template data.
  • Set positions into one number per x/y/z.
  • Compact light template and AO template into one.
  • Compact flow template
  • Compact shape state and state template.

[lucasdamianjohnson]

Completed this today.