small3dlib/todo.txt

features:

- Optional OpenGL acceleration, perhaps a separate header file with the same
  API. How this can work:

  Have a new accelerated render scene function that in the first pass uses OGL
  to render info about pixels (barycentric, depth, ...) to a 2D "screen" array
  (g buffer), then in the second pass loop over these pixels and on each
  rendered pixel call the user pixel funct. Basically deferred rendering in
  which the first pass is done with OGL.

- Helper functions for e.g. retrieving and caching UV coords etc. Maybe these
  should be in a separate file?                            DONE

- objtool: An option to parse material groups and generate an array of 
  per-triangle material indices.                           DONE

- PC == 2 (and possibly 1) could likely be accelerated by not using interpolate
  functions, but rather FastLerStates for the values recomputed after each
  row segment.                                             DONE (doesn't work
                                                                 for PC == 2,
                                                                 tried)
- function for computing normals and lighting

- triangle sorting:
  - back-to-front (slower, better memory efficiency)       DONE
  - front-to-back (faster, but needs 1bit stencil buffer)  DONE

- function to set/clear stencil buffer -- can be useful

- function to map one point in 3D space to screen, along with size (for mapping
  billboards/sprites etc.)                                 DONE

- Optimize persp. correction!

- Create and use the same function for determining CW/CCW AND left/right vertex
  determination in triangle drawing.                       DONE

- Check (and possibly fix) if any barycentric coord ever exceeds the range
  <0,255> due to rounding errors etc.                      DONE

- dithered barycentric interpolation function that is faster than normal
  interpolation -- it will randomly picky one of three values, with greater
  probabilities at greater coords

- option to disable baycentric coordinates computing       DONE

- Z-buffer:
  - full                                  DONE
  - reduced (resolution and precision)    DONE
  - more reduced (4-bit)

- MipMapping? Add triangle size to pixelInfo.  DONE

- perspective correction modes:
  - none                                    DONE
  - full                                    DONE
  - approximate                             DONE

- predefined 3D shapes:
  - cube                                    DONE
  - sphere
  - cylinder
  - pyramid
  - plane

- Depth computation during rasterization -- this should be an optional thing,
  specified with a define (S3L_COMPUTE_DEPTH), which may be turned on
  automatically for some modes (e.g. Z-buffer). It should be computed by the
  fast lerp and passed in the PixelInfo struct.    DONE

- Python tool to convert obj to C array            DONE

- Python tool to convert texture images to C array DONE

- create demos:
  - model viewer                                   DONE 
  - game-like demo (GTA-style, Quake style etc.)   DONE
  - offline HQ (lerp texuring, normal mapping, reflections, ...) rendering
    to PPM image file                              DONE
  - test offline rendering of a high-poly model (see how very small tris
    are rendered)

- drawModel: create an option that would use a cache to not transform the same
  point twice                                      DONE (doesn't work, tried)

- Optional rendering stats (FPS, rendered triangles, ...).

- profiling functions for optimization

bugs:

repeated:

- valgrind (and similar) checks
- optimize
- write tests/benchmarks