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dhkatzandClaude Opus 5.5 8055099920 Draw all of a client's views in one renderer process
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The adapter starts one renderer process per client, with the first engine
(again if it has exited), and attaches each engine's channel to it through a
control section (protocol version 5: Control, the -attach event). The renderer
process keeps a window, swap chain and scene per channel on one Direct3D
device, takes the views' frames in turns, and closes a view when its engine
does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-28 19:16:01 -07:00
dhkatzandClaude Opus 5.5 6e4fe589e5 Draw render targets in the renderer process
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While the renderer process runs, the adapter makes the client's render targets
itself and the renderer process draws frames into them: texture targets are
drawn with like any texture, and a pixmap target's frame is read back through
the channel into its Pixmap (protocol version 4: BeginFrame names its target,
CreateRenderTarget, Channel::readSize and the -read event). Frames into render
targets are drawn even while the window is hidden.

The client uses pixmap targets for snapshots (outfit pictures, photos), checked
to look right. The render target interfaces are declared from IMVU's vtables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-28 19:09:48 -07:00
dhkatzandClaude Opus 5.5 2d9da249fa Draw the whole 3D view in place of the client's renderer
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The full view is now the default. While the renderer process covers the whole
view (Channel::covering, set after each frame it presents), the adapter skips
the client's renderer's clears and draws, decided per frame; the client's
renderer still gets state and resources, and draws again as soon as the
renderer process stops covering the view.

The client's window no longer gets WS_CLIPCHILDREN: the client draws when its
window gets WM_PAINT, which a window entirely covered by clipped children never
gets (it fell to about one frame a second). The flip model swap chain shows
above the client's drawing anyway.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-28 18:14:17 -07:00
dhkatzandClaude Opus 5.5 42fc55cb91 Draw the client's scene in the renderer process
The adapter records everything the client draws (state, transforms, lights, fog, textures and buffers) as a command stream, sent in chunks through the shared memory channel, while IMVU's Direct3D renderer still draws the whole view. The renderer process draws it with Diligent, with shaders reproducing IMVU's Direct3D 9 fixed-function setup, over the right half of the 3D view to compare. It skips to the newest frame when it falls behind, and logs its errors and frame times.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-28 05:52:15 -07:00
dhkatzandClaude Opus 5.5 9a7d7d2908 Add the renderer process
The renderer becomes two programs: the adapter (t5deRenderEngine.dll, 32-bit, in IMVU's process) and a 64-bit renderer process (t5de-renderer.exe) drawing with Diligent Engine, fetched with FetchContent and pinned. For now a spike: the adapter starts the renderer process for each engine and signals each frame through a shared memory channel, and the renderer process draws a box into a child window in the client's 3D view.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-28 05:17:03 -07:00