PowerVR Tools and SDK v3.3 Release 2

Overview

• New: OpenGL ES 3.0 SDKs for iOS and Android.
• New: OpenGL ES 3.1 SDK for Windows and Linux emulation.
• New: TextureStreaming demo for iOS and Android. Demonstrates how live camera data can be efficiently uploaded to OpenGL ES.
• New: PVRShaderEditor now supports syntax highlighting for GLSL ES 3.10 shaders.

Builds

• Added OpenGL ES 3.1 PC Emulation SDK for Windows and Linux.
• Added OpenGL ES 3.0 SDK for iOS and Android.

Examples

• IntroducingPOD: Always write an alpha value of 1.0 in the fragment shader to avoid potential OS compositor artefacts.
• Skybox2: Tweaked the precision modifiers.
• Android, OGLES2TextureStreaming: Added Android demo which makes use of the Camera Interface.
• iOS, OGLES2TextureStreaming: Added missing CameraInterface dependencies.
• iOS, OGLES2TextureStreaming: Changed mapping iOS camera texture to the recommended GL_LUMINANCE and GL_LUMINANCE_ALPHA (which works in OGLES2/3).
• iOS, OGLES2MultiThreading: Changed main application file from .cpp to .mm to enable correctly including relevant objective-c style header files.
• iOS, OGLES2Glass: Fixed run time error on iOS when binding the default FBO object.

PVRShell

• Context creation failures updated to contain requested API version.

PVRTools

• Added Android Camera Interface.

PVRShaman v2.2.1

• Added missing types, qualifiers & built-ins for GLSL ES 3.00 syntax highlighting.
• Added GLSL ES 3.10 syntax highlighting.

PVRTexTool v4.1.3

PVRTexToolGUI

• Fixed crash when trying to compare images of different sizes. Error message is now correctly displayed.
• Fixed floating point texture loads so that they don’t get converted to 8-bit unorm on load.

PVRTexTool Plugins

• Maya: Fixed channel order when loading PVR files in Maya.

PVRVFrame v9.9

• Fixed a bug where glGet(GL_NUM_EXTENSIONS) would return the wrong value.
• Fixed a bug in GLSL translation where #define may be stripped incorrectly.
• No longer erroneously exposes glShaderStorageBlockBinding.
• Added support for proper creation of ES 3.1 contexts.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed symbols not being exported correctly:
  • glBindVertexBuffer.
  • glVertexAttribBinding.
  • glVertexAttribFormat.
  • glVertexAttribIFormat.
  • glVertexBindingDivisor.
  • glCreateShaderProgramv.
  • glGetBooleani_v.
  • glGetTexLevelParameterfv.
  • glGetTexLevelParameteriv.
  • glMemoryBarrierByRegion.
• Fixed glPointSizePointerOES not being exported on Linux.

PVRTune v14.15.2

• Counter renaming: US, USC and USSE to Shader.
• Added Rogue counters: Shader load: Compute and Shader ALU efficiency.
• Restored some missing counters when running with Series6 HW.

PVRTuneGUI

• Fixed a crash at start-up when the “hide unnecessary tabs” option is disabled.
• Counter results in a Search window are now interactive. Hover to highlight; click to select; drag and drop onto graph views, underscore if highlighted elsewhere.
• Added counters per PID, per GPU core task time counters, alongside existing task load counters. (BRN47467).
• Search and Monitor no longer consume CPU time when their dock window is not topmost.
• Counter table: restore old behaviour: Inactive counters now fade before disappearing (if ‘hide inactive’ is enabled).
• “Search” widget dropdown box items should be listed chronologically (BRN45741).
• Counter Table and Search windows no longer force themselves to be top-most at app start-up.
• Fix for per-core CPU usage on Linux/Android when cores are being enabled/disabled on the fly (BRN47850).

PVRPerfServer

• When the ‘-pid’ option is used, now also send the executable name for all PIDs seen using the GPU.
• Fixed a crash when using the ‘sendto’ option along with applications that use PVRScope (BRN47848).

PVRScope Library

• Fix for per-render counters only (per-frame were ok) that caused the data to be out by a factor of two.
• Fix a regression in the first SDK 3.3 release that could cause noisy data.

PVRShaderEditor v2.4

• Added missing types, qualifiers & built-ins for GLSL ES 3.00 syntax highlighting.
• Shader type is detected by file extension first. If the extension is unknown, fuzzy logic is used to guess the shader type.
• Added GLSL ES syntax highlighting for the following extensions:
  • EXT_shader_framebuffer_fetch.
  • EXT_shader_pixel_local_storage.
  • OES_shader_multisample_interpolation.
  • GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced.
  • EXT_shader_pixel_local_storage.
  • OES_sample_variables.
  • OES_shader_image_atomic.
  • OES_texture_storage_multisample_2d_array.
• Added GLSL ES 3.10 syntax highlighting.
• Updated the New File wizard to support GLSL ES 3.10 vertex, fragment and compute shaders.
• Added background compilation for GLSL ES 3.10 vertex, fragment and compute shaders when a GLSL ES 3.10 capable compiler is active (a pre-release version of our GLSL ES 3.10 compiler can be downloaded from our support portal: https://pvrsupport.imgtec.com/downloads).

PVRGeoPOD v2.16.2

• Added support for IGame version 16.5.277.0 and 17.1.149.0.
• Added support for 3DSMax 2015 (IGame 17.0.630.0) and Maya 2015.
• The exporter now exports mesh nodes as dummy nodes when the “export geometry” option is unticked. This fixes a crash that can occur if the mesh is the parent of another type of node, e.g., light.

PVRTrace v3.3.1

• The image analysis image now uses bilinear filtering when scaling the image below 100%.
• These enums are now represented by strings in the GUI:
  • EGL_NATIVE_BUFFER_ANDROID.
  • GL_CONSTANT_COLOR.
  • GL_ONE_MINUS_CONSTANT_COLOR.
  • GL_ONE_MINUS_CONSTANT_COLOR.
  • GL_ONE_MINUS_CONSTANT_ALPHA.
• Added missing types, qualifiers & built-ins for GLSL ES 3.00 syntax highlighting.
• Added GLSL ES 3.10 syntax highlighting.

PVRTrace Recorder

• The recording of clientbuffers now supports sampling the data once at time of egl image creation using config value 3.

PVRTracePlayback

• Fixed playback of glVertexAttribDivisor.
• Fixed the playback for some traces which would fail to create a window surface if they weren’t the first trace file open.

PVRHub v2.0

Android

• Added a dialog to help the user kill an already running app.
• Changed the PVRHubDaemon backend implementation.
• Improved stability and speed.
• The backups are now made (and restored) every time the Android build ID changes (i.e. system upgrade).

Linux

• Scripts now generate a pvrtraceconfig.json file.
• Added OpenGL ES 3.0 support.

PVRMonitor v1.01

• Added a new CPU widget that displays multiple cores as vertical bars on the same lines as PVRTune.
• Now the GPU values can be smoothed over 0.5seconds, similar to the CPU values.
• Few minor UI tweaks.

Documentation

• Extensions: Updated GL_OES_EGL_image/GL_OES_EGL_image_external descriptions to match their actual behaviour.
• PVRTrace user manual: Updated the document with revised manual Android installation instructions (rooted).
• PVRGeoPOD user manual: Updated compatibility table to show support for new 3dsMax 2014/2015 and Maya 2015 versions.

Installer

• Updated InstallBuilder to v9 to solve the problem with cached files after an installation failure.
• Removed MSVC2010 redistributable installer as it was causing SDK installations to fail.
• Fixed missing PVRTune documentation shortcut.