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-rw-r--r-- | src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_rasterizer.cpp | 19 |
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diff --git a/src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_rasterizer.cpp b/src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_rasterizer.cpp index aa9b831dd..91fff2a63 100644 --- a/src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_rasterizer.cpp +++ b/src/video_core/renderer_opengl/gl_rasterizer.cpp @@ -182,19 +182,22 @@ RasterizerOpenGL::RasterizerOpenGL() : shader_dirty(true) { RasterizerOpenGL::~RasterizerOpenGL() {} /** - * This is a helper function to resolve an issue with opposite quaternions being interpolated by - * OpenGL. See below for a detailed description of this issue (yuriks): + * This is a helper function to resolve an issue when interpolating opposite quaternions. See below + * for a detailed description of this issue (yuriks): * * For any rotation, there are two quaternions Q, and -Q, that represent the same rotation. If you * interpolate two quaternions that are opposite, instead of going from one rotation to another * using the shortest path, you'll go around the longest path. You can test if two quaternions are - * opposite by checking if Dot(Q1, W2) < 0. In that case, you can flip either of them, therefore - * making Dot(-Q1, W2) positive. + * opposite by checking if Dot(Q1, Q2) < 0. In that case, you can flip either of them, therefore + * making Dot(Q1, -Q2) positive. * - * NOTE: This solution corrects this issue per-vertex before passing the quaternions to OpenGL. This - * should be correct for nearly all cases, however a more correct implementation (but less trivial - * and perhaps unnecessary) would be to handle this per-fragment, by interpolating the quaternions - * manually using two Lerps, and doing this correction before each Lerp. + * This solution corrects this issue per-vertex before passing the quaternions to OpenGL. This is + * correct for most cases but can still rotate around the long way sometimes. An implementation + * which did `lerp(lerp(Q1, Q2), Q3)` (with proper weighting), applying the dot product check + * between each step would work for those cases at the cost of being more complex to implement. + * + * Fortunately however, the 3DS hardware happens to also use this exact same logic to work around + * these issues, making this basic implementation actually more accurate to the hardware. */ static bool AreQuaternionsOpposite(Math::Vec4<Pica::float24> qa, Math::Vec4<Pica::float24> qb) { Math::Vec4f a{qa.x.ToFloat32(), qa.y.ToFloat32(), qa.z.ToFloat32(), qa.w.ToFloat32()}; |