Improvements & merges of FX
- Scrolling Text: Gradient Palette support added
- Waving Cell: Improved with higher temporal resolution (smoother at lower speeds) and added additional mode setting and optional blurring
- Julia: added blur option
- Squared Swirl: added fade option
- Added smearing option to:
- DNA
- DNA Spiral
- Drift
- Drift Rose
- Crazy Bees
- Ripple
- Colored Bursts
- Frizzles
- Lissajous
- Sindots
- Spaceships
- Added palette support to:
- Crazy Bees
- Polar Lights
- Drift Rose
- Changed default palette handling (no more special treatment for some FX)
- Merged puddles and puddlepeak
- Merged Gravcenter, Gravcentric, Gravfreq and Gravimeter (saves 1.2k of flash)
- Merged meteor and meteor smooth
- Renamed police_base into mode_two_dots as that was just an alias
- Added 'Traffic Light' palette (originally defined in Polar Lights FX)
- Firenoise: removed local palette, use fire palette -> slight change in looks (+bugfix)
- Some code cleanup (removed unused / commented stuff)
- Moved dev info for AR to the top so ist easier to find as a reference, also added link to KB there
Removing the bool saves on code size and makes the function a tiny bit faster. Also this is a cleaner solution IMHO.
-updated blend function to optimized 8bit calculation
- efficient color blend calculation in fews operations possible
- omitting min / max checks makes it faster on average
- using 8bit for "blend" variable does not significantly influence the resulting color, just transition points are slightly shifted but yield very good results (and better than the original 16bit version using the old fastled math with improper rounding)
- updated drawCircle and drawLine to use 8bit directly instead of 16bit with a shift
- code is a bit cleaner and faster as well
- chaning array access to pointer access in bus_manager makes it a few instructions faster
- changed getNumberOfPins and getNumberOfChannels to return 32bit values, saving the unnecessary 8bit conversion
- increase WLED_MAX_BUSSES for C3 (fixes#4215)
- fix for #4228
- fix for very long running effect (strip.now, strip.timebase)
- C++ API change to allow `seg.setColor().setOpacity()`
- changes to `setPixelColorXY` give an extra FPS, some checks and the loops are only done when needed, additional function call is still faster (force inlining it gives negligible speed boost but eats more flash)
- commented out the unused `boxBlur` function
- code size improvemnts (also faster) in `moveX()` and `moveY()` by only copying whats required and avoiding code duplications
- consolidated the `blur()` functions by enabling asymmetrical blur2D() to replace `blurRow` and `blurCol`
- compiler warning fixes (explicit unsigned casts)
- removing WS2812FX::setMode()
- removing WS2812FX::setColor()
- removing floating point in transition
- color handling modification in set.cpp
- replaced uint8_t with unsigned in function parameters
- inlined WS2812FX::isUpdating()
- (MAY BE BREAKING) alexa & smartnest update
- Added pre-calculation for segment brightness: stored in _segBri. The impact on FPS is not huge but measurable (~1-2FPS in my test conditions)
- Removed `bool unScaled` from `setPixelColor()` function again (it has no/minimal impact on speed but huge impact on flash usage: +850 bytes)
- Removed negative checking in `setPixelColorXY()` and replaced it with a local typecast to unsigned, saves a few instructions (tested and working)
- Changed int8_t to int in `moveX()` and `moveY()`
- Removed a few functions from IRAM as they are now not called for every pixel but only once per segment update
- Removed a `virtualWidth()` call from `ripple_base()`
- Bugfix in `mode_colortwinkle()`
uint16_t to unsigned to make it consisten throughout the hand-down.
colorFromPaletteWLED now returns uint32_t which saves the conversion to CRGB and back to uint32_t (in most uses at least).
also added (preliminary) CRGBW struct. I tried to use it in place of uint32_t colors but it adds a lot of overhead when passing the struct so reverted to uint32_t in most places.
updated a few FX to use the CRGBW struct and also cleaned some code to improve flash useage.
- blurring now uses desaturated adding: it is faster most of the times and blurring adds scaled colors so should rarely (ever?) saturate, I saw no visual difference in tests.
- formatting
- optimized color_add() again: now it is as fast with preserved ratio scaling than the "fast" variant was before (if no scaling is needed, it is even faster). plus it saves 250 bytes of flash
- bugfix in `color_fade()`
- removed a lot of whitespaces
uses less flash so it should be faster (did not notice any FPS difference though)
also cleaned code in ColorFromPaletteWLED (it is not faster, same amount of code)
some users have reported that releases after 0.14.0 are not working reliably. So we add a few "compat" for 8266 that try to reproduce the buildenv of 0.14.0 as much as possible.
* platform and platform_packages from 0.14.0
* not using PIO_FRAMEWORK_ARDUINO_MMU_CACHE16_IRAM48
* due to smaller IRAM, we had to move some functions back from IRAM to normal flash (may cause slowdown)
- several compile warning fixes
- multipin LED compile config
- release info (update page, JSON "info")
- WiFi scan fix if no networks found
- UI glitch when no presets are found fix
With multipin LED config it is now possible to assign GPIO to PWM RGB outputs.
Achieved by having length of DATA_PINS be divisble by lengt of PIXEL_COUNTS.
-changes save roughly 600bytes of flash
-made blurring faster by not writing the color and then reading it back but keeping it as a variable: on a C3, FX black hole goes from 55FPS to 71FPS
-added optional parameter to blur (smear) that can be used in combination with SEGMENT.clear(), blurring the frame without dimming the current frame (repeated calls without clearing will result in white). this is useful to blur without 'motion blurring' being added
-scale8 is inlined and repeated calls uses flash, plus it is slower than native 32bit, so I added 'color_scale' function which is native 32bit and scales 32bit colors (RGBW).
Remove sync receive
Disallow 2D effects on non-2D segments
Optimisations
Sync clarification
AR palettes
Return of 2 audio simulations
Bugfix in sync #3344
- remove excessive segments
- ignore inactive segments if not syncing bounds
- send UDP/WS on segment change
- pop_back() when removing last segment
Add pairing support for ESP-NOW sync
Reduce string RAM footprint
UDP parse optimisation
Make WizMote work with sync.
ESP-NOW wireless sync POC.
- caveat: devices have to be on the same channel
- clashes with WizMote handling ATM
- breaking change
- remove leading 0 checkmark
- add reverse scroll checkmark
- add vertical scroll if text fits into segment (intensity ==0 or ==255)
- rotated characters
- leading 0 check added to short texts (i.e. #DDMM0)
Fixes#3322
Damian Schneider