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[Merged by Bors] - Add methods intersect_plane and get_point to Ray #6179

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Excellent, this looks great.

@alice-i-cecile alice-i-cecile added C-Usability A targeted quality-of-life change that makes Bevy easier to use A-Math Fundamental domain-agnostic mathematical operations labels Oct 6, 2022
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aevyrie commented Oct 6, 2022

I think it's worth discussing if bevy wants to start adding this kind of math. It's non-trivial to get it correct and fast, and will balloon in size/scope rapidly.

Maybe counter-intuitively, I think it might be better if bevy sticks to only providing common types, and let people build bindings to fully featured geometry libs. This particular PR is probably fine, we probably need some minimal helper functions even if we do decide to defer the math. I'd kinda like to get cart's opinion on this @alice-i-cecile. Thoughts?

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So, my vision in this space is:

  1. Bevy should provide common foundations for more advanced geometry backends that make different performance tradeoffs (or perhaps expose different styles of API).
  2. Critical gameplay-relevant functionality like "select a 2D object" or "convert my cursor position to a 2D world position" must be built into the engine and work correctly (if perhaps not quickly) out of the box.

I know the 3D case is significantly trickier, and I'm largely okay to defer that to 3rd party crates (for now). But the 2D case is a serious barrier for new users, game jams, and building out game templates and gameplay libraries (@bzm3r and I have been talking about adding related functionality to bevy_ecs_tilemap).

cc @cart @superdump @mockersf.

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bzm3r commented Oct 9, 2022

@aevyrie what are the general purpose/fully featured geometry libraries that people should build bindings to? My guesses:

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aevyrie commented Oct 9, 2022

@aevyrie what are the general purpose/fully featured geometry libraries that people should build bindings to? My guesses:

Whatever physics engine the user chooses. It's going to be way more performant, as it will already have acceleration structure built for the entire scene when doing things like ray casts and intersection checks.

Specifically, probably rapier, or bindings to an established C/C++ engine like physx, bullet, havoc, etc.

That's why I suggested we stick to defining interoperable types. These physics engines can get bevy wrappers that convert between the geometry types. This allows the bevy ecosystem to interop regardless of the engine chosen. It has similar problems to rusts async situation, but it's better than committing to a single engine. We could conceivably create traits for common intersection/physics tests, to allow even better compatibly. E.g. a plugin could call an intersection check function without caring about what physics backend is being used.

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cart commented Dec 2, 2022

I think that if we identify a need for a math type or function in Bevy, we should add it (provided glam doesn't already have it and contributing it upstream isn't the right move). General purpose geometry libs are only as useful as the things they interop with, and to my knowledge nothing exists that makes those particularly compelling to adopt (let me know if you have any specific scenarios in mind).

Given the uncertainty around what official Bevy + Physics will look like, I'd rather just add things as needed for now. In the case of this PR, these functions seem useful. We can always do breaking changes later if we find something else in this space that fits our needs better.

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2. Don't use up reader's "mental bandwidth" without good reason. We can't afford page-long descriptions of minor bug fixes. If it isn't a "headliner change", keep the description short and sweet. If a change is self describing, let it do that (ex: We now support this new mesh shape primitive ... this is what it looks like). If it is a "headliner change", still try to keep it reasonable. We always have a lot to cover.
3. In slight competition with point (2), don't omit interesting technical information when it is truly fun and engaging. A good chunk of our users are highly technical and enjoy learning how the sausage is made. Try to strike a balance between "terse and simple" and "nerdy details".
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6. Record images and videos at the default bevy resolution (1280x720)
7. Provide an accurate listing of authors that meaningfully contributed to the feature. Try to sort in order of "contribution scale". This is hard to define, but try to be fair. When in doubt, ask other contributors, SMEs, and/or maintainers.
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## Headliners

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* ECS Schedule v3 (previously known as "stageless")  
* Partial Android Support
* Depth and Normal Prepass
* Environment Map Lighting
* Cascaded Shadow Maps
* Distance and Atmospheric Fog
* Smooth Skeletal Animation Transitions
* Enable Parallel Pipelined Rendering
* Windows as Entities
* Renderer Optimizations
* ECS Optimizations

## Sections

These are the sections we will cover in the blog post. If a section has been claimed, it will have `(claimed by X)` in the title. If it is unclaimed it will have `(unclaimed)` in the title. Let us know if we missed a section. We don't cover every feature, but we should cover pretty much everything that would be interesting to users. Note that what is interesting or challenging to implement is not necessarily something that is relevant to our blog post readers. And sometimes the reverse is true!

If you believe a section should be split up or reorganized, just bring it up here and we can discuss it.

### ~~Schedule V3 (claimed by @alice-i-cecile)~~

* [Migrate engine to Schedule v3][7267]
* [Add `bevy_ecs::schedule_v3` module][6587]
* [Stageless: fix unapplied systems][7446]
* [Stageless: move final apply outside of spawned executor][7445]
* Sets
* Base Sets
  * [Base Sets][7466]
* Reporting
  * [Report sets][7756]
  * [beter cycle reporting][7463]
* Run Conditions
  * [Add condition negation][7559]
  * [And/Or][7605]
  * [Add more common run conditions][7579]
* States
  * [States derive macro][7535]
* System Piping Flexibility
  * [Support piping exclusive systems][7023]
  * [Allow piping run conditions][7547]

### ~~Depth and Normal Prepass (claimed by @IceSentry)~~

* [Add depth and normal prepass][6284]
* [Move prepass functions to prepass_utils][7354]

### ~~Distance and Atmospheric Fog (claimed by @coreh)~~

* [Add Distance and Atmospheric Fog support][6412]

### ~~Cascaded Shadow Maps (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Cascaded shadow maps.][7064]
* [Better cascades config defaults + builder, tweak example configs][7456]

### ~~Environment Map Lighting (claimed by @cart)~~

* [EnvironmentMapLight, BRDF Improvements][7051]
* [Webgl2 support][7737]

### ~~Tonemapping options (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Initial tonemapping options][7594]

### ~~Android support + unification (claimed by @mockersf)~~

* [IOS, Android... same thing][7493]

### ~~Windows as Entities (claimed by @Aceeri)~~

* [Windows as Entities][5589]
* [break feedback loop when moving cursor][7298]
* [Fix `Window` feedback loop between the OS and Bevy][7517]

### ~~Enable Parallel Pipelined Rendering (claimed by @james7132)~~

* [Pipelined Rendering][6503]
* [Stageless: add a method to scope to always run a task on the scope thread][7415]
* [Separate Extract from Sub App Schedule][7046]

### ~~Smooth Skeletal Animation Transitions (claimed by @james7132)~~

* [Smooth Transition between Animations][6922]

### ~~Spatial Audio (claimed by @harudagondi)~~

* [Spatial Audio][6028]

### ~~Shader Processor Features (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Shader defs can now have a value][5900]
* [Shaders can now have #else ifdef chains][7431]
* [Define shader defs in shader][7518]

### ~~Shader Flexibility Improvements (claimed by @cart)~~

* [add ambient lighting hook][5428]
* [Refactor Globals and View structs into separate shaders][7512]

### ~~Renderer Optimizations (claimed by @james7132)~~

* [bevy_pbr: Avoid copying structs and using registers in shaders][7069]
* [Flatten render commands][6885]
* [Replace UUID based IDs with a atomic-counted ones][6988]
* [improve compile time by type-erasing wgpu structs][5950]
* [Shrink DrawFunctionId][6944]
* [Shrink ComputedVisibility][6305]
* [Reduce branching in TrackedRenderPass][7053]
* [Make PipelineCache internally mutable.][7205]
* [Improve `Color::hex` performance][6940]
* [Support recording multiple CommandBuffers in RenderContext][7248]
* [Parallelized transform propagation][4775]
* [Introduce detailed_trace macro, use in TrackedRenderPass][7639]
* [Optimize color computation in prepare_uinodes][7311]
* [Directly extract joints into SkinnedMeshJoints][6833]
* [Parallelize forward kinematics animation systems][6785]
* [Move system_commands spans into apply_buffers][6900]
* [Reduce the use of atomics in the render phase][7084]

### ~~ECS Optimizations (claimed by @james7132 )~~

* [Remove redundant table and sparse set component IDs from Archetype][4927]
* [Immutable sparse sets for metadata storage][4928]
* [Replace BlobVec's swap_scratch with a swap_nonoverlapping][4853]
* [Use T::Storage::STORAGE_TYPE to optimize out unused branches][6800]
* [Remove unnecessary branching from bundle insertion][6902]
* [Split Component Ticks][6547]
* [use bevy_utils::HashMap for better performance. TypeId is predefined …][7642]
* [Extend EntityLocation with TableId and TableRow][6681]
* [Basic adaptive batching for parallel quer- [Speed up `CommandQueue` by storing commands more densely][6391]y iteration][4777]

### ~~Reflect Improvements (claimed by @cart)~~

* [bevy_reflect: Add `ReflectFromReflect` (v2)][6245]
* [Add reflection support for VecDeque][6831]
* [reflect: add `insert` and `remove` methods to `List`][7063]
* [Add `remove` method to `Map` reflection trait.][6564]
* [bevy_reflect: Fix binary deserialization not working for unit structs][6722]
* [Add `TypeRegistrationDeserializer` and remove `BorrowedStr`][7094]
* [bevy_reflect: Add simple enum support to reflection paths][6560]
* [Enable deriving Reflect on structs with generic types][7364]
* [bevy_reflect: Support tuple reflection paths][7324]
* [bevy_reflect: Pre-parsed paths][7321]
* [bevy_ecs: ReflectComponentFns without World][7206]

### ~~AsBindGroup Improvements (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Support storage buffers in derive `AsBindGroup`][6129]
* [Support raw buffers in AsBindGroup][7701]

### ~~Cylinder Shape (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Add cylinder shape][6809]

### ~~Subdividable Plane Shape (claimed by @cart)~~

* [added subdivisions to shape::Plane][7546]

### ~~StandardMaterial Blend Modes (claimed by @coreh)~~

* [Standard Material Blend Modes][6644]

### ~~Configurable Visibility Component (claimed by @cart)~~

* [enum `Visibility` component][6320]

### Task Improvements (claimed by @cart)

* [Fix panicking on another scope][6524]
* [Add thread create/destroy callbacks to TaskPool][6561]
* [Thread executor for running tasks on specific threads.][7087]
* [await tasks to cancel][6696]
* [Stageless: move MainThreadExecutor to schedule_v3][7444]
* [Stageless: close the finish channel so executor doesn't deadlock][7448]

### ~~Upgrade to wgpu 0.15 (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Wgpu 0.15][7356]

### ~~Expose Bindless / Non-uniform Indexing Support (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Request WGPU Capabilities for Non-uniform Indexing][6995]

### ~~Cubic Spline (claimed by @aevyrie)~~

* [Bezier][7653]

### ~~Revamp Bloom (claimed by @JMS55)~~

* [Revamp bloom](bevyengine/bevy#6677)

### ~~Use Prepass Shaders for Shadows (claimed by @superdump)~~

* [use prepass shaders for shadows](bevyengine/bevy#7784)

### ~~AccessKit (claimed by @alice-i-cecile)~~

* [accesskit](bevyengine/bevy#6874)

### ~~Camera Output Modes (claimed by @cart)~~

* [camera output modes](bevyengine/bevy#7671)

### ~~SystemParam Improvements (claimed by @JoJoJet)~~

* [Make the `SystemParam` derive macro more flexible][6694]
* [Add a `SystemParam` primitive for deferred mutations; allow `#[derive]`ing more types of SystemParam][6817]

### ~~Gamepad Improvements (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Gamepad events refactor][6965]
* [add `Axis::devices` to get all the input devices][5400]

### ~~Input Methods (claimed by @cart)~~

* [add Input Method Editor support][7325]

### ~~Color Improvements (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Add LCH(ab) color space to `bevy_render::color::Color`][7483]
* [Add a more familiar hex color entry][7060]

### ~~Split Up CorePlugin (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Break `CorePlugin` into `TaskPoolPlugin`, `TypeRegistrationPlugin`, `FrameCountPlugin`.][7083]

### ~~ExtractComponent Derive (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Extract component derive][7399]

### ~~Added OpenGL and DX11 Backends By Default (claimed by @cart)~~

* [add OpenGL and DX11 backends][7481]

### ~~UnsafeWorldCell (claimed by @BoxyUwU)~~

* [Move all logic to `UnsafeWorldCell`][7381]
* [Rename `UnsafeWorldCellEntityRef` to `UnsafeEntityCell`][7568]

### ~~Entity Commands (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Add a trait for commands that run for a given `Entity`][7015]

* [Add an extension trait to `EntityCommands` to update hierarchy while preserving `GlobalTransform`][7024]
* [Add ReplaceChildren and ClearChildren EntityCommands][6035]

### ~~Iterate EntityRef (claimed by @james7132)~~

* [Allow iterating over with EntityRef over the entire World][6843]

### ~~Ref Queries (@JoJoJet)~~

* [Added Ref to allow immutable access with change detection][7097]

### ~~Taffy Upgrade (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Upgrade to Taffy 0.2][6743]

### ~~Relative Cursor Position (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Relative cursor position][7199]

### ~~Const UI Config (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Add const to methods and const defaults to bevy_ui][5542]

### ~~Examples (claimed by @cart)~~

* [Add pixelated Bevy to assets and an example][6408]
* [Organized scene_viewer into plugins for reuse and organization][6936]

### ~~CI Improvements (claimed by @cart)~~

* [add rust-version for MSRV and CI job to check][6852]
* [msrv: only send a message on failure during the actual msrv part][7532]
* [Make CI friendlier][7398]
* [Fix CI welcome message][7428]
* [add an action to ask for a migration guide when one is missing][7507]

### ~~SMEs (@cart)~~

This was already covered in another blog post. Just briefly call out what they are and that this is the first release that used them. Link to the other blog post.

* [Subject Matter Experts and new Bevy Org docs][7185]

[4775]: bevyengine/bevy#4775
[4777]: bevyengine/bevy#4777
[4853]: bevyengine/bevy#4853
[4927]: bevyengine/bevy#4927
[4928]: bevyengine/bevy#4928
[5400]: bevyengine/bevy#5400
[5428]: bevyengine/bevy#5428
[5542]: bevyengine/bevy#5542
[5589]: bevyengine/bevy#5589
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