Feature Request Thread

[v1993]

Another minor feature request for input expressions: support for `if(condition, if_true, if_false)` operator. Comes in handy with more complex expressions!

[imgonnafixthis]

more compatibility with homebrew

[Miksel12]

(12-18-2020, 06:34 AM)v1993 Wrote: Another minor feature request for input expressions: support for `if(condition, if_true, if_false)` operator. Comes in handy with more complex expressions!

There is an if function in the input expressions.

[v1993]

(12-18-2020, 11:25 AM)Miksel12 Wrote: There is an if function in the input expressions.

Oh, it was added since the last time I've updated dolphin. I guess I can say Dolphin devs completed my feature request in negative time then 

[djneo]

Custom material texture support

[vlbastos]

Support for .DDS custom texture format on Android.

[AnyOldName3]

The types of DDS that don't work on Android (e.g. BC1-BC7 aka DXT1 etc.) don't work because mobile GPUs can't cope with them rather than because Dolphin's not doing something it should.

[vlbastos]

(12-19-2020, 11:08 PM)AnyOldName3 Wrote: The types of DDS that don't work on Android (e.g. BC1-BC7 aka DXT1 etc.) don't work because mobile GPUs can't cope with them rather than because Dolphin's not doing something it should.

Sad to hear that :-(
Any other equivalent formats that would work on Windows/Linux/Android (faster than PNG)?

Edit: a quick search revealed ASTC is a texture compression format made by Arm and supported by mobile GPUs like Mali and Adreno. It's adopted officially by the Khronos Group for both OpenGL and OpenGL ES, and seems to produce better quality/compression than the other standards. Arm's encoder/decoder is on GitHub:
https://github.com/ARM-software/astc-encoder


Also, a developer guide from Qualcomm recommends using ASTC texture compression over the other available formats supported by Adreno:
https://developer.qualcomm.com/qfile/34706/80-nb295-7_a-adreno_vulkan_developer_guide.pdf

So now I'm changing my request: please support ASTC texture compression! 

[Map]

It would be really nice to see if you guys could support xDelta patches. Having to duplicate whole games just to use patches that are maybe less than a megabyte in size is incredibly inefficient. I hope it's not a complicated thing to impliment.

[iwubcode]

(12-24-2020, 10:44 PM)Map Wrote: It would be really nice to see if you guys could support xDelta patches. Having to duplicate whole games just to use patches that are maybe less than a megabyte in size is incredibly inefficient. I hope it's not a complicated thing to impliment.

A number of creators don't use xDelta patches because they only work if the user has the exact same file structure as the creator. I'd rather see the team implement a full-fledged mod system (to match Citra, Yuzu, Cemu, etc). Though I'm sure that'd be much more complicated.