Frame ID incremented on each render

[OndrejSpanel]

Description

I think similar to this.info.autoReset is should be possible to avoid incrementing frame ID during render.

Currently there is a statement:

this.info.render.frame ++

This is used to check if skeleton update is needed in

if (this.updateMap.get(skeleton) != frame)

When someone uses render to implement custom passes, e.g. custom shadow map rendering, currently skeleton is updated in each pass.

Solution

There could be a way to disable auto-increment of this.info.render.frame, perhaps by setting this.info.autoFrame = false, which would be true by default. Only when this flag is not false, the this.info.render.frame ++ would be done.

Alternatives

Currently one can decrement this.info.render.frame after calling render.

Additional context

No response

[Mugen87]

We currently advice to set autoReset to false when the app produces a frame with multiple render() calls. We then state:

Call reset() whenever you have finished to render a single frame.

So...couldn't we increase the frame counter in reset()?

That would not change the behavior for most apps since they don't change the default value of autoReset.

I'm not in favor for introducing a new flag autoFrame since reset() and the frame counter are already tightly coupled (reset() effectively resets frame statistics).

Maybe we should rename reset() to updateFrame() and autoReset to autoUpdate?