Creates a lightweight copy of a Model, for situations where a single
model needs to be rendered with multiple poses in a single frame, which
is currently not possible.
Enables automatic CPU/GPU timing for all passes. Defaults to true
when graphics debugging is active, but can be enabled/disabled manually.
When active, Pass:getStats will return submitTime and gpuTime table
keys, respectively indicating CPU time the Pass took to record and the
time the Pass took to run on the GPU. These have a delay of a few
frames.
This doesn't include a way to get "global" timing info for a submit.
This information would be useful because it doesn't require lovrrs to
sum all the timing info for all the passes and it would include other
work like transfers, synchronization, and CPU waits. However, this is
more challenging to implement under the current architecture and will be
deferred to later. Even if this were added, these per-pass timings will
remain useful.
- Make sure to reset barriers for compute/canvas resources too
- Delay stream ending so OpenXR layout transitions actually go in an
active command buffer.
If you switch to/from a compute shader and the other shader is either
nil or a graphics shader, clear bindings.
Maybe if you switch to/from nil the bindings shouldn't be cleared, but
this is a bit more complicated to implement and it's not clear that
there's any reason not to treat nil shaders as graphics shaders.
Previously, if you wanted to run compute operations that depend on the
results of prior compute operations, you had to put these in 2 different
passes, because logically all of the compute calls in a pass run "at the
same time" (or we're at least giving the GPU the freedom to do that).
Having to set up an entirely new pass just to synchronize 2 :compute
calls is pretty cumbersome, and incurs extra overhead. It would be
possible to change things so *every* :compute call waits for previous
computes to finish, but this would destroy GPU parallelism.
The Pass:barrier method lets compute calls within a pass synchronize
with each other, without requiring multiple passes. Adding a barrier
basically means "hey, wait for all the :compute calls before the barrier
to finish before running future :computes".
This lets things remain highly parallel but allows them to be easily
synchronized when needed.
Pass stores draw commands rather than sending them to Vulkan
immediately.
The main motivation is to allow more flexibility in the Lua API. Passes
are now regular objects, aren't invalidated whenever submit is called,
and can cache their draws across multiple frames. Draws can also be
internally culled, sorted, and batched.
Some API methods (tallies) are missing, and there are still some bugs to
fix, notably with background color.
View count is well-defined to be 2 with the current view configuration,
and people should be able to rely on getViewCount even before the views
are tracked. It returns the number of views in the view configuration,
not the number of views with valid data.
- If timestamp is zero (before .update is called), return empty data
instead of erroring.
- Check for valid position/orientation separately, and return empty data
for anything that's invalid. Previously both position/orientation
were used if either was valid, which returns undefined results.
- Add Buffer:newReadback
- Add Buffer:getData
- Buffer:getPointer works with permanent buffers
- Buffer:setData works with permanent buffers
- Buffer:clear works with permanent buffers
- Add Texture:newReadback
- Add Texture:getPixels
- Add Texture:setPixels
- Add Texture:clear
- Add Texture:generateMipmaps
- Buffer readbacks can now return tables in addition to Blobs using Readback:getData
Tally is coming back soon with an improved API, it's temporarily removed
since it made the transfer rework a bit easier.
Note that synchronous readbacks (Buffer:getData, Texture:getPixels)
internally call lovr.graphics.submit, so they invalidate existing Pass
objects. This will be improved soon.
Pass:plane was leaving its z scale uninitialized, which resulted in
a garbage normal matrix and other issues when using the transform in a
shader. Planes were the only shape affected by this.
If the number of skinned vertices in a Model doesn't fit in a single
dispatch (~2M vertices on 32-sized subgroups or ~500K vertices on
8-sized subgroups), split it into multiple dispatches.
When a single stencil action is provided in Pass:setStencilWrite, it now
maps to just passOp instead of all the ops. This matches expectations
and previous versions.
- Pass:mesh accepts tables for vertices/indices
- Add Pass:setVertexFormat to set format used for table-based meshes
- Pass:send accepts tables for buffers
- Pass:send supports arbitrarily nested structs/arrays for push constants
- Buffer formats support arbitrarily nested structs/arrays
- Zero-length buffers are valid and represent structs
- Fields can have names using 'name'
- Field types can be tables of other fields (structs)
- Fields can have 'length' key
- newBuffer syntax has been changed to put format first (old version
still works)
- Buffers can be created from shader variables, avoiding need to declare
matching format.
- Pass:clear/Pass:read use byte offsets instead of indices
- Pass:copy uses byte offsets when copying a Buffer to a Buffer
- Deprecate lovr.graphics.getBuffer (tables can be used instead)
- core/spv just returns the type of image variables instead of trying to
validate them.
- When Shader is loading resources, it will reject combined image
samplers, uniform/texel buffers, and input attachments, with better
error messages that include the binding number of the invalid resource.
There were certain cases where an unrenderable texture view could be
created from a renderable parent texture (e.g. it has multiple mipmap
levels). This would leave renderView as NULL, which would cause a
crash.
Currently if you create a texture from dimensions (assumed to be a
render target), its mipmap count differs depending on whether you
provide an options table. Now it will consistently be 1.
If the target index is missing, the state will apply to all targets.
Fixes undefined behavior when setting color state in a pass with
multiple color attachments.
They are copied by value. Upon popping, they are pushed as temporary
vectors. Matrices are allocated on the heap, everything else is stored
in the Variant itself.
This enables a few things:
- Custom vector methods can be added/replaced.
- Vector methods can be called as non-methods e.g. vec3.normalize(v)
- Possibility for vector constants in an __index metamethod.
This was measured as increasing overhead by 3.5% when creating temporary
vectors (2ns), which is arbitrarily deemed acceptable.
- Allow multisampled render pass to have a single-sample depth attachment
- Add a new depthResolve feature, indicating whether it's supported
- Fix stencil load/save
- Minor changes to render pass caching
- Currently the depth resolve is done using the first sample. A future
improvement would be to expose/use the min/max/average resolve modes.
