Interesting, didn't know this kind of feature support was possible. I
guess it's still better than no GLES3.2 at all. Also, it's a phone from
2017, so probably not all that important to care about anymore anyway.
Most of the testing scaffolding here is a preparation for the actually
complex formats like BC6/7 or ASTC. Also, it's great to be able to use
Magnum from Python to prepare data for testing the C++ Magnum APIs.
So it's possible to have light culling enabled on, say, 64 lights, but
with only at most 3 applied each draw, allowing the shader compiler to
unroll the loop if it makes sense. This also better prepares for SSBO
support where the total light count would be unbounded and thus the
value ignored, and thus the value can be 0.
This prepares for SSBO support where the total count is unbounded (and
thus the value is ignored, thus it can be 0).
Also regroup the doc paragraphs so it's clear what's related to UBO
usage and what applies to classic uniforms as well.
Currently just the bare minimum, more features such as handling
multiple contiguous strips and loops inside a single mesh or an
overlapping layout will come later.
The shader requires the input data to be laid out in a rather specific
way, and there will be a dedicated MeshTools utility for it in the
following commits. For independence though, the shader tests use a
custom helper.
The initial implementation has certain corner cases which will be
eventually resolved. For now they are pinned down with repro cases in
the test. But apart from that, it's pretty much usable in practice.
Remaining join styles (round and miter-clip) as well as stipple support
will eventually follow as well.
Also fixes a WebGL error in the tests. I suspect it might fail elsewhere
as well. Nevertheless, this still doesn't mean that it would be
impossible to use dynamic joint count with UBOs -- simply pad the UBO in
that case.
Apparently a framebuffer attachment can be bound only if it's actually
written to by a shader, thus instanced test cases that had it set up
always were failing with a GL error if the shader didn't have ObjectId
output enabled.
I unified both into a single renderSetup()/renderTeardown() routine,
where the ObjectId renderbuffer is attached always, but then only the
test cases that actually use it are mapping it explicitly. And clearing
as well, because apparently it can be cleared only if it's mapped. Huh.
Given that I made a breaking change by returning Containers::String
instead of a std::string, I can take it further and replace also
std::pair with Containers::Pair -- it won't bring any more pain to the
users, they have to change their code anyway.
Co-authored-by: Hugo Amiard <hugo.amiard@wonderlandengine.com>
It's not a GL error, and allows the application to compile just a single
shader for all skinned meshes, not one for each skeleton size. Together
with the dynamic per-vertex joint count this means the app only needs a
single shader for all skinned meshes, which is nice.
Those were temporarily added until Trade::AbstractImporter is ported
away from std::string, and that's done for quite some time already, so
these are no longer needed.
High-level docs with examples will be written once there's corresponding
support in MeshTools::compile() *and* in importer plugins, as skinned
meshes are usually brought in from files, never set up directly.
Co-authored-by: Squareys <squareys@googlemail.com>
To make room for two more 16-bit skinning-related values in the
PhongDrawUniform -- joint offset for multidraw and per-instance joint
count for instancing.
Originally I made those full 32 bits because I wanted to provide an
option to have a 64-bit light mask there instead of an offset + count.
But the mask is not really driver-friendly as going over the bits and
skipping zeros was behaving like if each pixel was affected by 64 lights
-- an absolute perf nightmare. I might reconsider this again later, but
for now that doesn't seem to make sense, and I need to put the
skinning-related info somewhere without inflating the per-draw uniform
by another 16-byte vector.
Note that the order is *reversed* compared to the originally reserved
attribute IDs. This is because the "joint <id> has <weight>" order
feels more natural and consistent than "<weight> is assigned to joint
<id>".
Co-authored-by: Vladimír Vondruš <mosra@centrum.cz>
What's especially nice is that the code snippets no longer need to
describe that there's "2 lights, 3 materials and 5 draws" because now
it's self-documenting.
This would be causing an ambiguity in the upcoming shader setup rework.
It's unlikely to be used in practice like this, so I don't think I
should be accounting for such ambiguity.
The class is rather heavy (strings, STL vector) and it'll stay heavier
than strictly needed even after the planned STL cleanup -- shader users
should not bear the overhead of Array, StringView etc. that it needs in
order to compile the shader sources.
I might eventually come to a different conclusion (maybe separating
GL::Shader population and usage like doing in Vulkan with CreateInfos),
but right now this commit has the best available solution -- converting
the instance to a lightweight class containing just ID and type, and
then converting that back to a GL::Shader upon checking compilation/link
status.
While at it, also removed the not-strictly-needed Optional usage from
the header. It wouldn't work with forward-declared GL::Shader anyway.
Vladimír Vondruš