Back when I wrote the test I didn't know what would be the most
convenient way to use the API yet, so it was unnecessarily verbose in
various places. Now I do.
Also using Utility::copy() to populate the arrays. No need to suffer
this much for no reason.
Given the recent issues with vertex data with size over 4 GB, I feel
this limit might get hit soon as well. So far GPUs don't support vertex
counts larger than 32 bits, so storing them in a 32-bit number matches
the limitation there. Also, a vertex is usually at least 6 bytes (for
3-component positions quantized into 16-bit ints), thus a mesh hitting
this limit would be 24 GB in size. Which fits only on the beefiest
contemporary GPUs.
However I imagine the limit might get raised eventually, for example to
support a use case of a huge sparse mesh where only sub-parts of it are
drawn, and the sub-parts have counts that fit into 32 bits.
Passes for SceneData but fails for MeshData due to 32-bit types used by
accident. The two also have a vastly different calculations in the range
checks, should unify that first.
This got probably implemented long before the change in
c74b4c6b90. Or actually maybe not at all.
In any case, it'd cause an ambiguity with the 2D char view constructor
when the "updimensioning" StridedArrayView constructor gets introduced.
Because, when it fails, it'd attempt to print them as strings,
inevitably leading to a crash or garbage in the terminal. Moreover, with
the upcoming fix that makes StringView *actually* convertible from an
ArrayView, it would become ambiguous.
Stone age APIs used here again, I can't fathom how I could live without
member slicing for so long. This also fixes an OOB access which trips up
the new ArrayView assertions -- accessing element 0 in the constructor
isn't a good thing to do if there's no data at all.
This is the first builtin array attribute, with one of the objectives
being an ability to support an arbitrary count of per-vertex weights in
a single contiguous attribute without the complexity of having to go
through several four-component attributes.
On the shader side it still needs to get cut into at most four
components per attribute, but there's no reason for such limitation to
get propagated here as well.
Co-authored-by: Vladimír Vondruš <mosra@centrum.cz>
I'm not sure why this restriction was there as nothing was preventing
them from being used. The attribute is only accessible through the
typeless attribute(), which gives back
`Containers::StridedArrayView2D<const char>` with second dimension size
being set to the full stride. And there it doesn't matter if the format
is an array or not.
This will be useful for joint IDs and weights, for example doing crazy
things like packing the IDs into an array of 8 4-bit numbers, saving
half the memory compared to the smallest builtin representation using
UnsignedByte[8].
A lot of pain went into creating owned mesh data even though it was
completely unnecessary in retrospect. Originally I thought "let's not
use any advanced feature" but the verbosity is just not worth it.
In the recent-ish SceneData tests I went with non-owned data already,
and it was much simpler. It's a learning process even for using my own
APIs, huh.
I realized those are too annoying when writing a glTF exporter which
contains a lot of switches over enums. And as further shown by the diff,
those were only inflicting additional pain in *all* switch statements,
nothing else, no other added value. And everywhere else the helpers are
the designated way to deal with those, so there's no point in having an
explicit enum value denoting start of a "custom range".
It wasn't even any convenient to have it in the enum, as the extra
effort needed for casting actually made it *exactly* the same length as
if I'd just use a separately-defined constant.
Again not publicly documented because I don't like the naming and I
don't have the full behavior and interactions figured out yet -- i.e.,
an array of VertexFormats would be printed with Debug::packed as a long
string of characters without any whitespace. Not good, thus this
feature probably needs to be split in two, with this being named
"compact" or something else.
It's dangerous, as in case of failure it will attempt to print them as
strings. Plus now with latest de-std-string-ification of TestSuite it
causes the compilation to fail due to an ambigupus overload.
This should eventually be catched and disallowed directly by the Tester
class.
This mirrors what's done already for implementation-specific vertex
formats, thus:
* Ability to construct the classes without tripping up when trying to
check for type size in various asserts
* Providing a zero-size type-erased access in indices() and
mutableIndices()
* Disallowing typed and convenience access
Also not something the classic GPU vertex pipeline can handle, but
useful for other scenarios. Subsequently a support for array indices
will be added, allowing to directly represent for example OBJ files,
where each attribute has its own index buffer.
This is not something the classic GPU vertex pipeline can handle
(except maybe Vulkan, which can handle zero strides for instanced
attributes?), but useful for other scenarios. This means existing code
needs to be aware of and handle the new corner case.
Because otherwise we don't properly test all cases. Case in point --
attributeData(UnsignedInt) wasn't correctly propagating the array size,
causing the new tests to fail. Fix in the next commit.
Vladimír Vondruš