I was slowly getting cancer from having to write the unreadably awful
VK_FORMAT_R666G666B666A666_SRGB all the time. Besides that:
- All pixel formats are documented to show what's guaranteed for them
by the spec. Pretty useful I'd say.
- The old hasVkFormat() and vkFormat() converters operating on a
VkFormat are deprecated in favor of new hasPixelFormat() and
pixelFormat() that use the PixelFormat enum. Similarly as done in the
GL wrapper.
- All APIs that took a VkFormat before take a PixelFormat now, together
with having conveinience overloads for Magnum::PixelFormat and
Magnum::CompressedPixelFormat. Again similarly as done in the GL
wrapper, also the first step on being able to *directly* use data
imported with the Trade library with Vulkan.
After I implemented the render pass wrapper, seeing how the
RenderPassCreateInfo structure and its dependencies were HUGE compared
to the actual tiny and lean RenderPass, I felt uneasy dragging their
definition along to every place where a RenderPass gets used. It's not
as bad with the others, but as new extensions are implemented I expect
that to get the same.
This change makes it easier for me to accept that Image.h / Buffer.h
depends on Memory.h. There isn't a real measurable difference when
building Magnum itself (50 ms out of 7 seconds for the Vk library
alone), but that's because most of the code (and tests) needs the
CreateInfo structures anyway.
Quite a big chunk of work, further expanded due to how
VK_KHR_create_renderpass2 is designed -- basically, due to the
tightly-packed nested structures that got replaced with their "version
2", we can no longer just extract the previous structure for backwards
compatibility, but instead have to deep-copy everything to a newly
allocated memory.
Thanks to the the new ArrayTuple structure and a few design iterations I
managed to kick the backwards-compatiblity code into just a single
allocation, while still keeping it possible for the "version 2" code
path to be fully allocation-free (if one passes a completely filled
VkRenderPassCreateInfo2 structure there).
Vladimír Vondruš