This commit finishes removing the uses of the integer to float
vertex buffer fetch mode. Previous commits noted below already started
that process. The last usage was geometry attributes. Now integers are
converted to floats as part of the existing upload process.
The change makes the Vulkan vertex buffer type conversion unused, so
it's removed. That's nice because Vulkan vertex buffers go from 1040 to
568 bytes in size and have significantly less overhead on creation.
Related:
- 153abc372e
- 1e1ac2bb9b
- 617858e453
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138873
These tests were hitting an assert about
invalid format. They were testing for this
legacy format we don't support anymore.
# Conflicts:
# source/blender/gpu/vulkan/tests/vk_data_conversion_test.cc
Caused by 617858e453.
These formats should use types aligned to 4 bytes. That's generally
required by modern GPUs. Uploading with these types also avoids
automatic conversion by the Vulkan backend which is something
we're hoping to remove fully.
In the end this PR removes a bunch of code related to supporting
the older single-byte formats.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138836
In addition to float<->half functions to convert one number (#127708), add
float_to_half_array and half_to_float_array functions:
- On x64, this uses SSE2 4-wide implementation to do the conversion
(2x faster half->float, 4x faster float->half compared to scalar),
- There's also an AVX2 codepath that uses CPU hardware F16C instructions
(8-wide), to be used when/if blender codebase will start to be built
for AVX2 (today it is not yet).
- On arm64, this uses NEON VCVT instructions to do the conversion.
Use these functions in Vulkan buffer/texture conversion code. Time taken to
convert float->half texture while viewing EXR file in image space (22M
numbers to convert): 39.7ms -> 10.1ms (would be 6.9ms if building for AVX2)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127838
The encoding of mat3 in std430 was incorrect leading to a drawing
artifact in the direction control of sunlight in sky textures.
The error was that every 3 floats requires an additional float
as each row of the mat3 is aligned to 16 bytes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127246
When reviewing the render graph core PR, we discussed where specific
backend tests should be located. The code style is clear that it
needs to be located in a tests folder next to the code it tests.
This PR moved the tests folder from next to the files they test to
a tests folder.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120777
