With the shift to GPU-driven rendering pipeline,
the SSBO vertex fetch paradigm used to
implement workbench shadows on Metal
instead of utilising the geometry shader
path no longer worked correctly.
This is because the draw submission
required vertex amplification up-front,
based on the expected output geometry
amount for a given input geometry.
This patch aims to resolve this
issue through addition of API to
enable the features within the
GPU driven pipeline.
Co-authored-by: Michael Parkin-White <mparkinwhite@apple.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113498
Changes to ensure all supported texture tests are passing with the
Metal backend and add additional tests to cover texture_3d and
texture 1d test cases.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Co-authored-by: Michael Parkin-White <mparkinwhite@apple.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113889
Caused by a1cc621e1e. The "is_hair_length" value needs to be
set before `attr_input_name` is called because it uses the value to set
the attribute name with the "l" alias.
Shaders that require transform feedback should not be validated on
backends that don't support transform feedback.
In Vulkan transform feedback is implemented as an extension and
supported by half of the platforms. It isn't decided yet if we want to
support transform feedback as it is currently used as a fallback for
hair compute shader. In vulkan compute is available on all platforms.
During validation the shader printed a not implemented message.
This change hides that message.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113655
With the shift to GPU-driven rendering pipeline,
the SSBO vertex fetch paradigm used to
implement workbench shadows on Metal
instead of utilising the geometry shader
path no longer worked correctly.
This is because the draw submission
required vertex amplification up-front,
based on the expected output geometry
amount for a given input geometry.
This WIP patch aims to resolve this
issue through addition of API to
enable the features within the
GPU driven pipeline.
Co-authored-by: Michael Parkin-White <mparkinwhite@apple.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113498
`eevee_shadow_page_tile_store` shader uses `VIEWPORT_INDEX` and `LAYER`.
Both use an optional extension in OpenGL and Vulkan. When the extension
isn't available a geometry shader is injected to emulate the
extension. The generated geometry shader requires `instance_name` to be
set. This wasn't the case for `eevee_shadow_page_tile_store` shader.
This PR also adds a detection for incompatible shader infos.
- Shaders that use `VIEWPORT_INDEX` or `LAYER` cannot have a geometry stage.
This check is done in debug and release builds.
- Shaders that use a fallback shader should have instance names set in
the stage interfaces. This check is only done in debug builds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113649
This adds basic emulation of the subpass input feature
of vulkan and to a lower extend Raster Order Group on Metal.
This help test paths that might use this feature in the future
(like shadow rendering) on all platform and or simplify higher
level code for supporting older hardware.
This add clear description to the load/store ops and to the
new `GPUAttachementState`.
The OpenGL backend will correctly mask un-writable
attachments and will bind as texture readable attachments.
Even if possible by the vulkan standard, the GPU API prohibit
the read and write to the same attachment inside the same
subpass.
In the GL backend, this is implemented using `glTextureBarrier`
and `texelFetch` as it is described in the ARB_texture_barrier
extension.
https://registry.khronos.org/OpenGL/extensions/ARB/ARB_texture_barrier.txt
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112051
Don't assume existence of GPU backend in (background) preview rendering.
Also add null pointer checks and rely on assert instead to detect
invalid usage of GPU_render_begin/end, so that potential future mistakes
don't cause crashes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112971
Texture Atomics have been added in Metal 3.1
and enable the original implementations of
shadow update and irradiance cache baking.
However, a fallback solution will be
required for versions under macOS 14.0 utilising
buffer-backed textures instead.
This patch also includes a stub implementation if
building/running on older macOS versions which
provides locally-synchronized texture access in
place of atomics. This enables some effects to be
partially tested, and ensures non-guarded use
of imageAtomic functions does not result
in compilation failure.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112866
Blender 4.0 requires OpenGL 4.3 which always support SSBO's.
Platforms that don't support enough SSBO bind points will be marked
as unsupported.
Users who start Blender on those platforms will be informed via a
dialog. This PR also updates the `--debug-gpu-force-workarounds`
to match our minimum requirements. Note that some bugs are still
there that should be solved in other PRs:
* Workbench only renders the object using a unit matrix this is because
there is a bug in the workaround for shader_draw_parameters
* Navigating with middle mouse button is not working. Unsure what the
cause is, but might be a missing feature check in the OpenGL backend.
Related to #112224
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112572
- Adds tint control, which simulates volumetric absorption inside the coating.
This results in angle-dependent saturation and affects all underlying layers
(diffuse, subsurface, metallic, transmission). It provides a physically-based
alternative to ad-hoc effects such as tinted specular highlights.
- Renames the component from "Clearcoat" to "Coat", since it's no longer
necessarily clear now. This matches naming in e.g. other renderers or OpenPBR.
- Adds an explicit Coat IOR input, in preparation for future smarter IOR logic
around the interaction between Coat and main IOR. This used to be hardcoded
to 1.5.
- Removes hardcoded 0.25 weight multiplier, and adds versioning code to update
existing files accordingly. OBJ import/export still applies the factor.
- Replaces the GTR1 microfacet component with regular GGX. This removes a corner
case in the Microfacet code, solves #53038, and makes us more consistent with
other standard surface shaders. The original Disney BSDF used GTR1, but it
doesn't appear that it caught on in the industry.
Co-authored-by: Weizhen Huang <weizhen@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110993
5cf7089e43 added the `BuiltinBits::LAYER` to shaders with a geometry
stage. This causes compilation errors when
`GLContext::layered_rendering_support` is false (otherwise the flag
does nothing).
This PR moves the `LAYER` flags to the `no_geom` shader versions and
adds a check to `ShaderCreateInfo::finalize()` to ensure the `LAYER` flag
is not used in shaders with a geometry stage.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112245
Enables performance optimizations and new rendering
features through allowing colour attachments to be
tagged with a rasterization order group. This means that
all accesses to the same pixel location are guaranteed
to happen in submission order.
This lays the ground work for tile-based architecture
optimizations, enabling additional features for
deferred rendering which allow subsequent passes
which operate on pixel data to occur in order, while
memory remains on-tile.
This patch allows fragment outputs to be tagged
with a raster order group and also adds a new
FragmentTileIn parameter to a shader, which allows
speciication of incoming parameters from a previous
draw.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111748
Enhance custom framebuffer binding state to allow
specification of clear color as part of the loadstore
state at framebuffer bind time.
This ensures all parameters controlling attachment
loading and storage behaviour can be explicitly
specified when binding a framebuffer.
This change enables optimizations which leverage
explicit framebuffer load store state to also specify
a clear color without prematurely triggering a
clear which may occur independently to
render work when using GPU_framebuffer_clear(..).
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111810
Some shaders using gl_Layer/gpu_Layer were missing
the correct usage bit in the shader create info. Shaders
also need to inherit feature usage bits from included
additional_info.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111751
The hash tables and vector blenlib headers were pulling many more
headers than they actually need, including the C base math header,
our C string API header, and the StringRef header. All of this
potentially slows down compilation and polutes autocomplete
with unrelated information.
Also remove the `ListBase` constructor for `Vector`. It wasn't used
much, and making it easy to use `ListBase` isn't worth it for the
same reasons mentioned above.
It turns out a lot of files depended on indirect includes of
`BLI_string.h` and `BLI_listbase.h`, so those are fixed here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111801
Extract a mask from the stencil buffer and use that texture instead
when texture views are not available.
Needed for supporting the Windows ARM software driver.
The workaround is isolated on its own class so it's easy to remove once
it's no longer needed.
Note that while this adds a function to check if texture views are available
(`GPU_texture_view_support`), at the moment this always returns true in
practice, since OpenGL 4.3 is the minimum supported version.
A separate patch will be needed to allow Blender to run using
OpenGL 4.2 + extensions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111402
Now that all shaders have been converted to be Vulkan Compatible it is
safe to test for incompatibility when running in OpenGL or MTL.
This detection is only done when blender is compiled in debug mode.
shaderc generates an error when a struct containing an int type
isn't qualified as flat. We work around this issue by changing the
interpolation mode to flat during code generation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111211
A difference was detected between stage interfaces between OpenGL and Vulkan
that are not compatible with our current API.
**OpenGL**
In OpenGL an stage interface struct can have different interpolation qualifiers
per attribute.
```glsl
struct MyStageInterface {
smooth vec4 color;
flat int face_flag;
};
layout(..) MyStageInterface interp;
```
**Vulkan**
In vulkan the interpolation qualifier isn't supported on attribute
level and needs to be added to the struct.
```glsl
struct MyStageInterface {
vec4 color;
};
struct MyStageInterface_flat {
int face_flag;
};
layout(..) smooth MyStageInterface interp;
layout(..) flat MyStageInterface_flat interp_flat;
```
This patch reports shaders that are incompatible with Vulkan so they can be
patched. Report is only done in debug mode and when using the vulkan backend.
After all shaders are patched an error will be raised so developers will
known immediately when incompatibility are created.
Making the shaders compatible and adding the error will be done in future
patches.
**Python**
Via Python gpu module (gpu.types.GPUShaderCreateInfo) it isn't possible
to construct an incompatible shader as instance names cannot be set
via the API. So this isn't a breaking change.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111138
