The old system used just "views", but I had at some time decided that I
might want to support specifying buffers and buffer views, but forgot to
change the name in vkparse.c.
While hash tables are useful for large symbol tables, the bool "enum" is
too small to justify one and even bsearch is too expensive (also,
bsearch requires knowing the number of elements, which is a bit of a
hassle currently).
Samplers have no direct relation to render passes or pipelines, so
should not necessarily be in the same config file. This makes all the
old config files obsolete, and quite a bit of support code in vkparse.c.
This gets screenshots working again. As the implementation is now a
(trivial) state machine, the pause when grabbing a screenshot is
significantly reduced (it can be reduced even further by doing the png
compression in a separate thread).
The new system seems to work quite nicely with brush models, which was
the intent, but it's nice to see. Hopefully, it works well when it comes
to shadows. There's still water warp and screen shots to fix, and
fisheye to get working, as well.
Gotta be sure :)
With the new system mostly up and running (just bsp rendering and
descriptor sets/layout handling to go, and they're independent of the
old render pass system), the old system can finally be cleared out.
This fixes the insta-death of particles. Interestingly, other than
particles (due to the ring of buffers not being used correctly),
everything else worked nicely, so I guess 1-frame rendering got tested.
The particles die instantly due to curFrame not updating (next commit),
but otherwise work nicely, especially sync is better (many thanks to
Darian for his help with understanding sync scope).
bsp_draw_queue isn't the right place, but it's just place-holder code to
help get the rest of the renderers up and running before I tackle bsp
rendering. Fixes the segfault in demo1 when the zombies get gibbed,
resulting in zombie entities.
This was necessary to get the 2d elements drawn after the fence had been
fired (thus indicating descriptors could be updated) but before actual
rendering of the 2d elements (which is how it was done before the switch
to the new system).
It turns out there was a bug in the old iqm push constants spec (I still
need to figure out how to use layouts in the new system so I can
completely delete the old).
The output system's update_input takes a parameter specifying the render
step from which it is to get the output view of that step and updates
its descriptors as necessary.
With this, the full render job is working for alias models (minus a few
glitches).
When creating a new command buffer and appending it to a queue, the
active buffer count needs to be incremented too otherwise the new
command buffer will be accidentally reused prematurely. Not noticed
earlier because only one buffer was being created.
Many thanks to Peter and Darian for clearing up my misunderstanding of
how vkResetCommandPool works. The manager creates command buffers from
the command pool on an as-needed basis (when the queue of available
buffers is empty), and keeps track of those buffers in a queue. When the
pool is reset, the queues (one each for primary and secondary command
buffers) are reset such that the tracked buffers are available again.
Imageless framebuffers would probably be easier and cleaner, but this
takes care of the validation error attempting to present the second
frame (because rendering was being done to the first frame's swapchain
image instead of the second frame's).
Command buffer pools can't be reset until the commands have all been
executed. Having per-frame pools makes keeping track of pool lifetime
fairly easy.
Interleaving Vulkan objects with stucts containing vec4f_t results in
the vectors becoming unaligned when there is an odd number of objects in
a set, thus producing a segfault. Putting all the structs first prevents
any such issue.
The new render system now passes validation for the first frame (but
no drawing is done by the various subsystems yet). Something is wrong
with how swap chain semaphores are handled thus the second frame fails.
Frame buffer attachments can now be defined externally, with
"$swapchain" supported for now (in which case, the swap chain defines
the size of the frame buffer).
Also, render pass render areas and pipeline viewport and scissor rects
are updated when necessary.
I don't like the current name (update_framebuffer), but if the
referenced render pass doesn't have a framebuffer, one is created. The
renderpass is referenced via the active renderpass of the named render
step. Unfortunately, this has uncovered a bug in the setup of renderpass
objects: main.deferred has output's renderpass, and main.deferred_cube
and output have bogus renderpass objects.
The string type is useful for passing around strings (the only thing
that they can do, currently), particularly as arguments to functions.
The voidptr type is (currently) never generated by the core cexpr
system, but is useful for storing pointers via cexpr (probably a bit of
a hack, but it seems to work well in my current use).
