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).
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).
Being able to specify the types in the push constant ranges makes it a
lot easier to get the specification correct. I never did like having to
do the offsets and sizes by hand as it was quite error prone. Right now,
float, int, uint, vec3, vec4 and mat4 are supported, and adheres to
layout std430.
This is with the new render job scheme. I very much doubt it actually
works (can't start testing until everything passes, and it's disabled
for the moment (define in vid_render_vulkan.c)), but it's helping iron
out what more is needed in the render system.
I never liked it, but with C2x coming out, it's best to handle bools
properly. I haven't gone through all the uses of int as bool (I'll leave
that for fixing when I encounter them), but this gets QF working with
both c2x (really, gnu2x because of raw strings).
The warning flag check worked too well: it enabled the warning and
autoconf's default main wanted the const attribute. The bug has been
floating around for a while, it seems.
set_while checks the iterator's current element membership and skips to
the first element with different membership. ie, if the current element
is in the set, then set_while returns the next element *not* in the set,
but if the current is not in the set, then set_while returns the next
element that *is* in the set. Rather handy for dealing with clusters of
set elements.
I never liked the various hacks I had come up with for representing
resource handles in Ruamoko. Structs with an int were awkward to test,
pointers and ints could be modified, etc etc. The new @handle keyword (@
used to keep handle free for use) works just like struct, union and
enum in syntax, but creates an opaque type suitable for a 32-bit handle.
The backing type is a function so v6 progs can use it without (all the
necessary opcodes exist) and no modifications were needed for
type-checking in binary expressions, but only assignment and comparisons
are supported, and (of course) nil. Tested using cbuf_t and QFile: seems
to work as desired.
I had considered 64-bit handles, but really, if more than 4G resource
objects are needed, I'm not sure QF can handle the game. However, that
limit is per resource manager, not total.
When using SET_STATIC_INIT, the set size needs to be the same as what
set_new() would create for the same number of bits, otherwise the set
will possibly get resized incorrectly (which is bad news when the array
was allocated using alloca). While this is really a symptom of
set_bits_t not getting the right size, getting weird segfaults is not a
good way to diagnose the problem, and set_bits_t being the wrong size is
just a minor pessimism.
Really, a bit more than stub as the basic code is there, but nothing
works properly yet due to missing resources (especially descriptor sets
and pools), and the frame buffer creation is still disabled.
The step dependencies are not handled yet as threading isn't used at
this stage, but since I'll require dependencies to always come earlier,
this shouldn't cause a problem.
Requiring top-level {} or () for (usually) hand-written files is awkward
and even a little error prone, and certainly ugly at times. With this,
loaders that expect a particular format can specify the format a little
more directly.
The jobs will become the core of the renderer, with each job step being
one of a render pass, compute pass, or processor (CPU-only) task. The
steps support dependencies, which will allow for threading the system in
the future.
Currently, just the structures, parse support, and prototype job
specification (render.plist) have been implemented. No conversion to
working data is done yet, and many things, in particular resources, will
need to be reworked, but this gets the basic design in.
The hierarchy leak was particularly troublesome to fix, but now the
hierarchies get updated (and freed) automatically just by removing the
hierarchy reference component from the entity. I suspect there will be
issues with entities that are on multiple hierarchies, but I'll sort
that out later.
I'm not 100% sure this is the best fix for the issue, but the way the
cbuf interpreter stack works (especially in the console code) meant that
the stack was built in the order opposite to how it could be safely
deleted with the existing function. Yeah, more leaks :P
Finally, hash links can be freed when the hash context is no longer
relevant. The context is created automatically when needed, and the
owner can delete the context when its done with the relevant hash
tables.
Render passes and subpasses are now mostly initialized, just command
buffers and frame buffer related info to go (including view/scissor for
pipelines).
Not only does this quieten the validation layers, it ensures that all
the object handles are named and where they need to be. Also fixes only
one pipeline being created instead of the 15 or so.
