I think I did two as a bit of a ring buffer, but the new ring buffer
system used inside a staging buffer makes it less necessary. Also, the
staging buffer is now a fair bit bigger (4M is probably not really
enough)
This allows the array in which the command buffers are allocated to be
allocated on the stack using alloca and thus remove the need to
malloc/free of relatively small chunks.
The console background is missing, and scaled vs unscaled (currently
always scaled) 2d, but otherwise everything seems to work. Lots of
places to clean up, though.
Draw now has its own staging buffer to use with its scrap. Also, a few
fixes were needed for the staging buffer and scrap flush routines.
Other than some synchronization issues with draw scrap flushing
(currently worked around with a fence-wait) things seem to be working
nicely.
The scrap texture did very good things for the glsl renderer and the
better control over data copying might help it do even better things for
vulkan, especially with lots of little icons.
It's never actually used (the texture can be fetched using
GLSL_ScrapTexture) and gets in the way of sharing the scrap system with
the vulkan renderer.
r_screen because of SCR_UpdateScreen, and r_cvar because the cvars
really should never have been in a plugin in the first place (and
r_screen needed access).
First pixels! This was a nightmare of little issues that the validation
layers couldn't help with: incorrect input assembly, incorrect vertex
attribute specs. Though the layers did help with getting the queues
working. Still, lots of work to go but this is a major breakthrough as
I now have access to visual debugging for textures and the like.
Short wrappers for Draw functins are in vid_render_vulkan.c so the
vulkan context can be passed on to the actual functions. The 2D shaders
are set up similar to those in glsl, but with full 32-bit color (rgba)
support instead of paletted. However, the textures are not loaded yet,
nor is anything bound.
This necessitated hand-writing qfv_swapchain_t's descriptors as I don't
feel like getting that complicated with vkgen at this stage and it's not
really appropriate anyway? qfv_swapchain_t is meant to be read-only and
not parsed from a plist.
The tool is horrible as a built tool due to it not being silent when all
is good (it outputs the input file name) and sends its error messages to
stdout instead of stderr. Then filtering causes the error code to be
lost. This uses a solution found on stack-exchange.
The prototypes for handle parsers needed to be changes because it turned
out "single" was inappropriate for handles as "single" allocates memory
for the parsed object, but handles must be written directly.
The way I wound up using the field meant that exprctx should not "own"
the hashlinks chain, but rather just point to it. This fixes the nasty
access errors I had.