This new method is only enabled if Overlay Smooth Wire is enabled.
This method gives really nice results but has some downside:
- Require a depth copy or loose the ability to write wire depth to the
depth buffer and have correct depth ordering of wires. This patch use the former, with its associated cost.
- Require some depth sampling and prevent early depth test (i.e: has
some performance impact).
- Has some relatively minor instability with geometry that are perpendicular
to the view and intersecting with other geometry.
Pros:
- Compared to a fullpass approach this is surely going to have less
performance impact and much higher quality.
- Removes the additional vertex offset. (see T74961)
- Fixes all half edges z-fighting.
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Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7233
Multisample buffers were used for smooth line drawing. As we now have
an algorithm that doesn't need the multisample buffers we can remove
them.
The user preference for viewport multi_sampling is replaced by single
toggle overlay `use_overlay_smooth_wire`. By default this setting is
enabled as the new drawing is really quick (<1ms) and uses zero hacks.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6367
This use the overlay AA pass to antialias the selection outlines.
This also do all search and expand in one pass and reduce the computation
time and memory used (2 x 32bit/pixel buffer less).
Note that the aliasing is a bit worse than the old FXAA that we used to have.
This is the unification of all overlays into one overlay engine as described in T65347.
I went over all the code making it more future proof with less hacks and removing old / not relevent parts.
Goals / Acheivements:
- Remove internal shader usage (only drw shaders)
- Remove viewportSize and viewportSizeInv and put them in gloabl ubo
- Fixed some drawing issues: Missing probe option and Missing Alt+B clipping of some shader
- Remove old (legacy) shaders dependancy (not using view UBO).
- Less shader variation (less compilation time at first load and less patching needed for vulkan)
- removed some geom shaders when I could
- Remove static e_data (except shaders storage where it is OK)
- Clear the way to fix some anoying limitations (dithered transparency, background image compositing etc...)
- Wireframe drawing now uses the same batching capabilities as workbench & eevee (indirect drawing).
- Reduced complexity, removed ~3000 Lines of code in draw (also removed a lot of unused shader in GPU).
- Post AA to avoid complexity and cost of MSAA.
Remaining issues:
- ~~Armature edits, overlay toggles, (... others?) are not refreshing viewport after AA is complete~~
- FXAA is not the best for wires, maybe investigate SMAA
- Maybe do something more temporally stable for AA.
- ~~Paint overlays are not working with AA.~~
- ~~infront objects are difficult to select.~~
- ~~the infront wires sometimes goes through they solid counterpart (missing clear maybe?) (toggle overlays on-off when using infront+wireframe overlay in solid shading)~~
Note: I made some decision to change slightly the appearance of some objects to simplify their drawing. Namely the empty arrows end (which is now hollow/wire) and distance points of the cameras/spots being done by lines.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6296
