This patch adds initial support for compute shaders to
the vulkan backend. As the development is oriented to the test-
cases we have the implementation is limited to what is used there.
It has been validated that with this patch that the following test
cases are running as expected
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_vbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ibo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ssbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_storage_buffer_create_update_read`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_2d`
This patch includes:
- Allocating VkBuffer on device.
- Uploading data from CPU to VkBuffer.
- Binding VkBuffer as SSBO to a compute shader.
- Execute compute shader and altering VkBuffer.
- Download the VkBuffer to CPU ram.
- Validate that it worked.
- Use device only vertex buffer as SSBO
- Use device only index buffer as SSBO
- Use device only image buffers
GHOST API has been changed as the original design was created before
we even had support for compute shaders in blender. The function
`GHOST_getVulkanBackbuffer` has been separated to retrieve the command
buffer without a backbuffer (`GHOST_getVulkanCommandBuffer`). In order
to do correct command buffer processing we needed access to the queue
owned by GHOST. This is returned as part of the `GHOST_getVulkanHandles`
function.
Open topics (not considered part of this patch)
- Memory barriers & command buffer encoding
- Indirect compute dispatching
- Rest of the test cases
- Data conversions when requested data format is different than on device.
- GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_1d is supported on AMD devices.
NVIDIA doesn't seem to support 1d textures.
Pull-request: #104518
This adds a vulkan backend to GHOST. The code was extracted from the
tmp-vulkan branch. The main difference with the original code is that
GHOST isn't responsible for fallback. For Metal backend there is already
an idea that the GPU module is responsible for the fallback, not the system.
For Blender we target Vulkan 1.2 at the time of this patch.
MoltenVK (needed to convert Vulkan calls to Metal) has been added as
a separate package.
This patch isn't useful for end-users, currently when starting blender with
`--gpu-backend vulkan` it would crash as the `VBBackend` doesn't initialize
the expected global structs in the GPU module.
Validated to be working on Windows and Apple. Linux still needs to be tested.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13155
Add command line argument to switch gpu backend. Add `--gpu-backend` option to
override the gpu backend selected by Blender.
Values for this option that will be available in releases for now are:
* opengl: Force blender to select OpenGL backend.
During development and depending on compile options additional values can exist:
* metal: Force Blender to select Metal backend.
When this option isn't provided the internal logic for GPU backend selection will be used.
Note that this is at the time of writing the same as always selecting the opengl backend.
Reviewed By: fclem, brecht, MichaelPW
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16297
Show the windowing environment on non MS-Windows/Apple systems,
since X11/WAYLAND are selected startup there was no convenient way
for users to know which back-end was being used.
Include the windowing environment in the About splash & system-info.txt
since it will be useful for handling bug reports.
This commit adds a private API call not intended for general use
as I would like to be able to remove this later and it's only needed
in the specific case of testing if Blender is using WAYLAND or X11
(which maybe be used via XWayland).
Python scripts can already inspect the system to check which windowing
environment used, the API call is mainly useful for troubleshooting.
Available on Windows and macOS, where such gestures are supported.
For Windows, disabling this option restores touchpad behavior to
match Blender 3.2.
Ref T97925
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16005
With this patch true headless OpenGL rendering is now possible on Linux.
It changes the logic of the WITH_HEADLESS build flag.
The headless backend is now always available with regular builds and
Blender will try to fall back to it if it fails to initialize other
backends while in background mode.
The headless backend only works on Linux as EGL is not used on Mac or Windows.
libepoxy does support windows and mac, so this can perhaps be remedied in the future.
Reviewed By: Brecht, Jeroen, Campbell
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D15555
Use client (window) relative coordinates for cursor position access,
this only moves the conversion from window-manager into GHOST,
(no functional changes).
This is needed for fix a bug in GHOST/Wayland which doesn't support
accessing absolute cursor coordinates & the window is needed to properly
access the cursor coordinates.
As it happens every caller to GHOST_GetCursorPosition was already making
the values window-relative, so there is little benefit in attempting to
workaround the problem on the Wayland side.
If needed the screen-space versions of functions can be exposed again.
Add a method to access the custom cursor from GHOST which is used
for drawing a software cursor. This means the knife tools cursor now
work as expected.
Although non-custom cursors are still not supported.
The current gnome-shell (v42.2) has a bug where grabbing the cursor
doesn't scale the region when confining it to the window.
For Hi-DPI displays this means the cursor may be confined to a quarter
of the window, making grab unusable.
Even though this has been fixed up-stream the issue remains in the
latest release - so workaround the problem by implementing window
confined grab using a software cursor.
This is only used gnome-shell for displays that use Hi-DPI scaling.
Wayland doesn't support accessing the position making functionality that
would map events to other windows fail, sometimes considering windows
overlapping when they weren't (as all window positions were zeroed).
Disable dragging between windows when accessing the window the position
isn't supported.
The software cursor was being enabled with absolute events,
causing a problem with absolute tablet events.
This caused both cursors to be visible at once when using a tablet
(with D15152 applied).
As Wayland doesn't support moving the cursor, draw a cross-hair cursor
at the location used by Blender.
Without this, the cursor was locked at the location where grab started,
making some actions unusable since the cursor location was invisible.
Resolves T77311.
Mousemove events are sent to windows.
In Windows OS, almost all mousemove events are sent to the window whose
mouse cursor is over.
On MacOS, the window with mousemove events is always the active window.
It doesn't matter if the mouse cursor is inside or outside the window.
So, in order for non-active windows to also have events,
`WM_window_find_under_cursor` is called to find those windows and send
the same events.
The problem is that to find the window, `WM_window_find_under_cursor`
only has the mouse coordinates available, it doesn't differentiate
which monitor these coordinates came from.
So the mouse on one monitor may incorrectly send events to a window on
another monitor.
The solution used is to use a native API on Mac to detect the window
under the cursor.
For Windows and Linux nothing has changed.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14197
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
GHOST_ISystem::toggleConsole had a somewhat misleading name
it could be fed 4 different values, so it was not as much a
toggle as a set console window state.
This change renames `toggleConsole` to a more appropriately
named `setConsoleWindowState` and replaces the integer it had
to an enum so it's easy to tell what is being asked of it at
the call site.
Reviewed By: LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14020
Addresses T77127 (Controller Drawing).
Adds VR controller visualization and custom drawing via draw
handlers. Add-ons can draw to the XR surface (headset display) and
mirror window by adding a View3D draw handler of region type 'XR' and
draw type 'POST_VIEW'. Controller drawing and custom overlays can be
toggled individually as XR session options, which will be added in a
future update to the VR Scene Inspection add-on.
For the actual drawing, the OpenXR XR_MSFT_controller_model extension
is used to load a glTF model provided by the XR runtime. The model's
vertex data is then used to create a GPUBatch in the XR session
state. Finally, this batch is drawn via the XR surface draw handler
mentioned above.
For runtimes that do not support the controller model extension, a
a simple fallback shape (sphere) is drawn instead.
Reviewed By: Severin, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10948
Addresses the remaining portions of T77137 (Python API for Controller
Interaction), which was partially completed by D10942.
Adds an XR "action maps" system for loading XR action data from a
Python script. Action maps are accessible via the Python API, and are used
to pass default actions to the VR session during the
xr_session_start_pre() callback.
Since action maps are stored only as runtime data, they will be
cleaned up with the rest of the VR runtime data on file read or exit.
Reviewed By: Julian Eisel, Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10943
Provides several important improvements to the runtime action
bindings operation and internal API.
Moves input-specific action data (input thresholds, input regions,
pose offsets/spaces) from actions to more granular action bindings.
This allows a single action to be mapped to a variety of inputs,
without having to share a single input threshold, region, or space.
Also removes the need for action space creation API, as spaces for
pose actions will be automatically created with the bindings.
The correct action data for the current inputs is set by calling
xrGetCurrentInteractionProfile() to get the current profile and then
retrieving the corresponding mapped data.
Does not bring about any changes for users since only internal
runtime functionality is currently affected.
Reviewed By: Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D12077
Also replace integer with bool in Ghost API when only used as boolean,
and uint8* with char* in Ghost API when variable is a string.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11617
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Rishel <rishel.nick@gmail.com>
Adds internal API for creating and managing OpenXR actions at the
GHOST and WM layers. Does not bring about any changes for users since
XR action functionality is not yet exposed in the Python API (will be
added in a subsequent patch).
OpenXR actions are a means to communicate with XR input devices and
can be used to retrieve button/pose states or apply haptic feedback.
Actions are bound to device inputs via a semantic path binding
(https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenXR/specs/1.0/html/xrspec.html#semantic-path-interaction-profiles),
which serves as an XR version of keymaps.
Main features:
- Abstraction of OpenXR action management functions to GHOST-XR,
WM-XR APIs.
- New "xr_session_start_pre" callback for creating actions at
appropriate point in the XR session.
- Creation of name-identifiable action sets/actions.
- Binding of actions to controller inputs.
- Acquisition of controller button states.
- Acquisition of controller poses.
- Application of controller haptic feedback.
- Carefully designed error handling and useful error reporting
(e.g. action set/action name included in error message).
Reviewed By: Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10942
Simplification of window creation code to allow greater flexibility.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10311
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
All DirectX management happens on Ghost level now, higher level code can
just assume everything is OpenGL (except of the upside-down drawing that
still needs to be done for DirectX). This is similar to how the
metal-layer is hidden outside of Ghost.
The Ghost-XR graphics binding for DirectX is responsible for managing
the DirectX compatibility now.
