Full support for translation and compilation of shaders in Metal, using
GPUShaderCreateInfo. Includes render pipeline state creation and management,
enabling all standard GPU viewport rendering features in Metal.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White, Marco Giordano
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15563
With the new `attrs_info_get` method, we can get information about
the attributes used in a `GPUShader` and thus have more freedom in the
automatic creation of `GPUVertFormat`s
Reviewed By: fclem, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15764
In order to allow GLSL Cross Compilation across platforms, expose in
Python the `GPUShaderCreateInfo` strategy as detailed in
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/EEVEE_%26_Viewport/GPU_Module/GLSL_Cross_Compilation
The new features can be listed as follows:
```
>>> gpu.types.GPUShaderCreateInfo.
define(
fragment_out(
fragment_source(
push_constant(
sampler(
typedef_source(
uniform_buf(
vertex_in(
vertex_out(
vertex_source(
>>> gpu.types.GPUStageInterfaceInfo.
flat(
name
no_perspective(
smooth(
>>> gpu.shader.create_from_info(
```
Reviewed By: fclem, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14497