- RHICreate{Vertex, Index, Structured}Buffer
- RHICreate{ShaderResource, UnorderedAccess}View
- RHIUpdateUniformBuffer
- Various initialization / locking methods for helper buffer types in RHIUtilities.h
The goal is to continue to force resource creation through command lists to avoid surprises with moving things off the render thread.
#rb christopher.waters
[CL 26183746 by zach bethel in 5.3 branch]
I've reviewed all code using async requests and we had multiple places incorrectly handling the stat: some placed failed to decrease the counter, while others would decrease it when they shouldn't. The main cause was the fact that when we create an async request and pass nullptr as the target memory, the request allocates the memory itself and increases the STAT_AsyncFileMemory. However, when we call GetReadResults() on such requests, the responsibility is on the caller to balance the calls and decrease the stat, which is not very obvious and leads to the mentioned bugs. On top of that, when we call GetReadResults() we may not have the knowledge as to whether the returned memory was allocated by the request or not (which may affect whether we should touch the stat at all).
Resolved by adding IAsyncReadRequest::ReleaseMemoryOwnershipImpl member, which may be used by request implementations to do the proper clean up (balance the stat). This way requests take the full responsibility for their changes and users of the requests don't need to know their implementation details.
#preflight none
#rb Patrick.Laflamme
#jira UE-185064
[CL 25664733 by Wojciech Krywult in ue5-main branch]
- Emitter mode support added
- Material Bindings added
#rb simon.tovey
#jira UE-181402
#rnx
#preflgiht 6461b199cf788a2558e9368f
[CL 25476761 by stu mckenna in ue5-main branch]
- Move accessor into properties to reduce CPU cost for each renderer
#rb rob.krajcarski
#jira UE-178014
#preflight 644ac1e8877716c87873d161
[CL 25240311 by stu mckenna in ue5-main branch]
Implement IInterface_AssetUserData for UGroomCache and UGeometryCache.
#jira none
#preflight 6443c1f30206a6e20fc2ffc5
#rb Anousack.Kitisa
[CL 25157830 by daniel coelho in ue5-main branch]
This changelist is a merge of work done in //UE5/Dev-ParallelRendering to remove tech debt in the SRV/UAV create functions. See individual changelist descriptions in that stream for further details, but a summary of the change is as follows:
- We had multiple overloads of each of the RHICreateShaderResourceView and RHICreateUnorderedAccessView functions. Each function had a different set of supported view types and using them was complicated / ambiguous.
- There's now only 2 create functions, and a common FRHIViewDesc descriptor struct, which is stored on the base view class.
- FRHIView takes a reference on the underlying resource, ensuring that RHI views keep their viewed resource alive. This was not the case on some platforms, since it was previously the platform RHI implementation's responsibility.
- Platform RHI implementations resolve an FRHIViewDesc into a full FViewInfo struct using GetViewInfo. This centralizes the logic for computing num mips / num slices / format etc so it is the same across all platforms.
- Views must never be created with nullptr resources. This used to happen in the mesh streamer, but now all views require a real underlying resource. That resource can be a "BUF_NullResource" buffer, which is what the mesh streamer uses as a placeholder for buffers that have not streamed yet.
- We will eventually replace FRHITextureReference with a "null texture", similar to how BUF_NullResource works for buffers. This is not yet implemented, so there is no "null view" of a texture currently.
#rb kenzo.terelst,jeannoe.morissette,dmitriy.dyomin
#preflight 643534642855180717af410e
#jira none
[CL 24989901 by Luke Thatcher in ue5-main branch]
