- Uses the InstanceCullingLoadBalancer to pre-distribute the work on the CPU to ensure even load.
- Make instance culling use the instance data offset in MDC instead of translating primitive IDs.
- Track single-instance draws separately from instanced to optimize handling (disable culling for single-instance primitives).
#rb Graham.wihlidal,andrew.lauritzen
#fyi dmitriy.dyomin
#preflight 60d0eafa2ab2180001269160
[CL 16733827 by Ola Olsson in ue5-main branch]
- Intermediate step towards making renderer instance-first.
- Enables simplification of instance culling setup.
#rb Krzysztof.Narkowicz
[CL 16729395 by Ola Olsson in ue5-main branch]
Better labeling for some GPU profiling regions.
Fix to frustum vertex buffer usage flag.
#rb ola.olsson
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 16675237
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: (v835-16672529)
[CL 16675244 by andrew lauritzen in ue5-main branch]
- Instead, create a reference depth range with a guard band that we reuse frame to frame until we get too close to the edge, at which point we invalidate that clipmap level's cached pages (if any)
- Does not significantly affect invalidations, even when moving quickly near surfaces, since those cases would already get invalidated when those pixels moved to a different clipmap level
- Sets up for not re-copying cached VSM pages every frame
#rb ola.olsson
[FYI] brian.karis
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 16492432 in //UE5/Private-Frosty/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Private-Frosty -> Main) (v823-16466674)
[CL 16492445 by andrew lauritzen in ue5-main branch]
Remove VirtualShadowMapConfig.h which is no longer necessary.
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 15919666 in //UE5/Release-5.0-EarlyAccess/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-5.0-EarlyAccess -> Main) (v786-15839533)
[CL 15921215 by andrew lauritzen in ue5-main branch]
- added explicit stereo mode to instance culling context.
- fixed the stencil setup pass parameter to include the InstancedView (lost in RDG conversion probably)
- restored the hack to run the stereo stencil pass twice (needed to make FSimpleMeshDrawCommandPass support setting up stereo)
#rb andrew.lauritzen,steve.smith
[FYI] jules.blok
#ROBOMERGE-OWNER: ola.olsson
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: ola.olsson
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 15739174 in //UE5/Release-5.0-EarlyAccess/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-5.0-EarlyAccess -> Main) (v781-15675533)
#ROBOMERGE-CONFLICT from-shelf
[CL 15739606 by ola olsson in ue5-main branch]
- Move VSM parameters into a single uniform buffer; required for base pass rendering.
- SRVs are initialized to dummy data until they are computed during the frame and subsequently updated before any VSM sampling.
- Make names and usage more consistent with other UB bindings in mesh passes
- Direct injection of VSM into translucent volume and fog
- Support VSM sampling in forward lighting shaders
- Enabled and bound currently for translucent forward and single pass water meshes
- Support VSM sampling in sky atmosphere and cloud rendering
- NOTE: Sky atmosphere LUT pass currently executes before BasePass and ShadowDepths so it will not sample proper data and throw a warning. Moving passes around to address this will come in a future commit.
#rb Brian.Karis, Ola.Olsson, Sebastien.Hillaire, Zachary.Bethel
#ROBOMERGE-OWNER: andrew.lauritzen
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: andrew.lauritzen
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 15649858 in //UE5/Release-5.0-EarlyAccess/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-5.0-EarlyAccess -> Main) (v779-15635321)
#ROBOMERGE-CONFLICT from-shelf
[CL 15650486 by andrew lauritzen in ue5-main branch]
- added a path to propagate and cache whether material modifies position (WPO) to enable invalidating cached pages (touches whole mesh command pipeline).
- added pixel shader verision of page copying & clearing.
- also added flag for whether cached the mesh draw command supports primitive id (which enables checing this earlier).
#rb andrew.lauritzen,brian.karis,graham.wihlidal,Krzysztof.Narkowicz
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 15436539 in //UE5/Release-5.0-EarlyAccess/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-5.0-EarlyAccess -> Main) (v771-15082668)
[CL 15441336 by ola olsson in ue5-main branch]
- dynamic primitive collectors now auto-commit when uploading dynamic primitives, simplifying use.
- fixed shadow stencil passes to properly use GPU-Scene instance culling (and instancing), now using FSimpleMeshDrawCommandPass
- Also move translucency shadow rendering to FSimpleMeshDrawCommandPass
#jira UE-108032
#rb Krzysztof.Narkowicz
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 15432971 in //UE5/Release-5.0-EarlyAccess/...
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: STARSHIP (Release-5.0-EarlyAccess -> Main) (v771-15082668)
[CL 15441234 by ola olsson in ue5-main branch]
