- bMaterialMayModifyPosition -> bMaterialUsesWorldPositionOffset for non-nanite, we don't want to invalidate due to PDO
- Nanite instance culling records static primitives that invalidate the VSM (so they get cached as dynamic)
- Dirty page flags now store the invalidation as well (static & dynamic) so 3x in size
- Nanite VSM instance/cluster culling uses PRIMITIVE_SCENE_DATA_FLAG_EVALUATE_WORLD_POSITION_OFFSET to drive bHasMoved and invalidaiton.
- Non-nanite instance culling outputs dirty page flags for invalidating instances, with in-group load balancing for large footprints
- Store invalidation flags in physical page metadata flags (removed the cumulative dirty flags buffer).
- Added bAnyMaterialHasWorldPositionOffset (accessor AnyMaterialHasWorldPositionOffset()) to FPrimitiveSceneProxy.
- Driving PRIMITIVE_SCENE_DATA_FLAG_EVALUATE_WORLD_POSITION_OFFSET from bAnyMaterialHasWorldPositionOffset in addition to EvaluateWorldPositionOffset.
- Removed near clip permutation for non-nanite VSM culling shader.
- Non-nanite vsm raster passes are all batched in a single RDG pass to better allow overlap between draws and lower pass overhead.
- Removed old GPU->GPU invalidation logic.
- Removed dynamic caster flags and update the physical page metadata directly
- Renamed PRIMITIVE_SCENE_DATA_FLAG_SHOULD_CACHE_SHADOW -> PRIMITIVE_SCENE_DATA_FLAG_SHOULD_CACHE_SHADOW
#rb andrew.lauritzen,jamie.hayes
#jira UE-147061
#preflight 631b0a18a60c539c98cf1308
[CL 21973831 by ola olsson in ue5-main branch]
Implemented single-page page table support for distant lights
- store only a single page table entry for distant lights
- modify page lookup logic in various places to handle this
Implemented override behavior to render everything to dynamic pages for a light that always invalidates using r.Shadow.Virtual.Cache.ForceInvalidateClipmaps (behave as uncached, despite caching being enabled).
This brings performance to par with uncached rendering by removing various overheads that are not achieving anything for this case.
- Added a new flag to the nanite view to indicate if it is uncached VSM_PROJ_FLAG_UNCACHED, currently driven by the cvar r.Shadow.Virtual.Cache.ForceInvalidateClipmaps
- If this flag is set on a view ShouldCacheInstanceAsStatic, which now takes a nanite view, returns false, causing all rendering to go to the dynamic pages.
- To preserve HZB functionality, the HZB build is modified to load from the dynamic depth pages (normally it uses the static)
- The page initializer (that clears depth) skips static pages for uncached bviews as they will not be used.
- Finally the page merge pass that combines static & dynamic depth into the dynamic page also skips pages from uncached views.
Optimized page allocation pass by storing the actual pages needing allocation from the cache init pass.
Optimized hierarchical page flag generation by dispatching over physical pages instead of virtual.
Fixed dynamic primitive cache invalidation logic.
#jira UE-122102
#rb andrew.lauritzen
#preflight 63087c2592620e5ec3aa3f2f
[CL 21590421 by ola olsson in ue5-main branch]
- Added RangeBasedCullingDistance to Nanite view & NANITE_VIEW_FLAG_DISTANCE_CULL to indicate if used
- Added light radius to VSM projection data and added culling invalidations based on range also.
- Added unrelated flag & flag field to VSM to reduce shader header change churn (VSM_PROJ_FLAG_CURRENT_DISTANT_LIGHT).
- Added light range test in page marking shader.
Simplify Nanite LOD calculations by performing them in world space instead of local space
- This also allows us no longer precalculate ViewPosScaledLocal and ViewForwardScaledLocal in DynamicData
#rb rune.stubbe
#preflight 62beb9303f0d6beee2da98db
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: ola.olsson
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 20913913 via CL 20913992 via CL 20913998
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v971-20777995)
[CL 20916199 by ola olsson in ue5-main branch]
- Add slope-based depth extrapolation which improves the quality of penumbras on angled receivers. Costs ~10% performance in some cases so maintaining a permutation/cvar (default on) for scalability.
- Change screen ray trace to be a simple "space skipping" ray that terminates as soon as it goes behind geometry and continue VSM trace from that distance. This avoids various contact-shadow-like artifacts and undesirable/inconsistent contact shadows from things that aren't in the VSM. In certain cases if regular contact shadows are desired on top of VSM the engine contact shadows can be enabled, as it is with CSMs.
- Remove a bunch of use of "halfs" in the shaders as they cause some extra ALU on some platforms and don't appear to really be helping with occupancy anymore
- Small bump to minimum normal bias clamp (only affects things very close to the camera)
#rb brian.karis
[FYI] ola.olsson
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: andrew.lauritzen
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 19411300 via CL 19411627
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Staging -> Main) (v928-19376421)
[CL 19413239 by andrew lauritzen in ue5-main branch]
Move visualize enum/defines to shared header file.
Rename a few cvars for consistency.
#rb graham.wihlidal
[FYI] ola.olsson
#preflight 61f9d8921d7ca8ed2d628ccd
#ROBOMERGE-AUTHOR: andrew.lauritzen
#ROBOMERGE-SOURCE: CL 18819821 in //UE5/Release-5.0/... via CL 18819825 via CL 18822904
#ROBOMERGE-BOT: UE5 (Release-Engine-Test -> Main) (v910-18824042)
[CL 18825054 by andrew lauritzen in ue5-main branch]
