- move uniform buffer cleanup and dead stripping into ShaderPreprocessor module's PreprocessShader function
- add "required symbols" to compiler input struct to specify additional symbols to keep during minification aside from those specified by the entrypoint; modify API such that both an entry point string and additional symbols can be specified (to avoid each backend needing to manually parse the compound RT entry point string)
- make use of ModifyShaderCompilerInput in all backends to set additional defines and required symbols on input struct up front; only use the AdditionalDefines map in cases where it's actually necessary
- remove the various per-platform defines for enabling minifier, no longer required now that this has been rolled out for all backends
- fix SCW directcompile mode; this had rotted due to pieces of the FShaderCompilerEnvironment having been added that weren't explicitly serialized to either cmdline or in the shader source. this now serializes as a base64 string written inside the USF containing all portions of the environment required for compilation (using the same serialization function as is used to write/read the SCW input file)
- use a debug flag for indicating we're in "direct compile" mode and should load the debug USF off disk, rather than the poorly named "bSkipPreprocessedCache" (this name is both inaccurate and also confusing due to the addition of the preprocessed job cache)
- modify platform "force wave32" mechanism to use a pragma directive to set a compiler define, instead of doing string replacement in the preprocessed source
- add a view version of the RT entrypoint parsing to use in preprocessing, note that other paths still need to construct fstrings due to further manipulation so keeping the FString path around too
- clean up backends manually checking the "directcompile" cmdline arg
#rb christopher.waters, Yuriy.ODonnell
#rb Chris.Waters
#rb Laura.Hermanns
[CL 30023082 by dan elksnitis in ue5-main branch]
- Removing the need for COMPILER_DEFINE on GetResourceFromHeap and GetSamplerFromHeap
- FShaderParameterParser constructor now requires a FPlatformConfiguration object that each shader format can configure.
- FPlatformConfiguration::GenerateBindlessAccess allows each platform to generate the code for accessing a bindless resource or sampler.
- Added EShaderParameterParserConfigurationFlags to specify support for stable constant buffers and bindless.
- Moved EBindlessParameterMode into EShaderParameterParserConfigurationFlags::BindlessUsesArrays
- While moving things around, I was able to convert some TCHAR* uses to FStringView
#jira UE-166341
#rb mihnea.balta
[CL 29533376 by christopher waters in ue5-main branch]
- When generating Uniform Buffer HLSL code, a 'static const struct {} Name' was created which has been causing compiler issues off and on for years.
- When RemoveUniformBuffersFromSource removed said struct, it parsed the struct's structure to figure out how to translate UniformBuffer.Member into UniformBuffer_Member in code that accessed Uniform Buffers.
- Now, instead of a struct, a "UniformBuffer <Name>" declaration is created and filled with mappings from "UniformBuffer.Member" into the correct code.
- This allows ConstantBuffer objects to be used differently from cbuffer where the former generates "UniformBuffer.Member" and the latter generates "UniformBuffer_Member"
- This also allows resources to always be translated to "UniformBuffer_Member"
- Shader define 'PLATFORM_SUPPORTS_UB_STRUCT' is now 'PLATFORM_SUPPORTS_CONSTANTBUFFER_OBJECT' and will be set on shader formats that support ConstantBuffer<> objects.
- Removed lots of unused code from BindlessResources.ush
#jira UE-195103
#rb dan.elksnitis, jeannoe.morissette
[CL 28058373 by christopher waters in ue5-main branch]
- mostly just replacing them AllowWindowsPlatformTypes.h / HideWindowsPlatformTypes.h
- some other files had both Pre/PostWindowsApi.h and Allow/HideWindowsPlatformTypes.h, so just removed
- some occasional include order changes.
#jira UE-152863
#rnx
#rb Devin.Doucette
[CL 26985385 by david harvey 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]
Make sure iOS vertex shaders are compiled with PreserveInvariance option set
#jira UE-179372
#rb jack.porter
#preflight 6412df4cd0208e8564bbb732
[CL 24671983 by dmitriy dyomin in ue5-main branch]
* Significantly reduces the size of shader debug data and improves shader compilation time (reducing parsing cost in the native shader compiler)
* Remove "experimental" label for the feature
#rb Jason.Nadro
#preflight 63d455d9be1970f8824c3f9b
[CL 23894592 by Yuriy ODonnell in ue5-main branch]
* Enabling requires re-building a metalpp with appropriate flags/defines set along with an OS version that supports the RT headers/libs.
#preflight 63c72f1a0225f00e14c05c46
#jira none
[CL 23750025 by zack neyland in ue5-main branch]
