Instead of rendering a full screen quad for post process passes, render a mesh which represents only the screen area visible in the HMD after distortion.
This cuts the cost of post processing ~10-15% with no visible difference.
Initial implementation for the Vive.
[CL 2644327 by Ryan Vance in Main branch]
This feature buidls a stencil buffer according to the rougness in the GBuffer to make the difference between pixels that need a SSR computation and those who don't, instead of an early return in the SSR shader itself. Therefore SSR pixel shader invocations will only be for pixel that needs on hardware that have a high resolution stencil test before the pixel shader invocations packing into front lines, removing the efficiency drop caused by the thread that might early return in front lines that still have at least one thread that didn't early return.
#code_review: Brian.Karis
[CL 2561199 by Guillaume Abadie in Main branch]
HZB is now always built and stored on ViewInfo.
SSR uses constant depth intersect instead of segment intersect for better quality near contacts.
[CL 2402625 by Brian Karis in Main branch]
- Removed default shader platform parameter from GetGlobalShaderMap()
- Added an inline overload of GetGlobalShaderMap() that takes a feature level instead, and translates to the correct shader platform
- Cached feature level on FSceneView for faster access
- Cached shader map on FViewInfo for faster access
- Cached featurelevel/shadermap on rendering composition graph execution context, for faster access
Fixed a couple of crashes when switching feature level dynamically
- Needed to allow certain shader permutations to be generated if feature level was ES2, but still on a PC platform. (i.e. hitproxy shaders, and basepass shaders used by editor primitives system)
#codereview Nick.Penwarden
[CL 2275937 by Graeme Thornton in Main branch]
* Both paths still exist in code during this transition. The GetDynamicMeshElements path is currently disabled, enable with 'r.UseGetDynamicMeshElements 1'.
* DrawDynamicElements was called once per pass, all sorts of pass-specific cruft had leaked in along with short-term modifications of shared structures (vertex factories and material proxies). DrawDynamicElements was not const, so a bunch of 'update' type work had leaked in. Various PreRenderView implementations relied on the view being in the view family.
* GetDynamicMeshElements is called once in InitViews, and the resulting meshes are used in various passes. GetDynamicMeshElements is const and must not modify the proxy, update work should be pushed to the proxy from the game thread. GetDynamicMeshElements can be called on views that are not in the view family, which allows a proper view for shadow depth passes.
* View mode override functionality moved out of the individual proxies into a centralized place, ApplyViewModeOverrides
* GPU particles not working yet, FRecastRenderingSceneProxy not implemented
[CL 2253795 by Daniel Wright in Main branch]
