exploring other rendering styles

shaders/bake.vert

@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ layout(set = 0, binding = 0) uniform Globals {
     mat4 u_ViewProj;
 };
 
+layout(set = 0, binding = 1) uniform Globals {
+    mat4 u_ViewProj;
+};
+
 layout(set = 1, binding = 0) uniform Entity {
     mat4 u_World;
     vec4 u_Color;

shaders/forward.frag

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ layout(set = 1, binding = 0) uniform Entity {
 };
 
 float fetch_shadow(int light_id, vec4 homogeneous_coords) {
+    // homogeneous coords is the depth of the previously rendered
+    // fragment, from the lights perspective.  If it's less than 0
+    // then it's behind the light, so it's obviously in shadow
     if (homogeneous_coords.w <= 0.0) {
         return 1.0;
     }
@@ -37,6 +40,7 @@ float fetch_shadow(int light_id, vec4 homogeneous_coords) {
     const vec2 flip_correction = vec2(0.5, -0.5);
     // compute texture coordinates for shadow lookup
     vec4 light_local = vec4(
+        // I don't know what kind of jank shit is going on on this line
         homogeneous_coords.xy * flip_correction/homogeneous_coords.w + 0.5,
         light_id,
         homogeneous_coords.z / homogeneous_coords.w

src/render/state.rs

@@ -18,7 +18,11 @@ use legion::world::SubWorld;
 use legion::*;
 use rapier3d::parry::motion::RigidMotionComposition;
 use wgpu::util::DeviceExt;
-use wgpu::{BackendBit, BindGroup, BindGroupLayout, Buffer, BufferBindingType, Device, FragmentState, Instance, Queue, Surface, SwapChain, SwapChainDescriptor, SwapChainFrame, TextureView, VertexState, CommandEncoder};
+use wgpu::{
+    BackendBit, BindGroup, BindGroupLayout, Buffer, BufferBindingType, CommandEncoder, Device,
+    Features, FragmentState, Instance, Queue, Surface, SwapChain, SwapChainDescriptor,
+    SwapChainFrame, TextureView, VertexState,
+};
 use winit_24::dpi::PhysicalSize;
 use winit_24::platform::unix::x11::ffi::Time;
 use winit_24::window::Window;
@@ -26,11 +30,10 @@ use winit_24::window::Window;
 use crate::camera::{Camera, CameraController};
 use crate::components::{Mesh, Position, RangeCopy};
 use crate::current_ui;
-use crate::geometry::{load_obj, Vertex, RawMesh};
+use crate::geometry::{load_obj, RawMesh, Vertex};
 use crate::imgui_supp::imgui_support::{ImguiContext, ImguiPlatform};
 use crate::light::{DirectionalLight, LightRaw};
-use crate::render::{EntityUniforms, ShadowUniforms, ForwardUniforms};
-
+use crate::render::{EntityUniforms, ForwardUniforms, ShadowUniforms};
 
 /// A render pass consists of a pipeline, bindgroup, and uniform buf
 /// The uniform buf is just the ShadowUniforms or ForwardUniforms
@@ -41,9 +44,7 @@ pub struct Pass {
     pub uniform_buf: wgpu::Buffer,
 }
 
-
 pub struct RenderState {
-
     swapchain: SwapChain,
     swapchain_description: SwapChainDescriptor,
     instance: Arc<Instance>,
@@ -109,10 +110,7 @@ impl RenderState {
     }
 
     /// Create a buffer for a mesh
-    fn create_buffer(
-        device: &wgpu::Device,
-        raw_mesh: &RawMesh,
-    ) -> (Arc<Buffer>, Arc<Buffer>) {
+    fn create_buffer(device: &wgpu::Device, raw_mesh: &RawMesh) -> (Arc<Buffer>, Arc<Buffer>) {
         let vertex_buf = Arc::new(
             device.create_buffer_init(&wgpu::util::BufferInitDescriptor {
                 label: Some("vertex-buffer"),
@@ -133,8 +131,11 @@ impl RenderState {
     }
 
     /// Take a meshes raw representation and upload it to a GPU buffer
-    pub fn upload_mesh_to_buffer(&mut self, mesh: &RawMesh, color: Option<wgpu::Color>) -> Result<Mesh, String>  {
-
+    pub fn upload_mesh_to_buffer(
+        &mut self,
+        mesh: &RawMesh,
+        color: Option<wgpu::Color>,
+    ) -> Result<Mesh, String> {
         let index_count = mesh.indices.len() * 3; // TODO bad bad bad bad!
 
         let (vertex_buf, index_buf) = RenderState::create_buffer(&self.device, mesh);
@@ -174,7 +175,11 @@ impl RenderState {
     }
 
     /// explicitly load from file, and upload to gpu the mesh
-    pub fn load_mesh_to_buffer(&mut self, filepath: &str, color: Option<wgpu::Color>) -> Result<Mesh, String> {
+    pub fn load_mesh_to_buffer(
+        &mut self,
+        filepath: &str,
+        color: Option<wgpu::Color>,
+    ) -> Result<Mesh, String> {
         let raw_mesh = load_obj(filepath)?;
         self.upload_mesh_to_buffer(&raw_mesh, color)
     }
@@ -292,8 +297,9 @@ impl RenderState {
             });
 
         /*
-        There appear to be two passes required for shadows, the shadow pass, and the forward pass
-        Need to open this up in renderdoc and see what it's actually doing
+        The shadow pass renders from the perspective of each camera and applies that to the shadow
+        texture. Due to light FOV and the shadow texture itself, it's rather difficult to have
+        hands-off global lighting / point lights
          */
 
         let shadow_pass = {
@@ -330,25 +336,43 @@ impl RenderState {
                 mapped_at_creation: false,
             });
 
+            // Holds the shadow uniforms, which is just a 4 vec of quaternians
+            let g_buffer = device.create_buffer(&wgpu::BufferDescriptor {
+                label: Some("shadow_pass_g_buffer"),
+                size: uniform_size,
+                usage: wgpu::BufferUsage::STORAGE | wgpu::BufferUsage::COPY_DST,
+                mapped_at_creation: false,
+            });
+
             // Create bind group
             let bind_group = device.create_bind_group(&wgpu::BindGroupDescriptor {
                 layout: &bind_group_layout,
-                entries: &[wgpu::BindGroupEntry {
+                entries: &[
+                    wgpu::BindGroupEntry {
                         binding: 0,
                         resource: wgpu::BindingResource::Buffer {
                             buffer: &uniform_buf,
                             offset: 0,
                             size: wgpu::BufferSize::new(uniform_size),
                         },
-                }],
+                    },
+                    wgpu::BindGroupEntry {
+                        binding: 1,
+                        resource: wgpu::BindingResource::Buffer {
+                            buffer: &g_buffer,
+                            offset: 0,
+                            size: wgpu::BufferSize::new(uniform_size),
+                        },
+                    },
+                ],
                 label: Some("Shadow uniform bind group"),
             });
 
             // Create the render pipeline
             let vs_module =
-                device.create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../resources/bake.vert.spv"));
+                device.create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../shaders/bake.vert.spv"));
             let fs_module =
-                device.create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../resources/bake.frag.spv"));
+                device.create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../shaders/bake.frag.spv"));
 
             let pipeline = device.create_render_pipeline(&wgpu::RenderPipelineDescriptor {
                 label: Some("shadow"),
@@ -559,10 +583,10 @@ impl RenderState {
             });
 
             // Create the render pipeline
-            let vs_module =
-                device.create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../resources/forward.vert.spv"));
-            let fs_module =
-                device.create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../resources/forward.frag.spv"));
+            let vs_module = device
+                .create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../shaders/forward.vert.spv"));
+            let fs_module = device
+                .create_shader_module(&wgpu::include_spirv!("../../shaders/forward.frag.spv"));
 
             let pipeline = device.create_render_pipeline(&wgpu::RenderPipelineDescriptor {
                 label: Some("main"),
@@ -685,9 +709,8 @@ impl RenderState {
     }
 }
 
-
 /*
 
 
 
- */
+*/