Fixes#90017Fixes#90030Fixes#98044
This PR makes the following changes:
# Force processing of GPU commands for frame_count frames
The variable `frames_pending_resources_for_processing` is added to track
this.
The ticket #98044 suggested to use `_flush_and_stall_for_all_frames()`
while minimized.
Technically this works and is a viable solution.
However I noticed that this issue was happening because Logic/Physics
continue to work "business as usual" while minimized(\*). Only Graphics
was being deactivated (which caused commands to accumulate until window
is restored).
To continue this behavior of "business as usual", I decided that GPU
work should also "continue as usual" by buffering commands in a double
or triple buffer scheme until all commands are done processing (if they
ever stop coming). This is specially important if the app specifically
intends to keep processing while minimized.
Calling `_flush_and_stall_for_all_frames()` would fix the leak, but it
would make Godot's behavior different while minimized vs while the
window is presenting.
\* `OS::add_frame_delay` _does_ consider being minimized, but it just
throttles CPU usage. Some platforms such as Android completely disable
processing because the higher level code stops being called when the app
goes into background. But this seems like an implementation-detail that
diverges from the rest of the platforms (e.g. Windows, Linux & macOS
continue to process while minimized).
# Rename p_swap_buffers for p_present
**This is potentially a breaking change** (if it actually breaks
anything, I ignore. But I strongly suspect it doesn't break anything).
"Swap Buffers" is a concept carried from OpenGL, where a frame is "done"
when `glSwapBuffers()` is called, which basically means "present to the
screen".
However it _also_ means that OpenGL internally swaps its internal
buffers in a double/triple buffer scheme (in Vulkan, we do that
ourselves and is tracked by `RenderingDevice::frame`).
Modern APIs like Vulkan differentiate between "submitting GPU work" and
"presenting".
Before this PR, calling `RendererCompositorRD::end_frame(false)` would
literally do nothing. This is often undesired and the cause of the leak.
After this PR, calling `RendererCompositorRD::end_frame(false)` will now
process commands, swap our internal buffers in a double/triple buffer
scheme **but avoid presenting to the screen**.
Hence the rename of the variable from `p_swap_buffers` to `p_present`
(which slightly alters its behavior).
If we want `RendererCompositorRD::end_frame(false)` to do nothing, then
we should not call it at all.
This PR reflects such change: When we're minimized **_and_**
`has_pending_resources_for_processing()` returns false, we don't call
`RendererCompositorRD::end_frame()` at all.
But if `has_pending_resources_for_processing()` returns true, we will
call it, but with `p_present = false` because we're minimized.
There's still the issue that Godot keeps processing work (logic,
scripts, physics) while minimized, which we shouldn't do by default. But
that's work for follow up PR.
- Implements asynchronous transfer queues from PR #87590.
- Adds ubershaders that can run with specialization constants specified as push constants.
- Pipelines with specialization constants can compile in the background.
- Added monitoring for pipeline compilations.
- Materials and shaders can now be created asynchronously on background threads.
- Meshes that are loaded on background threads can also compile pipelines as part of the loading process.
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
This removes the countless small UBO writes we had before
and replaces them with a single large write per render pass.
This results in much faster rendering on low-end devices
but improves speed on all devices.
This allows light sources to be specified in physical light units in addition to the regular energy multiplier. In order to avoid loss of precision at high values, brightness values are premultiplied by an exposure normalization value.
In support of Physical Light Units this PR also renames CameraEffects to CameraAttributes.
* Fixed and redone the process to obtain render information from a viewport
* Some stats, such as material changes are too difficult to guess on Vulkan, were removed.
* Separated visible and shadow stats, which causes confusion.
* Texture, buffer and general video memory can be queried now.
* Fixed the performance metrics too.
Happy new year to the wonderful Godot community!
2020 has been a tough year for most of us personally, but a good year for
Godot development nonetheless with a huge amount of work done towards Godot
4.0 and great improvements backported to the long-lived 3.2 branch.
We've had close to 400 contributors to engine code this year, authoring near
7,000 commit! (And that's only for the `master` branch and for the engine code,
there's a lot more when counting docs, demos and other first-party repos.)
Here's to a great year 2021 for all Godot users 🎆
