DebugShaderInputs struct contains existing the parameters:
sample
primitive
and a new parameter
view
Default constructor for DebugShaderInputs sets the parameters to NoPreference (~0U).
* The enums are given after compute, to preserve indices for the normal vertex
pipeline.
* Mesh dispatches are considered a new action type, rather than being bundled
into the `Drawcall` type. This will allow them to be distinguished by API
backends as needed. The UI treats them as drawcalls
* We apply this universally even though it's not relevant to D3D11/GL. It means
a couple of empty array entries but it should not cause any significant
issues.
* Shader messages will be identified by group and thread as with compute
shaders. For mesh shaders there is an additional subdivision to identify them
by task group, since each task group can submit a grid of mesh groups.
* We can't debug geometry shaders but we can scroll to them, as long as we have
the primitive. We can't differentiate instances currently without passing that
data through from the VS (and through tessellation, if it exists).
* This also disables the debug and goto buttons for printfs from shader stages
that don't support those operations.
* This is a deliberate break of compatibility since the field is now often
empty, for non-markers. This means code will get a more explicit error when
the name is being referenced, so it can be updated to fetch the name it needs
as needed.
* There's not a good accepted terminology for this kind of event, and for
historical reasons 'drawcall' has been the accepted term, even though
that can be quite confusing when a dispatch or a copy is a 'drawcall'.
* This is particularly highlighted by the event browser filters where
$draw() includes draws and dispatches, but $dispatch() only includes
dispatches, it's hard to intuitively understand why $draw() matches all
of these calls.
* As a result we've defined the term 'action' to cover these types of
events in the same way that we defined 'event' in the first place to
mean a single atomic API call.
Jake Turner