* Any uses of this for replaying subsections of the frame are to be
implemented under the replay driver level, as it's too onerous to
require that the replay driver be able to replay arbitrary subsections
or to communicate granularity up to the above layer.
* Fixes a potential race if a change is detected while some other
program has an exclusive lock on the file to write it, and we try to
open before it's possible. A slow retry fixes that.
* If hardware support for feature level 11 isn't present, fall back to
the WARP software rasterizer. This will support everything needed, but
it certainly won't run well.
* There are loud warnings - I added a debug message to the debug errors&
warnings window so the status bar will indicate that, and it's in the
title.
* At most once every 3 weeks there will also be a message box pop up
when loading a log, to remind the user so that it isn't forgotten, as
for obvious reasons this is not the intended use-case (hopefully once
per 3 weeks isn't too often to be annoying).
* Client code can enumerate the IDs of counters that are supported -
some of these will be general, some will be IHV specific. It can also
request descriptions of the counters to determine the type of data or
units. This can be used to 'discover' counters that aren't hard
coded into renderdoc. I'll want to at least reserve IHV ranges so that
counter IDs are globally unique, and ideally IHV counters will also be
predeclared where possible.
* Also the refactor removes some ugly rdctype::array use outside of the
replay layer and replaces it just with std::vector, which is a nice
bonus.
* We stream-out or transform feedback the whole instanced draw at once,
producing a buffer containing all N instances in one. Then when the
client requests postvs data, an offset into the buffer is calculated
(in 1/N chunks) and carried through everywhere.
* Since we were using the offset to indicate where the system position
output lay for since-last-clear auto drawing of meshes, we rearrange
the output attribute order so system position is always first in the
list.
* Also since-last-clear now doesn't include the current event, but does
include any previous instances before the current instance.
* So RenderMesh doesn't pick up anything implicitly from the current
event, log, pipeline state etc - everything it needs is explicitly
provided by the config parameters (note this might include a buffer
generated by postvs data fetching, but the implementation now doesn't
need to care or treat it as a special case.
* This will allow shifting to RenderMesh being run locally just by
the UI specifying the buffer and simple vertex specification, rather
than by relying on any local log properties (or replaying the log).
* The reasoning behind this change is that it becomes much simpler to
implement, rather than having to modify the draw to do what we want,
we just do an entirely custom draw based on a few properties - similar
to the texture rendering. This will help e.g. for writing a GL
implementation.
* The second benefit is that we can just transfer the buffer contents
across the network when replaying remotely, so mesh rendering can be
implemented even for remote replay - the last unimplemented feature.
* It could also be used similar to the image viewer in future, to
display mesh files.
* This will allow the adding of things like 'redundant api call' for calls
that have no effect, as well as potential problems like drawing with an
empty viewport, or similar things that are common problems. Reading out-
of-bounds on buffers etc is a good example of 'defined' behaviour that
is probably not desired.
* These heuristics could also identify potential performance problems.
* It also supports adding debug messages after log-load time, so you could
do an additional extra-strength pass, or do a detailed check of one
draw call (e.g. a broken draw, to try and figure out the problem). If
there are any unread debug messages, the status bar will flash and the
debug messages window will show a count as (N).
* This means that all APIs pass byte string types. ALL strings everywhere
in the entire codebase must be assumed to be and treated as UTF-8 content
not ASCII.
* Gets rid of all the horrible %hs specifiers that caused warnings on
linux! Hooray.
* We convert to wide strings, or use wide characters, only when necessary
to use the Win32 API. Some windows specific code will stay in wide chars
just for convenience.
* Files are already serialised as UTF-8 strings for linux/windows binary
compatibility, so this change doesn't break backwards compatibility.
baldurk