* 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.
* You can choose which component will be used as 'position' when rendering
vertex inputs. Helpful if a position component isn't auto-detected, or
if you want to render UV co-ordinates onto the screen.
* Instead of fixed TEXCOORD0/Color options for solid shading onto the mesh
you can choose a secondary column yourself.
* Also the solid shading options are available on vertex output meshes as
well as inputs.
* Expand the abilities of the GetTextureData in replay drivers
to be able to resolve samples and render down to RGBA8 unorm
for file export to other programs.
* Greatly improve the ability to save textures - in theory any
texture format/type/dimension/etc should now be mappable in
sensible & useful ways to output formats.
* Also for float/unorm texture add an additional "resolved" option that
just does an unweighted average of all samples, which is the behaviour
from before (assuming that's what ResolveSubresource does).
* The explanation is in the FAQ but the short explanation is that most
data e.g. normal maps are conventionally displayed as if they contained
SRGB data, so RenderDoc does the same so things look as expected.
baldurk