* Unifying these views means that constant buffers have all the same
reformatting and it avoids having multiple paths for what is now effectively
the same control (a buffer can either have fixed data, repeating data, or
both)
* Most of the main entry points that can fail with relevant reasons now has a
way of specifying a message to return with it. This message can be displayed
to the user to give more information or context about an error.
* Newly written shaders and any updated shaders can now use pre-defined macros
to abstract away binding differences between APIs, so custom shaders will be
more portable in particular shaders written in HLSL for D3D or GLSL on OpenGL
won't break on vulkan because they refer to incorrect binds.
* We also add the ability to toggle on/off the replacement being active without
needing to intentionally add a compile error (and this also makes it more
explicitly clear when the shader replacement is enabled or not. This could be
useful for quick A/B testing between the edited version and the original.
* The UI will become non-functional and the backend will be replaced with a do-
nothing one that keeps things alive without needing error bulletproofing
everywhere in the real backend.
* 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.
* Also added a script that can run as part of CI to verify that the docstring
matches, by generating a regex from the docstring documented parameter types
and return type and making sure we find a match within the C headers. This
ensures all parameters are documented with the right types, no extra
parameters are documented, and the return type is correct.
* The script also checks proper scoping so that if qrenderdoc docstrings
mention a renderdoc type, they need to scope it properly.
* This by no means replaces PySide2, but it allows python extensions to write
simple UIs without needing to rely on PySide2, which might not be available
(generally all windows builds have it as well as recent binary linux builds,
but local windows builds may not and most linux builds probably won't).
* We instead always have 3rdparty/ in the relevant include search paths and rely
on that. Each library still has its own unique base dir within 3rdparty to
clarify where the include is coming from.
* Subresource handling is more consistent - we pass around a struct now that
contains the array slice, mip level, and sample. We remove the concept of
'MSAA textures count samples as extra slices within the real slices' and
internalise that completely. This also means we have a consistent set
everywhere that we need to refer to a subresource.
* Functions that used to be in the ReplayOutput and use a couple of implicit
parameters from the texture viewer configuration are now in the
ReplayController and take them explicitly. This includes GetMinMax,
GetHistogram, and PickPixel.
* Since these functions aren't ReplayOutput relative, if you want to decode the
custom shader texture or the overlay texture you need to pass that ID
directly.
* This means e.g. the D3D11 back-end can accept DXBC directly if the UI can
provide it, or compile from HLSL as before.
* More importantly, the Vulkan back-end can take SPIR-V compiled from any
source, or compile from GLSL as before as a fall-back.
* This will allow the backend to specify both the native format (e.g. SPIR-V,
DXBC) as well as a language it might be able to internally compile (GLSL or
HLSL).
* The caller will then able to decide for itself whether it wants to compile to
native format and pass that down, or pass the language down and let it be
built internally.
* Currently BuildTargetShader still only accepts shader source.
* The GUIInvoke object takes a QObject, and uses QPointer to check that
it hasn't been deleted when the callback fires. This prevents delayed
callbacks from executing after the object has been deleted and
crashing.
* In most cases the pointer is just 'this'.
* If the export doesn't need buffers, we export directly from the loaded
capture file instead of re-loading it.
* Add progress bars for the load step so it shows what's happening
instead of looking stalled.
* Reduce compression rate on XML+ZIP buffers as it took too long trying
to compress when exporting large captures.
baldurk