bevy/crates/bevy_asset/src/path.rs

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Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
use crate::io::AssetSourceId;
use atomicow::CowArc;
use bevy_reflect::{Reflect, ReflectDeserialize, ReflectSerialize};
Add `core` and `alloc` over `std` Lints (#15281) # Objective - Fixes #6370 - Closes #6581 ## Solution - Added the following lints to the workspace: - `std_instead_of_core` - `std_instead_of_alloc` - `alloc_instead_of_core` - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A) to split all `use` statements into single items. - Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix --allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically (usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate root). - Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses. - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A) to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling. - Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use` statements due to conditional compilation attributes. ## Testing - Ran CI locally ## Migration Guide The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher. ## Notes - This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this fails and someone else tries again in the future. - Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std` where possible. - This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std` options for Bevy. --------- Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
2024-09-27 00:59:59 +00:00
use core::{
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
fmt::{Debug, Display},
hash::Hash,
ops::Deref,
};
Add `core` and `alloc` over `std` Lints (#15281) # Objective - Fixes #6370 - Closes #6581 ## Solution - Added the following lints to the workspace: - `std_instead_of_core` - `std_instead_of_alloc` - `alloc_instead_of_core` - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A) to split all `use` statements into single items. - Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix --allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically (usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate root). - Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses. - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A) to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling. - Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use` statements due to conditional compilation attributes. ## Testing - Ran CI locally ## Migration Guide The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher. ## Notes - This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this fails and someone else tries again in the future. - Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std` where possible. - This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std` options for Bevy. --------- Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
2024-09-27 00:59:59 +00:00
use serde::{de::Visitor, Deserialize, Serialize};
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use thiserror::Error;
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Represents a path to an asset in a "virtual filesystem".
///
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// Asset paths consist of three main parts:
/// * [`AssetPath::source`]: The name of the [`AssetSource`](crate::io::AssetSource) to load the asset from.
/// This is optional. If one is not set the default source will be used (which is the `assets` folder by default).
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// * [`AssetPath::path`]: The "virtual filesystem path" pointing to an asset source file.
/// * [`AssetPath::label`]: An optional "named sub asset". When assets are loaded, they are
/// allowed to load "sub assets" of any type, which are identified by a named "label".
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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///
/// Asset paths are generally constructed (and visualized) as strings:
///
/// ```no_run
/// # use bevy_asset::{Asset, AssetServer, Handle};
/// # use bevy_reflect::TypePath;
/// #
/// # #[derive(Asset, TypePath, Default)]
/// # struct Mesh;
/// #
/// # #[derive(Asset, TypePath, Default)]
/// # struct Scene;
/// #
/// # let asset_server: AssetServer = panic!();
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// // This loads the `my_scene.scn` base asset from the default asset source.
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// let scene: Handle<Scene> = asset_server.load("my_scene.scn");
///
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
/// // This loads the `PlayerMesh` labeled asset from the `my_scene.scn` base asset in the default asset source.
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// let mesh: Handle<Mesh> = asset_server.load("my_scene.scn#PlayerMesh");
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
///
/// // This loads the `my_scene.scn` base asset from a custom 'remote' asset source.
/// let scene: Handle<Scene> = asset_server.load("remote://my_scene.scn");
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// ```
///
/// [`AssetPath`] implements [`From`] for `&'static str`, `&'static Path`, and `&'a String`,
/// which allows us to optimize the static cases.
/// This means that the common case of `asset_server.load("my_scene.scn")` when it creates and
/// clones internal owned [`AssetPaths`](AssetPath).
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// This also means that you should use [`AssetPath::parse`] in cases where `&str` is the explicit type.
#[derive(Eq, PartialEq, Hash, Clone, Default, Reflect)]
bevy_reflect: Replace "value" terminology with "opaque" (#15240) # Objective Currently, the term "value" in the context of reflection is a bit overloaded. For one, it can be used synonymously with "data" or "variable". An example sentence would be "this function takes a reflected value". However, it is also used to refer to reflected types which are `ReflectKind::Value`. These types are usually either primitives, opaque types, or types that don't fall into any other `ReflectKind` (or perhaps could, but don't due to some limitation/difficulty). An example sentence would be "this function takes a reflected value type". This makes it difficult to write good documentation or other learning material without causing some amount of confusion to readers. Ideally, we'd be able to move away from the `ReflectKind::Value` usage and come up with a better term. ## Solution This PR replaces the terminology of "value" with "opaque" across `bevy_reflect`. This includes in documentation, type names, variant names, and macros. The term "opaque" was chosen because that's essentially how the type is treated within the reflection API. In other words, its internal structure is hidden. All we can do is work with the type itself. ### Primitives While primitives are not technically opaque types, I think it's still clearer to refer to them as "opaque" rather than keep the confusing "value" terminology. We could consider adding another concept for primitives (e.g. `ReflectKind::Primitive`), but I'm not sure that provides a lot of benefit right now. In most circumstances, they'll be treated just like an opaque type. They would also likely use the same macro (or two copies of the same macro but with different names). ## Testing You can test locally by running: ``` cargo test --package bevy_reflect --all-features ``` --- ## Migration Guide The reflection concept of "value type" has been replaced with a clearer "opaque type". The following renames have been made to account for this: - `ReflectKind::Value` → `ReflectKind::Opaque` - `ReflectRef::Value` → `ReflectRef::Opaque` - `ReflectMut::Value` → `ReflectMut::Opaque` - `ReflectOwned::Value` → `ReflectOwned::Opaque` - `TypeInfo::Value` → `TypeInfo::Opaque` - `ValueInfo` → `OpaqueInfo` - `impl_reflect_value!` → `impl_reflect_opaque!` - `impl_from_reflect_value!` → `impl_from_reflect_opaque!` Additionally, declaring your own opaque types no longer uses `#[reflect_value]`. This attribute has been replaced by `#[reflect(opaque)]`: ```rust // BEFORE #[derive(Reflect)] #[reflect_value(Default)] struct MyOpaqueType(u32); // AFTER #[derive(Reflect)] #[reflect(opaque)] #[reflect(Default)] struct MyOpaqueType(u32); ``` Note that the order in which `#[reflect(opaque)]` appears does not matter.
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#[reflect(opaque)]
#[reflect(Debug, PartialEq, Hash, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct AssetPath<'a> {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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source: AssetSourceId<'a>,
path: CowArc<'a, Path>,
label: Option<CowArc<'a, str>>,
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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impl<'a> Debug for AssetPath<'a> {
Add `core` and `alloc` over `std` Lints (#15281) # Objective - Fixes #6370 - Closes #6581 ## Solution - Added the following lints to the workspace: - `std_instead_of_core` - `std_instead_of_alloc` - `alloc_instead_of_core` - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A) to split all `use` statements into single items. - Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix --allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically (usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate root). - Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses. - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A) to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling. - Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use` statements due to conditional compilation attributes. ## Testing - Ran CI locally ## Migration Guide The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher. ## Notes - This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this fails and someone else tries again in the future. - Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std` where possible. - This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std` options for Bevy. --------- Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
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fn fmt(&self, f: &mut core::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> core::fmt::Result {
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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Display::fmt(self, f)
}
}
impl<'a> Display for AssetPath<'a> {
Add `core` and `alloc` over `std` Lints (#15281) # Objective - Fixes #6370 - Closes #6581 ## Solution - Added the following lints to the workspace: - `std_instead_of_core` - `std_instead_of_alloc` - `alloc_instead_of_core` - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A) to split all `use` statements into single items. - Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix --allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically (usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate root). - Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses. - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A) to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling. - Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use` statements due to conditional compilation attributes. ## Testing - Ran CI locally ## Migration Guide The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher. ## Notes - This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this fails and someone else tries again in the future. - Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std` where possible. - This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std` options for Bevy. --------- Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
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fn fmt(&self, f: &mut core::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> core::fmt::Result {
if let AssetSourceId::Name(name) = self.source() {
write!(f, "{name}://")?;
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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write!(f, "{}", self.path.display())?;
if let Some(label) = &self.label {
write!(f, "#{label}")?;
}
Ok(())
}
}
/// An error that occurs when parsing a string type to create an [`AssetPath`] fails, such as during [`AssetPath::parse`].
#[derive(Error, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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pub enum ParseAssetPathError {
/// Error that occurs when the [`AssetPath::source`] section of a path string contains the [`AssetPath::label`] delimiter `#`. E.g. `bad#source://file.test`.
#[error("Asset source must not contain a `#` character")]
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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InvalidSourceSyntax,
/// Error that occurs when the [`AssetPath::label`] section of a path string contains the [`AssetPath::source`] delimiter `://`. E.g. `source://file.test#bad://label`.
#[error("Asset label must not contain a `://` substring")]
InvalidLabelSyntax,
/// Error that occurs when a path string has an [`AssetPath::source`] delimiter `://` with no characters preceding it. E.g. `://file.test`.
#[error("Asset source must be at least one character. Either specify the source before the '://' or remove the `://`")]
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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MissingSource,
/// Error that occurs when a path string has an [`AssetPath::label`] delimiter `#` with no characters succeeding it. E.g. `file.test#`
#[error("Asset label must be at least one character. Either specify the label after the '#' or remove the '#'")]
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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MissingLabel,
}
impl<'a> AssetPath<'a> {
/// Creates a new [`AssetPath`] from a string in the asset path format:
/// * An asset at the root: `"scene.gltf"`
/// * An asset nested in some folders: `"some/path/scene.gltf"`
/// * An asset with a "label": `"some/path/scene.gltf#Mesh0"`
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// * An asset with a custom "source": `"custom://some/path/scene.gltf#Mesh0"`
///
/// Prefer [`From<'static str>`] for static strings, as this will prevent allocations
/// and reference counting for [`AssetPath::into_owned`].
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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///
/// # Panics
/// Panics if the asset path is in an invalid format. Use [`AssetPath::try_parse`] for a fallible variant
pub fn parse(asset_path: &'a str) -> AssetPath<'a> {
Self::try_parse(asset_path).unwrap()
}
/// Creates a new [`AssetPath`] from a string in the asset path format:
/// * An asset at the root: `"scene.gltf"`
/// * An asset nested in some folders: `"some/path/scene.gltf"`
/// * An asset with a "label": `"some/path/scene.gltf#Mesh0"`
/// * An asset with a custom "source": `"custom://some/path/scene.gltf#Mesh0"`
///
/// Prefer [`From<'static str>`] for static strings, as this will prevent allocations
/// and reference counting for [`AssetPath::into_owned`].
///
/// This will return a [`ParseAssetPathError`] if `asset_path` is in an invalid format.
pub fn try_parse(asset_path: &'a str) -> Result<AssetPath<'a>, ParseAssetPathError> {
let (source, path, label) = Self::parse_internal(asset_path)?;
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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Ok(Self {
source: match source {
Some(source) => AssetSourceId::Name(CowArc::Borrowed(source)),
None => AssetSourceId::Default,
},
path: CowArc::Borrowed(path),
label: label.map(CowArc::Borrowed),
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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})
}
// Attempts to Parse a &str into an `AssetPath`'s `AssetPath::source`, `AssetPath::path`, and `AssetPath::label` components.
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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fn parse_internal(
asset_path: &str,
) -> Result<(Option<&str>, &Path, Option<&str>), ParseAssetPathError> {
let chars = asset_path.char_indices();
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
let mut source_range = None;
let mut path_range = 0..asset_path.len();
let mut label_range = None;
// Loop through the characters of the passed in &str to accomplish the following:
// 1. Search for the first instance of the `://` substring. If the `://` substring is found,
// store the range of indices representing everything before the `://` substring as the `source_range`.
// 2. Search for the last instance of the `#` character. If the `#` character is found,
// store the range of indices representing everything after the `#` character as the `label_range`
// 3. Set the `path_range` to be everything in between the `source_range` and `label_range`,
// excluding the `://` substring and `#` character.
// 4. Verify that there are no `#` characters in the `AssetPath::source` and no `://` substrings in the `AssetPath::label`
let mut source_delimiter_chars_matched = 0;
let mut last_found_source_index = 0;
for (index, char) in chars {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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match char {
':' => {
source_delimiter_chars_matched = 1;
}
'/' => {
match source_delimiter_chars_matched {
1 => {
source_delimiter_chars_matched = 2;
}
2 => {
// If we haven't found our first `AssetPath::source` yet, check to make sure it is valid and then store it.
if source_range.is_none() {
// If the `AssetPath::source` contains a `#` character, it is invalid.
if label_range.is_some() {
return Err(ParseAssetPathError::InvalidSourceSyntax);
}
source_range = Some(0..index - 2);
path_range.start = index + 1;
}
last_found_source_index = index - 2;
source_delimiter_chars_matched = 0;
}
_ => {}
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
}
}
'#' => {
path_range.end = index;
label_range = Some(index + 1..asset_path.len());
source_delimiter_chars_matched = 0;
}
_ => {
source_delimiter_chars_matched = 0;
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
}
}
}
// If we found an `AssetPath::label`
if let Some(range) = label_range.clone() {
// If the `AssetPath::label` contained a `://` substring, it is invalid.
if range.start <= last_found_source_index {
return Err(ParseAssetPathError::InvalidLabelSyntax);
}
}
// Try to parse the range of indices that represents the `AssetPath::source` portion of the `AssetPath` to make sure it is not empty.
// This would be the case if the input &str was something like `://some/file.test`
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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let source = match source_range {
Some(source_range) => {
if source_range.is_empty() {
return Err(ParseAssetPathError::MissingSource);
}
Some(&asset_path[source_range])
}
None => None,
};
// Try to parse the range of indices that represents the `AssetPath::label` portion of the `AssetPath` to make sure it is not empty.
// This would be the case if the input &str was something like `some/file.test#`.
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
let label = match label_range {
Some(label_range) => {
if label_range.is_empty() {
return Err(ParseAssetPathError::MissingLabel);
}
Some(&asset_path[label_range])
}
None => None,
};
let path = Path::new(&asset_path[path_range]);
Ok((source, path, label))
}
/// Creates a new [`AssetPath`] from a [`Path`].
#[inline]
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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pub fn from_path(path: &'a Path) -> AssetPath<'a> {
AssetPath {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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path: CowArc::Borrowed(path),
source: AssetSourceId::Default,
label: None,
}
}
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// Gets the "asset source", if one was defined. If none was defined, the default source
/// will be used.
#[inline]
pub fn source(&self) -> &AssetSourceId {
&self.source
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Gets the "sub-asset label".
#[inline]
pub fn label(&self) -> Option<&str> {
self.label.as_deref()
}
/// Gets the "sub-asset label".
#[inline]
pub fn label_cow(&self) -> Option<CowArc<'a, str>> {
self.label.clone()
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Gets the path to the asset in the "virtual filesystem".
#[inline]
pub fn path(&self) -> &Path {
self.path.deref()
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Gets the path to the asset in the "virtual filesystem" without a label (if a label is currently set).
#[inline]
pub fn without_label(&self) -> AssetPath<'_> {
Self {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Removes a "sub-asset label" from this [`AssetPath`], if one was set.
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
#[inline]
pub fn remove_label(&mut self) {
self.label = None;
}
/// Takes the "sub-asset label" from this [`AssetPath`], if one was set.
#[inline]
pub fn take_label(&mut self) -> Option<CowArc<'a, str>> {
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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self.label.take()
}
/// Returns this asset path with the given label. This will replace the previous
/// label if it exists.
#[inline]
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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pub fn with_label(self, label: impl Into<CowArc<'a, str>>) -> AssetPath<'a> {
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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label: Some(label.into()),
}
}
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// Returns this asset path with the given asset source. This will replace the previous asset
/// source if it exists.
#[inline]
pub fn with_source(self, source: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'a>>) -> AssetPath<'a> {
AssetPath {
source: source.into(),
path: self.path,
label: self.label,
}
}
/// Returns an [`AssetPath`] for the parent folder of this path, if there is a parent folder in the path.
pub fn parent(&self) -> Option<AssetPath<'a>> {
let path = match &self.path {
CowArc::Borrowed(path) => CowArc::Borrowed(path.parent()?),
CowArc::Static(path) => CowArc::Static(path.parent()?),
CowArc::Owned(path) => path.parent()?.to_path_buf().into(),
};
Some(AssetPath {
source: self.source.clone(),
label: None,
path,
})
}
/// Converts this into an "owned" value. If internally a value is borrowed, it will be cloned into an "owned [`Arc`]".
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
/// If internally a value is a static reference, the static reference will be used unchanged.
/// If internally a value is an "owned [`Arc`]", it will remain unchanged.
///
/// [`Arc`]: std::sync::Arc
pub fn into_owned(self) -> AssetPath<'static> {
AssetPath {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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source: self.source.into_owned(),
path: self.path.into_owned(),
label: self.label.map(CowArc::into_owned),
}
}
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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/// Clones this into an "owned" value. If internally a value is borrowed, it will be cloned into an "owned [`Arc`]".
/// If internally a value is a static reference, the static reference will be used unchanged.
/// If internally a value is an "owned [`Arc`]", the [`Arc`] will be cloned.
///
/// [`Arc`]: std::sync::Arc
#[inline]
pub fn clone_owned(&self) -> AssetPath<'static> {
self.clone().into_owned()
}
/// Resolves a relative asset path via concatenation. The result will be an `AssetPath` which
/// is resolved relative to this "base" path.
///
/// ```
/// # use bevy_asset::AssetPath;
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve("c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b/c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve("./c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b/c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve("../c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve("c.png"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b/c.png")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve("/c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png").resolve("#c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png#c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png#c").resolve("#d"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png#d")));
/// ```
///
/// There are several cases:
///
/// If the `path` argument begins with `#`, then it is considered an asset label, in which case
/// the result is the base path with the label portion replaced.
///
/// If the path argument begins with '/', then it is considered a 'full' path, in which
/// case the result is a new `AssetPath` consisting of the base path asset source
/// (if there is one) with the path and label portions of the relative path. Note that a 'full'
/// asset path is still relative to the asset source root, and not necessarily an absolute
/// filesystem path.
///
/// If the `path` argument begins with an asset source (ex: `http://`) then the entire base
/// path is replaced - the result is the source, path and label (if any) of the `path`
/// argument.
///
/// Otherwise, the `path` argument is considered a relative path. The result is concatenated
/// using the following algorithm:
///
/// * The base path and the `path` argument are concatenated.
/// * Path elements consisting of "/." or "&lt;name&gt;/.." are removed.
///
/// If there are insufficient segments in the base path to match the ".." segments,
/// then any left-over ".." segments are left as-is.
pub fn resolve(&self, path: &str) -> Result<AssetPath<'static>, ParseAssetPathError> {
self.resolve_internal(path, false)
}
/// Resolves an embedded asset path via concatenation. The result will be an `AssetPath` which
/// is resolved relative to this path. This is similar in operation to `resolve`, except that
/// the 'file' portion of the base path (that is, any characters after the last '/')
/// is removed before concatenation, in accordance with the behavior specified in
/// IETF RFC 1808 "Relative URIs".
///
/// The reason for this behavior is that embedded URIs which start with "./" or "../" are
/// relative to the *directory* containing the asset, not the asset file. This is consistent
/// with the behavior of URIs in `JavaScript`, CSS, HTML and other web file formats. The
/// primary use case for this method is resolving relative paths embedded within asset files,
/// which are relative to the asset in which they are contained.
///
/// ```
/// # use bevy_asset::AssetPath;
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve_embed("c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve_embed("./c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve_embed("../c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve_embed("c.png"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/c.png")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b").resolve_embed("/c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png").resolve_embed("#c"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png#c")));
/// assert_eq!(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png#c").resolve_embed("#d"), Ok(AssetPath::parse("a/b.png#d")));
/// ```
pub fn resolve_embed(&self, path: &str) -> Result<AssetPath<'static>, ParseAssetPathError> {
self.resolve_internal(path, true)
}
fn resolve_internal(
&self,
path: &str,
replace: bool,
) -> Result<AssetPath<'static>, ParseAssetPathError> {
if let Some(label) = path.strip_prefix('#') {
// It's a label only
Ok(self.clone_owned().with_label(label.to_owned()))
} else {
let (source, rpath, rlabel) = AssetPath::parse_internal(path)?;
let mut base_path = PathBuf::from(self.path());
if replace && !self.path.to_str().unwrap().ends_with('/') {
// No error if base is empty (per RFC 1808).
base_path.pop();
}
// Strip off leading slash
let mut is_absolute = false;
let rpath = match rpath.strip_prefix("/") {
Ok(p) => {
is_absolute = true;
p
}
_ => rpath,
};
Normalise root path in file_watcher (#12102) # Objective - I hit an issue using the `file_watcher` feature to hot reload assets for my game. The change in this PR allows me to now hot reload assets. - The issue stemmed from my project being a multi crate workspace project structured like so: ``` └── my_game ├── my_game_core │   ├── src │   └── assets ├── my_game_editor │   └── src/main.rs └── my_game    └── src/main.rs ``` - `my_game_core` is a crate that holds all my game logic and assets - `my_game` is the crate that creates the binary for my game (depends on the game logic and assets in `my_game_core`) - `my_game_editor` is an editor tool for my game (it also depends on the game logic and assets in `my_game_core`) Whilst running `my_game` and `my_game_editor` from cargo during development I would use `AssetPlugin` like so: ```rust default_plugins.set(AssetPlugin { watch_for_changes_override: Some(true), file_path: "../my_game_core/assets".to_string(), ..Default::default() }) ``` This works fine; bevy picks up the assets. However on saving an asset I would get the following panic from `file_watcher`. It wouldn't kill the app, but I wouldn't see the asset hot reload: ``` thread 'notify-rs debouncer loop' panicked at /Users/ian/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/bevy_asset-0.12.1/src/io/file/file_watcher.rs:48:58: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: StripPrefixError(()) note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace ``` ## Solution - The solution is to collapse dot segments in the root asset path `FileWatcher` is using - There was already bevy code to do this in `AssetPath`, so I extracted that code so it could be reused in `FileWatcher`
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let mut result_path = if !is_absolute && source.is_none() {
base_path
} else {
PathBuf::new()
};
result_path.push(rpath);
result_path = normalize_path(result_path.as_path());
Ok(AssetPath {
source: match source {
Some(source) => AssetSourceId::Name(CowArc::Owned(source.into())),
None => self.source.clone_owned(),
},
path: CowArc::Owned(result_path.into()),
label: rlabel.map(|l| CowArc::Owned(l.into())),
})
}
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Returns the full extension (including multiple '.' values).
/// Ex: Returns `"config.ron"` for `"my_asset.config.ron"`
Ignore query parameters in AssetPaths when determining the extension (#12828) # Objective A help thread on discord asked how to use signed URLs for assets. This currently fails because the query parameters are included in the extension, which causes no suitable loader to be found: ``` Failed to load asset 'http://localhost:4566/dev/1711921849174.jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject' with asset loader 'bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader': Could not load texture file: Error reading image file localhost:4566/dev/1711921849174.jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject: invalid image extension: jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject, this is an error in `bevy_render`. ``` ## Solution Make `get_full_extension` remove everything after the first `?` character. If this is accepted then it should also be documented in `AssetPath` that extensions cannot include question marks. An alternative is to special case this handling only for wasm, but that would be annoying for the [bevy_web_asset](https://github.com/johanhelsing/bevy_web_asset) plugin, and in my opinion also just more confusing overall.
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/// Also strips out anything following a `?` to handle query parameters in URIs
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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let index = file_name.find('.')?;
Ignore query parameters in AssetPaths when determining the extension (#12828) # Objective A help thread on discord asked how to use signed URLs for assets. This currently fails because the query parameters are included in the extension, which causes no suitable loader to be found: ``` Failed to load asset 'http://localhost:4566/dev/1711921849174.jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject' with asset loader 'bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader': Could not load texture file: Error reading image file localhost:4566/dev/1711921849174.jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject: invalid image extension: jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject, this is an error in `bevy_render`. ``` ## Solution Make `get_full_extension` remove everything after the first `?` character. If this is accepted then it should also be documented in `AssetPath` that extensions cannot include question marks. An alternative is to special case this handling only for wasm, but that would be annoying for the [bevy_web_asset](https://github.com/johanhelsing/bevy_web_asset) plugin, and in my opinion also just more confusing overall.
2024-04-03 18:57:03 +00:00
let mut extension = file_name[index + 1..].to_lowercase();
// Strip off any query parameters
let query = extension.find('?');
if let Some(offset) = query {
extension.truncate(offset);
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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pub(crate) fn iter_secondary_extensions(full_extension: &str) -> impl Iterator<Item = &str> {
full_extension.chars().enumerate().filter_map(|(i, c)| {
if c == '.' {
Some(&full_extension[i + 1..])
} else {
None
}
})
}
}
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
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impl AssetPath<'static> {
/// Indicates this [`AssetPath`] should have a static lifetime.
#[inline]
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
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pub fn as_static(self) -> Self {
let Self {
source,
path,
label,
} = self;
let source = source.as_static();
let path = path.as_static();
let label = label.map(CowArc::as_static);
Self {
source,
path,
label,
}
}
/// Constructs an [`AssetPath`] with a static lifetime.
#[inline]
pub fn from_static(value: impl Into<Self>) -> Self {
value.into().as_static()
}
}
impl<'a> From<&'a str> for AssetPath<'a> {
#[inline]
fn from(asset_path: &'a str) -> Self {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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let (source, path, label) = Self::parse_internal(asset_path).unwrap();
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
2024-08-19 23:41:46 +00:00
AssetPath {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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source: source.into(),
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
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path: CowArc::Borrowed(path),
label: label.map(CowArc::Borrowed),
}
}
}
impl<'a> From<&'a String> for AssetPath<'a> {
#[inline]
fn from(asset_path: &'a String) -> Self {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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AssetPath::parse(asset_path.as_str())
}
}
impl From<String> for AssetPath<'static> {
#[inline]
fn from(asset_path: String) -> Self {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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AssetPath::parse(asset_path.as_str()).into_owned()
}
}
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
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impl<'a> From<&'a Path> for AssetPath<'a> {
#[inline]
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
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fn from(path: &'a Path) -> Self {
Self {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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source: AssetSourceId::Default,
Generalized `Into<AssetSourceId>` and `Into<AssetPath>` Implementations over Lifetime (#10823) # Objective - Fixes #10478 ## Solution Generalised `From/Into` implementations over `&str` and `Option<&str>` for `AssetSourceId` and `AssetPath` across all lifetimes, not just static. To maintain access to the `'static`-only specialisation, these types (and `CowArc`) now include an `as_static` method which will apply the specialisation. ```rust // Snipped from `AssetApp` fn register_asset_source( &mut self, id: impl Into<AssetSourceId<'static>>, // ^^^^^^^ // | as_static is only available for 'static lifetimes source: AssetSourceBuilder, ) -> &mut Self { let id = id.into().as_static(); // ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ // | | Specialized (internally storing CowArc::Static) // | Generic Into (internally storing CowArc::Borrowed) // ... } ``` This post-fix specialisation is available here because the actual specialisation performed is only a marker for if/when modification or ownership is required, making the transform a very cheap operation. For cleanliness, I've also added `from_static`, which wraps this behaviour in a clean shorthand designed to replace `from` calls. --- ## Changelog - Generalised the following implementations over a generic lifetime: - `From<&'static str> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<Option<&'static str>> for AssetSourceId<'static>` - `From<&'static str> for AssetPath<'static>` - `From<&'static Path> for AssetPath<'static>` - Added `as_static` specialisation to: - `CowArc` - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` - Added `from_static` specialised constructor to: - `AssetSourceId` - `AssetPath` ## Migration Guide In areas where these implementations where being used, you can now add `from_static` in order to get the original specialised implementation which avoids creating an `Arc` internally. ```rust // Before let asset_path = AssetPath::from("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); // After let asset_path = AssetPath::from_static("my/path/to/an/asset.ext"); ``` To be clear, this is only required if you wish to maintain the performance benefit that came with the specialisation. Existing code is _not_ broken by this change.
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path: CowArc::Borrowed(path),
label: None,
}
}
}
impl From<PathBuf> for AssetPath<'static> {
#[inline]
fn from(path: PathBuf) -> Self {
Self {
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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source: AssetSourceId::Default,
path: path.into(),
label: None,
}
}
}
impl<'a, 'b> From<&'a AssetPath<'b>> for AssetPath<'b> {
fn from(value: &'a AssetPath<'b>) -> Self {
value.clone()
}
}
Bevy Asset V2 (#8624) # Bevy Asset V2 Proposal ## Why Does Bevy Need A New Asset System? Asset pipelines are a central part of the gamedev process. Bevy's current asset system is missing a number of features that make it non-viable for many classes of gamedev. After plenty of discussions and [a long community feedback period](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/3972), we've identified a number missing features: * **Asset Preprocessing**: it should be possible to "preprocess" / "compile" / "crunch" assets at "development time" rather than when the game starts up. This enables offloading expensive work from deployed apps, faster asset loading, less runtime memory usage, etc. * **Per-Asset Loader Settings**: Individual assets cannot define their own loaders that override the defaults. Additionally, they cannot provide per-asset settings to their loaders. This is a huge limitation, as many asset types don't provide all information necessary for Bevy _inside_ the asset. For example, a raw PNG image says nothing about how it should be sampled (ex: linear vs nearest). * **Asset `.meta` files**: assets should have configuration files stored adjacent to the asset in question, which allows the user to configure asset-type-specific settings. These settings should be accessible during the pre-processing phase. Modifying a `.meta` file should trigger a re-processing / re-load of the asset. It should be possible to configure asset loaders from the meta file. * **Processed Asset Hot Reloading**: Changes to processed assets (or their dependencies) should result in re-processing them and re-loading the results in live Bevy Apps. * **Asset Dependency Tracking**: The current bevy_asset has no good way to wait for asset dependencies to load. It punts this as an exercise for consumers of the loader apis, which is unreasonable and error prone. There should be easy, ergonomic ways to wait for assets to load and block some logic on an asset's entire dependency tree loading. * **Runtime Asset Loading**: it should be (optionally) possible to load arbitrary assets dynamically at runtime. This necessitates being able to deploy and run the asset server alongside Bevy Apps on _all platforms_. For example, we should be able to invoke the shader compiler at runtime, stream scenes from sources like the internet, etc. To keep deployed binaries (and startup times) small, the runtime asset server configuration should be configurable with different settings compared to the "pre processor asset server". * **Multiple Backends**: It should be possible to load assets from arbitrary sources (filesystems, the internet, remote asset serves, etc). * **Asset Packing**: It should be possible to deploy assets in compressed "packs", which makes it easier and more efficient to distribute assets with Bevy Apps. * **Asset Handoff**: It should be possible to hold a "live" asset handle, which correlates to runtime data, without actually holding the asset in memory. Ex: it must be possible to hold a reference to a GPU mesh generated from a "mesh asset" without keeping the mesh data in CPU memory * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: Different platforms and app distributions have different capabilities and requirements. Some platforms need lower asset resolutions or different asset formats to operate within the hardware constraints of the platform. It should be possible to define per-platform asset processing profiles. And it should be possible to deploy only the assets required for a given platform. These features have architectural implications that are significant enough to require a full rewrite. The current Bevy Asset implementation got us this far, but it can take us no farther. This PR defines a brand new asset system that implements most of these features, while laying the foundations for the remaining features to be built. ## Bevy Asset V2 Here is a quick overview of the features introduced in this PR. * **Asset Preprocessing**: Preprocess assets at development time into more efficient (and configurable) representations * **Dependency Aware**: Dependencies required to process an asset are tracked. If an asset's processed dependency changes, it will be reprocessed * **Hot Reprocessing/Reloading**: detect changes to asset source files, reprocess them if they have changed, and then hot-reload them in Bevy Apps. * **Only Process Changes**: Assets are only re-processed when their source file (or meta file) has changed. This uses hashing and timestamps to avoid processing assets that haven't changed. * **Transactional and Reliable**: Uses write-ahead logging (a technique commonly used by databases) to recover from crashes / forced-exits. Whenever possible it avoids full-reprocessing / only uncompleted transactions will be reprocessed. When the processor is running in parallel with a Bevy App, processor asset writes block Bevy App asset reads. Reading metadata + asset bytes is guaranteed to be transactional / correctly paired. * **Portable / Run anywhere / Database-free**: The processor does not rely on an in-memory database (although it uses some database techniques for reliability). This is important because pretty much all in-memory databases have unsupported platforms or build complications. * **Configure Processor Defaults Per File Type**: You can say "use this processor for all files of this type". * **Custom Processors**: The `Processor` trait is flexible and unopinionated. It can be implemented by downstream plugins. * **LoadAndSave Processors**: Most asset processing scenarios can be expressed as "run AssetLoader A, save the results using AssetSaver X, and then load the result using AssetLoader B". For example, load this png image using `PngImageLoader`, which produces an `Image` asset and then save it using `CompressedImageSaver` (which also produces an `Image` asset, but in a compressed format), which takes an `Image` asset as input. This means if you have an `AssetLoader` for an asset, you are already half way there! It also means that you can share AssetSavers across multiple loaders. Because `CompressedImageSaver` accepts Bevy's generic Image asset as input, it means you can also use it with some future `JpegImageLoader`. * **Loader and Saver Settings**: Asset Loaders and Savers can now define their own settings types, which are passed in as input when an asset is loaded / saved. Each asset can define its own settings. * **Asset `.meta` files**: configure asset loaders, their settings, enable/disable processing, and configure processor settings * **Runtime Asset Dependency Tracking** Runtime asset dependencies (ex: if an asset contains a `Handle<Image>`) are tracked by the asset server. An event is emitted when an asset and all of its dependencies have been loaded * **Unprocessed Asset Loading**: Assets do not require preprocessing. They can be loaded directly. A processed asset is just a "normal" asset with some extra metadata. Asset Loaders don't need to know or care about whether or not an asset was processed. * **Async Asset IO**: Asset readers/writers use async non-blocking interfaces. Note that because Rust doesn't yet support async traits, there is a bit of manual Boxing / Future boilerplate. This will hopefully be removed in the near future when Rust gets async traits. * **Pluggable Asset Readers and Writers**: Arbitrary asset source readers/writers are supported, both by the processor and the asset server. * **Better Asset Handles** * **Single Arc Tree**: Asset Handles now use a single arc tree that represents the lifetime of the asset. This makes their implementation simpler, more efficient, and allows us to cheaply attach metadata to handles. Ex: the AssetPath of a handle is now directly accessible on the handle itself! * **Const Typed Handles**: typed handles can be constructed in a const context. No more weird "const untyped converted to typed at runtime" patterns! * **Handles and Ids are Smaller / Faster To Hash / Compare**: Typed `Handle<T>` is now much smaller in memory and `AssetId<T>` is even smaller. * **Weak Handle Usage Reduction**: In general Handles are now considered to be "strong". Bevy features that previously used "weak `Handle<T>`" have been ported to `AssetId<T>`, which makes it statically clear that the features do not hold strong handles (while retaining strong type information). Currently Handle::Weak still exists, but it is very possible that we can remove that entirely. * **Efficient / Dense Asset Ids**: Assets now have efficient dense runtime asset ids, which means we can avoid expensive hash lookups. Assets are stored in Vecs instead of HashMaps. There are now typed and untyped ids, which means we no longer need to store dynamic type information in the ID for typed handles. "AssetPathId" (which was a nightmare from a performance and correctness standpoint) has been entirely removed in favor of dense ids (which are retrieved for a path on load) * **Direct Asset Loading, with Dependency Tracking**: Assets that are defined at runtime can still have their dependencies tracked by the Asset Server (ex: if you create a material at runtime, you can still wait for its textures to load). This is accomplished via the (currently optional) "asset dependency visitor" trait. This system can also be used to define a set of assets to load, then wait for those assets to load. * **Async folder loading**: Folder loading also uses this system and immediately returns a handle to the LoadedFolder asset, which means folder loading no longer blocks on directory traversals. * **Improved Loader Interface**: Loaders now have a specific "top level asset type", which makes returning the top-level asset simpler and statically typed. * **Basic Image Settings and Processing**: Image assets can now be processed into the gpu-friendly Basic Universal format. The ImageLoader now has a setting to define what format the image should be loaded as. Note that this is just a minimal MVP ... plenty of additional work to do here. To demo this, enable the `basis-universal` feature and turn on asset processing. * **Simpler Audio Play / AudioSink API**: Asset handle providers are cloneable, which means the Audio resource can mint its own handles. This means you can now do `let sink_handle = audio.play(music)` instead of `let sink_handle = audio_sinks.get_handle(audio.play(music))`. Note that this might still be replaced by https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8424. **Removed Handle Casting From Engine Features**: Ex: FontAtlases no longer use casting between handle types ## Using The New Asset System ### Normal Unprocessed Asset Loading By default the `AssetPlugin` does not use processing. It behaves pretty much the same way as the old system. If you are defining a custom asset, first derive `Asset`: ```rust #[derive(Asset)] struct Thing { value: String, } ``` Initialize the asset: ```rust app.init_asset:<Thing>() ``` Implement a new `AssetLoader` for it: ```rust #[derive(Default)] struct ThingLoader; #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Default)] pub struct ThingSettings { some_setting: bool, } impl AssetLoader for ThingLoader { type Asset = Thing; type Settings = ThingSettings; fn load<'a>( &'a self, reader: &'a mut Reader, settings: &'a ThingSettings, load_context: &'a mut LoadContext, ) -> BoxedFuture<'a, Result<Thing, anyhow::Error>> { Box::pin(async move { let mut bytes = Vec::new(); reader.read_to_end(&mut bytes).await?; // convert bytes to value somehow Ok(Thing { value }) }) } fn extensions(&self) -> &[&str] { &["thing"] } } ``` Note that this interface will get much cleaner once Rust gets support for async traits. `Reader` is an async futures_io::AsyncRead. You can stream bytes as they come in or read them all into a `Vec<u8>`, depending on the context. You can use `let handle = load_context.load(path)` to kick off a dependency load, retrieve a handle, and register the dependency for the asset. Then just register the loader in your Bevy app: ```rust app.init_asset_loader::<ThingLoader>() ``` Now just add your `Thing` asset files into the `assets` folder and load them like this: ```rust fn system(asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) { let handle = Handle<Thing> = asset_server.load("cool.thing"); } ``` You can check load states directly via the asset server: ```rust if asset_server.load_state(&handle) == LoadState::Loaded { } ``` You can also listen for events: ```rust fn system(mut events: EventReader<AssetEvent<Thing>>, handle: Res<SomeThingHandle>) { for event in events.iter() { if event.is_loaded_with_dependencies(&handle) { } } } ``` Note the new `AssetEvent::LoadedWithDependencies`, which only fires when the asset is loaded _and_ all dependencies (and their dependencies) have loaded. Unlike the old asset system, for a given asset path all `Handle<T>` values point to the same underlying Arc. This means Handles can cheaply hold more asset information, such as the AssetPath: ```rust // prints the AssetPath of the handle info!("{:?}", handle.path()) ``` ### Processed Assets Asset processing can be enabled via the `AssetPlugin`. When developing Bevy Apps with processed assets, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev())) ``` This runs the `AssetProcessor` in the background with hot-reloading. It reads assets from the `assets` folder, processes them, and writes them to the `.imported_assets` folder. Asset loads in the Bevy App will wait for a processed version of the asset to become available. If an asset in the `assets` folder changes, it will be reprocessed and hot-reloaded in the Bevy App. When deploying processed Bevy apps, do this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed())) ``` This does not run the `AssetProcessor` in the background. It behaves like `AssetPlugin::unprocessed()`, but reads assets from `.imported_assets`. When the `AssetProcessor` is running, it will populate sibling `.meta` files for assets in the `assets` folder. Meta files for assets that do not have a processor configured look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` This is metadata for an image asset. For example, if you have `assets/my_sprite.png`, this could be the metadata stored at `assets/my_sprite.png.meta`. Meta files are totally optional. If no metadata exists, the default settings will be used. In short, this file says "load this asset with the ImageLoader and use the file extension to determine the image type". This type of meta file is supported in all AssetPlugin modes. If in `Unprocessed` mode, the asset (with the meta settings) will be loaded directly. If in `ProcessedDev` mode, the asset file will be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder. The meta will also be copied directly to the `.imported_assets` folder, but with one addition: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 12415480888597742505, full_hash: 14344495437905856884, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), ), ) ``` `processed_info` contains `hash` (a direct hash of the asset and meta bytes), `full_hash` (a hash of `hash` and the hashes of all `process_dependencies`), and `process_dependencies` (the `path` and `full_hash` of every process_dependency). A "process dependency" is an asset dependency that is _directly_ used when processing the asset. Images do not have process dependencies, so this is empty. When the processor is enabled, you can use the `Process` metadata config: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Process( processor: "bevy_asset::processor::process::LoadAndSave<bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader, bevy_render::texture::compressed_image_saver::CompressedImageSaver>", settings: ( loader_settings: ( format: FromExtension, ), saver_settings: ( generate_mipmaps: true, ), ), ), ) ``` This configures the asset to use the `LoadAndSave` processor, which runs an AssetLoader and feeds the result into an AssetSaver (which saves the given Asset and defines a loader to load it with). (for terseness LoadAndSave will likely get a shorter/friendlier type name when [Stable Type Paths](#7184) lands). `LoadAndSave` is likely to be the most common processor type, but arbitrary processors are supported. `CompressedImageSaver` saves an `Image` in the Basis Universal format and configures the ImageLoader to load it as basis universal. The `AssetProcessor` will read this meta, run it through the LoadAndSave processor, and write the basis-universal version of the image to `.imported_assets`. The final metadata will look like this: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: 905599590923828066, full_hash: 9948823010183819117, process_dependencies: [], )), asset: Load( loader: "bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader", settings: ( format: Format(Basis), ), ), ) ``` To try basis-universal processing out in Bevy examples, (for example `sprite.rs`), change `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins)` to `add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::processed_dev()))` and run with the `basis-universal` feature enabled: `cargo run --features=basis-universal --example sprite`. To create a custom processor, there are two main paths: 1. Use the `LoadAndSave` processor with an existing `AssetLoader`. Implement the `AssetSaver` trait, register the processor using `asset_processor.register_processor::<LoadAndSave<ImageLoader, CompressedImageSaver>>(image_saver.into())`. 2. Implement the `Process` trait directly and register it using: `asset_processor.register_processor(thing_processor)`. You can configure default processors for file extensions like this: ```rust asset_processor.set_default_processor::<ThingProcessor>("thing") ``` There is one more metadata type to be aware of: ```rust ( meta_format_version: "1.0", asset: Ignore, ) ``` This will ignore the asset during processing / prevent it from being written to `.imported_assets`. The AssetProcessor stores a transaction log at `.imported_assets/log` and uses it to gracefully recover from unexpected stops. This means you can force-quit the processor (and Bevy Apps running the processor in parallel) at arbitrary times! `.imported_assets` is "local state". It should _not_ be checked into source control. It should also be considered "read only". In practice, you _can_ modify processed assets and processed metadata if you really need to test something. But those modifications will not be represented in the hashes of the assets, so the processed state will be "out of sync" with the source assets. The processor _will not_ fix this for you. Either revert the change after you have tested it, or delete the processed files so they can be re-populated. ## Open Questions There are a number of open questions to be discussed. We should decide if they need to be addressed in this PR and if so, how we will address them: ### Implied Dependencies vs Dependency Enumeration There are currently two ways to populate asset dependencies: * **Implied via AssetLoaders**: if an AssetLoader loads an asset (and retrieves a handle), a dependency is added to the list. * **Explicit via the optional Asset::visit_dependencies**: if `server.load_asset(my_asset)` is called, it will call `my_asset.visit_dependencies`, which will grab dependencies that have been manually defined for the asset via the Asset trait impl (which can be derived). This means that defining explicit dependencies is optional for "loaded assets". And the list of dependencies is always accurate because loaders can only produce Handles if they register dependencies. If an asset was loaded with an AssetLoader, it only uses the implied dependencies. If an asset was created at runtime and added with `asset_server.load_asset(MyAsset)`, it will use `Asset::visit_dependencies`. However this can create a behavior mismatch between loaded assets and equivalent "created at runtime" assets if `Assets::visit_dependencies` doesn't exactly match the dependencies produced by the AssetLoader. This behavior mismatch can be resolved by completely removing "implied loader dependencies" and requiring `Asset::visit_dependencies` to supply dependency data. But this creates two problems: * It makes defining loaded assets harder and more error prone: Devs must remember to manually annotate asset dependencies with `#[dependency]` when deriving `Asset`. For more complicated assets (such as scenes), the derive likely wouldn't be sufficient and a manual `visit_dependencies` impl would be required. * Removes the ability to immediately kick off dependency loads: When AssetLoaders retrieve a Handle, they also immediately kick off an asset load for the handle, which means it can start loading in parallel _before_ the asset finishes loading. For large assets, this could be significant. (although this could be mitigated for processed assets if we store dependencies in the processed meta file and load them ahead of time) ### Eager ProcessorDev Asset Loading I made a controversial call in the interest of fast startup times ("time to first pixel") for the "processor dev mode configuration". When initializing the AssetProcessor, current processed versions of unchanged assets are yielded immediately, even if their dependencies haven't been checked yet for reprocessing. This means that non-current-state-of-filesystem-but-previously-valid assets might be returned to the App first, then hot-reloaded if/when their dependencies change and the asset is reprocessed. Is this behavior desirable? There is largely one alternative: do not yield an asset from the processor to the app until all of its dependencies have been checked for changes. In some common cases (load dependency has not changed since last run) this will increase startup time. The main question is "by how much" and is that slower startup time worth it in the interest of only yielding assets that are true to the current state of the filesystem. Should this be configurable? I'm starting to think we should only yield an asset after its (historical) dependencies have been checked for changes + processed as necessary, but I'm curious what you all think. ### Paths Are Currently The Only Canonical ID / Do We Want Asset UUIDs? In this implementation AssetPaths are the only canonical asset identifier (just like the previous Bevy Asset system and Godot). Moving assets will result in re-scans (and currently reprocessing, although reprocessing can easily be avoided with some changes). Asset renames/moves will break code and assets that rely on specific paths, unless those paths are fixed up. Do we want / need "stable asset uuids"? Introducing them is very possible: 1. Generate a UUID and include it in .meta files 2. Support UUID in AssetPath 3. Generate "asset indices" which are loaded on startup and map UUIDs to paths. 4 (maybe). Consider only supporting UUIDs for processed assets so we can generate quick-to-load indices instead of scanning meta files. The main "pro" is that assets referencing UUIDs don't need to be migrated when a path changes. The main "con" is that UUIDs cannot be "lazily resolved" like paths. They need a full view of all assets to answer the question "does this UUID exist". Which means UUIDs require the AssetProcessor to fully finish startup scans before saying an asset doesnt exist. And they essentially require asset pre-processing to use in apps, because scanning all asset metadata files at runtime to resolve a UUID is not viable for medium-to-large apps. It really requires a pre-generated UUID index, which must be loaded before querying for assets. I personally think this should be investigated in a separate PR. Paths aren't going anywhere ... _everyone_ uses filesystems (and filesystem-like apis) to manage their asset source files. I consider them permanent canonical asset information. Additionally, they behave well for both processed and unprocessed asset modes. Given that Bevy is supporting both, this feels like the right canonical ID to start with. UUIDS (and maybe even other indexed-identifier types) can be added later as necessary. ### Folder / File Naming Conventions All asset processing config currently lives in the `.imported_assets` folder. The processor transaction log is in `.imported_assets/log`. Processed assets are added to `.imported_assets/Default`, which will make migrating to processed asset profiles (ex: a `.imported_assets/Mobile` profile) a non-breaking change. It also allows us to create top-level files like `.imported_assets/log` without it being interpreted as an asset. Meta files currently have a `.meta` suffix. Do we like these names and conventions? ### Should the `AssetPlugin::processed_dev` configuration enable `watch_for_changes` automatically? Currently it does (which I think makes sense), but it does make it the only configuration that enables watch_for_changes by default. ### Discuss on_loaded High Level Interface: This PR includes a very rough "proof of concept" `on_loaded` system adapter that uses the `LoadedWithDependencies` event in combination with `asset_server.load_asset` dependency tracking to support this pattern ```rust fn main() { App::new() .init_asset::<MyAssets>() .add_systems(Update, on_loaded(create_array_texture)) .run(); } #[derive(Asset, Clone)] struct MyAssets { #[dependency] picture_of_my_cat: Handle<Image>, #[dependency] picture_of_my_other_cat: Handle<Image>, } impl FromWorld for ArrayTexture { fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self { picture_of_my_cat: server.load("meow.png"), picture_of_my_other_cat: server.load("meeeeeeeow.png"), } } fn spawn_cat(In(my_assets): In<MyAssets>, mut commands: Commands) { commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_cat.clone(), ..default() }); commands.spawn(SpriteBundle { texture: my_assets.picture_of_my_other_cat.clone(), ..default() }); } ``` The implementation is _very_ rough. And it is currently unsafe because `bevy_ecs` doesn't expose some internals to do this safely from inside `bevy_asset`. There are plenty of unanswered questions like: * "do we add a Loadable" derive? (effectively automate the FromWorld implementation above) * Should `MyAssets` even be an Asset? (largely implemented this way because it elegantly builds on `server.load_asset(MyAsset { .. })` dependency tracking). We should think hard about what our ideal API looks like (and if this is a pattern we want to support). Not necessarily something we need to solve in this PR. The current `on_loaded` impl should probably be removed from this PR before merging. ## Clarifying Questions ### What about Assets as Entities? This Bevy Asset V2 proposal implementation initially stored Assets as ECS Entities. Instead of `AssetId<T>` + the `Assets<T>` resource it used `Entity` as the asset id and Asset values were just ECS components. There are plenty of compelling reasons to do this: 1. Easier to inline assets in Bevy Scenes (as they are "just" normal entities + components) 2. More flexible queries: use the power of the ECS to filter assets (ex: `Query<Mesh, With<Tree>>`). 3. Extensible. Users can add arbitrary component data to assets. 4. Things like "component visualization tools" work out of the box to visualize asset data. However Assets as Entities has a ton of caveats right now: * We need to be able to allocate entity ids without a direct World reference (aka rework id allocator in Entities ... i worked around this in my prototypes by just pre allocating big chunks of entities) * We want asset change events in addition to ECS change tracking ... how do we populate them when mutations can come from anywhere? Do we use Changed queries? This would require iterating over the change data for all assets every frame. Is this acceptable or should we implement a new "event based" component change detection option? * Reconciling manually created assets with asset-system managed assets has some nuance (ex: are they "loaded" / do they also have that component metadata?) * "how do we handle "static" / default entity handles" (ties in to the Entity Indices discussion: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/8319). This is necessary for things like "built in" assets and default handles in things like SpriteBundle. * Storing asset information as a component makes it easy to "invalidate" asset state by removing the component (or forcing modifications). Ideally we have ways to lock this down (some combination of Rust type privacy and ECS validation) In practice, how we store and identify assets is a reasonably superficial change (porting off of Assets as Entities and implementing dedicated storage + ids took less than a day). So once we sort out the remaining challenges the flip should be straightforward. Additionally, I do still have "Assets as Entities" in my commit history, so we can reuse that work. I personally think "assets as entities" is a good endgame, but it also doesn't provide _significant_ value at the moment and it certainly isn't ready yet with the current state of things. ### Why not Distill? [Distill](https://github.com/amethyst/distill) is a high quality fully featured asset system built in Rust. It is very natural to ask "why not just use Distill?". It is also worth calling out that for awhile, [we planned on adopting Distill / I signed off on it](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/708). However I think Bevy has a number of constraints that make Distill adoption suboptimal: * **Architectural Simplicity:** * Distill's processor requires an in-memory database (lmdb) and RPC networked API (using Cap'n Proto). Each of these introduces API complexity that increases maintenance burden and "code grokability". Ignoring tests, documentation, and examples, Distill has 24,237 lines of Rust code (including generated code for RPC + database interactions). If you ignore generated code, it has 11,499 lines. * Bevy builds the AssetProcessor and AssetServer using pluggable AssetReader/AssetWriter Rust traits with simple io interfaces. They do not necessitate databases or RPC interfaces (although Readers/Writers could use them if that is desired). Bevy Asset V2 (at the time of writing this PR) is 5,384 lines of Rust code (ignoring tests, documentation, and examples). Grain of salt: Distill does have more features currently (ex: Asset Packing, GUIDS, remote-out-of-process asset processor). I do plan to implement these features in Bevy Asset V2 and I personally highly doubt they will meaningfully close the 6115 lines-of-code gap. * This complexity gap (which while illustrated by lines of code, is much bigger than just that) is noteworthy to me. Bevy should be hackable and there are pillars of Distill that are very hard to understand and extend. This is a matter of opinion (and Bevy Asset V2 also has complicated areas), but I think Bevy Asset V2 is much more approachable for the average developer. * Necessary disclaimer: counting lines of code is an extremely rough complexity metric. Read the code and form your own opinions. * **Optional Asset Processing:** Not all Bevy Apps (or Bevy App developers) need / want asset preprocessing. Processing increases the complexity of the development environment by introducing things like meta files, imported asset storage, running processors in the background, waiting for processing to finish, etc. Distill _requires_ preprocessing to work. With Bevy Asset V2 processing is fully opt-in. The AssetServer isn't directly aware of asset processors at all. AssetLoaders only care about converting bytes to runtime Assets ... they don't know or care if the bytes were pre-processed or not. Processing is "elegantly" (forgive my self-congratulatory phrasing) layered on top and builds on the existing Asset system primitives. * **Direct Filesystem Access to Processed Asset State:** Distill stores processed assets in a database. This makes debugging / inspecting the processed outputs harder (either requires special tooling to query the database or they need to be "deployed" to be inspected). Bevy Asset V2, on the other hand, stores processed assets in the filesystem (by default ... this is configurable). This makes interacting with the processed state more natural. Note that both Godot and Unity's new asset system store processed assets in the filesystem. * **Portability**: Because Distill's processor uses lmdb and RPC networking, it cannot be run on certain platforms (ex: lmdb is a non-rust dependency that cannot run on the web, some platforms don't support running network servers). Bevy should be able to process assets everywhere (ex: run the Bevy Editor on the web, compile + process shaders on mobile, etc). Distill does partially mitigate this problem by supporting "streaming" assets via the RPC protocol, but this is not a full solve from my perspective. And Bevy Asset V2 can (in theory) also stream assets (without requiring RPC, although this isn't implemented yet) Note that I _do_ still think Distill would be a solid asset system for Bevy. But I think the approach in this PR is a better solve for Bevy's specific "asset system requirements". ### Doesn't async-fs just shim requests to "sync" `std::fs`? What is the point? "True async file io" has limited / spotty platform support. async-fs (and the rust async ecosystem generally ... ex Tokio) currently use async wrappers over std::fs that offload blocking requests to separate threads. This may feel unsatisfying, but it _does_ still provide value because it prevents our task pools from blocking on file system operations (which would prevent progress when there are many tasks to do, but all threads in a pool are currently blocking on file system ops). Additionally, using async APIs for our AssetReaders and AssetWriters also provides value because we can later add support for "true async file io" for platforms that support it. _And_ we can implement other "true async io" asset backends (such as networked asset io). ## Draft TODO - [x] Fill in missing filesystem event APIs: file removed event (which is expressed as dangling RenameFrom events in some cases), file/folder renamed event - [x] Assets without loaders are not moved to the processed folder. This breaks things like referenced `.bin` files for GLTFs. This should be configurable per-non-asset-type. - [x] Initial implementation of Reflect and FromReflect for Handle. The "deserialization" parity bar is low here as this only worked with static UUIDs in the old impl ... this is a non-trivial problem. Either we add a Handle::AssetPath variant that gets "upgraded" to a strong handle on scene load or we use a separate AssetRef type for Bevy scenes (which is converted to a runtime Handle on load). This deserves its own discussion in a different pr. - [x] Populate read_asset_bytes hash when run by the processor (a bit of a special case .. when run by the processor the processed meta will contain the hash so we don't need to compute it on the spot, but we don't want/need to read the meta when run by the main AssetServer) - [x] Delay hot reloading: currently filesystem events are handled immediately, which creates timing issues in some cases. For example hot reloading images can sometimes break because the image isn't finished writing. We should add a delay, likely similar to the [implementation in this PR](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8503). - [x] Port old platform-specific AssetIo implementations to the new AssetReader interface (currently missing Android and web) - [x] Resolve on_loaded unsafety (either by removing the API entirely or removing the unsafe) - [x] Runtime loader setting overrides - [x] Remove remaining unwraps that should be error-handled. There are number of TODOs here - [x] Pretty AssetPath Display impl - [x] Document more APIs - [x] Resolve spurious "reloading because it has changed" events (to repro run load_gltf with `processed_dev()`) - [x] load_dependency hot reloading currently only works for processed assets. If processing is disabled, load_dependency changes are not hot reloaded. - [x] Replace AssetInfo dependency load/fail counters with `loading_dependencies: HashSet<UntypedAssetId>` to prevent reloads from (potentially) breaking counters. Storing this will also enable "dependency reloaded" events (see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [x] Re-add filesystem watcher cargo feature gate (currently it is not optional) - [ ] Migration Guide - [ ] Changelog ## Followup TODO - [ ] Replace "eager unchanged processed asset loading" behavior with "don't returned unchanged processed asset until dependencies have been checked". - [ ] Add true `Ignore` AssetAction that does not copy the asset to the imported_assets folder. - [ ] Finish "live asset unloading" (ex: free up CPU asset memory after uploading an image to the GPU), rethink RenderAssets, and port renderer features. The `Assets` collection uses `Option<T>` for asset storage to support its removal. (1) the Option might not actually be necessary ... might be able to just remove from the collection entirely (2) need to finalize removal apis - [ ] Try replacing the "channel based" asset id recycling with something a bit more efficient (ex: we might be able to use raw atomic ints with some cleverness) - [ ] Consider adding UUIDs to processed assets (scoped just to helping identify moved assets ... not exposed to load queries ... see [Next Steps](#next-steps)) - [ ] Store "last modified" source asset and meta timestamps in processed meta files to enable skipping expensive hashing when the file wasn't changed - [ ] Fix "slow loop" handle drop fix - [ ] Migrate to TypeName - [x] Handle "loader preregistration". See #9429 ## Next Steps * **Configurable per-type defaults for AssetMeta**: It should be possible to add configuration like "all png image meta should default to using nearest sampling" (currently this hard-coded per-loader/processor Settings::default() impls). Also see the "Folder Meta" bullet point. * **Avoid Reprocessing on Asset Renames / Moves**: See the "canonical asset ids" discussion in [Open Questions](#open-questions) and the relevant bullet point in [Draft TODO](#draft-todo). Even without canonical ids, folder renames could avoid reprocessing in some cases. * **Multiple Asset Sources**: Expand AssetPath to support "asset source names" and support multiple AssetReaders in the asset server (ex: `webserver://some_path/image.png` backed by an Http webserver AssetReader). The "default" asset reader would use normal `some_path/image.png` paths. Ideally this works in combination with multiple AssetWatchers for hot-reloading * **Stable Type Names**: this pr removes the TypeUuid requirement from assets in favor of `std::any::type_name`. This makes defining assets easier (no need to generate a new uuid / use weird proc macro syntax). It also makes reading meta files easier (because things have "friendly names"). We also use type names for components in scene files. If they are good enough for components, they are good enough for assets. And consistency across Bevy pillars is desirable. However, `std::any::type_name` is not guaranteed to be stable (although in practice it is). We've developed a [stable type path](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/7184) to resolve this, which should be adopted when it is ready. * **Command Line Interface**: It should be possible to run the asset processor in a separate process from the command line. This will also require building a network-server-backed AssetReader to communicate between the app and the processor. We've been planning to build a "bevy cli" for awhile. This seems like a good excuse to build it. * **Asset Packing**: This is largely an additive feature, so it made sense to me to punt this until we've laid the foundations in this PR. * **Per-Platform Processed Assets**: It should be possible to generate assets for multiple platforms by supporting multiple "processor profiles" per asset (ex: compress with format X on PC and Y on iOS). I think there should probably be arbitrary "profiles" (which can be separate from actual platforms), which are then assigned to a given platform when generating the final asset distribution for that platform. Ex: maybe devs want a "Mobile" profile that is shared between iOS and Android. Or a "LowEnd" profile shared between web and mobile. * **Versioning and Migrations**: Assets, Loaders, Savers, and Processors need to have versions to determine if their schema is valid. If an asset / loader version is incompatible with the current version expected at runtime, the processor should be able to migrate them. I think we should try using Bevy Reflect for this, as it would allow us to load the old version as a dynamic Reflect type without actually having the old Rust type. It would also allow us to define "patches" to migrate between versions (Bevy Reflect devs are currently working on patching). The `.meta` file already has its own format version. Migrating that to new versions should also be possible. * **Real Copy-on-write AssetPaths**: Rust's actual Cow (clone-on-write type) currently used by AssetPath can still result in String clones that aren't actually necessary (cloning an Owned Cow clones the contents). Bevy's asset system requires cloning AssetPaths in a number of places, which result in actual clones of the internal Strings. This is not efficient. AssetPath internals should be reworked to exhibit truer cow-like-behavior that reduces String clones to the absolute minimum. * **Consider processor-less processing**: In theory the AssetServer could run processors "inline" even if the background AssetProcessor is disabled. If we decide this is actually desirable, we could add this. But I don't think its a priority in the short or medium term. * **Pre-emptive dependency loading**: We could encode dependencies in processed meta files, which could then be used by the Asset Server to kick of dependency loads as early as possible (prior to starting the actual asset load). Is this desirable? How much time would this save in practice? * **Optimize Processor With UntypedAssetIds**: The processor exclusively uses AssetPath to identify assets currently. It might be possible to swap these out for UntypedAssetIds in some places, which are smaller / cheaper to hash and compare. * **One to Many Asset Processing**: An asset source file that produces many assets currently must be processed into a single "processed" asset source. If labeled assets can be written separately they can each have their own configured savers _and_ they could be loaded more granularly. Definitely worth exploring! * **Automatically Track "Runtime-only" Asset Dependencies**: Right now, tracking "created at runtime" asset dependencies requires adding them via `asset_server.load_asset(StandardMaterial::default())`. I think with some cleverness we could also do this for `materials.add(StandardMaterial::default())`, making tracking work "everywhere". There are challenges here relating to change detection / ensuring the server is made aware of dependency changes. This could be expensive in some cases. * **"Dependency Changed" events**: Some assets have runtime artifacts that need to be re-generated when one of their dependencies change (ex: regenerate a material's bind group when a Texture needs to change). We are generating the dependency graph so we can definitely produce these events. Buuuuut generating these events will have a cost / they could be high frequency for some assets, so we might want this to be opt-in for specific cases. * **Investigate Storing More Information In Handles**: Handles can now store arbitrary information, which makes it cheaper and easier to access. How much should we move into them? Canonical asset load states (via atomics)? (`handle.is_loaded()` would be very cool). Should we store the entire asset and remove the `Assets<T>` collection? (`Arc<RwLock<Option<Image>>>`?) * **Support processing and loading files without extensions**: This is a pretty arbitrary restriction and could be supported with very minimal changes. * **Folder Meta**: It would be nice if we could define per folder processor configuration defaults (likely in a `.meta` or `.folder_meta` file). Things like "default to linear filtering for all Images in this folder". * **Replace async_broadcast with event-listener?** This might be approximately drop-in for some uses and it feels more light weight * **Support Running the AssetProcessor on the Web**: Most of the hard work is done here, but there are some easy straggling TODOs (make the transaction log an interface instead of a direct file writer so we can write a web storage backend, implement an AssetReader/AssetWriter that reads/writes to something like LocalStorage). * **Consider identifying and preventing circular dependencies**: This is especially important for "processor dependencies", as processing will silently never finish in these cases. * **Built-in/Inlined Asset Hot Reloading**: This PR regresses "built-in/inlined" asset hot reloading (previously provided by the DebugAssetServer). I'm intentionally punting this because I think it can be cleanly implemented with "multiple asset sources" by registering a "debug asset source" (ex: `debug://bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl` asset paths) in combination with an AssetWatcher for that asset source and support for "manually loading pats with asset bytes instead of AssetReaders". The old DebugAssetServer was quite nasty and I'd love to avoid that hackery going forward. * **Investigate ways to remove double-parsing meta files**: Parsing meta files currently involves parsing once with "minimal" versions of the meta file to extract the type name of the loader/processor config, then parsing again to parse the "full" meta. This is suboptimal. We should be able to define custom deserializers that (1) assume the loader/processor type name comes first (2) dynamically looks up the loader/processor registrations to deserialize settings in-line (similar to components in the bevy scene format). Another alternative: deserialize as dynamic Reflect objects and then convert. * **More runtime loading configuration**: Support using the Handle type as a hint to select an asset loader (instead of relying on AssetPath extensions) * **More high level Processor trait implementations**: For example, it might be worth adding support for arbitrary chains of "asset transforms" that modify an in-memory asset representation between loading and saving. (ex: load a Mesh, run a `subdivide_mesh` transform, followed by a `flip_normals` transform, then save the mesh to an efficient compressed format). * **Bevy Scene Handle Deserialization**: (see the relevant [Draft TODO item](#draft-todo) for context) * **Explore High Level Load Interfaces**: See [this discussion](#discuss-on_loaded-high-level-interface) for one prototype. * **Asset Streaming**: It would be great if we could stream Assets (ex: stream a long video file piece by piece) * **ID Exchanging**: In this PR Asset Handles/AssetIds are bigger than they need to be because they have a Uuid enum variant. If we implement an "id exchanging" system that trades Uuids for "efficient runtime ids", we can cut down on the size of AssetIds, making them more efficient. This has some open design questions, such as how to spawn entities with "default" handle values (as these wouldn't have access to the exchange api in the current system). * **Asset Path Fixup Tooling**: Assets that inline asset paths inside them will break when an asset moves. The asset system provides the functionality to detect when paths break. We should build a framework that enables formats to define "path migrations". This is especially important for scene files. For editor-generated files, we should also consider using UUIDs (see other bullet point) to avoid the need to migrate in these cases. --------- Co-authored-by: BeastLe9enD <beastle9end@outlook.de> Co-authored-by: Mike <mike.hsu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com>
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impl<'a> From<AssetPath<'a>> for PathBuf {
fn from(value: AssetPath<'a>) -> Self {
value.path().to_path_buf()
}
}
impl<'a> Serialize for AssetPath<'a> {
fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
where
S: serde::Serializer,
{
Asset v2: Asset path serialization fix (#9756) # Objective - Silence `Failed to send DropEvent for StrongHandle "SendError(..)"` errors when `StrongHandle` were dropped during application shutdown. - Re-export `BoxedFuture` considering that it's used everywhere in bevy_asset - Fixed an issue introduced by #9729. ``` Asset 'final_gather.rgen' encountered an error in dust_render::shader::spirv::SpirvLoader: Failed to deserialize asset meta: SpannedError { code: InvalidValueForType { expected: "string AssetPath", found: "a sequence" }, position: Position { line: 9, col: 24 } } ``` Basically, for processed assets with dependencies, bevy will serialize the metafile as follows: ``` ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: (203, 239, 108, 156, 180, 23, 157, 217, 159, 36, 158, 193, 185, 253, 242, 156), full_hash: (77, 58, 30, 200, 21, 180, 221, 133, 151, 83, 247, 47, 193, 70, 228, 97), process_dependencies: [ ( full_hash: (56, 46, 55, 118, 3, 6, 213, 250, 124, 26, 153, 87, 15, 85, 4, 89), path: ("standard.glsl"), # <<---------- See here ), ], )), asset: Load( loader: "dust_render::shader::spirv::SpirvLoader", settings: (), ), ) ``` `AssetPath` gets serialized as `("standard.glsl")` which was then deserialized as a sequence instead of our `AssetPath`. ## Solution - Serialize `AssetPath` directly as a string instead. The above metafile would be serialized as follows: ``` ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: (203, 239, 108, 156, 180, 23, 157, 217, 159, 36, 158, 193, 185, 253, 242, 156), full_hash: (77, 58, 30, 200, 21, 180, 221, 133, 151, 83, 247, 47, 193, 70, 228, 97), process_dependencies: [ ( full_hash: (56, 46, 55, 118, 3, 6, 213, 250, 124, 26, 153, 87, 15, 85, 4, 89), path: "standard.glsl", # <<------- No longer a tuple struct ), ], )), asset: Load( loader: "dust_render::shader::spirv::SpirvLoader", settings: (), ), ) ``` ---
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self.to_string().serialize(serializer)
}
}
impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for AssetPath<'static> {
fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> Result<Self, D::Error>
where
D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
{
Asset v2: Asset path serialization fix (#9756) # Objective - Silence `Failed to send DropEvent for StrongHandle "SendError(..)"` errors when `StrongHandle` were dropped during application shutdown. - Re-export `BoxedFuture` considering that it's used everywhere in bevy_asset - Fixed an issue introduced by #9729. ``` Asset 'final_gather.rgen' encountered an error in dust_render::shader::spirv::SpirvLoader: Failed to deserialize asset meta: SpannedError { code: InvalidValueForType { expected: "string AssetPath", found: "a sequence" }, position: Position { line: 9, col: 24 } } ``` Basically, for processed assets with dependencies, bevy will serialize the metafile as follows: ``` ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: (203, 239, 108, 156, 180, 23, 157, 217, 159, 36, 158, 193, 185, 253, 242, 156), full_hash: (77, 58, 30, 200, 21, 180, 221, 133, 151, 83, 247, 47, 193, 70, 228, 97), process_dependencies: [ ( full_hash: (56, 46, 55, 118, 3, 6, 213, 250, 124, 26, 153, 87, 15, 85, 4, 89), path: ("standard.glsl"), # <<---------- See here ), ], )), asset: Load( loader: "dust_render::shader::spirv::SpirvLoader", settings: (), ), ) ``` `AssetPath` gets serialized as `("standard.glsl")` which was then deserialized as a sequence instead of our `AssetPath`. ## Solution - Serialize `AssetPath` directly as a string instead. The above metafile would be serialized as follows: ``` ( meta_format_version: "1.0", processed_info: Some(( hash: (203, 239, 108, 156, 180, 23, 157, 217, 159, 36, 158, 193, 185, 253, 242, 156), full_hash: (77, 58, 30, 200, 21, 180, 221, 133, 151, 83, 247, 47, 193, 70, 228, 97), process_dependencies: [ ( full_hash: (56, 46, 55, 118, 3, 6, 213, 250, 124, 26, 153, 87, 15, 85, 4, 89), path: "standard.glsl", # <<------- No longer a tuple struct ), ], )), asset: Load( loader: "dust_render::shader::spirv::SpirvLoader", settings: (), ), ) ``` ---
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deserializer.deserialize_string(AssetPathVisitor)
}
}
struct AssetPathVisitor;
impl<'de> Visitor<'de> for AssetPathVisitor {
type Value = AssetPath<'static>;
Add `core` and `alloc` over `std` Lints (#15281) # Objective - Fixes #6370 - Closes #6581 ## Solution - Added the following lints to the workspace: - `std_instead_of_core` - `std_instead_of_alloc` - `alloc_instead_of_core` - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [item level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Item%5C%3A) to split all `use` statements into single items. - Used `cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --fix --allow-dirty` to _attempt_ to resolve the new linting issues, and intervened where the lint was unable to resolve the issue automatically (usually due to needing an `extern crate alloc;` statement in a crate root). - Manually removed certain uses of `std` where negative feature gating prevented `--all-features` from finding the offending uses. - Used `cargo +nightly fmt` with [crate level use formatting](https://rust-lang.github.io/rustfmt/?version=v1.6.0&search=#Crate%5C%3A) to re-merge all `use` statements matching Bevy's previous styling. - Manually fixed cases where the `fmt` tool could not re-merge `use` statements due to conditional compilation attributes. ## Testing - Ran CI locally ## Migration Guide The MSRV is now 1.81. Please update to this version or higher. ## Notes - This is a _massive_ change to try and push through, which is why I've outlined the semi-automatic steps I used to create this PR, in case this fails and someone else tries again in the future. - Making this change has no impact on user code, but does mean Bevy contributors will be warned to use `core` and `alloc` instead of `std` where possible. - This lint is a critical first step towards investigating `no_std` options for Bevy. --------- Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
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fn expecting(&self, formatter: &mut core::fmt::Formatter) -> core::fmt::Result {
formatter.write_str("string AssetPath")
}
fn visit_str<E>(self, v: &str) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
where
E: serde::de::Error,
{
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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Ok(AssetPath::parse(v).into_owned())
}
fn visit_string<E>(self, v: String) -> Result<Self::Value, E>
where
E: serde::de::Error,
{
Ok(AssetPath::from(v))
}
}
Normalise root path in file_watcher (#12102) # Objective - I hit an issue using the `file_watcher` feature to hot reload assets for my game. The change in this PR allows me to now hot reload assets. - The issue stemmed from my project being a multi crate workspace project structured like so: ``` └── my_game ├── my_game_core │   ├── src │   └── assets ├── my_game_editor │   └── src/main.rs └── my_game    └── src/main.rs ``` - `my_game_core` is a crate that holds all my game logic and assets - `my_game` is the crate that creates the binary for my game (depends on the game logic and assets in `my_game_core`) - `my_game_editor` is an editor tool for my game (it also depends on the game logic and assets in `my_game_core`) Whilst running `my_game` and `my_game_editor` from cargo during development I would use `AssetPlugin` like so: ```rust default_plugins.set(AssetPlugin { watch_for_changes_override: Some(true), file_path: "../my_game_core/assets".to_string(), ..Default::default() }) ``` This works fine; bevy picks up the assets. However on saving an asset I would get the following panic from `file_watcher`. It wouldn't kill the app, but I wouldn't see the asset hot reload: ``` thread 'notify-rs debouncer loop' panicked at /Users/ian/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/bevy_asset-0.12.1/src/io/file/file_watcher.rs:48:58: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: StripPrefixError(()) note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace ``` ## Solution - The solution is to collapse dot segments in the root asset path `FileWatcher` is using - There was already bevy code to do this in `AssetPath`, so I extracted that code so it could be reused in `FileWatcher`
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/// Normalizes the path by collapsing all occurrences of '.' and '..' dot-segments where possible
/// as per [RFC 1808](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1808)
pub(crate) fn normalize_path(path: &Path) -> PathBuf {
let mut result_path = PathBuf::new();
for elt in path.iter() {
if elt == "." {
// Skip
} else if elt == ".." {
if !result_path.pop() {
// Preserve ".." if insufficient matches (per RFC 1808).
result_path.push(elt);
}
} else {
result_path.push(elt);
}
}
result_path
}
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use crate::AssetPath;
use std::path::Path;
#[test]
fn parse_asset_path() {
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("a/b.test");
assert_eq!(result, Ok((None, Path::new("a/b.test"), None)));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("http://a/b.test");
assert_eq!(result, Ok((Some("http"), Path::new("a/b.test"), None)));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("http://a/b.test#Foo");
assert_eq!(
result,
Ok((Some("http"), Path::new("a/b.test"), Some("Foo")))
);
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("localhost:80/b.test");
assert_eq!(result, Ok((None, Path::new("localhost:80/b.test"), None)));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("http://localhost:80/b.test");
assert_eq!(
result,
Ok((Some("http"), Path::new("localhost:80/b.test"), None))
);
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("http://localhost:80/b.test#Foo");
assert_eq!(
result,
Ok((Some("http"), Path::new("localhost:80/b.test"), Some("Foo")))
);
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("#insource://a/b.test");
assert_eq!(result, Err(crate::ParseAssetPathError::InvalidSourceSyntax));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("source://a/b.test#://inlabel");
assert_eq!(result, Err(crate::ParseAssetPathError::InvalidLabelSyntax));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("#insource://a/b.test#://inlabel");
assert!(
result == Err(crate::ParseAssetPathError::InvalidSourceSyntax)
|| result == Err(crate::ParseAssetPathError::InvalidLabelSyntax)
);
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
2023-10-13 23:17:32 +00:00
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("http://");
assert_eq!(result, Ok((Some("http"), Path::new(""), None)));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("://x");
assert_eq!(result, Err(crate::ParseAssetPathError::MissingSource));
let result = AssetPath::parse_internal("a/b.test#");
assert_eq!(result, Err(crate::ParseAssetPathError::MissingLabel));
}
#[test]
fn test_parent() {
// Parent consumes path segments, returns None when insufficient
let result = AssetPath::from("a/b.test");
assert_eq!(result.parent(), Some(AssetPath::from("a")));
assert_eq!(result.parent().unwrap().parent(), Some(AssetPath::from("")));
assert_eq!(result.parent().unwrap().parent().unwrap().parent(), None);
// Parent cannot consume asset source
let result = AssetPath::from("http://a");
assert_eq!(result.parent(), Some(AssetPath::from("http://")));
assert_eq!(result.parent().unwrap().parent(), None);
// Parent consumes labels
let result = AssetPath::from("http://a#Foo");
assert_eq!(result.parent(), Some(AssetPath::from("http://")));
}
#[test]
fn test_with_source() {
let result = AssetPath::from("http://a#Foo");
assert_eq!(result.with_source("ftp"), AssetPath::from("ftp://a#Foo"));
}
#[test]
fn test_without_label() {
let result = AssetPath::from("http://a#Foo");
assert_eq!(result.without_label(), AssetPath::from("http://a"));
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_full() {
// A "full" path should ignore the base path.
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/joe/next").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("joe/next")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/joe/next").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("joe/next")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/joe/next#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("joe/next#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/joe/next#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("joe/next#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_implicit_relative() {
// A path with no initial directory separator should be considered relative.
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("joe/next").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob/joe/next")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("joe/next").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/joe/next")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("joe/next#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob/joe/next#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("joe/next#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/joe/next#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_explicit_relative() {
// A path which begins with "./" or "../" is treated as relative
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("./martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("./martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("../martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("../martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_trailing_slash() {
// A path which begins with "./" or "../" is treated as relative
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob/");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("./martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("./martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("../martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("../martin#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/martin#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_canonicalize() {
// Test that ".." and "." are removed after concatenation.
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("./martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("./martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("../martin/.#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("../martin/.#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_canonicalize_base() {
// Test that ".." and "." are removed after concatenation even from the base path.
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/../bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("./martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("bob/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("./martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("../martin/.#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("../martin/.#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("../martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_canonicalize_with_source() {
// Test that ".." and "." are removed after concatenation.
let base = AssetPath::from("source://alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("./martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://alice/bob/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("./martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("../martin/.#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://alice/martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("../martin/.#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/martin/stephan/..#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_absolute() {
// Paths beginning with '/' replace the base path
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/martin/stephan").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin/stephan")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/martin/stephan").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin/stephan")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("/martin/stephan#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin/stephan/#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("/martin/stephan#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("martin/stephan/#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_asset_source() {
// Paths beginning with 'source://' replace the base path
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("source://martin/stephan").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin/stephan")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("source://martin/stephan").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin/stephan")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("source://martin/stephan#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin/stephan/#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("source://martin/stephan#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("source://martin/stephan/#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_label() {
// A relative path with only a label should replace the label portion
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob#dave")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("#dave").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("alice/bob#dave")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_resolve_insufficient_elements() {
// Ensure that ".." segments are preserved if there are insufficient elements to remove them.
let base = AssetPath::from("alice/bob#carol");
assert_eq!(
base.resolve("../../joe/next").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("joe/next")
);
assert_eq!(
base.resolve_embed("../../joe/next").unwrap(),
AssetPath::from("../joe/next")
);
}
#[test]
fn test_get_extension() {
let result = AssetPath::from("http://a.tar.gz#Foo");
assert_eq!(result.get_full_extension(), Some("tar.gz".to_string()));
let result = AssetPath::from("http://a#Foo");
assert_eq!(result.get_full_extension(), None);
Ignore query parameters in AssetPaths when determining the extension (#12828) # Objective A help thread on discord asked how to use signed URLs for assets. This currently fails because the query parameters are included in the extension, which causes no suitable loader to be found: ``` Failed to load asset 'http://localhost:4566/dev/1711921849174.jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject' with asset loader 'bevy_render::texture::image_loader::ImageLoader': Could not load texture file: Error reading image file localhost:4566/dev/1711921849174.jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject: invalid image extension: jpeg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=%2F20240331%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20240331T230145Z&X-Amz-Expires=900&X-Amz-Signature=64855e731c279fa01063568e37095562ef74e09387c881bd3e3604181d0cc108&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-id=GetObject, this is an error in `bevy_render`. ``` ## Solution Make `get_full_extension` remove everything after the first `?` character. If this is accepted then it should also be documented in `AssetPath` that extensions cannot include question marks. An alternative is to special case this handling only for wasm, but that would be annoying for the [bevy_web_asset](https://github.com/johanhelsing/bevy_web_asset) plugin, and in my opinion also just more confusing overall.
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let result = AssetPath::from("http://a.tar.bz2?foo=bar#Baz");
assert_eq!(result.get_full_extension(), Some("tar.bz2".to_string()));
}
Multiple Asset Sources (#9885) This adds support for **Multiple Asset Sources**. You can now register a named `AssetSource`, which you can load assets from like you normally would: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("custom_source://path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` Notice that `AssetPath` now supports `some_source://` syntax. This can now be accessed through the `asset_path.source()` accessor. Asset source names _are not required_. If one is not specified, the default asset source will be used: ```rust let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("path/to/shader.wgsl"); ``` The behavior of the default asset source has not changed. Ex: the `assets` folder is still the default. As referenced in #9714 ## Why? **Multiple Asset Sources** enables a number of often-asked-for scenarios: * **Loading some assets from other locations on disk**: you could create a `config` asset source that reads from the OS-default config folder (not implemented in this PR) * **Loading some assets from a remote server**: you could register a new `remote` asset source that reads some assets from a remote http server (not implemented in this PR) * **Improved "Binary Embedded" Assets**: we can use this system for "embedded-in-binary assets", which allows us to replace the old `load_internal_asset!` approach, which couldn't support asset processing, didn't support hot-reloading _well_, and didn't make embedded assets accessible to the `AssetServer` (implemented in this pr) ## Adding New Asset Sources An `AssetSource` is "just" a collection of `AssetReader`, `AssetWriter`, and `AssetWatcher` entries. You can configure new asset sources like this: ```rust app.register_asset_source( "other", AssetSource::build() .with_reader(|| Box::new(FileAssetReader::new("other"))) ) ) ``` Note that `AssetSource` construction _must_ be repeatable, which is why a closure is accepted. `AssetSourceBuilder` supports `with_reader`, `with_writer`, `with_watcher`, `with_processed_reader`, `with_processed_writer`, and `with_processed_watcher`. Note that the "asset source" system replaces the old "asset providers" system. ## Processing Multiple Sources The `AssetProcessor` now supports multiple asset sources! Processed assets can refer to assets in other sources and everything "just works". Each `AssetSource` defines an unprocessed and processed `AssetReader` / `AssetWriter`. Currently this is all or nothing for a given `AssetSource`. A given source is either processed or it is not. Later we might want to add support for "lazy asset processing", where an `AssetSource` (such as a remote server) can be configured to only process assets that are directly referenced by local assets (in order to save local disk space and avoid doing extra work). ## A new `AssetSource`: `embedded` One of the big features motivating **Multiple Asset Sources** was improving our "embedded-in-binary" asset loading. To prove out the **Multiple Asset Sources** implementation, I chose to build a new `embedded` `AssetSource`, which replaces the old `load_interal_asset!` system. The old `load_internal_asset!` approach had a number of issues: * The `AssetServer` was not aware of (or capable of loading) internal assets. * Because internal assets weren't visible to the `AssetServer`, they could not be processed (or used by assets that are processed). This would prevent things "preprocessing shaders that depend on built in Bevy shaders", which is something we desperately need to start doing. * Each "internal asset" needed a UUID to be defined in-code to reference it. This was very manual and toilsome. The new `embedded` `AssetSource` enables the following pattern: ```rust // Called in `crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/mesh.rs` embedded_asset!(app, "mesh.wgsl"); // later in the app let shader: Handle<Shader> = asset_server.load("embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl"); ``` Notice that this always treats the crate name as the "root path", and it trims out the `src` path for brevity. This is generally predictable, but if you need to debug you can use the new `embedded_path!` macro to get a `PathBuf` that matches the one used by `embedded_asset`. You can also reference embedded assets in arbitrary assets, such as WGSL shaders: ```rust #import "embedded://bevy_pbr/render/mesh.wgsl" ``` This also makes `embedded` assets go through the "normal" asset lifecycle. They are only loaded when they are actually used! We are also discussing implicitly converting asset paths to/from shader modules, so in the future (not in this PR) you might be able to load it like this: ```rust #import bevy_pbr::render::mesh::Vertex ``` Compare that to the old system! ```rust pub const MESH_SHADER_HANDLE: Handle<Shader> = Handle::weak_from_u128(3252377289100772450); load_internal_asset!(app, MESH_SHADER_HANDLE, "mesh.wgsl", Shader::from_wgsl); // The mesh asset is the _only_ accessible via MESH_SHADER_HANDLE and _cannot_ be loaded via the AssetServer. ``` ## Hot Reloading `embedded` You can enable `embedded` hot reloading by enabling the `embedded_watcher` cargo feature: ``` cargo run --features=embedded_watcher ``` ## Improved Hot Reloading Workflow First: the `filesystem_watcher` cargo feature has been renamed to `file_watcher` for brevity (and to match the `FileAssetReader` naming convention). More importantly, hot asset reloading is no longer configured in-code by default. If you enable any asset watcher feature (such as `file_watcher` or `rust_source_watcher`), asset watching will be automatically enabled. This removes the need to _also_ enable hot reloading in your app code. That means you can replace this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::default().watch_for_changes())) ``` with this: ```rust app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins) ``` If you want to hot reload assets in your app during development, just run your app like this: ``` cargo run --features=file_watcher ``` This means you can use the same code for development and deployment! To deploy an app, just don't include the watcher feature ``` cargo build --release ``` My intent is to move to this approach for pretty much all dev workflows. In a future PR I would like to replace `AssetMode::ProcessedDev` with a `runtime-processor` cargo feature. We could then group all common "dev" cargo features under a single `dev` feature: ```sh # this would enable file_watcher, embedded_watcher, runtime-processor, and more cargo run --features=dev ``` ## AssetMode `AssetPlugin::Unprocessed`, `AssetPlugin::Processed`, and `AssetPlugin::ProcessedDev` have been replaced with an `AssetMode` field on `AssetPlugin`. ```rust // before app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin::Processed { /* fields here */ }) // after app.add_plugins(DefaultPlugins.set(AssetPlugin { mode: AssetMode::Processed, ..default() }) ``` This aligns `AssetPlugin` with our other struct-like plugins. The old "source" and "destination" `AssetProvider` fields in the enum variants have been replaced by the "asset source" system. You no longer need to configure the AssetPlugin to "point" to custom asset providers. ## AssetServerMode To improve the implementation of **Multiple Asset Sources**, `AssetServer` was made aware of whether or not it is using "processed" or "unprocessed" assets. You can check that like this: ```rust if asset_server.mode() == AssetServerMode::Processed { /* do something */ } ``` Note that this refactor should also prepare the way for building "one to many processed output files", as it makes the server aware of whether it is loading from processed or unprocessed sources. Meaning we can store and read processed and unprocessed assets differently! ## AssetPath can now refer to folders The "file only" restriction has been removed from `AssetPath`. The `AssetServer::load_folder` API now accepts an `AssetPath` instead of a `Path`, meaning you can load folders from other asset sources! ## Improved AssetPath Parsing AssetPath parsing was reworked to support sources, improve error messages, and to enable parsing with a single pass over the string. `AssetPath::new` was replaced by `AssetPath::parse` and `AssetPath::try_parse`. ## AssetWatcher broken out from AssetReader `AssetReader` is no longer responsible for constructing `AssetWatcher`. This has been moved to `AssetSourceBuilder`. ## Duplicate Event Debouncing Asset V2 already debounced duplicate filesystem events, but this was _input_ events. Multiple input event types can produce the same _output_ `AssetSourceEvent`. Now that we have `embedded_watcher`, which does expensive file io on events, it made sense to debounce output events too, so I added that! This will also benefit the AssetProcessor by preventing integrity checks for duplicate events (and helps keep the noise down in trace logs). ## Next Steps * **Port Built-in Shaders**: Currently the primary (and essentially only) user of `load_interal_asset` in Bevy's source code is "built-in shaders". I chose not to do that in this PR for a few reasons: 1. We need to add the ability to pass shader defs in to shaders via meta files. Some shaders (such as MESH_VIEW_TYPES) need to pass shader def values in that are defined in code. 2. We need to revisit the current shader module naming system. I think we _probably_ want to imply modules from source structure (at least by default). Ideally in a way that can losslessly convert asset paths to/from shader modules (to enable the asset system to resolve modules using the asset server). 3. I want to keep this change set minimal / get this merged first. * **Deprecate `load_internal_asset`**: we can't do that until we do (1) and (2) * **Relative Asset Paths**: This PR significantly increases the need for relative asset paths (which was already pretty high). Currently when loading dependencies, it is assumed to be an absolute path, which means if in an `AssetLoader` you call `context.load("some/path/image.png")` it will assume that is the "default" asset source, _even if the current asset is in a different asset source_. This will cause breakage for AssetLoaders that are not designed to add the current source to whatever paths are being used. AssetLoaders should generally not need to be aware of the name of their current asset source, or need to think about the "current asset source" generally. We should build apis that support relative asset paths and then encourage using relative paths as much as possible (both via api design and docs). Relative paths are also important because they will allow developers to move folders around (even across providers) without reprocessing, provided there is no path breakage.
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}