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Implement irradiance volumes. (#10268) # Objective Bevy could benefit from *irradiance volumes*, also known as *voxel global illumination* or simply as light probes (though this term is not preferred, as multiple techniques can be called light probes). Irradiance volumes are a form of baked global illumination; they work by sampling the light at the centers of each voxel within a cuboid. At runtime, the voxels surrounding the fragment center are sampled and interpolated to produce indirect diffuse illumination. ## Solution This is divided into two sections. The first is copied and pasted from the irradiance volume module documentation and describes the technique. The second part consists of notes on the implementation. ### Overview An *irradiance volume* is a cuboid voxel region consisting of regularly-spaced precomputed samples of diffuse indirect light. They're ideal if you have a dynamic object such as a character that can move about static non-moving geometry such as a level in a game, and you want that dynamic object to be affected by the light bouncing off that static geometry. To use irradiance volumes, you need to precompute, or *bake*, the indirect light in your scene. Bevy doesn't currently come with a way to do this. Fortunately, [Blender] provides a [baking tool] as part of the Eevee renderer, and its irradiance volumes are compatible with those used by Bevy. The [`bevy-baked-gi`] project provides a tool, `export-blender-gi`, that can extract the baked irradiance volumes from the Blender `.blend` file and package them up into a `.ktx2` texture for use by the engine. See the documentation in the `bevy-baked-gi` project for more details as to this workflow. Like all light probes in Bevy, irradiance volumes are 1×1×1 cubes that can be arbitrarily scaled, rotated, and positioned in a scene with the [`bevy_transform::components::Transform`] component. The 3D voxel grid will be stretched to fill the interior of the cube, and the illumination from the irradiance volume will apply to all fragments within that bounding region. Bevy's irradiance volumes are based on Valve's [*ambient cubes*] as used in *Half-Life 2* ([Mitchell 2006], slide 27). These encode a single color of light from the six 3D cardinal directions and blend the sides together according to the surface normal. The primary reason for choosing ambient cubes is to match Blender, so that its Eevee renderer can be used for baking. However, they also have some advantages over the common second-order spherical harmonics approach: ambient cubes don't suffer from ringing artifacts, they are smaller (6 colors for ambient cubes as opposed to 9 for spherical harmonics), and evaluation is faster. A smaller basis allows for a denser grid of voxels with the same storage requirements. If you wish to use a tool other than `export-blender-gi` to produce the irradiance volumes, you'll need to pack the irradiance volumes in the following format. The irradiance volume of resolution *(Rx, Ry, Rz)* is expected to be a 3D texture of dimensions *(Rx, 2Ry, 3Rz)*. The unnormalized texture coordinate *(s, t, p)* of the voxel at coordinate *(x, y, z)* with side *S* ∈ *{-X, +X, -Y, +Y, -Z, +Z}* is as follows: ```text s = x t = y + ⎰ 0 if S ∈ {-X, -Y, -Z} ⎱ Ry if S ∈ {+X, +Y, +Z} ⎧ 0 if S ∈ {-X, +X} p = z + ⎨ Rz if S ∈ {-Y, +Y} ⎩ 2Rz if S ∈ {-Z, +Z} ``` Visually, in a left-handed coordinate system with Y up, viewed from the right, the 3D texture looks like a stacked series of voxel grids, one for each cube side, in this order: | **+X** | **+Y** | **+Z** | | ------ | ------ | ------ | | **-X** | **-Y** | **-Z** | A terminology note: Other engines may refer to irradiance volumes as *voxel global illumination*, *VXGI*, or simply as *light probes*. Sometimes *light probe* refers to what Bevy calls a reflection probe. In Bevy, *light probe* is a generic term that encompasses all cuboid bounding regions that capture indirect illumination, whether based on voxels or not. Note that, if binding arrays aren't supported (e.g. on WebGPU or WebGL 2), then only the closest irradiance volume to the view will be taken into account during rendering. [*ambient cubes*]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Mitchell 2006]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Blender]: http://blender.org/ [baking tool]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/render_settings/indirect_lighting.html [`bevy-baked-gi`]: https://github.com/pcwalton/bevy-baked-gi ### Implementation notes This patch generalizes light probes so as to reuse as much code as possible between irradiance volumes and the existing reflection probes. This approach was chosen because both techniques share numerous similarities: 1. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes are cuboid bounding regions. 2. Both are responsible for providing baked indirect light. 3. Both techniques involve presenting a variable number of textures to the shader from which indirect light is sampled. (In the current implementation, this uses binding arrays.) 4. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes require gathering and sorting probes by distance on CPU. 5. Both techniques require the GPU to search through a list of bounding regions. 6. Both will eventually want to have falloff so that we can smoothly blend as objects enter and exit the probes' influence ranges. (This is not implemented yet to keep this patch relatively small and reviewable.) To do this, we generalize most of the methods in the reflection probes patch #11366 to be generic over a trait, `LightProbeComponent`. This trait is implemented by both `EnvironmentMapLight` (for reflection probes) and `IrradianceVolume` (for irradiance volumes). Using a trait will allow us to add more types of light probes in the future. In particular, I highly suspect we will want real-time reflection planes for mirrors in the future, which can be easily slotted into this framework. ## Changelog > This section is optional. If this was a trivial fix, or has no externally-visible impact, you can delete this section. ### Added * A new `IrradianceVolume` asset type is available for baked voxelized light probes. You can bake the global illumination using Blender or another tool of your choice and use it in Bevy to apply indirect illumination to dynamic objects.
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use crate::*;
use bevy_app::{App, Plugin};
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
use bevy_asset::{Asset, AssetApp, AssetEvent, AssetId, AssetServer, Assets, Handle};
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
use bevy_core_pipeline::{
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
core_3d::{
AlphaMask3d, Camera3d, Opaque3d, ScreenSpaceTransmissionQuality, Transmissive3d,
Transparent3d,
},
`*_PREPASS` Shader Def Cleanup (#10136) # Objective - This PR aims to make the various `*_PREPASS` shader defs we have (`NORMAL_PREPASS`, `DEPTH_PREPASS`, `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` AND `DEFERRED_PREPASS`) easier to use and understand: - So that their meaning is now consistent across all contexts; (“prepass X is enabled for the current view”) - So that they're also consistently set across all contexts. - It also aims to enable us to (with a follow up PR) to conditionally gate the `BindGroupEntry` and `BindGroupLayoutEntry` items associated with these prepasses, saving us up to 4 texture slots in WebGL (currently globally limited to 16 per shader, regardless of bind groups) ## Solution - We now consistently set these from `PrepassPipeline`, the `MeshPipeline` and the `DeferredLightingPipeline`, we also set their `MeshPipelineKey`s; - We introduce `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` that can be used to detect where the code is running, without overloading the meanings of the prepass shader defs; - We also gate the WGSL functions in `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` with `#ifdef`s for their respective shader defs, so that shader code can provide a fallback whenever they're not available. - This allows us to conditionally include the bindings for these prepass textures (My next PR, which will hopefully unblock #8015) - @robtfm mentioned [these were being used to prevent accessing the same binding as read/write in the prepass](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/743663924229963868/1163270458393759814), however even after reversing the `#ifndef`s I had no issues running the code, so perhaps the compiler is already smart enough even without tree shaking to know they're not being used, thanks to `#ifdef PREPASS_PIPELINE`? ## Comparison ### Before | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes\* | No | \* Accidentally was being set twice, once with only `deferred_prepass.is_some()` as a condition, and once with `deferred_p repass.is_some() && !forward` as a condition. ### After | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ---------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | | `PREPASS_PIPELINE` | Unconditionally | No | No | | `MESH_PIPELINE` | No | Unconditionally | No | | `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` | No | No | Unconditionally | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | --- ## Changelog - Cleaned up WGSL `*_PREPASS` shader defs so they're now consistently used everywhere; - Introduced `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` WGSL shader defs for conditionally compiling logic based the current pipeline; - WGSL functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` are now guarded with `#ifdef` based on the currently enabled prepasses; ## Migration Guide - When using functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` (`prepass_depth()`, `prepass_normal()`, `prepass_motion_vector()`) in contexts where these prepasses might be disabled, you should now wrap your calls with the appropriate `#ifdef` guards, (`#ifdef DEPTH_PREPASS`, `#ifdef NORMAL_PREPASS`, `#ifdef MOTION_VECTOR_PREPASS`) providing fallback logic where applicable. --------- Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-17 00:16:21 +00:00
prepass::{DeferredPrepass, DepthPrepass, MotionVectorPrepass, NormalPrepass},
tonemapping::{DebandDither, Tonemapping},
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
};
Make `Resource` trait opt-in, requiring `#[derive(Resource)]` V2 (#5577) *This PR description is an edited copy of #5007, written by @alice-i-cecile.* # Objective Follow-up to https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2254. The `Resource` trait currently has a blanket implementation for all types that meet its bounds. While ergonomic, this results in several drawbacks: * it is possible to make confusing, silent mistakes such as inserting a function pointer (Foo) rather than a value (Foo::Bar) as a resource * it is challenging to discover if a type is intended to be used as a resource * we cannot later add customization options (see the [RFC](https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/27-derive-component.md) for the equivalent choice for Component). * dependencies can use the same Rust type as a resource in invisibly conflicting ways * raw Rust types used as resources cannot preserve privacy appropriately, as anyone able to access that type can read and write to internal values * we cannot capture a definitive list of possible resources to display to users in an editor ## Notes to reviewers * Review this commit-by-commit; there's effectively no back-tracking and there's a lot of churn in some of these commits. *ira: My commits are not as well organized :')* * I've relaxed the bound on Local to Send + Sync + 'static: I don't think these concerns apply there, so this can keep things simple. Storing e.g. a u32 in a Local is fine, because there's a variable name attached explaining what it does. * I think this is a bad place for the Resource trait to live, but I've left it in place to make reviewing easier. IMO that's best tackled with https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4981. ## Changelog `Resource` is no longer automatically implemented for all matching types. Instead, use the new `#[derive(Resource)]` macro. ## Migration Guide Add `#[derive(Resource)]` to all types you are using as a resource. If you are using a third party type as a resource, wrap it in a tuple struct to bypass orphan rules. Consider deriving `Deref` and `DerefMut` to improve ergonomics. `ClearColor` no longer implements `Component`. Using `ClearColor` as a component in 0.8 did nothing. Use the `ClearColorConfig` in the `Camera3d` and `Camera2d` components instead. Co-authored-by: Alice <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: devil-ira <justthecooldude@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-08-08 21:36:35 +00:00
use bevy_derive::{Deref, DerefMut};
use bevy_ecs::{
Migrate engine to Schedule v3 (#7267) Huge thanks to @maniwani, @devil-ira, @hymm, @cart, @superdump and @jakobhellermann for the help with this PR. # Objective - Followup #6587. - Minimal integration for the Stageless Scheduling RFC: https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/pull/45 ## Solution - [x] Remove old scheduling module - [x] Migrate new methods to no longer use extension methods - [x] Fix compiler errors - [x] Fix benchmarks - [x] Fix examples - [x] Fix docs - [x] Fix tests ## Changelog ### Added - a large number of methods on `App` to work with schedules ergonomically - the `CoreSchedule` enum - `App::add_extract_system` via the `RenderingAppExtension` trait extension method - the private `prepare_view_uniforms` system now has a public system set for scheduling purposes, called `ViewSet::PrepareUniforms` ### Removed - stages, and all code that mentions stages - states have been dramatically simplified, and no longer use a stack - `RunCriteriaLabel` - `AsSystemLabel` trait - `on_hierarchy_reports_enabled` run criteria (now just uses an ad hoc resource checking run condition) - systems in `RenderSet/Stage::Extract` no longer warn when they do not read data from the main world - `RunCriteriaLabel` - `transform_propagate_system_set`: this was a nonstandard pattern that didn't actually provide enough control. The systems are already `pub`: the docs have been updated to ensure that the third-party usage is clear. ### Changed - `System::default_labels` is now `System::default_system_sets`. - `App::add_default_labels` is now `App::add_default_sets` - `CoreStage` and `StartupStage` enums are now `CoreSet` and `StartupSet` - `App::add_system_set` was renamed to `App::add_systems` - The `StartupSchedule` label is now defined as part of the `CoreSchedules` enum - `.label(SystemLabel)` is now referred to as `.in_set(SystemSet)` - `SystemLabel` trait was replaced by `SystemSet` - `SystemTypeIdLabel<T>` was replaced by `SystemSetType<T>` - The `ReportHierarchyIssue` resource now has a public constructor (`new`), and implements `PartialEq` - Fixed time steps now use a schedule (`CoreSchedule::FixedTimeStep`) rather than a run criteria. - Adding rendering extraction systems now panics rather than silently failing if no subapp with the `RenderApp` label is found. - the `calculate_bounds` system, with the `CalculateBounds` label, is now in `CoreSet::Update`, rather than in `CoreSet::PostUpdate` before commands are applied. - `SceneSpawnerSystem` now runs under `CoreSet::Update`, rather than `CoreStage::PreUpdate.at_end()`. - `bevy_pbr::add_clusters` is no longer an exclusive system - the top level `bevy_ecs::schedule` module was replaced with `bevy_ecs::scheduling` - `tick_global_task_pools_on_main_thread` is no longer run as an exclusive system. Instead, it has been replaced by `tick_global_task_pools`, which uses a `NonSend` resource to force running on the main thread. ## Migration Guide - Calls to `.label(MyLabel)` should be replaced with `.in_set(MySet)` - Stages have been removed. Replace these with system sets, and then add command flushes using the `apply_system_buffers` exclusive system where needed. - The `CoreStage`, `StartupStage, `RenderStage` and `AssetStage` enums have been replaced with `CoreSet`, `StartupSet, `RenderSet` and `AssetSet`. The same scheduling guarantees have been preserved. - Systems are no longer added to `CoreSet::Update` by default. Add systems manually if this behavior is needed, although you should consider adding your game logic systems to `CoreSchedule::FixedTimestep` instead for more reliable framerate-independent behavior. - Similarly, startup systems are no longer part of `StartupSet::Startup` by default. In most cases, this won't matter to you. - For example, `add_system_to_stage(CoreStage::PostUpdate, my_system)` should be replaced with - `add_system(my_system.in_set(CoreSet::PostUpdate)` - When testing systems or otherwise running them in a headless fashion, simply construct and run a schedule using `Schedule::new()` and `World::run_schedule` rather than constructing stages - Run criteria have been renamed to run conditions. These can now be combined with each other and with states. - Looping run criteria and state stacks have been removed. Use an exclusive system that runs a schedule if you need this level of control over system control flow. - For app-level control flow over which schedules get run when (such as for rollback networking), create your own schedule and insert it under the `CoreSchedule::Outer` label. - Fixed timesteps are now evaluated in a schedule, rather than controlled via run criteria. The `run_fixed_timestep` system runs this schedule between `CoreSet::First` and `CoreSet::PreUpdate` by default. - Command flush points introduced by `AssetStage` have been removed. If you were relying on these, add them back manually. - Adding extract systems is now typically done directly on the main app. Make sure the `RenderingAppExtension` trait is in scope, then call `app.add_extract_system(my_system)`. - the `calculate_bounds` system, with the `CalculateBounds` label, is now in `CoreSet::Update`, rather than in `CoreSet::PostUpdate` before commands are applied. You may need to order your movement systems to occur before this system in order to avoid system order ambiguities in culling behavior. - the `RenderLabel` `AppLabel` was renamed to `RenderApp` for clarity - `App::add_state` now takes 0 arguments: the starting state is set based on the `Default` impl. - Instead of creating `SystemSet` containers for systems that run in stages, simply use `.on_enter::<State::Variant>()` or its `on_exit` or `on_update` siblings. - `SystemLabel` derives should be replaced with `SystemSet`. You will also need to add the `Debug`, `PartialEq`, `Eq`, and `Hash` traits to satisfy the new trait bounds. - `with_run_criteria` has been renamed to `run_if`. Run criteria have been renamed to run conditions for clarity, and should now simply return a bool. - States have been dramatically simplified: there is no longer a "state stack". To queue a transition to the next state, call `NextState::set` ## TODO - [x] remove dead methods on App and World - [x] add `App::add_system_to_schedule` and `App::add_systems_to_schedule` - [x] avoid adding the default system set at inappropriate times - [x] remove any accidental cycles in the default plugins schedule - [x] migrate benchmarks - [x] expose explicit labels for the built-in command flush points - [x] migrate engine code - [x] remove all mentions of stages from the docs - [x] verify docs for States - [x] fix uses of exclusive systems that use .end / .at_start / .before_commands - [x] migrate RenderStage and AssetStage - [x] migrate examples - [x] ensure that transform propagation is exported in a sufficiently public way (the systems are already pub) - [x] ensure that on_enter schedules are run at least once before the main app - [x] re-enable opt-in to execution order ambiguities - [x] revert change to `update_bounds` to ensure it runs in `PostUpdate` - [x] test all examples - [x] unbreak directional lights - [x] unbreak shadows (see 3d_scene, 3d_shape, lighting, transparaency_3d examples) - [x] game menu example shows loading screen and menu simultaneously - [x] display settings menu is a blank screen - [x] `without_winit` example panics - [x] ensure all tests pass - [x] SubApp doc test fails - [x] runs_spawn_local tasks fails - [x] [Fix panic_when_hierachy_cycle test hanging](https://github.com/alice-i-cecile/bevy/pull/120) ## Points of Difficulty and Controversy **Reviewers, please give feedback on these and look closely** 1. Default sets, from the RFC, have been removed. These added a tremendous amount of implicit complexity and result in hard to debug scheduling errors. They're going to be tackled in the form of "base sets" by @cart in a followup. 2. The outer schedule controls which schedule is run when `App::update` is called. 3. I implemented `Label for `Box<dyn Label>` for our label types. This enables us to store schedule labels in concrete form, and then later run them. I ran into the same set of problems when working with one-shot systems. We've previously investigated this pattern in depth, and it does not appear to lead to extra indirection with nested boxes. 4. `SubApp::update` simply runs the default schedule once. This sucks, but this whole API is incomplete and this was the minimal changeset. 5. `time_system` and `tick_global_task_pools_on_main_thread` no longer use exclusive systems to attempt to force scheduling order 6. Implemetnation strategy for fixed timesteps 7. `AssetStage` was migrated to `AssetSet` without reintroducing command flush points. These did not appear to be used, and it's nice to remove these bottlenecks. 8. Migration of `bevy_render/lib.rs` and pipelined rendering. The logic here is unusually tricky, as we have complex scheduling requirements. ## Future Work (ideally before 0.10) - Rename schedule_v3 module to schedule or scheduling - Add a derive macro to states, and likely a `EnumIter` trait of some form - Figure out what exactly to do with the "systems added should basically work by default" problem - Improve ergonomics for working with fixed timesteps and states - Polish FixedTime API to match Time - Rebase and merge #7415 - Resolve all internal ambiguities (blocked on better tools, especially #7442) - Add "base sets" to replace the removed default sets.
2023-02-06 02:04:50 +00:00
prelude::*,
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-27 08:28:28 +00:00
system::{lifetimeless::SRes, SystemParamItem},
};
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
use bevy_reflect::Reflect;
use bevy_render::{
camera::Projection,
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
camera::TemporalJitter,
extract_instances::{ExtractInstancesPlugin, ExtractedInstances},
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
extract_resource::ExtractResource,
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-02-23 23:21:13 +00:00
mesh::{Mesh, MeshVertexBufferLayout},
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
prelude::Image,
Reorder render sets, refactor bevy_sprite to take advantage (#9236) This is a continuation of this PR: #8062 # Objective - Reorder render schedule sets to allow data preparation when phase item order is known to support improved batching - Part of the batching/instancing etc plan from here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/89#issuecomment-1379249074 - The original idea came from @inodentry and proved to be a good one. Thanks! - Refactor `bevy_sprite` and `bevy_ui` to take advantage of the new ordering ## Solution - Move `Prepare` and `PrepareFlush` after `PhaseSortFlush` - Add a `PrepareAssets` set that runs in parallel with other systems and sets in the render schedule. - Put prepare_assets systems in the `PrepareAssets` set - If explicit dependencies are needed on Mesh or Material RenderAssets then depend on the appropriate system. - Add `ManageViews` and `ManageViewsFlush` sets between `ExtractCommands` and Queue - Move `queue_mesh*_bind_group` to the Prepare stage - Rename them to `prepare_` - Put systems that prepare resources (buffers, textures, etc.) into a `PrepareResources` set inside `Prepare` - Put the `prepare_..._bind_group` systems into a `PrepareBindGroup` set after `PrepareResources` - Move `prepare_lights` to the `ManageViews` set - `prepare_lights` creates views and this must happen before `Queue` - This system needs refactoring to stop handling all responsibilities - Gather lights, sort, and create shadow map views. Store sorted light entities in a resource - Remove `BatchedPhaseItem` - Replace `batch_range` with `batch_size` representing how many items to skip after rendering the item or to skip the item entirely if `batch_size` is 0. - `queue_sprites` has been split into `queue_sprites` for queueing phase items and `prepare_sprites` for batching after the `PhaseSort` - `PhaseItem`s are still inserted in `queue_sprites` - After sorting adjacent compatible sprite phase items are accumulated into `SpriteBatch` components on the first entity of each batch, containing a range of vertex indices. The associated `PhaseItem`'s `batch_size` is updated appropriately. - `SpriteBatch` items are then drawn skipping over the other items in the batch based on the value in `batch_size` - A very similar refactor was performed on `bevy_ui` --- ## Changelog Changed: - Reordered and reworked render app schedule sets. The main change is that data is extracted, queued, sorted, and then prepared when the order of data is known. - Refactor `bevy_sprite` and `bevy_ui` to take advantage of the reordering. ## Migration Guide - Assets such as materials and meshes should now be created in `PrepareAssets` e.g. `prepare_assets<Mesh>` - Queueing entities to `RenderPhase`s continues to be done in `Queue` e.g. `queue_sprites` - Preparing resources (textures, buffers, etc.) should now be done in `PrepareResources`, e.g. `prepare_prepass_textures`, `prepare_mesh_uniforms` - Prepare bind groups should now be done in `PrepareBindGroups` e.g. `prepare_mesh_bind_group` - Any batching or instancing can now be done in `Prepare` where the order of the phase items is known e.g. `prepare_sprites` ## Next Steps - Introduce some generic mechanism to ensure items that can be batched are grouped in the phase item order, currently you could easily have `[sprite at z 0, mesh at z 0, sprite at z 0]` preventing batching. - Investigate improved orderings for building the MeshUniform buffer - Implementing batching across the rest of bevy --------- Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-08-27 14:33:49 +00:00
render_asset::{prepare_assets, RenderAssets},
render_phase::*,
render_resource::*,
renderer::RenderDevice,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
texture::FallbackImage,
view::{ExtractedView, Msaa, VisibleEntities},
Extract, ExtractSchedule, Render, RenderApp, RenderSet,
};
use bevy_utils::{tracing::error, HashMap, HashSet};
use std::hash::Hash;
use std::marker::PhantomData;
2020-02-11 17:31:49 +00:00
Implement irradiance volumes. (#10268) # Objective Bevy could benefit from *irradiance volumes*, also known as *voxel global illumination* or simply as light probes (though this term is not preferred, as multiple techniques can be called light probes). Irradiance volumes are a form of baked global illumination; they work by sampling the light at the centers of each voxel within a cuboid. At runtime, the voxels surrounding the fragment center are sampled and interpolated to produce indirect diffuse illumination. ## Solution This is divided into two sections. The first is copied and pasted from the irradiance volume module documentation and describes the technique. The second part consists of notes on the implementation. ### Overview An *irradiance volume* is a cuboid voxel region consisting of regularly-spaced precomputed samples of diffuse indirect light. They're ideal if you have a dynamic object such as a character that can move about static non-moving geometry such as a level in a game, and you want that dynamic object to be affected by the light bouncing off that static geometry. To use irradiance volumes, you need to precompute, or *bake*, the indirect light in your scene. Bevy doesn't currently come with a way to do this. Fortunately, [Blender] provides a [baking tool] as part of the Eevee renderer, and its irradiance volumes are compatible with those used by Bevy. The [`bevy-baked-gi`] project provides a tool, `export-blender-gi`, that can extract the baked irradiance volumes from the Blender `.blend` file and package them up into a `.ktx2` texture for use by the engine. See the documentation in the `bevy-baked-gi` project for more details as to this workflow. Like all light probes in Bevy, irradiance volumes are 1×1×1 cubes that can be arbitrarily scaled, rotated, and positioned in a scene with the [`bevy_transform::components::Transform`] component. The 3D voxel grid will be stretched to fill the interior of the cube, and the illumination from the irradiance volume will apply to all fragments within that bounding region. Bevy's irradiance volumes are based on Valve's [*ambient cubes*] as used in *Half-Life 2* ([Mitchell 2006], slide 27). These encode a single color of light from the six 3D cardinal directions and blend the sides together according to the surface normal. The primary reason for choosing ambient cubes is to match Blender, so that its Eevee renderer can be used for baking. However, they also have some advantages over the common second-order spherical harmonics approach: ambient cubes don't suffer from ringing artifacts, they are smaller (6 colors for ambient cubes as opposed to 9 for spherical harmonics), and evaluation is faster. A smaller basis allows for a denser grid of voxels with the same storage requirements. If you wish to use a tool other than `export-blender-gi` to produce the irradiance volumes, you'll need to pack the irradiance volumes in the following format. The irradiance volume of resolution *(Rx, Ry, Rz)* is expected to be a 3D texture of dimensions *(Rx, 2Ry, 3Rz)*. The unnormalized texture coordinate *(s, t, p)* of the voxel at coordinate *(x, y, z)* with side *S* ∈ *{-X, +X, -Y, +Y, -Z, +Z}* is as follows: ```text s = x t = y + ⎰ 0 if S ∈ {-X, -Y, -Z} ⎱ Ry if S ∈ {+X, +Y, +Z} ⎧ 0 if S ∈ {-X, +X} p = z + ⎨ Rz if S ∈ {-Y, +Y} ⎩ 2Rz if S ∈ {-Z, +Z} ``` Visually, in a left-handed coordinate system with Y up, viewed from the right, the 3D texture looks like a stacked series of voxel grids, one for each cube side, in this order: | **+X** | **+Y** | **+Z** | | ------ | ------ | ------ | | **-X** | **-Y** | **-Z** | A terminology note: Other engines may refer to irradiance volumes as *voxel global illumination*, *VXGI*, or simply as *light probes*. Sometimes *light probe* refers to what Bevy calls a reflection probe. In Bevy, *light probe* is a generic term that encompasses all cuboid bounding regions that capture indirect illumination, whether based on voxels or not. Note that, if binding arrays aren't supported (e.g. on WebGPU or WebGL 2), then only the closest irradiance volume to the view will be taken into account during rendering. [*ambient cubes*]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Mitchell 2006]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Blender]: http://blender.org/ [baking tool]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/render_settings/indirect_lighting.html [`bevy-baked-gi`]: https://github.com/pcwalton/bevy-baked-gi ### Implementation notes This patch generalizes light probes so as to reuse as much code as possible between irradiance volumes and the existing reflection probes. This approach was chosen because both techniques share numerous similarities: 1. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes are cuboid bounding regions. 2. Both are responsible for providing baked indirect light. 3. Both techniques involve presenting a variable number of textures to the shader from which indirect light is sampled. (In the current implementation, this uses binding arrays.) 4. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes require gathering and sorting probes by distance on CPU. 5. Both techniques require the GPU to search through a list of bounding regions. 6. Both will eventually want to have falloff so that we can smoothly blend as objects enter and exit the probes' influence ranges. (This is not implemented yet to keep this patch relatively small and reviewable.) To do this, we generalize most of the methods in the reflection probes patch #11366 to be generic over a trait, `LightProbeComponent`. This trait is implemented by both `EnvironmentMapLight` (for reflection probes) and `IrradianceVolume` (for irradiance volumes). Using a trait will allow us to add more types of light probes in the future. In particular, I highly suspect we will want real-time reflection planes for mirrors in the future, which can be easily slotted into this framework. ## Changelog > This section is optional. If this was a trivial fix, or has no externally-visible impact, you can delete this section. ### Added * A new `IrradianceVolume` asset type is available for baked voxelized light probes. You can bake the global illumination using Blender or another tool of your choice and use it in Bevy to apply indirect illumination to dynamic objects.
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use self::{irradiance_volume::IrradianceVolume, prelude::EnvironmentMapLight};
/// Materials are used alongside [`MaterialPlugin`] and [`MaterialMeshBundle`]
/// to spawn entities that are rendered with a specific [`Material`] type. They serve as an easy to use high level
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// way to render [`Mesh`] entities with custom shader logic.
///
/// Materials must implement [`AsBindGroup`] to define how data will be transferred to the GPU and bound in shaders.
/// [`AsBindGroup`] can be derived, which makes generating bindings straightforward. See the [`AsBindGroup`] docs for details.
///
/// # Example
///
/// Here is a simple Material implementation. The [`AsBindGroup`] derive has many features. To see what else is available,
/// check out the [`AsBindGroup`] documentation.
/// ```
/// # use bevy_pbr::{Material, MaterialMeshBundle};
/// # use bevy_ecs::prelude::*;
/// # use bevy_reflect::TypePath;
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// # use bevy_render::{render_resource::{AsBindGroup, ShaderRef}, texture::Image, color::Color};
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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/// # use bevy_asset::{Handle, AssetServer, Assets, Asset};
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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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/// #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, Asset, TypePath)]
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// pub struct CustomMaterial {
/// // Uniform bindings must implement `ShaderType`, which will be used to convert the value to
/// // its shader-compatible equivalent. Most core math types already implement `ShaderType`.
/// #[uniform(0)]
/// color: Color,
/// // Images can be bound as textures in shaders. If the Image's sampler is also needed, just
/// // add the sampler attribute with a different binding index.
/// #[texture(1)]
/// #[sampler(2)]
/// color_texture: Handle<Image>,
/// }
///
/// // All functions on `Material` have default impls. You only need to implement the
/// // functions that are relevant for your material.
/// impl Material for CustomMaterial {
/// fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef {
/// "shaders/custom_material.wgsl".into()
/// }
/// }
///
/// // Spawn an entity using `CustomMaterial`.
/// fn setup(mut commands: Commands, mut materials: ResMut<Assets<CustomMaterial>>, asset_server: Res<AssetServer>) {
Spawn now takes a Bundle (#6054) # Objective Now that we can consolidate Bundles and Components under a single insert (thanks to #2975 and #6039), almost 100% of world spawns now look like `world.spawn().insert((Some, Tuple, Here))`. Spawning an entity without any components is an extremely uncommon pattern, so it makes sense to give spawn the "first class" ergonomic api. This consolidated api should be made consistent across all spawn apis (such as World and Commands). ## Solution All `spawn` apis (`World::spawn`, `Commands:;spawn`, `ChildBuilder::spawn`, and `WorldChildBuilder::spawn`) now accept a bundle as input: ```rust // before: commands .spawn() .insert((A, B, C)); world .spawn() .insert((A, B, C); // after commands.spawn((A, B, C)); world.spawn((A, B, C)); ``` All existing instances of `spawn_bundle` have been deprecated in favor of the new `spawn` api. A new `spawn_empty` has been added, replacing the old `spawn` api. By allowing `world.spawn(some_bundle)` to replace `world.spawn().insert(some_bundle)`, this opened the door to removing the initial entity allocation in the "empty" archetype / table done in `spawn()` (and subsequent move to the actual archetype in `.insert(some_bundle)`). This improves spawn performance by over 10%: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2694663/191627587-4ab2f949-4ccd-4231-80eb-80dd4d9ad6b9.png) To take this measurement, I added a new `world_spawn` benchmark. Unfortunately, optimizing `Commands::spawn` is slightly less trivial, as Commands expose the Entity id of spawned entities prior to actually spawning. Doing the optimization would (naively) require assurances that the `spawn(some_bundle)` command is applied before all other commands involving the entity (which would not necessarily be true, if memory serves). Optimizing `Commands::spawn` this way does feel possible, but it will require careful thought (and maybe some additional checks), which deserves its own PR. For now, it has the same performance characteristics of the current `Commands::spawn_bundle` on main. **Note that 99% of this PR is simple renames and refactors. The only code that needs careful scrutiny is the new `World::spawn()` impl, which is relatively straightforward, but it has some new unsafe code (which re-uses battle tested BundlerSpawner code path).** --- ## Changelog - All `spawn` apis (`World::spawn`, `Commands:;spawn`, `ChildBuilder::spawn`, and `WorldChildBuilder::spawn`) now accept a bundle as input - All instances of `spawn_bundle` have been deprecated in favor of the new `spawn` api - World and Commands now have `spawn_empty()`, which is equivalent to the old `spawn()` behavior. ## Migration Guide ```rust // Old (0.8): commands .spawn() .insert_bundle((A, B, C)); // New (0.9) commands.spawn((A, B, C)); // Old (0.8): commands.spawn_bundle((A, B, C)); // New (0.9) commands.spawn((A, B, C)); // Old (0.8): let entity = commands.spawn().id(); // New (0.9) let entity = commands.spawn_empty().id(); // Old (0.8) let entity = world.spawn().id(); // New (0.9) let entity = world.spawn_empty(); ```
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/// commands.spawn(MaterialMeshBundle {
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// material: materials.add(CustomMaterial {
/// color: Color::RED,
/// color_texture: asset_server.load("some_image.png"),
/// }),
/// ..Default::default()
/// });
/// }
/// ```
/// In WGSL shaders, the material's binding would look like this:
///
/// ```wgsl
/// @group(2) @binding(0) var<uniform> color: vec4<f32>;
/// @group(2) @binding(1) var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>;
/// @group(2) @binding(2) var color_sampler: sampler;
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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 trait Material: Asset + AsBindGroup + Clone + Sized {
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// Returns this material's vertex shader. If [`ShaderRef::Default`] is returned, the default mesh vertex shader
/// will be used.
fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef {
ShaderRef::Default
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}
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// Returns this material's fragment shader. If [`ShaderRef::Default`] is returned, the default mesh fragment shader
/// will be used.
#[allow(unused_variables)]
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef {
ShaderRef::Default
}
/// Returns this material's [`AlphaMode`]. Defaults to [`AlphaMode::Opaque`].
#[inline]
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode {
AlphaMode::Opaque
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}
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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/// Returns if this material should be rendered by the deferred or forward renderer.
/// for `AlphaMode::Opaque` or `AlphaMode::Mask` materials.
/// If `OpaqueRendererMethod::Auto`, it will default to what is selected in the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` resource.
#[inline]
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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fn opaque_render_method(&self) -> OpaqueRendererMethod {
OpaqueRendererMethod::Forward
}
#[inline]
/// Add a bias to the view depth of the mesh which can be used to force a specific render order.
/// for meshes with similar depth, to avoid z-fighting.
/// The bias is in depth-texture units so large values may be needed to overcome small depth differences.
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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fn depth_bias(&self) -> f32 {
0.0
}
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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#[inline]
/// Returns whether the material would like to read from [`ViewTransmissionTexture`](bevy_core_pipeline::core_3d::ViewTransmissionTexture).
///
/// This allows taking color output from the [`Opaque3d`] pass as an input, (for screen-space transmission) but requires
/// rendering to take place in a separate [`Transmissive3d`] pass.
fn reads_view_transmission_texture(&self) -> bool {
false
}
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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/// Returns this material's prepass vertex shader. If [`ShaderRef::Default`] is returned, the default prepass vertex shader
/// will be used.
///
/// This is used for the various [prepasses](bevy_core_pipeline::prepass) as well as for generating the depth maps
/// required for shadow mapping.
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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fn prepass_vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef {
ShaderRef::Default
}
/// Returns this material's prepass fragment shader. If [`ShaderRef::Default`] is returned, the default prepass fragment shader
/// will be used.
///
/// This is used for the various [prepasses](bevy_core_pipeline::prepass) as well as for generating the depth maps
/// required for shadow mapping.
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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#[allow(unused_variables)]
fn prepass_fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef {
ShaderRef::Default
}
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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/// Returns this material's deferred vertex shader. If [`ShaderRef::Default`] is returned, the default deferred vertex shader
/// will be used.
fn deferred_vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef {
ShaderRef::Default
}
/// Returns this material's deferred fragment shader. If [`ShaderRef::Default`] is returned, the default deferred fragment shader
/// will be used.
#[allow(unused_variables)]
fn deferred_fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef {
ShaderRef::Default
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
/// Customizes the default [`RenderPipelineDescriptor`] for a specific entity using the entity's
/// [`MaterialPipelineKey`] and [`MeshVertexBufferLayout`] as input.
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-02-23 23:21:13 +00:00
#[allow(unused_variables)]
#[inline]
fn specialize(
Use storage buffers for clustered forward point lights (#3989) # Objective - Make use of storage buffers, where they are available, for clustered forward bindings to support far more point lights in a scene - Fixes #3605 - Based on top of #4079 This branch on an M1 Max can keep 60fps with about 2150 point lights of radius 1m in the Sponza scene where I've been testing. The bottleneck is mostly assigning lights to clusters which grows faster than linearly (I think 1000 lights was about 1.5ms and 5000 was 7.5ms). I have seen papers and presentations leveraging compute shaders that can get this up to over 1 million. That said, I think any further optimisations should probably be done in a separate PR. ## Solution - Add `RenderDevice` to the `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` trait `::key()` functions to allow setting flags on the keys depending on feature/limit availability - Make `GpuPointLights` and `ViewClusterBuffers` into enums containing `UniformVec` and `StorageBuffer` variants. Implement the necessary API on them to make usage the same for both cases, and the only difference is at initialisation time. - Appropriate shader defs in the shader code to handle the two cases ## Context on some decisions / open questions - I'm using `max_storage_buffers_per_shader_stage >= 3` as a check to see if storage buffers are supported. I was thinking about diving into 'binding resource management' but it feels like we don't have enough use cases to understand the problem yet, and it is mostly a separate concern to this PR, so I think it should be handled separately. - Should `ViewClusterBuffers` and `ViewClusterBindings` be merged, duplicating the count variables into the enum variants? Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-04-07 16:16:35 +00:00
pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>,
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor,
layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>,
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> {
Ok(())
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}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// Adds the necessary ECS resources and render logic to enable rendering entities using the given [`Material`]
/// asset type.
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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pub struct MaterialPlugin<M: Material> {
/// Controls if the prepass is enabled for the Material.
/// For more information about what a prepass is, see the [`bevy_core_pipeline::prepass`] docs.
///
/// When it is enabled, it will automatically add the [`PrepassPlugin`]
/// required to make the prepass work on this Material.
pub prepass_enabled: bool,
pub _marker: PhantomData<M>,
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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impl<M: Material> Default for MaterialPlugin<M> {
fn default() -> Self {
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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Self {
prepass_enabled: true,
_marker: Default::default(),
}
}
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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impl<M: Material> Plugin for MaterialPlugin<M>
where
M::Data: PartialEq + Eq + Hash + Clone,
{
fn build(&self, app: &mut App) {
app.init_asset::<M>()
.add_plugins(ExtractInstancesPlugin::<AssetId<M>>::extract_visible());
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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if let Ok(render_app) = app.get_sub_app_mut(RenderApp) {
render_app
.init_resource::<DrawFunctions<Shadow>>()
.add_render_command::<Shadow, DrawPrepass<M>>()
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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.add_render_command::<Transmissive3d, DrawMaterial<M>>()
.add_render_command::<Transparent3d, DrawMaterial<M>>()
.add_render_command::<Opaque3d, DrawMaterial<M>>()
.add_render_command::<AlphaMask3d, DrawMaterial<M>>()
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
.init_resource::<ExtractedMaterials<M>>()
.init_resource::<RenderMaterials<M>>()
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-02-23 23:21:13 +00:00
.init_resource::<SpecializedMeshPipelines<MaterialPipeline<M>>>()
.add_systems(ExtractSchedule, extract_materials::<M>)
.add_systems(
Render,
(
prepare_materials::<M>
Reorder render sets, refactor bevy_sprite to take advantage (#9236) This is a continuation of this PR: #8062 # Objective - Reorder render schedule sets to allow data preparation when phase item order is known to support improved batching - Part of the batching/instancing etc plan from here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/89#issuecomment-1379249074 - The original idea came from @inodentry and proved to be a good one. Thanks! - Refactor `bevy_sprite` and `bevy_ui` to take advantage of the new ordering ## Solution - Move `Prepare` and `PrepareFlush` after `PhaseSortFlush` - Add a `PrepareAssets` set that runs in parallel with other systems and sets in the render schedule. - Put prepare_assets systems in the `PrepareAssets` set - If explicit dependencies are needed on Mesh or Material RenderAssets then depend on the appropriate system. - Add `ManageViews` and `ManageViewsFlush` sets between `ExtractCommands` and Queue - Move `queue_mesh*_bind_group` to the Prepare stage - Rename them to `prepare_` - Put systems that prepare resources (buffers, textures, etc.) into a `PrepareResources` set inside `Prepare` - Put the `prepare_..._bind_group` systems into a `PrepareBindGroup` set after `PrepareResources` - Move `prepare_lights` to the `ManageViews` set - `prepare_lights` creates views and this must happen before `Queue` - This system needs refactoring to stop handling all responsibilities - Gather lights, sort, and create shadow map views. Store sorted light entities in a resource - Remove `BatchedPhaseItem` - Replace `batch_range` with `batch_size` representing how many items to skip after rendering the item or to skip the item entirely if `batch_size` is 0. - `queue_sprites` has been split into `queue_sprites` for queueing phase items and `prepare_sprites` for batching after the `PhaseSort` - `PhaseItem`s are still inserted in `queue_sprites` - After sorting adjacent compatible sprite phase items are accumulated into `SpriteBatch` components on the first entity of each batch, containing a range of vertex indices. The associated `PhaseItem`'s `batch_size` is updated appropriately. - `SpriteBatch` items are then drawn skipping over the other items in the batch based on the value in `batch_size` - A very similar refactor was performed on `bevy_ui` --- ## Changelog Changed: - Reordered and reworked render app schedule sets. The main change is that data is extracted, queued, sorted, and then prepared when the order of data is known. - Refactor `bevy_sprite` and `bevy_ui` to take advantage of the reordering. ## Migration Guide - Assets such as materials and meshes should now be created in `PrepareAssets` e.g. `prepare_assets<Mesh>` - Queueing entities to `RenderPhase`s continues to be done in `Queue` e.g. `queue_sprites` - Preparing resources (textures, buffers, etc.) should now be done in `PrepareResources`, e.g. `prepare_prepass_textures`, `prepare_mesh_uniforms` - Prepare bind groups should now be done in `PrepareBindGroups` e.g. `prepare_mesh_bind_group` - Any batching or instancing can now be done in `Prepare` where the order of the phase items is known e.g. `prepare_sprites` ## Next Steps - Introduce some generic mechanism to ensure items that can be batched are grouped in the phase item order, currently you could easily have `[sprite at z 0, mesh at z 0, sprite at z 0]` preventing batching. - Investigate improved orderings for building the MeshUniform buffer - Implementing batching across the rest of bevy --------- Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-08-27 14:33:49 +00:00
.in_set(RenderSet::PrepareAssets)
.after(prepare_assets::<Image>),
queue_shadows::<M>
Reorder render sets, refactor bevy_sprite to take advantage (#9236) This is a continuation of this PR: #8062 # Objective - Reorder render schedule sets to allow data preparation when phase item order is known to support improved batching - Part of the batching/instancing etc plan from here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/89#issuecomment-1379249074 - The original idea came from @inodentry and proved to be a good one. Thanks! - Refactor `bevy_sprite` and `bevy_ui` to take advantage of the new ordering ## Solution - Move `Prepare` and `PrepareFlush` after `PhaseSortFlush` - Add a `PrepareAssets` set that runs in parallel with other systems and sets in the render schedule. - Put prepare_assets systems in the `PrepareAssets` set - If explicit dependencies are needed on Mesh or Material RenderAssets then depend on the appropriate system. - Add `ManageViews` and `ManageViewsFlush` sets between `ExtractCommands` and Queue - Move `queue_mesh*_bind_group` to the Prepare stage - Rename them to `prepare_` - Put systems that prepare resources (buffers, textures, etc.) into a `PrepareResources` set inside `Prepare` - Put the `prepare_..._bind_group` systems into a `PrepareBindGroup` set after `PrepareResources` - Move `prepare_lights` to the `ManageViews` set - `prepare_lights` creates views and this must happen before `Queue` - This system needs refactoring to stop handling all responsibilities - Gather lights, sort, and create shadow map views. Store sorted light entities in a resource - Remove `BatchedPhaseItem` - Replace `batch_range` with `batch_size` representing how many items to skip after rendering the item or to skip the item entirely if `batch_size` is 0. - `queue_sprites` has been split into `queue_sprites` for queueing phase items and `prepare_sprites` for batching after the `PhaseSort` - `PhaseItem`s are still inserted in `queue_sprites` - After sorting adjacent compatible sprite phase items are accumulated into `SpriteBatch` components on the first entity of each batch, containing a range of vertex indices. The associated `PhaseItem`'s `batch_size` is updated appropriately. - `SpriteBatch` items are then drawn skipping over the other items in the batch based on the value in `batch_size` - A very similar refactor was performed on `bevy_ui` --- ## Changelog Changed: - Reordered and reworked render app schedule sets. The main change is that data is extracted, queued, sorted, and then prepared when the order of data is known. - Refactor `bevy_sprite` and `bevy_ui` to take advantage of the reordering. ## Migration Guide - Assets such as materials and meshes should now be created in `PrepareAssets` e.g. `prepare_assets<Mesh>` - Queueing entities to `RenderPhase`s continues to be done in `Queue` e.g. `queue_sprites` - Preparing resources (textures, buffers, etc.) should now be done in `PrepareResources`, e.g. `prepare_prepass_textures`, `prepare_mesh_uniforms` - Prepare bind groups should now be done in `PrepareBindGroups` e.g. `prepare_mesh_bind_group` - Any batching or instancing can now be done in `Prepare` where the order of the phase items is known e.g. `prepare_sprites` ## Next Steps - Introduce some generic mechanism to ensure items that can be batched are grouped in the phase item order, currently you could easily have `[sprite at z 0, mesh at z 0, sprite at z 0]` preventing batching. - Investigate improved orderings for building the MeshUniform buffer - Implementing batching across the rest of bevy --------- Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-08-27 14:33:49 +00:00
.in_set(RenderSet::QueueMeshes)
.after(prepare_materials::<M>),
queue_material_meshes::<M>
.in_set(RenderSet::QueueMeshes)
resolve all internal ambiguities (#10411) - ignore all ambiguities that are not a problem - remove `.before(Assets::<Image>::track_assets),` that points into a different schedule (-> should this be caught?) - add some explicit orderings: - run `poll_receivers` and `update_accessibility_nodes` after `window_closed` in `bevy_winit::accessibility` - run `bevy_ui::accessibility::calc_bounds` after `CameraUpdateSystem` - run ` bevy_text::update_text2d_layout` and `bevy_ui::text_system` after `font_atlas_set::remove_dropped_font_atlas_sets` - add `app.ignore_ambiguity(a, b)` function for cases where you want to ignore an ambiguity between two independent plugins `A` and `B` - add `IgnoreAmbiguitiesPlugin` in `DefaultPlugins` that allows cross-crate ambiguities like `bevy_animation`/`bevy_ui` - Fixes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/9511 ## Before **Render** ![render_schedule_Render dot](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/22177966/1c677968-7873-40cc-848c-91fca4c8e383) **PostUpdate** ![schedule_PostUpdate dot](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/22177966/8fc61304-08d4-4533-8110-c04113a7367a) ## After **Render** ![render_schedule_Render dot](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/22177966/462f3b28-cef7-4833-8619-1f5175983485) **PostUpdate** ![schedule_PostUpdate dot](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/22177966/8cfb3d83-7842-4a84-9082-46177e1a6c70) --------- Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecil@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: François <mockersf@gmail.com>
2024-01-09 19:08:15 +00:00
.after(prepare_materials::<M>)
// queue_material_meshes only writes to `material_bind_group_id`, which `queue_shadows` doesn't read
.ambiguous_with(render::queue_shadows::<M>),
),
);
}
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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// PrepassPipelinePlugin is required for shadow mapping and the optional PrepassPlugin
app.add_plugins(PrepassPipelinePlugin::<M>::default());
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
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if self.prepass_enabled {
app.add_plugins(PrepassPlugin::<M>::default());
Add depth and normal prepass (#6284) # Objective - Add a configurable prepass - A depth prepass is useful for various shader effects and to reduce overdraw. It can be expansive depending on the scene so it's important to be able to disable it if you don't need any effects that uses it or don't suffer from excessive overdraw. - The goal is to eventually use it for things like TAA, Ambient Occlusion, SSR and various other techniques that can benefit from having a prepass. ## Solution The prepass node is inserted before the main pass. It runs for each `Camera3d` with a prepass component (`DepthPrepass`, `NormalPrepass`). The presence of one of those components is used to determine which textures are generated in the prepass. When any prepass is enabled, the depth buffer generated will be used by the main pass to reduce overdraw. The prepass runs for each `Material` created with the `MaterialPlugin::prepass_enabled` option set to `true`. You can overload the shader used by the prepass by using `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and/or `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()`. It will also use the `Material::specialize()` for more advanced use cases. It is enabled by default on all materials. The prepass works on opaque materials and materials using an alpha mask. Transparent materials are ignored. The `StandardMaterial` overloads the prepass fragment shader to support alpha mask and normal maps. --- ## Changelog - Add a new `PrepassNode` that runs before the main pass - Add a `PrepassPlugin` to extract/prepare/queue the necessary data - Add a `DepthPrepass` and `NormalPrepass` component to control which textures will be created by the prepass and available in later passes. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `MaterialPlugin` that will control if a material uses the prepass or not. - Add a new `prepass_enabled` flag to the `PbrPlugin` to control if the StandardMaterial uses the prepass. Currently defaults to false. - Add `Material::prepass_vertex_shader()` and `Material::prepass_fragment_shader()` to control the prepass from the `Material` ## Notes In bevy's sample 3d scene, the performance is actually worse when enabling the prepass, but on more complex scenes the performance is generally better. I would like more testing on this, but @DGriffin91 has reported a very noticeable improvements in some scenes. The prepass is also used by @JMS55 for TAA and GTAO discord thread: <https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/1011624228627419187> This PR was built on top of the work of multiple people Co-Authored-By: @superdump Co-Authored-By: @robtfm Co-Authored-By: @JMS55 Co-authored-by: Charles <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: JMS55 <47158642+JMS55@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-01-19 22:11:13 +00:00
}
}
Webgpu support (#8336) # Objective - Support WebGPU - alternative to #5027 that doesn't need any async / await - fixes #8315 - Surprise fix #7318 ## Solution ### For async renderer initialisation - Update the plugin lifecycle: - app builds the plugin - calls `plugin.build` - registers the plugin - app starts the event loop - event loop waits for `ready` of all registered plugins in the same order - returns `true` by default - then call all `finish` then all `cleanup` in the same order as registered - then execute the schedule In the case of the renderer, to avoid anything async: - building the renderer plugin creates a detached task that will send back the initialised renderer through a mutex in a resource - `ready` will wait for the renderer to be present in the resource - `finish` will take that renderer and place it in the expected resources by other plugins - other plugins (that expect the renderer to be available) `finish` are called and they are able to set up their pipelines - `cleanup` is called, only custom one is still for pipeline rendering ### For WebGPU support - update the `build-wasm-example` script to support passing `--api webgpu` that will build the example with WebGPU support - feature for webgl2 was always enabled when building for wasm. it's now in the default feature list and enabled on all platforms, so check for this feature must also check that the target_arch is `wasm32` --- ## Migration Guide - `Plugin::setup` has been renamed `Plugin::cleanup` - `Plugin::finish` has been added, and plugins adding pipelines should do it in this function instead of `Plugin::build` ```rust // Before impl Plugin for MyPlugin { fn build(&self, app: &mut App) { app.insert_resource::<MyResource> .add_systems(Update, my_system); let render_app = match app.get_sub_app_mut(RenderApp) { Ok(render_app) => render_app, Err(_) => return, }; render_app .init_resource::<RenderResourceNeedingDevice>() .init_resource::<OtherRenderResource>(); } } // After impl Plugin for MyPlugin { fn build(&self, app: &mut App) { app.insert_resource::<MyResource> .add_systems(Update, my_system); let render_app = match app.get_sub_app_mut(RenderApp) { Ok(render_app) => render_app, Err(_) => return, }; render_app .init_resource::<OtherRenderResource>(); } fn finish(&self, app: &mut App) { let render_app = match app.get_sub_app_mut(RenderApp) { Ok(render_app) => render_app, Err(_) => return, }; render_app .init_resource::<RenderResourceNeedingDevice>(); } } ```
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fn finish(&self, app: &mut App) {
if let Ok(render_app) = app.get_sub_app_mut(RenderApp) {
render_app.init_resource::<MaterialPipeline<M>>();
}
}
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// A key uniquely identifying a specialized [`MaterialPipeline`].
pub struct MaterialPipelineKey<M: Material> {
pub mesh_key: MeshPipelineKey,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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pub bind_group_data: M::Data,
}
impl<M: Material> Eq for MaterialPipelineKey<M> where M::Data: PartialEq {}
impl<M: Material> PartialEq for MaterialPipelineKey<M>
where
M::Data: PartialEq,
{
fn eq(&self, other: &Self) -> bool {
self.mesh_key == other.mesh_key && self.bind_group_data == other.bind_group_data
}
}
impl<M: Material> Clone for MaterialPipelineKey<M>
where
M::Data: Clone,
{
fn clone(&self) -> Self {
Self {
mesh_key: self.mesh_key,
bind_group_data: self.bind_group_data.clone(),
}
}
}
impl<M: Material> Hash for MaterialPipelineKey<M>
where
M::Data: Hash,
{
fn hash<H: std::hash::Hasher>(&self, state: &mut H) {
self.mesh_key.hash(state);
self.bind_group_data.hash(state);
}
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// Render pipeline data for a given [`Material`].
Make `Resource` trait opt-in, requiring `#[derive(Resource)]` V2 (#5577) *This PR description is an edited copy of #5007, written by @alice-i-cecile.* # Objective Follow-up to https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2254. The `Resource` trait currently has a blanket implementation for all types that meet its bounds. While ergonomic, this results in several drawbacks: * it is possible to make confusing, silent mistakes such as inserting a function pointer (Foo) rather than a value (Foo::Bar) as a resource * it is challenging to discover if a type is intended to be used as a resource * we cannot later add customization options (see the [RFC](https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/27-derive-component.md) for the equivalent choice for Component). * dependencies can use the same Rust type as a resource in invisibly conflicting ways * raw Rust types used as resources cannot preserve privacy appropriately, as anyone able to access that type can read and write to internal values * we cannot capture a definitive list of possible resources to display to users in an editor ## Notes to reviewers * Review this commit-by-commit; there's effectively no back-tracking and there's a lot of churn in some of these commits. *ira: My commits are not as well organized :')* * I've relaxed the bound on Local to Send + Sync + 'static: I don't think these concerns apply there, so this can keep things simple. Storing e.g. a u32 in a Local is fine, because there's a variable name attached explaining what it does. * I think this is a bad place for the Resource trait to live, but I've left it in place to make reviewing easier. IMO that's best tackled with https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4981. ## Changelog `Resource` is no longer automatically implemented for all matching types. Instead, use the new `#[derive(Resource)]` macro. ## Migration Guide Add `#[derive(Resource)]` to all types you are using as a resource. If you are using a third party type as a resource, wrap it in a tuple struct to bypass orphan rules. Consider deriving `Deref` and `DerefMut` to improve ergonomics. `ClearColor` no longer implements `Component`. Using `ClearColor` as a component in 0.8 did nothing. Use the `ClearColorConfig` in the `Camera3d` and `Camera2d` components instead. Co-authored-by: Alice <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: devil-ira <justthecooldude@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-08-08 21:36:35 +00:00
#[derive(Resource)]
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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pub struct MaterialPipeline<M: Material> {
pub mesh_pipeline: MeshPipeline,
pub material_layout: BindGroupLayout,
pub vertex_shader: Option<Handle<Shader>>,
pub fragment_shader: Option<Handle<Shader>>,
pub marker: PhantomData<M>,
}
impl<M: Material> Clone for MaterialPipeline<M> {
fn clone(&self) -> Self {
Self {
mesh_pipeline: self.mesh_pipeline.clone(),
material_layout: self.material_layout.clone(),
vertex_shader: self.vertex_shader.clone(),
fragment_shader: self.fragment_shader.clone(),
marker: PhantomData,
}
}
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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impl<M: Material> SpecializedMeshPipeline for MaterialPipeline<M>
where
M::Data: PartialEq + Eq + Hash + Clone,
{
type Key = MaterialPipelineKey<M>;
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-02-23 23:21:13 +00:00
fn specialize(
&self,
key: Self::Key,
layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout,
) -> Result<RenderPipelineDescriptor, SpecializedMeshPipelineError> {
let mut descriptor = self.mesh_pipeline.specialize(key.mesh_key, layout)?;
if let Some(vertex_shader) = &self.vertex_shader {
descriptor.vertex.shader = vertex_shader.clone();
}
if let Some(fragment_shader) = &self.fragment_shader {
descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap().shader = fragment_shader.clone();
}
descriptor.layout.insert(2, self.material_layout.clone());
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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M::specialize(self, &mut descriptor, layout, key)?;
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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Ok(descriptor)
}
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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impl<M: Material> FromWorld for MaterialPipeline<M> {
fn from_world(world: &mut World) -> Self {
let asset_server = world.resource::<AssetServer>();
let render_device = world.resource::<RenderDevice>();
MaterialPipeline {
mesh_pipeline: world.resource::<MeshPipeline>().clone(),
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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material_layout: M::bind_group_layout(render_device),
vertex_shader: match M::vertex_shader() {
ShaderRef::Default => None,
ShaderRef::Handle(handle) => Some(handle),
ShaderRef::Path(path) => Some(asset_server.load(path)),
},
fragment_shader: match M::fragment_shader() {
ShaderRef::Default => None,
ShaderRef::Handle(handle) => Some(handle),
ShaderRef::Path(path) => Some(asset_server.load(path)),
},
marker: PhantomData,
}
}
}
type DrawMaterial<M> = (
SetItemPipeline,
SetMeshViewBindGroup<0>,
SetMeshBindGroup<1>,
SetMaterialBindGroup<M, 2>,
DrawMesh,
);
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// Sets the bind group for a given [`Material`] at the configured `I` index.
pub struct SetMaterialBindGroup<M: Material, const I: usize>(PhantomData<M>);
impl<P: PhaseItem, M: Material, const I: usize> RenderCommand<P> for SetMaterialBindGroup<M, I> {
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
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type Param = (SRes<RenderMaterials<M>>, SRes<RenderMaterialInstances<M>>);
type ViewQuery = ();
type ItemQuery = ();
#[inline]
fn render<'w>(
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
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item: &P,
_view: (),
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
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_item_query: (),
(materials, material_instances): SystemParamItem<'w, '_, Self::Param>,
pass: &mut TrackedRenderPass<'w>,
) -> RenderCommandResult {
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
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let materials = materials.into_inner();
let material_instances = material_instances.into_inner();
let Some(material_asset_id) = material_instances.get(&item.entity()) else {
return RenderCommandResult::Failure;
};
let Some(material) = materials.get(material_asset_id) else {
return RenderCommandResult::Failure;
};
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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pass.set_bind_group(I, &material.bind_group, &[]);
RenderCommandResult::Success
}
}
pub type RenderMaterialInstances<M> = ExtractedInstances<AssetId<M>>;
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
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pub const fn alpha_mode_pipeline_key(alpha_mode: AlphaMode) -> MeshPipelineKey {
match alpha_mode {
// Premultiplied and Add share the same pipeline key
// They're made distinct in the PBR shader, via `premultiply_alpha()`
AlphaMode::Premultiplied | AlphaMode::Add => MeshPipelineKey::BLEND_PREMULTIPLIED_ALPHA,
AlphaMode::Blend => MeshPipelineKey::BLEND_ALPHA,
AlphaMode::Multiply => MeshPipelineKey::BLEND_MULTIPLY,
AlphaMode::Mask(_) => MeshPipelineKey::MAY_DISCARD,
_ => MeshPipelineKey::NONE,
}
}
pub const fn tonemapping_pipeline_key(tonemapping: Tonemapping) -> MeshPipelineKey {
match tonemapping {
Tonemapping::None => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_NONE,
Tonemapping::Reinhard => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_REINHARD,
Tonemapping::ReinhardLuminance => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_REINHARD_LUMINANCE,
Tonemapping::AcesFitted => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_ACES_FITTED,
Tonemapping::AgX => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_AGX,
Tonemapping::SomewhatBoringDisplayTransform => {
MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_SOMEWHAT_BORING_DISPLAY_TRANSFORM
}
Tonemapping::TonyMcMapface => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_TONY_MC_MAPFACE,
Tonemapping::BlenderFilmic => MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_METHOD_BLENDER_FILMIC,
}
}
pub const fn screen_space_specular_transmission_pipeline_key(
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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screen_space_transmissive_blur_quality: ScreenSpaceTransmissionQuality,
) -> MeshPipelineKey {
match screen_space_transmissive_blur_quality {
ScreenSpaceTransmissionQuality::Low => {
MeshPipelineKey::SCREEN_SPACE_SPECULAR_TRANSMISSION_LOW
}
ScreenSpaceTransmissionQuality::Medium => {
MeshPipelineKey::SCREEN_SPACE_SPECULAR_TRANSMISSION_MEDIUM
}
ScreenSpaceTransmissionQuality::High => {
MeshPipelineKey::SCREEN_SPACE_SPECULAR_TRANSMISSION_HIGH
}
ScreenSpaceTransmissionQuality::Ultra => {
MeshPipelineKey::SCREEN_SPACE_SPECULAR_TRANSMISSION_ULTRA
}
}
}
#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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pub fn queue_material_meshes<M: Material>(
opaque_draw_functions: Res<DrawFunctions<Opaque3d>>,
alpha_mask_draw_functions: Res<DrawFunctions<AlphaMask3d>>,
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
transmissive_draw_functions: Res<DrawFunctions<Transmissive3d>>,
transparent_draw_functions: Res<DrawFunctions<Transparent3d>>,
material_pipeline: Res<MaterialPipeline<M>>,
Mesh vertex buffer layouts (#3959) This PR makes a number of changes to how meshes and vertex attributes are handled, which the goal of enabling easy and flexible custom vertex attributes: * Reworks the `Mesh` type to use the newly added `VertexAttribute` internally * `VertexAttribute` defines the name, a unique `VertexAttributeId`, and a `VertexFormat` * `VertexAttributeId` is used to produce consistent sort orders for vertex buffer generation, replacing the more expensive and often surprising "name based sorting" * Meshes can be used to generate a `MeshVertexBufferLayout`, which defines the layout of the gpu buffer produced by the mesh. `MeshVertexBufferLayouts` can then be used to generate actual `VertexBufferLayouts` according to the requirements of a specific pipeline. This decoupling of "mesh layout" vs "pipeline vertex buffer layout" is what enables custom attributes. We don't need to standardize _mesh layouts_ or contort meshes to meet the needs of a specific pipeline. As long as the mesh has what the pipeline needs, it will work transparently. * Mesh-based pipelines now specialize on `&MeshVertexBufferLayout` via the new `SpecializedMeshPipeline` trait (which behaves like `SpecializedPipeline`, but adds `&MeshVertexBufferLayout`). The integrity of the pipeline cache is maintained because the `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is treated as part of the key (which is fully abstracted from implementers of the trait ... no need to add any additional info to the specialization key). * Hashing `MeshVertexBufferLayout` is too expensive to do for every entity, every frame. To make this scalable, I added a generalized "pre-hashing" solution to `bevy_utils`: `Hashed<T>` keys and `PreHashMap<K, V>` (which uses `Hashed<T>` internally) . Why didn't I just do the quick and dirty in-place "pre-compute hash and use that u64 as a key in a hashmap" that we've done in the past? Because its wrong! Hashes by themselves aren't enough because two different values can produce the same hash. Re-hashing a hash is even worse! I decided to build a generalized solution because this pattern has come up in the past and we've chosen to do the wrong thing. Now we can do the right thing! This did unfortunately require pulling in `hashbrown` and using that in `bevy_utils`, because avoiding re-hashes requires the `raw_entry_mut` api, which isn't stabilized yet (and may never be ... `entry_ref` has favor now, but also isn't available yet). If std's HashMap ever provides the tools we need, we can move back to that. Note that adding `hashbrown` doesn't increase our dependency count because it was already in our tree. I will probably break these changes out into their own PR. * Specializing on `MeshVertexBufferLayout` has one non-obvious behavior: it can produce identical pipelines for two different MeshVertexBufferLayouts. To optimize the number of active pipelines / reduce re-binds while drawing, I de-duplicate pipelines post-specialization using the final `VertexBufferLayout` as the key. For example, consider a pipeline that needs the layout `(position, normal)` and is specialized using two meshes: `(position, normal, uv)` and `(position, normal, other_vec2)`. If both of these meshes result in `(position, normal)` specializations, we can use the same pipeline! Now we do. Cool! To briefly illustrate, this is what the relevant section of `MeshPipeline`'s specialization code looks like now: ```rust impl SpecializedMeshPipeline for MeshPipeline { type Key = MeshPipelineKey; fn specialize( &self, key: Self::Key, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, ) -> RenderPipelineDescriptor { let mut vertex_attributes = vec![ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL.at_shader_location(1), Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_UV_0.at_shader_location(2), ]; let mut shader_defs = Vec::new(); if layout.contains(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT) { shader_defs.push(String::from("VERTEX_TANGENTS")); vertex_attributes.push(Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_TANGENT.at_shader_location(3)); } let vertex_buffer_layout = layout .get_layout(&vertex_attributes) .expect("Mesh is missing a vertex attribute"); ``` Notice that this is _much_ simpler than it was before. And now any mesh with any layout can be used with this pipeline, provided it has vertex postions, normals, and uvs. We even got to remove `HAS_TANGENTS` from MeshPipelineKey and `has_tangents` from `GpuMesh`, because that information is redundant with `MeshVertexBufferLayout`. This is still a draft because I still need to: * Add more docs * Experiment with adding error handling to mesh pipeline specialization (which would print errors at runtime when a mesh is missing a vertex attribute required by a pipeline). If it doesn't tank perf, we'll keep it. * Consider breaking out the PreHash / hashbrown changes into a separate PR. * Add an example illustrating this change * Verify that the "mesh-specialized pipeline de-duplication code" works properly Please dont yell at me for not doing these things yet :) Just trying to get this in peoples' hands asap. Alternative to #3120 Fixes #3030 Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-02-23 23:21:13 +00:00
mut pipelines: ResMut<SpecializedMeshPipelines<MaterialPipeline<M>>>,
pipeline_cache: Res<PipelineCache>,
msaa: Res<Msaa>,
render_meshes: Res<RenderAssets<Mesh>>,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
render_materials: Res<RenderMaterials<M>>,
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
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mut render_mesh_instances: ResMut<RenderMeshInstances>,
render_material_instances: Res<RenderMaterialInstances<M>>,
render_lightmaps: Res<RenderLightmaps>,
mut views: Query<(
&ExtractedView,
&VisibleEntities,
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
Option<&Tonemapping>,
Option<&DebandDither>,
PCF For DirectionalLight/SpotLight Shadows (#8006) # Objective - Improve antialiasing for non-point light shadow edges. - Very partially addresses https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3628. ## Solution - Implements "The Witness"'s shadow map sampling technique. - Ported from @superdump's old branch, all credit to them :) - Implements "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare"'s stochastic shadow map sampling technique when the velocity prepass is enabled, for use with TAA. - Uses interleaved gradient noise to generate a random angle, and then averages 8 samples in a spiral pattern, rotated by the random angle. - I also tried spatiotemporal blue noise, but it was far too noisy to be filtered by TAA alone. In the future, we should try spatiotemporal blue noise + a specialized shadow denoiser such as https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-denoiser/#shadow. This approach would also be useful for hybrid rasterized applications with raytraced shadows. - The COD presentation has an interesting temporal dithering of the noise for use with temporal supersampling that we should revisit when we get DLSS/FSR/other TSR. --- ## Changelog * Added `ShadowFilteringMethod`. Improved directional light and spotlight shadow edges to be less aliased. ## Migration Guide * Shadows cast by directional lights or spotlights now have smoother edges. To revert to the old behavior, add `ShadowFilteringMethod::Hardware2x2` to your cameras. --------- Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Chia <danstryder@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Dyer <brandondyer64@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Edgar Geier <geieredgar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Elabajaba <Elabajaba@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-07 17:13:29 +00:00
Option<&ShadowFilteringMethod>,
Has<ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionSettings>,
`*_PREPASS` Shader Def Cleanup (#10136) # Objective - This PR aims to make the various `*_PREPASS` shader defs we have (`NORMAL_PREPASS`, `DEPTH_PREPASS`, `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` AND `DEFERRED_PREPASS`) easier to use and understand: - So that their meaning is now consistent across all contexts; (“prepass X is enabled for the current view”) - So that they're also consistently set across all contexts. - It also aims to enable us to (with a follow up PR) to conditionally gate the `BindGroupEntry` and `BindGroupLayoutEntry` items associated with these prepasses, saving us up to 4 texture slots in WebGL (currently globally limited to 16 per shader, regardless of bind groups) ## Solution - We now consistently set these from `PrepassPipeline`, the `MeshPipeline` and the `DeferredLightingPipeline`, we also set their `MeshPipelineKey`s; - We introduce `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` that can be used to detect where the code is running, without overloading the meanings of the prepass shader defs; - We also gate the WGSL functions in `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` with `#ifdef`s for their respective shader defs, so that shader code can provide a fallback whenever they're not available. - This allows us to conditionally include the bindings for these prepass textures (My next PR, which will hopefully unblock #8015) - @robtfm mentioned [these were being used to prevent accessing the same binding as read/write in the prepass](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/743663924229963868/1163270458393759814), however even after reversing the `#ifndef`s I had no issues running the code, so perhaps the compiler is already smart enough even without tree shaking to know they're not being used, thanks to `#ifdef PREPASS_PIPELINE`? ## Comparison ### Before | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes\* | No | \* Accidentally was being set twice, once with only `deferred_prepass.is_some()` as a condition, and once with `deferred_p repass.is_some() && !forward` as a condition. ### After | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ---------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | | `PREPASS_PIPELINE` | Unconditionally | No | No | | `MESH_PIPELINE` | No | Unconditionally | No | | `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` | No | No | Unconditionally | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | --- ## Changelog - Cleaned up WGSL `*_PREPASS` shader defs so they're now consistently used everywhere; - Introduced `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` WGSL shader defs for conditionally compiling logic based the current pipeline; - WGSL functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` are now guarded with `#ifdef` based on the currently enabled prepasses; ## Migration Guide - When using functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` (`prepass_depth()`, `prepass_normal()`, `prepass_motion_vector()`) in contexts where these prepasses might be disabled, you should now wrap your calls with the appropriate `#ifdef` guards, (`#ifdef DEPTH_PREPASS`, `#ifdef NORMAL_PREPASS`, `#ifdef MOTION_VECTOR_PREPASS`) providing fallback logic where applicable. --------- Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-17 00:16:21 +00:00
(
Has<NormalPrepass>,
Has<DepthPrepass>,
Has<MotionVectorPrepass>,
Has<DeferredPrepass>,
),
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
Option<&Camera3d>,
Has<TemporalJitter>,
Option<&Projection>,
&mut RenderPhase<Opaque3d>,
&mut RenderPhase<AlphaMask3d>,
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
&mut RenderPhase<Transmissive3d>,
&mut RenderPhase<Transparent3d>,
Implement irradiance volumes. (#10268) # Objective Bevy could benefit from *irradiance volumes*, also known as *voxel global illumination* or simply as light probes (though this term is not preferred, as multiple techniques can be called light probes). Irradiance volumes are a form of baked global illumination; they work by sampling the light at the centers of each voxel within a cuboid. At runtime, the voxels surrounding the fragment center are sampled and interpolated to produce indirect diffuse illumination. ## Solution This is divided into two sections. The first is copied and pasted from the irradiance volume module documentation and describes the technique. The second part consists of notes on the implementation. ### Overview An *irradiance volume* is a cuboid voxel region consisting of regularly-spaced precomputed samples of diffuse indirect light. They're ideal if you have a dynamic object such as a character that can move about static non-moving geometry such as a level in a game, and you want that dynamic object to be affected by the light bouncing off that static geometry. To use irradiance volumes, you need to precompute, or *bake*, the indirect light in your scene. Bevy doesn't currently come with a way to do this. Fortunately, [Blender] provides a [baking tool] as part of the Eevee renderer, and its irradiance volumes are compatible with those used by Bevy. The [`bevy-baked-gi`] project provides a tool, `export-blender-gi`, that can extract the baked irradiance volumes from the Blender `.blend` file and package them up into a `.ktx2` texture for use by the engine. See the documentation in the `bevy-baked-gi` project for more details as to this workflow. Like all light probes in Bevy, irradiance volumes are 1×1×1 cubes that can be arbitrarily scaled, rotated, and positioned in a scene with the [`bevy_transform::components::Transform`] component. The 3D voxel grid will be stretched to fill the interior of the cube, and the illumination from the irradiance volume will apply to all fragments within that bounding region. Bevy's irradiance volumes are based on Valve's [*ambient cubes*] as used in *Half-Life 2* ([Mitchell 2006], slide 27). These encode a single color of light from the six 3D cardinal directions and blend the sides together according to the surface normal. The primary reason for choosing ambient cubes is to match Blender, so that its Eevee renderer can be used for baking. However, they also have some advantages over the common second-order spherical harmonics approach: ambient cubes don't suffer from ringing artifacts, they are smaller (6 colors for ambient cubes as opposed to 9 for spherical harmonics), and evaluation is faster. A smaller basis allows for a denser grid of voxels with the same storage requirements. If you wish to use a tool other than `export-blender-gi` to produce the irradiance volumes, you'll need to pack the irradiance volumes in the following format. The irradiance volume of resolution *(Rx, Ry, Rz)* is expected to be a 3D texture of dimensions *(Rx, 2Ry, 3Rz)*. The unnormalized texture coordinate *(s, t, p)* of the voxel at coordinate *(x, y, z)* with side *S* ∈ *{-X, +X, -Y, +Y, -Z, +Z}* is as follows: ```text s = x t = y + ⎰ 0 if S ∈ {-X, -Y, -Z} ⎱ Ry if S ∈ {+X, +Y, +Z} ⎧ 0 if S ∈ {-X, +X} p = z + ⎨ Rz if S ∈ {-Y, +Y} ⎩ 2Rz if S ∈ {-Z, +Z} ``` Visually, in a left-handed coordinate system with Y up, viewed from the right, the 3D texture looks like a stacked series of voxel grids, one for each cube side, in this order: | **+X** | **+Y** | **+Z** | | ------ | ------ | ------ | | **-X** | **-Y** | **-Z** | A terminology note: Other engines may refer to irradiance volumes as *voxel global illumination*, *VXGI*, or simply as *light probes*. Sometimes *light probe* refers to what Bevy calls a reflection probe. In Bevy, *light probe* is a generic term that encompasses all cuboid bounding regions that capture indirect illumination, whether based on voxels or not. Note that, if binding arrays aren't supported (e.g. on WebGPU or WebGL 2), then only the closest irradiance volume to the view will be taken into account during rendering. [*ambient cubes*]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Mitchell 2006]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Blender]: http://blender.org/ [baking tool]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/render_settings/indirect_lighting.html [`bevy-baked-gi`]: https://github.com/pcwalton/bevy-baked-gi ### Implementation notes This patch generalizes light probes so as to reuse as much code as possible between irradiance volumes and the existing reflection probes. This approach was chosen because both techniques share numerous similarities: 1. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes are cuboid bounding regions. 2. Both are responsible for providing baked indirect light. 3. Both techniques involve presenting a variable number of textures to the shader from which indirect light is sampled. (In the current implementation, this uses binding arrays.) 4. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes require gathering and sorting probes by distance on CPU. 5. Both techniques require the GPU to search through a list of bounding regions. 6. Both will eventually want to have falloff so that we can smoothly blend as objects enter and exit the probes' influence ranges. (This is not implemented yet to keep this patch relatively small and reviewable.) To do this, we generalize most of the methods in the reflection probes patch #11366 to be generic over a trait, `LightProbeComponent`. This trait is implemented by both `EnvironmentMapLight` (for reflection probes) and `IrradianceVolume` (for irradiance volumes). Using a trait will allow us to add more types of light probes in the future. In particular, I highly suspect we will want real-time reflection planes for mirrors in the future, which can be easily slotted into this framework. ## Changelog > This section is optional. If this was a trivial fix, or has no externally-visible impact, you can delete this section. ### Added * A new `IrradianceVolume` asset type is available for baked voxelized light probes. You can bake the global illumination using Blender or another tool of your choice and use it in Bevy to apply indirect illumination to dynamic objects.
2024-02-06 23:23:20 +00:00
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
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separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
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PCF For DirectionalLight/SpotLight Shadows (#8006) # Objective - Improve antialiasing for non-point light shadow edges. - Very partially addresses https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3628. ## Solution - Implements "The Witness"'s shadow map sampling technique. - Ported from @superdump's old branch, all credit to them :) - Implements "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare"'s stochastic shadow map sampling technique when the velocity prepass is enabled, for use with TAA. - Uses interleaved gradient noise to generate a random angle, and then averages 8 samples in a spiral pattern, rotated by the random angle. - I also tried spatiotemporal blue noise, but it was far too noisy to be filtered by TAA alone. In the future, we should try spatiotemporal blue noise + a specialized shadow denoiser such as https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-denoiser/#shadow. This approach would also be useful for hybrid rasterized applications with raytraced shadows. - The COD presentation has an interesting temporal dithering of the noise for use with temporal supersampling that we should revisit when we get DLSS/FSR/other TSR. --- ## Changelog * Added `ShadowFilteringMethod`. Improved directional light and spotlight shadow edges to be less aliased. ## Migration Guide * Shadows cast by directional lights or spotlights now have smoother edges. To revert to the old behavior, add `ShadowFilteringMethod::Hardware2x2` to your cameras. --------- Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Chia <danstryder@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Dyer <brandondyer64@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Edgar Geier <geieredgar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Elabajaba <Elabajaba@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-07 17:13:29 +00:00
shadow_filter_method,
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) MVP (#7402) ![image](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/47158642/dbb62645-f639-4f2b-b84b-26fd915c186d) # Objective - Add Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO). SSAO approximates small-scale, local occlusion of _indirect_ diffuse light between objects. SSAO does not apply to direct lighting, such as point or directional lights. - This darkens creases, e.g. on staircases, and gives nice contact shadows where objects meet, giving entities a more "grounded" feel. - Closes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3632. ## Solution - Implement the GTAO algorithm. - https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/Practical_Real_Time_Strategies_for_Accurate_Indirect_Occlusion_NEW%20VERSION_COLOR.pdf - https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2016-shading-course/activision/s2016_pbs_activision_occlusion.pdf - Source code heavily based on [Intel's XeGTAO](https://github.com/GameTechDev/XeGTAO/blob/0d177ce06bfa642f64d8af4de1197ad1bcb862d4/Source/Rendering/Shaders/XeGTAO.hlsli). - Add an SSAO bevy example. ## Algorithm Overview * Run a depth and normal prepass * Create downscaled mips of the depth texture (preprocess_depths pass) * GTAO pass - for each pixel, take several random samples from the depth+normal buffers, reconstruct world position, raytrace in screen space to estimate occlusion. Rather then doing completely random samples on a hemisphere, you choose random _slices_ of the hemisphere, and then can analytically compute the full occlusion of that slice. Also compute edges based on depth differences here. * Spatial denoise pass - bilateral blur, using edge detection to not blur over edges. This is the final SSAO result. * Main pass - if SSAO exists, sample the SSAO texture, and set occlusion to be the minimum of ssao/material occlusion. This then feeds into the rest of the PBR shader as normal. --- ## Future Improvements - Maybe remove the low quality preset for now (too noisy) - WebGPU fallback (see below) - Faster depth->world position (see reverted code) - Bent normals - Try interleaved gradient noise or spatiotemporal blue noise - Replace the spatial denoiser with a combined spatial+temporal denoiser - Render at half resolution and use a bilateral upsample - Better multibounce approximation (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SyagcEVplIm2KkRD3WQYSO9O0Iyi1hfy/view) ## Far-Future Performance Improvements - F16 math (missing naga-wgsl support https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/issues/1884) - Faster coordinate space conversion for normals - Faster depth mipchain creation (https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-SPD) (wgpu/naga does not currently support subgroup ops) - Deinterleaved SSAO for better cache efficiency (https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/gameworks/samples/DeinterleavedTexturing.pdf) ## Other Interesting Papers - Visibility bitmask (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-022-02703-y, https://cdrinmatane.github.io/posts/cgspotlight-slides/) - Screen space diffuse lighting (https://github.com/Patapom/GodComplex/blob/master/Tests/TestHBIL/2018%20Mayaux%20-%20Horizon-Based%20Indirect%20Lighting%20(HBIL).pdf) ## Platform Support * SSAO currently does not work on DirectX12 due to issues with wgpu and naga: * https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3798 * https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2353 * SSAO currently does not work on WebGPU because r16float is not a valid storage texture format https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/wgsl/#storage-texel-formats. We can fix this with a fallback to r32float. --- ## Changelog - Added ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionSettings, ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionQualityLevel, and ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionBundle --------- Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Chia <danstryder@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Elabajaba <Elabajaba@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Dyer <brandondyer64@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Edgar Geier <geieredgar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2023-06-18 21:05:55 +00:00
ssao,
`*_PREPASS` Shader Def Cleanup (#10136) # Objective - This PR aims to make the various `*_PREPASS` shader defs we have (`NORMAL_PREPASS`, `DEPTH_PREPASS`, `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` AND `DEFERRED_PREPASS`) easier to use and understand: - So that their meaning is now consistent across all contexts; (“prepass X is enabled for the current view”) - So that they're also consistently set across all contexts. - It also aims to enable us to (with a follow up PR) to conditionally gate the `BindGroupEntry` and `BindGroupLayoutEntry` items associated with these prepasses, saving us up to 4 texture slots in WebGL (currently globally limited to 16 per shader, regardless of bind groups) ## Solution - We now consistently set these from `PrepassPipeline`, the `MeshPipeline` and the `DeferredLightingPipeline`, we also set their `MeshPipelineKey`s; - We introduce `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` that can be used to detect where the code is running, without overloading the meanings of the prepass shader defs; - We also gate the WGSL functions in `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` with `#ifdef`s for their respective shader defs, so that shader code can provide a fallback whenever they're not available. - This allows us to conditionally include the bindings for these prepass textures (My next PR, which will hopefully unblock #8015) - @robtfm mentioned [these were being used to prevent accessing the same binding as read/write in the prepass](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/743663924229963868/1163270458393759814), however even after reversing the `#ifndef`s I had no issues running the code, so perhaps the compiler is already smart enough even without tree shaking to know they're not being used, thanks to `#ifdef PREPASS_PIPELINE`? ## Comparison ### Before | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes\* | No | \* Accidentally was being set twice, once with only `deferred_prepass.is_some()` as a condition, and once with `deferred_p repass.is_some() && !forward` as a condition. ### After | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ---------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | | `PREPASS_PIPELINE` | Unconditionally | No | No | | `MESH_PIPELINE` | No | Unconditionally | No | | `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` | No | No | Unconditionally | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | --- ## Changelog - Cleaned up WGSL `*_PREPASS` shader defs so they're now consistently used everywhere; - Introduced `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` WGSL shader defs for conditionally compiling logic based the current pipeline; - WGSL functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` are now guarded with `#ifdef` based on the currently enabled prepasses; ## Migration Guide - When using functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` (`prepass_depth()`, `prepass_normal()`, `prepass_motion_vector()`) in contexts where these prepasses might be disabled, you should now wrap your calls with the appropriate `#ifdef` guards, (`#ifdef DEPTH_PREPASS`, `#ifdef NORMAL_PREPASS`, `#ifdef MOTION_VECTOR_PREPASS`) providing fallback logic where applicable. --------- Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-17 00:16:21 +00:00
(normal_prepass, depth_prepass, motion_vector_prepass, deferred_prepass),
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
camera_3d,
temporal_jitter,
projection,
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
mut opaque_phase,
mut alpha_mask_phase,
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
mut transmissive_phase,
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
mut transparent_phase,
Implement irradiance volumes. (#10268) # Objective Bevy could benefit from *irradiance volumes*, also known as *voxel global illumination* or simply as light probes (though this term is not preferred, as multiple techniques can be called light probes). Irradiance volumes are a form of baked global illumination; they work by sampling the light at the centers of each voxel within a cuboid. At runtime, the voxels surrounding the fragment center are sampled and interpolated to produce indirect diffuse illumination. ## Solution This is divided into two sections. The first is copied and pasted from the irradiance volume module documentation and describes the technique. The second part consists of notes on the implementation. ### Overview An *irradiance volume* is a cuboid voxel region consisting of regularly-spaced precomputed samples of diffuse indirect light. They're ideal if you have a dynamic object such as a character that can move about static non-moving geometry such as a level in a game, and you want that dynamic object to be affected by the light bouncing off that static geometry. To use irradiance volumes, you need to precompute, or *bake*, the indirect light in your scene. Bevy doesn't currently come with a way to do this. Fortunately, [Blender] provides a [baking tool] as part of the Eevee renderer, and its irradiance volumes are compatible with those used by Bevy. The [`bevy-baked-gi`] project provides a tool, `export-blender-gi`, that can extract the baked irradiance volumes from the Blender `.blend` file and package them up into a `.ktx2` texture for use by the engine. See the documentation in the `bevy-baked-gi` project for more details as to this workflow. Like all light probes in Bevy, irradiance volumes are 1×1×1 cubes that can be arbitrarily scaled, rotated, and positioned in a scene with the [`bevy_transform::components::Transform`] component. The 3D voxel grid will be stretched to fill the interior of the cube, and the illumination from the irradiance volume will apply to all fragments within that bounding region. Bevy's irradiance volumes are based on Valve's [*ambient cubes*] as used in *Half-Life 2* ([Mitchell 2006], slide 27). These encode a single color of light from the six 3D cardinal directions and blend the sides together according to the surface normal. The primary reason for choosing ambient cubes is to match Blender, so that its Eevee renderer can be used for baking. However, they also have some advantages over the common second-order spherical harmonics approach: ambient cubes don't suffer from ringing artifacts, they are smaller (6 colors for ambient cubes as opposed to 9 for spherical harmonics), and evaluation is faster. A smaller basis allows for a denser grid of voxels with the same storage requirements. If you wish to use a tool other than `export-blender-gi` to produce the irradiance volumes, you'll need to pack the irradiance volumes in the following format. The irradiance volume of resolution *(Rx, Ry, Rz)* is expected to be a 3D texture of dimensions *(Rx, 2Ry, 3Rz)*. The unnormalized texture coordinate *(s, t, p)* of the voxel at coordinate *(x, y, z)* with side *S* ∈ *{-X, +X, -Y, +Y, -Z, +Z}* is as follows: ```text s = x t = y + ⎰ 0 if S ∈ {-X, -Y, -Z} ⎱ Ry if S ∈ {+X, +Y, +Z} ⎧ 0 if S ∈ {-X, +X} p = z + ⎨ Rz if S ∈ {-Y, +Y} ⎩ 2Rz if S ∈ {-Z, +Z} ``` Visually, in a left-handed coordinate system with Y up, viewed from the right, the 3D texture looks like a stacked series of voxel grids, one for each cube side, in this order: | **+X** | **+Y** | **+Z** | | ------ | ------ | ------ | | **-X** | **-Y** | **-Z** | A terminology note: Other engines may refer to irradiance volumes as *voxel global illumination*, *VXGI*, or simply as *light probes*. Sometimes *light probe* refers to what Bevy calls a reflection probe. In Bevy, *light probe* is a generic term that encompasses all cuboid bounding regions that capture indirect illumination, whether based on voxels or not. Note that, if binding arrays aren't supported (e.g. on WebGPU or WebGL 2), then only the closest irradiance volume to the view will be taken into account during rendering. [*ambient cubes*]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Mitchell 2006]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Blender]: http://blender.org/ [baking tool]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/render_settings/indirect_lighting.html [`bevy-baked-gi`]: https://github.com/pcwalton/bevy-baked-gi ### Implementation notes This patch generalizes light probes so as to reuse as much code as possible between irradiance volumes and the existing reflection probes. This approach was chosen because both techniques share numerous similarities: 1. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes are cuboid bounding regions. 2. Both are responsible for providing baked indirect light. 3. Both techniques involve presenting a variable number of textures to the shader from which indirect light is sampled. (In the current implementation, this uses binding arrays.) 4. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes require gathering and sorting probes by distance on CPU. 5. Both techniques require the GPU to search through a list of bounding regions. 6. Both will eventually want to have falloff so that we can smoothly blend as objects enter and exit the probes' influence ranges. (This is not implemented yet to keep this patch relatively small and reviewable.) To do this, we generalize most of the methods in the reflection probes patch #11366 to be generic over a trait, `LightProbeComponent`. This trait is implemented by both `EnvironmentMapLight` (for reflection probes) and `IrradianceVolume` (for irradiance volumes). Using a trait will allow us to add more types of light probes in the future. In particular, I highly suspect we will want real-time reflection planes for mirrors in the future, which can be easily slotted into this framework. ## Changelog > This section is optional. If this was a trivial fix, or has no externally-visible impact, you can delete this section. ### Added * A new `IrradianceVolume` asset type is available for baked voxelized light probes. You can bake the global illumination using Blender or another tool of your choice and use it in Bevy to apply indirect illumination to dynamic objects.
2024-02-06 23:23:20 +00:00
(has_environment_maps, has_irradiance_volumes),
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
) in &mut views
{
let draw_opaque_pbr = opaque_draw_functions.read().id::<DrawMaterial<M>>();
let draw_alpha_mask_pbr = alpha_mask_draw_functions.read().id::<DrawMaterial<M>>();
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
let draw_transmissive_pbr = transmissive_draw_functions.read().id::<DrawMaterial<M>>();
let draw_transparent_pbr = transparent_draw_functions.read().id::<DrawMaterial<M>>();
let mut view_key = MeshPipelineKey::from_msaa_samples(msaa.samples())
| MeshPipelineKey::from_hdr(view.hdr);
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
`*_PREPASS` Shader Def Cleanup (#10136) # Objective - This PR aims to make the various `*_PREPASS` shader defs we have (`NORMAL_PREPASS`, `DEPTH_PREPASS`, `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` AND `DEFERRED_PREPASS`) easier to use and understand: - So that their meaning is now consistent across all contexts; (“prepass X is enabled for the current view”) - So that they're also consistently set across all contexts. - It also aims to enable us to (with a follow up PR) to conditionally gate the `BindGroupEntry` and `BindGroupLayoutEntry` items associated with these prepasses, saving us up to 4 texture slots in WebGL (currently globally limited to 16 per shader, regardless of bind groups) ## Solution - We now consistently set these from `PrepassPipeline`, the `MeshPipeline` and the `DeferredLightingPipeline`, we also set their `MeshPipelineKey`s; - We introduce `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` that can be used to detect where the code is running, without overloading the meanings of the prepass shader defs; - We also gate the WGSL functions in `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` with `#ifdef`s for their respective shader defs, so that shader code can provide a fallback whenever they're not available. - This allows us to conditionally include the bindings for these prepass textures (My next PR, which will hopefully unblock #8015) - @robtfm mentioned [these were being used to prevent accessing the same binding as read/write in the prepass](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/743663924229963868/1163270458393759814), however even after reversing the `#ifndef`s I had no issues running the code, so perhaps the compiler is already smart enough even without tree shaking to know they're not being used, thanks to `#ifdef PREPASS_PIPELINE`? ## Comparison ### Before | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes\* | No | \* Accidentally was being set twice, once with only `deferred_prepass.is_some()` as a condition, and once with `deferred_p repass.is_some() && !forward` as a condition. ### After | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ---------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | | `PREPASS_PIPELINE` | Unconditionally | No | No | | `MESH_PIPELINE` | No | Unconditionally | No | | `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` | No | No | Unconditionally | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | --- ## Changelog - Cleaned up WGSL `*_PREPASS` shader defs so they're now consistently used everywhere; - Introduced `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` WGSL shader defs for conditionally compiling logic based the current pipeline; - WGSL functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` are now guarded with `#ifdef` based on the currently enabled prepasses; ## Migration Guide - When using functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` (`prepass_depth()`, `prepass_normal()`, `prepass_motion_vector()`) in contexts where these prepasses might be disabled, you should now wrap your calls with the appropriate `#ifdef` guards, (`#ifdef DEPTH_PREPASS`, `#ifdef NORMAL_PREPASS`, `#ifdef MOTION_VECTOR_PREPASS`) providing fallback logic where applicable. --------- Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-17 00:16:21 +00:00
if normal_prepass {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::NORMAL_PREPASS;
}
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
`*_PREPASS` Shader Def Cleanup (#10136) # Objective - This PR aims to make the various `*_PREPASS` shader defs we have (`NORMAL_PREPASS`, `DEPTH_PREPASS`, `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` AND `DEFERRED_PREPASS`) easier to use and understand: - So that their meaning is now consistent across all contexts; (“prepass X is enabled for the current view”) - So that they're also consistently set across all contexts. - It also aims to enable us to (with a follow up PR) to conditionally gate the `BindGroupEntry` and `BindGroupLayoutEntry` items associated with these prepasses, saving us up to 4 texture slots in WebGL (currently globally limited to 16 per shader, regardless of bind groups) ## Solution - We now consistently set these from `PrepassPipeline`, the `MeshPipeline` and the `DeferredLightingPipeline`, we also set their `MeshPipelineKey`s; - We introduce `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` that can be used to detect where the code is running, without overloading the meanings of the prepass shader defs; - We also gate the WGSL functions in `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` with `#ifdef`s for their respective shader defs, so that shader code can provide a fallback whenever they're not available. - This allows us to conditionally include the bindings for these prepass textures (My next PR, which will hopefully unblock #8015) - @robtfm mentioned [these were being used to prevent accessing the same binding as read/write in the prepass](https://discord.com/channels/691052431525675048/743663924229963868/1163270458393759814), however even after reversing the `#ifndef`s I had no issues running the code, so perhaps the compiler is already smart enough even without tree shaking to know they're not being used, thanks to `#ifdef PREPASS_PIPELINE`? ## Comparison ### Before | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | No | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | No | No | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes\* | No | \* Accidentally was being set twice, once with only `deferred_prepass.is_some()` as a condition, and once with `deferred_p repass.is_some() && !forward` as a condition. ### After | Shader Def | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ---------------------------- | ----------------- | --------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | | `PREPASS_PIPELINE` | Unconditionally | No | No | | `MESH_PIPELINE` | No | Unconditionally | No | | `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` | No | No | Unconditionally | | View Key | `PrepassPipeline` | `MeshPipeline` | `DeferredLightingPipeline` | | ------------------------ | ----------------- | -------------- | -------------------------- | | `NORMAL_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEPTH_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `MOTION_VECTORS_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Yes | | `DEFERRED_PREPASS` | Yes | Yes | Unconditionally | --- ## Changelog - Cleaned up WGSL `*_PREPASS` shader defs so they're now consistently used everywhere; - Introduced `PREPASS_PIPELINE`, `MESH_PIPELINE` and `DEFERRED_LIGHTING_PIPELINE` WGSL shader defs for conditionally compiling logic based the current pipeline; - WGSL functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` are now guarded with `#ifdef` based on the currently enabled prepasses; ## Migration Guide - When using functions from `bevy_pbr::prepass_utils` (`prepass_depth()`, `prepass_normal()`, `prepass_motion_vector()`) in contexts where these prepasses might be disabled, you should now wrap your calls with the appropriate `#ifdef` guards, (`#ifdef DEPTH_PREPASS`, `#ifdef NORMAL_PREPASS`, `#ifdef MOTION_VECTOR_PREPASS`) providing fallback logic where applicable. --------- Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-17 00:16:21 +00:00
if depth_prepass {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::DEPTH_PREPASS;
}
if motion_vector_prepass {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::MOTION_VECTOR_PREPASS;
}
if deferred_prepass {
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::DEFERRED_PREPASS;
}
if temporal_jitter {
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER;
Apply codebase changes in preparation for `StandardMaterial` transmission (#8704) # Objective - Make #8015 easier to review; ## Solution - This commit contains changes not directly related to transmission required by #8015, in easier-to-review, one-change-per-commit form. --- ## Changelog ### Fixed - Clear motion vector prepass using `0.0` instead of `1.0`, to avoid TAA artifacts on transparent objects against the background; ### Added - The `E` mathematical constant is now available for use in shaders, exposed under `bevy_pbr::utils`; - A new `TAA` shader def is now available, for conditionally enabling shader logic via `#ifdef` when TAA is enabled; (e.g. for jittering texture samples) - A new `FallbackImageZero` resource is introduced, for when a fallback image filled with zeroes is required; - A new `RenderPhase<I>::render_range()` method is introduced, for render phases that need to render their items in multiple parceled out “steps”; ### Changed - The `MainTargetTextures` struct now holds both `Texture` and `TextureViews` for the main textures; - The fog shader functions under `bevy_pbr::fog` now take the a `Fog` structure as their first argument, instead of relying on the global `fog` uniform; - The main textures can now be used as copy sources; ## Migration Guide - `ViewTarget::main_texture()` and `ViewTarget::main_texture_other()` now return `&Texture` instead of `&TextureView`. If you were relying on these methods, replace your usage with `ViewTarget::main_texture_view()`and `ViewTarget::main_texture_other_view()`, respectively; - `ViewTarget::sampled_main_texture()` now returns `Option<&Texture>` instead of a `Option<&TextureView>`. If you were relying on this method, replace your usage with `ViewTarget::sampled_main_texture_view()`; - The `apply_fog()`, `linear_fog()`, `exponential_fog()`, `exponential_squared_fog()` and `atmospheric_fog()` functions now take a configurable `Fog` struct. If you were relying on them, update your usage by adding the global `fog` uniform as their first argument;
2023-05-30 14:21:53 +00:00
}
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
Implement minimal reflection probes (fixed macOS, iOS, and Android). (#11366) This pull request re-submits #10057, which was backed out for breaking macOS, iOS, and Android. I've tested this version on macOS and Android and on the iOS simulator. # Objective This pull request implements *reflection probes*, which generalize environment maps to allow for multiple environment maps in the same scene, each of which has an axis-aligned bounding box. This is a standard feature of physically-based renderers and was inspired by [the corresponding feature in Blender's Eevee renderer]. ## Solution This is a minimal implementation of reflection probes that allows artists to define cuboid bounding regions associated with environment maps. For every view, on every frame, a system builds up a list of the nearest 4 reflection probes that are within the view's frustum and supplies that list to the shader. The PBR fragment shader searches through the list, finds the first containing reflection probe, and uses it for indirect lighting, falling back to the view's environment map if none is found. Both forward and deferred renderers are fully supported. A reflection probe is an entity with a pair of components, *LightProbe* and *EnvironmentMapLight* (as well as the standard *SpatialBundle*, to position it in the world). The *LightProbe* component (along with the *Transform*) defines the bounding region, while the *EnvironmentMapLight* component specifies the associated diffuse and specular cubemaps. A frequent question is "why two components instead of just one?" The advantages of this setup are: 1. It's readily extensible to other types of light probes, in particular *irradiance volumes* (also known as ambient cubes or voxel global illumination), which use the same approach of bounding cuboids. With a single component that applies to both reflection probes and irradiance volumes, we can share the logic that implements falloff and blending between multiple light probes between both of those features. 2. It reduces duplication between the existing *EnvironmentMapLight* and these new reflection probes. Systems can treat environment maps attached to cameras the same way they treat environment maps applied to reflection probes if they wish. Internally, we gather up all environment maps in the scene and place them in a cubemap array. At present, this means that all environment maps must have the same size, mipmap count, and texture format. A warning is emitted if this restriction is violated. We could potentially relax this in the future as part of the automatic mipmap generation work, which could easily do texture format conversion as part of its preprocessing. An easy way to generate reflection probe cubemaps is to bake them in Blender and use the `export-blender-gi` tool that's part of the [`bevy-baked-gi`] project. This tool takes a `.blend` file containing baked cubemaps as input and exports cubemap images, pre-filtered with an embedded fork of the [glTF IBL Sampler], alongside a corresponding `.scn.ron` file that the scene spawner can use to recreate the reflection probes. Note that this is intentionally a minimal implementation, to aid reviewability. Known issues are: * Reflection probes are basically unsupported on WebGL 2, because WebGL 2 has no cubemap arrays. (Strictly speaking, you can have precisely one reflection probe in the scene if you have no other cubemaps anywhere, but this isn't very useful.) * Reflection probes have no falloff, so reflections will abruptly change when objects move from one bounding region to another. * As mentioned before, all cubemaps in the world of a given type (diffuse or specular) must have the same size, format, and mipmap count. Future work includes: * Blending between multiple reflection probes. * A falloff/fade-out region so that reflected objects disappear gradually instead of vanishing all at once. * Irradiance volumes for voxel-based global illumination. This should reuse much of the reflection probe logic, as they're both GI techniques based on cuboid bounding regions. * Support for WebGL 2, by breaking batches when reflection probes are used. These issues notwithstanding, I think it's best to land this with roughly the current set of functionality, because this patch is useful as is and adding everything above would make the pull request significantly larger and harder to review. --- ## Changelog ### Added * A new *LightProbe* component is available that specifies a bounding region that an *EnvironmentMapLight* applies to. The combination of a *LightProbe* and an *EnvironmentMapLight* offers *reflection probe* functionality similar to that available in other engines. [the corresponding feature in Blender's Eevee renderer]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/light_probes/reflection_cubemaps.html [`bevy-baked-gi`]: https://github.com/pcwalton/bevy-baked-gi [glTF IBL Sampler]: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-IBL-Sampler
2024-01-19 07:33:52 +00:00
if has_environment_maps {
EnvironmentMapLight, BRDF Improvements (#7051) (Before) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47158642/213946111-15ec758f-1f1d-443c-b196-1fdcd4ae49da.png) (After) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47158642/217051179-67381e73-dd44-461b-a2c7-87b0440ef8de.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47158642/212492404-524e4ad3-7837-4ed4-8b20-2abc276aa8e8.png) # Objective - Improve lighting; especially reflections. - Closes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4581. ## Solution - Implement environment maps, providing better ambient light. - Add microfacet multibounce approximation for specular highlights from Filament. - Occlusion is no longer incorrectly applied to direct lighting. It now only applies to diffuse indirect light. Unsure if it's also supposed to apply to specular indirect light - the glTF specification just says "indirect light". In the case of ambient occlusion, for instance, that's usually only calculated as diffuse though. For now, I'm choosing to apply this just to indirect diffuse light, and not specular. - Modified the PBR example to use an environment map, and have labels. - Added `FallbackImageCubemap`. ## Implementation - IBL technique references can be found in environment_map.wgsl. - It's more accurate to use a LUT for the scale/bias. Filament has a good reference on generating this LUT. For now, I just used an analytic approximation. - For now, environment maps must first be prefiltered outside of bevy using a 3rd party tool. See the `EnvironmentMap` documentation. - Eventually, we should have our own prefiltering code, so that we can have dynamically changing environment maps, as well as let users drop in an HDR image and use asset preprocessing to create the needed textures using only bevy. --- ## Changelog - Added an `EnvironmentMapLight` camera component that adds additional ambient light to a scene. - StandardMaterials will now appear brighter and more saturated at high roughness, due to internal material changes. This is more physically correct. - Fixed StandardMaterial occlusion being incorrectly applied to direct lighting. - Added `FallbackImageCubemap`. Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: James Liu <contact@jamessliu.com> Co-authored-by: Rob Parrett <robparrett@gmail.com>
2023-02-09 16:46:32 +00:00
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::ENVIRONMENT_MAP;
}
PCF For DirectionalLight/SpotLight Shadows (#8006) # Objective - Improve antialiasing for non-point light shadow edges. - Very partially addresses https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3628. ## Solution - Implements "The Witness"'s shadow map sampling technique. - Ported from @superdump's old branch, all credit to them :) - Implements "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare"'s stochastic shadow map sampling technique when the velocity prepass is enabled, for use with TAA. - Uses interleaved gradient noise to generate a random angle, and then averages 8 samples in a spiral pattern, rotated by the random angle. - I also tried spatiotemporal blue noise, but it was far too noisy to be filtered by TAA alone. In the future, we should try spatiotemporal blue noise + a specialized shadow denoiser such as https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-denoiser/#shadow. This approach would also be useful for hybrid rasterized applications with raytraced shadows. - The COD presentation has an interesting temporal dithering of the noise for use with temporal supersampling that we should revisit when we get DLSS/FSR/other TSR. --- ## Changelog * Added `ShadowFilteringMethod`. Improved directional light and spotlight shadow edges to be less aliased. ## Migration Guide * Shadows cast by directional lights or spotlights now have smoother edges. To revert to the old behavior, add `ShadowFilteringMethod::Hardware2x2` to your cameras. --------- Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Chia <danstryder@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Dyer <brandondyer64@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Edgar Geier <geieredgar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Elabajaba <Elabajaba@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-07 17:13:29 +00:00
Implement irradiance volumes. (#10268) # Objective Bevy could benefit from *irradiance volumes*, also known as *voxel global illumination* or simply as light probes (though this term is not preferred, as multiple techniques can be called light probes). Irradiance volumes are a form of baked global illumination; they work by sampling the light at the centers of each voxel within a cuboid. At runtime, the voxels surrounding the fragment center are sampled and interpolated to produce indirect diffuse illumination. ## Solution This is divided into two sections. The first is copied and pasted from the irradiance volume module documentation and describes the technique. The second part consists of notes on the implementation. ### Overview An *irradiance volume* is a cuboid voxel region consisting of regularly-spaced precomputed samples of diffuse indirect light. They're ideal if you have a dynamic object such as a character that can move about static non-moving geometry such as a level in a game, and you want that dynamic object to be affected by the light bouncing off that static geometry. To use irradiance volumes, you need to precompute, or *bake*, the indirect light in your scene. Bevy doesn't currently come with a way to do this. Fortunately, [Blender] provides a [baking tool] as part of the Eevee renderer, and its irradiance volumes are compatible with those used by Bevy. The [`bevy-baked-gi`] project provides a tool, `export-blender-gi`, that can extract the baked irradiance volumes from the Blender `.blend` file and package them up into a `.ktx2` texture for use by the engine. See the documentation in the `bevy-baked-gi` project for more details as to this workflow. Like all light probes in Bevy, irradiance volumes are 1×1×1 cubes that can be arbitrarily scaled, rotated, and positioned in a scene with the [`bevy_transform::components::Transform`] component. The 3D voxel grid will be stretched to fill the interior of the cube, and the illumination from the irradiance volume will apply to all fragments within that bounding region. Bevy's irradiance volumes are based on Valve's [*ambient cubes*] as used in *Half-Life 2* ([Mitchell 2006], slide 27). These encode a single color of light from the six 3D cardinal directions and blend the sides together according to the surface normal. The primary reason for choosing ambient cubes is to match Blender, so that its Eevee renderer can be used for baking. However, they also have some advantages over the common second-order spherical harmonics approach: ambient cubes don't suffer from ringing artifacts, they are smaller (6 colors for ambient cubes as opposed to 9 for spherical harmonics), and evaluation is faster. A smaller basis allows for a denser grid of voxels with the same storage requirements. If you wish to use a tool other than `export-blender-gi` to produce the irradiance volumes, you'll need to pack the irradiance volumes in the following format. The irradiance volume of resolution *(Rx, Ry, Rz)* is expected to be a 3D texture of dimensions *(Rx, 2Ry, 3Rz)*. The unnormalized texture coordinate *(s, t, p)* of the voxel at coordinate *(x, y, z)* with side *S* ∈ *{-X, +X, -Y, +Y, -Z, +Z}* is as follows: ```text s = x t = y + ⎰ 0 if S ∈ {-X, -Y, -Z} ⎱ Ry if S ∈ {+X, +Y, +Z} ⎧ 0 if S ∈ {-X, +X} p = z + ⎨ Rz if S ∈ {-Y, +Y} ⎩ 2Rz if S ∈ {-Z, +Z} ``` Visually, in a left-handed coordinate system with Y up, viewed from the right, the 3D texture looks like a stacked series of voxel grids, one for each cube side, in this order: | **+X** | **+Y** | **+Z** | | ------ | ------ | ------ | | **-X** | **-Y** | **-Z** | A terminology note: Other engines may refer to irradiance volumes as *voxel global illumination*, *VXGI*, or simply as *light probes*. Sometimes *light probe* refers to what Bevy calls a reflection probe. In Bevy, *light probe* is a generic term that encompasses all cuboid bounding regions that capture indirect illumination, whether based on voxels or not. Note that, if binding arrays aren't supported (e.g. on WebGPU or WebGL 2), then only the closest irradiance volume to the view will be taken into account during rendering. [*ambient cubes*]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Mitchell 2006]: https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2006/Mitchell-ShadingInValvesSourceEngine.pdf [Blender]: http://blender.org/ [baking tool]: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/eevee/render_settings/indirect_lighting.html [`bevy-baked-gi`]: https://github.com/pcwalton/bevy-baked-gi ### Implementation notes This patch generalizes light probes so as to reuse as much code as possible between irradiance volumes and the existing reflection probes. This approach was chosen because both techniques share numerous similarities: 1. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes are cuboid bounding regions. 2. Both are responsible for providing baked indirect light. 3. Both techniques involve presenting a variable number of textures to the shader from which indirect light is sampled. (In the current implementation, this uses binding arrays.) 4. Both irradiance volumes and reflection probes require gathering and sorting probes by distance on CPU. 5. Both techniques require the GPU to search through a list of bounding regions. 6. Both will eventually want to have falloff so that we can smoothly blend as objects enter and exit the probes' influence ranges. (This is not implemented yet to keep this patch relatively small and reviewable.) To do this, we generalize most of the methods in the reflection probes patch #11366 to be generic over a trait, `LightProbeComponent`. This trait is implemented by both `EnvironmentMapLight` (for reflection probes) and `IrradianceVolume` (for irradiance volumes). Using a trait will allow us to add more types of light probes in the future. In particular, I highly suspect we will want real-time reflection planes for mirrors in the future, which can be easily slotted into this framework. ## Changelog > This section is optional. If this was a trivial fix, or has no externally-visible impact, you can delete this section. ### Added * A new `IrradianceVolume` asset type is available for baked voxelized light probes. You can bake the global illumination using Blender or another tool of your choice and use it in Bevy to apply indirect illumination to dynamic objects.
2024-02-06 23:23:20 +00:00
if has_irradiance_volumes {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::IRRADIANCE_VOLUME;
}
if let Some(projection) = projection {
view_key |= match projection {
Projection::Perspective(_) => MeshPipelineKey::VIEW_PROJECTION_PERSPECTIVE,
Projection::Orthographic(_) => MeshPipelineKey::VIEW_PROJECTION_ORTHOGRAPHIC,
};
}
PCF For DirectionalLight/SpotLight Shadows (#8006) # Objective - Improve antialiasing for non-point light shadow edges. - Very partially addresses https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3628. ## Solution - Implements "The Witness"'s shadow map sampling technique. - Ported from @superdump's old branch, all credit to them :) - Implements "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare"'s stochastic shadow map sampling technique when the velocity prepass is enabled, for use with TAA. - Uses interleaved gradient noise to generate a random angle, and then averages 8 samples in a spiral pattern, rotated by the random angle. - I also tried spatiotemporal blue noise, but it was far too noisy to be filtered by TAA alone. In the future, we should try spatiotemporal blue noise + a specialized shadow denoiser such as https://gpuopen.com/fidelityfx-denoiser/#shadow. This approach would also be useful for hybrid rasterized applications with raytraced shadows. - The COD presentation has an interesting temporal dithering of the noise for use with temporal supersampling that we should revisit when we get DLSS/FSR/other TSR. --- ## Changelog * Added `ShadowFilteringMethod`. Improved directional light and spotlight shadow edges to be less aliased. ## Migration Guide * Shadows cast by directional lights or spotlights now have smoother edges. To revert to the old behavior, add `ShadowFilteringMethod::Hardware2x2` to your cameras. --------- Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Chia <danstryder@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Dyer <brandondyer64@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Edgar Geier <geieredgar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Elabajaba <Elabajaba@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-10-07 17:13:29 +00:00
match shadow_filter_method.unwrap_or(&ShadowFilteringMethod::default()) {
ShadowFilteringMethod::Hardware2x2 => {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::SHADOW_FILTER_METHOD_HARDWARE_2X2;
}
ShadowFilteringMethod::Castano13 => {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::SHADOW_FILTER_METHOD_CASTANO_13;
}
ShadowFilteringMethod::Jimenez14 => {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::SHADOW_FILTER_METHOD_JIMENEZ_14;
}
}
if !view.hdr {
if let Some(tonemapping) = tonemapping {
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::TONEMAP_IN_SHADER;
view_key |= tonemapping_pipeline_key(*tonemapping);
}
if let Some(DebandDither::Enabled) = dither {
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::DEBAND_DITHER;
separate tonemapping and upscaling passes (#3425) Attempt to make features like bloom https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2876 easier to implement. **This PR:** - Moves the tonemapping from `pbr.wgsl` into a separate pass - also add a separate upscaling pass after the tonemapping which writes to the swap chain (enables resolution-independant rendering and post-processing after tonemapping) - adds a `hdr` bool to the camera which controls whether the pbr and sprite shaders render into a `Rgba16Float` texture **Open questions:** - ~should the 2d graph work the same as the 3d one?~ it is the same now - ~The current solution is a bit inflexible because while you can add a post processing pass that writes to e.g. the `hdr_texture`, you can't write to a separate `user_postprocess_texture` while reading the `hdr_texture` and tell the tone mapping pass to read from the `user_postprocess_texture` instead. If the tonemapping and upscaling render graph nodes were to take in a `TextureView` instead of the view entity this would almost work, but the bind groups for their respective input textures are already created in the `Queue` render stage in the hardcoded order.~ solved by creating bind groups in render node **New render graph:** ![render_graph](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147767249-57dd4229-cfab-4ec5-9bf3-dc76dccf8e8b.png) <details> <summary>Before</summary> ![render_graph_old](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22177966/147284579-c895fdbd-4028-41cf-914c-e1ffef60e44e.png) </details> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-10-26 20:13:59 +00:00
}
}
if ssao {
Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) MVP (#7402) ![image](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/47158642/dbb62645-f639-4f2b-b84b-26fd915c186d) # Objective - Add Screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO). SSAO approximates small-scale, local occlusion of _indirect_ diffuse light between objects. SSAO does not apply to direct lighting, such as point or directional lights. - This darkens creases, e.g. on staircases, and gives nice contact shadows where objects meet, giving entities a more "grounded" feel. - Closes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3632. ## Solution - Implement the GTAO algorithm. - https://www.activision.com/cdn/research/Practical_Real_Time_Strategies_for_Accurate_Indirect_Occlusion_NEW%20VERSION_COLOR.pdf - https://blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s2016-shading-course/activision/s2016_pbs_activision_occlusion.pdf - Source code heavily based on [Intel's XeGTAO](https://github.com/GameTechDev/XeGTAO/blob/0d177ce06bfa642f64d8af4de1197ad1bcb862d4/Source/Rendering/Shaders/XeGTAO.hlsli). - Add an SSAO bevy example. ## Algorithm Overview * Run a depth and normal prepass * Create downscaled mips of the depth texture (preprocess_depths pass) * GTAO pass - for each pixel, take several random samples from the depth+normal buffers, reconstruct world position, raytrace in screen space to estimate occlusion. Rather then doing completely random samples on a hemisphere, you choose random _slices_ of the hemisphere, and then can analytically compute the full occlusion of that slice. Also compute edges based on depth differences here. * Spatial denoise pass - bilateral blur, using edge detection to not blur over edges. This is the final SSAO result. * Main pass - if SSAO exists, sample the SSAO texture, and set occlusion to be the minimum of ssao/material occlusion. This then feeds into the rest of the PBR shader as normal. --- ## Future Improvements - Maybe remove the low quality preset for now (too noisy) - WebGPU fallback (see below) - Faster depth->world position (see reverted code) - Bent normals - Try interleaved gradient noise or spatiotemporal blue noise - Replace the spatial denoiser with a combined spatial+temporal denoiser - Render at half resolution and use a bilateral upsample - Better multibounce approximation (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SyagcEVplIm2KkRD3WQYSO9O0Iyi1hfy/view) ## Far-Future Performance Improvements - F16 math (missing naga-wgsl support https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/issues/1884) - Faster coordinate space conversion for normals - Faster depth mipchain creation (https://github.com/GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-SPD) (wgpu/naga does not currently support subgroup ops) - Deinterleaved SSAO for better cache efficiency (https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/gameworks/samples/DeinterleavedTexturing.pdf) ## Other Interesting Papers - Visibility bitmask (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00371-022-02703-y, https://cdrinmatane.github.io/posts/cgspotlight-slides/) - Screen space diffuse lighting (https://github.com/Patapom/GodComplex/blob/master/Tests/TestHBIL/2018%20Mayaux%20-%20Horizon-Based%20Indirect%20Lighting%20(HBIL).pdf) ## Platform Support * SSAO currently does not work on DirectX12 due to issues with wgpu and naga: * https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3798 * https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2353 * SSAO currently does not work on WebGPU because r16float is not a valid storage texture format https://gpuweb.github.io/gpuweb/wgsl/#storage-texel-formats. We can fix this with a fallback to r32float. --- ## Changelog - Added ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionSettings, ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionQualityLevel, and ScreenSpaceAmbientOcclusionBundle --------- Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Chia <danstryder@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Elabajaba <Elabajaba@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Brandon Dyer <brandondyer64@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Edgar Geier <geieredgar@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nicopap@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2023-06-18 21:05:55 +00:00
view_key |= MeshPipelineKey::SCREEN_SPACE_AMBIENT_OCCLUSION;
}
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
if let Some(camera_3d) = camera_3d {
view_key |= screen_space_specular_transmission_pipeline_key(
camera_3d.screen_space_specular_transmission_quality,
);
}
EnvironmentMapLight, BRDF Improvements (#7051) (Before) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47158642/213946111-15ec758f-1f1d-443c-b196-1fdcd4ae49da.png) (After) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47158642/217051179-67381e73-dd44-461b-a2c7-87b0440ef8de.png) ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47158642/212492404-524e4ad3-7837-4ed4-8b20-2abc276aa8e8.png) # Objective - Improve lighting; especially reflections. - Closes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4581. ## Solution - Implement environment maps, providing better ambient light. - Add microfacet multibounce approximation for specular highlights from Filament. - Occlusion is no longer incorrectly applied to direct lighting. It now only applies to diffuse indirect light. Unsure if it's also supposed to apply to specular indirect light - the glTF specification just says "indirect light". In the case of ambient occlusion, for instance, that's usually only calculated as diffuse though. For now, I'm choosing to apply this just to indirect diffuse light, and not specular. - Modified the PBR example to use an environment map, and have labels. - Added `FallbackImageCubemap`. ## Implementation - IBL technique references can be found in environment_map.wgsl. - It's more accurate to use a LUT for the scale/bias. Filament has a good reference on generating this LUT. For now, I just used an analytic approximation. - For now, environment maps must first be prefiltered outside of bevy using a 3rd party tool. See the `EnvironmentMap` documentation. - Eventually, we should have our own prefiltering code, so that we can have dynamically changing environment maps, as well as let users drop in an HDR image and use asset preprocessing to create the needed textures using only bevy. --- ## Changelog - Added an `EnvironmentMapLight` camera component that adds additional ambient light to a scene. - StandardMaterials will now appear brighter and more saturated at high roughness, due to internal material changes. This is more physically correct. - Fixed StandardMaterial occlusion being incorrectly applied to direct lighting. - Added `FallbackImageCubemap`. Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: James Liu <contact@jamessliu.com> Co-authored-by: Rob Parrett <robparrett@gmail.com>
2023-02-09 16:46:32 +00:00
let rangefinder = view.rangefinder3d();
for visible_entity in &visible_entities.entities {
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-27 08:28:28 +00:00
let Some(material_asset_id) = render_material_instances.get(visible_entity) else {
continue;
};
let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get_mut(visible_entity) else {
continue;
};
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-27 08:28:28 +00:00
let Some(mesh) = render_meshes.get(mesh_instance.mesh_asset_id) else {
continue;
};
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-27 08:28:28 +00:00
let Some(material) = render_materials.get(material_asset_id) else {
continue;
};
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
let forward = match material.properties.render_method {
OpaqueRendererMethod::Forward => true,
OpaqueRendererMethod::Deferred => false,
OpaqueRendererMethod::Auto => unreachable!(),
};
let mut mesh_key = view_key;
mesh_key |= MeshPipelineKey::from_primitive_topology(mesh.primitive_topology);
if mesh.morph_targets.is_some() {
mesh_key |= MeshPipelineKey::MORPH_TARGETS;
}
if material.properties.reads_view_transmission_texture {
mesh_key |= MeshPipelineKey::READS_VIEW_TRANSMISSION_TEXTURE;
}
mesh_key |= alpha_mode_pipeline_key(material.properties.alpha_mode);
if render_lightmaps
.render_lightmaps
.contains_key(visible_entity)
{
mesh_key |= MeshPipelineKey::LIGHTMAPPED;
}
let pipeline_id = pipelines.specialize(
&pipeline_cache,
&material_pipeline,
MaterialPipelineKey {
mesh_key,
bind_group_data: material.key.clone(),
},
&mesh.layout,
);
let pipeline_id = match pipeline_id {
Ok(id) => id,
Err(err) => {
error!("{}", err);
continue;
}
};
Use EntityHashMap<Entity, T> for render world entity storage for better performance (#9903) # Objective - Improve rendering performance, particularly by avoiding the large system commands costs of using the ECS in the way that the render world does. ## Solution - Define `EntityHasher` that calculates a hash from the `Entity.to_bits()` by `i | (i.wrapping_mul(0x517cc1b727220a95) << 32)`. `0x517cc1b727220a95` is something like `u64::MAX / N` for N that gives a value close to π and that works well for hashing. Thanks for @SkiFire13 for the suggestion and to @nicopap for alternative suggestions and discussion. This approach comes from `rustc-hash` (a.k.a. `FxHasher`) with some tweaks for the case of hashing an `Entity`. `FxHasher` and `SeaHasher` were also tested but were significantly slower. - Define `EntityHashMap` type that uses the `EntityHashser` - Use `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for render world entity storage, including: - `RenderMaterialInstances` - contains the `AssetId<M>` of the material associated with the entity. Also for 2D. - `RenderMeshInstances` - contains mesh transforms, flags and properties about mesh entities. Also for 2D. - `SkinIndices` and `MorphIndices` - contains the skin and morph index for an entity, respectively - `ExtractedSprites` - `ExtractedUiNodes` ## Benchmarks All benchmarks have been conducted on an M1 Max connected to AC power. The tests are run for 1500 frames. The 1000th frame is captured for comparison to check for visual regressions. There were none. ### 2D Meshes `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the 2D meshes with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 50 45" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/e140bc98-7091-4a3b-8ae1-ab75d16d2ccb"> -39.1% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the 2D meshes with random z. This not only makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses, it also currently means that the meshes are almost certain to not be batchable. <img width="1108" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 28" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/29c2e813-645a-43ce-982a-55df4bf7d8c4"> -7.2% median frame time. ### 3D Meshes `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1112" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 51 57" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/1a729673-3254-4e2a-9072-55e27c69f0fc"> -7.7% median frame time. ### Sprites **NOTE: On `main` sprites are using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` #### `--ordered-z` This test spawns the sprites with z incrementing back to front, which is the ideal arrangement allocation order as it matches the sorted render order which means lookups have a high cache hit rate. <img width="1116" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 52 31" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bc8eab90-e375-4d31-b5cd-f55f6f59ab67"> +13.0% median frame time. #### Random This test spawns the sprites with random z. This makes the batching and transparent 2D pass lookups get a lot of cache misses. <img width="1109" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 01" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/22073f5d-99a7-49b0-9584-d3ac3eac3033"> +0.6% median frame time. ### UI **NOTE: On `main` UI is using `SparseSet<Entity, T>`!** `many_buttons` <img width="1111" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-27 at 07 53 26" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/66afd56d-cbe4-49e7-8b64-2f28f6043d85"> +15.1% median frame time. ## Alternatives - Cart originally suggested trying out `SparseSet<Entity, T>` and indeed that is slightly faster under ideal conditions. However, `PassHashMap<Entity, T>` has better worst case performance when data is randomly distributed, rather than in sorted render order, and does not have the worst case memory usage that `SparseSet`'s dense `Vec<usize>` that maps from the `Entity` index to sparse index into `Vec<T>`. This dense `Vec` has to be as large as the largest Entity index used with the `SparseSet`. - I also tested `PassHashMap<u32, T>`, intending to use `Entity.index()` as the key, but this proved to sometimes be slower and mostly no different. - The only outstanding approach that has not been implemented and tested is to _not_ clear the render world of its entities each frame. That has its own problems, though they could perhaps be solved. - Performance-wise, if the entities and their component data were not cleared, then they would incur table moves on spawn, and should not thereafter, rather just their component data would be overwritten. Ideally we would have a neat way of either updating data in-place via `&mut T` queries, or inserting components if not present. This would likely be quite cumbersome to have to remember to do everywhere, but perhaps it only needs to be done in the more performance-sensitive systems. - The main problem to solve however is that we want to both maintain a mapping between main world entities and render world entities, be able to run the render app and world in parallel with the main app and world for pipelined rendering, and at the same time be able to spawn entities in the render world in such a way that those Entity ids do not collide with those spawned in the main world. This is potentially quite solvable, but could well be a lot of ECS work to do it in a way that makes sense. --- ## Changelog - Changed: Component data for entities to be drawn are no longer stored on entities in the render world. Instead, data is stored in a `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` in various resources. This brings significant performance benefits due to the way the render app clears entities every frame. Resources of most interest are `RenderMeshInstances` and `RenderMaterialInstances`, and their 2D counterparts. ## Migration Guide Previously the render app extracted mesh entities and their component data from the main world and stored them as entities and components in the render world. Now they are extracted into essentially `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` where `T` are structs containing an appropriate group of data. This means that while extract set systems will continue to run extract queries against the main world they will store their data in hash maps. Also, systems in later sets will either need to look up entities in the available resources such as `RenderMeshInstances`, or maintain their own `EntityHashMap<Entity, T>` for their own data. Before: ```rust fn queue_custom( material_meshes: Query<(Entity, &MeshTransforms, &Handle<Mesh>), With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for (entity, mesh_transforms, mesh_handle) in &material_meshes { ... } } ``` After: ```rust fn queue_custom( render_mesh_instances: Res<RenderMeshInstances>, instance_entities: Query<Entity, With<InstanceMaterialData>>, ) { ... for entity in &instance_entities { let Some(mesh_instance) = render_mesh_instances.get(&entity) else { continue; }; // The mesh handle in `AssetId<Mesh>` form, and the `MeshTransforms` can now // be found in `mesh_instance` which is a `RenderMeshInstance` ... } } ``` --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-09-27 08:28:28 +00:00
mesh_instance.material_bind_group_id = material.get_bind_group_id();
Automatic batching/instancing of draw commands (#9685) # Objective - Implement the foundations of automatic batching/instancing of draw commands as the next step from #89 - NOTE: More performance improvements will come when more data is managed and bound in ways that do not require rebinding such as mesh, material, and texture data. ## Solution - The core idea for batching of draw commands is to check whether any of the information that has to be passed when encoding a draw command changes between two things that are being drawn according to the sorted render phase order. These should be things like the pipeline, bind groups and their dynamic offsets, index/vertex buffers, and so on. - The following assumptions have been made: - Only entities with prepared assets (pipelines, materials, meshes) are queued to phases - View bindings are constant across a phase for a given draw function as phases are per-view - `batch_and_prepare_render_phase` is the only system that performs this batching and has sole responsibility for preparing the per-object data. As such the mesh binding and dynamic offsets are assumed to only vary as a result of the `batch_and_prepare_render_phase` system, e.g. due to having to split data across separate uniform bindings within the same buffer due to the maximum uniform buffer binding size. - Implement `GpuArrayBuffer` for `Mesh2dUniform` to store Mesh2dUniform in arrays in GPU buffers rather than each one being at a dynamic offset in a uniform buffer. This is the same optimisation that was made for 3D not long ago. - Change batch size for a range in `PhaseItem`, adding API for getting or mutating the range. This is more flexible than a size as the length of the range can be used in place of the size, but the start and end can be otherwise whatever is needed. - Add an optional mesh bind group dynamic offset to `PhaseItem`. This avoids having to do a massive table move just to insert `GpuArrayBufferIndex` components. ## Benchmarks All tests have been run on an M1 Max on AC power. `bevymark` and `many_cubes` were modified to use 1920x1080 with a scale factor of 1. I run a script that runs a separate Tracy capture process, and then runs the bevy example with `--features bevy_ci_testing,trace_tracy` and `CI_TESTING_CONFIG=../benchmark.ron` with the contents of `../benchmark.ron`: ```rust ( exit_after: Some(1500) ) ``` ...in order to run each test for 1500 frames. The recent changes to `many_cubes` and `bevymark` added reproducible random number generation so that with the same settings, the same rng will occur. They also added benchmark modes that use a fixed delta time for animations. Combined this means that the same frames should be rendered both on main and on the branch. The graphs compare main (yellow) to this PR (red). ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1411" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 42 10" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2088716a-c918-486c-8129-090b26fd2bc4"> The mesh and material are the same for all instances. This is basically the best case for the initial batching implementation as it results in 1 draw for the ~11.7k visible meshes. It gives a ~30% reduction in median frame time. The 1000th frame is identical using the flip tool: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d many_cubes-batching-mesh3d 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2511f37a-6df8-481a-932f-706ca4de7643) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4615 seconds ``` ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1404" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 45 18" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/5ee9c447-5bd2-45c6-9706-ac5ff8916daf"> This run uses 10 different materials by varying their textures. The materials are randomly selected, and there is no sorting by material bind group for opaque 3D so any batching is 'random'. The PR produces a ~5% reduction in median frame time. If we were to sort the opaque phase by the material bind group, then this should be a lot faster. This produces about 10.5k draws for the 11.7k visible entities. This makes sense as randomly selecting from 10 materials gives a chance that two adjacent entities randomly select the same material and can be batched. The 1000th frame is identical in flip: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d-mtc10 many_cubes-batching-mesh3d-mtc10 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2b3a8614-9466-4ed8-b50c-d4aa71615dbb) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4537 seconds ``` ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark --vary-per-instance` <img width="1394" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 48 44" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/f02a816b-a444-4c18-a96a-63b5436f3b7f"> This run varies the material data per instance by randomly-generating its colour. This is the worst case for batching and that it performs about the same as `main` is a good thing as it demonstrates that the batching has minimal overhead when dealing with ~11k visible mesh entities. The 1000th frame is identical according to flip: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d-vpi many_cubes-batching-mesh3d-vpi 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/ac5f5c14-9bda-4d1a-8219-7577d4aac68c) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4568 seconds ``` ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` <img width="1412" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 59 56" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/cb02ae07-237b-4646-ae9f-fda4dafcbad4"> This spawns 160 waves of 1000 quad meshes that are shaded with ColorMaterial. Each wave has a different material so 160 waves currently should result in 160 batches. This results in a 50% reduction in median frame time. Capturing a screenshot of the 1000th frame main vs PR gives: ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d bevymark-batching-mesh2d 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/80102728-1217-4059-87af-14d05044df40) ``` Mean: 0.001222 Weighted median: 0.750432 1st weighted quartile: 0.453494 3rd weighted quartile: 0.969758 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.990296 Evaluation time: 0.4255 seconds ``` So they seem to produce the same results. I also double-checked the number of draws. `main` does 160000 draws, and the PR does 160, as expected. ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1392" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 00 09 22" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/4358da2e-ce32-4134-82df-3ab74c40849c"> This generates 10 textures and generates materials for each of those and then selects one material per wave. The median frame time is reduced by 50%. Similar to the plain run above, this produces 160 draws on the PR and 160000 on `main` and the 1000th frame is identical (ignoring the fps counter text overlay). ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d-mtc10 bevymark-batching-mesh2d-mtc10 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/ebed2822-dce7-426a-858b-b77dc45b986f) ``` Mean: 0.002877 Weighted median: 0.964980 1st weighted quartile: 0.668871 3rd weighted quartile: 0.982749 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.992377 Evaluation time: 0.4301 seconds ``` ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d --vary-per-instance` <img width="1396" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 00 13 53" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/b2198b18-3439-47ad-919a-cdabe190facb"> This creates unique materials per instance by randomly-generating the material's colour. This is the worst case for 2D batching. Somehow, this PR manages a 7% reduction in median frame time. Both main and this PR issue 160000 draws. The 1000th frame is the same: ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d-vpi bevymark-batching-mesh2d-vpi 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/a2ec471c-f576-4a36-a23b-b24b22578b97) ``` Mean: 0.001214 Weighted median: 0.937499 1st weighted quartile: 0.635467 3rd weighted quartile: 0.979085 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.988971 Evaluation time: 0.4462 seconds ``` ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` <img width="1396" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 21 12" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/8b31e915-d6be-4cac-abf5-c6a4da9c3d43"> This just spawns 160 waves of 1000 sprites. There should be and is no notable difference between main and the PR. ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1389" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 36 08" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/45fe8d6d-c901-4062-a349-3693dd044413"> This spawns the sprites selecting a texture at random per instance from the 10 generated textures. This has no significant change vs main and shouldn't. ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite --vary-per-instance` <img width="1401" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 29 52" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/762c5c60-352e-471f-8dbe-bbf10e24ebd6"> This sets the sprite colour as being unique per instance. This can still all be drawn using one batch. There should be no difference but the PR produces median frame times that are 4% higher. Investigation showed no clear sources of cost, rather a mix of give and take that should not happen. It seems like noise in the results. ### Summary | Benchmark | % change in median frame time | | ------------- | ------------- | | many_cubes | 🟩 -30% | | many_cubes 10 materials | 🟩 -5% | | many_cubes unique materials | 🟩 ~0% | | bevymark mesh2d | 🟩 -50% | | bevymark mesh2d 10 materials | 🟩 -50% | | bevymark mesh2d unique materials | 🟩 -7% | | bevymark sprite | 🟥 2% | | bevymark sprite 10 materials | 🟥 0.6% | | bevymark sprite unique materials | 🟥 4.1% | --- ## Changelog - Added: 2D and 3D mesh entities that share the same mesh and material (same textures, same data) are now batched into the same draw command for better performance. --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nico@nicopap.ch>
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match material.properties.alpha_mode {
AlphaMode::Opaque => {
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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if material.properties.reads_view_transmission_texture {
let distance = rangefinder
.distance_translation(&mesh_instance.transforms.transform.translation)
+ material.properties.depth_bias;
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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transmissive_phase.add(Transmissive3d {
entity: *visible_entity,
draw_function: draw_transmissive_pbr,
pipeline: pipeline_id,
distance,
batch_range: 0..1,
dynamic_offset: None,
});
} else if forward {
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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opaque_phase.add(Opaque3d {
entity: *visible_entity,
draw_function: draw_opaque_pbr,
pipeline: pipeline_id,
asset_id: mesh_instance.mesh_asset_id,
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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batch_range: 0..1,
dynamic_offset: None,
});
}
}
AlphaMode::Mask(_) => {
let distance = rangefinder
.distance_translation(&mesh_instance.transforms.transform.translation)
+ material.properties.depth_bias;
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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if material.properties.reads_view_transmission_texture {
transmissive_phase.add(Transmissive3d {
entity: *visible_entity,
draw_function: draw_transmissive_pbr,
pipeline: pipeline_id,
distance,
batch_range: 0..1,
dynamic_offset: None,
});
} else if forward {
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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alpha_mask_phase.add(AlphaMask3d {
entity: *visible_entity,
draw_function: draw_alpha_mask_pbr,
pipeline: pipeline_id,
distance,
batch_range: 0..1,
dynamic_offset: None,
});
}
}
AlphaMode::Blend
| AlphaMode::Premultiplied
| AlphaMode::Add
| AlphaMode::Multiply => {
let distance = rangefinder
.distance_translation(&mesh_instance.transforms.transform.translation)
+ material.properties.depth_bias;
transparent_phase.add(Transparent3d {
entity: *visible_entity,
draw_function: draw_transparent_pbr,
pipeline: pipeline_id,
distance,
Automatic batching/instancing of draw commands (#9685) # Objective - Implement the foundations of automatic batching/instancing of draw commands as the next step from #89 - NOTE: More performance improvements will come when more data is managed and bound in ways that do not require rebinding such as mesh, material, and texture data. ## Solution - The core idea for batching of draw commands is to check whether any of the information that has to be passed when encoding a draw command changes between two things that are being drawn according to the sorted render phase order. These should be things like the pipeline, bind groups and their dynamic offsets, index/vertex buffers, and so on. - The following assumptions have been made: - Only entities with prepared assets (pipelines, materials, meshes) are queued to phases - View bindings are constant across a phase for a given draw function as phases are per-view - `batch_and_prepare_render_phase` is the only system that performs this batching and has sole responsibility for preparing the per-object data. As such the mesh binding and dynamic offsets are assumed to only vary as a result of the `batch_and_prepare_render_phase` system, e.g. due to having to split data across separate uniform bindings within the same buffer due to the maximum uniform buffer binding size. - Implement `GpuArrayBuffer` for `Mesh2dUniform` to store Mesh2dUniform in arrays in GPU buffers rather than each one being at a dynamic offset in a uniform buffer. This is the same optimisation that was made for 3D not long ago. - Change batch size for a range in `PhaseItem`, adding API for getting or mutating the range. This is more flexible than a size as the length of the range can be used in place of the size, but the start and end can be otherwise whatever is needed. - Add an optional mesh bind group dynamic offset to `PhaseItem`. This avoids having to do a massive table move just to insert `GpuArrayBufferIndex` components. ## Benchmarks All tests have been run on an M1 Max on AC power. `bevymark` and `many_cubes` were modified to use 1920x1080 with a scale factor of 1. I run a script that runs a separate Tracy capture process, and then runs the bevy example with `--features bevy_ci_testing,trace_tracy` and `CI_TESTING_CONFIG=../benchmark.ron` with the contents of `../benchmark.ron`: ```rust ( exit_after: Some(1500) ) ``` ...in order to run each test for 1500 frames. The recent changes to `many_cubes` and `bevymark` added reproducible random number generation so that with the same settings, the same rng will occur. They also added benchmark modes that use a fixed delta time for animations. Combined this means that the same frames should be rendered both on main and on the branch. The graphs compare main (yellow) to this PR (red). ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1411" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 42 10" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2088716a-c918-486c-8129-090b26fd2bc4"> The mesh and material are the same for all instances. This is basically the best case for the initial batching implementation as it results in 1 draw for the ~11.7k visible meshes. It gives a ~30% reduction in median frame time. The 1000th frame is identical using the flip tool: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d many_cubes-batching-mesh3d 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2511f37a-6df8-481a-932f-706ca4de7643) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4615 seconds ``` ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1404" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 45 18" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/5ee9c447-5bd2-45c6-9706-ac5ff8916daf"> This run uses 10 different materials by varying their textures. The materials are randomly selected, and there is no sorting by material bind group for opaque 3D so any batching is 'random'. The PR produces a ~5% reduction in median frame time. If we were to sort the opaque phase by the material bind group, then this should be a lot faster. This produces about 10.5k draws for the 11.7k visible entities. This makes sense as randomly selecting from 10 materials gives a chance that two adjacent entities randomly select the same material and can be batched. The 1000th frame is identical in flip: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d-mtc10 many_cubes-batching-mesh3d-mtc10 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2b3a8614-9466-4ed8-b50c-d4aa71615dbb) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4537 seconds ``` ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark --vary-per-instance` <img width="1394" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 48 44" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/f02a816b-a444-4c18-a96a-63b5436f3b7f"> This run varies the material data per instance by randomly-generating its colour. This is the worst case for batching and that it performs about the same as `main` is a good thing as it demonstrates that the batching has minimal overhead when dealing with ~11k visible mesh entities. The 1000th frame is identical according to flip: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d-vpi many_cubes-batching-mesh3d-vpi 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/ac5f5c14-9bda-4d1a-8219-7577d4aac68c) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4568 seconds ``` ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` <img width="1412" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 59 56" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/cb02ae07-237b-4646-ae9f-fda4dafcbad4"> This spawns 160 waves of 1000 quad meshes that are shaded with ColorMaterial. Each wave has a different material so 160 waves currently should result in 160 batches. This results in a 50% reduction in median frame time. Capturing a screenshot of the 1000th frame main vs PR gives: ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d bevymark-batching-mesh2d 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/80102728-1217-4059-87af-14d05044df40) ``` Mean: 0.001222 Weighted median: 0.750432 1st weighted quartile: 0.453494 3rd weighted quartile: 0.969758 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.990296 Evaluation time: 0.4255 seconds ``` So they seem to produce the same results. I also double-checked the number of draws. `main` does 160000 draws, and the PR does 160, as expected. ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1392" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 00 09 22" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/4358da2e-ce32-4134-82df-3ab74c40849c"> This generates 10 textures and generates materials for each of those and then selects one material per wave. The median frame time is reduced by 50%. Similar to the plain run above, this produces 160 draws on the PR and 160000 on `main` and the 1000th frame is identical (ignoring the fps counter text overlay). ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d-mtc10 bevymark-batching-mesh2d-mtc10 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/ebed2822-dce7-426a-858b-b77dc45b986f) ``` Mean: 0.002877 Weighted median: 0.964980 1st weighted quartile: 0.668871 3rd weighted quartile: 0.982749 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.992377 Evaluation time: 0.4301 seconds ``` ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d --vary-per-instance` <img width="1396" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 00 13 53" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/b2198b18-3439-47ad-919a-cdabe190facb"> This creates unique materials per instance by randomly-generating the material's colour. This is the worst case for 2D batching. Somehow, this PR manages a 7% reduction in median frame time. Both main and this PR issue 160000 draws. The 1000th frame is the same: ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d-vpi bevymark-batching-mesh2d-vpi 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/a2ec471c-f576-4a36-a23b-b24b22578b97) ``` Mean: 0.001214 Weighted median: 0.937499 1st weighted quartile: 0.635467 3rd weighted quartile: 0.979085 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.988971 Evaluation time: 0.4462 seconds ``` ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` <img width="1396" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 21 12" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/8b31e915-d6be-4cac-abf5-c6a4da9c3d43"> This just spawns 160 waves of 1000 sprites. There should be and is no notable difference between main and the PR. ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1389" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 36 08" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/45fe8d6d-c901-4062-a349-3693dd044413"> This spawns the sprites selecting a texture at random per instance from the 10 generated textures. This has no significant change vs main and shouldn't. ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite --vary-per-instance` <img width="1401" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 29 52" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/762c5c60-352e-471f-8dbe-bbf10e24ebd6"> This sets the sprite colour as being unique per instance. This can still all be drawn using one batch. There should be no difference but the PR produces median frame times that are 4% higher. Investigation showed no clear sources of cost, rather a mix of give and take that should not happen. It seems like noise in the results. ### Summary | Benchmark | % change in median frame time | | ------------- | ------------- | | many_cubes | 🟩 -30% | | many_cubes 10 materials | 🟩 -5% | | many_cubes unique materials | 🟩 ~0% | | bevymark mesh2d | 🟩 -50% | | bevymark mesh2d 10 materials | 🟩 -50% | | bevymark mesh2d unique materials | 🟩 -7% | | bevymark sprite | 🟥 2% | | bevymark sprite 10 materials | 🟥 0.6% | | bevymark sprite unique materials | 🟥 4.1% | --- ## Changelog - Added: 2D and 3D mesh entities that share the same mesh and material (same textures, same data) are now batched into the same draw command for better performance. --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nico@nicopap.ch>
2023-09-21 22:12:34 +00:00
batch_range: 0..1,
dynamic_offset: None,
});
}
}
}
}
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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/// Default render method used for opaque materials.
#[derive(Default, Resource, Clone, Debug, ExtractResource, Reflect)]
pub struct DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod(OpaqueRendererMethod);
impl DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod {
pub fn forward() -> Self {
DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod(OpaqueRendererMethod::Forward)
}
pub fn deferred() -> Self {
DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod(OpaqueRendererMethod::Deferred)
}
pub fn set_to_forward(&mut self) {
self.0 = OpaqueRendererMethod::Forward;
}
pub fn set_to_deferred(&mut self) {
self.0 = OpaqueRendererMethod::Deferred;
}
}
/// Render method used for opaque materials.
///
/// The forward rendering main pass draws each mesh entity and shades it according to its
/// corresponding material and the lights that affect it. Some render features like Screen Space
/// Ambient Occlusion require running depth and normal prepasses, that are 'deferred'-like
/// prepasses over all mesh entities to populate depth and normal textures. This means that when
/// using render features that require running prepasses, multiple passes over all visible geometry
/// are required. This can be slow if there is a lot of geometry that cannot be batched into few
/// draws.
///
/// Deferred rendering runs a prepass to gather not only geometric information like depth and
/// normals, but also all the material properties like base color, emissive color, reflectance,
/// metalness, etc, and writes them into a deferred 'g-buffer' texture. The deferred main pass is
/// then a fullscreen pass that reads data from these textures and executes shading. This allows
/// for one pass over geometry, but is at the cost of not being able to use MSAA, and has heavier
/// bandwidth usage which can be unsuitable for low end mobile or other bandwidth-constrained devices.
///
/// If a material indicates `OpaqueRendererMethod::Auto`, `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used.
#[derive(Default, Clone, Copy, Debug, Reflect)]
pub enum OpaqueRendererMethod {
#[default]
Forward,
Deferred,
Auto,
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// Common [`Material`] properties, calculated for a specific material instance.
pub struct MaterialProperties {
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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/// Is this material should be rendered by the deferred renderer when.
/// AlphaMode::Opaque or AlphaMode::Mask
pub render_method: OpaqueRendererMethod,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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/// The [`AlphaMode`] of this material.
pub alpha_mode: AlphaMode,
/// Add a bias to the view depth of the mesh which can be used to force a specific render order
/// for meshes with equal depth, to avoid z-fighting.
/// The bias is in depth-texture units so large values may be needed to overcome small depth differences.
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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pub depth_bias: f32,
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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/// Whether the material would like to read from [`ViewTransmissionTexture`](bevy_core_pipeline::core_3d::ViewTransmissionTexture).
///
/// This allows taking color output from the [`Opaque3d`] pass as an input, (for screen-space transmission) but requires
/// rendering to take place in a separate [`Transmissive3d`] pass.
pub reads_view_transmission_texture: bool,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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}
/// Data prepared for a [`Material`] instance.
pub struct PreparedMaterial<T: Material> {
pub bindings: Vec<(u32, OwnedBindingResource)>,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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pub bind_group: BindGroup,
pub key: T::Data,
pub properties: MaterialProperties,
}
Automatic batching/instancing of draw commands (#9685) # Objective - Implement the foundations of automatic batching/instancing of draw commands as the next step from #89 - NOTE: More performance improvements will come when more data is managed and bound in ways that do not require rebinding such as mesh, material, and texture data. ## Solution - The core idea for batching of draw commands is to check whether any of the information that has to be passed when encoding a draw command changes between two things that are being drawn according to the sorted render phase order. These should be things like the pipeline, bind groups and their dynamic offsets, index/vertex buffers, and so on. - The following assumptions have been made: - Only entities with prepared assets (pipelines, materials, meshes) are queued to phases - View bindings are constant across a phase for a given draw function as phases are per-view - `batch_and_prepare_render_phase` is the only system that performs this batching and has sole responsibility for preparing the per-object data. As such the mesh binding and dynamic offsets are assumed to only vary as a result of the `batch_and_prepare_render_phase` system, e.g. due to having to split data across separate uniform bindings within the same buffer due to the maximum uniform buffer binding size. - Implement `GpuArrayBuffer` for `Mesh2dUniform` to store Mesh2dUniform in arrays in GPU buffers rather than each one being at a dynamic offset in a uniform buffer. This is the same optimisation that was made for 3D not long ago. - Change batch size for a range in `PhaseItem`, adding API for getting or mutating the range. This is more flexible than a size as the length of the range can be used in place of the size, but the start and end can be otherwise whatever is needed. - Add an optional mesh bind group dynamic offset to `PhaseItem`. This avoids having to do a massive table move just to insert `GpuArrayBufferIndex` components. ## Benchmarks All tests have been run on an M1 Max on AC power. `bevymark` and `many_cubes` were modified to use 1920x1080 with a scale factor of 1. I run a script that runs a separate Tracy capture process, and then runs the bevy example with `--features bevy_ci_testing,trace_tracy` and `CI_TESTING_CONFIG=../benchmark.ron` with the contents of `../benchmark.ron`: ```rust ( exit_after: Some(1500) ) ``` ...in order to run each test for 1500 frames. The recent changes to `many_cubes` and `bevymark` added reproducible random number generation so that with the same settings, the same rng will occur. They also added benchmark modes that use a fixed delta time for animations. Combined this means that the same frames should be rendered both on main and on the branch. The graphs compare main (yellow) to this PR (red). ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark` <img width="1411" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 42 10" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2088716a-c918-486c-8129-090b26fd2bc4"> The mesh and material are the same for all instances. This is basically the best case for the initial batching implementation as it results in 1 draw for the ~11.7k visible meshes. It gives a ~30% reduction in median frame time. The 1000th frame is identical using the flip tool: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d many_cubes-batching-mesh3d 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2511f37a-6df8-481a-932f-706ca4de7643) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4615 seconds ``` ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1404" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 45 18" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/5ee9c447-5bd2-45c6-9706-ac5ff8916daf"> This run uses 10 different materials by varying their textures. The materials are randomly selected, and there is no sorting by material bind group for opaque 3D so any batching is 'random'. The PR produces a ~5% reduction in median frame time. If we were to sort the opaque phase by the material bind group, then this should be a lot faster. This produces about 10.5k draws for the 11.7k visible entities. This makes sense as randomly selecting from 10 materials gives a chance that two adjacent entities randomly select the same material and can be batched. The 1000th frame is identical in flip: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d-mtc10 many_cubes-batching-mesh3d-mtc10 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/2b3a8614-9466-4ed8-b50c-d4aa71615dbb) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4537 seconds ``` ### 3D Mesh `many_cubes --benchmark --vary-per-instance` <img width="1394" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 48 44" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/f02a816b-a444-4c18-a96a-63b5436f3b7f"> This run varies the material data per instance by randomly-generating its colour. This is the worst case for batching and that it performs about the same as `main` is a good thing as it demonstrates that the batching has minimal overhead when dealing with ~11k visible mesh entities. The 1000th frame is identical according to flip: ![flip many_cubes-main-mesh3d-vpi many_cubes-batching-mesh3d-vpi 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/ac5f5c14-9bda-4d1a-8219-7577d4aac68c) ``` Mean: 0.000000 Weighted median: 0.000000 1st weighted quartile: 0.000000 3rd weighted quartile: 0.000000 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.000000 Evaluation time: 0.4568 seconds ``` ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d` <img width="1412" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-03 at 23 59 56" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/cb02ae07-237b-4646-ae9f-fda4dafcbad4"> This spawns 160 waves of 1000 quad meshes that are shaded with ColorMaterial. Each wave has a different material so 160 waves currently should result in 160 batches. This results in a 50% reduction in median frame time. Capturing a screenshot of the 1000th frame main vs PR gives: ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d bevymark-batching-mesh2d 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/80102728-1217-4059-87af-14d05044df40) ``` Mean: 0.001222 Weighted median: 0.750432 1st weighted quartile: 0.453494 3rd weighted quartile: 0.969758 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.990296 Evaluation time: 0.4255 seconds ``` So they seem to produce the same results. I also double-checked the number of draws. `main` does 160000 draws, and the PR does 160, as expected. ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1392" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 00 09 22" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/4358da2e-ce32-4134-82df-3ab74c40849c"> This generates 10 textures and generates materials for each of those and then selects one material per wave. The median frame time is reduced by 50%. Similar to the plain run above, this produces 160 draws on the PR and 160000 on `main` and the 1000th frame is identical (ignoring the fps counter text overlay). ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d-mtc10 bevymark-batching-mesh2d-mtc10 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/ebed2822-dce7-426a-858b-b77dc45b986f) ``` Mean: 0.002877 Weighted median: 0.964980 1st weighted quartile: 0.668871 3rd weighted quartile: 0.982749 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.992377 Evaluation time: 0.4301 seconds ``` ### 2D Mesh `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode mesh2d --vary-per-instance` <img width="1396" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 00 13 53" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/b2198b18-3439-47ad-919a-cdabe190facb"> This creates unique materials per instance by randomly-generating the material's colour. This is the worst case for 2D batching. Somehow, this PR manages a 7% reduction in median frame time. Both main and this PR issue 160000 draws. The 1000th frame is the same: ![flip bevymark-main-mesh2d-vpi bevymark-batching-mesh2d-vpi 67ppd ldr](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/a2ec471c-f576-4a36-a23b-b24b22578b97) ``` Mean: 0.001214 Weighted median: 0.937499 1st weighted quartile: 0.635467 3rd weighted quartile: 0.979085 Min: 0.000000 Max: 0.988971 Evaluation time: 0.4462 seconds ``` ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite` <img width="1396" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 21 12" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/8b31e915-d6be-4cac-abf5-c6a4da9c3d43"> This just spawns 160 waves of 1000 sprites. There should be and is no notable difference between main and the PR. ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite --material-texture-count 10` <img width="1389" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 36 08" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/45fe8d6d-c901-4062-a349-3693dd044413"> This spawns the sprites selecting a texture at random per instance from the 10 generated textures. This has no significant change vs main and shouldn't. ### 2D Sprite `bevymark --benchmark --waves 160 --per-wave 1000 --mode sprite --vary-per-instance` <img width="1401" alt="Screenshot 2023-09-04 at 12 29 52" src="https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/762c5c60-352e-471f-8dbe-bbf10e24ebd6"> This sets the sprite colour as being unique per instance. This can still all be drawn using one batch. There should be no difference but the PR produces median frame times that are 4% higher. Investigation showed no clear sources of cost, rather a mix of give and take that should not happen. It seems like noise in the results. ### Summary | Benchmark | % change in median frame time | | ------------- | ------------- | | many_cubes | 🟩 -30% | | many_cubes 10 materials | 🟩 -5% | | many_cubes unique materials | 🟩 ~0% | | bevymark mesh2d | 🟩 -50% | | bevymark mesh2d 10 materials | 🟩 -50% | | bevymark mesh2d unique materials | 🟩 -7% | | bevymark sprite | 🟥 2% | | bevymark sprite 10 materials | 🟥 0.6% | | bevymark sprite unique materials | 🟥 4.1% | --- ## Changelog - Added: 2D and 3D mesh entities that share the same mesh and material (same textures, same data) are now batched into the same draw command for better performance. --------- Co-authored-by: robtfm <50659922+robtfm@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Nicola Papale <nico@nicopap.ch>
2023-09-21 22:12:34 +00:00
#[derive(Component, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq, Deref, DerefMut)]
pub struct MaterialBindGroupId(Option<BindGroupId>);
impl<T: Material> PreparedMaterial<T> {
pub fn get_bind_group_id(&self) -> MaterialBindGroupId {
MaterialBindGroupId(Some(self.bind_group.id()))
}
}
Make `Resource` trait opt-in, requiring `#[derive(Resource)]` V2 (#5577) *This PR description is an edited copy of #5007, written by @alice-i-cecile.* # Objective Follow-up to https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2254. The `Resource` trait currently has a blanket implementation for all types that meet its bounds. While ergonomic, this results in several drawbacks: * it is possible to make confusing, silent mistakes such as inserting a function pointer (Foo) rather than a value (Foo::Bar) as a resource * it is challenging to discover if a type is intended to be used as a resource * we cannot later add customization options (see the [RFC](https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/27-derive-component.md) for the equivalent choice for Component). * dependencies can use the same Rust type as a resource in invisibly conflicting ways * raw Rust types used as resources cannot preserve privacy appropriately, as anyone able to access that type can read and write to internal values * we cannot capture a definitive list of possible resources to display to users in an editor ## Notes to reviewers * Review this commit-by-commit; there's effectively no back-tracking and there's a lot of churn in some of these commits. *ira: My commits are not as well organized :')* * I've relaxed the bound on Local to Send + Sync + 'static: I don't think these concerns apply there, so this can keep things simple. Storing e.g. a u32 in a Local is fine, because there's a variable name attached explaining what it does. * I think this is a bad place for the Resource trait to live, but I've left it in place to make reviewing easier. IMO that's best tackled with https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4981. ## Changelog `Resource` is no longer automatically implemented for all matching types. Instead, use the new `#[derive(Resource)]` macro. ## Migration Guide Add `#[derive(Resource)]` to all types you are using as a resource. If you are using a third party type as a resource, wrap it in a tuple struct to bypass orphan rules. Consider deriving `Deref` and `DerefMut` to improve ergonomics. `ClearColor` no longer implements `Component`. Using `ClearColor` as a component in 0.8 did nothing. Use the `ClearColorConfig` in the `Camera3d` and `Camera2d` components instead. Co-authored-by: Alice <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: devil-ira <justthecooldude@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-08-08 21:36:35 +00:00
#[derive(Resource)]
pub struct ExtractedMaterials<M: Material> {
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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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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}
impl<M: Material> Default for ExtractedMaterials<M> {
fn default() -> Self {
Self {
extracted: Default::default(),
removed: Default::default(),
}
}
}
/// Stores all prepared representations of [`Material`] assets for as long as they exist.
Make `Resource` trait opt-in, requiring `#[derive(Resource)]` V2 (#5577) *This PR description is an edited copy of #5007, written by @alice-i-cecile.* # Objective Follow-up to https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2254. The `Resource` trait currently has a blanket implementation for all types that meet its bounds. While ergonomic, this results in several drawbacks: * it is possible to make confusing, silent mistakes such as inserting a function pointer (Foo) rather than a value (Foo::Bar) as a resource * it is challenging to discover if a type is intended to be used as a resource * we cannot later add customization options (see the [RFC](https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/27-derive-component.md) for the equivalent choice for Component). * dependencies can use the same Rust type as a resource in invisibly conflicting ways * raw Rust types used as resources cannot preserve privacy appropriately, as anyone able to access that type can read and write to internal values * we cannot capture a definitive list of possible resources to display to users in an editor ## Notes to reviewers * Review this commit-by-commit; there's effectively no back-tracking and there's a lot of churn in some of these commits. *ira: My commits are not as well organized :')* * I've relaxed the bound on Local to Send + Sync + 'static: I don't think these concerns apply there, so this can keep things simple. Storing e.g. a u32 in a Local is fine, because there's a variable name attached explaining what it does. * I think this is a bad place for the Resource trait to live, but I've left it in place to make reviewing easier. IMO that's best tackled with https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4981. ## Changelog `Resource` is no longer automatically implemented for all matching types. Instead, use the new `#[derive(Resource)]` macro. ## Migration Guide Add `#[derive(Resource)]` to all types you are using as a resource. If you are using a third party type as a resource, wrap it in a tuple struct to bypass orphan rules. Consider deriving `Deref` and `DerefMut` to improve ergonomics. `ClearColor` no longer implements `Component`. Using `ClearColor` as a component in 0.8 did nothing. Use the `ClearColorConfig` in the `Camera3d` and `Camera2d` components instead. Co-authored-by: Alice <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: devil-ira <justthecooldude@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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#[derive(Resource, Deref, DerefMut)]
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
pub struct RenderMaterials<T: Material>(pub HashMap<AssetId<T>, PreparedMaterial<T>>);
Make `Resource` trait opt-in, requiring `#[derive(Resource)]` V2 (#5577) *This PR description is an edited copy of #5007, written by @alice-i-cecile.* # Objective Follow-up to https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/2254. The `Resource` trait currently has a blanket implementation for all types that meet its bounds. While ergonomic, this results in several drawbacks: * it is possible to make confusing, silent mistakes such as inserting a function pointer (Foo) rather than a value (Foo::Bar) as a resource * it is challenging to discover if a type is intended to be used as a resource * we cannot later add customization options (see the [RFC](https://github.com/bevyengine/rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/27-derive-component.md) for the equivalent choice for Component). * dependencies can use the same Rust type as a resource in invisibly conflicting ways * raw Rust types used as resources cannot preserve privacy appropriately, as anyone able to access that type can read and write to internal values * we cannot capture a definitive list of possible resources to display to users in an editor ## Notes to reviewers * Review this commit-by-commit; there's effectively no back-tracking and there's a lot of churn in some of these commits. *ira: My commits are not as well organized :')* * I've relaxed the bound on Local to Send + Sync + 'static: I don't think these concerns apply there, so this can keep things simple. Storing e.g. a u32 in a Local is fine, because there's a variable name attached explaining what it does. * I think this is a bad place for the Resource trait to live, but I've left it in place to make reviewing easier. IMO that's best tackled with https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4981. ## Changelog `Resource` is no longer automatically implemented for all matching types. Instead, use the new `#[derive(Resource)]` macro. ## Migration Guide Add `#[derive(Resource)]` to all types you are using as a resource. If you are using a third party type as a resource, wrap it in a tuple struct to bypass orphan rules. Consider deriving `Deref` and `DerefMut` to improve ergonomics. `ClearColor` no longer implements `Component`. Using `ClearColor` as a component in 0.8 did nothing. Use the `ClearColorConfig` in the `Camera3d` and `Camera2d` components instead. Co-authored-by: Alice <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: devil-ira <justthecooldude@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2022-08-08 21:36:35 +00:00
impl<T: Material> Default for RenderMaterials<T> {
fn default() -> Self {
Self(Default::default())
}
}
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
/// This system extracts all created or modified assets of the corresponding [`Material`] type
/// into the "render world".
pub fn extract_materials<M: Material>(
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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mut commands: Commands,
Make `RenderStage::Extract` run on the render world (#4402) # Objective - Currently, the `Extract` `RenderStage` is executed on the main world, with the render world available as a resource. - However, when needing access to resources in the render world (e.g. to mutate them), the only way to do so was to get exclusive access to the whole `RenderWorld` resource. - This meant that effectively only one extract which wrote to resources could run at a time. - We didn't previously make `Extract`ing writing to the world a non-happy path, even though we want to discourage that. ## Solution - Move the extract stage to run on the render world. - Add the main world as a `MainWorld` resource. - Add an `Extract` `SystemParam` as a convenience to access a (read only) `SystemParam` in the main world during `Extract`. ## Future work It should be possible to avoid needing to use `get_or_spawn` for the render commands, since now the `Commands`' `Entities` matches up with the world being executed on. We need to determine how this interacts with https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/3519 It's theoretically possible to remove the need for the `value` method on `Extract`. However, that requires slightly changing the `SystemParam` interface, which would make it more complicated. That would probably mess up the `SystemState` api too. ## Todo I still need to add doc comments to `Extract`. --- ## Changelog ### Changed - The `Extract` `RenderStage` now runs on the render world (instead of the main world as before). You must use the `Extract` `SystemParam` to access the main world during the extract phase. Resources on the render world can now be accessed using `ResMut` during extract. ### Removed - `Commands::spawn_and_forget`. Use `Commands::get_or_spawn(e).insert_bundle(bundle)` instead ## Migration Guide The `Extract` `RenderStage` now runs on the render world (instead of the main world as before). You must use the `Extract` `SystemParam` to access the main world during the extract phase. `Extract` takes a single type parameter, which is any system parameter (such as `Res`, `Query` etc.). It will extract this from the main world, and returns the result of this extraction when `value` is called on it. For example, if previously your extract system looked like: ```rust fn extract_clouds(mut commands: Commands, clouds: Query<Entity, With<Cloud>>) { for cloud in clouds.iter() { commands.get_or_spawn(cloud).insert(Cloud); } } ``` the new version would be: ```rust fn extract_clouds(mut commands: Commands, mut clouds: Extract<Query<Entity, With<Cloud>>>) { for cloud in clouds.value().iter() { commands.get_or_spawn(cloud).insert(Cloud); } } ``` The diff is: ```diff --- a/src/clouds.rs +++ b/src/clouds.rs @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -fn extract_clouds(mut commands: Commands, clouds: Query<Entity, With<Cloud>>) { - for cloud in clouds.iter() { +fn extract_clouds(mut commands: Commands, mut clouds: Extract<Query<Entity, With<Cloud>>>) { + for cloud in clouds.value().iter() { commands.get_or_spawn(cloud).insert(Cloud); } } ``` You can now also access resources from the render world using the normal system parameters during `Extract`: ```rust fn extract_assets(mut render_assets: ResMut<MyAssets>, source_assets: Extract<Res<MyAssets>>) { *render_assets = source_assets.clone(); } ``` Please note that all existing extract systems need to be updated to match this new style; even if they currently compile they will not run as expected. A warning will be emitted on a best-effort basis if this is not met. Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
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mut events: Extract<EventReader<AssetEvent<M>>>,
assets: Extract<Res<Assets<M>>>,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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for event in events.read() {
Unload render assets from RAM (#10520) # Objective - No point in keeping Meshes/Images in RAM once they're going to be sent to the GPU, and kept in VRAM. This saves a _significant_ amount of memory (several GBs) on scenes like bistro. - References - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/1782 - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8624 ## Solution - Augment RenderAsset with the capability to unload the underlying asset after extracting to the render world. - Mesh/Image now have a cpu_persistent_access field. If this field is RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Unload, the asset will be unloaded from Assets<T>. - A new AssetEvent is sent upon dropping the last strong handle for the asset, which signals to the RenderAsset to remove the GPU version of the asset. --- ## Changelog - Added `AssetEvent::NoLongerUsed` and `AssetEvent::is_no_longer_used()`. This event is sent when the last strong handle of an asset is dropped. - Rewrote the API for `RenderAsset` to allow for unloading the asset data from the CPU. - Added `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy`. - Added `Mesh::cpu_persistent_access` for memory savings when the asset is not needed except for on the GPU. - Added `Image::cpu_persistent_access` for memory savings when the asset is not needed except for on the GPU. - Added `ImageLoaderSettings::cpu_persistent_access`. - Added `ExrTextureLoaderSettings`. - Added `HdrTextureLoaderSettings`. ## Migration Guide - Asset loaders (GLTF, etc) now load meshes and textures without `cpu_persistent_access`. These assets will be removed from `Assets<Mesh>` and `Assets<Image>` once `RenderAssets<Mesh>` and `RenderAssets<Image>` contain the GPU versions of these assets, in order to reduce memory usage. If you require access to the asset data from the CPU in future frames after the GLTF asset has been loaded, modify all dependent `Mesh` and `Image` assets and set `cpu_persistent_access` to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep`. - `Mesh` now requires a new `cpu_persistent_access` field. Set it to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep` to mimic the previous behavior. - `Image` now requires a new `cpu_persistent_access` field. Set it to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep` to mimic the previous behavior. - `MorphTargetImage::new()` now requires a new `cpu_persistent_access` parameter. Set it to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep` to mimic the previous behavior. - `DynamicTextureAtlasBuilder::add_texture()` now requires that the `TextureAtlas` you pass has an `Image` with `cpu_persistent_access: RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep`. Ensure you construct the image properly for the texture atlas. - The `RenderAsset` trait has significantly changed, and requires adapting your existing implementations. - The trait now requires `Clone`. - The `ExtractedAsset` associated type has been removed (the type itself is now extracted). - The signature of `prepare_asset()` is slightly different - A new `persistence_policy()` method is now required (return RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Unload to match the previous behavior). - Match on the new `NoLongerUsed` variant for exhaustive matches of `AssetEvent`.
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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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AssetEvent::Added { id } | AssetEvent::Modified { id } => {
changed_assets.insert(*id);
}
AssetEvent::Removed { id } => {
changed_assets.remove(id);
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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Unload render assets from RAM (#10520) # Objective - No point in keeping Meshes/Images in RAM once they're going to be sent to the GPU, and kept in VRAM. This saves a _significant_ amount of memory (several GBs) on scenes like bistro. - References - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/1782 - https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/8624 ## Solution - Augment RenderAsset with the capability to unload the underlying asset after extracting to the render world. - Mesh/Image now have a cpu_persistent_access field. If this field is RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Unload, the asset will be unloaded from Assets<T>. - A new AssetEvent is sent upon dropping the last strong handle for the asset, which signals to the RenderAsset to remove the GPU version of the asset. --- ## Changelog - Added `AssetEvent::NoLongerUsed` and `AssetEvent::is_no_longer_used()`. This event is sent when the last strong handle of an asset is dropped. - Rewrote the API for `RenderAsset` to allow for unloading the asset data from the CPU. - Added `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy`. - Added `Mesh::cpu_persistent_access` for memory savings when the asset is not needed except for on the GPU. - Added `Image::cpu_persistent_access` for memory savings when the asset is not needed except for on the GPU. - Added `ImageLoaderSettings::cpu_persistent_access`. - Added `ExrTextureLoaderSettings`. - Added `HdrTextureLoaderSettings`. ## Migration Guide - Asset loaders (GLTF, etc) now load meshes and textures without `cpu_persistent_access`. These assets will be removed from `Assets<Mesh>` and `Assets<Image>` once `RenderAssets<Mesh>` and `RenderAssets<Image>` contain the GPU versions of these assets, in order to reduce memory usage. If you require access to the asset data from the CPU in future frames after the GLTF asset has been loaded, modify all dependent `Mesh` and `Image` assets and set `cpu_persistent_access` to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep`. - `Mesh` now requires a new `cpu_persistent_access` field. Set it to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep` to mimic the previous behavior. - `Image` now requires a new `cpu_persistent_access` field. Set it to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep` to mimic the previous behavior. - `MorphTargetImage::new()` now requires a new `cpu_persistent_access` parameter. Set it to `RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep` to mimic the previous behavior. - `DynamicTextureAtlasBuilder::add_texture()` now requires that the `TextureAtlas` you pass has an `Image` with `cpu_persistent_access: RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Keep`. Ensure you construct the image properly for the texture atlas. - The `RenderAsset` trait has significantly changed, and requires adapting your existing implementations. - The trait now requires `Clone`. - The `ExtractedAsset` associated type has been removed (the type itself is now extracted). - The signature of `prepare_asset()` is slightly different - A new `persistence_policy()` method is now required (return RenderAssetPersistencePolicy::Unload to match the previous behavior). - Match on the new `NoLongerUsed` variant for exhaustive matches of `AssetEvent`.
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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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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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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for id in changed_assets.drain() {
if let Some(asset) = assets.get(id) {
extracted_assets.push((id, asset.clone()));
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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}
}
commands.insert_resource(ExtractedMaterials {
extracted: extracted_assets,
removed,
});
}
/// All [`Material`] values of a given type that should be prepared next frame.
pub struct PrepareNextFrameMaterials<M: Material> {
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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assets: Vec<(AssetId<M>, M)>,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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}
impl<M: Material> Default for PrepareNextFrameMaterials<M> {
fn default() -> Self {
Self {
assets: Default::default(),
}
}
}
/// This system prepares all assets of the corresponding [`Material`] type
/// which where extracted this frame for the GPU.
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
pub fn prepare_materials<M: Material>(
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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mut prepare_next_frame: Local<PrepareNextFrameMaterials<M>>,
mut extracted_assets: ResMut<ExtractedMaterials<M>>,
mut render_materials: ResMut<RenderMaterials<M>>,
render_device: Res<RenderDevice>,
images: Res<RenderAssets<Image>>,
fallback_image: Res<FallbackImage>,
pipeline: Res<MaterialPipeline<M>>,
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
default_opaque_render_method: Res<DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod>,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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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for (id, material) in queued_assets.into_iter() {
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
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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>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
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for removed in std::mem::take(&mut extracted_assets.removed) {
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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>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
for (id, material) in std::mem::take(&mut extracted_assets.extracted) {
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
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Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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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>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
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Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
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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>
2023-09-07 02:07:27 +00:00
prepare_next_frame.assets.push((id, material));
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
2022-06-30 23:48:46 +00:00
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fn prepare_material<M: Material>(
material: &M,
render_device: &RenderDevice,
images: &RenderAssets<Image>,
fallback_image: &FallbackImage,
pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<M>,
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
2023-10-12 22:10:38 +00:00
default_opaque_render_method: OpaqueRendererMethod,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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) -> Result<PreparedMaterial<M>, AsBindGroupError> {
let prepared = material.as_bind_group(
&pipeline.material_layout,
render_device,
images,
fallback_image,
)?;
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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let method = match material.opaque_render_method() {
OpaqueRendererMethod::Forward => OpaqueRendererMethod::Forward,
OpaqueRendererMethod::Deferred => OpaqueRendererMethod::Deferred,
OpaqueRendererMethod::Auto => default_opaque_render_method,
};
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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Ok(PreparedMaterial {
bindings: prepared.bindings,
bind_group: prepared.bind_group,
key: prepared.data,
properties: MaterialProperties {
alpha_mode: material.alpha_mode(),
depth_bias: material.depth_bias(),
`StandardMaterial` Light Transmission (#8015) # Objective <img width="1920" alt="Screenshot 2023-04-26 at 01 07 34" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/418473/234467578-0f34187b-5863-4ea1-88e9-7a6bb8ce8da3.png"> This PR adds both diffuse and specular light transmission capabilities to the `StandardMaterial`, with support for screen space refractions. This enables realistically representing a wide range of real-world materials, such as: - Glass; (Including frosted glass) - Transparent and translucent plastics; - Various liquids and gels; - Gemstones; - Marble; - Wax; - Paper; - Leaves; - Porcelain. Unlike existing support for transparency, light transmission does not rely on fixed function alpha blending, and therefore works with both `AlphaMode::Opaque` and `AlphaMode::Mask` materials. ## Solution - Introduces a number of transmission related fields in the `StandardMaterial`; - For specular transmission: - Adds logic to take a view main texture snapshot after the opaque phase; (in order to perform screen space refractions) - Introduces a new `Transmissive3d` phase to the renderer, to which all meshes with `transmission > 0.0` materials are sent. - Calculates a light exit point (of the approximate mesh volume) using `ior` and `thickness` properties - Samples the snapshot texture with an adaptive number of taps across a `roughness`-controlled radius enabling “blurry” refractions - For diffuse transmission: - Approximates transmitted diffuse light by using a second, flipped + displaced, diffuse-only Lambertian lobe for each light source. ## To Do - [x] Figure out where `fresnel_mix()` is taking place, if at all, and where `dielectric_specular` is being calculated, if at all, and update them to use the `ior` value (Not a blocker, just a nice-to-have for more correct BSDF) - To the _best of my knowledge, this is now taking place, after 964340cdd. The fresnel mix is actually "split" into two parts in our implementation, one `(1 - fresnel(...))` in the transmission, and `fresnel()` in the light implementations. A surface with more reflectance now will produce slightly dimmer transmission towards the grazing angle, as more of the light gets reflected. - [x] Add `transmission_texture` - [x] Add `diffuse_transmission_texture` - [x] Add `thickness_texture` - [x] Add `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` - [x] Connect values to glTF loader - [x] `transmission` and `transmission_texture` - [x] `thickness` and `thickness_texture` - [x] `ior` - [ ] `diffuse_transmission` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` (needs upstream support in `gltf` crate, not a blocker) - [x] Add support for multiple screen space refraction “steps” - [x] Conditionally create no transmission snapshot texture at all if `steps == 0` - [x] Conditionally enable/disable screen space refraction transmission snapshots - [x] Read from depth pre-pass to prevent refracting pixels in front of the light exit point - [x] Use `interleaved_gradient_noise()` function for sampling blur in a way that benefits from TAA - [x] Drill down a TAA `#define`, tweak some aspects of the effect conditionally based on it - [x] Remove const array that's crashing under HLSL (unless a new `naga` release with https://github.com/gfx-rs/naga/pull/2496 comes out before we merge this) - [ ] Look into alternatives to the `switch` hack for dynamically indexing the const array (might not be needed, compilers seem to be decent at expanding it) - [ ] Add pipeline keys for gating transmission (do we really want/need this?) - [x] Tweak some material field/function names? ## A Note on Texture Packing _This was originally added as a comment to the `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` and `diffuse_transmission_texture` documentation, I removed it since it was more confusing than helpful, and will likely be made redundant/will need to be updated once we have a better infrastructure for preprocessing assets_ Due to how channels are mapped, you can more efficiently use a single shared texture image for configuring the following: - R - `specular_transmission_texture` - G - `thickness_texture` - B - _unused_ - A - `diffuse_transmission_texture` The `KHR_materials_diffuse_transmission` glTF extension also defines a `diffuseTransmissionColorTexture`, that _we don't currently support_. One might choose to pack the intensity and color textures together, using RGB for the color and A for the intensity, in which case this packing advice doesn't really apply. --- ## Changelog - Added a new `Transmissive3d` render phase for rendering specular transmissive materials with screen space refractions - Added rendering support for transmitted environment map light on the `StandardMaterial` as a fallback for screen space refractions - Added `diffuse_transmission`, `specular_transmission`, `thickness`, `ior`, `attenuation_distance` and `attenuation_color` to the `StandardMaterial` - Added `diffuse_transmission_texture`, `specular_transmission_texture`, `thickness_texture` to the `StandardMaterial`, gated behind a new `pbr_transmission_textures` cargo feature (off by default, for maximum hardware compatibility) - Added `Camera3d::screen_space_specular_transmission_steps` for controlling the number of “layers of transparency” rendered for transmissive objects - Added a `TransmittedShadowReceiver` component for enabling shadows in (diffusely) transmitted light. (disabled by default, as it requires carefully setting up the `thickness` to avoid self-shadow artifacts) - Added support for the `KHR_materials_transmission`, `KHR_materials_ior` and `KHR_materials_volume` glTF extensions - Renamed items related to temporal jitter for greater consistency ## Migration Guide - `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_noise` has been renamed to `SsaoPipelineKey::temporal_jitter` - The `TAA` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalAntiAliasSettings` component in the camera) has been replaced with the `TEMPORAL_JITTER` shader def (controlled by the presence of the `TemporalJitter` component in the camera) - `MeshPipelineKey::TAA` has been replaced by `MeshPipelineKey::TEMPORAL_JITTER` - The `TEMPORAL_NOISE` shader def has been consolidated with `TEMPORAL_JITTER`
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reads_view_transmission_texture: material.reads_view_transmission_texture(),
Deferred Renderer (#9258) # Objective - Add a [Deferred Renderer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_shading) to Bevy. - This allows subsequent passes to access per pixel material information before/during shading. - Accessing this per pixel material information is needed for some features, like GI. It also makes other features (ex. Decals) simpler to implement and/or improves their capability. There are multiple approaches to accomplishing this. The deferred shading approach works well given the limitations of WebGPU and WebGL2. Motivation: [I'm working on a GI solution for Bevy](https://youtu.be/eH1AkL-mwhI) # Solution - The deferred renderer is implemented with a prepass and a deferred lighting pass. - The prepass renders opaque objects into the Gbuffer attachment (`Rgba32Uint`). The PBR shader generates a `PbrInput` in mostly the same way as the forward implementation and then [packs it into the Gbuffer](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L168). - The deferred lighting pass unpacks the `PbrInput` and [feeds it into the pbr() function](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L65), then outputs the shaded color data. - There is now a resource [DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L599) that can be used to set the default render method for opaque materials. If materials return `None` from [opaque_render_method()](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L131) the `DefaultOpaqueRendererMethod` will be used. Otherwise, custom materials can also explicitly choose to only support Deferred or Forward by returning the respective [OpaqueRendererMethod](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/material.rs#L603) - Deferred materials can be used seamlessly along with both opaque and transparent forward rendered materials in the same scene. The [deferred rendering example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/deferred/examples/3d/deferred_rendering.rs) does this. - The deferred renderer does not support MSAA. If any deferred materials are used, MSAA must be disabled. Both TAA and FXAA are supported. - Deferred rendering supports WebGL2/WebGPU. ## Custom deferred materials - Custom materials can support both deferred and forward at the same time. The [StandardMaterial](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/render/pbr.wgsl#L166) does this. So does [this example](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56). - Custom deferred materials that require PBR lighting can create a `PbrInput`, write it to the deferred GBuffer and let it be rendered by the `PBRDeferredLightingPlugin`. - Custom deferred materials that require custom lighting have two options: 1. Use the base_color channel of the `PbrInput` combined with the `STANDARD_MATERIAL_FLAGS_UNLIT_BIT` flag. [Example.](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy_glowy_orb_tutorial/blob/deferred/assets/shaders/glowy.wgsl#L56) (If the unlit bit is set, the base_color is stored as RGB9E5 for extra precision) 2. A Custom Deferred Lighting pass can be created, either overriding the default, or running in addition. The a depth buffer is used to limit rendering to only the required fragments for each deferred lighting pass. Materials can set their respective depth id via the [deferred_lighting_pass_id](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/b79182d2a32cac28c4213c2457a53ac2cc885332/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass/prepass_io.wgsl#L95) attachment. The custom deferred lighting pass plugin can then set [its corresponding depth](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/deferred_lighting.wgsl#L37). Then with the lighting pass using [CompareFunction::Equal](https://github.com/DGriffin91/bevy/blob/ec1465559f2c82001830e908fc02ff1d7c2efe51/crates/bevy_pbr/src/deferred/mod.rs#L335), only the fragments with a depth that equal the corresponding depth written in the material will be rendered. Custom deferred lighting plugins can also be created to render the StandardMaterial. The default deferred lighting plugin can be bypassed with `DefaultPlugins.set(PBRDeferredLightingPlugin { bypass: true })` --------- Co-authored-by: nickrart <nickolas.g.russell@gmail.com>
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render_method: method,
Better Materials: AsBindGroup trait and derive, simpler Material trait (#5053) # Objective This PR reworks Bevy's Material system, making the user experience of defining Materials _much_ nicer. Bevy's previous material system leaves a lot to be desired: * Materials require manually implementing the `RenderAsset` trait, which involves manually generating the bind group, handling gpu buffer data transfer, looking up image textures, etc. Even the simplest single-texture material involves writing ~80 unnecessary lines of code. This was never the long term plan. * There are two material traits, which is confusing, hard to document, and often redundant: `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial`. `Material` implicitly implements `SpecializedMaterial`, and `SpecializedMaterial` is used in most high level apis to support both use cases. Most users shouldn't need to think about specialization at all (I consider it a "power-user tool"), so the fact that `SpecializedMaterial` is front-and-center in our apis is a miss. * Implementing either material trait involves a lot of "type soup". The "prepared asset" parameter is particularly heinous: `&<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset`. Defining vertex and fragment shaders is also more verbose than it needs to be. ## Solution Say hello to the new `Material` system: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } } ``` Thats it! This same material would have required [~80 lines of complicated "type heavy" code](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/v0.7.0/examples/shader/shader_material.rs) in the old Material system. Now it is just 14 lines of simple, readable code. This is thanks to a new consolidated `Material` trait and the new `AsBindGroup` trait / derive. ### The new `Material` trait The old "split" `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been removed in favor of a new consolidated `Material` trait. All of the functions on the trait are optional. The difficulty of implementing `Material` has been reduced by simplifying dataflow and removing type complexity: ```rust // Old impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn alpha_mode(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> AlphaMode { render_asset.alpha_mode } } // New impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn alpha_mode(&self) -> AlphaMode { self.alpha_mode } } ``` Specialization is still supported, but it is hidden by default under the `specialize()` function (more on this later). ### The `AsBindGroup` trait / derive The `Material` trait now requires the `AsBindGroup` derive. This can be implemented manually relatively easily, but deriving it will almost always be preferable. Field attributes like `uniform` and `texture` are used to define which fields should be bindings, what their binding type is, and what index they should be bound at: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding looks like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; [[group(1), binding(1)]] var color_texture: texture_2d<f32>; [[group(1), binding(2)]] var color_sampler: sampler; ``` Note that the "group" index is determined by the usage context. It is not defined in `AsBindGroup`. Bevy material bind groups are bound to group 1. The following field-level attributes are supported: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX)` * The field will be converted to a shader-compatible type using the `ShaderType` trait, written to a `Buffer`, and bound as a uniform. It can also be derived for custom structs. * `texture(BINDING_INDEX)` * This field's `Handle<Image>` will be used to look up the matching `Texture` gpu resource, which will be bound as a texture in shaders. The field will be assumed to implement `Into<Option<Handle<Image>>>`. In practice, most fields should be a `Handle<Image>` or `Option<Handle<Image>>`. If the value of an `Option<Handle<Image>>` is `None`, the new `FallbackImage` resource will be used instead. This attribute can be used in conjunction with a `sampler` binding attribute (with a different binding index). * `sampler(BINDING_INDEX)` * Behaves exactly like the `texture` attribute, but sets the Image's sampler binding instead of the texture. Note that fields without field-level binding attributes will be ignored. ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, this_field_is_ignored: String, } ``` As mentioned above, `Option<Handle<Image>>` is also supported: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, } ``` This is useful if you want a texture to be optional. When the value is `None`, the `FallbackImage` will be used for the binding instead, which defaults to "pure white". Field uniforms with the same binding index will be combined into a single binding: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[uniform(0)] roughness: f32, } ``` In WGSL shaders, the binding would look like this: ```wgsl struct CoolMaterial { color: vec4<f32>; roughness: f32; }; [[group(1), binding(0)]] var<uniform> material: CoolMaterial; ``` Some less common scenarios will require "struct-level" attributes. These are the currently supported struct-level attributes: * `uniform(BINDING_INDEX, ConvertedShaderType)` * Similar to the field-level `uniform` attribute, but instead the entire `AsBindGroup` value is converted to `ConvertedShaderType`, which must implement `ShaderType`. This is useful if more complicated conversion logic is required. * `bind_group_data(DataType)` * The `AsBindGroup` type will be converted to some `DataType` using `Into<DataType>` and stored as `AsBindGroup::Data` as part of the `AsBindGroup::as_bind_group` call. This is useful if data needs to be stored alongside the generated bind group, such as a unique identifier for a material's bind group. The most common use case for this attribute is "shader pipeline specialization". The previous `CoolMaterial` example illustrating "combining multiple field-level uniform attributes with the same binding index" can also be equivalently represented with a single struct-level uniform attribute: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] #[uniform(0, CoolMaterialUniform)] struct CoolMaterial { color: Color, roughness: f32, } #[derive(ShaderType)] struct CoolMaterialUniform { color: Color, roughness: f32, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialUniform { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialUniform { CoolMaterialUniform { color: material.color, roughness: material.roughness, } } } ``` ### Material Specialization Material shader specialization is now _much_ simpler: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] #[bind_group_data(CoolMaterialKey)] struct CoolMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, is_red: bool, } #[derive(Copy, Clone, Hash, Eq, PartialEq)] struct CoolMaterialKey { is_red: bool, } impl From<&CoolMaterial> for CoolMaterialKey { fn from(material: &CoolMaterial) -> CoolMaterialKey { CoolMaterialKey { is_red: material.is_red, } } } impl Material for CoolMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "cool_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { if key.bind_group_data.is_red { let fragment = descriptor.fragment.as_mut().unwrap(); fragment.shader_defs.push("IS_RED".to_string()); } Ok(()) } } ``` Setting `bind_group_data` is not required for specialization (it defaults to `()`). Scenarios like "custom vertex attributes" also benefit from this system: ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn vertex_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } fn specialize( pipeline: &MaterialPipeline<Self>, descriptor: &mut RenderPipelineDescriptor, layout: &MeshVertexBufferLayout, key: MaterialPipelineKey<Self>, ) -> Result<(), SpecializedMeshPipelineError> { let vertex_layout = layout.get_layout(&[ Mesh::ATTRIBUTE_POSITION.at_shader_location(0), ATTRIBUTE_BLEND_COLOR.at_shader_location(1), ])?; descriptor.vertex.buffers = vec![vertex_layout]; Ok(()) } } ``` ### Ported `StandardMaterial` to the new `Material` system Bevy's built-in PBR material uses the new Material system (including the AsBindGroup derive): ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup, Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "7494888b-c082-457b-aacf-517228cc0c22"] #[bind_group_data(StandardMaterialKey)] #[uniform(0, StandardMaterialUniform)] pub struct StandardMaterial { pub base_color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] pub base_color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, /* other fields omitted for brevity */ ``` ### Ported Bevy examples to the new `Material` system The overall complexity of Bevy's "custom shader examples" has gone down significantly. Take a look at the diffs if you want a dopamine spike. Please note that while this PR has a net increase in "lines of code", most of those extra lines come from added documentation. There is a significant reduction in the overall complexity of the code (even accounting for the new derive logic). --- ## Changelog ### Added * `AsBindGroup` trait and derive, which make it much easier to transfer data to the gpu and generate bind groups for a given type. ### Changed * The old `Material` and `SpecializedMaterial` traits have been replaced by a consolidated (much simpler) `Material` trait. Materials no longer implement `RenderAsset`. * `StandardMaterial` was ported to the new material system. There are no user-facing api changes to the `StandardMaterial` struct api, but it now implements `AsBindGroup` and `Material` instead of `RenderAsset` and `SpecializedMaterial`. ## Migration Guide The Material system has been reworked to be much simpler. We've removed a lot of boilerplate with the new `AsBindGroup` derive and the `Material` trait is simpler as well! ### Bevy 0.7 (old) ```rust #[derive(Debug, Clone, TypeUuid)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Handle<Image>, } #[derive(Clone)] pub struct GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: Buffer, bind_group: BindGroup, } impl RenderAsset for CustomMaterial { type ExtractedAsset = CustomMaterial; type PreparedAsset = GpuCustomMaterial; type Param = (SRes<RenderDevice>, SRes<MaterialPipeline<Self>>); fn extract_asset(&self) -> Self::ExtractedAsset { self.clone() } fn prepare_asset( extracted_asset: Self::ExtractedAsset, (render_device, material_pipeline): &mut SystemParamItem<Self::Param>, ) -> Result<Self::PreparedAsset, PrepareAssetError<Self::ExtractedAsset>> { let color = Vec4::from_slice(&extracted_asset.color.as_linear_rgba_f32()); let byte_buffer = [0u8; Vec4::SIZE.get() as usize]; let mut buffer = encase::UniformBuffer::new(byte_buffer); buffer.write(&color).unwrap(); let buffer = render_device.create_buffer_with_data(&BufferInitDescriptor { contents: buffer.as_ref(), label: None, usage: BufferUsages::UNIFORM | BufferUsages::COPY_DST, }); let (texture_view, texture_sampler) = if let Some(result) = material_pipeline .mesh_pipeline .get_image_texture(gpu_images, &Some(extracted_asset.color_texture.clone())) { result } else { return Err(PrepareAssetError::RetryNextUpdate(extracted_asset)); }; let bind_group = render_device.create_bind_group(&BindGroupDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: buffer.as_entire_binding(), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 0, resource: BindingResource::TextureView(texture_view), }, BindGroupEntry { binding: 1, resource: BindingResource::Sampler(texture_sampler), }, ], label: None, layout: &material_pipeline.material_layout, }); Ok(GpuCustomMaterial { _buffer: buffer, bind_group, }) } } impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader(asset_server: &AssetServer) -> Option<Handle<Shader>> { Some(asset_server.load("custom_material.wgsl")) } fn bind_group(render_asset: &<Self as RenderAsset>::PreparedAsset) -> &BindGroup { &render_asset.bind_group } fn bind_group_layout(render_device: &RenderDevice) -> BindGroupLayout { render_device.create_bind_group_layout(&BindGroupLayoutDescriptor { entries: &[ BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 0, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Buffer { ty: BufferBindingType::Uniform, has_dynamic_offset: false, min_binding_size: Some(Vec4::min_size()), }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 1, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Texture { multisampled: false, sample_type: TextureSampleType::Float { filterable: true }, view_dimension: TextureViewDimension::D2Array, }, count: None, }, BindGroupLayoutEntry { binding: 2, visibility: ShaderStages::FRAGMENT, ty: BindingType::Sampler(SamplerBindingType::Filtering), count: None, }, ], label: None, }) } } ``` ### Bevy 0.8 (new) ```rust impl Material for CustomMaterial { fn fragment_shader() -> ShaderRef { "custom_material.wgsl".into() } } #[derive(AsBindGroup, TypeUuid, Debug, Clone)] #[uuid = "f690fdae-d598-45ab-8225-97e2a3f056e0"] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform(0)] color: Color, #[texture(1)] #[sampler(2)] color_texture: Handle<Image>, } ``` ## Future Work * Add support for more binding types (cubemaps, buffers, etc). This PR intentionally includes a bare minimum number of binding types to keep "reviewability" in check. * Consider optionally eliding binding indices using binding names. `AsBindGroup` could pass in (optional?) reflection info as a "hint". * This would make it possible for the derive to do this: ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[uniform] color: Color, #[texture] #[sampler] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or this ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { #[binding] color: Color, #[binding] color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * Or even this (if we flip to "include bindings by default") ```rust #[derive(AsBindGroup)] pub struct CustomMaterial { color: Color, color_texture: Option<Handle<Image>>, #[binding(ignore)] alpha_mode: AlphaMode, } ``` * If we add the option to define custom draw functions for materials (which could be done in a type-erased way), I think that would be enough to support extra non-material bindings. Worth considering!
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