bevy/crates/bevy_ui
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Split ComputedVisibility into two components to allow for accurate change detection and speed up visibility propagation (#9497)
# Objective

Fix #8267.
Fixes half of #7840.

The `ComputedVisibility` component contains two flags: hierarchy
visibility, and view visibility (whether its visible to any cameras).
Due to the modular and open-ended way that view visibility is computed,
it triggers change detection every single frame, even when the value
does not change. Since hierarchy visibility is stored in the same
component as view visibility, this means that change detection for
inherited visibility is completely broken.

At the company I work for, this has become a real issue. We are using
change detection to only re-render scenes when necessary. The broken
state of change detection for computed visibility means that we have to
to rely on the non-inherited `Visibility` component for now. This is
workable in the early stages of our project, but since we will
inevitably want to use the hierarchy, we will have to either:

1. Roll our own solution for computed visibility.
2. Fix the issue for everyone.

## Solution

Split the `ComputedVisibility` component into two: `InheritedVisibilty`
and `ViewVisibility`.
This allows change detection to behave properly for
`InheritedVisibility`.
View visiblity is still erratic, although it is less useful to be able
to detect changes
for this flavor of visibility.

Overall, this actually simplifies the API. Since the visibility system
consists of
self-explaining components, it is much easier to document the behavior
and usage.
This approach is more modular and "ECS-like" -- one could
strip out the `ViewVisibility` component entirely if it's not needed,
and rely only on inherited visibility.

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## Changelog

- `ComputedVisibility` has been removed in favor of:
`InheritedVisibility` and `ViewVisiblity`.

## Migration Guide

The `ComputedVisibilty` component has been split into
`InheritedVisiblity` and
`ViewVisibility`. Replace any usages of
`ComputedVisibility::is_visible_in_hierarchy`
with `InheritedVisibility::get`, and replace
`ComputedVisibility::is_visible_in_view`
 with `ViewVisibility::get`.
 
 ```rust
 // Before:
 commands.spawn(VisibilityBundle {
     visibility: Visibility::Inherited,
     computed_visibility: ComputedVisibility::default(),
 });
 
 // After:
 commands.spawn(VisibilityBundle {
     visibility: Visibility::Inherited,
     inherited_visibility: InheritedVisibility::default(),
     view_visibility: ViewVisibility::default(),
 });
 ```
 
 ```rust
 // Before:
 fn my_system(q: Query<&ComputedVisibilty>) {
     for vis in &q {
         if vis.is_visible_in_hierarchy() {
     
 // After:
 fn my_system(q: Query<&InheritedVisibility>) {
     for inherited_visibility in &q {
         if inherited_visibility.get() {
 ```
 
 ```rust
 // Before:
 fn my_system(q: Query<&ComputedVisibilty>) {
     for vis in &q {
         if vis.is_visible_in_view() {
     
 // After:
 fn my_system(q: Query<&ViewVisibility>) {
     for view_visibility in &q {
         if view_visibility.get() {
 ```
 
 ```rust
 // Before:
 fn my_system(mut q: Query<&mut ComputedVisibilty>) {
     for vis in &mut q {
         vis.set_visible_in_view();
     
 // After:
 fn my_system(mut q: Query<&mut ViewVisibility>) {
     for view_visibility in &mut q {
         view_visibility.set();
 ```

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Co-authored-by: Robert Swain <robert.swain@gmail.com>
2023-09-01 13:00:18 +00:00
..
src Split ComputedVisibility into two components to allow for accurate change detection and speed up visibility propagation (#9497) 2023-09-01 13:00:18 +00:00
Cargo.toml Bump Version after Release (#9106) 2023-07-10 21:19:27 +00:00