bevy/crates/bevy_render
Robert Swain 4fdea02087
Use instancing for sprites (#9597)
# Objective

- Supercedes #8872 
- Improve sprite rendering performance after the regression in #9236 

## Solution

- Use an instance-rate vertex buffer to store per-instance data.
- Store color, UV offset and scale, and a transform per instance.
- Convert Sprite rect, custom_size, anchor, and flip_x/_y to an affine
3x4 matrix and store the transpose of that in the per-instance data.
This is similar to how MeshUniform uses transpose affine matrices.
- Use a special index buffer that has batches of 6 indices referencing 4
vertices. The lower 2 bits indicate the x and y of a quad such that the
corners are:
  ```
  10    11

  00    01
  ```
UVs are implicit but get modified by UV offset and scale The remaining
upper bits contain the instance index.

## Benchmarks

I will compare versus `main` before #9236 because the results should be
as good as or faster than that. Running `bevymark -- 10000 16` on an M1
Max with `main` at `e8b38925` in yellow, this PR in red:

![Screenshot 2023-08-27 at 18 44
10](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/302146/bdc5c929-d547-44bb-b519-20dce676a316)

Looking at the median frame times, that's a 37% reduction from before.

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## Changelog

- Changed: Improved sprite rendering performance by leveraging an
instance-rate vertex buffer.

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Co-authored-by: Giacomo Stevanato <giaco.stevanato@gmail.com>
2023-09-02 18:03:19 +00:00
..
macros Bump Version after Release (#9106) 2023-07-10 21:19:27 +00:00
src Use instancing for sprites (#9597) 2023-09-02 18:03:19 +00:00
Cargo.toml Remove unused regex dep from bevy_render (#9613) 2023-08-29 12:28:24 +00:00