This is useful if you're using `SDL2`
```rust
let canvas = window.into_canvas().build().unwrap();
let metal_layer = unsafe { sdl2::sys::SDL_RenderGetMetalLayer(canvas.raw()) };
let surface = instance.create_surface_with_metal_layer(metal_layer);
```
62: Separate object identity from storage r=grovesNL a=kvark
This turned out to be a giant change touching multiple parts... with main goal to prepare for wgpu-remote. The basic incompatibility I found is that the client side needs to know the IDs and manage them, while the server side needs to access the actual objects by those IDs. This change moves the `IdentityManager` out, while still making it convenient for the local bindings to use it the old way.
The actions for creating a buffer remotely would be:
1. client allocates a new ID
2. client sends the descriptor and ID to the server
3. server creates an actual backend object from the descriptor
4. server associates it with the given ID
While doing that, I also decided to bring the local/remote registries closer together. There isn't much benefit from representing an ID with a pointer in local mode. Locking is still the same (at least, it's hugely problematic to make it different and maintain both paths sanely), and the cache utilization is better when they are stored sequentially. This simplification leaded to the renaming and refactoring of "registry/mod.rs" to just "hub.rs".
Total list of changes:
- separate object identity from storage, this affects all the entry points creating items. They are now split into a public-visible "_impl()" method that just creates something, and the old creation is only visible under "local" feature now, using that helper. The sequence of actions on remote is different, as described above.
- unified local/remote registries
- "local" feature instead of "remote"
- removed blend and depth/stencil interfaces in favor of structs inside the pipeline descriptors
- pipeline descriptors are update to reflect the IDL (shader stages, rasterization state, color states, etc)
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
54: Document how to run examples r=grovesNL a=rukai
I had assumed the triangle example wasn't functional yet, because I didn't realize I had to specify a feature. I only realized it was supposed to work when I saw a screenshot of the cube example.
I'm not sure what the future is of the triangle example? Will it remain outside of the gfx-examples folder?
Co-authored-by: Rukai <rubickent@gmail.com>
56: Initial compute pipeline support r=kvark a=swiftcoder
Hey, I'd love to help out with this effort, but please let me know if I'm only going to be slowing you down :)
Sample is a port of https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/blob/master/examples/compute/main.rs - as yet incomplete because we don't have a read-back API defined.
I'm happy to do the implementation of the read-back API, but I wanted to touch base about how you envision `mapReadAsync`/`mapWriteAsync` working in Rust. Do we introduce futures to match the webgpu spec? Or expose it in a more direct fashion.
Co-authored-by: Tristam MacDonald <swiftcoder@gmail.com>
53: Depenency gfx update to 0.1.1 r=almost_simple a=kvark
It appears that we still can't run on DX12, because it has `update_buffer` as `unimplemented!`. But at least we have the benefit of the empty backend updates.
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
52: Gfx examples framework r=grovesNL a=kvark
Fixes#37
It's not functional yet, I think it needs a proper resize event handler. We can do this incrementally.
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <kvarkus@gmail.com>
51: native: basic support for pipeine stages in barriers r=grovesNL a=kvark
It's a naive approach focused on solving the Vulkan validation errors :)
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
48: Set buffer data r=grovesNL a=kvark
Simple and limited implementation, should be sufficient for the first examples.
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
49: GLFW integration r=grovesNL a=kvark
This is #40 that is rebased and fixed a bit.
Co-authored-by: Joshua Groves <josh@joshgroves.com>
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
45: Remove non-winit from the example r=grovesNL a=kvark
This are the follow-up fixes to #38 as suggested by the review
Co-authored-by: Dzmitry Malyshau <dmalyshau@mozilla.com>
