2022-12-12 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting

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tags: Eevee/Viewport module, Minutes

Practical Info

This is a weekly video chat meeting for planning and discussion of Blender Eevee/viewport module development. Any contributor (developer, UI/UX designer, writer, …) working on Eevee/viewport in Blender is welcome to join.

For users and other interested parties, we ask to read the meeting notes instead so that the meeting can remain focused.

  • Google Meet
  • Next Meeting: December 19, 2022, 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM Amsterdam Time (Your local time: 2022-12-19T10:30:00Z → 2022-12-19T11:00:00Z)

Attendees:

  • Clement
  • Jeroen
  • Michael
  • Miguel
  • Omar

Viewport Compositor

Workbench-next

  • Mainly worked on Shadows.
    • Some question about changes considering Metal and SSBOs. We might want to a different API to address this issue.
  • Fix a bug for 3.4 release, where incorrect type cast was made.

Vector/matrix data structures

  • CPP data structure patch; some discussion about the design process. During the design process the Core module wasn’t included. Patch description has been updated to include more context of the patch.

Image Engine

  • Image engine now uses a set of tiles that make up the area to be drawn. This improves the smoothness when panning. When the user moves the tiles are used, only re-cycling tiles that went off-screen. c20e456ee04f
  • Currently has some floating point precision issues when zoomed on large textures. Precision issues can be solved by using double matrices when calculating the bounds of the tiles.

Metal backend

  • Most patches to support Eevee landed in master. Some shaders are still failing.
  • Some outstanding tweaks are still needed. Expect to be up and running by the end of the year.
  • Some issues on older hardware/macOS.
  • Compute shader would be a next target (for early January)

Vulkan backend

  • GLSL to Spir-V is still a target for this year. Currently fails as it hasn’t been adapted for the new Eevee create info shaders.
  • Detected a macro issue which has been reported up-stream. Multiple work-arounds exists. Issue is that macros used as parameter of another macros are evaluated twice. Issue on github.
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