When ActionScript uses a ByteArray/Vector.<Number> as a shader input
or target, we create a temporary Rgba32Float texture, and copy the
input float32 bytes to/from the texture.
Unfortunately, wgpu doesn't seem to support an Rgb32Float (3-channel)
texture. When the shader uses 3 channels, we use a Rgba32Float
(4-channel) texture, and manually insert/remove padding for the
alpha channels. This isn't very efficient, but it's the simplest
solution.
The temporary textures themselves aren't cached anywhere - if this
becomes a performance issue, we could look into using some of our
existing wgpu texture/buffer pooling code.
Instead of binding every supported sampler combination
and selecting the correct index in our AGAL builder,
we now determine the correct sampler on the wgpu side,
and create one sampler binding per texture slot.
We now validate the passed in profile, and return the selected profile
from 'Context3D.profile'. We don't yet alter the available
registers/textures based on the profile.
After some testing, and looking at OpenFL, I believe I've
determined the correct behavior for AGAL sampling:
Each time a Context3D.setProgram or Context3D.setSamplerStateAt
call is made, the sampler config for the used texture slot(s)
is updated with the new wrapping/filter behavior. For setProgram,
this comes from all of the 'tex' opcodes used within the program.
However, when the 'ignoresampler' flag is set in a 'tex' opcode,
the setProgram call does *not* override the existing sampler config.
As a result, that program will sample with the behavior determined
by the most recent setSamplerStateAt or setProgram call involving
the used texture slot(s).
Previously, we were always overriding the opcode sampler config
with the values from Context3D.setSamplerStateAt. However, I didn't
realize that the order of the calls matter, so none of my tests ended
up observing the effect of 'ignoresampler'.
We now need to process AGAL bytecode twice - a quick initial
parse to determine the sampler configs (which need to be updated
when we call 'setProgram'), and a second time when to build the
Naga module (which needs to wait until we have the vertex attributes
available, which can be changed by ActionScript after setting
the program).
Aaron Hill