Armature: "Raytrace" bones endpoint spheres.

Here is how it works:
We render a high poly disc that we orient & scale towards the camera so that
it covers the same pixel of the sphere it's supposed to represent.

Then the pixel shader raytrace the sphere (effectively starting from
the poly disc depth) and outputs the depth to gl_FragDepth.

This approach has many benefit:
- high quality obviously: per pixel accurate depth!
- compatible with MSAA: since the sphere horizon is delimited by polygons,
  we get the coverage computed by the rasterizer. However we still gets
  aliasing if the sphere intersect directly other meshes.
- virtually no overdraw: there is no backface to shade but we still get
  overdraw because by little triangle [gpus rasterize pixel by groups of 4].
- allows early depth test: since the poly disc is set at the nearest depth
  we can output, we can use GL_ARB_conservative_depth to enable early depth
  test and discard pixels that are already behind geometry.
- can draw outline pretty easily without geometry shader.

1 files changed, 65 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_cache.c b/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_cache.c
index 439809139c9..587bcac1029 100644
--- a/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_cache.c
+++ b/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_cache.c
@@ -2082,6 +2082,7 @@ Gwn_Batch *DRW_cache_bone_envelope_head_wire_outline_get(void)
 Gwn_Batch *DRW_cache_bone_point_get(void)
 {
 	if (!SHC.drw_bone_point) {
+#if 0 /* old style geometry sphere */
 		const int lon_res = 16;
 		const int lat_res = 8;
 		const float rad = 0.05f;
@@ -2119,6 +2120,30 @@ Gwn_Batch *DRW_cache_bone_point_get(void)
 		}
 
 		SHC.drw_bone_point = GWN_batch_create_ex(GWN_PRIM_TRIS, vbo, NULL, GWN_BATCH_OWNS_VBO);
+#else
+#  define CIRCLE_RESOL 64
+		float v[2];
+		const float radius = 0.05f;
+
+		/* Position Only 2D format */
+		static Gwn_VertFormat format = { 0 };
+		static struct { uint pos; } attr_id;
+		if (format.attrib_ct == 0) {
+			attr_id.pos = GWN_vertformat_attr_add(&format, "pos", GWN_COMP_F32, 2, GWN_FETCH_FLOAT);
+		}
+
+		Gwn_VertBuf *vbo = GWN_vertbuf_create_with_format(&format);
+		GWN_vertbuf_data_alloc(vbo, CIRCLE_RESOL);
+
+		for (int a = 0; a < CIRCLE_RESOL; a++) {
+			v[0] = radius * sinf((2.0f * M_PI * a) / ((float)CIRCLE_RESOL));
+			v[1] = radius * cosf((2.0f * M_PI * a) / ((float)CIRCLE_RESOL));
+			GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos, a, v);
+		}
+
+		SHC.drw_bone_point = GWN_batch_create_ex(GWN_PRIM_TRI_FAN, vbo, NULL, GWN_BATCH_OWNS_VBO);
+#  undef CIRCLE_RESOL
+#endif
 	}
 	return SHC.drw_bone_point;
 }
@@ -2126,8 +2151,48 @@ Gwn_Batch *DRW_cache_bone_point_get(void)
 Gwn_Batch *DRW_cache_bone_point_wire_outline_get(void)
 {
 	if (!SHC.drw_bone_point_wire) {
+#if 0 /* old style geometry sphere */
 		Gwn_VertBuf *vbo = sphere_wire_vbo(0.05f);
 		SHC.drw_bone_point_wire = GWN_batch_create_ex(GWN_PRIM_LINES, vbo, NULL, GWN_BATCH_OWNS_VBO);
+#else
+#  define CIRCLE_RESOL 64
+		float v0[2], v1[2];
+		const float radius = 0.05f;
+
+		/* Position Only 2D format */
+		static Gwn_VertFormat format = { 0 };
+		static struct { uint pos0, pos1; } attr_id;
+		if (format.attrib_ct == 0) {
+			attr_id.pos0 = GWN_vertformat_attr_add(&format, "pos0", GWN_COMP_F32, 2, GWN_FETCH_FLOAT);
+			attr_id.pos1 = GWN_vertformat_attr_add(&format, "pos1", GWN_COMP_F32, 3, GWN_FETCH_FLOAT);
+		}
+
+		Gwn_VertBuf *vbo = GWN_vertbuf_create_with_format(&format);
+		GWN_vertbuf_data_alloc(vbo, (CIRCLE_RESOL + 1) * 2);
+
+		v0[0] = radius * sinf((2.0f * M_PI * -1) / ((float)CIRCLE_RESOL));
+		v0[1] = radius * cosf((2.0f * M_PI * -1) / ((float)CIRCLE_RESOL));
+
+		unsigned int v = 0;
+		for (int a = 0; a < CIRCLE_RESOL; a++) {
+			v1[0] = radius * sinf((2.0f * M_PI * a) / ((float)CIRCLE_RESOL));
+			v1[1] = radius * cosf((2.0f * M_PI * a) / ((float)CIRCLE_RESOL));
+			GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos0, v  , v0);
+			GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos1, v++, v1);
+			GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos0, v  , v0);
+			GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos1, v++, v1);
+			copy_v2_v2(v0, v1);
+		}
+		v1[0] = 0.0f;
+		v1[1] = radius;
+		GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos0, v  , v0);
+		GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos1, v++, v1);
+		GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos0, v  , v0);
+		GWN_vertbuf_attr_set(vbo, attr_id.pos1, v++, v1);
+
+		SHC.drw_bone_point_wire = GWN_batch_create_ex(GWN_PRIM_TRI_STRIP, vbo, NULL, GWN_BATCH_OWNS_VBO);
+#  undef CIRCLE_RESOL
+#endif
 	}
 	return SHC.drw_bone_point_wire;
 }