Metal shading language follows the C++ 14 standard and in some cases requires a greater level of explicitness than GLSL. There are also some small language differences:
- Explicit type-casts (C++ requirements)
- Explicit constant values (C++ requirements, e.g. floating point values using 0.0 instead of 0).
- Metal/OpenGL compatibility paths
- GLSL Function prototypes
- Explicit accessors for vector types when sampling textures.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14378
Also adds a few things to GPUShader for easily create shaders.
Heavy usage of macros to compose the createInfo and avoid
duplications and copy paste bugs.
This makes the link between the shader request functions
(in workbench_shader.cc) and the actual createInfo a bit
obscure since the names are composed and not searchable.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13910
This patch is (almost) a complete rewrite of workbench engine.
The features remain unchanged but the code quality is greatly improved.
Hair shading is brighter but also more correct.
This also introduce the concept of `DRWShaderLibrary` to make a simple
include system inside the GLSL files.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7060
