Adds the following in a QShader/QShaderDescription:
- a list of separate images
- a list of separate samplers
- a list of "combined_sampler_uniform_name" -> [
separate_texture_binding, separate_sampler_binding ] mappings
(relevant for GLSL only)
On the QShader (and qsb/QShaderBaker) level not having separate image
(texture) and sampler objects exposed in the reflection info is not
entirely future proof. Right now we benefit strongly from the fact
that Vulkan/SPIR-V supports both combined and separate
images/samplers, while for HLSL and MSL SPIRV-Cross translates
combined image samplers to separate texture and sampler objects, but
it is not given that relying on combined image samplers will always be
possible in the long run; it is mostly a legacy OpenGL thing that just
happens to be supported in Vulkan/SPIR-V due to some benefits with
certain implementations/hw, but is not something present in any newer
APIs.
In addition, before this patch, attempting to run a shader with
separate textures and samplers through qsb will just fail for GLSL,
even though SPIRV-Cross does have the ability to generate a "fake"
combined sampler for each separate texture+sampler combination. Take
this into use. This also involves generating and exposing a
combined_name->[separate_texture_binding,separate_sampler_binding]
mapping table for GLSL, not unlike we have the native binding map for
HLSL and MSL. A user (such as, the GL backend of QRhi) would then use
this table to recognize what user-provided texture+sampler binding
point numbers correspond to which auto-generated sampler2Ds in the GL
program.
Take the following example:
layout(binding = 1) uniform texture2D sepTex;
layout(binding = 2) uniform sampler sepSampler;
layout(binding = 3) uniform sampler sepSampler2;
Inn the reflection info (QShaderDescription) this (assuming a
corresponding qtshadertools patch in place) now gives one entry in
separateImages() and two in separateSamplers(). Assuming sepTex is
used both with sepSampler and sepSampler2, the GLSL output and mapping
table from QShaderBaker will have two auto-generated sampler2Ds (and
no 'texture2D' or 'sampler').
One immediate benefit is that it is now possible to create a shader
that relies only on separate images and samplers, feed it into qsb,
generate all the possible targets, and then also feed the SPIR-V
binary into a tool or library such as Tint (e.g. to generate WGSL)
that canot deal with combined image samplers.
Change-Id: I9b19847ea5854837b45d3a23edc788c48502aa15
Reviewed-by: Andy Nichols <andy.nichols@qt.io>
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