Metal: fix vertex attribute's conversion lost after changing buffer binding. After vertex buffer's attribute is converted and stored in conversion buffer. Binding the same attribute to another buffer, then binding it back to previous buffer will result in previous conversion information lost. The conversion method would skip the conversion due to buffer's content hadn't been changed, however it didn't reuse the old conversion result. This CL also changed the way binding offset is used in Metal backend. - Previous, the offset would be assigned to the offset field of MTLVertexAttributeDescriptor, then the buffer would simply be bound to the command encoder with offset=0 i.e. setVertexBuffer(buffer, index, 0) - However this approach has several disadvantages. Since Metal doesn't allow MTLVertexAttributeDescriptor's offset to be larger than the vertex attribute's stride, the old approach would force the back-end to convert the attribute and store in conversion buffer. New approach: - MTLVertexAttributeDescriptor's offset will be zero. The offset will be used to bind the buffer itself to the render command encoder. i.e. setVertexBuffer(buffer, index, offset) This way the "offset <= stride" restriction no longer exists. The only restriction is the offset must be multiple of attribute's size. Added 3 new tests: - SimpleStateChangeTest.RebindTranslatedAttribute - VertexAttributeTest.DrawWithLargeBufferOffset - VertexAttributeTest.DrawWithLargeBufferOffsetAndLessComponents Bug: angleproject:2634 Change-Id: I6c2fa8091436e4a24405d791f86d17d97df02d64 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/angle/angle/+/1940009 Commit-Queue: Jonah Ryan-Davis <jonahr@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jonah Ryan-Davis <jonahr@google.com>
The goal of ANGLE is to allow users of multiple operating systems to seamlessly run WebGL and other OpenGL ES content by translating OpenGL ES API calls to one of the hardware-supported APIs available for that platform. ANGLE currently provides translation from OpenGL ES 2.0 and 3.0 to desktop OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Direct3D 9, and Direct3D 11. Support for translation from OpenGL ES to Vulkan is underway, and future plans include compute shader support (ES 3.1) and MacOS support.
| Direct3D 9 | Direct3D 11 | Desktop GL | GL ES | Vulkan | Metal | |
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| OpenGL ES 2.0 | complete | complete | complete | complete | complete | in progress |
| OpenGL ES 3.0 | complete | complete | complete | in progress | ||
| OpenGL ES 3.1 | in progress | complete | complete | in progress | ||
| OpenGL ES 3.2 | planned | planned | planned |
| Direct3D 9 | Direct3D 11 | Desktop GL | GL ES | Vulkan | Metal | |
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| Windows | complete | complete | complete | complete | complete | |
| Linux | complete | complete | ||||
| Mac OS X | complete | in progress | ||||
| iOS | planned | |||||
| Chrome OS | complete | planned | ||||
| Android | complete | complete | ||||
| Fuchsia | in progress |
ANGLE v1.0.772 was certified compliant by passing the ES 2.0.3 conformance tests in October 2011. ANGLE also provides an implementation of the EGL 1.4 specification.
ANGLE is used as the default WebGL backend for both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox on Windows platforms. Chrome uses ANGLE for all graphics rendering on Windows, including the accelerated Canvas2D implementation and the Native Client sandbox environment.
Portions of the ANGLE shader compiler are used as a shader validator and translator by WebGL implementations across multiple platforms. It is used on Mac OS X, Linux, and in mobile variants of the browsers. Having one shader validator helps to ensure that a consistent set of GLSL ES shaders are accepted across browsers and platforms. The shader translator can be used to translate shaders to other shading languages, and to optionally apply shader modifications to work around bugs or quirks in the native graphics drivers. The translator targets Desktop GLSL, Direct3D HLSL, and even ESSL for native GLES2 platforms.
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