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Facunda Ganesh
I'm trying to make my own shader to use as an SKShader for an SKSpriteNode, but I just don't know the proper way to do it. All I want is a way to write the shader code with autocompletion and to see the shader without having to wait ages for some huge program to compile it, but it seems to be more difficult than I thought.
I've already installed GLFW3 and a couple of other odd things since most tutorials suggest something like this for using OpenGL, but it seems to be more for OpenGL as a whole, rather than just one specific kind of shader.
Editing the shader source should update the live preview, but there seem to be at least some Xcode versions where you have to re-select the custom shader in the inspector for changes to take effect. (That's probably also worth filing a bug on...)
A working spritekit shader that is very very simple can be found at my blog post on the subject. You should work from an existing example instead of starting from scratch. A number of useful links to shader info are included.
There are other stuff out there as well. While autocomplete will help, there are plenty of other ways to have compilation issues. Just like normal coding through Xcode for ObjC/Swift .. you have have correctly auto-completed code. But it still can break. You're far better off exerting energy coming up with an optimized path to get out errors and to test your shader.
keep in mind, you're not going to be programming shaders all the time. These tend to be few and far between in the course of building a game (assuming you're doing a game, so if not, then this statement may have no validity).
I've always worked with Xcode projects but now I'm starting a project that I want in the future run on other platforms, so I'm using Swift Package Manager to generate the project, but I'm facing an issue, my library need to include a metal shader file (also a openGL shader file), but I'm clueless on how to accomplish this.
My project has 2 parts, the library that holds the graphic stuff and the executable that is my actual application, so I want to import my graphic library into my application, but the issue is that the metal shader file is not included in the Xcode project also seems that isn't compiled/included in the bundled files for the library so I can load at runtime and use it when needed.
The file MetalShaders.metal should contain the Metal source code, and the file MetalShaders.swift should contain the necessary setup code. One example for initial content of MetalShaders.swift is the following:
With this approach, the packageMetalLibrary variable can then be accessed from the Xcode project that has a dependency on the Swift Package by importing the target from the swift package the same way that other frameworks or packages are imported.
It may be possible to use this approach with earlier versions of Xcode as the method MTLDevice.makeDefaultLibrary(bundle:) is available since iOS 10 / macOS 10.12, but the Bundle.module extension would need to be implemented and it is not clear if this will work.
Edit: a temporary solution that I found was create an bash script that edit the workspace settings to change the build path and then compile/copy the metallib file to the executable path (didn't tried yet to see how to work distributing the library through SPM or something like that, right now only works with the code in the same folder (i.e. Sources/MyEngine
Visual Studio
To build the Vulkan ICD library, use Visual Studio 2019 to open the project folder and wait for it to run CMake. Open the CMake Targets View in the Solution Explorer and select the vk_swiftshader project to build it.
On Windows, most applications can be made to use SwiftShader's DLLs by placing them in the same folder as the executable. On Linux, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable or -rpath linker option can be used to direct applications to search for shared libraries in the indicated directory first.
All changes require a Change-ID tag in the commit message. A commit hook may be used to add this tag automatically, and can be found at: -review.googlesource.com/tools/hooks/commit-msg. You can execute git clone and manually place the commit hook in SwiftShader/.git/hooks/, or to clone the repository and install the commit hook in one go:
Some tests will automatically be run against the change. Notably, presubmit.sh verifies the change has been formatted using clang-format 11.0.1. Most IDEs come with clang-format support, but may require upgrading/downgrading to the clang-format version 11.0.0 release version (notably Chromium's buildtools has a clang-format binary which can be an in-between revision which produces different formatting results).
googletest contains the Google Test project, as a Git submodule. It is used for running unit tests for Chromium, and Reactor unit tests. Run git submodule update --init to obtain/update the code. Any contributions should be made upstream.
[^1]: This is not an official Google product.
[^2]: Vulkan 1.3 conformance: -products#submission_717
[^3]: Trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
[^4]: OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance: -products/opengles#submission_906
I'd also thought that due to having a few devs and the fact that it was used instead of mesa by google for lots of things that llvmpipe would be slower since it hasn't really gotten dedicated development resources.
I guess the swift is just good marketing name, now I'm not sure why llvmpipe/lavapipe isn't more of a development target for those devs, imagine how much better it could be if it has fulltime dedicate devs on it.
It runs rendering tests almost correctly; the only minor bugs seem to be somewhere in attenuation of fixed function vertex lights. Everything else, including shaders, shadows, render to texture works without any problems.
The number of features and unique things that make this special are numerous, but it's far easier and more interesting for you to see how intuitive it is by checking out some examples.
A suit of examples are available at GateEngineDemos. This suite is developed and expanded in parallel with the GateEngine main branch.
I have no knowledge of how game engines work, so sorry if I'm asking a dumb question, but how does the multiplatform rendering work? Does the engine have automatic mappings to DirectX on Windows and, I'm not sure, Metal on macOS/iOS?
Android support is currently delayed because I simply can't afford to buy any major android device right now. GateEngine's platform support is hand written to use native UI code to create an experience users expect on each platform. So it's important to me that I understand the platform before creating a backend.
It's possible the Linux support will work for Android, but true native Android support is coming.
Users can visualize performance issues in their own projects by adding the PerformanceRenderingSystem to their game.
It's barebones currently, but will draw an overlay with helpful performance information.
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Yes. Extensive documentation, tutorials, etc... but not until v1.0.0. is done. The API is still volatile so I don't want to spend too much time making instructions just yet. That's why I opted for GateEngineDemos for now, I can quickly fix and update them by just building them.
Nope, I opted to take the harder road to make the experience as pleasant and easy as possible.
GateEngine has a native rendering pipeline for each platform. So on Windows DirectX 12 is used and on Apple devices Metal is used.
GateEngine has a bult-in Swift based shader builder API. You can construct your shader in Swift using Swift code and the engine will generate a native shader at runtime in the shader language that's needed.
This API eliminates the need for users to have to deal with conversion, working with multiple shader languages, or managing shader file resources. So which renderer is used on which platform is completely abstracted and not something a developer needs to deal with.
wow, this sounds amazing, I'd be very interested in getting some deeper insight about how you did it, but I also don't want to waste your time with my amateurish, at best, understanding of the topic, so I'll take a deeper look at the project itself and wait for the tutorials
I'm looking for a good cross-platform 2D game engine written in Swift for years. Now I'm completely dependent on Unity. Wish the best for your creation and hope I will write my next pet project game using my favorite language with real type-safety and modern syntax in the opposite of an incomplete and messy C#. Have not time to contribute but I will drop you a couple of bucks each month with a GitHub sponsorship.
Hi. What device we are talking about? I want to consider sponsoring you with a device purchase if this speeds up Android target development. You can't afford to skip such a major platform (I don't like it but I can't deny the obvious) if you want your engine to gain at least some attention.
The biggest road block for Android has been tools support. GateEngine is all about making everything easy and fun, and getting Android to build isn't easy or fun at the moment. Finagolfin has a fairly easy to use SDK but even that's barrier of entry is too high. I don't want my users to have to know how to use symlinks to be able to make a game. But if it can't be helped, then that's fine; but with the new SDK support added in Swift 5.9, things should get really easy for Android very soon. Android is one of the most obvious platforms to benefit from the cross compilation support.
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