On 20 July 2016 at 16:21, Matteo Bruni matteo.mystral@gmail.com wrote:
It's a bit more convoluted than that. When ARB_vertex_array_bgra is not supported, FFP draws usually fall back to immediate mode because of the check in context_update_stream_info(). There is no shader swizzling in that case [...]
Yes, but I'd call that a bug. (As an aside, some of those fall-backs to immediate mode could perhaps be avoided by taking stream_info->swizzle_mask into account. It's probably not worth it because diffuse/specular almost always use D3DCOLOR.)
[...] so we need to swizzle when uploading the attribute. If ARB_vertex_array_bgra is supported we never need to swizzle the attribute [...]
You do for immediate mode draws. Data is stored in BGRA order, which is expected to be mapped to "zyxw" in shaders. If ARB_vertex_array_bgra is supported, the shader backend assumes this happens on upload, either through GL_BGRA for array draws or through manual swizzling for immediate mode draws. If ARB_vertex_array_bgra is not supported, the shader backend does it by itself. (The decision whether the shader needs to swizzle ultimately happens in context_stream_info_from_declaration() by setting bits in the "swizzle_map".)
[...] so the above change seems at least a fix for that case (although if ARB_vertex_array_bgra is supported we generally don't fallback to immediate mode either, so that doesn't matter much in practice). context_update_stream_info() only checks for DIFFUSE and SPECULAR though so I guess if other attributes use D3DCOLOR we're currently screwed.
But D3DCOLOR / WINED3DFMT_B8G8R8A8_UNORM is not valid for a lot of other attributes for fixed function draws. (See also declaration_element_valid_ffp().) I notice it's also allowed for WINED3D_DECL_USAGE_BLEND_WEIGHT though, which may actually get used these days.
The immediate mode check is in the !VS-only branch so it would not apply to non-FFP draws. Those get the shader swizzle instead and thus work fine.
Yeah, that's the reason this mostly works in practice, but I think it's fragile to depend on that. I also think it makes it a little more confusing when you need to swizzle on upload and when you don't. I.e., the current rule is perhaps somewhat under-documented, but I think it's a good thing it's fairly simple.
I guess there is an exception here too which is instanced draws when both ARB_vertex_array_bgra and ARB_instanced_arrays are missing AND one of the instance attributes is D3DCOLOR.
You can also end up with immediate mode shader draws when "half_float_conv_needed" is set on the vertex declaration.