OpenSubdiv/documentation/osd_shader_interface.rst
David G Yu 95138e680f Updated Far and Osd user guide docs for 3.4
Updated the Far Overview and Osd Overview and shader
interface pages for 3.4 to include a discussion of
trianglular patch types and other minor updates.
2019-06-24 18:43:05 -07:00

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OSD Tessellation shader Interface
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Basic
=====
Starting with 3.0, **Osd** tessellation shaders can be used as a set of functions from
client shader code. In order to tessellate **Osd** patches, client shader
code should perform the following steps (regular B-spline patch case):
* In a tessellation control shader
1. fetch a PatchParam for the current patch
2. call OsdComputePerPatchVertexBSpline() to compute OsdPerPatchVertexBezier.
3. compute tessellation level. To prevent cracks on transition patches,
two vec4 parameters (tessOuterHi, tessOuterLo) will be needed in addition to built-in gl_TessLevelInner/Outers.
* In a tessellation evaluation shader
1. call OsdGetTessParameterization() to remap gl_TessCoord to a patch parameter at which to evaluate.
2. call OsdEvalPatchBezier()/OsdEvalPatchGregory() to evaluate the current patch.
The following is a minimal example of GLSL code explaining how client shader code
uses OpenSubdiv shader functions to tessellate patches of a patch table.
Tessellation Control Shader Example (for B-Spline patches)
**********************************************************
.. code:: glsl
layout (vertices = 16) out;
in vec3 position[];
patch out vec4 tessOuterLo, tessOuterHi;
out OsdPerPatchVertexBezier v;
void main()
{
// Get a patch param from texture buffer.
ivec3 patchParam = OsdGetPatchParam(gl_PrimitiveID);
// Compute per-patch vertices.
OsdComputePerPatchVertexBSpline(patchParam, gl_InvocationID, position, v);
// Compute tessellation factors.
if (gl_InvocationID == 0) {
vec4 tessLevelOuter = vec4(0);
vec2 tessLevelInner = vec2(0);
OsdGetTessLevelsUniform(patchParam,
tessLevelOuter, tessLevelInner,
tessOuterLo, tessOuterHi);
gl_TessLevelOuter[0] = tessLevelOuter[0];
gl_TessLevelOuter[1] = tessLevelOuter[1];
gl_TessLevelOuter[2] = tessLevelOuter[2];
gl_TessLevelOuter[3] = tessLevelOuter[3];
gl_TessLevelInner[0] = tessLevelInner[0];
gl_TessLevelInner[1] = tessLevelInner[1];
}
}
Tessellation Evaluation Shader Example (for B-Spline patches)
*************************************************************
.. code:: glsl
layout(quads) in;
patch in vec4 tessOuterLo, tessOuterHi;
in OsdPerPatchVertexBezier v[];
uniform mat4 mvpMatrix;
void main()
{
// Compute tesscoord.
vec2 UV = OsdGetTessParameterization(gl_TessCoord.xy, tessOuterLo, tessOuterHi);
vec3 P = vec3(0), dPu = vec3(0), dPv = vec3(0);
vec3 N = vec3(0), dNu = vec3(0), dNv = vec3(0);
ivec3 patchParam = inpt[0].v.patchParam;
// Evaluate patch at the tess coord UV
OsdEvalPatchBezier(patchParam, UV, v, P, dPu, dPv, N, dNu, dNv);
// Apply model-view-projection matrix.
gl_Position = mvpMatrix * vec4(P, 1);
}
Basis Conversion
================
B-spline Patch
**************
The following diagram shows how the **Osd** shaders process b-spline patches.
.. image:: images/osd_shader_bspline.png
While regular patches are expressed as b-spline patches in Far::PatchTable,
the **Osd** shader converts them into Bezier basis patches for simplicity and efficiency.
This conversion is performed in the tessellation control stage. The boundary edge evaluation
and single crease matrix evaluation are also resolved during this conversion.
OsdComputePerPatchVertexBSpline() can be used for this process.
The resulting Bezier control vertices are stored in OsdPerPatchVertexBezier struct.
.. code:: glsl
void OsdComputePerPatchVertexBSpline(
ivec3 patchParam, int ID, vec3 cv[16], out OsdPerPatchVertexBezier result);
The tessellation evaluation shader takes an array of OsdPerPatchVertexBezier struct,
and then evaluates the patch using the OsdEvalPatchBezier() function.
.. code:: glsl
void OsdEvalPatchBezier(ivec3 patchParam, vec2 UV,
OsdPerPatchVertexBezier cv[16],
out vec3 P, out vec3 dPu, out vec3 dPv,
out vec3 N, out vec3 dNu, out vec3 dNv)
Gregory Basis Patch
*******************
In a similar way, Gregory basis patches are processed as follows:
.. image:: images/osd_shader_gregory.png
OsdComputePerPatchVertexGregoryBasis() can be used for the Gregory patches
(although no basis conversion involved for the Gregory patches) and the resulting vertices
are stored in a OsdPerPatchVertexGreogryBasis struct.
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdComputePerPatchVertexGregoryBasis(
ivec3 patchParam, int ID, vec3 cv, out OsdPerPatchVertexGregoryBasis result)
The tessellation evaluation shader takes an array of OsdPerPatchVertexGregoryBasis struct,
and then evaluates the patch using the OsdEvalPatchGregory() function.
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdEvalPatchGregory(ivec3 patchParam, vec2 UV, vec3 cv[20],
out vec3 P, out vec3 dPu, out vec3 dPv,
out vec3 N, out vec3 dNu, out vec3 dNv)
Box-spline Triangle Patch
*************************
While regular triangle patches are expressed as triangular box-spline patches in Far::PatchTable,
the **Osd** shader converts them into triangular Bezier patches for consistency.
This conversion is performed in the tessellation control stage. The boundary edge evaluation is resolved during this conversion.
OsdComputePerPatchVertexBoxSplineTriangle() can be used for this process.
The resulting Bezier control vertices are stored in OsdPerPatchVertexBezier struct.
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdComputePerPatchVertexBoxSplineTriangle(
ivec3 patchParam, int ID, vec3 cv[12], out OsdPerPatchVertexBezier result);
The tessellation evaluation shader takes an array of OsdPerPatchVertexBezier struct,
and then evaluates the patch using the OsdEvalPatchBezierTriangle() function.
.. code:: glsl
void OsdEvalPatchBezierTriangle(ivec3 patchParam, vec2 UV,
OsdPerPatchVertexBezier cv[15],
out vec3 P, out vec3 dPu, out vec3 dPv,
out vec3 N, out vec3 dNu, out vec3 dNv)
Gregory Triangle Patch
**********************
OsdComputePerPatchVertexGregoryBasis() can be used for the quartic triangular Gregory patches (although no basis conversion involved for the Gregory triangle patches) and the resulting vertices are stored in a OsdPerPatchVertexGreogryBasis struct.
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdComputePerPatchVertexGregoryBasis(
ivec3 patchParam, int ID, vec3 cv, out OsdPerPatchVertexGregoryBasis result)
The tessellation evaluation shader takes an array of OsdPerPatchVertexGregoryBasis struct,
and then evaluates the patch using the OsdEvalPatchGregoryTriangle() function.
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdEvalPatchGregoryTriangle(ivec3 patchParam, vec2 UV, vec3 cv[18],
out vec3 P, out vec3 dPu, out vec3 dPv,
out vec3 N, out vec3 dNu, out vec3 dNv)
Legacy Gregory Patch (2.x compatibility)
****************************************
OpenSubdiv 3.0 also supports 2.x style Gregory patch evaluation (see far_overview).
In order to evaluate a legacy Gregory patch, client needs to bind extra buffers and
to perform extra steps in the vertex shader as shown in the following diagram:
.. image:: images/osd_shader_legacy_gregory.png
Tessellation levels
===================
**Osd** provides both uniform and screen-space adaptive tessellation level computation.
Because of the nature of `feature adaptive subdivision <far_overview.html>`__,
we need to pay extra attention for a patch's outer tessellation level for the screen-space
adaptive case so that cracks don't appear.
An edge of the patch marked as a transition edge is split into two segments (Hi and Lo).
.. image:: images/osd_shader_patch.png
The **Osd** shaders uses these two segments to ensure the same tessellation along the
edge between different levels of subdivision. In the following example, suppose the left hand side
patch has determined the tessellation level of its right edge to be 5. gl_TessLevelOuter is set to
5 for the edge, and at the same time we also pass 2 and 3 to the tessellation evaluation shader
as separate levels for the two segments of the edge split at the middle.
.. image:: images/osd_shader_transition.png
Tessellation levels at each tessellated vertex
**********************************************
The tessellation evaluation shader takes gl_TessCoord and those two values, and remaps
gl_TessCoord using OsdGetTessParameterization() or OsdGetTessLevelParameterizationTriangle() to ensure the parameters are consistent
across adjacent patches.
.. code:: glsl
vec2 OsdGetTessParameterization(vec2 uv, vec4 tessOuterLo, vec4 tessOuterHi);
.. code:: glsl
vec2 OsdGetTessParameterizationTriangle(vec3 uvw, vec4 tessOuterLo, vec4 tessOuterHi);
.. image:: images/osd_shader_param_remap.png
Tessellation levels computed at each patch
******************************************
These tessellation levels can be computed the corresponding method in the tesselation control shader. Note that these functions potentially requires all bezier control
points, you need to call barrier() to ensure the conversion is done for all invocations.
See osd/glslPatchBSpline.glsl for more details.
Uniform
~~~~~~~
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdGetTessLevelsUniform(ivec3 patchParam,
out vec4 tessLevelOuter, out vec2 tessLevelInner,
out vec4 tessOuterLo, out vec4 tessOuterHi)
.. code:: glsl
void
OsdGetTessLevelsUniformTriangle(ivec3 patchParam,
out vec4 tessLevelOuter, out vec2 tessLevelInner,
out vec4 tessOuterLo, out vec4 tessOuterHi)
Screenspace
~~~~~~~~~~~
.. code:: glsl
void OsdEvalPatchBezierTessLevels(
OsdPerPatchVertexBezier cpBezier[16],
ivec3 patchParam,
out vec4 tessLevelOuter, out vec2 tessLevelInner,
out vec4 tessOuterLo, out vec4 tessOuterHi);
.. code:: glsl
void OsdEvalPatchBezierTriangleTessLevels(
vec3 cv[15],
ivec3 patchParam,
out vec4 tessLevelOuter, out vec2 tessLevelInner,
out vec4 tessOuterLo, out vec4 tessOuterHi);