The caveat being having to manually create HLSL versions of the hull,
domain, and geometry shaders in parallel with the Vulkan GLSL ones,
while keeping the interfaces intact (stage inputs and outputs, cbuffer
layouts, binding points/registers). This is not always trivial but
typically doable in not very complicated case after inspecting the
SPIRV-Cross-generated vertex/fragment code in the .qsb files. Once
written, the HLSL files can be injected into a .qsb file with qsb -r.
or the corresponding CMake syntax. Conceptually this is no different
from how samplerExternalOES support is implemented for Multimedia.
(there the problem is that the shaders cannot be compiled to SPIR-V
to begin with, here it is that we cannot translate from SPIR-V, but
in the end the workaround for both problems is effectively the same)
The manual tests demonstrate this, both the tessellation and geometry
apps work now with D3D out of the box.
On the bright side, the implementation here in the the D3D backend of
QRhi does not need to know about how the shaders got there in the
QShader. So none of the implementation is dependent on this manual
process. If some day qsb would start translating to these kind of
shaders as well, it would all still work as-is.
Change-Id: I32d9ab94e00174e4bd5b59ac814dfedef9f93ad1
Reviewed-by: Andy Nichols <andy.nichols@qt.io>
.. but this will only be supported on Vulkan, OpenGL 3.2+, and Open GL
ES 3.2+ for the time being.
The situation is:
- Vulkan is working. qsb accepts .geom files already, and QShader has
existing geometry shader support.
- OpenGL 3.2 and OpenGL ES 3.2 are working.
- D3D11 is not working. D3D11 supports geometry shaders, but SPIRV-
Cross does not support translating geometry shaders to HLSL.
- Metal is not working. Metal does not directly support geometry
shaders.
Change-Id: Ieb7c44c58b8be5f2e2197bf5133cf6847e6c132d
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Agocs <laszlo.agocs@qt.io>
