This function is called in clipping, before the pespective divide, and is not used in later rasterization. Thus it doesn't need perspective correction.
The geometry pipeline manages data transfer between VS, GS and primitive assembler. It has known four modes:
- no GS mode: sends VS output directly to the primitive assembler (what citra currently does)
- GS mode 0: sends VS output to GS input registers, and sends GS output to primitive assembler
- GS mode 1: sends VS output to GS uniform registers, and sends GS output to primitive assembler. It also takes an index from the index buffer at the beginning of each primitive for determine the primitive size.
- GS mode 2: similar to mode 1, but doesn't take the index and uses a fixed primitive size.
hwtest shows that immediate mode also supports GS (at least for mode 0), so the geometry pipeline gets refactored into its own class for supporting both drawing mode.
In the immediate mode, some games don't set the pipeline registers to a valid value until the first attribute input, so a geometry pipeline reset flag is set in `pipeline.vs_default_attributes_setup.index` trigger, and the actual pipeline reconfigure is triggered in the first attribute input.
In the normal drawing mode with index buffer, the vertex cache is a little bit modified to support the geometry pipeline. Instead of OutputVertex, it now holds AttributeBuffer, which is the input to the geometry pipeline. The AttributeBuffer->OutputVertex conversion is done inside the pipeline vertex handler. The actual hardware vertex cache is believed to be implemented in a similar way (because this is the only way that makes sense).
Both geometry pipeline and GS unit rely on states preservation across drawing call, so they are put into the global state. In the future, the other three vertex shader units should be also placed in the global state, and a scheduler should be implemented on top of the four units. Note that the current gs_unit already allows running VS on it in the future.
hwtest shows that, although GS always emit a group of three vertices as one primitive, it still respects to the topology type, as if the three vertices are input into the primitive assembler independently and sequentially. It is also shown that the winding flag in SETEMIT only takes effect for Shader topology type, which is believed to be the actual difference between List and Shader (hence removed the TODO). However, only Shader topology type is observed in official games when GS is in use, so the other mode seems to be just unintended usage.
Among four shader units in pica, a special unit can be configured to run both VS and GS program. GSUnitState represents this unit, which extends UnitState (which represents the other three normal units) with extra state for primitive emitting. It uses lots of raw pointers to represent internal structure in order to keep it standard layout type for JIT to access.
This unit doesn't handle triangle winding (inverting) itself; instead, it calls a WindingSetter handler. This will be explained in the following commits
While debugging the software renderer implementation, it was noticed
that this is actually exactly what the hardware does, upgrading the
status of this "hack" to being a proper implementation. And there was
much rejoicing.
Modules didn't correctly define their dependencies before, which relied
on the frontends implicitly including every module for linking to
succeed.
Also changed every target_link_libraries call to specify visibility of
dependencies to avoid leaking definitions to dependents when not
necessary.
Current order of operations (rotate then normalize) seems to produce a
lot more distortion than normalizing and then rotating. This makes Citra
results match pretty closesly with hardware, and indicates that hardware
may also be using lerp instead of slerp to interpolate the quaternions.
One of the later commits will enable writing to GS regs.
It turns out that on startup, most games will write 4096 GS program words.
The current limit of 1024 would hence result in 3072 (4096 - 1024) error messages:
```
HW.GPU <Error> video_core/shader/shader.cpp:WriteProgramCode:229: Invalid GS program offset 1024
```
New constants have been introduced to represent these limits.
The swizzle data size has also been raised. This matches the given field sizes of [GPUREG_SH_OPDESCS_INDEX](https://3dbrew.org/wiki/GPU/Internal_Registers#GPUREG_SH_OPDESCS_INDEX) and [GPUREG_SH_CODETRANSFER_INDEX](https://www.3dbrew.org/wiki/GPU/Internal_Registers#GPUREG_SH_CODETRANSFER_INDEX) (12 bit = [0; 4095]).
wwylele
Yuri Kunde Schlesner
James Rowe
Sebastian Valle
bunnei
Jannik Vogel