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</code></pre></div><h3id="instance-and-adapter"><ahref="#instance-and-adapter"class="header-anchor">#</a> Instance and Adapter</h3><p>The <code>instance</code> is the first thing you create when using wgpu. Its main purpose
is to create <code>Adapter</code>s and <code>Surface</code>s.</p><p>The <code>adapter</code> is a handle to our actual graphics card. You can use this to get information about the graphics card such as its name and what backend the adapter uses. We use this to create our <code>Device</code> and <code>Queue</code> later. Let's discuss the fields of <code>RequestAdapterOptions</code>.</p><ul><li><code>power_preference</code> has two variants: <code>LowPower</code>, and <code>HighPerformance</code>. <code>LowPower</code> will pick an adapter that favors battery life, such as an integrated GPU. <code>HighPerformance</code> will pick an adapter for more power-hungry yet more performant GPU's such as a dedicated graphics card. WGPU will favor <code>LowPower</code> if there is no adapter for the <code>HighPerformance</code> option.</li><li>The <code>compatible_surface</code> field tells wgpu to find an adapter that can present to the supplied surface.</li><li>The <code>force_fallback_adapter</code> forces wgpu to pick an adapter that will work on all hardware. This usually means that the rendering backend will use a "software" system, instead of hardware such as a GPU.</li></ul><divclass="note"><p>The options I've passed to <code>request_adapter</code> aren't guaranteed to work for all devices, but will work for most of them. If wgpu can't find an adapter with the required permissions, <code>request_adapter</code> will return <code>None</code>. If you want to get all adapters for a particular backend you can use <code>enumerate_adapters</code>. This will give you an iterator that you can loop over to check if one of the adapters works for your needs.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">let</span> adapter <spanclass="token operator">=</span> instance
</code></pre></div><p>One thing to note is that <code>enumerate_adapters</code> isn't available on WASM, so you have to use <code>request_adapter</code>.</p><p>Another thing to note is that <code>Adapter</code>s are locked to a specific backend. If you are on Windows and have 2 graphics cards you'll have at least 4 adapters available to use, 2 Vulkan and 2 DirectX.</p><p>For more fields you can use to refine your search, <ahref="https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Adapter.html"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">check out the docs<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>.</p></div><h3id="the-surface-2"><ahref="#the-surface-2"class="header-anchor">#</a> The Surface</h3><p>The <code>surface</code> is the part of the window that we draw to. We need it to draw directly to the screen. Our <code>window</code> needs to implement <ahref="https://crates.io/crates/raw-window-handle"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">raw-window-handle<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>'s <code>HasRawWindowHandle</code> trait to create a surface. Fortunately, winit's <code>Window</code> fits the bill. We also need it to request our <code>adapter</code>.</p><h3id="device-and-queue"><ahref="#device-and-queue"class="header-anchor">#</a> Device and Queue</h3><p>Let's use the <code>adapter</code> to create the device and queue.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">let</span><spanclass="token punctuation">(</span>device<spanclass="token punctuation">,</span> queue<spanclass="token punctuation">)</span><spanclass="token operator">=</span> adapter<spanclass="token punctuation">.</span><spanclass="token function">request_device</span><spanclass="token punctuation">(</span>
@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ is to create <code>Adapter</code>s and <code>Surface</code>s.</p> <p>The <code>a
</code></pre></div><p>Here we are defining a config for our surface. This will define how the surface creates its underlying <code>SurfaceTexture</code>s. We will talk about <code>SurfaceTexture</code> when we get to the <code>render</code> function. For now, let's talk about the config's fields.</p><p>The <code>usage</code> field describes how <code>SurfaceTexture</code>s will be used. <code>RENDER_ATTACHMENT</code> specifies that the textures will be used to write to the screen (we'll talk about more <code>TextureUsages</code>s later).</p><p>The <code>format</code> defines how <code>SurfaceTexture</code>s will be stored on the gpu. We can get a supported format from the <code>SurfaceCapabilities</code>.</p><p><code>width</code> and <code>height</code> are the width and the height in pixels of a <code>SurfaceTexture</code>. This should usually be the width and the height of the window.</p><divclass="warning">
Make sure that the width and height of the `SurfaceTexture` are not 0, as that can cause your app to crash.
</div><p><code>present_mode</code> uses <code>wgpu::PresentMode</code> enum which determines how to sync the surface with the display. The option we picked, <code>PresentMode::Fifo</code>, will cap the display rate at the display's framerate. This is essentially VSync. This mode is guaranteed to be supported on all platforms. There are other options and you can see all of them <ahref="https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/enum.PresentMode.html"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">in the docs<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a></p><divclass="note"><p>If you want to let your users pick what <code>PresentMode</code> they use, you can use <ahref="https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.SurfaceCapabilities.html#structfield.present_modes"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">SurfaceCapabilities::present_modes<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a> to get a list of all the <code>PresentMode</code>s the surface supports:</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">let</span> modes <spanclass="token operator">=</span><spanclass="token operator">&</span>surface_caps<spanclass="token punctuation">.</span>present_modes<spanclass="token punctuation">;</span>
</code></pre></div><p>Regardless, <code>PresentMode::Fifo</code> will always be supported, and <code>PresentMode::AutoVsync</code> and <code>PresentMode::AutoNoVsync</code> have fallback support and therefore will work on all platforms.</p></div><p><code>alpha_mode</code> is honestly not something I'm familiar with. I believe it has something to do with transparent windows, but feel free to open a pull request. For now we'll just use the first <code>AlphaMode</code> in the list given by <code>surface_caps</code>.</p><p><code>view_formats</code> is a list of <code>TextureFormat</code>s that you can use when creating <code>TextureView</code>s (we'll cover those briefly later in the this tutorial as well as more in depth <ahref="../tutorial5-textures">in the texture tutorial</a>). As of writing this means that if your surface is srgb color space, you can create a texture view that uses a linear color space.</p><p>Now that we've configured our surface properly we can add these new fields at the end of the method.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">async</span><spanclass="token keyword">fn</span><spanclass="token function-definition function">new</span><spanclass="token punctuation">(</span>window<spanclass="token punctuation">:</span><spanclass="token operator">&</span><spanclass="token class-name">Window</span><spanclass="token punctuation">)</span><spanclass="token punctuation">-></span><spanclass="token keyword">Self</span><spanclass="token punctuation">{</span>
</code></pre></div><p>Regardless, <code>PresentMode::Fifo</code> will always be supported, and <code>PresentMode::AutoVsync</code> and <code>PresentMode::AutoNoVsync</code> have fallback support and therefore will work on all platforms.</p></div><p><code>alpha_mode</code> is honestly not something I'm familiar with. I believe it has something to do with transparent windows, but feel free to open a pull request. For now we'll just use the first <code>AlphaMode</code> in the list given by <code>surface_caps</code>.</p><p><code>view_formats</code> is a list of <code>TextureFormat</code>s that you can use when creating <code>TextureView</code>s (we'll cover those briefly later in the this tutorial as well as more in depth <ahref="../tutorial5-textures">in the texture tutorial</a>). As of writing this means that if your surface is srgb color space, you can create a texture view that uses a linear color space.</p><p>Now that we've configured our surface properly we can add these new fields at the end of the method.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">async</span><spanclass="token keyword">fn</span><spanclass="token function-definition function">new</span><spanclass="token punctuation">(</span>window<spanclass="token punctuation">:</span><spanclass="token class-name">Window</span><spanclass="token punctuation">)</span><spanclass="token punctuation">-></span><spanclass="token keyword">Self</span><spanclass="token punctuation">{</span>
</code></pre></div><p>The <code>RenderPassColorAttachment</code> has the <code>view</code> field which informs <code>wgpu</code> what texture to save the colors to. In this case we specify the <code>view</code> that we created using <code>surface.get_current_texture()</code>. This means that any colors we draw to this attachment will get drawn to the screen.</p><p>The <code>resolve_target</code> is the texture that will receive the resolved output. This will be the same as <code>view</code> unless multisampling is enabled. We don't need to specify this, so we leave it as <code>None</code>.</p><p>The <code>ops</code> field takes a <code>wpgu::Operations</code> object. This tells wgpu what to do with the colors on the screen (specified by <code>view</code>). The <code>load</code> field tells wgpu how to handle colors stored from the previous frame. Currently, we are clearing the screen with a bluish color. The <code>store</code> field tells wgpu whether we want to store the rendered results to the <code>Texture</code> behind our <code>TextureView</code> (in this case it's the <code>SurfaceTexture</code>). We use <code>true</code> as we do want to store our render results.</p><divclass="note"><p>It's not uncommon to not clear the screen if the screen is going to be completely covered up with objects. If your scene doesn't cover the entire screen however you can end up with something like this.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/no-clear.753f913f.png"alt="./no-clear.png"></p></div><h2id="validation-errors"><ahref="#validation-errors"class="header-anchor">#</a> Validation Errors?</h2><p>If wgpu is using Vulkan on your machine, you may run into validation errors if you are running an older version of the Vulkan SDK. You should be using at least version <code>1.2.182</code> as older versions can give out some false positives. If errors persist, you may have encountered a bug in wgpu. You can post an issue at <ahref="https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a></p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Modify the <code>input()</code> method to capture mouse events, and update the clear color using that. <em>Hint: you'll probably need to use <code>WindowEvent::CursorMoved</code></em>.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial2_surface!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial2-surface/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>The <code>RenderPassColorAttachment</code> has the <code>view</code> field which informs <code>wgpu</code> what texture to save the colors to. In this case we specify the <code>view</code> that we created using <code>surface.get_current_texture()</code>. This means that any colors we draw to this attachment will get drawn to the screen.</p><p>The <code>resolve_target</code> is the texture that will receive the resolved output. This will be the same as <code>view</code> unless multisampling is enabled. We don't need to specify this, so we leave it as <code>None</code>.</p><p>The <code>ops</code> field takes a <code>wpgu::Operations</code> object. This tells wgpu what to do with the colors on the screen (specified by <code>view</code>). The <code>load</code> field tells wgpu how to handle colors stored from the previous frame. Currently, we are clearing the screen with a bluish color. The <code>store</code> field tells wgpu whether we want to store the rendered results to the <code>Texture</code> behind our <code>TextureView</code> (in this case it's the <code>SurfaceTexture</code>). We use <code>true</code> as we do want to store our render results.</p><divclass="note"><p>It's not uncommon to not clear the screen if the screen is going to be completely covered up with objects. If your scene doesn't cover the entire screen however you can end up with something like this.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/no-clear.753f913f.png"alt="./no-clear.png"></p></div><h2id="validation-errors"><ahref="#validation-errors"class="header-anchor">#</a> Validation Errors?</h2><p>If wgpu is using Vulkan on your machine, you may run into validation errors if you are running an older version of the Vulkan SDK. You should be using at least version <code>1.2.182</code> as older versions can give out some false positives. If errors persist, you may have encountered a bug in wgpu. You can post an issue at <ahref="https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a></p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Modify the <code>input()</code> method to capture mouse events, and update the clear color using that. <em>Hint: you'll probably need to use <code>WindowEvent::CursorMoved</code></em>.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial2_surface!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial2-surface/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>And then reflect these changes in the <code>VertexBufferLayout</code>:</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">impl</span><spanclass="token class-name">Vertex</span><spanclass="token punctuation">{</span>
</code></pre></div><p>Phew!</p><p>With these changes in place, the code should be working the same as it was before, but we now have a much easier way to create textures.</p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Create another texture and swap it out when you press the space key.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial5_textures!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial5-textures/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>Phew!</p><p>With these changes in place, the code should be working the same as it was before, but we now have a much easier way to create textures.</p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Create another texture and swap it out when you press the space key.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial5_textures!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial5-textures/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>That's all we need to do. If you run the code now you should see a pentagon with our tree texture that you can rotate around and zoom into with the wasd/arrow keys.</p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Have our model rotate on its own independently of the camera. <em>Hint: you'll need another matrix for this.</em></p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial6_uniforms!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial6-uniforms/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>That's all we need to do. If you run the code now you should see a pentagon with our tree texture that you can rotate around and zoom into with the wasd/arrow keys.</p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Have our model rotate on its own independently of the camera. <em>Hint: you'll need another matrix for this.</em></p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial6_uniforms!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial6-uniforms/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>We're going to need to create a new <code>VertexBufferLayout</code> for <code>InstanceRaw</code>.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">impl</span><spanclass="token class-name">InstanceRaw</span><spanclass="token punctuation">{</span>
</code></pre></div><p>With all that done, we should have a forest of trees!</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/forest.5c5cf3ad.png"alt="./forest.png"></p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Modify the position and/or rotation of the instances every frame.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial7_instancing!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial7-instancing/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>With all that done, we should have a forest of trees!</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/forest.5c5cf3ad.png"alt="./forest.png"></p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Modify the position and/or rotation of the instances every frame.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial7_instancing!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial7-instancing/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>And that's all we have to do! No shader code needed! If you run the application, the depth issues will be fixed.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/forest_fixed.a77f70f6.png"alt="forest_fixed.png"></p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Since the depth buffer is a texture, we can sample it in the shader. Because it's a depth texture, we'll have to use the <code>sampler_comparison</code> uniform type and the <code>textureSampleCompare</code> function instead of <code>sampler</code>, and <code>sampler2D</code> respectively. Create a bind group for the depth texture (or reuse an existing one), and render it to the screen.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial8_depth!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial8-depth/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>And that's all we have to do! No shader code needed! If you run the application, the depth issues will be fixed.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/forest_fixed.a77f70f6.png"alt="forest_fixed.png"></p><h2id="challenge"><ahref="#challenge"class="header-anchor">#</a> Challenge</h2><p>Since the depth buffer is a texture, we can sample it in the shader. Because it's a depth texture, we'll have to use the <code>sampler_comparison</code> uniform type and the <code>textureSampleCompare</code> function instead of <code>sampler</code>, and <code>sampler2D</code> respectively. Create a bind group for the depth texture (or reuse an existing one), and render it to the screen.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial8_depth!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/beginner/tutorial8-depth/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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</code></pre></div><p>You'll notice a couple of things here. In <code>lib.rs</code> we had <code>Vertex</code> as a struct, here we're using a trait. We could have multiple vertex types (model, UI, instance data, etc.). Making <code>Vertex</code> a trait will allow us to abstract out the <code>VertexBufferLayout</code> creation code to make creating <code>RenderPipeline</code>s simpler.</p><p>Another thing to mention is the <code>normal</code> field in <code>ModelVertex</code>. We won't use this until we talk about lighting, but will add it to the struct for now.</p><p>Let's define our <code>VertexBufferLayout</code>.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">impl</span><spanclass="token class-name">Vertex</span><spanclass="token keyword">for</span><spanclass="token class-name">ModelVertex</span><spanclass="token punctuation">{</span>
</code></pre></div><p>It's hard to tell the difference, but here are the results.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/half_dir.bbcc23b8.png"alt="./half_dir.png"></p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial10_lighting!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/intermediate/tutorial10-lighting/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>It's hard to tell the difference, but here are the results.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/half_dir.bbcc23b8.png"alt="./half_dir.png"></p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial10_lighting!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/intermediate/tutorial10-lighting/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>We'll need to upgrade our <code>VertexBufferLayout</code> as well.</p><divclass="language-rust extra-class"><preclass="language-rust"><code><spanclass="token keyword">impl</span><spanclass="token class-name">Vertex</span><spanclass="token keyword">for</span><spanclass="token class-name">ModelVertex</span><spanclass="token punctuation">{</span>
</code></pre></div><p>That gives us something like this.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/debug_material.b374492b.png"alt=""></p><p>You can find the textures I use in the Github Repository.</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial11_normals!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/intermediate/tutorial11-normals/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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</code></pre></div><p>With that, we should be able to move our camera wherever we want.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/screenshot.4f5740bc.png"alt="./screenshot.png"></p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial12_camera!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/intermediate/tutorial12-camera/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>With that, we should be able to move our camera wherever we want.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/screenshot.4f5740bc.png"alt="./screenshot.png"></p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Tutorial12_camera!</button></div><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/intermediate/tutorial12-camera/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>If you want learn more about workgroups <ahref="https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/#compute-shader-workgroups"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">check out the docs<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>.</p></div><p>TODO:</p><ul><li>Note changes to <code>create_render_pipeline</code></li><li>Mention <code>swizzle</code> feature for cgmath</li><li>Compare workgroups and workgroups sizes to nested for loops
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</code></pre></div><p>You can explore the reasoning for the change to <code>map_async</code> in <ahref="https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/2698"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">this PR<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>.</p><p>Another thing to note is that presentation modes need to match what the surface supports. You can get a list of supported modes from <ahref="https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Surface.html#method.get_supported_modes"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Surface::get_surface_modes()<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>.</p><p>As always, let me know if I missed anything in the migration process. You can open an issue/submit a PR on the <ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn Wgpu repo<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>!</p></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>You can explore the reasoning for the change to <code>map_async</code> in <ahref="https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/2698"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">this PR<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>.</p><p>Another thing to note is that presentation modes need to match what the surface supports. You can get a list of supported modes from <ahref="https://docs.rs/wgpu/latest/wgpu/struct.Surface.html#method.get_supported_modes"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Surface::get_surface_modes()<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>.</p><p>As always, let me know if I missed anything in the migration process. You can open an issue/submit a PR on the <ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn Wgpu repo<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a>!</p></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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</code></pre></div><p>As always let me know if I missed anything. You can check out the full changelog for 0.15 <ahref="https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#wgpu-0150-2023-01-25"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">here<span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a></p></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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</code></pre></div><olstart="3"><li>The <code>create</code> method on <code>Surface</code> takes in any struct that implements the <code>HasRawWindow</code> trait, instead of a <code>RawWindowHandle</code>. This means that the <code>raw-window-handle = "0.3"</code> line in <code>Cargo.toml</code> is no longer needed.</li></ol><p>I don't know if this is a change from 0.4, but you use <code>wgpu = "0.4"</code> line in dependencies instead of the <code>[dependencies.wgpu]</code> as wgpu will determine the best back end for you.</p><h2id="new-recent-articles"><ahref="#new-recent-articles"class="header-anchor">#</a> New/Recent Articles</h2><div><ul><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li></ul></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><olstart="3"><li>The <code>create</code> method on <code>Surface</code> takes in any struct that implements the <code>HasRawWindow</code> trait, instead of a <code>RawWindowHandle</code>. This means that the <code>raw-window-handle = "0.3"</code> line in <code>Cargo.toml</code> is no longer needed.</li></ol><p>I don't know if this is a change from 0.4, but you use <code>wgpu = "0.4"</code> line in dependencies instead of the <code>[dependencies.wgpu]</code> as wgpu will determine the best back end for you.</p><h2id="new-recent-articles"><ahref="#new-recent-articles"class="header-anchor">#</a> New/Recent Articles</h2><div><ul><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li><li><a></a></li></ul></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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</code></pre></div><p>I ultimately decided against this method as it was more complicated, and I haven't had time to benchmark it to see if it's faster than the simple method.</p><h2id="results"><ahref="#results"class="header-anchor">#</a> Results</h2><p>The tangents and bitangents are now getting calculated correctly and on the GPU!</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/results.7918efc1.png"alt="./results.png"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/compute/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>I ultimately decided against this method as it was more complicated, and I haven't had time to benchmark it to see if it's faster than the simple method.</p><h2id="results"><ahref="#results"class="header-anchor">#</a> Results</h2><p>The tangents and bitangents are now getting calculated correctly and on the GPU!</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/results.7918efc1.png"alt="./results.png"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/compute/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>That's the gist of it. We can improve things using a texture array, and sending the draw commands all at once, but this gets the idea across. With the shader I wrote we get the following GIF.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/output.5ed23d6e.gif"alt="./output.gif"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/gifs/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>That's the gist of it. We can improve things using a texture array, and sending the draw commands all at once, but this gets the idea across. With the shader I wrote we get the following GIF.</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/output.5ed23d6e.gif"alt="./output.gif"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/gifs/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>That's all there is to it. Here's a picture of the results!</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/screenshot.1f9dab62.png"alt="./screenshot.png"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/imgui-demo/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><!----></main></div></div><divclass="global-ui"><!----></div></div>
</code></pre></div><p>That's all there is to it. Here's a picture of the results!</p><p><imgsrc="/learn-wgpu/assets/img/screenshot.1f9dab62.png"alt="./screenshot.png"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/imgui-demo/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><!----></main></div></div><divclass="global-ui"><!----></div></div>
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</code></pre></div><p>Everything else works the same.</p><h2id="summary"><ahref="#summary"class="header-anchor">#</a> Summary</h2><p>A fun project to work on. It was overly architected, and kinda hard to make changes, but a good experience nonetheless.</p><p>Try the code down below! (Controls currently require a keyboard.)</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Pong!</button></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>Everything else works the same.</p><h2id="summary"><ahref="#summary"class="header-anchor">#</a> Summary</h2><p>A fun project to work on. It was overly architected, and kinda hard to make changes, but a good experience nonetheless.</p><p>Try the code down below! (Controls currently require a keyboard.)</p><divid="wasm-example"><!----><button>Try Pong!</button></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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</code></pre></div><p>We've parallelized loading the meshes, and making the vertex array for them. Probably a bit overkill, but <code>rayon</code> should prevent us from using too many threads.</p><divclass="note"><p>You'll notice that we didn't use <code>rayon</code> for calculating the tangent, and bitangent. I tried to get it to work, but I was having trouble finding a way to do it without multiple mutable references to <code>vertices</code>. I don't feel like introducing a <code>std::sync::Mutex</code>, so I'll leave it for now.</p><p>This is honestly a better job for a compute shader, as the model data is going to get loaded into a buffer anyway.</p></div><h2id="it-s-that-easy"><ahref="#it-s-that-easy"class="header-anchor">#</a> It's that easy!</h2><p>Most of the <code>wgpu</code> types are <code>Send + Sync</code>, so we can use them in threads without much trouble. It was so easy, that I feel like this tutorial is too short! I'll just leave off with a speed comparison between the previous model loading code and the current code.</p><divclass="language- extra-class"><preclass="language-text"><code>Elapsed (Original): 309.596382ms
Elapsed (Threaded): 199.645027ms
</code></pre></div><p>We're not loading that many resources, so the speedup is minimal. We'll be doing more stuff with threading, but this is a good introduction.</p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/threading/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><!----></main></div></div><divclass="global-ui"><!----></div></div>
</code></pre></div><p>We're not loading that many resources, so the speedup is minimal. We'll be doing more stuff with threading, but this is a good introduction.</p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/threading/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><!----></main></div></div><divclass="global-ui"><!----></div></div>
</code></pre></div><p>With all that you should have an image like this.</p><p><imgsrc="data:image/png;base64,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"alt="a brown triangle"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/windowless/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:35:23 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
</code></pre></div><p>With all that you should have an image like this.</p><p><imgsrc="data:image/png;base64,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"alt="a brown triangle"></p><divclass="auto-github-link"><ahref="https://github.com/sotrh/learn-wgpu/tree/master/code/showcase/windowless/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Check out the code!</a><span><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"aria-hidden="true"focusable="false"x="0px"y="0px"viewBox="0 0 100 100"width="15"height="15"class="icon outbound"><pathfill="currentColor"d="M18.8,85.1h56l0,0c2.2,0,4-1.8,4-4v-32h-8v28h-48v-48h28v-8h-32l0,0c-2.2,0-4,1.8-4,4v56C14.8,83.3,16.6,85.1,18.8,85.1z"></path><polygonfill="currentColor"points="45.7,48.7 51.3,54.3 77.2,28.5 77.2,37.2 85.2,37.2 85.2,14.9 62.8,14.9 62.8,22.9 71.5,22.9"></polygon></svg><spanclass="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></div></div><footerclass="page-edit"><!----><divclass="last-updated"><spanclass="prefix">Last Updated: </span><spanclass="time">5/26/2023, 10:39:54 PM</span></div></footer><divclass="page-nav"><pclass="inner"><spanclass="prev">
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