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wasn't too painful.</p> <h2 id="multi-view-added"><a href="#multi-view-added" class="header-anchor">#</a> Multi view added</h2> <p>The <code>RenderPipelineDescriptor</code> now includes a <code>multiview</code> field that
indicates the number of array textures if array textures are used
as render attachments.</p> <h2 id="no-more-block-attribute"><a href="#no-more-block-attribute" class="header-anchor">#</a> No more block attribute</h2> <p>The WGSL spec has changed and the <code>block</code> attribute is no longer a thing.
This means that structs in WGSL no longer need to be annotated to be used
as uniform input. For example:</p> <div class="language-wgsl extra-class"><pre class="language-wgsl"><code><span class="token punctuation">[</span><span class="token punctuation">[</span>block<span class="token punctuation">]</span><span class="token punctuation">]</span>
<span class="token keyword">struct</span> <span class="token class-name">Camera</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
view_pos<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token builtin">vec4</span><span class="token punctuation">&lt;</span><span class="token builtin">f32</span><span class="token punctuation">&gt;</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
view_proj<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token builtin">mat4x4</span><span class="token punctuation">&lt;</span><span class="token builtin">f32</span><span class="token punctuation">&gt;</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
</code></pre></div><p>Can be simplified to just</p> <div class="language-wgsl extra-class"><pre class="language-wgsl"><code><span class="token keyword">struct</span> <span class="token class-name">Camera</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
view_pos<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token builtin">vec4</span><span class="token punctuation">&lt;</span><span class="token builtin">f32</span><span class="token punctuation">&gt;</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
view_proj<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token builtin">mat4x4</span><span class="token punctuation">&lt;</span><span class="token builtin">f32</span><span class="token punctuation">&gt;</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
</code></pre></div><h2 id="more-validation"><a href="#more-validation" class="header-anchor">#</a> More validation</h2> <p>Wgpu now has a validation error where if your uniform doesn't match the
alignment specified in the shader, the program will crash when you go to
draw:</p> <div class="language- extra-class"><pre class="language-text"><code>thread 'main' panicked at 'wgpu error: Validation Error
Caused by:
In a RenderPass
note: encoder = `Render Encoder`
In a draw command, indexed:true indirect:false
note: render pipeline = `Render Pipeline`
Buffer is bound with size 28 where the shader expects 32 in group[1] compact index 0
</code></pre></div><p>The only struct that I needed to change was the <code>LightUniform</code> struct. All
I needed to do was add a padding field:</p> <div class="language-rust extra-class"><pre class="language-rust"><code><span class="token attribute attr-name">#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, bytemuck::Pod, bytemuck::Zeroable)]</span>
<span class="token keyword">struct</span> <span class="token type-definition class-name">LightUniform</span> <span class="token punctuation">{</span>
position<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token punctuation">[</span><span class="token keyword">f32</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span> <span class="token number">3</span><span class="token punctuation">]</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
<span class="token comment">// Due to uniforms requiring 16 byte (4 float) spacing, we need to use a padding field here</span>
_padding<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token keyword">u32</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
color<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token punctuation">[</span><span class="token keyword">f32</span><span class="token punctuation">;</span> <span class="token number">3</span><span class="token punctuation">]</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
<span class="token comment">// Due to uniforms requiring 16 byte (4 float) spacing, we need to use a padding field here</span>
_padding2<span class="token punctuation">:</span> <span class="token keyword">u32</span><span class="token punctuation">,</span>
<span class="token punctuation">}</span>
</code></pre></div><p>I updated the <a href="../../intermediate/tutorial10-lighting">lighting tutorial</a> to reflect this change.</p> <h2 id="misc"><a href="#misc" class="header-anchor">#</a> Misc</h2> <p>Due to the recent deploy to <a href="https://docs.rs/anyhow/latest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anyhow<span><svg xmlns="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"><path fill="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> <polygon fill="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> <span class="sr-only">(opens new window)</span></span></a> that
breaks glob imports (aka. <code>use anyhow::*</code>), I had to switch qualified
imports and uses (ie. <code>anyhow::Result</code>). This was mostly an issue on my
build scripts for some of the showcase examples.</p> <p>The main tutorial examples weren't affected, and the changes are minor, so
if you're curious feel free to look at the repo.</p></div> <footer class="page-edit"><!----> <div class="last-updated"><span class="prefix">Last Updated: </span> <span class="time">11/27/2023, 10:42:27 PM</span></div></footer> <div class="page-nav"><p class="inner"><span class="prev">
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