A game placing props while it plays (a sign an animal leaves, a fish, a bobber) loaded each through
gltf_load, which reads the file and parses its document every time. gltf_cached finds the same
(dir, file, node) by comparing the names in place and hands back the model the first load made;
a model whose document is read after the load (ludic.anim's clips) still goes through gltf_load.
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n x n samples of chunk (i, j) of a size_m grid from the terrain's corner, row-major into the
caller's buffer with nothing allocated, each the (1 4 1) / 6 B-spline filter of the texels under it
(ter_spline_at): what ludic.physics' jph_shape_heightfield_bspline makes of the whole map, so a
chunk's physics ground matches the drawn one and its neighbours' to the bit. The read-back lives
for the whole map (terrain_generate to terrain_unload). examples/rendering/chunks.ludic, in the
suite, checks the shared edges, a sample against the filter by hand, and a short buffer refused.
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The device's textureCompressionBC is asked for and remembered (gvk_has_bc). tex_load_ex prefers a
DX10 .dds with the full chain beside the .png (not for an edge-padded cut-out atlas):
texture_dds.ludic reads BC7 / BC5 / BC4, gpu_tex_compressed makes the image with every level and
no colour-attachment use (a compressed image is only sampled and copied into), and
gvk_tex_upload_blocks copies each level's blocks from one staging buffer. A colour map is BC7
sampled as sRGB, a data map BC7 read as it is. examples/rendering/bc.ludic holds it, in the suite;
ludic.lab's plate carries its .dds (its three shots render at 56-60 dB against the .png's).
ludic-dev test 307/307, no Vulkan SDK in the environment.
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- model_release(model) frees each primitive's mesh, and each texture once no other model uses it:
the glTF texture cache counts the primitives using each texture (a path loaded again, and a LOD
chain borrowing its LOD0's material, each take a reference); the last one frees the texture and
forgets it along with any remembered material naming it, so a later load is a fresh one
- a scatter layer's instance and sort arrays start at 256 and double as layer_add or a stream
fills them, to the layer's cap, instead of the whole cap up front (0.4 GB in Maroon Lake)
- gvk_tex_read's copy struct comes from the scratch ring
- examples/rendering/release.ludic holds it (RELEASE OK on Vulkan and OpenGL), in the suite
smooth renders pixel-identical before and after (max |d| 0). ludic-dev test 306/306.
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- grass_cull.comp decides each candidate blade once a frame (place, ground, density, water,
slope, frustum, colour field) and writes survivors into three bands by distance, one indirect
draw each; grass_inst.vert only bends and places the vertices. OpenGL keeps grass.vert's
per-vertex path; R3D_GRASS_GPU=0 compares
- compute programs take sampled textures after their buffers (gpu_compute_tex / gpu_dispatch_tex),
and every dispatch now records a compute-to-draw memory barrier
- the blades as a sward: 4 m cells, bands with five, three and one-quad blades, spacing doubling
every 18 m to 70 m, never narrower than a pixel; lit facing the sun and leaning to the sky,
shadow looked up above the ground (it read the terrain as its caster), a colour ramp that
leaves only the sheath dark, clumps, dry patches and a tussock shade worked out per blade
- scatter layers flagged grass are skipped while the blades draw (and under R3D_NOGRASS);
R3D_BLADES, R3D_NOBLADES win over the game's setting; R3D_GRASS_S0/D0 for measuring
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collide.ludic (circles in a cell grid that could not be removed) and its Render3dState fields are
deleted, and the reload example stops asserting colliders. A game still calling col_* must move to
ludic.physics first (Maroon Lake's src/solid).
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The typed buffers are slices: words/floats/fixeds/doubles/pointers(n) make
zeroed, bounds-checked []int/[]float/... and the type names mean them. buffer(n)
is a []byte, with text_of, Fs.read_bytes/write_bytes and view(xs, start, n).
bytes(), indexing a raw pointer or bytes, free, resize, Memory.*, raw file calls,
data_of and C externs are refused outside unsafe { } / unsafe function, and a
project's own files may write unsafe only with --unsafe; the runtime and packages
are the platform. A slice passed to an extern goes as its data.
What the change found: Sync's atomics on a slice header, words(n) uninitialised,
input's fixed axes in ints, truetype's fixed outlines as ints, skin matrices
typed int, gl_shader's source table made from raw bytes. render3d gets safe
entry points (safe_api.ludic). Rendering is byte-identical; a frame costs the same.
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fn(int, float) -> bool is a type, fn name is any top-level function's value, and a call through
a local, a global, a record field, a slice element, a parameter or a result of a function type
is an indirect call; two function types mix only when equal, a call checks its argument count,
and a value may be null (examples/functions/values.ludic). Job.parallel_for keeps its worker
check.
render3d's scene is registered rather than required by name: r3d_on_draw, r3d_on_casters and
r3d_on_stream_fill (hooks.ludic). The two rendering examples register theirs - and had defined
scene_draw_casters with no parameter while the renderer passed one, which nothing checked.
render3d declares numbers float itself; smooth.ludic is converted to floats and returns when
r3d_init fails instead of running on into a segfault. Noise.* check their argument count (a call
one short crashed the compiler). selfhost-build says why it failed. The migration tool reads a
declared float as evidence. Seed regenerated.
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Every R3D_* read goes through r3d_env_has / r3d_env (env.ludic): a headless
build honours them as before, a windowed build only when R3D_DEV is set to
anything but "0", so a shipped game never reaches a debug view, feature kill,
file writer or hardware fake. Documented in docs/SHIPPING.md.
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streamline.ludic: slInit before the Vulkan instance, feature support per
adapter, a frame token per frame, Reflex sleep and PCL latency markers, and
DLSS super resolution on the lit HDR frame (Halton jitter, depth + zero
motion vectors with camera motion from clipToPrevClip, matrices carrying
the Vulkan path's y flip and depth remap). Bloom, tonemap and sharpen read
the upscaled size. The device asks for privateData and present_id, which
Streamline's hooks need. R3D_DLSS / R3D_REFLEX / R3D_SL_LOG for tests.
gpu_feature_implemented: DLSS and Reflex.
ludic bundle (Windows): app native "<dir>" copies native libraries beside
the executable.
Verified on an RTX 3070 Ti: DLSS Quality evaluates 1280x720 -> 1920x1080.
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Measurement only: a tally at each of gpu.ludic's five draw doors, program
changes and texture binds, keyed by the open profiler pass. Off unless
R3D_DRAWSTATS is set; frames byte-identical with it off and on (Mac, OpenGL).
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The drawing half of the Vulkan backend, compiled into render3d and not yet reached from it:
- gvk_program: a program handle as its manifest variant - two SPIR-V modules, a descriptor set
layout (the vertex block at 0, the fragment block at 1, the samplers at their manifest bindings)
and a pipeline layout. Nothing is compiled at run time.
- gvk_pipeline: one pipeline per program, recorded vertex layout, render state and pass formats,
built the first time that combination draws. Attributes the shader does not read are left out;
the front face is clockwise, since neither API flips y between clip space and its target rows.
- gvk_uniform / gvk_u_set / gvk_bind_texture: loose uniforms written into each stage's block at
the manifest's offsets and array strides; gvk_draw_set copies the blocks into a per-frame ring
at the device's alignment and fills a descriptor set from a per-frame pool, with a white 1x1
texture for a sampler nothing was bound to.
- The frame: one command buffer; a framebuffer bind ends the pass and the next begins at its first
clear or draw (a clear that comes first is the load op); attachments move to attachment layouts
for the pass and back to SHADER_READ_ONLY after it, a cascade drawn through a view of its layer.
gvk_present submits and waits; gvk_screenshot reads the screen image back bottom row first.
r3d.ludic now imports gpu_manifest.ludic too. Textures remember their size.
OpenGL frames byte-identical at the five viewpoints; 59 self-tests pass; VKRES OK and VKDEVICE OK.
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The Vulkan backend is two files. gpu_vk.ludic is the device, memory and one-shot commands,
pure Vulkan, and still runs on its own (vk_device.ludic). gpu_vk_res.ludic is the resources in
the renderer's vocabulary - OpenGL's names for formats, filters and blend factors, which only
exist where Gl.* is named - starting with the format table. r3d.ludic imports both after
gpu.ludic; nothing calls them yet.
OpenGL frames byte-identical at the five viewpoints; 59 self-tests pass; VKDEVICE OK.
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Render state (depth, blending, culling, colour writes, alpha-to-coverage, depth bias,
scissor) and uniforms go through gpu_* / u_* and nowhere else; OpenGL state is cached and
only changes reach the driver. Frames are bit-identical to before at the fixed viewpoints.
R3D_GFX=gl|vk or gpu_request chooses a backend, falling back to OpenGL with a reason.
gpu_caps_probe() asks Vulkan, on Windows, for the 1.3 floor, ray tracing, mesh shaders, the
NVIDIA RTX generation, Reflex and HDR colour spaces, for a game's settings to grey out what
a machine cannot use; R3D_CAPS pretends to be a given card for tests.
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`Gl.*` binds the whole OpenGL 4.1 core API — every entry point of the
platform gl3.h with every GL_* constant, generated by `ludic-dev glgen`
with per-call ABI thunks. Windowed builds get an NSOpenGLContext on the
existing window at Retina resolution; headless builds render into an
offscreen CGL context, so a program that uses Gl.* renders and
screenshots identically under the test harness. It links gl.ll, the
thunks and OpenGL.framework only when used; every other build stays
byte-identical.
packages/ludic.render3d is a physically based renderer written on that
surface: HDRI image-based lighting, GPU-generated terrain with scanned
PBR materials, CDLOD, cascaded shadows, glTF with skinning, instanced
vegetation with impostors, procedural grass, water, SSAO, and an HDR
pipeline with bloom, auto-exposure and ACES.
It also carries this session's work on it: the terrain at half its cost
(10.3 -> 5.4 ms of frame), the streaming hitch that got worse the longer
you played, a resize that emptied the world, and the packaging that lets
a game use the renderer from its own repository — `ludic assets`, the
material manifest shipping with the package, and shader lookup falling
back to the install root. See changes/ for each, with its numbers.
The camping game that drove all of it has moved out to its own
repository, Maroon Lake; examples/rendering/smooth.ludic stays as the
renderer's example here.
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