# Objective
Closes#18075
In order to enable a number of patterns for dynamic materials in the
engine, it's necessary to decouple the renderer from the `Material`
trait.
This opens the possibility for:
- Materials that aren't coupled to `AsBindGroup`.
- 2d using the underlying 3d bindless infrastructure.
- Dynamic materials that can change their layout at runtime.
- Materials that aren't even backed by a Rust struct at all.
## Solution
In short, remove all trait bounds from render world material systems and
resources. This means moving a bunch of stuff onto `MaterialProperties`
and engaging in some hacks to make specialization work. Rather than
storing the bind group data in `MaterialBindGroupAllocator`, right now
we're storing it in a closure on `MaterialProperties`. TBD if this has
bad performance characteristics.
## Benchmarks
- `many_cubes`:
`cargo run --example many_cubes --release --features=bevy/trace_tracy --
--vary-material-data-per-instance`:
- @DGriffin91's Caldera
`cargo run --release --features=bevy/trace_tracy -- --random-materials`
- @DGriffin91's Caldera with 20 unique material types (i.e.
`MaterialPlugin<M>`) and random materials per mesh
`cargo run --release --features=bevy/trace_tracy -- --random-materials`
### TODO
- We almost certainly lost some parallelization from removing the type
params that could be gained back from smarter iteration.
- Test all the things that could have broken.
- ~Fix meshlets~
## Showcase
See [the
example](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/19667/files#diff-9d768cfe1c3aa81eff365d250d3cbe5a63e8df63e81dd85f64c3c3cd993f6d94)
for a custom material implemented without the use of the `Material`
trait and thus `AsBindGroup`.
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Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: IceSentry <c.giguere42@gmail.com>
# Objective
- feature `shader_format_wesl` doesn't compile in Wasm
- once fixed, example `shader_material_wesl` doesn't work in WebGL2
## Solution
- remove special path handling when loading shaders. this seems like a
way to escape the asset folder which we don't want to allow, and can't
compile on android or wasm, and can't work on iOS (filesystem is rooted
there)
- pad material so that it's 16 bits. I couldn't get conditional
compilation to work in wesl for type declaration, it fails to parse
- the shader renders the color `(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)` when it's not a
polka dot. this renders as black on WebGPU/metal/..., and white on
WebGL2. change it to `(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0)` so that it's black
everywhere
# Objective
- Fixes#18539
- Doc failed to build as an example `include_str!` an asset, but assets
are not available in the packaged crate
## Solution
- Don't `include_str!` the shader but read it at runtime
# Objective
WESL was broken on windows.
## Solution
- Upgrade to `wesl_rs` 1.2.
- Fix path handling on windows.
- Improve example for khronos demo this week.
# Objective
WESL's pre-MVP `0.1.0` has been
[released](https://docs.rs/wesl/latest/wesl/)!
Add support for WESL shader source so that we can begin playing and
testing WESL, as well as aiding in their development.
## Solution
Adds a `ShaderSource::WESL` that can be used to load `.wesl` shaders.
Right now, we don't support mixing `naga-oil`. Additionally, WESL
shaders currently need to pass through the naga frontend, which the WESL
team is aware isn't great for performance (they're working on compiling
into naga modules). Also, since our shaders are managed using the asset
system, we don't currently support using file based imports like `super`
or package scoped imports. Further work will be needed to asses how we
want to support this.
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## Showcase
See the `shader_material_wesl` example. Be sure to press space to
activate party mode (trigger conditional compilation)!
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ec6ad19f-b6e4-4e9d-a00f-6f09336b08a4
