bevy/crates/bevy_pbr/src/prepass
Patrick Walton 40df1ea4b6
Remove the type parameter from check_visibility, and only invoke it once. (#16812)
Currently, `check_visibility` is parameterized over a query filter that
specifies the type of potentially-visible object. This has the
unfortunate side effect that we need a separate system,
`mark_view_visibility_as_changed_if_necessary`, to trigger view
visibility change detection. That system is quite slow because it must
iterate sequentially over all entities in the scene.

This PR moves the query filter from `check_visibility` to a new
component, `VisibilityClass`. `VisibilityClass` stores a list of type
IDs, each corresponding to one of the query filters we used to use.
Because `check_visibility` is no longer specialized to the query filter
at the type level, Bevy now only needs to invoke it once, leading to
better performance as `check_visibility` can do change detection on the
fly rather than delegating it to a separate system.

This commit also has ergonomic improvements, as there's no need for
applications that want to add their own custom renderable components to
add specializations of the `check_visibility` system to the schedule.
Instead, they only need to ensure that the `ViewVisibility` component is
properly kept up to date. The recommended way to do this, and the way
that's demonstrated in the `custom_phase_item` and
`specialized_mesh_pipeline` examples, is to make `ViewVisibility` a
required component and to add the type ID to it in a component add hook.
This patch does this for `Mesh3d`, `Mesh2d`, `Sprite`, `Light`, and
`Node`, which means that most app code doesn't need to change at all.

Note that, although this patch has a large impact on the performance of
visibility determination, it doesn't actually improve the end-to-end
frame time of `many_cubes`. That's because the render world was already
effectively hiding the latency from
`mark_view_visibility_as_changed_if_necessary`. This patch is, however,
necessary for *further* improvements to `many_cubes` performance.

`many_cubes` trace before:
![Screenshot 2024-12-13
015318](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d0b1881b-fb75-4a39-b05d-1a16eabfa2c5)

`many_cubes` trace after:
![Screenshot 2024-12-13
145735](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0a364289-e942-41bb-9cc2-b05d07e3722d)

## Migration Guide

* `check_visibility` no longer takes a `QueryFilter`, and there's no
need to add it manually to your app schedule anymore for custom
rendering items. Instead, entities with custom renderable components
should add the appropriate type IDs to `VisibilityClass`. See
`custom_phase_item` for an example.
2024-12-17 04:43:45 +00:00
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mod.rs Remove the type parameter from check_visibility, and only invoke it once. (#16812) 2024-12-17 04:43:45 +00:00
prepass_bindings.rs Keep track of when a texture is first cleared (#10325) 2023-12-31 00:37:37 +00:00
prepass_bindings.wgsl Normalise matrix naming (#13489) 2024-06-03 16:56:53 +00:00
prepass_io.wgsl Make visibility range (HLOD) dithering work when prepasses are enabled. (#16286) 2024-12-04 17:34:36 +00:00
prepass_utils.wgsl StandardMaterial Light Transmission (#8015) 2023-10-31 20:59:02 +00:00
prepass.wgsl Batch skinned meshes on platforms where storage buffers are available. (#16599) 2024-12-10 17:50:03 +00:00