bevy/docs/cargo_features.md
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Initial raytraced lighting progress (bevy_solari) (#19058)
# Bevy Solari 
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## Preface
- See release notes.
- Please talk to me in #rendering-dev on discord or open a github
discussion if you have questions about the long term plan, and keep
discussion in this PR limited to the contents of the PR :)

## Connections
- Works towards #639, #16408.
- Spawned https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/18993.
- Need to fix RT stuff in naga_oil first
https://github.com/bevyengine/naga_oil/pull/116.

## This PR

After nearly two years, I've revived the raytraced lighting effort I
first started in https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/10000.

Unlike that PR, which has realtime techniques, I've limited this PR to:
* `RaytracingScenePlugin` - BLAS and TLAS building, geometry and texture
binding, sampling functions.
* `PathtracingPlugin` - A non-realtime path tracer intended to serve as
a testbed and reference.

## What's implemented?

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/06522007-c205-46eb-8178-823f19917def)

* BLAS building on mesh load
* Emissive lights
* Directional lights with soft shadows
* Diffuse (lambert, not Bevy's diffuse BRDF) and emissive materials
* A reference path tracer with:
  * Antialiasing
  * Direct light sampling (next event estimation) with 0/1 MIS weights
  * Importance-sampled BRDF bounces
  * Russian roulette 

## What's _not_ implemented?
* Anything realtime, including a real-time denoiser
* Integration with Bevy's rasterized gbuffer
* Specular materials
* Non-opaque geometry
* Any sort of CPU or GPU optimizations
* BLAS compaction, proper bindless, and further RT APIs are things that
we need wgpu to add
* PointLights, SpotLights, or skyboxes / environment lighting 
* Support for materials other than StandardMaterial (and only a subset
of properties are supported)
* Skinned/morphed or otherwise animating/deformed meshes
* Mipmaps
* Adaptive self-intersection ray bias
* A good way for developers to detect whether the user's GPU supports RT
or not, and fallback to baked lighting.
* Documentation and actual finalized APIs (literally everything is
subject to change)

## End-user Usage
* Have a GPU that supports RT with inline ray queries
* Add `SolariPlugin` to your app
* Ensure any `Mesh` asset you want to use for raytracing has
`enable_raytracing: true` (defaults to true), and that it uses the
standard uncompressed position/normal/uv_0/tangent vertex attribute set,
triangle list topology, and 32-bit indices.
* If you don't want to build a BLAS and use the mesh for RT, set
enable_raytracing to false.
* Add the `RaytracingMesh3d` component to your entity (separate from
`Mesh3d` or `MeshletMesh3d`).

## Testing

- Did you test these changes? If so, how? 
  - Ran the solari example.
- Are there any parts that need more testing?
  - Other test scenes probably. Normal mapping would be good to test.
- How can other people (reviewers) test your changes? Is there anything
specific they need to know?
  - See the solari.rs example for how to setup raytracing.
- If relevant, what platforms did you test these changes on, and are
there any important ones you can't test?
  - Windows 11, NVIDIA RTX 3080.

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Co-authored-by: atlv <email@atlasdostal.com>
Co-authored-by: IceSentry <IceSentry@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <mcanders1@gmail.com>
2025-06-12 21:26:10 +00:00

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## Cargo Features
Bevy exposes many features to customize the engine. Enabling them add functionalities but often come at the cost of longer compilation times and extra dependencies.
### Default Features
The default feature set enables most of the expected features of a game engine, like rendering in both 2D and 3D, asset loading, audio and UI. To help reduce compilation time, consider disabling default features and enabling only those you need.
|feature name|description|
|-|-|
|android-game-activity|Android GameActivity support. Default, choose between this and `android-native-activity`.|
|android_shared_stdcxx|Enable using a shared stdlib for cxx on Android|
|animation|Enable animation support, and glTF animation loading|
|async_executor|Uses `async-executor` as a task execution backend.|
|bevy_animation|Provides animation functionality|
|bevy_anti_aliasing|Provides various anti aliasing solutions|
|bevy_asset|Provides asset functionality|
|bevy_audio|Provides audio functionality|
|bevy_color|Provides shared color types and operations|
|bevy_core_pipeline|Provides cameras and other basic render pipeline features|
|bevy_core_widgets|Headless widget collection for Bevy UI.|
|bevy_gilrs|Adds gamepad support|
|bevy_gizmos|Adds support for rendering gizmos|
|bevy_gltf|[glTF](https://www.khronos.org/gltf/) support|
|bevy_input_focus|Enable input focus subsystem|
|bevy_log|Enable integration with `tracing` and `log`|
|bevy_mesh_picking_backend|Provides an implementation for picking meshes|
|bevy_pbr|Adds PBR rendering|
|bevy_picking|Provides picking functionality|
|bevy_render|Provides rendering functionality|
|bevy_scene|Provides scene functionality|
|bevy_sprite|Provides sprite functionality|
|bevy_sprite_picking_backend|Provides an implementation for picking sprites|
|bevy_state|Enable built in global state machines|
|bevy_text|Provides text functionality|
|bevy_ui|A custom ECS-driven UI framework|
|bevy_ui_picking_backend|Provides an implementation for picking UI|
|bevy_window|Windowing layer|
|bevy_winit|winit window and input backend|
|custom_cursor|Enable winit custom cursor support|
|default_font|Include a default font, containing only ASCII characters, at the cost of a 20kB binary size increase|
|hdr|HDR image format support|
|ktx2|KTX2 compressed texture support|
|multi_threaded|Enables multithreaded parallelism in the engine. Disabling it forces all engine tasks to run on a single thread.|
|png|PNG image format support|
|smaa_luts|Include SMAA Look Up Tables KTX2 Files|
|std|Allows access to the `std` crate.|
|sysinfo_plugin|Enables system information diagnostic plugin|
|tonemapping_luts|Include tonemapping Look Up Tables KTX2 files. If everything is pink, you need to enable this feature or change the `Tonemapping` method for your `Camera2d` or `Camera3d`.|
|vorbis|OGG/VORBIS audio format support|
|webgl2|Enable some limitations to be able to use WebGL2. Please refer to the [WebGL2 and WebGPU](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/tree/latest/examples#webgl2-and-webgpu) section of the examples README for more information on how to run Wasm builds with WebGPU.|
|x11|X11 display server support|
|zstd|For KTX2 supercompression|
### Optional Features
|feature name|description|
|-|-|
|accesskit_unix|Enable AccessKit on Unix backends (currently only works with experimental screen readers and forks.)|
|android-native-activity|Android NativeActivity support. Legacy, should be avoided for most new Android games.|
|asset_processor|Enables the built-in asset processor for processed assets.|
|async-io|Use async-io's implementation of block_on instead of futures-lite's implementation. This is preferred if your application uses async-io.|
|basis-universal|Basis Universal compressed texture support|
|bevy_ci_testing|Enable systems that allow for automated testing on CI|
|bevy_debug_stepping|Enable stepping-based debugging of Bevy systems|
|bevy_dev_tools|Provides a collection of developer tools|
|bevy_image|Load and access image data. Usually added by an image format|
|bevy_remote|Enable the Bevy Remote Protocol|
|bevy_solari|Provides raytraced lighting (experimental)|
|bevy_ui_debug|Provides a debug overlay for bevy UI|
|bmp|BMP image format support|
|critical-section|`critical-section` provides the building blocks for synchronization primitives on all platforms, including `no_std`.|
|dds|DDS compressed texture support|
|debug_glam_assert|Enable assertions in debug builds to check the validity of parameters passed to glam|
|default_no_std|Recommended defaults for no_std applications|
|detailed_trace|Enable detailed trace event logging. These trace events are expensive even when off, thus they require compile time opt-in|
|dynamic_linking|Force dynamic linking, which improves iterative compile times|
|embedded_watcher|Enables watching in memory asset providers for Bevy Asset hot-reloading|
|experimental_pbr_pcss|Enable support for PCSS, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader sampler limit on older/lower-end GPUs|
|exr|EXR image format support|
|ff|Farbfeld image format support|
|file_watcher|Enables watching the filesystem for Bevy Asset hot-reloading|
|flac|FLAC audio format support|
|ghost_nodes|Experimental support for nodes that are ignored for UI layouting|
|gif|GIF image format support|
|glam_assert|Enable assertions to check the validity of parameters passed to glam|
|hotpatching|Enable hotpatching of Bevy systems|
|ico|ICO image format support|
|jpeg|JPEG image format support|
|libm|Uses the `libm` maths library instead of the one provided in `std` and `core`.|
|meshlet|Enables the meshlet renderer for dense high-poly scenes (experimental)|
|meshlet_processor|Enables processing meshes into meshlet meshes for bevy_pbr|
|minimp3|MP3 audio format support (through minimp3)|
|mp3|MP3 audio format support|
|pbr_anisotropy_texture|Enable support for anisotropy texture in the `StandardMaterial`, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs|
|pbr_multi_layer_material_textures|Enable support for multi-layer material textures in the `StandardMaterial`, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs|
|pbr_specular_textures|Enable support for specular textures in the `StandardMaterial`, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs|
|pbr_transmission_textures|Enable support for transmission-related textures in the `StandardMaterial`, at the risk of blowing past the global, per-shader texture limit on older/lower-end GPUs|
|pnm|PNM image format support, includes pam, pbm, pgm and ppm|
|qoi|QOI image format support|
|reflect_documentation|Enable documentation reflection|
|reflect_functions|Enable function reflection|
|serialize|Enable serialization support through serde|
|shader_format_glsl|Enable support for shaders in GLSL|
|shader_format_spirv|Enable support for shaders in SPIR-V|
|shader_format_wesl|Enable support for shaders in WESL|
|spirv_shader_passthrough|Enable passthrough loading for SPIR-V shaders (Only supported on Vulkan, shader capabilities and extensions must agree with the platform implementation)|
|statically-linked-dxc|Statically linked DXC shader compiler for DirectX 12|
|symphonia-aac|AAC audio format support (through symphonia)|
|symphonia-all|AAC, FLAC, MP3, MP4, OGG/VORBIS, and WAV audio formats support (through symphonia)|
|symphonia-flac|FLAC audio format support (through symphonia)|
|symphonia-isomp4|MP4 audio format support (through symphonia)|
|symphonia-vorbis|OGG/VORBIS audio format support (through symphonia)|
|symphonia-wav|WAV audio format support (through symphonia)|
|tga|TGA image format support|
|tiff|TIFF image format support|
|trace|Tracing support|
|trace_chrome|Tracing support, saving a file in Chrome Tracing format|
|trace_tracy|Tracing support, exposing a port for Tracy|
|trace_tracy_memory|Tracing support, with memory profiling, exposing a port for Tracy|
|track_location|Enables source location tracking for change detection and spawning/despawning, which can assist with debugging|
|wav|WAV audio format support|
|wayland|Wayland display server support|
|web|Enables use of browser APIs. Note this is currently only applicable on `wasm32` architectures.|
|webgpu|Enable support for WebGPU in Wasm. When enabled, this feature will override the `webgl2` feature and you won't be able to run Wasm builds with WebGL2, only with WebGPU.|
|webp|WebP image format support|
|zlib|For KTX2 supercompression|