Crafter.Graphics/examples
catbot 45ecc91424 fix(vulkan-rt): merge TLAS push constant into existing block (#18)
The NVIDIA descriptor-heap AS-read workaround (#15) rewrote heap
acceleration-structure reads into a load of the TLAS device address from
a push-constant block. It always *synthesized a new* push-constant block,
so any ray-tracing shader that already declared one ended up with two —
which SPIR-V forbids ("at most one push constant block statically used per
entry point"), and vkCreateShaderModule's spirv-val check rejected:

    Entry point id '4' uses more than one PushConstant interface.

WorkaroundNvidiaAS::Patch now detects an existing PushConstant variable and,
when present, appends a single ulong member (the TLAS address) to that
block instead of adding a second one, reading the address through the
shader's own push-constant variable. The append offset is the end of the
user's block, computed from the members' explicit Offset/ArrayStride/
MatrixStride decorations (correct under both scalar and std140 layout) and
rounded up to 8. Shaders with no push constant of their own keep getting a
freshly synthesized single-member block at offset 0, exactly as before.

That offset is published via Device::workaroundTlasPushOffset and RTPass
feeds it to vkCmdPushDataEXT so the address lands where the rewritten load
reads it (0 for the synthesized case, preserving prior behaviour).

Verified on the affected driver (NVIDIA 610.43.02, RTX 4090): VulkanTriangle
ray-traces correctly and validation-clean both with and without a
user-declared raygen push constant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-03 02:28:02 +00:00
..
CustomShader custom shader webgpu 2026-05-18 05:39:17 +02:00
Decompression compression example 2026-05-12 00:27:55 +02:00
HelloDom webgpu support 2026-05-18 04:58:52 +02:00
HelloUI custom shader webgpu 2026-05-18 05:39:17 +02:00
HelloWindow crafter-build V2 2026-04-30 01:29:17 +02:00
InputSystem new input system 2026-05-12 00:24:48 +02:00
RTStress wip: uncommitted changes from claude run on issue #3 2026-05-31 16:28:38 +00:00
RTVolume docs(webgpu-rt): add RTVolume example (procedural spheres + any-hit cut-out) 2026-06-02 22:09:30 +00:00
Sponza WebGPU RT: port Sponza to wavefront (shadow ray in SHADE) 2026-05-31 20:16:04 +00:00
VulkanTriangle fix(vulkan-rt): merge TLAS push constant into existing block (#18) 2026-06-03 02:28:02 +00:00
README.md new input system 2026-05-12 00:24:48 +02:00

Examples

Each example is a self-contained crafter-build project that depends on the parent Crafter.Graphics via LocalProject. To build and run any of them:

cd examples/<name>
crafter-build -r

Index

HelloWindow

Minimum viable program: open a window, run the event loop. No Vulkan rendering. Useful as a smoke test for Device::Initialize + Window + the platform backend.

VulkanTriangle

Ray-traced single triangle through vkCmdTraceRaysKHR. Shows the full ray-tracing setup: DescriptorHeapVulkan with image and buffer slots, PipelineRTVulkan from raygen / miss / closesthit SPIR-V, BLAS via Mesh::Build, TLAS via RenderingElement3D::BuildTLAS, direct vkWriteResourceDescriptorsEXT for swapchain views, RTPass on window.passes. Smallest test of the bindless ray-tracing path.

HelloUI

Compute-shader UI demo using all three UI tiers:

  • Tier 3 components: DrawButton, DrawSlider, DrawProgressBar, composed via Rect::SubRect for resize-safe layout.
  • Tier 2 standard shaders: DispatchQuads for the background and components, DispatchCircles for a cursor-tracking dot, DispatchText for the button label (with the FontAtlas wired up to UIRenderer).
  • Tier 1 is available too — any custom ComputeShader registered on the same heap can be dispatched alongside the standard ones.

Hit-testing and animation are user code (see the EventListener subscriptions on window.onMouseMove / onMouseLeftClick); the library does not track widgets or focus.

Drop a TTF in this directory as font.ttf before running (the example loads it via Font("font.ttf")).

InputSystem

Guided tour of Crafter::Input: name actions ("Jump", "Move", "Fire", "Look", "Zoom"), bind them to keys / mouse / gamepad (with composite bindings for WASD-as-Vector2 and analog sticks), and consume them as events. Demonstrates:

  • The compile-time Key(CrafterKeys::Space) helper that folds to a per-platform raw scancode — bindings stay cross-platform-readable in source while runtime data stores raw codes only.
  • All four action types (Button, Axis1D, Vector2) with multiple bindings per action (any-of semantics).
  • Map::StartRebind — press R, then press any input to remap "Jump" at runtime. Captured input is filtered out for that frame.
  • BindingToString / BindingFromString round-trip — print the default bindings as the on-disk format.
  • Gamepad hot-plug events: plug a controller in mid-run and the bindings start firing immediately.

Console-driven (no UI rendering needed); focus the window and watch stdout.

CustomShader

Tier 1 demo: a user-authored compute shader (inverse-circle.comp.glsl) running alongside the shipped drawQuads. The custom shader inverts RGB under each item-circle — exactly the kind of effect attempt #2's closed shader couldn't express. Shows:

  • Defining your own item POD struct in C++ + matching std430 struct in GLSL.
  • #include "../../shaders/ui-shared.glsl" for the bindless heap declarations + UIDispatchHeader push-constant contract.
  • ComputeShader::Load for the .spv, UIRenderer::RegisterBuffer for your SSBO, FillHeader to populate the standard prefix, and UIRenderer::Dispatch to launch — the same pattern the standard shaders use under the hood.
  • The inter-dispatch SHADER_WRITE → SHADER_READ|WRITE barrier is inserted automatically, so the custom shader sees the colored stripes drawn by the prior DispatchQuads and reads/writes the swapchain image safely.