v1.152

HIGHLIGHTS:

• improvements and bug fixes

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Core: changed BarrierGroupDesc layout to {data, num, data, num, data, num} (to match overall style)
• Core: usageMask renamed to usage
• Core: typedBufferOffsetAlignment and storageBufferOffsetAlignment merged into a single bufferShaderResourceOffsetAlignment in DeviceDesc (in any case they should match)
• RayTracing: RAY_TRACING_BUFFER decoupled into SCRATCH_BUFFER and SHADER_BINDING_TABLE (was an umbrella, hiding potential inefficiencies)
• RayTracing: ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_BUILD_READ renamed to ACCELERATION_STRUCTURE_BUILD_INPUT
• RayTracing: rayTracingShaderTableAlignment renamed to shaderBindingTableAlignment (to match overall style)
• RayTracing: rayTracingScratchAlignment renamed to scratchBufferOffsetAlignment (to match overall style)

DETAILS:

• Core: Added missing NONE to nriGetGraphicsAPIString
• Core: ReportMessage improvement - messageType, file and line are not applied to a message text, they can be used for formatting inside a user provided message callback
• Core: ReportMessage improvement - the default message callback is modified to reflect the formatting changes
• Core: allow more 0 in TextureDesc (will be silently promoted to 1)
• Core: removed ~useless fragmentShaderCombinedOutputResourceMaxNum from DeviceDesc
• Core: added comments, clarifying compatible AccessBits expected by Layout
• VK: add missing VK location for input attributes
• ResourceAllocator: auto respected buffer placement alignment VK requirements according to the provided buffer usage
• D3D12: properly (?) used PlaneSlice
• None: properly initialized DeviceDesc
• Helper: improved FitPipelineLayoutSettingsIntoDeviceLimits
• RayTracing: increased robustness
• Validation: improved validation of CreatePipelineLayout by utilizing FitPipelineLayoutSettingsIntoDeviceLimits helper
• Validation: fixed and improved incomplete validation for AllocateDescriptorSets
• code polishing