Vulkan and OpenGL render options...

[ViceEvochron]

Three basic/core fundamentals I'd like to request for the Vulkan and OpenGL rendering paths for AGK-Studio:

• Please ensure that we can manually specify either the OpenGL or Vulkan rendering path so if/when a user runs into any kind of technical problem with one path, we can support them by having a way to specify which render path to use. Perhaps this could be provided in conjunction with a 'no hardware' render option for those of us interested in writing server programs that only need to display text.

• Please ensure that anisotropic filtering is one of the built in texture filtering options (both in and out of shaders).

• Please ensure that any shader compiler (ps/vs to SPIR-V) supports existing shaders in either render path.

[rvanner]

Hi, I have some feedback on this for you;

Any choice of rendering path has to happen before

• The app starts running Tier 1 code, so it couldn't be a command, but we could add some kind of compile option like #force_opengl or something that would always use OpenGL even if Vulkan were available.

• Anisotropic filtering is currently enabled by default in my Vulkan testing so we will leave that in for the AGK version.

• On your last point we are attempting to support existing shaders in all render paths

[ViceEvochron]

Fantastic, thanks!

[plemsoft]

@ViceEvochron Thanks for your questions, i will keep it open for others to read for a while :)

[Rick-Nasher]

+1

[Marvin1968]

Definitely need this. I have a client with rendering issues on OpenGl; that I don't have on Vulcan...

[Marvin1968]

Even though I specify #renderer "Basic", I get errors on DrawtoImage stating Vulcan does not support this...