Major overhaul of material palette management:
- Added two-buffer indirection (PaletteOffsetBuffer, MaterialIndexBuffer) for GPU material lookup, with incremental upload and resizing.
- MaterialPaletteStore now tracks dirty ranges, supports deferred slot reclamation, and exposes CPU-side arrays for upload.
- ResourceManager manages persistent GPU buffers and uploads only dirty subranges per frame.
- Updated HLSL and C# structs to use palette indices.
- Refactored systems/components to use new palette index and release logic.
- Added RenderContext.UploadBufferRange for partial uploads.
Minor: Fixed StbIApi interop signatures, updated test namespaces, and performed code cleanups.
Major refactor of graphics pipeline keying, shader cache, and resource allocation.
Replaced most Allocator usage with AllocationHandle, modernized logger usage,
and unified pipeline state keys. Updated MeshUtility to use AllocationHandle.FreeList.
Added new shader pipeline architecture docs and improved error handling throughout.
BREAKING CHANGE: Pipeline keying and resource allocation APIs have changed.
Refactored shader system to support both graphics and compute shaders.
- Updated ANTLR grammars and parser logic for explicit shader model and compute shader entry points.
- Split shader models and descriptors for graphics and compute.
- Refactored pipeline key generation and D3D12 pipeline library for compute support.
- Updated push constant layouts and HLSL includes for both shader types.
- Improved error handling and test coverage with new example files.
BREAKING CHANGE: Shader model, descriptor, and pipeline APIs have changed. Existing shader and pipeline code must be updated to use the new types and conventions.
Added ICommandSignature and D3D12CommandSignature for indirect command execution in the D3D12 backend, with supporting types. Updated ICommandBuffer and IGraphicsEngine interfaces to support indirect execution and command signature creation. Refactored command buffer pooling in D3D12GraphicsEngine for more flexible reuse. Changed BeginFrame and EndFrame to void and clarified parameter names. Updated resource and frame data structures to use direct buffer indices. Added RenderingUtility for buffer and texture uploads. Removed IRenderOutput interface. Updated RenderSystem render loop and HLSL/C# code to match new buffer usage patterns.
BREAKING CHANGE: ICommandBuffer, IGraphicsEngine, and related APIs have changed signatures and behaviors. Indirect command execution is now supported and required for some advanced features.
- Refactor D3D12 backend and RenderGraph module
- Update graphics RHI and core rendering components
- Add Random.hlsl shader include
- Regenerate API documentation and update user guides
Refactor meshlet data structures to use packed uint triangle indices, update meshlet cooking and upload logic, and align HLSL mesh shader. Add MeshRenderPass with bindless rendering and blit support. Improve RenderExtractionSystem, RootSignatureLayout, and TestRenderPipeline. Update GraphicsTestWindow for new pipeline and meshlet logic. Includes code cleanups and comments.
Introduce TestRenderPipeline and settings, replacing MeshRenderPass.
The new pipeline manages per-frame instance, view, and global data buffers,
and uploads them for each render request. Refactor GraphicsTestWindow to use
ECS World, setting up camera and mesh entities. Remove MeshRenderPass and
related demo code. Add TotalRecordCount to RenderList, new data structs for
buffer uploads, and static masks to RenderingLayerMask. Update project
references and InternalsVisibleTo for Ghost.Graphics.Test access.
