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.
- Switched asset handler interfaces and implementations to use file paths instead of FileStreams for all operations.
- Refactored mesh asset structure and parsing, moved meshlet logic to MeshProcessor, and introduced hierarchical MeshNode types.
- Updated texture asset handling: switched to bits-per-channel, improved mipmap/cubemap generation, and SPMD HDRI support.
- Updated shader asset handlers to use file paths and split code compilation logic.
- Improved asset registry: added event debouncing, better path handling, and import time/hash tracking.
- Added source generator for IAssetSettings registration to support polymorphic JSON serialization.
- Updated dependencies and tests; various minor fixes and 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 the shader compilation pipeline to introduce modularity, improve performance, and enhance maintainability. Key changes include:
- Added `ShaderCompilationConfig`, `CompilerOptimizeLevel`, and `ShaderStage` enums.
- Replaced `SM` property with `ShaderModel` in shader models.
- Introduced `ShaderLibrary` for in-memory and disk-based shader caching.
- Refactored `DSLShaderCompiler` and `AntlrShaderCompiler` for better hashing and error handling.
- Centralized shader compilation logic in `ShaderCompilerUtility`.
- Removed legacy shader compilation logic from `IShaderCompiler`.
- Updated `RenderGraph`, `ResourceManager`, and `Material` to integrate with the new caching system.
- Improved memory management with `NativeMemoryManager<T>`.
BREAKING CHANGE: Removed legacy shader compilation methods and replaced them with a new caching and compilation system.
Refactored shader compilation and resource management systems:
- Introduced `DXCShaderCompiler` for HLSL compilation and reflection.
- Added `BuildFinalShaderCode` method for robust shader code generation.
- Replaced raw strings with `ShaderEntryPoint` struct for shader paths.
- Updated `RenderContext` and `RenderGraphContext` for new pipeline methods.
- Added thread-safe resource management methods in `ResourceManager`.
- Introduced `DXCShaderReflectionData` for shader reflection handling.
- Removed redundant code and simplified `ShaderPropertiesRegistry`.
BREAKING CHANGE: Updated shader and resource APIs to use new structures and methods.
Introduce ICleanupComponent and cleanup archetype logic in ECS. Refactor component versioning to uint. Update IResourceDatabase to use map/unmap pattern. Decouple per-frame render requests from RenderSystem via IRenderPayload. Update render pipeline and extraction system to new API.
BREAKING CHANGE: Entity destruction and render pipeline APIs have changed. IResourceDatabase.MapResource signature is updated; all callers must use map/memcpy/unmap. RenderSystem no longer manages per-frame render requests directly.
Refactor resource pool to use UnsafeQueue/UnsafeList for transient resources, improving memory management and performance.
Add async GPU wait support to ICommandQueue and D3D12.
Refactor render graph barrier system, streamline CompiledBarrier, and remove ResourceBarrier.
RenderGraphCompiler now returns Result<float2, Error> for dynamic resolution scaling.
Replace custom memory pools with Allocator.FreeList for temp allocations.
Add ResourceUploadBatch for async/sync resource uploads.
Fix D3D12 disposal and fence tracking bugs.
Update NuGet dependencies.
Numerous minor cleanups and code improvements.
Modernizes resource and barrier management for the D3D12 backend. Key changes:
- Simplifies BarrierDesc by removing nullable "before" states; now inferred from resource database.
- Adds IsAliasing flag to BarrierDesc for aliasing transitions.
- Replaces ResourceMemoryType with HeapType in BufferDesc and related APIs.
- Enhances ResourceViewGroup with usage inference methods.
- Adds D3D12 utility helpers for heap/flag conversions and resource description extraction.
- Optimizes command buffer barrier emission, skipping redundant barriers.
- Refactors Material and RenderContext to use new APIs and state tracking.
- Updates ResourceManager pooling to use HeapType and standard Queue.
- Simplifies RenderGraphExecutor barrier logic and aliasing handling.
- Improves RenderSystem frame synchronization and resource retirement.
- Cleans up obsolete code and improves debug output.
BREAKING CHANGE: Updates to resource and barrier APIs require changes to all code interfacing with resource creation, barriers, and memory types.
