EffectLoader

Remarks

The one step between "bytes that came from somewhere" and "a thing a pipeline can be built from", and the only step in the whole chain that needs a device. Every tier — the disk cache, the baked bundle, the dev machine on the other end of a socket — hands over the same record and this creates the same handles from it, so where a variant came from changes nothing about what it is.

Set layouts are shared between effects, and that is not just an economy. Every shader that binds the per-frame set describes the same layout, and a device handed four hundred structurally identical layouts creates four hundred objects that a descriptor set allocated against one cannot be used with the other. Caching by shape means a per-frame set is allocated once and bound to every pipeline in the frame.

⚠ And so is the pipeline layout, which for a long time was not. It is a function of the set layouts and the push-constant ranges and of nothing else, so it caches by exactly the same argument — see PipelineLayoutOf. Until #1111 a fresh one was created per Load, owned by nobody, and freed by one caller out of five.

Fields and properties (4)

• public IGraphicsDevice Device

  The device these effects are created on.

• public int LayoutCount

  How many distinct set layouts have been created.

• public int PipelineLayoutCount

  How many distinct pipeline layouts have been created.

• public int BindlessCapacity

  How many descriptors an unbounded binding holds.

Methods (4)

• public EffectLoader(IGraphicsDevice device)

  Turns a baked EffectData into a live Effect on one device.

• public Effect Load(EffectData data)

  Creates the effect one record describes.

• public void Clear()

  Forgets every cached layout, without destroying anything.

• public void Release()

  Destroys every layout this loader created, and forgets them.

Used by (57, showing 40)

• DevelopmentEffectsThirdPersonShooter
• DevelopmentEffectsPbrShowcase
• LibraryEffectsVirtualGeometry
• AccelerationStructureDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• BentNormalAmbientImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• BindlessSamplingDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• BindlessSetLayoutTestsVixen.Shaders.Tests
• BufferTransferDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• CascadeCountDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ClusterCullingDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ClusteredShadingDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• CompilerVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• CompilingVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• DistanceFieldAoImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• DitherImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• DynamicUniformBlockTestsVixen.Shaders.Tests
• EffectCacheTestsVixen.Shaders.Tests
• EffectSourceProviderVixen.Shaders
• ForwardFrameTestsVixen.Rendering.Tests
• GtaoImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• IndirectDiffuseImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• IrradianceBounceDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• IrradianceFillDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• IrradianceRepairDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• IrradianceShadingDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• LightStreakImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• MaxLightsDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• MorphScatterDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• MultiScatterFurnaceImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ParticleMeshDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ParticleSpriteDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ReflectionRendererDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ReflectionTraceDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenProbeAccumulateDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenProbeBilateralImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenProbeGatherImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenProbeResolveDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenProbeTraceDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenProbeUpsampleImageTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests
• ScreenPyramidDeviceTestsVixen.Graphics.Golden.Tests