Before the current changes, all surfaces were painted using a full-screen overlay, no matter how large the object was rendered. This approach is redundant and required reorganization. At the moment, all objects are rendered using an overlay equal to the box of the object itself, which reduces the cost of filling the surface.
Also surfaces and images were divided into different entities, which reduces the pressure on memory.
Also geometry data for rendering and geometry data for calculations in system memory were logically separated.
For further development of features, we need to create off-screen buffers that will allow us to implement functionality related to composition and blending, as well as for loading data to system memory from the framebuffer. Separating the framebuffer into a separate entity allows you to create several instances of them, switch between them, and blend them according to given rules.
For current time we have only a single render target instance, that have a handle to drawing into surface surface, like a native window.
New approach allows:
- offscreen rendering
- render pass handling
- switching between render targets
- ability to render images, strokes and shapes into independent render targets
ThorVG has offered an option to clear the buffer since version 1.0.
This is essential when users utilize the canvas target buffer
with the main render target. They share the buffer
and need to draw contents onto the existing contents.
API:
Result Canvas::clear(bool free = true)
-> Result Canvas::clear(bool paints = true, bool buffer = true)
Tvg_Result tvg_canvas_clear(Tvg_Canvas* canvas, bool free);
-> Tvg_Result tvg_canvas_clear(Tvg_Canvas* canvas, bool paints, bool buffer);
Issue: https://github.com/thorvg/thorvg/issues/1779
Co-Authored-By: Hermet Park <hermet@lottiefiles.com>
WebGPU is a Render Hardware Interface built on top of the various APIs
provided by the driver/OS depending on your platform.
WebGPU exposes an API for performing operations,
such as rendering and computation, on a Graphics Processing Unit.
WebGPU official documentation: https://www.w3.org/TR/webgpu/
The new engine type introduced: tvg::CanvasEngine::Wg
The new canvas type introduced: tvg::WgCanvas
Example:
$meson setup build -Dengines=wg_beta
`
// init engine webgpu
tvg::Initializer::init(tvg::CanvasEngine::Wg, 0);
// create wg canvas
auto canvasWg = tvg::WgCanvas::gen();
canvas_wg->target(glfwGetWin32Window(window), width, height);
// ...
// terminate engine and window
tvg::Initializer::term(tvg::CanvasEngine::Wg);
`
Still this feature is under the beta
Issue: https://github.com/thorvg/thorvg/issues/1479
