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Issues with binding structure layout in the shaders which translated from glsl to hlsl

Started by January 12, 2024 05:48 PM
0 comments, last by tema00279 10 months, 4 weeks ago

I have a small issue with my shaders. Sorry if it is not the right place for this question. In general, the essence is that for my application on dx12, I have shaders in glsl (I'm too lazy to rewrite them because there are many, and they are not only for dx12), and I compile them into hlsl using spirv-cross (I get approximately what I expect). My problem is as follows: I don't quite understand how to correctly set up the layout for bindings in shaders. If the binding is just a structure, everything is fine. But if it's an array of structures, everything breaks. On the C++ side, all my structures are aligned (alignas(16)).

For example, I have a binding, in hlsl it looks like this:

   struct vert_in
   {
       float4 Pos;
       float4 Tangent;
       float4 Bitangent;
       float2 TexPos;
       uint Normal;
   };
   ByteAddressBuffer _41 : register(t1, space0); // This is where vert_in is being used

Initially vert_in was used by storage buffer, so it was using std430 layout.

I've tried adding paddings (for example, added one uint in the example with vert_in), but it didn't really help.

When I added paddings to all array of structures bindings,it happened that nothing rendered at all. Apparently, in vulkan/glsl everything working is fine.

Either I don't understand something, or I'm just doing it wrong. I tried adding paddings, but I guess, it's not the right approach.

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