Resurrect vertex formats dropped for macOS < 10.13
kainino0x opened this issue · comments
In #231 we dropped a bunch of vertex formats that required macOS 10.13+.
In #1069 (comment), a year ago, we decided to require 10.13.
I knew we were missing some random stuff that we should have added back when we decided that, but that's a pretty major one. (It was not even 2 years a lot of years in between the two.)
We should add these back. List but with names updated:
MTLVertexFormatUChar -->
uint8
MTLVertexFormatChar -->sint8
MTLVertexFormatUCharNormalized -->unorm8
MTLVertexFormatCharNormalized -->snorm8
MTLVertexFormatUShort -->
uint16
MTLVertexFormatShort -->sint16
MTLVertexFormatUShortNormalized -->unorm16
MTLVertexFormatShortNormalized -->snorm16
MTLVertexFormatHalf -->float16
MTLVertexFormatUChar4Normalized_bgra -->
unorm8x4-bgra/unorm8bgra(spelling?)
All of these are required in Vulkan 1.0 and D3D FL11_0.
(The 3-component formats we removed for D3D12 still can't be added back.)
In #508 (comment) we decided to require 10.13.
Sorry, wrong link. Correct one is #1069 (comment)
(It was more years later.)
GPU Web WG 2024-03-27
- CW: seems easy except for one tiny name bikeshedding.
- KN: dropped these a year ago - no reason any more to continue excluding them.
- CW: one q, how do we name the unorm8bgra?
- KN: regular one's unorm8x4.
- KG: if other one's x4, should call this one x4.
- CW: unorm8x4-bgra seems clear.
- Agreed all around.