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A ready-to-use wgpu Backend
implementation (backend::WGPUPlugin), plus a higher-level
descriptor-based material/mesh/texture/compute layer built on top of it
so apps never touch raw wgpu types directly.
Building something this layer doesn’t already cover (a camera, a custom
compute buffer, anything constructed by hand inside a
LazyResource/
Asset impl)? Start with
prelude — use pebble::wgpu::prelude::*; — rather than reaching
straight for backend.device.create_*/wgpu::*Descriptor: the
binding and buffers modules it re-exports are all builders
(BindGroupLayoutBuilder, BufferBuilder, BindGroupBuilder, …)
producing opaque types (buffer::Buffer, textures::GPUTexture,
samplers::Sampler, material::RenderPipeline, buffers::BindGroup,
…) instead of raw wgpu ones — chained .method(...) calls that fold
in bookkeeping (duplicate @binding(N) detection, dynamic-offset
alignment) a hand-written descriptor won’t give you for free.
Pass and dispatch recording are opaque too:
ActiveFrame::begin_pass
hands back a render_pass::RenderPass (not a raw wgpu::RenderPass),
and WGPUBackend::create_command_encoder/
CommandEncoder::compute_pass
cover standalone compute dispatch the same way. backend.device/
backend.queue are still there for the handful of operations this
module doesn’t wrap (submitting an encoder built some other way, a
resource shape texture_view::TextureBuilder doesn’t cover) — but
everything that’s a handle (buffer, texture, sampler, pipeline, bind
group, layout, pass, encoder) is opaque.
Modules§
- backend
- binding
- Shared bind-group vocabulary for
materialandcompute— a material’s own bind group and a compute pass’s own bind group are described the same way, differing only in which shader stage(s) can see each entry (a material entry can beFRAGMENT/VERTEX/VERTEX_FRAGMENT; a compute entry is always exactlyCOMPUTE). Every constructor below takesvisibilityexplicitly rather than guessing a default per module —build_material/build_computevalidate it’s appropriate for the pipeline kind they’re building, panicking with a clear message otherwise. - buffer
- buffers
- Buffer and bind-group construction — three builders, one per thing being built:
- compute
- compute_
pass - cubemap
- instance
- layout
- material
- mesh
- mipmap
- prelude
use pebble::wgpu::prelude::*;for everything needed to construct and render custom GPU resources against aWGPUBackend— a camera’s uniform buffer, a compute pass’s storage buffers, anything built by hand inside aLazyResourceorAssetimpl that isn’t already covered byMaterialDescriptor/ComputeDescriptor.- render_
pass - samplers
- texture_
array - texture_
view - textures
- window