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Asset loading depends on the "multi-threaded" feature being enabled #10209

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komadori opened this issue Oct 21, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #10312
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Asset loading depends on the "multi-threaded" feature being enabled #10209

komadori opened this issue Oct 21, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #10312
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Bevy version

5d110eb (0.12-dev)

Relevant system information

AdapterInfo { name: "NVIDIA GeForce 940MX", vendor: 4318, device: 4941, device_type: DiscreteGpu, driver: "NVIDIA", driver_info: "535.113.01", backend: Vulkan }
SystemInfo { os: "Linux 21.2 Linux Mint", kernel: "5.15.0-86-generic", cpu: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz", core_count: "4", memory: "31.2 GiB"

What you did

Run the animated_fox example using a subset of Bevy's default features that was sufficient with the previous release (0.11).

cargo run --release --example animated_fox --no-default-features --features="animation,bevy_asset,bevy_scene,bevy_winit,bevy_core_pipeline,bevy_pbr,bevy_gltf,bevy_render,ktx2,zstd,png,x11,tonemapping_luts"

What went wrong

The fox asset is not displayed at all, only the background.

However, if I add the "multi-threaded" feature then the example works correctly. Is it intentional that this feature is required for asset loading to work?

@komadori komadori added C-Bug An unexpected or incorrect behavior S-Needs-Triage This issue needs to be labelled labels Oct 21, 2023
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I suspect this is a general problem of asset loading currently. This code should fail to compile if it doesn't run.

That said, I think I'd prefer to enable single-threaded asset loading.

@alice-i-cecile alice-i-cecile changed the title glTF asset loading depends on the "multi-threaded" feature being enabled Asset loading depends on the "multi-threaded" feature being enabled Oct 23, 2023
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robojeb commented Oct 27, 2023

I spent some time on my lunch. and it seems like there is something racy going on between the async-fs IO executor and the single threaded local executor bevy is using.

Async code isn't my forte so I am not entirely sure where the mismatch is, but if I set a breakpoint on raw.rs:644 inside async-task (v4.5.0) and I step through slowly, eventually the asset loads.
But if I step through quickly, I get an AssetEvent::Added event, but eventually the LocalExecutor has no more items in its queue and so no more progress is made on actually loading the asset.
It always seems to happen when going through an async-fs future.

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rparrett commented Nov 2, 2023

I was just hit by this while migrating an app that used only a subset of Bevy's default features.

The symptoms were that my assets were in a perpetual LoadState::Loading. This was a very confusing situation.

edit: To clarify, my app doesn't need single-threaded asset loading. All I needed to do was add the multi-threaded feature and I was good to go. If single-threaded asset loading worked I would probably just be confused about why my app was no longer multi-threaded, if I even noticed.

github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit that referenced this issue Nov 3, 2023
# Objective

- Fixes #10209 
- Assets should work in single threaded

## Solution

- In single threaded mode, don't use `async_fs` but fallback on
`std::fs` with a thin layer to mimic the async API
- file `file_asset.rs` is the async imps from `mod.rs`
- file `sync_file_asset.rs` is the same with `async_fs` APIs replaced by
`std::fs`
- which module is used depends on the `multi-threaded` feature

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Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <[email protected]>
aevyrie added a commit to aevyrie/bevy that referenced this issue Nov 4, 2023
Fix branding inconsistencies

don't Implement `Display` for `Val` (bevyengine#10345)

- Revert bevyengine#10296

- Avoid implementing `Display` without a justification
- `Display` implementation is a guarantee without a direct use, takes
additional time to compile and require work to maintain
- `Debug`, `Reflect` or `Serialize` should cover all needs

Combine visibility queries in check_visibility_system (bevyengine#10196)

Alternative to bevyengine#7310

Implemented the suggestion from
bevyengine#7310 (comment)

I am guessing that these were originally split as an optimization, but I
am not sure since I believe the original author of the code is the one
speculating about combining them up there.

I ran three benchmarks to compare main, this PR, and the approach from
([updated](https://github.com/rparrett/bevy/commits/rebased-parallel-check-visibility)
to the same commit on main).

This seems to perform slightly better than main in scenarios where most
entities have AABBs, and a bit worse when they don't (`many_lights`).
That seems to make sense to me.

Either way, the difference is ~-20 microseconds in the more common
scenarios or ~+100 microseconds in the less common scenario. I would
speculate that this might perform **very slightly** worse in
single-threaded scenarios.

Benches were run in release mode for 2000 frames while capturing a trace
with tracy.

| bench | commit | check_visibility_system mean μs |
| -- | -- | -- |
| many_cubes | main | 929.5 |
| many_cubes | this | 914.0 |
| many_cubes | 7310 | 1003.5 |
| | |
| many_foxes | main | 191.6 |
| many_foxes | this | 173.2 |
| many_foxes | 7310 | 167.9 |
| | |
| many_lights | main | 619.3 |
| many_lights | this | 703.7 |
| many_lights | 7310 | 842.5 |

Technically this behaves slightly differently -- prior to this PR, view
visibility was determined even for entities without `GlobalTransform`. I
don't think this has any practical impact though.

IMO, I don't think we need to do this. But I opened a PR because it
seemed like the handiest way to share the code / benchmarks.

I have done some rudimentary testing with the examples above, but I can
do some screenshot diffing if it seems like we want to do this.

Make VERTEX_COLORS usable in prepass shader, if available (bevyengine#10341)

I was working with forward rendering prepass fragment shaders and ran
into an issue of not being able to access vertex colors in the prepass.
I was able to access vertex colors in regular fragment shaders as well
as in deferred shaders.

It seems like this `if` was nested unintentionally as moving it outside
of the `deferred` block works.

---

Enable vertex colors in forward rendering prepass fragment shaders

allow DeferredPrepass to work without other prepass markers (bevyengine#10223)

fix crash / misbehaviour when `DeferredPrepass` is used without
`DepthPrepass`.

- Deferred lighting requires the depth prepass texture to be present, so
that the depth texture is available for binding. without it the deferred
lighting pass will use 0 for depth of all meshes.
- When `DeferredPrepass` is used without other prepass markers, and with
any materials that use `OpaqueRenderMode::Forward`, those entities will
try to queue to the `Opaque3dPrepass` render phase, which doesn't exist,
causing a crash.

- check if the prepass phases exist before queueing
- generate prepass textures if `Opaque3dDeferred` is present
- add a note to the DeferredPrepass marker to note that DepthPrepass is
also required by the default deferred lighting pass
- also changed some `With<T>.is_some()`s to `Has<T>`s

UI batching Fix (bevyengine#9610)

Reimplement bevyengine#8793 on top of the recent rendering changes.

The batch creation logic is quite convoluted, but I tested it on enough
examples to convince myself that it works.

The initial value of `batch_image_handle` is changed from
`HandleId::Id(Uuid::nil(), u64::MAX)` to `DEFAULT_IMAGE_HANDLE.id()`,
which allowed me to make the if-block simpler I think.

The default image from `DEFAULT_IMAGE_HANDLE` is always inserted into
`UiImageBindGroups` even if it's not used. I tried to add a check so
that it would be only inserted when there is only one batch using the
default image but this crashed.

---

`prepare_uinodes`
* Changed the initial value of `batch_image_handle` to
`DEFAULT_IMAGE_HANDLE.id()`.
* The default image is added to the UI image bind groups before
assembling the batches.
* A new `UiBatch` isn't created when the next `ExtractedUiNode`s image
is set to `DEFAULT_IMAGE_HANDLE` (unless it is the first item in the UI
phase items list).

Increase default normal bias to avoid common artifacts (bevyengine#10346)

Bevy's default bias values for directional and spot lights currently
cause significant artifacts. We should fix that so shadows look good by
default!

This is a less controversial/invasive alternative to bevyengine#10188, which might
enable us to keep the default bias value low, but also has its own sets
of concerns and caveats that make it a risky choice for Bevy 0.12.

Bump the default normal bias from `0.6` to `1.8`. There is precedent for
values in this general area as Godot has a default normal bias of `2.0`.

![image](https://github.com/superdump/bevy/assets/2694663/a5828011-33fc-4427-90ed-f093d7389053)

![image](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2694663/0f2b16b0-c116-41ab-9886-1ace9e00efd6)

The default `shadow_normal_bias` value for `DirectionalLight` and
`SpotLight` has changed to accommodate artifacts introduced with the new
shadow PCF changes. It is unlikely (especially given the new PCF shadow
behaviors with these values), but you might need to manually tweak this
value if your scene requires a lower bias and it relied on the previous
default value.

Make `DirectionalLight` `Cascades` computation generic over `CameraProjection` (bevyengine#9226)

Fixes bevyengine#9077 (see this issue for
motivations)

Implement 1 and 2 of the "How to fix it" section of
bevyengine#9077

`update_directional_light_cascades` is split into
`clear_directional_light_cascades` and a generic
`build_directional_light_cascades`, to clear once and potentially insert
many times.

---

`DirectionalLight`'s computation is now generic over `CameraProjection`
and can work with custom camera projections.

If you have a component `MyCustomProjection` that implements
`CameraProjection`:
- You need to implement a new required associated method,
`get_frustum_corners`, returning an array of the corners of a subset of
the frustum with given `z_near` and `z_far`, in local camera space.
- You can now add the
`build_directional_light_cascades::<MyCustomProjection>` system in
`SimulationLightSystems::UpdateDirectionalLightCascades` after
`clear_directional_light_cascades` for your projection to work with
directional lights.

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Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <[email protected]>

Update default `ClearColor` to better match Bevy's branding (bevyengine#10339)

- Changes the default clear color to match the code block color on
Bevy's website.

- Changed the clear color, updated text in examples to ensure adequate
contrast. Inconsistent usage of white text color set to use the default
color instead, which is already white.
- Additionally, updated the `3d_scene` example to make it look a bit
better, and use bevy's branding colors.

![image](https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/assets/2632925/540a22c0-826c-4c33-89aa-34905e3e313a)

Corrected incorrect doc comment on read_asset_bytes (bevyengine#10352)

Fixes bevyengine#10302

- Removed the incorrect comment.

Allow AccessKit to react to WindowEvents before they reach the engine (bevyengine#10356)

- Adopt bevyengine#10239 to get it in time for the release
- Fix accessibility on macOS and linux

- call `on_event` from AcccessKit adapter on winit events

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Co-authored-by: Nolan Darilek <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <[email protected]>

Fix typo in window.rs (bevyengine#10358)

Fixes a small typo in `bevy_window/src/window.rs`

Change `Should be used instead 'scale_factor' when set.` to `Should be
used instead of 'scale_factor' when set.`

Add UI Materials (bevyengine#9506)

- Add Ui Materials so that UI can render more complex and animated
widgets.
- Fixes bevyengine#5607

- Create a UiMaterial trait for specifying a Shader Asset and Bind Group
Layout/Data.
- Create a pipeline for rendering these Materials inside the Ui
layout/tree.
- Create a MaterialNodeBundle for simple spawning.

- Created a `UiMaterial` trait for specifying a Shader asset and Bind
Group.
- Created a `UiMaterialPipeline` for rendering said Materials.
- Added Example [`ui_material`
](https://github.com/MarkusTheOrt/bevy/blob/ui_material/examples/ui/ui_material.rs)
for example usage.
- Created
[`UiVertexOutput`](https://github.com/MarkusTheOrt/bevy/blob/ui_material/crates/bevy_ui/src/render/ui_vertex_output.wgsl)
export as VertexData for shaders.
- Created
[`material_ui`](https://github.com/MarkusTheOrt/bevy/blob/ui_material/crates/bevy_ui/src/render/ui_material.wgsl)
shader as default for both Vertex and Fragment shaders.

---------

Co-authored-by: ickshonpe <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: François <[email protected]>

support file operations in single threaded context (bevyengine#10312)

- Fixes bevyengine#10209
- Assets should work in single threaded

- In single threaded mode, don't use `async_fs` but fallback on
`std::fs` with a thin layer to mimic the async API
- file `file_asset.rs` is the async imps from `mod.rs`
- file `sync_file_asset.rs` is the same with `async_fs` APIs replaced by
`std::fs`
- which module is used depends on the `multi-threaded` feature

---------

Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <[email protected]>

Fix gizmo crash when prepass enabled (bevyengine#10360)

- Fix gizmo crash when prepass enabled

- Add the prepass to the view key

Fixes: bevyengine#10347
@JMS55 JMS55 removed this from the 0.13 milestone Nov 4, 2023
ameknite pushed a commit to ameknite/bevy that referenced this issue Nov 6, 2023
# Objective

- Fixes bevyengine#10209 
- Assets should work in single threaded

## Solution

- In single threaded mode, don't use `async_fs` but fallback on
`std::fs` with a thin layer to mimic the async API
- file `file_asset.rs` is the async imps from `mod.rs`
- file `sync_file_asset.rs` is the same with `async_fs` APIs replaced by
`std::fs`
- which module is used depends on the `multi-threaded` feature

---------

Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <[email protected]>
rdrpenguin04 pushed a commit to rdrpenguin04/bevy that referenced this issue Jan 9, 2024
# Objective

- Fixes bevyengine#10209 
- Assets should work in single threaded

## Solution

- In single threaded mode, don't use `async_fs` but fallback on
`std::fs` with a thin layer to mimic the async API
- file `file_asset.rs` is the async imps from `mod.rs`
- file `sync_file_asset.rs` is the same with `async_fs` APIs replaced by
`std::fs`
- which module is used depends on the `multi-threaded` feature

---------

Co-authored-by: Carter Anderson <[email protected]>
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