The Tantalus games (Cars Race-O-Rama, MX vs ATV Reflex and Untamed, SpongeBob)
turn depth into fog with a CLUT16 read of the swizzled depth mirror, stretched
2x into a 565 view of an 8888 buffer. A following 8888 copy writes the scene's
RGB and keeps the alpha, so each pixel's fog factor is the upper 565 half.
At a higher render scale, the depth X swizzle snapped every render pixel to its
PSP pixel's left edge, so the fog came out in PSP-pixel blocks. It now keeps the
position within the PSP pixel. That leaves the upper half sampling the right
half of the depth texel, half a pixel off the scene, which drew magenta halos on
the right of objects in Cars. With the new DepthCLUTIntoHalves compat flag, the
depal pass outputs twice as wide so each render pixel reads its own 8888 pixel's
depth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nothing has generated or used a geometry shader since the GS paths were removed
- GeometryShaderGenerator is gone, and ShaderWriter's BeginGSMain/EndGSMain had
no callers at all. Removes ShaderStage::Geometry and everything hanging off it:
the GS preambles and GSMain helpers in ShaderWriter, the stage mappings in all
three thin3d backends, the D3D11 geometry shader plumbing (curGS_, the pipeline
and module members, gs_4_0 compilation), CreateGeometryShaderD3D11, the unused
PipelineFlags::USES_GEOMETRY_SHADER and PipelineManagerVulkan's
UsesGeometryShader().
Also stop enabling the Vulkan geometryShader device feature, since we no longer
have any use for it.
Kept on purpose: the device feature is still listed in the feature dumps (like
other capabilities we don't use), and the Vulkan shader cache header keeps its
now-always-zero geometry shader count so the on-disk format stays compatible.
Hardware tessellation + uberlighting + clamp was exceeding the buffer,
causing memory corruption. Let's try to catch it, but also increase
buffers to be safe.
This was easy, dunno why I never got around to it before..
I guess I didn't know about VPOS.
This does raise our minimum shader model requirement to ps_3_0.
This is a partial fix for #6105 (Ratchet & Clank particles visible
through things), but there's still weird glitchiness. There's a pass
during rendering that scrambles the mini depth buffer by using a
triangle mesh. I wonder if it's trying to simulate the swizzle? But it
doesn't really look like it...
