V3 exists to verify the assumptions the whole Vulkan design rests on, before
V6 builds on them. The central claim held. One plan assumption did not, and
catching it here is the slice paying for itself.
Confirmed: every projection reaching a shader is built by
Matrix4x4.CreatePerspectiveFieldOfView, so NDC z is already [0,1] - Vulkan's
own convention - and no projection rework is needed. There are no orthographic
projections in production at all; the retained UI converts pixel coordinates
straight to NDC with a constant z, so V4a has no matrix to convert. Phase U.3's
clip planes are derived and compared entirely in clip space with plane.z always
zero, making them insensitive to both the depth convention and the viewport Y
flip. SkyProjection.WithDepthRange is the only hand-written matrix edit and it
re-derives the same D3D-convention mapping rather than a GL-style depth scale.
Corrected: the plan specified a B8G8R8A8_SRGB swapchain "matching the GL
FramebufferSrgb contract." That contract does not exist. FramebufferSrgb is
enabled only inside the throwaway capability probe and disabled immediately,
never on the real backbuffer; no texture uses an sRGB internal format; no
shader converts gamma. The renderer is UNORM end to end, so the correct
swapchain format is B8G8R8A8_UNORM. Shipping _SRGB would have applied an encode
to already-display-space values - a global brightening on every frame that
nothing before V7 would have caught.
Two acceptance items carried forward to V6/V7: the Vulkan encoder must flip
scissor rectangles itself, because vkCmdSetScissor is top-left-origin and the
negative viewport height does not affect it; and the V7 differential must
launch both backends with ACDREAM_MSAA_SAMPLES=0, since MSAA is fixed at window
creation and cannot be toggled mid-session.
Filed #248 for FrustumCuller's near-plane extraction, which uses the GL
[-1,1] Gribb-Hartmann formula against [0,1] matrices. It is provably
over-inclusive rather than over-culling, and it is pure CPU math untouched by
the backend swap, so it is tracked rather than fixed inside this campaign.
No code changed, so the pixel gate is trivially satisfied.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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