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NativeEngine: divisor-driven per-instance vertex attributes (#1739)
## Problem Consumer-declared per-instance vertex attributes were routed to **per-vertex** shader slots, so their data was read incorrectly at draw time. The `ShaderCompiler` only recognized the built-in instanced names (`world0-3`, `instanceColor`, `splatIndex`); any *other* attribute backed by an instance buffer (divisor &gt; 0) — e.g. GPU-particle `position`/`color`/`angle`/`size`, or a custom instanced color buffer — was assigned a per-vertex location. ## Fix Drive instancing purely from the vertex-buffer **divisor** instead of a fixed name list: - **ShaderCompiler traversers (D3D, OpenGL, Metal)** now take a `map<name, target-location>` of instanced attributes and route each declared attribute to an explicit bgfx `i_data` slot (`TEXCOORD7..TEXCOORD3` = `i_data0..i_data4`). Built-in instanced names keep their existing reverse-count assignment. - **Program** caches lazily-compiled instanced shader variants keyed by the instanced-attribute map; the base program is used when nothing is instanced. - **NativeEngine** computes the instanced-attribute set at draw time from the bound vertex array's per-attribute divisors and submits the matching variant. No JS-side hint is required. This generalizes the instancing path so it works for any divisor-driven attribute, not just the hardcoded names, and supersedes the prior name-list approach. ## Test enablement Re-enables **18 previously-excluded** Playground validation tests that failed under the old name-list instancing (most were marked as follow-ups to the #1691 instance-data stride fix). These are the GPU-particle suite plus the instanced color-buffer test: `Particles`, `Instances with color buffer`, `Prepass SSAO + particles`, `halo-particle-system`, `particle-system-with-custom-nme-shader`, and `Particles - Basic Properties / Change / Emitters / Attractors` variants. Each was confirmed to actually exercise the fixed path (it compiles a per-instance shader variant) **and** now matches its reference image. ## Verification - **D3D11:** all 18 enabled tests pass in default automatic mode (`ran=18 passed=18 failed=0`); no regression in existing instanced tests (Gaussian Splatting, mesh instancing). - **OpenGL / Metal:** use the identical explicit-slot routing and are compile-checked; runtime coverage is via CI. --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Branimir Karadžić <branimirk@microsoft.com>
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‎Apps/Playground/Scripts/config.json‎

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"title": "Particles",
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"playgroundId": "#G3ZYFU#7",
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"renderCount": 100,
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"referenceImage": "particles.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles.png"
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},
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{
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"title": "PBRMetallicRoughnessMaterial",
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{
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"title": "Instances with color buffer",
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"playgroundId": "#YPABS1#91",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel comparison fails (more than 20% pixels differ)",
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"referenceImage": "instancecolors.png"
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},
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{
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"title": "Prepass SSAO + particles",
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"playgroundId": "#65MUMZ#47",
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"renderCount": 50,
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Test crashes or hangs on Babylon Native",
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"reason": "SSAO2 blur post-process shader fails to compile on desktop GL (samples uniform used as int loop bound); unrelated to instancing.",
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"referenceImage": "prepass-ssao-particles.png"
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{
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"title": "halo-particle-system",
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"playgroundId": "#2441BU#1",
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"renderCount": 20,
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up.",
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"referenceImage": "halo-particle-system.png"
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{
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"title": "particle-system-with-custom-nme-shader",
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"playgroundId": "#DMLLV2",
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"renderCount": 5,
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up.",
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"referenceImage": "particle-system-with-custom-nme-shader.png"
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},
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{
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"title": "Particles - Basic Properties - Color",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3786",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-color.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-color.png"
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},
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{
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"title": "Particles - Basic Properties - Speed",
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"title": "Particles - Basic Properties - Direction",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3814",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-direction.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-direction.png"
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},
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{
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"title": "Particles - Basic Properties - Direction - Gravity",
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"title": "Particles - Basic Properties - Emit Rate - Fast",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3823",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-emit-rate-fast.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-emit-rate-fast.png"
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"title": "Particles - Basic Properties - Emission Limits",
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"title": "Particles - Change - Size",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3841",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-size.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-size.png"
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"title": "Particles - Change - Size 2",
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"title": "Particles - Change - Color",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3847",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-color.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-color.png"
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"title": "Particles - Change - Color 2",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3851",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-color-2.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-color-2.png"
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"title": "Particles - Change - Speed",
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"title": "Particles - Change - Lifetime",
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"playgroundId": "#0K3AQ2#3885",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-lifetime.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-basic-change-lifetime.png"
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"title": "Particles - Change - Lifetime 2",
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"title": "Particles - Emitters - Point",
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"playgroundId": "#WLX2I2#7",
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-point.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-point.png"
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"title": "Particles - Emitters - Box",
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"playgroundId": "#WLX2I2#8",
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"renderCount": 120,
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-box.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-box.png"
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"title": "Particles - Emitters - Sphere",
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-sphere.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-sphere.png"
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"title": "Particles - Emitters - Directed Sphere",
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-cylinder.png",
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"excludeFromAutomaticTesting": true,
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-cylinder.png"
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"reason": "Pixel diff after #1691 instance-data stride fix; not stride-related, needs follow-up."
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"referenceImage": "particles-emitters-directed-cone.png"
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‎CMakeLists.txt‎

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GIT_TAG 5449381d5ccad83fae720a2a934a23aa96c907a7)
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GIT_TAG c88625b6d61b55c4589f02408d03826e83199870)
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FetchContent_Declare(libwebp
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‎Plugins/NativeEngine/Source/NativeEngine.cpp‎

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‎Plugins/NativeEngine/Source/Program.cpp‎

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‎Plugins/NativeEngine/Source/Program.h‎

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