About the Direct3D 12 rendering support

[Viciouss]

Hello there,

I just went through the blog post for the dev 3 snapshot, and I noticed the problem with dxil.dll. Just yesterday I happend to read another dev log of the mach engine where the author describes his share of problems regarding the DirectX shader compiler and a possible solution with no dependency to dxil.dll at all. I figured that this might help, maybe it's also already known or this doesn't work with Godot for some reason, I just thought that it couldn't hurt posting about it because I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. And it's a rather new blog post as well.

Here is the link: https://devlog.hexops.com/2024/building-the-directx-shader-compiler-better-than-microsoft/

Disclaimer: I have little to no experience with C++, Direct3D, dlls, shaders and whatnot. I just read a lot of articles in the internet that seem to be interesting even if I don't fully understand them.

Kind Regards
Martin

[Zireael07]

Two days ago there was a PR with this solution, unfortunately Bastiaan closed it

[Calinou]

This is the pull request in question: godotengine/godot#88175

As the comment says, it would be legally risky to incorporate this. This can be compared to Dolphin bundling Wii encryption keys (which has de facto prevented them from releasing on Steam).

We'll have to figure out a different solution such as downloading the official dxil.dll on demand from the project manager or editor, like it's done for FBX2glTF.

[Viciouss]

That was a quick pull request indeed. I guess it's difficult to get in touch with Microsoft to clarify whether they would allow using the implementation.

[theraot]

Is this really an issue of asking for clarification from Microsoft?