@driftengine/splats 4.7.0 → 4.7.2

package/dist/splatGpu.js

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /** The WebGPU half of the splat pass: the same two integer textures, one pipeline, no vertex state. */
+import { DEPTH_COMPARE } from '@driftengine/core';
 import { SPLAT_BINDINGS, SPLAT_FRAG_WGSL, SPLAT_VERT_WGSL, } from './shaders/generated/splat.wgsl.js';
 import { SPLAT_STRIDE, splatRowSource, splatRows, splatTexels } from './splatLayout.js';
 /*
@@ -126,9 +127,18 @@ export function createGpuSplats(device, format, depthFormat, samples, splats, la
         },
         primitive: { topology: 'triangle-list' },
         multisample: { count: samples },
-        /* Tested, never written: a wall in front occludes the capture, and a Gaussian has no surface
-           to occlude with, so a cloud that wrote depth would cull its own tail. */
-        depthStencil: { format: depthFormat, depthWriteEnabled: false, depthCompare: 'less' },
+        /*
+         * Tested, never written: a wall in front occludes the capture, and a Gaussian has no surface
+         * to occlude with, so a cloud that wrote depth would cull its own tail.
+         *
+         * **The compare is the frame's, from `depthConvention.ts`, and was a literal `'less'`.** The
+         * scene's depth is reversed on both backends, cleared to 0 and tested `greater`, so a `less`
+         * test passed only where a mesh had already written depth and the capture behind it was drawn
+         * through it: on WebGPU a scene showed its splats inside the silhouette of whatever geometry
+         * stood in it and nowhere else. The WebGL2 half sets no depth function of its own and inherits
+         * the renderer's, which is why only this half was wrong.
+         */
+        depthStencil: { format: depthFormat, depthWriteEnabled: false, depthCompare: DEPTH_COMPARE },
     });
     const vertexScratch = new ArrayBuffer(VERT.uniformSize);
     const fragmentScratch = new ArrayBuffer(FRAG.uniformSize);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@driftengine/splats",
-  "version": "4.7.0",
+  "version": "4.7.2",
   "description": "Gaussian splat captures: readers, an off-frame sort, and a pass that composes into the scene",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "type": "module",
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   ],
   "sideEffects": false,
   "peerDependencies": {
-    "@driftengine/core": "4.7.0"
+    "@driftengine/core": "4.7.2"
   },
   "author": "Drift Technologies",
   "repository": {

package/src/splatGpu.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 /** The WebGPU half of the splat pass: the same two integer textures, one pipeline, no vertex state. */
 
+import { DEPTH_COMPARE } from '@driftengine/core';
+
 import {
   SPLAT_BINDINGS,
   SPLAT_FRAG_WGSL,
@@ -180,9 +182,18 @@ export function createGpuSplats(
     },
     primitive: { topology: 'triangle-list' },
     multisample: { count: samples },
-    /* Tested, never written: a wall in front occludes the capture, and a Gaussian has no surface
-       to occlude with, so a cloud that wrote depth would cull its own tail. */
-    depthStencil: { format: depthFormat, depthWriteEnabled: false, depthCompare: 'less' },
+    /*
+     * Tested, never written: a wall in front occludes the capture, and a Gaussian has no surface
+     * to occlude with, so a cloud that wrote depth would cull its own tail.
+     *
+     * **The compare is the frame's, from `depthConvention.ts`, and was a literal `'less'`.** The
+     * scene's depth is reversed on both backends, cleared to 0 and tested `greater`, so a `less`
+     * test passed only where a mesh had already written depth and the capture behind it was drawn
+     * through it: on WebGPU a scene showed its splats inside the silhouette of whatever geometry
+     * stood in it and nowhere else. The WebGL2 half sets no depth function of its own and inherits
+     * the renderer's, which is why only this half was wrong.
+     */
+    depthStencil: { format: depthFormat, depthWriteEnabled: false, depthCompare: DEPTH_COMPARE },
   });
 
   const vertexScratch = new ArrayBuffer(VERT.uniformSize);