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| 剖析虚幻渲染体系(04)- 延迟渲染管线 | 2024-02-07 22:29:32 | ⭐ | 
前言
https://www.cnblogs.com/timlly/p/14732412.html
延迟渲染管线
由于最耗时的光照计算延迟到后处理阶段,所以跟场景的物体数量解耦,只跟Render Targe尺寸相关,复杂度是O(Nlight×WRT×HRT)。所以,延迟渲染在应对复杂的场景和光源数量的场景比较得心应手,往往能得到非常好的性能提升。 但是,也存在一些缺点,如需多一个通道来绘制几何信息,需要多渲染纹理(MRT)的支持,更多的CPU和GPU显存占用,更高的带宽要求,有限的材质呈现类型,难以使用MSAA等硬件抗锯齿,存在画面较糊的情况等等。此外,应对简单场景时,可能反而得不到渲染性能方面的提升。延迟渲染可以针对不同的平台和API使用不同的优化改进技术,从而产生了诸多变种。下面是其中部分变种:
Deferred Lighting(Light Pre-Pass)
又被称为Light Pre-Pass,它和Deferred Shading的不同在于需要三个Pass:
- 第一个Pass叫Geometry Pass:只输出每个像素光照计算所需的几何属性(法线、深度)到GBuffer中。
 - 第二个Pass叫Lighting Pass:存储光源属性(如Normal * LightDir、LightColor、Specular)到LBuffer(Light Buffer,光源缓冲区)。
 - 第三个Pass叫Secondary Geometry Pass:获取GBuffer和LBuffer的数据,重建每个像素计算光照所需的数据,执行光照计算。
 
与Deferred Shading相比,Deferred lighting的优势在于G-Buffer所需的尺寸急剧减少,允许更多的材质类型呈现,较好第支持MSAA等。劣势是需要绘制场景两次,增加了Draw Call。 另外,Deferred lighting还有个优化版本,做法与上面所述略有不同,具体参见文献Light Pre-Pass。
Tiled-Based Deferred Rendering(TBDR)
Tiled-Based Deferred Rendering译名是基于瓦片的渲染,简称TBDR,它的核心思想在于将渲染纹理分成规则的一个个四边形(称为Tile),然后利用四边形的包围盒剔除该Tile内无用的光源,只保留有作用的光源列表,从而减少了实际光照计算中的无效光源的计算量。
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- 将渲染纹理分成一个个均等面积的小块(Tile)。参见上图(b)。
 
Tile没有统一的固定大小,在不同的平台架构和渲染器中有所不同,不过一般是2的N次方,且长宽不一定相等,可以是16x16、32x32、64x64等等,不宜太小或太大,否则优化效果不明显。PowerVR GPU通常取32x32,而ARM Mali GPU取16x16。 !
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根据Tile内的Depth范围计算出其Bounding Box。 !
TBDR中的每个Tile内的深度范围可能不一样,由此可得到不同大小的Bounding Box。 - 
根据Tile的Bounding Box和Light的Bounding Box,执行求交。
 
除了无衰减的方向光,其它类型的光源都可以根据位置和衰减计算得到其Bounding Box。
- 摒弃不相交的Light,得到对Tile有作用的Light列表。参见上图(c)。
 - 遍历所有Tile,获取每个Tile的有作业的光源索引列表,计算该Tile内所有像素的光照结果。
 
由于TBDR可以摒弃很多无作用的光源,能够避免很多无效的光照计算,目前已被广泛采用与移动端GPU架构中,形成了基于硬件加速的TBDR:!
PowerVR的TBDR架构,和立即模式的架构相比,在裁剪之后光栅化之前增加了Tiling阶段,增加了On-Chip Depth Buffer和Color Buffer,以更快地存取深度和颜色。
下图是PowerVR Rogue家族的Series7XT系列GPU和的硬件架构示意图:
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Clustered Deferred Rendering
Clustered Deferred Rendering是分簇延迟渲染,与TBDR的不同在于对深度进行了更细粒度的划分,从而避免TBDR在深度范围跳变很大(中间无任何有效像素)时产生的光源裁剪效率降低的问题。
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Clustered Deferred Rendering的核心思想是将深度按某种方式细分为若干份,从而更加精确地计算每个簇的包围盒,进而更精准地裁剪光源,避免深度不连续时的光源裁剪效率降低。
上图的分簇方法被称为隐式(Implicit)分簇法,实际上存在显式(Explicit)分簇法,可以进一步精确深度细分,以实际的深度范围计算每个族的包围盒:!
显式(Explicit)的深度分簇更加精确地定位到每簇的包围盒。
下图是Tiled、Implicit、Explicit深度划分法的对比图:!
VisibilityBuffer
Visibility Buffer与Deferred Texturing非常类似,是Deferred Lighting更加大胆的改进方案,核心思路是:为了减少GBuffer占用(GBuffer占用大意味着带宽大能耗大),不渲染GBuffer,改成渲染Visibility Buffer。Visibility Buffer上只存三角形和实例id,有了这些属性,在计算光照阶段(shading)分别从UAV和bindless texture里面读取真正需要的vertex attributes和贴图的属性,根据uv的差分自行计算mip-map(下图)。!
GBuffer和Visibility Buffer渲染管线对比示意图。后者在由Visiblity阶段取代前者的Gemotry Pass,此阶段只记录三角形和实例id,可将它们压缩进4bytes的Buffer中,从而极大地减少了显存的占用。
此方法虽然可以减少对Buffer的占用,但需要bindless texture的支持,对GPU Cache并不友好(相邻像素的三角形和实例id跳变大,降低Cache的空间局部性)
Deferred Adaptive Compute Shading
Deferred Adaptive Compute Shading的核心思想在于将屏幕像素按照某种方式划分为5个Level的不同粒度的像素块,以便决定是直接从相邻Level插值还是重新着色。!
此法在渲染UE4的不同场景时,在均方误差(RMSE)、峰值信噪比(PSNR)、平均结构相似性(MSSIM)都能获得良好的指标。(下图)!
渲染同一场景和画面时,对比Checkerboard(棋盘)着色方法,相同时间内,DACS的均方误差(RMSE)只是前者的21.5%,相同图像质量(MSSIM)下,DACS的时间快了4.22倍。
ForwardRendering
Forward+ Rendering
Forward+ 也被称为Tiled Forward Rendering,为了提升前向渲染光源的数量,它增加了光源剔除阶段,有3个Pass:depth prepass,light culling pass,shading pass。
light culling pass和瓦片的延迟渲染类似,将屏幕划分成若干个Tile,将每个Tile和光源求交,有效的光源写入到Tile的光源列表,以减少shading阶段的光源数量。!
+存在由于街头锥体拉长后在几何边界产生误报(False positives,可以通过separating axis theorem (SAT)改善)的情况。
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Cluster Forward Rendering Cluster Forward Rendering和Cluster Deferred Rendering类似,将屏幕空间划分成均等Tile,深度细分成一个个簇,进而更加细粒度地裁剪光源。算法类似,这里就不累述了。
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Volume Tiled Forward Rendering Volume Tiled Forward Rendering在Tiled和Clusterer的前向渲染基础上扩展的一种技术,旨在提升场景的光源支持数量,论文作者认为可以达到400万个光源的场景以30FPS实时渲染。它由以下步骤组成:
 
1.1 计算Grid(Volume Tile)的尺寸。给定Tile尺寸(tx,ty)(<28><>,<2C><>)和屏幕分辨率(w,h)(<28>,ℎ),可以算出屏幕的细分数量(Sx,Sy)(<28><>,<2C><>):
(Sx,Sy)=(∣∣∣wtx∣∣∣, ∣∣∣hty∣∣∣)(<28><>,<2C><>)=(|<7C><><EFBFBD>|, |ℎ<><E2848E>|)
深度方向的细分数量为:
SZ=∣∣∣log(Zfar/Znear)log(1+2tanθSy)∣∣∣<E288A3><E288A3>=|log(<28><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>/<2F><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>)log(1+2tan<6E><E281A1><EFBFBD>)|
1.2 计算每个Volume Tile的AABB。结合下图,每个Tile的AABB边界计算如下:
knear=Znear(1+2tan(θ)Sy)kkfar=Znear(1+2tan(θ)Sy)k+1pmin=(Sx⋅i, Sy⋅j)pmax=(Sx⋅(i+1), Sy⋅(j+1))<29><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>=<3D><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>(1+2tan(<28>)<29><>)<29><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>=<3D><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>(1+2tan(<28>)<29><>)<29>+1<><31><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>=(<28><>⋅<EFBFBD>, <><C2A0>⋅<EFBFBD>)<29><><EFBFBD><EFBFBD>=(<28><>⋅(<28>+1), <><C2A0>⋅(<28>+1))
2、更新阶段:
2.1 深度Pre-pass。只记录非半透明物体的深度。
2.2 标记激活的Tile。
2.3 创建和压缩Tile列表。
2.4 将光源赋给Tile。每个线程组执行一个激活的Volume Tile,利用Tile的AABB和场景中所有的光源求交(可用BVH减少求交次数),将相交的光源索引记录到对应Tile的光源列表(每个Tile的光源数据是光源列表的起始位置和光源的数量):
2.5 着色。此阶段与前述方法无特别差异。
基于体素分块的渲染虽然能够满足海量光源的渲染,但也存在Draw Call数量攀升和自相似体素瓦片(Self-Similar Volume Tiles,离摄像机近的体素很小而远的又相当大)的问题。
UE渲染相关
FSceneRenderer
FSceneRenderer是UE场景渲染器父类,是UE渲染体系的大脑和发动机,在整个渲染体系拥有举足轻重的位置,主要用于处理和渲染场景,生成RHI层的渲染指令。
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneRendering.h
// 场景渲染器
class FSceneRenderer
{
public:
    FScene* Scene; // 被渲染的场景
    FSceneViewFamily ViewFamily; // 被渲染的场景视图族(保存了需要渲染的所有view)。
    TArray<FViewInfo> Views; // 需要被渲染的view实例。
    FMeshElementCollector MeshCollector; // 网格收集器
    FMeshElementCollector RayTracingCollector; // 光追网格收集器
    // 可见光源信息
    TArray<FVisibleLightInfo,SceneRenderingAllocator> VisibleLightInfos;
    // 阴影相关的数据
    TArray<FParallelMeshDrawCommandPass*, SceneRenderingAllocator> DispatchedShadowDepthPasses;
    FSortedShadowMaps SortedShadowsForShadowDepthPass;
    // 特殊标记
    bool bHasRequestedToggleFreeze;
    bool bUsedPrecomputedVisibility;
    // 使用全场景阴影的点光源列表(可通过r.SupportPointLightWholeSceneShadows开关)
    TArray<FName, SceneRenderingAllocator> UsedWholeScenePointLightNames;
    // 平台Level信息
    ERHIFeatureLevel::Type FeatureLevel;
    EShaderPlatform ShaderPlatform;
    
    (......)
public:
    FSceneRenderer(const FSceneViewFamily* InViewFamily,FHitProxyConsumer* HitProxyConsumer);
    virtual ~FSceneRenderer();
    // FSceneRenderer接口(注意部分是空实现体和抽象接口)
    // 渲染入口
    virtual void Render(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList) = 0;
    virtual void RenderHitProxies(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList) {}
    // 场景渲染器实例
    static FSceneRenderer* CreateSceneRenderer(const FSceneViewFamily* InViewFamily, FHitProxyConsumer* HitProxyConsumer);
    void PrepareViewRectsForRendering();
#if WITH_MGPU // 多GPU支持
    void ComputeViewGPUMasks(FRHIGPUMask RenderTargetGPUMask);
#endif
    // 更新每个view所在的渲染纹理的结果
    void DoCrossGPUTransfers(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FRHIGPUMask RenderTargetGPUMask);
    // 遮挡查询接口和数据
    bool DoOcclusionQueries(ERHIFeatureLevel::Type InFeatureLevel) const;
    void BeginOcclusionTests(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, bool bRenderQueries);
    static FGraphEventRef OcclusionSubmittedFence[FOcclusionQueryHelpers::MaxBufferedOcclusionFrames];
    void FenceOcclusionTests(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void WaitOcclusionTests(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    bool ShouldDumpMeshDrawCommandInstancingStats() const { return bDumpMeshDrawCommandInstancingStats; }
    
    static FGlobalBoundShaderState OcclusionTestBoundShaderState;
    static bool ShouldCompositeEditorPrimitives(const FViewInfo& View);
    // 等待场景渲染器执行完成和清理工作以及最终删除
    static void WaitForTasksClearSnapshotsAndDeleteSceneRenderer(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FSceneRenderer* SceneRenderer, bool bWaitForTasks = true);
    static void DelayWaitForTasksClearSnapshotsAndDeleteSceneRenderer(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FSceneRenderer* SceneRenderer);
    
    // 其它接口
    static FIntPoint ApplyResolutionFraction(...);
    static FIntPoint QuantizeViewRectMin(const FIntPoint& ViewRectMin);
    static FIntPoint GetDesiredInternalBufferSize(const FSceneViewFamily& ViewFamily);
    static ISceneViewFamilyScreenPercentage* ForkScreenPercentageInterface(...);
    
    static int32 GetRefractionQuality(const FSceneViewFamily& ViewFamily);
    
protected:
    (......)
#if WITH_MGPU // 多GPU支持
    FRHIGPUMask AllViewsGPUMask;
    FRHIGPUMask GetGPUMaskForShadow(FProjectedShadowInfo* ProjectedShadowInfo) const;
#endif
    // ----可在所有渲染器共享的接口----
    
    // --渲染流程和MeshPass相关接口--
    void OnStartRender(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void RenderFinish(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void SetupMeshPass(FViewInfo& View, FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type BasePassDepthStencilAccess, FViewCommands& ViewCommands);
    void GatherDynamicMeshElements(...);
    void RenderDistortion(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void InitFogConstants();
    bool ShouldRenderTranslucency(ETranslucencyPass::Type TranslucencyPass) const;
    void RenderCustomDepthPassAtLocation(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, int32 Location);
    void RenderCustomDepthPass(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void RenderPlanarReflection(class FPlanarReflectionSceneProxy* ReflectionSceneProxy);
    void InitSkyAtmosphereForViews(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void RenderSkyAtmosphereLookUpTables(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void RenderSkyAtmosphere(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void RenderSkyAtmosphereEditorNotifications(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    
    // ---阴影相关接口---
    void InitDynamicShadows(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FGlobalDynamicIndexBuffer& DynamicIndexBuffer, FGlobalDynamicVertexBuffer& DynamicVertexBuffer, FGlobalDynamicReadBuffer& DynamicReadBuffer);
    bool RenderShadowProjections(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, const FLightSceneInfo* LightSceneInfo, IPooledRenderTarget* ScreenShadowMaskTexture, IPooledRenderTarget* ScreenShadowMaskSubPixelTexture, bool bProjectingForForwardShading, bool bMobileModulatedProjections, const struct FHairStrandsVisibilityViews* InHairVisibilityViews);
    TRefCountPtr<FProjectedShadowInfo> GetCachedPreshadow(...);
    void CreatePerObjectProjectedShadow(...);
    void SetupInteractionShadows(...);
    void AddViewDependentWholeSceneShadowsForView(...);
    void AllocateShadowDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void AllocatePerObjectShadowDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    void AllocateCachedSpotlightShadowDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    void AllocateCSMDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    void AllocateRSMDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    void AllocateOnePassPointLightDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    void AllocateTranslucentShadowDepthTargets(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    bool CheckForProjectedShadows(const FLightSceneInfo* LightSceneInfo) const;
    void GatherShadowPrimitives(...);
    void RenderShadowDepthMaps(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void RenderShadowDepthMapAtlases(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void CreateWholeSceneProjectedShadow(FLightSceneInfo* LightSceneInfo, ...);
    void UpdatePreshadowCache(FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext);
    void InitProjectedShadowVisibility(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);    
    void GatherShadowDynamicMeshElements(FGlobalDynamicIndexBuffer& DynamicIndexBuffer, FGlobalDynamicVertexBuffer& DynamicVertexBuffer, FGlobalDynamicReadBuffer& DynamicReadBuffer);
    
    // --光源接口--
    static void GetLightNameForDrawEvent(const FLightSceneProxy* LightProxy, FString& LightNameWithLevel);
    static void GatherSimpleLights(const FSceneViewFamily& ViewFamily, ...);
    static void SplitSimpleLightsByView(const FSceneViewFamily& ViewFamily, ...);
    // --可见性接口--
    void PreVisibilityFrameSetup(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList);
    void ComputeViewVisibility(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ...);
    void PostVisibilityFrameSetup(FILCUpdatePrimTaskData& OutILCTaskData);
    
    // --其它接口--
    void GammaCorrectToViewportRenderTarget(FRHICommandList& RHICmdList, const FViewInfo* View, float OverrideGamma);
    FRHITexture* GetMultiViewSceneColor(const FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext) const;
    void UpdatePrimitiveIndirectLightingCacheBuffers();
    bool ShouldRenderSkyAtmosphereEditorNotifications();
    void ResolveSceneColor(FRHICommandList& RHICmdList);
    (......)
};
FSceneRenderer由游戏线程的FRendererModule::BeginRenderingViewFamily负责创建和初始化,然后传递给渲染线程。渲染线程会调用FSceneRenderer::Render(),渲染完返回后,会删除FSceneRenderer的实例。也就是说,FSceneRenderer会被每帧创建和销毁。
FSceneRenderer拥有两个子类:FMobileSceneRenderer和FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer。
FMobileSceneRenderer是用于移动平台的场景渲染器,默认采用了前向渲染的流程。
FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer虽然名字叫做延迟着色场景渲染器,但其实集成了包含前向渲染和延迟渲染的两种渲染路径,是PC和主机平台的默认场景渲染器(笔者刚接触伊始也被这蜜汁取名迷惑过)。
FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer
FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer主要包含了MeshPass、光源、阴影、光线追踪、反射、可见性等几大类接口。其中最重要的接口非FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render()莫属,它是FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer的渲染主入口,主流程和重要接口的调用都直接或间接发生它内部。
则可以划分成以下主要阶段:
- FScene::UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos:更新所有图元的信息到GPU,若启用了GPUScene,将会用二维纹理或StructureBuffer来存储图元的信息。
 - FSceneRenderTargets::Allocate:若有需要(分辨率改变、API触发),重新分配场景的渲染纹理,以保证足够大的尺寸渲染对应的view。
 - InitViews:采用裁剪若干方式初始化图元的可见性,设置可见的动态阴影,有必要时会对阴影平截头体和世界求交(全场阴影和逐物体阴影)。
 - PrePass / Depth only pass:提前深度Pass,用来渲染不透明物体的深度。此Pass只会写入深度而不会写入颜色,写入深度时有disabled、occlusion only、complete depths三种模式,视不同的平台和Feature Level决定。通常用来建立Hierarchical-Z,以便能够开启硬件的Early-Z技术,提升Base Pass的渲染效率。
 - Base pass:也就是前面章节所说的几何通道。 用来渲染不透明物体(Opaque和Masked材质)的几何信息,包含法线、深度、颜色、AO、粗糙度、金属度等等。这些几何信息会写入若干张GBuffer中。此阶段不会计算动态光源的贡献,但会计算Lightmap和天空光的贡献。
 - Issue Occlusion Queries / BeginOcclusionTests:开启遮挡渲染,此帧的渲染遮挡数据用于下一帧 
InitViews阶段的遮挡剔除。此阶段主要使用物体的包围盒来渲染,也可能会打包相近物体的包围盒以减少Draw Call。 - Lighting:此阶段也就是前面章节所说的光照通道,是标准延迟着色和分块延迟着色的混合体。会计算开启阴影的光源的阴影图,也会计算每个灯光对屏幕空间像素的贡献量,并累计到Scene Color中。此外,还会计算光源也对translucency lighting volumes的贡献量。
 - Fog在屏幕空间计算雾和大气对不透明物体表面像素的影响。
 - Translucency:渲染半透明物体阶段。所有半透明物体由远到近(视图空间)逐个绘制到离屏渲染纹理(offscreen render target,代码中叫separate translucent render target)中,接着用单独的pass以正确计算和混合光照结果。
 - Post Processing:后处理阶段。包含了不需要GBuffer的Bloom、色调映射、Gamma校正等以及需要GBuffer的SSR、SSAO、SSGI等。此阶段会将半透明的渲染纹理混合到最终的场景颜色中。
 
FScene::UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos
FScene::UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos的调用发生在FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render的第一行:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\DeferredShadingRenderer.cpp
void FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList)
{
    Scene->UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos(RHICmdList, true);
    (......)
}
FScene::UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos的主要作用是删除、增加、更新CPU侧的图元数据,且同步到GPU端。其中GPU的图元数据存在两种方式:
- 每个图元独有一个Uniform Buffer。在shader中需要访问图元的数据时从该图元的Uniform Buffer中获取即可。这种结构简单易理解,兼容所有FeatureLevel的设备。但是会增加CPU和GPU的IO,降低GPU的Cache命中率。
 - 使用Texture2D或StructuredBuffer的GPU Scene,所有图元的数据按规律放置到此。在shader中需要访问图元的数据时需要从GPU Scene中对应的位置读取数据。需要SM5支持,实现难度高,不易理解,但可减少CPU和GPU的IO,提升GPU Cache命中率,可更好地支持光线追踪和GPU Driven Pipeline。 虽然以上访问的方式不一样,但shader中已经做了封装,使用者不需要区分是哪种形式的Buffer,只需使用以下方式:
 
// Engine\Shaders\Private\SceneData.ush
struct FPrimitiveSceneData
{
    float4x4 LocalToWorld;
    float4 InvNonUniformScaleAndDeterminantSign;
    float4 ObjectWorldPositionAndRadius;
    float4x4 WorldToLocal;
    float4x4 PreviousLocalToWorld;
    float4x4 PreviousWorldToLocal;
    float3 ActorWorldPosition;
    float UseSingleSampleShadowFromStationaryLights;
    float3 ObjectBounds;
    float LpvBiasMultiplier;
    float DecalReceiverMask;
    float PerObjectGBufferData;
    float UseVolumetricLightmapShadowFromStationaryLights;
    float DrawsVelocity;
    float4 ObjectOrientation;
    float4 NonUniformScale;
    float3 LocalObjectBoundsMin;
    uint LightingChannelMask;
    float3 LocalObjectBoundsMax;
    uint LightmapDataIndex;
    float3 PreSkinnedLocalBoundsMin;
    int SingleCaptureIndex;
    float3 PreSkinnedLocalBoundsMax;
    uint OutputVelocity;
    float4 CustomPrimitiveData[NUM_CUSTOM_PRIMITIVE_DATA];
};
由此可见,每个图元可访问的数据还是很多的,占用的显存也相当可观,每个图元大约占用576字节,如果场景存在10000个图元(游戏场景很常见),则忽略Padding情况下,这些图元数据总量达到约5.5M。
言归正传,回到C++层看看GPU Scene的定义:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\ScenePrivate.h
class FGPUScene
{
public:
    // 是否更新全部图元数据,通常用于调试,运行期会导致性能下降。
    bool bUpdateAllPrimitives;
    // 需要更新数据的图元索引.
    TArray<int32> PrimitivesToUpdate;
    // 所有图元的bit,当对应索引的bit为1时表示需要更新(同时在PrimitivesToUpdate中).
    TBitArray<> PrimitivesMarkedToUpdate;
    // 存放图元的GPU数据结构, 可以是TextureBuffer或Texture2D, 但只有其中一种会被创建和生效, 移动端可由Mobile.UseGPUSceneTexture控制台变量设定.
    FRWBufferStructured PrimitiveBuffer;
    FTextureRWBuffer2D PrimitiveTexture;
    // 上传的buffer
    FScatterUploadBuffer PrimitiveUploadBuffer;
    FScatterUploadBuffer PrimitiveUploadViewBuffer;
    // 光照图
    FGrowOnlySpanAllocator    LightmapDataAllocator;
    FRWBufferStructured        LightmapDataBuffer;
    FScatterUploadBuffer    LightmapUploadBuffer;
};
代码略……
总结起来,FScene::UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos的作用是删除、增加图元,以及更新图元的所有数据,包含变换矩阵、自定义数据、距离场数据等。
GPUScene的PrimitivesToUpdate和PrimitivesMarkedToUpdate收集好需要更新的所有图元索引后,会在FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render的InitViews之后同步给GPU:
void FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList)
{
    // 更新GPUScene的数据
    Scene->UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos(RHICmdList, true);
    (......)
    // 初始化View的数据
    bDoInitViewAftersPrepass = InitViews(RHICmdList, BasePassDepthStencilAccess, ILCTaskData, UpdateViewCustomDataEvents);
    (......)
    // 同步CPU端的GPUScene到GPU.
    UpdateGPUScene(RHICmdList, *Scene);//5.3 => Scene->GPUScene.Update(GraphBuilder, GetSceneUniforms(), *Scene, ExternalAccessQueue);
    (......)
}
UpdateGPUScene()代码略……
InitViews(5.3已经变成了BeginInitViews() & EndInitViews())
- InitViews()(BeginInitViews())
- PreVisibilityFrameSetup():做了大量的初始化工作,如静态网格、Groom、SkinCache、特效、TAA、ViewState等等。
 - 初始化特效系统(FXSystem)。
 - ComputeViewVisibility():最重要的功能就是处理图元的可见性,包含视椎体裁剪、遮挡剔除,以及收集动态网格信息、创建光源信息等。
- FPrimitiveSceneInfo::UpdateStaticMeshes:更新静态网格数据。
 - ViewState::GetPrecomputedVisibilityData:获取预计算的可见性数据。
 - FrustumCull:视锥体裁剪。
 - ComputeAndMarkRelevanceForViewParallel:计算和标记视图并行处理的关联数据。
 - GatherDynamicMeshElements:收集view的动态可见元素,上一篇中已经解析过。
 - SetupMeshPass:设置网格Pass的数据,将FMeshBatch转换成FMeshDrawCommand,上一篇中已经解析过。
 
 - CreateIndirectCapsuleShadows:创建胶囊体阴影。
 - UpdateSkyIrradianceGpuBuffer:更新天空体环境光照的GPU数据。
 - InitSkyAtmosphereForViews:初始化大气效果。
 - PostVisibilityFrameSetup():利用view的视锥裁剪光源,防止视线外或屏幕占比很小或没有光照强度的光源进入shader计算。此外,还会处理贴花排序、调整之前帧的RT和雾效、光束等。
 - FViewInfo::InitRHIResources():初始化每个View的UniformBuffer。
 - SetupVolumetricFog:初始化和设置体积雾。
 - FSceneRenderer::OnStartRender():通知RHI已经开启了渲染,以初始化视图相关的数据和资源。
 
 
以下是旧版本代码:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneVisibility.cpp
bool FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::InitViews(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type BasePassDepthStencilAccess, struct FILCUpdatePrimTaskData& ILCTaskData, FGraphEventArray& UpdateViewCustomDataEvents)
{
    // 创建可见性帧设置预备阶段.
    PreVisibilityFrameSetup(RHICmdList);
    RHICmdList.ImmediateFlush(EImmediateFlushType::DispatchToRHIThread);
    // 特效系统初始化
    {
        if (Scene->FXSystem && Scene->FXSystem->RequiresEarlyViewUniformBuffer() && Views.IsValidIndex(0))
        {
            // 保证第一个view的RHI资源已被初始化.
            Views[0].InitRHIResources();
            Scene->FXSystem->PostInitViews(RHICmdList, Views[0].ViewUniformBuffer, Views[0].AllowGPUParticleUpdate() && !ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.HitProxies);
        }
    }
    
    // 创建可见性网格指令.
    FViewVisibleCommandsPerView ViewCommandsPerView;
    ViewCommandsPerView.SetNum(Views.Num());
    // 计算可见性.
    ComputeViewVisibility(RHICmdList, BasePassDepthStencilAccess, ViewCommandsPerView, DynamicIndexBufferForInitViews, DynamicVertexBufferForInitViews, DynamicReadBufferForInitViews);
    RHICmdList.ImmediateFlush(EImmediateFlushType::DispatchToRHIThread);
    // 胶囊阴影
    CreateIndirectCapsuleShadows();
    RHICmdList.ImmediateFlush(EImmediateFlushType::DispatchToRHIThread);
    // 初始化大气效果.
    if (ShouldRenderSkyAtmosphere(Scene, ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags))
    {
        InitSkyAtmosphereForViews(RHICmdList);
    }
    // 创建可见性帧设置后置阶段.
    PostVisibilityFrameSetup(ILCTaskData);
    RHICmdList.ImmediateFlush(EImmediateFlushType::DispatchToRHIThread);
    (......)
    // 是否可能在Prepass之后初始化view,由GDoInitViewsLightingAfterPrepass决定,而GDoInitViewsLightingAfterPrepass又可通过控制台命令r.DoInitViewsLightingAfterPrepass设定。
    bool bDoInitViewAftersPrepass = !!GDoInitViewsLightingAfterPrepass;
    if (!bDoInitViewAftersPrepass)
    {
        InitViewsPossiblyAfterPrepass(RHICmdList, ILCTaskData, UpdateViewCustomDataEvents);
    }
    {
        // 初始化所有view的uniform buffer和RHI资源.
        for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
        {
            FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
            if (View.ViewState)
            {
                if (!View.ViewState->ForwardLightingResources)
                {
                    View.ViewState->ForwardLightingResources.Reset(new FForwardLightingViewResources());
                }
                View.ForwardLightingResources = View.ViewState->ForwardLightingResources.Get();
            }
            else
            {
                View.ForwardLightingResourcesStorage.Reset(new FForwardLightingViewResources());
                View.ForwardLightingResources = View.ForwardLightingResourcesStorage.Get();
            }
#if RHI_RAYTRACING
            View.IESLightProfileResource = View.ViewState ? &View.ViewState->IESLightProfileResources : nullptr;
#endif
            // Set the pre-exposure before initializing the constant buffers.
            if (View.ViewState)
            {
                View.ViewState->UpdatePreExposure(View);
            }
            // Initialize the view's RHI resources.
            View.InitRHIResources();
        }
    }
    // 体积雾
    SetupVolumetricFog();
    
    // 发送开始渲染事件.
    OnStartRender(RHICmdList);
    return bDoInitViewAftersPrepass;
}
上面的代码似乎没有做太多逻辑,然而实际上很多逻辑分散在了上面的一些重要接口中,先分析PreVisibilityFrameSetup:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneVisibility.cpp
void FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::PreVisibilityFrameSetup(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList)
{
    // Possible stencil dither optimization approach
    for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
    {
        FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
        View.bAllowStencilDither = bDitheredLODTransitionsUseStencil;
    }
    FSceneRenderer::PreVisibilityFrameSetup(RHICmdList);
}
void FSceneRenderer::PreVisibilityFrameSetup(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList)
{
    // 通知RHI已经开始渲染场景了.
    RHICmdList.BeginScene();
    {
        static auto CVar = IConsoleManager::Get().FindConsoleVariable(TEXT("r.DoLazyStaticMeshUpdate"));
        const bool DoLazyStaticMeshUpdate = (CVar->GetInt() && !GIsEditor);
        // 延迟的静态网格更新.
        if (DoLazyStaticMeshUpdate)
        {
            QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(STAT_PreVisibilityFrameSetup_EvictionForLazyStaticMeshUpdate);
            static int32 RollingRemoveIndex = 0;
            static int32 RollingPassShrinkIndex = 0;
            if (RollingRemoveIndex >= Scene->Primitives.Num())
            {
                RollingRemoveIndex = 0;
                RollingPassShrinkIndex++;
                if (RollingPassShrinkIndex >= UE_ARRAY_COUNT(Scene->CachedDrawLists))
                {
                    RollingPassShrinkIndex = 0;
                }
                // Periodically shrink the SparseArray containing cached mesh draw commands which we are causing to be regenerated with UpdateStaticMeshes
                Scene->CachedDrawLists[RollingPassShrinkIndex].MeshDrawCommands.Shrink();
            }
            const int32 NumRemovedPerFrame = 10;
            TArray<FPrimitiveSceneInfo*, TInlineAllocator<10>> SceneInfos;
            for (int32 NumRemoved = 0; NumRemoved < NumRemovedPerFrame && RollingRemoveIndex < Scene->Primitives.Num(); NumRemoved++, RollingRemoveIndex++)
            {
                SceneInfos.Add(Scene->Primitives[RollingRemoveIndex]);
            }
            FPrimitiveSceneInfo::UpdateStaticMeshes(RHICmdList, Scene, SceneInfos, false);
        }
    }
    // 转换Skin Cache
    RunGPUSkinCacheTransition(RHICmdList, Scene, EGPUSkinCacheTransition::FrameSetup);
    // 初始化Groom头发
    if (IsHairStrandsEnable(Scene->GetShaderPlatform()) && Views.Num() > 0)
    {
        const EWorldType::Type WorldType = Views[0].Family->Scene->GetWorld()->WorldType;
        const FShaderDrawDebugData* ShaderDrawData = &Views[0].ShaderDrawData;
        auto ShaderMap = GetGlobalShaderMap(FeatureLevel);
        RunHairStrandsInterpolation(RHICmdList, WorldType, Scene->GetGPUSkinCache(), ShaderDrawData, ShaderMap, EHairStrandsInterpolationType::SimulationStrands, nullptr);
    }
    // 特效系统
    if (Scene->FXSystem && Views.IsValidIndex(0))
    {
        Scene->FXSystem->PreInitViews(RHICmdList, Views[0].AllowGPUParticleUpdate() && !ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.HitProxies);
    }
    (......)
    // 设置运动模糊参数(包含TAA的处理)
    for(int32 ViewIndex = 0;ViewIndex < Views.Num();ViewIndex++)
    {
        FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
        FSceneViewState* ViewState = View.ViewState;
        check(View.VerifyMembersChecks());
        // Once per render increment the occlusion frame counter.
        if (ViewState)
        {
            ViewState->OcclusionFrameCounter++;
        }
        // HighResScreenshot should get best results so we don't do the occlusion optimization based on the former frame
        extern bool GIsHighResScreenshot;
        const bool bIsHitTesting = ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.HitProxies;
        // Don't test occlusion queries in collision viewmode as they can be bigger then the rendering bounds.
        const bool bCollisionView = ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.CollisionVisibility || ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.CollisionPawn;
        if (GIsHighResScreenshot || !DoOcclusionQueries(FeatureLevel) || bIsHitTesting || bCollisionView)
        {
            View.bDisableQuerySubmissions = true;
            View.bIgnoreExistingQueries = true;
        }
        FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext = FSceneRenderTargets::Get(RHICmdList);
        // set up the screen area for occlusion
        float NumPossiblePixels = SceneContext.UseDownsizedOcclusionQueries() && IsValidRef(SceneContext.GetSmallDepthSurface()) ? 
            (float)View.ViewRect.Width() / SceneContext.GetSmallColorDepthDownsampleFactor() * (float)View.ViewRect.Height() / SceneContext.GetSmallColorDepthDownsampleFactor() :
            View.ViewRect.Width() * View.ViewRect.Height();
        View.OneOverNumPossiblePixels = NumPossiblePixels > 0.0 ? 1.0f / NumPossiblePixels : 0.0f;
        // Still need no jitter to be set for temporal feedback on SSR (it is enabled even when temporal AA is off).
        check(View.TemporalJitterPixels.X == 0.0f);
        check(View.TemporalJitterPixels.Y == 0.0f);
        
        // Cache the projection matrix b        
        // Cache the projection matrix before AA is applied
        View.ViewMatrices.SaveProjectionNoAAMatrix();
        if (ViewState)
        {
            check(View.bStatePrevViewInfoIsReadOnly);
            View.bStatePrevViewInfoIsReadOnly = ViewFamily.bWorldIsPaused || ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.HitProxies || bFreezeTemporalHistories;
            ViewState->SetupDistanceFieldTemporalOffset(ViewFamily);
            if (!View.bStatePrevViewInfoIsReadOnly && !bFreezeTemporalSequences)
            {
                ViewState->FrameIndex++;
            }
            if (View.OverrideFrameIndexValue.IsSet())
            {
                ViewState->FrameIndex = View.OverrideFrameIndexValue.GetValue();
            }
        }
        
        // Subpixel jitter for temporal AA
        int32 CVarTemporalAASamplesValue = CVarTemporalAASamples.GetValueOnRenderThread();
        bool bTemporalUpsampling = View.PrimaryScreenPercentageMethod == EPrimaryScreenPercentageMethod::TemporalUpscale;
        
        // Apply a sub pixel offset to the view.
        if (View.AntiAliasingMethod == AAM_TemporalAA && ViewState && (CVarTemporalAASamplesValue > 0 || bTemporalUpsampling) && View.bAllowTemporalJitter)
        {
            float EffectivePrimaryResolutionFraction = float(View.ViewRect.Width()) / float(View.GetSecondaryViewRectSize().X);
            // Compute number of TAA samples.
            int32 TemporalAASamples = CVarTemporalAASamplesValue;
            {
                if (Scene->GetFeatureLevel() < ERHIFeatureLevel::SM5)
                {
                    // Only support 2 samples for mobile temporal AA.
                    TemporalAASamples = 2;
                }
                else if (bTemporalUpsampling)
                {
                    // When doing TAA upsample with screen percentage < 100%, we need extra temporal samples to have a
                    // constant temporal sample density for final output pixels to avoid output pixel aligned converging issues.
                    TemporalAASamples = float(TemporalAASamples) * FMath::Max(1.f, 1.f / (EffectivePrimaryResolutionFraction * EffectivePrimaryResolutionFraction));
                }
                else if (CVarTemporalAASamplesValue == 5)
                {
                    TemporalAASamples = 4;
                }
                TemporalAASamples = FMath::Clamp(TemporalAASamples, 1, 255);
            }
            // Compute the new sample index in the temporal sequence.
            int32 TemporalSampleIndex            = ViewState->TemporalAASampleIndex + 1;
            if(TemporalSampleIndex >= TemporalAASamples || View.bCameraCut)
            {
                TemporalSampleIndex = 0;
            }
            // Updates view state.
            if (!View.bStatePrevViewInfoIsReadOnly && !bFreezeTemporalSequences)
            {
                ViewState->TemporalAASampleIndex          = TemporalSampleIndex;
                ViewState->TemporalAASampleIndexUnclamped = ViewState->TemporalAASampleIndexUnclamped+1;
            }
            // 根据不同的TAA采样策略和参数, 选择和计算对应的采样参数.
            float SampleX, SampleY;
            if (Scene->GetFeatureLevel() < ERHIFeatureLevel::SM5)
            {
                float SamplesX[] = { -8.0f/16.0f, 0.0/16.0f };
                float SamplesY[] = { /* - */ 0.0f/16.0f, 8.0/16.0f };
                check(TemporalAASamples == UE_ARRAY_COUNT(SamplesX));
                SampleX = SamplesX[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
                SampleY = SamplesY[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
            }
            else if (View.PrimaryScreenPercentageMethod == EPrimaryScreenPercentageMethod::TemporalUpscale)
            {
                // Uniformly distribute temporal jittering in [-.5; .5], because there is no longer any alignement of input and output pixels.
                SampleX = Halton(TemporalSampleIndex + 1, 2) - 0.5f;
                SampleY = Halton(TemporalSampleIndex + 1, 3) - 0.5f;
                View.MaterialTextureMipBias = -(FMath::Max(-FMath::Log2(EffectivePrimaryResolutionFraction), 0.0f) ) + CVarMinAutomaticViewMipBiasOffset.GetValueOnRenderThread();
                View.MaterialTextureMipBias = FMath::Max(View.MaterialTextureMipBias, CVarMinAutomaticViewMipBias.GetValueOnRenderThread());
            }
            else if( CVarTemporalAASamplesValue == 2 )
            {
                // 2xMSAA
                // Pattern docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff476218(v=vs.85).aspx
                //   N.
                //   .S
                float SamplesX[] = { -4.0f/16.0f, 4.0/16.0f };
                float SamplesY[] = { -4.0f/16.0f, 4.0/16.0f };
                check(TemporalAASamples == UE_ARRAY_COUNT(SamplesX));
                SampleX = SamplesX[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
                SampleY = SamplesY[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
            }
            else if( CVarTemporalAASamplesValue == 3 )
            {
                // 3xMSAA
                //   A..
                //   ..B
                //   .C.
                // Rolling circle pattern (A,B,C).
                float SamplesX[] = { -2.0f/3.0f,  2.0/3.0f,  0.0/3.0f };
                float SamplesY[] = { -2.0f/3.0f,  0.0/3.0f,  2.0/3.0f };
                check(TemporalAASamples == UE_ARRAY_COUNT(SamplesX));
                SampleX = SamplesX[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
                SampleY = SamplesY[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
            }
            else if( CVarTemporalAASamplesValue == 4 )
            {
                // 4xMSAA
                // Pattern docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff476218(v=vs.85).aspx
                //   .N..
                //   ...E
                //   W...
                //   ..S.
                // Rolling circle pattern (N,E,S,W).
                float SamplesX[] = { -2.0f/16.0f,  6.0/16.0f, 2.0/16.0f, -6.0/16.0f };
                float SamplesY[] = { -6.0f/16.0f, -2.0/16.0f, 6.0/16.0f,  2.0/16.0f };
                check(TemporalAASamples == UE_ARRAY_COUNT(SamplesX));
                SampleX = SamplesX[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
                SampleY = SamplesY[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
            }
            else if( CVarTemporalAASamplesValue == 5 )
            {
                // Compressed 4 sample pattern on same vertical and horizontal line (less temporal flicker).
                // Compressed 1/2 works better than correct 2/3 (reduced temporal flicker).
                //   . N .
                //   W . E
                //   . S .
                // Rolling circle pattern (N,E,S,W).
                float SamplesX[] = {  0.0f/2.0f,  1.0/2.0f,  0.0/2.0f, -1.0/2.0f };
                float SamplesY[] = { -1.0f/2.0f,  0.0/2.0f,  1.0/2.0f,  0.0/2.0f };
                check(TemporalAASamples == UE_ARRAY_COUNT(SamplesX));
                SampleX = SamplesX[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
                SampleY = SamplesY[ TemporalSampleIndex ];
            }
            else
            {
                float u1 = Halton( TemporalSampleIndex + 1, 2 );
                float u2 = Halton( TemporalSampleIndex + 1, 3 );
                // Generates samples in normal distribution
                // exp( x^2 / Sigma^2 )
                    
                static auto CVar = IConsoleManager::Get().FindConsoleVariable(TEXT("r.TemporalAAFilterSize"));
                float FilterSize = CVar->GetFloat();
                // Scale distribution to set non-unit variance
                // Variance = Sigma^2
                float Sigma = 0.47f * FilterSize;
                // Window to [-0.5, 0.5] output
                // Without windowing we could generate samples far away on the infinite tails.
                float OutWindow = 0.5f;
                float InWindow = FMath::Exp( -0.5 * FMath::Square( OutWindow / Sigma ) );
                    
                // Box-Muller transform
                float Theta = 2.0f * PI * u2;
                float r = Sigma * FMath::Sqrt( -2.0f * FMath::Loge( (1.0f - u1) * InWindow + u1 ) );
                    
                SampleX = r * FMath::Cos( Theta );
                SampleY = r * FMath::Sin( Theta );
            }
            View.TemporalJitterSequenceLength = TemporalAASamples;
            View.TemporalJitterIndex = TemporalSampleIndex;
            View.TemporalJitterPixels.X = SampleX;
            View.TemporalJitterPixels.Y = SampleY;
            View.ViewMatrices.HackAddTemporalAAProjectionJitter(FVector2D(SampleX * 2.0f / View.ViewRect.Width(), SampleY * -2.0f / View.ViewRect.Height()));
        }
        // Setup a new FPreviousViewInfo from current frame infos.
        FPreviousViewInfo NewPrevViewInfo;
        {
            NewPrevViewInfo.ViewMatrices = View.ViewMatrices;
        }
        // 初始化view state
        if ( ViewState )
        {
            // update previous frame matrices in case world origin was rebased on this frame
            if (!View.OriginOffsetThisFrame.IsZero())
            {
                ViewState->PrevFrameViewInfo.ViewMatrices.ApplyWorldOffset(View.OriginOffsetThisFrame);
            }
            // determine if we are initializing or we should reset the persistent state
            const float DeltaTime = View.Family->CurrentRealTime - ViewState->LastRenderTime;
            const bool bFirstFrameOrTimeWasReset = DeltaTime < -0.0001f || ViewState->LastRenderTime < 0.0001f;
            const bool bIsLargeCameraMovement = IsLargeCameraMovement(
                View,
                ViewState->PrevFrameViewInfo.ViewMatrices.GetViewMatrix(),
                ViewState->PrevFrameViewInfo.ViewMatrices.GetViewOrigin(),
                45.0f, 10000.0f);
            const bool bResetCamera = (bFirstFrameOrTimeWasReset || View.bCameraCut || bIsLargeCameraMovement || View.bForceCameraVisibilityReset);
            
            (......)
            if (bResetCamera)
            {
                View.PrevViewInfo = NewPrevViewInfo;
                // PT: If the motion blur shader is the last shader in the post-processing chain then it is the one that is
                //     adjusting for the viewport offset.  So it is always required and we can't just disable the work the
                //     shader does.  The correct fix would be to disable the effect when we don't need it and to properly mark
                //     the uber-postprocessing effect as the last effect in the chain.
                View.bPrevTransformsReset = true;
            }
            else
            {
                View.PrevViewInfo = ViewState->PrevFrameViewInfo;
            }
            // Replace previous view info of the view state with this frame, clearing out references over render target.
            if (!View.bStatePrevViewInfoIsReadOnly)
            {
                ViewState->PrevFrameViewInfo = NewPrevViewInfo;
            }
            // If the view has a previous view transform, then overwrite the previous view info for the _current_ frame.
            if (View.PreviousViewTransform.IsSet())
            {
                // Note that we must ensure this transform ends up in ViewState->PrevFrameViewInfo else it will be used to calculate the next frame's motion vectors as well
                View.PrevViewInfo.ViewMatrices.UpdateViewMatrix(View.PreviousViewTransform->GetTranslation(), View.PreviousViewTransform->GetRotation().Rotator());
            }
            // detect conditions where we should reset occlusion queries
            if (bFirstFrameOrTimeWasReset || 
                ViewState->LastRenderTime + GEngine->PrimitiveProbablyVisibleTime < View.Family->CurrentRealTime ||
                View.bCameraCut ||
                View.bForceCameraVisibilityReset ||
                IsLargeCameraMovement(
                    View, 
                    ViewState->PrevViewMatrixForOcclusionQuery, 
                    ViewState->PrevViewOriginForOcclusionQuery, 
                    GEngine->CameraRotationThreshold, GEngine->CameraTranslationThreshold))
            {
                View.bIgnoreExistingQueries = true;
                View.bDisableDistanceBasedFadeTransitions = true;
            }
            // Turn on/off round-robin occlusion querying in the ViewState
            static const auto CVarRROCC = IConsoleManager::Get().FindTConsoleVariableDataInt(TEXT("vr.RoundRobinOcclusion"));
            const bool bEnableRoundRobin = CVarRROCC ? (CVarRROCC->GetValueOnAnyThread() != false) : false;
            if (bEnableRoundRobin != ViewState->IsRoundRobinEnabled())
            {
                ViewState->UpdateRoundRobin(bEnableRoundRobin);
                View.bIgnoreExistingQueries = true;
            }
            ViewState->PrevViewMatrixForOcclusionQuery = View.ViewMatrices.GetViewMatrix();
            ViewState->PrevViewOriginForOcclusionQuery = View.ViewMatrices.GetViewOrigin();
                
            (......)
            // we don't use DeltaTime as it can be 0 (in editor) and is computed by subtracting floats (loses precision over time)
            // Clamp DeltaWorldTime to reasonable values for the purposes of motion blur, things like TimeDilation can make it very small
            // Offline renders always control the timestep for the view and always need the timescales calculated.
            if (!ViewFamily.bWorldIsPaused || View.bIsOfflineRender)
            {
                ViewState->UpdateMotionBlurTimeScale(View);
            }
            
            ViewState->PrevFrameNumber = ViewState->PendingPrevFrameNumber;
            ViewState->PendingPrevFrameNumber = View.Family->FrameNumber;
            // This finishes the update of view state
            ViewState->UpdateLastRenderTime(*View.Family);
            ViewState->UpdateTemporalLODTransition(View);
        }
        else
        {
            // Without a viewstate, we just assume that camera has not moved.
            View.PrevViewInfo = NewPrevViewInfo;
        }
    }
    // 设置全局抖动参数和过渡uniform buffer.
    for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
    {
        FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
        FDitherUniformShaderParameters DitherUniformShaderParameters;
        DitherUniformShaderParameters.LODFactor = View.GetTemporalLODTransition();
        View.DitherFadeOutUniformBuffer = FDitherUniformBufferRef::CreateUniformBufferImmediate(DitherUniformShaderParameters, UniformBuffer_SingleFrame);
        DitherUniformShaderParameters.LODFactor = View.GetTemporalLODTransition() - 1.0f;
        View.DitherFadeInUniformBuffer = FDitherUniformBufferRef::CreateUniformBufferImmediate(DitherUniformShaderParameters, UniformBuffer_SingleFrame);
    }
}
由此可知,PreVisibilityFrameSetup做了大量的初始化工作,如静态网格、Groom、SkinCache、特效、TAA、ViewState等等。接着继续分析ComputeViewVisibility:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneVisibility.cpp
void FSceneRenderer::ComputeViewVisibility(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type BasePassDepthStencilAccess, FViewVisibleCommandsPerView& ViewCommandsPerView, FGlobalDynamicIndexBuffer& DynamicIndexBuffer, FGlobalDynamicVertexBuffer& DynamicVertexBuffer, FGlobalDynamicReadBuffer& DynamicReadBuffer)
{
    // 分配可见光源信息列表。
    if (Scene->Lights.GetMaxIndex() > 0)
    {
        VisibleLightInfos.AddZeroed(Scene->Lights.GetMaxIndex());
    }
    int32 NumPrimitives = Scene->Primitives.Num();
    float CurrentRealTime = ViewFamily.CurrentRealTime;
    FPrimitiveViewMasks HasDynamicMeshElementsMasks;
    HasDynamicMeshElementsMasks.AddZeroed(NumPrimitives);
    FPrimitiveViewMasks HasViewCustomDataMasks;
    HasViewCustomDataMasks.AddZeroed(NumPrimitives);
    FPrimitiveViewMasks HasDynamicEditorMeshElementsMasks;
    if (GIsEditor)
    {
        HasDynamicEditorMeshElementsMasks.AddZeroed(NumPrimitives);
    }
    const bool bIsInstancedStereo = (Views.Num() > 0) ? (Views[0].IsInstancedStereoPass() || Views[0].bIsMobileMultiViewEnabled) : false;
    UpdateReflectionSceneData(Scene);
    // 更新不判断可见性的静态网格.
    {
        Scene->ConditionalMarkStaticMeshElementsForUpdate();
        TArray<FPrimitiveSceneInfo*> UpdatedSceneInfos;
        for (TSet<FPrimitiveSceneInfo*>::TIterator It(Scene->PrimitivesNeedingStaticMeshUpdateWithoutVisibilityCheck); It; ++It)
        {
            FPrimitiveSceneInfo* Primitive = *It;
            if (Primitive->NeedsUpdateStaticMeshes())
            {
                UpdatedSceneInfos.Add(Primitive);
            }
        }
        if (UpdatedSceneInfos.Num() > 0)
        {
            FPrimitiveSceneInfo::UpdateStaticMeshes(RHICmdList, Scene, UpdatedSceneInfos);
        }
        Scene->PrimitivesNeedingStaticMeshUpdateWithoutVisibilityCheck.Reset();
    }
    // 初始化所有view的数据.
    uint8 ViewBit = 0x1;
    for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ++ViewIndex, ViewBit <<= 1)
    {
        STAT(NumProcessedPrimitives += NumPrimitives);
        FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
        FViewCommands& ViewCommands = ViewCommandsPerView[ViewIndex];
        FSceneViewState* ViewState = (FSceneViewState*)View.State;
        // Allocate the view's visibility maps.
        View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap.Init(false,Scene->Primitives.Num());
        // we don't initialized as we overwrite the whole array (in GatherDynamicMeshElements)
        View.DynamicMeshEndIndices.SetNumUninitialized(Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.PrimitiveDefinitelyUnoccludedMap.Init(false,Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.PotentiallyFadingPrimitiveMap.Init(false,Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.PrimitiveFadeUniformBuffers.AddZeroed(Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.PrimitiveFadeUniformBufferMap.Init(false, Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.StaticMeshVisibilityMap.Init(false,Scene->StaticMeshes.GetMaxIndex());
        View.StaticMeshFadeOutDitheredLODMap.Init(false,Scene->StaticMeshes.GetMaxIndex());
        View.StaticMeshFadeInDitheredLODMap.Init(false,Scene->StaticMeshes.GetMaxIndex());
        View.StaticMeshBatchVisibility.AddZeroed(Scene->StaticMeshBatchVisibility.GetMaxIndex());
        View.PrimitivesLODMask.Init(FLODMask(), Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.PrimitivesCustomData.Init(nullptr, Scene->Primitives.Num());
        // We must reserve to prevent realloc otherwise it will cause memory leak if we Execute In Parallel
        const bool WillExecuteInParallel = FApp::ShouldUseThreadingForPerformance() && CVarParallelInitViews.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0;
        View.PrimitiveCustomDataMemStack.Reserve(WillExecuteInParallel ? FMath::CeilToInt(((float)View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap.Num() / (float)FRelevancePrimSet<int32>::MaxInputPrims)) + 1 : 1);
        View.AllocateCustomDataMemStack();
        View.VisibleLightInfos.Empty(Scene->Lights.GetMaxIndex());
        View.DirtyIndirectLightingCacheBufferPrimitives.Reserve(Scene->Primitives.Num());
        // 创建光源信息.
        for(int32 LightIndex = 0;LightIndex < Scene->Lights.GetMaxIndex();LightIndex++)
        {
            if( LightIndex+2 < Scene->Lights.GetMaxIndex() )
            {
                if (LightIndex > 2)
                {
                    FLUSH_CACHE_LINE(&View.VisibleLightInfos(LightIndex-2));
                }
            }
            new(View.VisibleLightInfos) FVisibleLightViewInfo();
        }
        View.PrimitiveViewRelevanceMap.Empty(Scene->Primitives.Num());
        View.PrimitiveViewRelevanceMap.AddZeroed(Scene->Primitives.Num());
        const bool bIsParent = ViewState && ViewState->IsViewParent();
        if ( bIsParent )
        {
            ViewState->ParentPrimitives.Empty();
        }
        if (ViewState)
        {
            // 获取并解压上一帧的遮挡数据.
            View.PrecomputedVisibilityData = ViewState->GetPrecomputedVisibilityData(View, Scene);
        }
        else
        {
            View.PrecomputedVisibilityData = NULL;
        }
        if (View.PrecomputedVisibilityData)
        {
            bUsedPrecomputedVisibility = true;
        }
        bool bNeedsFrustumCulling = true;
#if !(UE_BUILD_SHIPPING || UE_BUILD_TEST)
        if( ViewState )
        {
            // 冻结可见性
            if(ViewState->bIsFrozen)
            {
                bNeedsFrustumCulling = false;
                for (FSceneBitArray::FIterator BitIt(View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap); BitIt; ++BitIt)
                {
                    if (ViewState->FrozenPrimitives.Contains(Scene->PrimitiveComponentIds[BitIt.GetIndex()]))
                    {
                        BitIt.GetValue() = true;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
#endif
        // 平截头体裁剪.
        if (bNeedsFrustumCulling)
        {
            // Update HLOD transition/visibility states to allow use during distance culling
            FLODSceneTree& HLODTree = Scene->SceneLODHierarchy;
            if (HLODTree.IsActive())
            {
                QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(STAT_ViewVisibilityTime_HLODUpdate);
                HLODTree.UpdateVisibilityStates(View);
            }
            else
            {
                HLODTree.ClearVisibilityState(View);
            }
            int32 NumCulledPrimitivesForView;
            const bool bUseFastIntersect = (View.ViewFrustum.PermutedPlanes.Num() == 8) && CVarUseFastIntersect.GetValueOnRenderThread();
            if (View.CustomVisibilityQuery && View.CustomVisibilityQuery->Prepare())
            {
                if (CVarAlsoUseSphereForFrustumCull.GetValueOnRenderThread())
                {
                    NumCulledPrimitivesForView = bUseFastIntersect ? FrustumCull<true, true, true>(Scene, View) : FrustumCull<true, true, false>(Scene, View);
                }
                else
                {
                    NumCulledPrimitivesForView = bUseFastIntersect ? FrustumCull<true, false, true>(Scene, View) : FrustumCull<true, false, false>(Scene, View);
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (CVarAlsoUseSphereForFrustumCull.GetValueOnRenderThread())
                {
                    NumCulledPrimitivesForView = bUseFastIntersect ? FrustumCull<false, true, true>(Scene, View) : FrustumCull<false, true, false>(Scene, View);
                }
                else
                {
                    NumCulledPrimitivesForView = bUseFastIntersect ? FrustumCull<false, false, true>(Scene, View) : FrustumCull<false, false, false>(Scene, View);
                }
            }
            STAT(NumCulledPrimitives += NumCulledPrimitivesForView);
            UpdatePrimitiveFading(Scene, View);            
        }
        // 处理隐藏物体.
        if (View.HiddenPrimitives.Num())
        {
            for (FSceneSetBitIterator BitIt(View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap); BitIt; ++BitIt)
            {
                if (View.HiddenPrimitives.Contains(Scene->PrimitiveComponentIds[BitIt.GetIndex()]))
                {
                    View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap.AccessCorrespondingBit(BitIt) = false;
                }
            }
        }
        (......)
        // 处理静态场景.
        if (View.bStaticSceneOnly)
        {
            for (FSceneSetBitIterator BitIt(View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap); BitIt; ++BitIt)
            {
                // Reflection captures should only capture objects that won't move, since reflection captures won't update at runtime
                if (!Scene->Primitives[BitIt.GetIndex()]->Proxy->HasStaticLighting())
                {
                    View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap.AccessCorrespondingBit(BitIt) = false;
                }
            }
        }
        (......)
        // 非线框模式, 则只需遮挡剔除.
        if (!View.Family->EngineShowFlags.Wireframe)
        {
            int32 NumOccludedPrimitivesInView = OcclusionCull(RHICmdList, Scene, View, DynamicVertexBuffer);
            STAT(NumOccludedPrimitives += NumOccludedPrimitivesInView);
        }
        // 处理判断可见性的静态模型.
        {
            TArray<FPrimitiveSceneInfo*> AddedSceneInfos;
            for (TConstDualSetBitIterator<SceneRenderingBitArrayAllocator, FDefaultBitArrayAllocator> BitIt(View.PrimitiveVisibilityMap, Scene->PrimitivesNeedingStaticMeshUpdate); BitIt; ++BitIt)
            {
                int32 PrimitiveIndex = BitIt.GetIndex();
                AddedSceneInfos.Add(Scene->Primitives[PrimitiveIndex]);
            }
            if (AddedSceneInfos.Num() > 0)
            {
                FPrimitiveSceneInfo::UpdateStaticMeshes(RHICmdList, Scene, AddedSceneInfos);
            }
        }
        (......)
    }
    (......)
    // 收集所有view的动态网格元素. 上一篇已经详细解析过了.
    {
        GatherDynamicMeshElements(Views, Scene, ViewFamily, DynamicIndexBuffer, DynamicVertexBuffer, DynamicReadBuffer,
            HasDynamicMeshElementsMasks, HasDynamicEditorMeshElementsMasks, HasViewCustomDataMasks, MeshCollector);
    }
    // 创建每个view的MeshPass数据.
    for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
    {
        FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
        if (!View.ShouldRenderView())
        {
            continue;
        }
        FViewCommands& ViewCommands = ViewCommandsPerView[ViewIndex];
        SetupMeshPass(View, BasePassDepthStencilAccess, ViewCommands);
    }
}
ComputeViewVisibility最重要的功能就是处理图元的可见性,包含平截头体裁剪、遮挡剔除,以及收集动态网格信息、创建光源信息等。下面继续粗略剖预计算可见性的过程:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneOcclusion.cpp
const uint8* FSceneViewState::GetPrecomputedVisibilityData(FViewInfo& View, const FScene* Scene)
{
    const uint8* PrecomputedVisibilityData = NULL;
    if (Scene->PrecomputedVisibilityHandler && GAllowPrecomputedVisibility && View.Family->EngineShowFlags.PrecomputedVisibility)
    {
        const FPrecomputedVisibilityHandler& Handler = *Scene->PrecomputedVisibilityHandler;
        FViewElementPDI VisibilityCellsPDI(&View, nullptr, nullptr);
        // 绘制调试用的遮挡剔除方格.
        if ((GShowPrecomputedVisibilityCells || View.Family->EngineShowFlags.PrecomputedVisibilityCells) && !GShowRelevantPrecomputedVisibilityCells)
        {
            for (int32 BucketIndex = 0; BucketIndex < Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBuckets.Num(); BucketIndex++)
            {
                for (int32 CellIndex = 0; CellIndex < Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBuckets[BucketIndex].Cells.Num(); CellIndex++)
                {
                    const FPrecomputedVisibilityCell& CurrentCell = Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBuckets[BucketIndex].Cells[CellIndex];
                    // Construct the cell's bounds
                    const FBox CellBounds(CurrentCell.Min, CurrentCell.Min + FVector(Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeXY, Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeXY, Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeZ));
                    if (View.ViewFrustum.IntersectBox(CellBounds.GetCenter(), CellBounds.GetExtent()))
                    {
                        DrawWireBox(&VisibilityCellsPDI, CellBounds, FColor(50, 50, 255), SDPG_World);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        // 计算哈希值和桶索引, 以减少搜索时间.
        const float FloatOffsetX = (View.ViewMatrices.GetViewOrigin().X - Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBucketOriginXY.X) / Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeXY;
        // FMath::TruncToInt rounds toward 0, we want to always round down
        const int32 BucketIndexX = FMath::Abs((FMath::TruncToInt(FloatOffsetX) - (FloatOffsetX < 0.0f ? 1 : 0)) / Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBucketSizeXY % Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityNumCellBuckets);
        const float FloatOffsetY = (View.ViewMatrices.GetViewOrigin().Y -Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBucketOriginXY.Y) / Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeXY;
        const int32 BucketIndexY = FMath::Abs((FMath::TruncToInt(FloatOffsetY) - (FloatOffsetY < 0.0f ? 1 : 0)) / Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBucketSizeXY % Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityNumCellBuckets);
        const int32 PrecomputedVisibilityBucketIndex = BucketIndexY * Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBucketSizeXY + BucketIndexX;
        // 绘制可见性物体对应的包围盒.
        const FPrecomputedVisibilityBucket& CurrentBucket = Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBuckets[PrecomputedVisibilityBucketIndex];
        for (int32 CellIndex = 0; CellIndex < CurrentBucket.Cells.Num(); CellIndex++)
        {
            const FPrecomputedVisibilityCell& CurrentCell = CurrentBucket.Cells[CellIndex];
            // 创建cell的包围盒.
            const FBox CellBounds(CurrentCell.Min, CurrentCell.Min + FVector(Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeXY, Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeXY, Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellSizeZ));
            // Check if ViewOrigin is inside the current cell
            if (CellBounds.IsInside(View.ViewMatrices.GetViewOrigin()))
            {
                // 检测是否可重复使用已缓存的数据.
                if (CachedVisibilityChunk
                    && CachedVisibilityHandlerId == Scene->PrecomputedVisibilityHandler->GetId()
                    && CachedVisibilityBucketIndex == PrecomputedVisibilityBucketIndex
                    && CachedVisibilityChunkIndex == CurrentCell.ChunkIndex)
                {
                    PrecomputedVisibilityData = &(*CachedVisibilityChunk)[CurrentCell.DataOffset];
                }
                else
                {
                    const FCompressedVisibilityChunk& CompressedChunk = Handler.PrecomputedVisibilityCellBuckets[PrecomputedVisibilityBucketIndex].CellDataChunks[CurrentCell.ChunkIndex];
                    CachedVisibilityBucketIndex = PrecomputedVisibilityBucketIndex;
                    CachedVisibilityChunkIndex = CurrentCell.ChunkIndex;
                    CachedVisibilityHandlerId = Scene->PrecomputedVisibilityHandler->GetId();
                    // 解压遮挡数据.
                    if (CompressedChunk.bCompressed)
                    {
                        // Decompress the needed visibility data chunk
                        DecompressedVisibilityChunk.Reset();
                        DecompressedVisibilityChunk.AddUninitialized(CompressedChunk.UncompressedSize);
                        verify(FCompression::UncompressMemory(
                            NAME_Zlib, 
                            DecompressedVisibilityChunk.GetData(),
                            CompressedChunk.UncompressedSize,
                            CompressedChunk.Data.GetData(),
                            CompressedChunk.Data.Num()));
                        CachedVisibilityChunk = &DecompressedVisibilityChunk;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        CachedVisibilityChunk = &CompressedChunk.Data;
                    }
                    
                    // Return a pointer to the cell containing ViewOrigin's decompressed visibility data
                    PrecomputedVisibilityData = &(*CachedVisibilityChunk)[CurrentCell.DataOffset];
                }
                (......)
            }
            
            (......)
    }
        
    return PrecomputedVisibilityData;
}
从代码中得知,可见性判定可以绘制出一些调试信息,如每个物体实际用于剔除时的包围盒大小,也可以冻结(Frozen)剔除结果,以便观察遮挡的效率。
由于可见性判定包含预计算、平截头体裁剪、遮挡剔除等,单单遮挡剔除涉及的知识点比较多(绘制、获取、数据压缩解压、存储结构、多线程传递、帧间交互、可见性判定、HLOD等等),此处只对可见性判定做了粗略的浅析,更多详细的机制和过程将会在后续的渲染优化专题中深入剖析。
接下来继续分析InitViews内的PostVisibilityFrameSetup:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneVisibility.cpp
void FSceneRenderer::PostVisibilityFrameSetup(FILCUpdatePrimTaskData& OutILCTaskData)
{
    // 处理贴花排序和调整历史RT.
    {
        QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(STAT_PostVisibilityFrameSetup_Sort);
        for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
        {        
            FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
            View.MeshDecalBatches.Sort();
            if (View.State)
            {
                ((FSceneViewState*)View.State)->TrimHistoryRenderTargets(Scene);
            }
        }
    }
    (......)
    // 处理光源可见性.
    {
        QUICK_SCOPE_CYCLE_COUNTER(STAT_PostVisibilityFrameSetup_Light_Visibility);
    // 遍历所有光源, 结合view的视锥判断可见性(同一个光源可能在有的view可见但其它view不可见).
    for(TSparseArray<FLightSceneInfoCompact>::TConstIterator LightIt(Scene->Lights);LightIt;++LightIt)
    {
        const FLightSceneInfoCompact& LightSceneInfoCompact = *LightIt;
        const FLightSceneInfo* LightSceneInfo = LightSceneInfoCompact.LightSceneInfo;
        // 利用每个view内的镜头视锥裁剪光源.
        for(int32 ViewIndex = 0;ViewIndex < Views.Num();ViewIndex++)
        {        
            const FLightSceneProxy* Proxy = LightSceneInfo->Proxy;
            FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
            FVisibleLightViewInfo& VisibleLightViewInfo = View.VisibleLightInfos[LightIt.GetIndex()];
            // 平行方向光不需要裁剪, 只有局部光源才需要裁剪
            if( Proxy->GetLightType() == LightType_Point ||
                Proxy->GetLightType() == LightType_Spot ||
                Proxy->GetLightType() == LightType_Rect )
            {
                FSphere const& BoundingSphere = Proxy->GetBoundingSphere();
                // 判断view的视锥是否和光源包围盒相交.
                if (View.ViewFrustum.IntersectSphere(BoundingSphere.Center, BoundingSphere.W))
                {
                    // 透视视锥需要针对最大距离做校正, 剔除距离视点太远的光源.
                    if (View.IsPerspectiveProjection())
                    {
                        FSphere Bounds = Proxy->GetBoundingSphere();
                        float DistanceSquared = (Bounds.Center - View.ViewMatrices.GetViewOrigin()).SizeSquared();
                        float MaxDistSquared = Proxy->GetMaxDrawDistance() * Proxy->GetMaxDrawDistance() * GLightMaxDrawDistanceScale * GLightMaxDrawDistanceScale;
                        // 考量了光源的半径、视图的LOD因子、最小光源屏幕半径等因素来决定最终光源是否需要绘制,以便剔除掉远距离屏幕占比很小的光源。
                        const bool bDrawLight = (FMath::Square(FMath::Min(0.0002f, GMinScreenRadiusForLights / Bounds.W) * View.LODDistanceFactor) * DistanceSquared < 1.0f)
                                                    && (MaxDistSquared == 0 || DistanceSquared < MaxDistSquared);
                            
                        VisibleLightViewInfo.bInViewFrustum = bDrawLight;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        VisibleLightViewInfo.bInViewFrustum = true;
                    }
                }
            }
            else
            {
                // 平行方向光一定可见.
                VisibleLightViewInfo.bInViewFrustum = true;
                (......)
            }
    (......)
}
在InitViews末期,会初始化每个view的RHI资源以及通知RHICommandList渲染开始事件。先看看FViewInfo::InitRHIResources:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneRendering.cpp
void FViewInfo::InitRHIResources()
{
    FBox VolumeBounds[TVC_MAX];
    // 创建和设置缓存的视图Uniform Buffer.
    CachedViewUniformShaderParameters = MakeUnique<FViewUniformShaderParameters>();
    FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext = FSceneRenderTargets::Get(FRHICommandListExecutor::GetImmediateCommandList());
    SetupUniformBufferParameters(
        SceneContext,
        VolumeBounds,
        TVC_MAX,
        *CachedViewUniformShaderParameters);
    // 创建和设置视图的Uniform Buffer.
    ViewUniformBuffer = TUniformBufferRef<FViewUniformShaderParameters>::CreateUniformBufferImmediate(*CachedViewUniformShaderParameters, UniformBuffer_SingleFrame);
    const int32 TranslucencyLightingVolumeDim = GetTranslucencyLightingVolumeDim();
    // 重置缓存的Uniform Buffer.
    FScene* Scene = Family->Scene ? Family->Scene->GetRenderScene() : nullptr;
    if (Scene)
    {
        Scene->UniformBuffers.InvalidateCachedView();
    }
    // 初始化透明体积光照参数.
    for (int32 CascadeIndex = 0; CascadeIndex < TVC_MAX; CascadeIndex++)
    {
        TranslucencyLightingVolumeMin[CascadeIndex] = VolumeBounds[CascadeIndex].Min;
        TranslucencyVolumeVoxelSize[CascadeIndex] = (VolumeBounds[CascadeIndex].Max.X - VolumeBounds[CascadeIndex].Min.X) / TranslucencyLightingVolumeDim;
        TranslucencyLightingVolumeSize[CascadeIndex] = VolumeBounds[CascadeIndex].Max - VolumeBounds[CascadeIndex].Min;
    }
}
继续解析InitViews末尾的OnStartRender:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\SceneRendering.cpp
void FSceneRenderer::OnStartRender(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList)
{
    // 场景MRT的初始化.
    FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext = FSceneRenderTargets::Get(RHICmdList);
    FVisualizeTexturePresent::OnStartRender(Views[0]);
    CompositionGraph_OnStartFrame();
    SceneContext.bScreenSpaceAOIsValid = false;
    SceneContext.bCustomDepthIsValid = false;
    // 通知ViewState初始化.
    for (FViewInfo& View : Views)
    {
        if (View.ViewState)
        {
            View.ViewState->OnStartRender(View, ViewFamily);
        }
    }
}
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\ScenePrivate.h
void FSceneViewState::OnStartRender(FViewInfo& View, FSceneViewFamily& ViewFamily)
{
    // 初始化和设置光照传输体积.
    if(!(View.FinalPostProcessSettings.IndirectLightingColor * View.FinalPostProcessSettings.IndirectLightingIntensity).IsAlmostBlack())
    {
        SetupLightPropagationVolume(View, ViewFamily);
    }
    // 分配软件级场景遮挡剔除(针对不支持硬件遮挡剔除的低端机)
    ConditionallyAllocateSceneSoftwareOcclusion(View.GetFeatureLevel());
}
PrePass
PrePass又被称为提前深度Pass、Depth Only Pass、Early-Z Pass,用来渲染不透明物体的深度。此Pass只会写入深度而不会写入颜色,写入深度时有disabled、occlusion only、complete depths三种模式,视不同的平台和Feature Level决定。
PrePass可以由DBuffer发起,也可由Forward Shading触发,通常用来建立Hierarchical-Z,以便能够开启硬件的Early-Z技术,还可被用于遮挡剔除,提升Base Pass的渲染效率。 PrePass在FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render:
void FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::Render(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList)
{
    Scene->UpdateAllPrimitiveSceneInfos(RHICmdList, true);
    (......)
    InitViews(...);
    (......)
    UpdateGPUScene(RHICmdList, *Scene);
    (......)
    
    // 判断是否需要PrePass.
    const bool bNeedsPrePass = NeedsPrePass(this);
    
    // The Z-prepass
    (......)
    
    if (bNeedsPrePass)
    {
        // 绘制场景深度, 构建深度缓冲和层级Z缓冲(HiZ).
        bDepthWasCleared = RenderPrePass(RHICmdList, AfterTasksAreStarted);
    }
    (......)
    // Z-Prepass End
}
开启PrePass需要满足以下两个条件:
- 非硬件Tiled的GPU。现代移动端GPU通常自带Tiled,且是TBDR架构,已经在GPU层做了Early-Z,无需再显式绘制。
 - 指定了有效的EarlyZPassMode或者渲染器的bEarlyZPassMovable不为0。
 
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\DepthRendering.cpp
bool FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::RenderPrePass(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, TFunctionRef<void()> AfterTasksAreStarted)
{
    bool bDepthWasCleared = false;
    (......)
    bool bDidPrePre = false;
    FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext = FSceneRenderTargets::Get(RHICmdList);
    bool bParallel = GRHICommandList.UseParallelAlgorithms() && CVarParallelPrePass.GetValueOnRenderThread();
    // 非并行模式.
    if (!bParallel)
    {
        AfterTasksAreStarted();
        bDepthWasCleared = PreRenderPrePass(RHICmdList);
        bDidPrePre = true;
        SceneContext.BeginRenderingPrePass(RHICmdList, false);
    }
    else // 并行模式
    {
        // 分配深度缓冲.
        SceneContext.GetSceneDepthSurface(); 
    }
    // Draw a depth pass to avoid overdraw in the other passes.
    if(EarlyZPassMode != DDM_None)
    {
        const bool bWaitForTasks = bParallel && (CVarRHICmdFlushRenderThreadTasksPrePass.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0 || CVarRHICmdFlushRenderThreadTasks.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0);
        FScopedCommandListWaitForTasks Flusher(bWaitForTasks, RHICmdList);
        // 每个view都绘制一遍深度缓冲.
        for(int32 ViewIndex = 0;ViewIndex < Views.Num();ViewIndex++)
        {
            const FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
            // 创建和设置Uniform Buffer.
            TUniformBufferRef<FSceneTexturesUniformParameters> PassUniformBuffer;
            CreateDepthPassUniformBuffer(RHICmdList, View, PassUniformBuffer);
            // 处理渲染状态.
            FMeshPassProcessorRenderState DrawRenderState(View, PassUniformBuffer);
            SetupDepthPassState(DrawRenderState);
            if (View.ShouldRenderView())
            {
                Scene->UniformBuffers.UpdateViewUniformBuffer(View);
                // 并行模式
                if (bParallel)
                {
                    check(RHICmdList.IsOutsideRenderPass());
                    bDepthWasCleared = RenderPrePassViewParallel(View, RHICmdList, DrawRenderState, AfterTasksAreStarted, !bDidPrePre) || bDepthWasCleared;
                    bDidPrePre = true;
                }
                else
                {
                    RenderPrePassView(RHICmdList, View, DrawRenderState);
                }
            }
            // Parallel rendering has self contained renderpasses so we need a new one for editor primitives.
            if (bParallel)
            {
                SceneContext.BeginRenderingPrePass(RHICmdList, false);
            }
            RenderPrePassEditorPrimitives(RHICmdList, View, DrawRenderState, EarlyZPassMode, true);
            if (bParallel)
            {
                RHICmdList.EndRenderPass();
            }
        }
    }
    
    (......)
    if (bParallel)
    {
        // In parallel mode there will be no renderpass here. Need to restart.
        SceneContext.BeginRenderingPrePass(RHICmdList, false);
    }
    (......)
    
    SceneContext.FinishRenderingPrePass(RHICmdList);
    return bDepthWasCleared;
}
PrePass的绘制流程跟上一篇解析的FMeshProcessor和Pass绘制类似,此处不再重复解析。不过这里可以重点看看PrePass的渲染状态:
void SetupDepthPassState(FMeshPassProcessorRenderState& DrawRenderState)
{
    // 禁止写入颜色, 开启深度测试和写入, 深度比较函数是更近或相等.
    DrawRenderState.SetBlendState(TStaticBlendState<CW_NONE>::GetRHI());
    DrawRenderState.SetDepthStencilState(TStaticDepthStencilState<true, CF_DepthNearOrEqual>::GetRHI());
}
另外,绘制深度时,由于不需要写入颜色,那么渲染物体时使用的材质肯定不应该是物体本身的材质,而是某种简单的材质。为了验证猜想,进入FDepthPassMeshProcessor一探Depth Pass使用的材质:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\DepthRendering.cpp
void FDepthPassMeshProcessor::AddMeshBatch(const FMeshBatch& RESTRICT MeshBatch, uint64 BatchElementMask, const FPrimitiveSceneProxy* RESTRICT PrimitiveSceneProxy, int32 StaticMeshId)
{
    (......)
    if (bDraw)
    {
        (......)
        
        // 获取Surface材质域的默认材质, 作为深度Pass的渲染材质.
        const FMaterialRenderProxy& DefaultProxy = *UMaterial::GetDefaultMaterial(MD_Surface)->GetRenderProxy();
        const FMaterial& DefaultMaterial = *DefaultProxy.GetMaterial(FeatureLevel);
        Process<true>(MeshBatch, BatchElementMask, StaticMeshId, BlendMode, PrimitiveSceneProxy, DefaultProxy, DefaultMaterial, MeshFillMode, MeshCullMode);
        
        (......)
    }
}
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Engine\Private\Materials\Material.cpp
UMaterial* UMaterial::GetDefaultMaterial(EMaterialDomain Domain)
{
    InitDefaultMaterials();
    UMaterial* Default = GDefaultMaterials[Domain];
    return Default;
}
void UMaterialInterface::InitDefaultMaterials()
{
    static bool bInitialized = false;
    if (!bInitialized)
    {
        (......)
        for (int32 Domain = 0; Domain < MD_MAX; ++Domain)
        {
            if (GDefaultMaterials[Domain] == nullptr)
            {
                FString ResolvedPath = ResolveIniObjectsReference(GDefaultMaterialNames[Domain]);
                GDefaultMaterials[Domain] = FindObject<UMaterial>(nullptr, *ResolvedPath);
                if (GDefaultMaterials[Domain] == nullptr)
                {
                    GDefaultMaterials[Domain] = LoadObject<UMaterial>(nullptr, *ResolvedPath, nullptr, LOAD_DisableDependencyPreloading, nullptr);
                }
                if (GDefaultMaterials[Domain])
                {
                    GDefaultMaterials[Domain]->AddToRoot();
                }
            }
        }
        
        (......)
    }
}
由上面可知,材质系统的默认材质由GDefaultMaterialNames指明,转到其声明:
static const TCHAR* GDefaultMaterialNames[MD_MAX] =
{
    // Surface
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultMaterialName"),
    // Deferred Decal
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultDeferredDecalMaterialName"),
    // Light Function
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultLightFunctionMaterialName"),
    // Volume
    //@todo - get a real MD_Volume default material
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultMaterialName"),
    // Post Process
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultPostProcessMaterialName"),
    // User Interface 
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultMaterialName"),
    // Virtual Texture
    TEXT("engine-ini:/Script/Engine.Engine.DefaultMaterialName"),
};
最终发现默认材质为ResolvedPath = L"/Engine/EngineMaterials/WorldGridMaterial.WorldGridMaterial"
非常值得一提的是:WorldGridMaterial使用的Shading Model是Default Lit,材质中也存在冗余的节点。如果想要做极致的优化,建议在配置文件中更改此材质,删除冗余的材质节点,改成Unlit模式更佳,以最大化地缩减shader指令,提升渲染效率。
还值得一提的是,绘制深度Pass时可以指定深度绘制模式:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\DepthRendering.h
enum EDepthDrawingMode
{
    // 不绘制深度
    DDM_None            = 0,
    // 只绘制Opaque材质(不包含Masked材质)
    DDM_NonMaskedOnly    = 1,
    // Opaque和Masked材质, 但不包含关闭了bUseAsOccluder的物体.
    DDM_AllOccluders    = 2,
    // 全部不透明物体模式, 所有物体需绘制, 且每个像素都要匹配Base Pass的深度.
    DDM_AllOpaque        = 3,
    // 仅Masked模式.
    DDM_MaskedOnly = 4,
};
具体是如何决定深度绘制模式的,由下面的接口决定:
// Engine\Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\RendererScene.cpp
void FScene::UpdateEarlyZPassMode()
{
    DefaultBasePassDepthStencilAccess = FExclusiveDepthStencil::DepthWrite_StencilWrite;
    EarlyZPassMode = DDM_NonMaskedOnly; // 默认只绘制Opaque材质.
    bEarlyZPassMovable = false;
    // 延迟渲染管线下的深度策略
    if (GetShadingPath(GetFeatureLevel()) == EShadingPath::Deferred)
    {
        // 由命令行重写, 也可由工程设置中指定.
        {
            const int32 CVarValue = CVarEarlyZPass.GetValueOnAnyThread();
                switch (CVarValue)
                {
                case 0: EarlyZPassMode = DDM_None; break;
                case 1: EarlyZPassMode = DDM_NonMaskedOnly; break;
                case 2: EarlyZPassMode = DDM_AllOccluders; break;
                case 3: break;    // Note: 3 indicates "default behavior" and does not specify an override
                }
        }
        const EShaderPlatform ShaderPlatform = GetFeatureLevelShaderPlatform(FeatureLevel);
        if (ShouldForceFullDepthPass(ShaderPlatform))
        {
            // DBuffer贴图和模板LOD抖动强制全部模式.
            EarlyZPassMode = DDM_AllOpaque;
            bEarlyZPassMovable = true;
        }
        if (EarlyZPassMode == DDM_AllOpaque
            && CVarBasePassWriteDepthEvenWithFullPrepass.GetValueOnAnyThread() == 0)
        {
            DefaultBasePassDepthStencilAccess = FExclusiveDepthStencil::DepthRead_StencilWrite;
        }
    }
    
    (......)
}
BasePass
UE的BasePass就是延迟渲染里的几何通道,用来渲染不透明物体的几何信息,包含法线、深度、颜色、AO、粗糙度、金属度等等,这些几何信息会写入若干张GBuffer中。
bool FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::RenderBasePass(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type BasePassDepthStencilAccess, IPooledRenderTarget* ForwardScreenSpaceShadowMask, bool bParallelBasePass, bool bRenderLightmapDensity)
{
    (......)
    
    {
        FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type BasePassDepthStencilAccess_NoDepthWrite = FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type(BasePassDepthStencilAccess & ~FExclusiveDepthStencil::DepthWrite);
        // 并行模式
        if (bParallelBasePass)
        {
            FScopedCommandListWaitForTasks Flusher(CVarRHICmdFlushRenderThreadTasksBasePass.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0 || CVarRHICmdFlushRenderThreadTasks.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0, RHICmdList);
            // 遍历所有view渲染Base Pass
            for (int32 ViewIndex = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
            {
                FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
                // Uniform Buffer
                TUniformBufferRef<FOpaqueBasePassUniformParameters> BasePassUniformBuffer;
                CreateOpaqueBasePassUniformBuffer(RHICmdList, View, ForwardScreenSpaceShadowMask, nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, BasePassUniformBuffer);
                // Render State
                FMeshPassProcessorRenderState DrawRenderState(View, BasePassUniformBuffer);
                SetupBasePassState(BasePassDepthStencilAccess, ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.ShaderComplexity, DrawRenderState);
                const bool bShouldRenderView = View.ShouldRenderView();
                if (bShouldRenderView)
                {
                    Scene->UniformBuffers.UpdateViewUniformBuffer(View);
                    // 执行渲染.
                    RenderBasePassViewParallel(View, RHICmdList, BasePassDepthStencilAccess, DrawRenderState);
                }
                
                FSceneRenderTargets::Get(RHICmdList).BeginRenderingGBuffer(RHICmdList, ERenderTargetLoadAction::ELoad, ERenderTargetLoadAction::ELoad, BasePassDepthStencilAccess, this->ViewFamily.EngineShowFlags.ShaderComplexity);
                RenderEditorPrimitives(RHICmdList, View, BasePassDepthStencilAccess, DrawRenderState, bDirty);
                RHICmdList.EndRenderPass();
                (......)
            }
            bDirty = true; // assume dirty since we are not going to wait
        }
        else // 非并行模式
        {
            (......)
        }    
    }
    (......)
}
Base Pass的渲染逻辑和Pre Pass的逻辑是很类似的,故而不再细究。接下来重点查看渲染Base Pass时使用的渲染状态和材质,下面是渲染状态:
void SetupBasePassState(FExclusiveDepthStencil::Type BasePassDepthStencilAccess, const bool bShaderComplexity, FMeshPassProcessorRenderState& DrawRenderState)
{
    DrawRenderState.SetDepthStencilAccess(BasePassDepthStencilAccess);
    (......)
    
    {
        // 所有GBuffer都开启了混合.
        static const auto CVar = IConsoleManager::Get().FindTConsoleVariableDataInt(TEXT("r.BasePassOutputsVelocityDebug"));
        if (CVar && CVar->GetValueOnRenderThread() == 2)
        {
            DrawRenderState.SetBlendState(TStaticBlendStateWriteMask<CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_NONE>::GetRHI());
        }
        else
        {
            DrawRenderState.SetBlendState(TStaticBlendStateWriteMask<CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA, CW_RGBA>::GetRHI());
        }
        // 开启了深度写入和测试, 比较函数为NearOrEqual.
        if (DrawRenderState.GetDepthStencilAccess() & FExclusiveDepthStencil::DepthWrite)
        {
            DrawRenderState.SetDepthStencilState(TStaticDepthStencilState<true, CF_DepthNearOrEqual>::GetRHI());
        }
        else
        {
            DrawRenderState.SetDepthStencilState(TStaticDepthStencilState<false, CF_DepthNearOrEqual>::GetRHI());
        }
    }
}
LightingPass
Translucency
半透明阶段会渲染半透明的颜色、扰动纹理(用于折射等效果)、速度缓冲(用于TAA抗锯齿、后处理效果),其中最主要的渲染半透明的逻辑在RenderTranslucency:
// Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\TranslucentRendering.cpp
void FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::RenderTranslucency(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, bool bDrawUnderwaterViews)
{
    TRefCountPtr<IPooledRenderTarget> SceneColorCopy;
    if (!bDrawUnderwaterViews)
    {
        ConditionalResolveSceneColorForTranslucentMaterials(RHICmdList, SceneColorCopy);
    }
    // Disable UAV cache flushing so we have optimal VT feedback performance.
    RHICmdList.BeginUAVOverlap();
    // 在景深之后渲染半透明物体。
    if (ViewFamily.AllowTranslucencyAfterDOF())
    {
        // 第一个Pass渲染标准的半透明物体。
        RenderTranslucencyInner(RHICmdList, ETranslucencyPass::TPT_StandardTranslucency, SceneColorCopy, bDrawUnderwaterViews);
        // 第二个Pass渲染DOF之后的半透明物体, 会存储在单独的一张半透明RT中, 以便稍后使用.
        RenderTranslucencyInner(RHICmdList, ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOF, SceneColorCopy, bDrawUnderwaterViews);
        // 第三个Pass将半透明的RT和场景颜色缓冲在DOF pass之后混合起来.
        RenderTranslucencyInner(RHICmdList, ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOFModulate, SceneColorCopy, bDrawUnderwaterViews);
    }
    else // 普通模式, 单个Pass即渲染完所有的半透明物体.
    {
        RenderTranslucencyInner(RHICmdList, ETranslucencyPass::TPT_AllTranslucency, SceneColorCopy, bDrawUnderwaterViews);
    }
    RHICmdList.EndUAVOverlap();
}
RenderTranslucencyInner在内部真正地渲染半透明物体,它的代码如下:
// Source\Runtime\Renderer\Private\TranslucentRendering.cpp
void FDeferredShadingSceneRenderer::RenderTranslucencyInner(FRHICommandListImmediate& RHICmdList, ETranslucencyPass::Type TranslucencyPass, IPooledRenderTarget* SceneColorCopy, bool bDrawUnderwaterViews)
{
    if (!ShouldRenderTranslucency(TranslucencyPass))
    {
        return; // Early exit if nothing needs to be done.
    }
    
    FSceneRenderTargets& SceneContext = FSceneRenderTargets::Get(RHICmdList);
    // 并行渲染支持.
    const bool bUseParallel = GRHICommandList.UseParallelAlgorithms() && CVarParallelTranslucency.GetValueOnRenderThread();
    if (bUseParallel)
    {
        SceneContext.AllocLightAttenuation(RHICmdList); // materials will attempt to get this texture before the deferred command to set it up executes
    }
    FScopedCommandListWaitForTasks Flusher(bUseParallel && (CVarRHICmdFlushRenderThreadTasksTranslucentPass.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0 || CVarRHICmdFlushRenderThreadTasks.GetValueOnRenderThread() > 0), RHICmdList);
    // 遍历所有view.
    for (int32 ViewIndex = 0, NumProcessedViews = 0; ViewIndex < Views.Num(); ViewIndex++)
    {
        FViewInfo& View = Views[ViewIndex];
        if (!View.ShouldRenderView() || (Views[ViewIndex].IsUnderwater() != bDrawUnderwaterViews))
        {
            continue;
        }
        // 更新场景的Uinform Buffer.
        Scene->UniformBuffers.UpdateViewUniformBuffer(View);
        TUniformBufferRef<FTranslucentBasePassUniformParameters> BasePassUniformBuffer;
        // 更新半透明Pass的Uinform Buffer.
        CreateTranslucentBasePassUniformBuffer(RHICmdList, View, SceneColorCopy, ESceneTextureSetupMode::All, BasePassUniformBuffer, ViewIndex);
        // 渲染状态.
        FMeshPassProcessorRenderState DrawRenderState(View, BasePassUniformBuffer);
        // 渲染saparate列队.
        if (!bDrawUnderwaterViews && RenderInSeparateTranslucency(SceneContext, TranslucencyPass, View.TranslucentPrimCount.DisableOffscreenRendering(TranslucencyPass)))
        {
            FIntPoint ScaledSize;
            float DownsamplingScale = 1.f;
            SceneContext.GetSeparateTranslucencyDimensions(ScaledSize, DownsamplingScale);
            if (DownsamplingScale < 1.f)
            {
                FViewUniformShaderParameters DownsampledTranslucencyViewParameters;
                SetupDownsampledTranslucencyViewParameters(RHICmdList, View, DownsampledTranslucencyViewParameters);
                Scene->UniformBuffers.UpdateViewUniformBufferImmediate(DownsampledTranslucencyViewParameters);
                DrawRenderState.SetViewUniformBuffer(Scene->UniformBuffers.ViewUniformBuffer);
                (......)
            }
            // 渲染前的准备阶段.
            if (TranslucencyPass == ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOF)
            {
                BeginTimingSeparateTranslucencyPass(RHICmdList, View);
                SceneContext.BeginRenderingSeparateTranslucency(RHICmdList, View, *this, NumProcessedViews == 0 || View.Family->bMultiGPUForkAndJoin);
            }
            // 混合队列.
            else if (TranslucencyPass == ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOFModulate)
            {
                BeginTimingSeparateTranslucencyModulatePass(RHICmdList, View);
                SceneContext.BeginRenderingSeparateTranslucencyModulate(RHICmdList, View, *this, NumProcessedViews == 0 || View.Family->bMultiGPUForkAndJoin);
            }
            // 标准队列.
            else
            {
                SceneContext.BeginRenderingSeparateTranslucency(RHICmdList, View, *this, NumProcessedViews == 0 || View.Family->bMultiGPUForkAndJoin);
            }
            // Draw only translucent prims that are in the SeparateTranslucency pass
            DrawRenderState.SetDepthStencilState(TStaticDepthStencilState<false, CF_DepthNearOrEqual>::GetRHI());
            // 真正地绘制半透明物体.
            if (bUseParallel)
            {
                RHICmdList.EndRenderPass();
                RenderViewTranslucencyParallel(RHICmdList, View, DrawRenderState, TranslucencyPass);
            }
            else
            {
                RenderViewTranslucency(RHICmdList, View, DrawRenderState, TranslucencyPass);
                RHICmdList.EndRenderPass();
            }
            // 渲染后的结束阶段.
            if (TranslucencyPass == ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOF)
            {
                SceneContext.ResolveSeparateTranslucency(RHICmdList, View);
                EndTimingSeparateTranslucencyPass(RHICmdList, View);
            }
            else if (TranslucencyPass == ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOFModulate)
            {
                SceneContext.ResolveSeparateTranslucencyModulate(RHICmdList, View);
                EndTimingSeparateTranslucencyModulatePass(RHICmdList, View);
            }
            else
            {
                SceneContext.ResolveSeparateTranslucency(RHICmdList, View);
            }
            // 上采样(放大)半透明物体的RT.
            if (TranslucencyPass != ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOF && TranslucencyPass != ETranslucencyPass::TPT_TranslucencyAfterDOFModulate)
            {
                UpsampleTranslucency(RHICmdList, View, false);
            }
        }
        else // 标准队列.
        {
            SceneContext.BeginRenderingTranslucency(RHICmdList, View, *this, NumProcessedViews == 0 || View.Family->bMultiGPUForkAndJoin);
            DrawRenderState.SetDepthStencilState(TStaticDepthStencilState<false, CF_DepthNearOrEqual>::GetRHI());
            if (bUseParallel && !ViewFamily.UseDebugViewPS())
            {
                RHICmdList.EndRenderPass();
                RenderViewTranslucencyParallel(RHICmdList, View, DrawRenderState, TranslucencyPass);
            }
            else
            {
                RenderViewTranslucency(RHICmdList, View, DrawRenderState, TranslucencyPass);
                RHICmdList.EndRenderPass();
            }
            SceneContext.FinishRenderingTranslucency(RHICmdList);
        }
        // Keep track of number of views not skipped
        NumProcessedViews++;
    }
}
半透明渲染的C++逻辑和shader逻辑跟Base Pass比较相似,不同的是半透明只处理半透明物体,Uniform Buffer部分不一样,Render State也有所不同,光照算法也有区别计算。但它们的主干逻辑大致雷同,此处不再展开剖析了。
此外,UE4 的半透明渲染队列主要有两个:一个是标准(Standard)队列,另一个是分离(Separate)队列。 分离队列需要在工程Render设置中开启(默认开启)。如果想要将某个透明物体加入分离(Separate)队列,只需要将其使用的材质开启Render After DOF即可(默认已开启):

