Don't create a zero sized scene buffer (#630)

Alternative to #629

Fixes #291

vello/src/render.rs

@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 //! Take an encoded scene and create a graph to render it
 
+use std::mem::size_of;
+
 use crate::recording::{BufferProxy, ImageFormat, ImageProxy, Recording, ResourceProxy};
 use crate::shaders::FullShaders;
 use crate::{AaConfig, RenderParams};
@@ -120,12 +122,18 @@ impl Render {
                 image.0.data.data(),
             );
         }
-
         let cpu_config =
             RenderConfig::new(&layout, params.width, params.height, &params.base_color);
         let buffer_sizes = &cpu_config.buffer_sizes;
         let wg_counts = &cpu_config.workgroup_counts;
 
+        if packed.is_empty() {
+            // HACK: wgpu doesn't allow empty buffers, so we make sure that the scene buffer we upload
+            // can contain at least one array item.
+            // The values passed here should never be read, because the scene size in config
+            // is zero.
+            packed.resize(size_of::<u32>(), u8::MAX);
+        }
         let scene_buf = ResourceProxy::Buffer(recording.upload("scene", packed));
         let config_buf = ResourceProxy::Buffer(
             recording.upload_uniform("config", bytemuck::bytes_of(&cpu_config.gpu)),

vello_tests/tests/smoke.rs

@@ -6,20 +6,6 @@ use vello::peniko::{Brush, Color, Format};
 use vello::Scene;
 use vello_tests::TestParams;
 
-#[test]
-#[cfg_attr(skip_gpu_tests, ignore)]
-fn simple_square_gpu() {
-    simple_square(false);
-}
-
-#[test]
-// The fine shader still requires a GPU, and so we still get a wgpu device
-// skip this for now
-#[cfg_attr(skip_gpu_tests, ignore)]
-fn simple_square_cpu() {
-    simple_square(true);
-}
-
 fn simple_square(use_cpu: bool) {
     let mut scene = Scene::new();
     scene.fill(
@@ -54,3 +40,54 @@ fn simple_square(use_cpu: bool) {
     assert_eq!(red_count, 50 * 50);
     assert_eq!(black_count, 150 * 150 - 50 * 50);
 }
+
+fn empty_scene(use_cpu: bool) {
+    let scene = Scene::new();
+
+    // Adding an alpha factor here changes the resulting colour *slightly*,
+    // presumably due to pre-multiplied alpha.
+    // We just assume that alpha scenarios work fine
+    let color = Color::PLUM;
+    let params = TestParams {
+        use_cpu,
+        base_colour: Some(color),
+        ..TestParams::new("simple_square", 150, 150)
+    };
+    let image = vello_tests::render_then_debug_sync(&scene, &params).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(image.format, Format::Rgba8);
+    for pixel in image.data.data().chunks_exact(4) {
+        let &[r, g, b, a] = pixel else { unreachable!() };
+        let image_color = Color::rgba8(r, g, b, a);
+        if image_color != color {
+            panic!("Got {image_color:?}, expected clear colour {color:?}");
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[cfg_attr(skip_gpu_tests, ignore)]
+fn simple_square_gpu() {
+    simple_square(false);
+}
+
+#[test]
+// The fine shader still requires a GPU, and so we still get a wgpu device
+// skip this for now
+#[cfg_attr(skip_gpu_tests, ignore)]
+fn simple_square_cpu() {
+    simple_square(true);
+}
+
+#[test]
+#[cfg_attr(skip_gpu_tests, ignore)]
+fn empty_scene_gpu() {
+    empty_scene(false);
+}
+
+#[test]
+// The fine shader still requires a GPU, and so we still get a wgpu device
+// skip this for now
+#[cfg_attr(skip_gpu_tests, ignore)]
+fn empty_scene_cpu() {
+    empty_scene(true);
+}