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Expose Albedo Render Buffer to Compositor - #1530

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PR in action:

Beauty  |    Albedo     |     Specular    |   Metalness
Normal  |   Roughness   |      Depth      |   Motion Vector
BufferAccess.mp4

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  • New Features
    • Compositor effects can request an albedo texture during opaque rendering, making surface color data available to those effects.
    • Added a setting to control whether an effect requests albedo output.
  • Improvements
    • Albedo output supports multisampled rendering.
    • Transparent rendering remains unchanged and does not include the albedo texture.

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Compositor effects can request albedo output. The Forward Clustered renderer adds albedo textures, color-pass attachments, and shader variants for opaque rendering. It resolves multisample albedo after the opaque pass.

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Compositor albedo output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expose the albedo requirement
scene/resources/compositor.h, scene/resources/compositor.cpp, servers/rendering/rendering_server.h
CompositorEffect exposes a needs_albedo property and updates the RenderingServer flag. Property validation hides it for PRE_OPAQUE callbacks.
Add albedo shader and pipeline variants
servers/rendering/renderer_rd/forward_clustered/scene_shader_forward_clustered.h, servers/rendering/renderer_rd/forward_clustered/scene_shader_forward_clustered.cpp, servers/rendering/renderer_rd/forward_clustered/render_forward_clustered.h, servers/rendering/renderer_rd/forward_clustered/render_forward_clustered.cpp
Color-pass flags and shader variants include albedo. Pipeline attachment layouts include an albedo attachment before separate specular and motion vectors.
Allocate and render albedo output
servers/rendering/renderer_rd/forward_clustered/render_forward_clustered.h, servers/rendering/renderer_rd/forward_clustered/render_forward_clustered.cpp
The renderer allocates and attaches albedo textures for compositor requests outside reflection-probe rendering. It resolves multisample albedo after the opaque pass and excludes albedo from transparent passes.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CompositorEffect
  participant RenderingServer
  participant ForwardClusteredRenderer
  participant RenderBuffers
  CompositorEffect->>RenderingServer: Set the needs-albedo flag
  RenderingServer->>ForwardClusteredRenderer: Provide the compositor albedo request
  ForwardClusteredRenderer->>RenderBuffers: Allocate and attach the albedo texture
  ForwardClusteredRenderer->>RenderBuffers: Resolve the albedo texture after the opaque pass when MSAA is enabled
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The change exposes an albedo output option to compositor effects. No actionable merge-blocking risk was identified in the reviewed changes.

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Review comments at @scene/resources/compositor.cpp:
- Around line 192-197: Update CompositorEffect::set_needs_albedo to check that
RenderingServer::get_singleton() is non-null before calling
compositor_effect_set_flag, matching the null-guard pattern used by sibling
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Comment thread scene/resources/compositor.cpp
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@DaveTheEggman can you please run the doctool then go ahead and repush when you get a sec?

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