fix(rendering): don't crash the game on a failed shader recompile - #5369
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#5292: switching the video preset from High to Ultra crashed with "RuntimeException: Failed to resolve required asset: 'CoreRendering:prePostComposite'" - a material that has nothing to do with Ultra's actual new features (SSAO, light shafts, cloud shadows, motion blur). Traced the path from the settings screen to that error: - VideoSettingsScreen's preset apply calls ShaderManager.recompileAllShaders(), which does getLoadedAssets(Shader.class).forEach(Shader::recompile) then the same for Material. - GLSLShader.recompile() queues registerAllShaderPermutations() via asynchToDisplayThread with no try/catch. doReload() guards the identical call with try { ... } catch (RuntimeException e) { logger.warn(...) } a few dozen lines down in the same file - same operation, only one of its two entry points is safe. registerAllShaderPermutations() throws a plain RuntimeException on any GL_COMPILE_STATUS failure, compiling the powerset of that shader's features - exactly the combinations a lower preset never exercised together, and so the first place a driver-specific compile failure would show up. - GLSLMaterial.recompile() is unguarded in both of its own call sites - the same forEach above and its own doReload - and clears every existing compiled program before relinking, with nothing to fall back to if relinking fails partway through. - LwjglGraphicsManager.processActions() drains queued display-thread actions with a plain forEach(Runnable::run). Every asynchToDisplayThread caller shares this one queue - recompileAllShaders() alone queues one action per loaded shader - so an uncaught exception from any single action aborted every action queued after it in the same frame, not just the one that failed. That is a plausible reason an unrelated material like prePostComposite would be the one to surface: whatever actually failed to compile just needed to be queued ahead of it. None of these three call sites throw on success; each fix is the same shape as this codebase's own doReload() pattern - log and continue rather than propagate. Root-caused by reading, not reproduced: the actual GL_COMPILE_STATUS failure needs the reporter's AMD RX 580 / Mesa stack to trigger, which I don't have here. What this fixes is that any such failure, on any driver, now degrades instead of crashing - which is what the report asked for. Fixes #5292 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe change adds SLF4J logging and isolates runtime failures during display-thread action execution and shader recompilation. Failed operations are logged, while later display actions and remaining shader processing continue. ChangesRuntime failure isolation
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A failed shader permutation can still prevent later permutations from recompiling and leave the rendering state incomplete, while the video settings flow receives no clear aggregate failure. The PR is not merge-ready until failures are isolated per permutation and valid results are preserved. Poem
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In `@engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java`:
- Around line 141-145: The shader permutation registration flow in
GLSLShader.registerAllShaderPermutations and the corresponding GLSLMaterial path
must handle each permutation independently: catch failures around individual
registrations, continue processing later permutations, and retain valid results.
Track and expose an aggregate failure outcome so
ShaderManager.recompileAllShaders can report failure to VideoSettingsScreen
before adding error or revert handling. Apply this to GLSLShader.java lines
141-145 and GLSLMaterial.java lines 141-148.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
# Trace recompilation calls and the video-settings error-reporting path.
fd -t f -e java 'ShaderManager|Video|Settings|GLSLShader|GLSLMaterial' engine | while IFS= read -r file; do
echo "=== $file ==="
rg -n -C 4 '\b(recompileAllShaders|recompile)\s*\(|unsupported hardware|Unsupported|video settings|RenderingConfig' "$file" || true
doneRepository: MovingBlocks/Terasology
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
for file in \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLMaterial.java \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/ShaderManagerLwjgl.java \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/nui/layers/mainMenu/videoSettings/VideoSettingsScreen.java \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/Shader.java \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/Material.java; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
echo "=== $file ==="
ast-grep outline "$file" || true
wc -l "$file"
fi
done
echo "=== GLSLShader relevant code ==="
sed -n '120,160p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java
rg -n -C 8 'registerAllShaderPermutations|registerShader|linkShaderProgram|shaderPrograms|recompile\(' \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java \
engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLMaterial.java
echo "=== recompilation flow ==="
sed -n '100,125p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/ShaderManagerLwjgl.java
sed -n '330,370p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/nui/layers/mainMenu/videoSettings/VideoSettingsScreen.java
rg -n -C 5 'recompileAllShaders|saveSettings|RenderingConfig|setRendering|renderConfig' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine | head -240Repository: MovingBlocks/Terasology
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
echo "=== GLSLShader permutation registration ==="
sed -n '268,325p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java
echo "=== GLSLShader reload path ==="
sed -n '345,400p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java
echo "=== GLSLMaterial recompilation ==="
sed -n '120,158p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLMaterial.java
echo "=== Shader manager ==="
sed -n '100,122p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/ShaderManagerLwjgl.java
echo "=== Video settings save path ==="
sed -n '345,365p' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/nui/layers/mainMenu/videoSettings/VideoSettingsScreen.java
echo "=== Failure and result handling across the rendering path ==="
rg -n -C 3 'compileShader|glGetShaderi|GL_COMPILE_STATUS|glGetProgrami|GL_LINK_STATUS|recompileAllShaders|recompile\(\)|triggerBackAnimation|setRendering|restore|revert|unsupported|Unsupported|hardware' engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/configRepository: MovingBlocks/Terasology
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
shader = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java").read_text()
material = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLMaterial.java").read_text()
manager = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/ShaderManagerLwjgl.java").read_text()
video = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/nui/layers/mainMenu/videoSettings/VideoSettingsScreen.java").read_text()
checks = {
"shader loop is inside catch scope": (
shader.index("try {\n registerAllShaderPermutations();"),
shader.index("private void registerAllShaderPermutations()"),
),
"shader permutation loop has no per-iteration catch": (
shader[shader.index("private void registerAllShaderPermutations()"):
shader.index("private String assembleShader")].count("catch (RuntimeException"),
0,
),
"material permutation loop is inside catch scope": (
material.index("try {\n disposalAction.shaderPrograms.put(0"),
material.index("for (Set<ShaderProgramFeature> permutation"),
),
"material permutation loop has no per-iteration catch": (
material[material.index("public void recompile()"):
material.index("//resolves `#966`")].count("catch (RuntimeException"),
1, # only the enclosing catch
),
"manager exposes no recompilation result": (
"void recompileAllShaders();" in manager,
True,
),
"video save ignores recompilation result": (
"recompileAllShaders();" in video and "if" not in video[
video.index("public void saveSettings()"):
video.index("public boolean isLowerLayerVisible()")
],
True,
),
}
for name, (actual, expected) in checks.items():
print(f"{name}: {'PASS' if actual == expected else 'FAIL'} ({actual!r})")
# A minimal control-flow model: a batch-level catch processes only items before
# the first failure, while per-item handling processes all items and records it.
items = ["0", "1", "2", "3"]
failed = "1"
batch_processed = []
try:
for item in items:
if item == failed:
raise RuntimeError(item)
batch_processed.append(item)
except RuntimeError:
pass
per_item_processed = []
failures = []
for item in items:
try:
if item == failed:
raise RuntimeError(item)
per_item_processed.append(item)
except RuntimeError as exc:
failures.append(str(exc))
print("batch-level catch processed:", batch_processed)
print("per-item handling processed:", per_item_processed, "failures:", failures)
PYRepository: MovingBlocks/Terasology
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
def block(text, start, end):
a = text.index(start)
b = text.index(end, a)
return text[a:b]
shader = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java").read_text()
material = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLMaterial.java").read_text()
api = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/ShaderManager.java").read_text()
impl = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/ShaderManagerLwjgl.java").read_text()
video = Path("engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/nui/layers/mainMenu/videoSettings/VideoSettingsScreen.java").read_text()
shader_recompile = block(shader, "public void recompile()", "public ShaderParameterMetadata getParameter")
shader_register = block(shader, "private void registerAllShaderPermutations()", "private String assembleShader")
material_recompile = block(material, "public void recompile()", "//resolves `#966`")
manager_recompile = block(impl, "public void recompileAllShaders()", "// TODO: discuss")
video_save = block(video, "public void saveSettings()", "public boolean isLowerLayerVisible()")
def enclosing_try_has_catch(text, call):
pos = text.index(call)
try_pos = text.rfind("try {", 0, pos)
catch_pos = text.find("catch (", pos)
return try_pos >= 0 and catch_pos >= 0
print("shader recompile catches register call:", enclosing_try_has_catch(shader_recompile, "registerAllShaderPermutations();"))
print("shader registration loop contains catch:", "catch (" in shader_register)
print("material recompile catches permutation loop:", enclosing_try_has_catch(material_recompile, "for (Set<ShaderProgramFeature> permutation"))
print("material recompile catch count:", material_recompile.count("catch ("))
print("ShaderManager return declaration:", api[api.index("recompileAllShaders")-30:api.index("recompileAllShaders")+40])
print("implementation return declaration:", impl[impl.index("public void recompileAllShaders()"):impl.index("public void recompileAllShaders()")+45])
print("video save calls manager:", "recompileAllShaders();" in video_save)
print("video save has result branch:", any(token in video_save for token in ("if (", "return ", "catch (")))
PYRepository: MovingBlocks/Terasology
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Process each shader permutation independently. A failure currently stops all later permutations, and ShaderManager.recompileAllShaders() returns no result for VideoSettingsScreen. Catch failures per permutation, retain valid permutations, and expose an aggregate failure before adding error or revert handling.
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engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java#L141-L145(this comment)engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLMaterial.java#L141-L148
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In `@engine/src/main/java/org/terasology/engine/rendering/opengl/GLSLShader.java`
around lines 141 - 145, The shader permutation registration flow in
GLSLShader.registerAllShaderPermutations and the corresponding GLSLMaterial path
must handle each permutation independently: catch failures around individual
registrations, continue processing later permutations, and retain valid results.
Track and expose an aggregate failure outcome so
ShaderManager.recompileAllShaders can report failure to VideoSettingsScreen
before adding error or revert handling. Apply this to GLSLShader.java lines
141-145 and GLSLMaterial.java lines 141-148.
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Fixes #5292 - switching the video preset from High to Ultra crashed with
RuntimeException: Failed to resolve required asset: 'CoreRendering:prePostComposite', a material unrelated to any of Ultra's actual new features.Trace
Full trace posted on the issue. Short version:
ShaderManager.recompileAllShaders()(called from the video settings screen's preset apply) recompiles every loaded shader, then every loaded material. Three places on that path throw a plainRuntimeExceptionon failure with nothing to catch it:GLSLShader.recompile()- queuesregisterAllShaderPermutations(), which throws on anyGL_COMPILE_STATUSfailure while compiling the powerset of that shader's features.doReload()a few dozen lines down in the same file guards the identical call withtry { ... } catch (RuntimeException e) { logger.warn(...); }. Same operation, only one of its two entry points was safe.GLSLMaterial.recompile()- unguarded at both of its own call sites, and clears every existing compiled program before relinking, so a failure partway through relinking leaves nothing to fall back to.LwjglGraphicsManager.processActions()- drains the shared display-thread action queue with a plainforEach(Runnable::run).recompileAllShaders()alone queues one action per loaded shader onto this queue, so an uncaught exception from any single one used to abort every action queued after it in the same batch - the likely reason an unrelated material (prePostComposite) is what actually surfaced in the crash.Fix
Each site gets the same shape this codebase already uses in
doReload(): log and continue instead of propagate. No site here throws on the success path, so this only changes what happens when a shader genuinely fails to compile.What I could and couldn't verify
Traced by reading, not reproduced - the actual
GL_COMPILE_STATUSfailure needs the reporter's AMD RX 580 / Mesa stack, which I don't have here, so I can't confirm which specific shader permutation fails on that hardware. What this does confirm and fix: the code path that turns any such failure, on any driver, into a hard crash rather than the degraded-but-running game the original report asked for.Compiles clean (
:engine:compileJava,:engine-tests:compileTestJava). No existing unit tests cover these LWJGL/GL-context-bound classes to run.