ShadowGenerator useBlurExponentialShadowMap option crash in macOS High Sierra

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Hi,
Our application uses Shadow option - useBlurExponentialShadowMap.
My macOS High Sierra clients encountered rendering failure. I notice crash while generating shadow. The help documentation’s playground sample is also failing. In the PG, if useBlurExponentialShadowMap is set to false, rendering is successful in this mac.

Browser: Chrome Version 94.0.4606.71
macOS: High Sierra
I’ve attached the failure screenshot that shows the console crashes.

macOS-useBlurExpoShadowCrash
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Thanks

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@Cedric could you have a look ?

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Unfortunately, I’m on Big Sur and have no more macOS High Sierra.
Tested on my mac, just in case, and it works.

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Same here :frowning: maybe @PolygonalSun ??? or @Deltakosh if you did not update your mac :slight_smile:

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Sorry @sebavan, I’m using Big Sur as well and it works for me.

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@anand471 could you share the full error message log ? just in case we can spot smthg

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Here’s the log from macOS High Sierra

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Ohhhh you got it here Error: Too many varyings

Basically, the kernel blur is trying to rely on too many out variables, the only trick I can see there would be to reduce the size of the blur to fit withing the limits.

@Deltakosh can yo think of any other tricks ?

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Well, See if this is of any help
In Chrome - High Sierra, GL.getParameter(GL.MAX_VARYING_VECTORS) returns 32

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We are using 32 exactly which should work as we are reading those caps to figure how many we can do.

You can try before running your app setting engine.getCaps().maxVaryingVectors = 16; Change the number until it works to figure how many you can actually do :slight_smile:

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I tried engine.getCaps().maxVaryingVectors = 16 & it works!
It works for engine.getCaps().maxVaryingVectors = 30; but fails when I set it to 32.

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@anand471 now you understand our daily pain… How can we expect this :slight_smile: browsers says 32 but reality check = 30

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lol yeah this is the way :smiley:

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Ya! Painful & frustrating! Any way, Thanks for your help.
And time to tell my High Sierra users…“Hey, better upgrade or no shadows for you !”

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