Add-on fails to start with the Vulkan backend

[jeroenbakker-atmind]

• Use Blender 4.3
• Enable the Vulkan backend
• Loading the add-on will crash blender

The reason is that the builtin shaders are OpenGL specific and requires to use gpu.types.ShaderCreateInfo so it will be cross compiled to Metal and Vulkan.

See https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/130555 for the original report and https://docs.blender.org/api/current/gpu.html#custom-shader-for-dotted-3d-line for an example of using ShaderCreateInfo

We also try to make the add-on not crash Blender, but unsure if we can make this fool-proof

[Dangry98]

Hi Jeroen, thanks for the report!

I will look into it once the Vulken stuff is a bit more stable and make sure it works in Blender 4.4 :)

For now, I guess its a known issue, but barely anyone is hopfully using Vulken in Blender 4.3 for production stuff, aside from testing, so it should be fine until Blender 4.4 is out with offical Vulken support, very hyped for it by the way! Thank you for your work!