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Joe Mattiello 19ed307f74 rend: rotate sorted triangle indices for flat shading instead of copying colors (#2553)
Vulkan without VK_EXT_provoking_vertex, DX9 and DX11 take flat-shaded
colors from the first vertex, while on Dreamcast it's the last. For the
depth-sorted triangle list, setFirstProvokingVertex() copied each
triangle's last vertex colors onto its first vertex. But sortTriangles()
builds these triangles from strips, so neighbors share vertices:
tri0=(P0,P1,P2), tri1=(P2,P1,P3). P2 is tri0's source and tri1's
destination, and the list is processed in depth order, so one
triangle's flat color can overwrite another's before it's read. In
strips of three or more triangles, consecutive triangles even share
their first vertex. Flat-shaded translucent polygons then pick up a
neighbor's color, e.g. the player shadow decals in Tony Hawk's Pro
Skater 2 and Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX turn uniformly dark.

Each sorted triangle has its own three slots in idx, so rotate them
(a,b,c) -> (c,a,b) instead. The winding is unchanged and the provoking
vertex comes first, without touching shared vertices. Strips keep the
color copy, which is safe there.

Adds SorterTest, which fails on the old code and passes with this change.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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