This has technically been fixed by rB3e87d8a4315d794efff659e40f0bb9e34e2aec8a,
but the fix there is questionable, because it disables an optimization for vertex groups
entirely. This fix is a little bit more precise in that it only disables the optimization when
the object is used by some geometry nodes modifier.
This introduces a context path to the spreadsheet editor, which contains
information about what data is shown in the spreadsheet. The context
path (breadcrumbs) can reference a specific node in a node group
hierarchy. During object evaluation, the geometry nodes modifier checks
what data is currently requested by visible spreadsheets and stores
the corresponding geometry sets separately for later access.
The context path can be updated by the user explicitely, by clicking
on the new icon in the header of nodes. Under some circumstances,
the context path is updated automatically based on Blender's context.
This patch also consolidates the "Node" and "Final" object evaluation
mode to just "Evaluated". Based on the current context path, either
the final geometry set of an object will be displayed, or the data at
a specific node.
The new preview icon in geometry nodes now behaves more like
a toggle. It can be clicked again to clear the context path in an
open spreadsheet editor.
Previously, only an object could be pinned in the spreadsheet editor.
Now it is possible to pin the entire context path. That allows two
different spreadsheets to display geometry data from two different
nodes.
The breadcrumbs in the spreadsheet header can be collapsed by
clicking on the arrow icons. It's not ideal but works well for now.
This might be changed again, if we get a data set region on the left.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10931
The fact that geometry from instnances isn't realized when applying
a nodes modifier can be very confusing, especially for new users.
Nodes themselves realize geometry instances implicitly whenever they
need to. We also currently make instances real and convert points to
mesh when a modifier is added after the nodes modifier. With this
commit, we simply do the same thing when applying the modifier.
There are a few downsides though:
- This can be an extremely heavy operations in some cases where
geometry nodes is used to instance heavy geometry.
- We will still have the issues with materials, since instances use
materials from their original objects, but real geometry uses
materials from the modifier object.
It was decided to live with the potential performance downsides
for now, the idea is the upsides of the change are more important,
and people making complicated setups will be more likely to know not
to apply the modifier. In the future there could be a warning if it's
necessary though.
Ref T87083
With this patch, users can define custom tooltips for the exposed
properties of their Geometry Nodes Groups.
Currently this custom tooltips are only used in the modifier panel,
but its a long term goal to use it in the node editor.
Reviewer: Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10884
Some object types don't have a geometry component in the depsgraph.
Before, there always was a warning printed when such an object was
used in the object info node (e.g. to get its location).
This is a minor change to add some plumbing code
to support custom geo nodes. This is working the
same way as the custom cycles and compositor nodes.
An example add-in is attached to D10784
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10784
Previously only attributes of "real" geometry were displayed in
attribute search. This commit adds code to look through attributes
on instances and add those to the search drop-down too.
This required implementing the same sort of recursive traversal as
the realize instances code. The situation is a bit different though,
this can return early and doesn't need to keep track of transforms.
I added a limit so that it doesn't look through the attributes of
too many instanced geometry sets. I think this is important, since
this isn't a trivial operation and it could potentially happen for
every node in a large node tree. Currently the limit is set at 8
geometry sets, which I expect will be enough, since the set of
attributes is mostly not very unique anyway.
Fixes T86282
Diffrential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10919
Previously, the spreadsheet editor could only show data of the original
and of the final evaluated object. Now it is possible to show the data
at some intermediate stages too.
For that the mode has to be set to "Node" in the spreadsheet editor.
Furthermore, the preview of a specific node has to be activated by
clicking the new icon in the header of geometry nodes.
The exact ui of this feature might be refined in upcoming commits.
It is already very useful for debugging node groups in it's current
state though.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10875
The node tree evaluator now calls a callback for every used socket with
its corresponding value(s). Right now the callback does nothing.
However, we can use it to collect attribute name hints, socket values
for debugging or data that will be displayed in the spreadsheet.
The main difficulty here was to also call the callback for sockets in
nodes that are not directly executed (such as group nodes, muted
nodes and reroutes).
No functional changes are expected.
The geometry nodes modifier did not specify that it needs all custom data layers.
Therefore the modifier evaluation code tagged some layers so that they will not be
copied later on by calling `mesh_set_only_copy` in `mesh_calc_modifiers`.
Previously, the code expected the id property to have the `IDP_FLOAT` type.
However, when assigning a Python float (which is a double internally)
to an id property, it would change the type to `IDP_DOUBLE`.
The fix is to allow both types in the geometry nodes modifier.
UI hints should only be modified when the depsgraph is active.
Otherwise two threads evaluating the same object in different depsgraphs
can conflict with each other.
Note, this does not allow users to connect the same socket more than once to
a multi-input-socket in the UI. However, the situation could still happen when
using node muting.
Instead of returning a raw pointer, `LinearAllocator.construct(...)` now returns
a `destruct_ptr`, which is similar to `unique_ptr`, but does not deallocate
the memory and only calls the destructor instead.
This is a complete rewrite of the derived node tree data structure.
It is a much thinner abstraction about `NodeTreeRef` than before.
This gives the user of the derived node tree more control and allows
for greater introspection capabilities (e.g. before muted nodes were
completely abstracted away; this was convenient, but came with
limitations).
Another nice benefit of the new structure is that it is much cheaper
to build, because it does not inline all nodes and sockets in nested
node groups.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10620
This enables the quick access button [to show the relevant Texture in
the Properties Editor] for textures used in geometry nodes.
This goes in line to what we do for other textures:
- modifier textures have this button
- particle textures have this button
- brush textures will soon have it, too (see D9813)
When outside of the Properties Editor, the button will always show (if a
texture is actually assigned), but will be inactive if no suiting
Properties Editor to show the texture in can be found.
Note this also changes the behavior to not show the button if _no_
texture is assigned (as in: we are still showing the "New" button).
Previously it was always there (e.g. for modifier textures), even if it
would take us to an empty texture tab. (Sure, we could add a texture
there then, but imho it makes more sense to just start showing it once a
texture is already there)
For this to work with geometry nodes, the following chages were done:
- implement foreachTexLink for geonode modifiers
- new buttons_texture_user_node_property_add() that stores prop as well
as node
- also use NODE_ACTIVE_TEXTURE flag in geometry nodetrees
notes:
- this still uses the first suiting (as in: pinning does not interfere)
Properties Editor it finds, this should (maybe?) find the _closest_
Property Editor instead (see related feedback in D9813).
- this will already show the button for brush textures as well
(disabled), but there is another mandatory change in an upcomming commit
to make it work there as well (see D9813)
ref. T85278
Maniphest Tasks: T85278
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10293
Geometry nodes were not adding referenced instanced collections as
dependencies to depsgraph.
This would lead to meshes and data not being ready on evaluation in
certain cases.
This patch adds icons to the right side of nodes when they encounter a
a problem. When hovered, a tooltip displays describing the encountered
while evaluating the node.
Some examples are: attribute doesn't exist, mesh has no faces,
incorrect attribute type, etc. Exposing more messages to the system
will be an ongoing process. Multiple warnings per node are supported.
The system is implemented somewhat generically so that the basic
structure can also be used to store more information from evaluation
for the interface, like a list of available attributes.
Currently the messages are just button tooltips. They could be styled
differently in the future. Another limitation is that every instance of
a node group in a parent node tree will have the same error messages,
the "evaluation context" used to decide when to display the tooltips
must be extended to support node tree paths.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10290
Since the derived node tree is already build for the evaluation system,
it's simpler to pass a derived node to the params struct. This will also
allow context lookups in nested node groups for node error messages,
since the derived node has that information readily accessible.
Currently moving or changing an object references in a node modifier's
node group does not trigger re-evaluation. Because there is no collection
relation in the dependency graph, we must add the relation to all objects
in the collection individually.
Normally sockets only have one input link. This commit adds the back-end
changes needed to use multiple input links per socket.
Multi-input sockets can be defined with a new flag in `bNodeSocketType`.
The changes necessary to make the sockets work in the geometry nodes
evaluator are generalizing input socket values as a vector of values,
and supporting this in the derived node tree structure.
This patch should contain no functional changes. Two upcoming patches
will use this system for the "Join Geometry" node and expose link picking
and updated display in the UI: D10069 and D10181.
Reviewed By: Jacques Lucke, Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10067
The RNA path used for animating the settings passed to the node tree
is incorrect. Currently it's just `settings.property_name`, but it's
the path from the ID, not the modifier, so it should be
`modifiers[modifier_name].settings.property_name`.
However, the "Settings" struct is separated in RNA and DNA, which means
that the callback to get the RNA path does not know about the modifier's
name in order to fill the above path, so some reference to the modifier
in the "Settings" struct would be necessary, which would create a
convoluted layout in the `ModifierData` struct.
Instead, this commit simply removes the "Settings" struct from RNA,
which isn't as elegant from the point of view of the Python API,
but otherwise it's a nice simplification. Note that we don't remove the
"Settings" struct from DNA, because it would break reading old files.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10175
Partially reverts 2250b5cefe.
Removing the user count and fake user count icons was controversial (which was
expected) and there are a few further changes needed, that won't make it in
time for the release, see D9946.
While there is a design to bring back the user count and fake user indicators,
a new design idea was proposed that the UI team wants to follow. This came too
late for the 2.92 release, the new design is targeted at the 2.93 release now.
Meanwhile, UI team decision was to simply revert the design changes.
The new design is being worked on in https://developer.blender.org/T84669.
Note that this commit does not revert some internal changes done in
2250b5cefe. Namely the introduction of `ed_util_ops.c` and data-block
operators in there. These will still be needed in the new design.
This patch allows connecting wires for object and collection socket
types to the "Group Input" node, which exposes them to be adjusted
in the modifier.
Thanks to @angavrilov's recent work in rB8964c02348f6, it is now
possible to edit pointer IDProperties in the interface when they are
drawn with `uiItemPointerR`.
This patch is composed of a few changes:
- Add code to create pointer properties in the modifier settings for
object and collection sockets, and also to draw them in the UI.
- Also search through the modifier's `IDProperty` settings to find IDs
used by the modifier.
- Change the setting's UI layout to support the change.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10056
The nodes were selected in new node groups because they are by default,
but there's no particular reason for them to be selected, and it can
be distracting.
The previous design is rather old and has a couple of problems:
* Scalability: The current solution of adding little icon buttons next to the
data-block name field doesn't scale well. It only works if there's a small
number of operations. We need to be able to place more items there for better
data-block management. Especially with the introduction of library overrides.
* Discoverability: It's not obvious what some of the icons do. They appear and
disappear, but it's not obvious why some are available at times and others
not.
* Unclear Status: Currently their library status (linked, indirectly linked,
broken link, library override) isn't really clear.
* Unusual behavior: Some of the icon buttons allow Shift or Ctrl clicking to
invoke alternative behaviors. This is not a usual pattern in Blender.
This patch does the following changes:
* Adds a menu to the right of the name button to access all kinds of operations
(create, delete, unlink, user management, library overrides, etc).
* Make good use of the "disabled hint" for tooltips, to explain why buttons are
disabled. The UI team wants to establish this as a good practise.
* Use superimposed icons for duplicate and unlink, rather than extra buttons
(uses less space, looks less distracting and is a nice + consistent design
language).
* Remove fake user and user count button, they are available from the menu now.
* Support tooltips for superimposed icons (committed mouse hover feedback to
master already).
* Slightly increase size of the name button - it was already a bit small
before, and the move from real buttons to superimposed icons reduces usable
space for the name itself.
* More clearly differentiate between duplicate and creating a new data-block.
The latter is only available in the menu.
* Display library status icon on the left (linked, missing library, overridden,
asset)
* Disables "Make Single User" button - in review we weren't sure if there are
good use-cases for it, so better to see if we can remove it.
Note that I do expect some aspects of this design to change still. I think some
changes are problematic, but others disagreed. I will open a feedback thread on
devtalk to see what others think.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8554
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
Design discussed and agreed on with the UI team, also see T79959.
This uses the "id" attribute to randomly pick instances from a collection
for each point.
There is one issue. When the collection is updated (e.g. when an object is
added to it), the nodes modifier is not automatically updated. It seems
like we don't have the infrastructure to support this dependency yet.
The same issue exists in the Boolean modifier and with collision collections.
This should be solved separately soonish.
When "Whole Collection" is disabled, one direct child of the input collection
is instanced at each point. A direct child can be an object or a collection.
Currently, all objects are picked approximately equally often. In the future,
we will provide more control over which point gets which instance.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9884
Ref T82372.
Remove DNA headers, using forward declarations where possible.
Also removed duplicate header, header including it's self
and unnecessary inclusion of libc system headers from BKE header.
Sometimes the geometry nodes modifier does support mapping and
sometimes it does not. We have no infrastruture to determine this ahead
of time currently. In order to support common use cases, it makes sense
to add this flag to the modifier.
One such common use case is to use the mesh as surface that other
things are distributed on. Often, the distribution is controlled by vertex
groups. Therefore, it would be helpful if the modifier is evaluated
when the object is in vertex paint mode. This allows the user to see the
distributed objects while painting.
If the nodes modifier transforms the mesh in any way, vertex painting
might not work as expected anymore, because the `deformMatrices`
callback is not implemented. I'm not sure how this can be solved nicely, yet.
Without this, the modifier evaluation code might remove any
vertex groups from the mesh for performance reasons.
We can't say for sure whether the node group will need the vertex
groups, but it is quite likely.
Ref T83357.
