This add the`CurvesGeometry::blend_read` and `CurvesGeometry::blend_write` methods
and uses them in the `curves_blend_read_data` and `curves_blend_write` functions.
No functional changes.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105737
Straightforward port. I took the oportunity to remove some C vector
functions (ex: copy_v2_v2).
This makes some changes to DRWView to accomodate the alignement
requirements of the float4x4 type.
The goal is to give technical artists the ability to optimize modifier usage
and/or geometry node groups for performance. In the long term, it
would be useful if Blender could provide its own UI to display profiling
information to users. However, right now, there are too many open
design questions making it infeasible to tackle this in the short term.
This commit uses a simpler approach: Instead of adding new ui for
profiling data, it exposes the execution-time of modifiers in the Python
API. This allows technical artists to access the information and to build
their own UI to display the relevant information. In the long term this
will hopefully also help us to integrate a native ui for this in Blender
by observing how users use this information.
Note: The execution time of a modifier highly depends on what other
things the CPU is doing at the same time. For example, in many more
complex files, many objects and therefore modifiers are evaluated at
the same time by multiple threads which makes the measurement
much less reliable. For best results, make sure that only one object
is evaluated at a time (e.g. by changing it in isolation) and that no
other process on the system keeps the CPU busy.
As shown below, the execution time has to be accessed on the
evaluated object, not the original object.
```lang=python
import bpy
depsgraph = bpy.context.view_layer.depsgraph
ob = bpy.context.active_object
ob_eval = ob.evaluated_get(depsgraph)
modifier_eval = ob_eval.modifiers[0]
print(modifier_eval.execution_time, "s")
```
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17185
Use the `SharedCache` concept introduced in D16204 to share lazily
calculated evaluated data between original and multiple evaluated
curves data-blocks. Combined with D14139, this should basically remove
most costs associated with copying large curves data-blocks (though
they add slightly higher constant overhead). The caches should
interact well with undo steps, limiting recalculations on undo/redo.
Options for avoiding the new overhead associated with the shared
caches are described in T104327 and can be addressed separately.
Simple situations affected by this change are using any of the following data
on an evaluated curves data-block without first invalidating it:
- Evaluated offsets (size of evaluated curves)
- Evaluated positions
- Evaluated tangents
- Evaluated normals
- Evaluated lengths (spline parameter node)
- Internal Bezier and NURBS caches
In a test with 4m points and 170k curves, using curve normals in a
procedural setup that didn't change positions procedurally gave 5x
faster playback speeds. Avoiding recalculating the offsets on every
update saved about 3 ms for every sculpt update for brushes that don't
change topology.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17134
Straightforward port. I took the oportunity to remove some C vector
functions (ex: `copy_v2_v2`).
This makes some changes to DRWView to accomodate the alignement
requirements of the float4x4 type.
Use a consistent style for declaring the names of struct members
in their declarations. Note that this convention was already used in
many places but not everywhere.
Remove spaces around the text (matching commented arguments) with
the advantage that the the spell checking utility skips these terms.
Making it possible to extract & validate these comments automatically.
Also use struct names for `bAnimChannelType` & `bConstraintTypeInfo`
which were using brief descriptions.
Bounding box calculation can be a large in some situations, especially
instancing. This patch caches the min and max of the bounding box in
runtime data of meshes, point clouds, and curves, implementing part of
T96968.
Bounds are now calculated lazily-- only after they are tagged dirty.
Also, cached bounds are also shared when copying geometry data-blocks
that have equivalent data. When bounds are calculated on an evaluated
data-block, they are also accessible on the original, and the next
evaluated ID will also share them. A geometry will stop sharing bounds
as soon as its positions (or radii) are changed.
Just caching the bounds gave a 2-3x speedup with thousands of mesh
geometry instances in the viewport. Sharing the bounds can eliminate
recalculations entirely in cases like copying meshes in geometry nodes
or the selection paint brush in curves sculpt mode, which causes a
reevaluation but doesn't change the positions.
**Implementation**
The sharing is achieved with a `shared_ptr` that points to a cache mutex
(from D16419) and the cached bounds data. When geometries are copied,
the bounds are shared by default, and only "un-shared" when the bounds
are tagged dirty.
Point clouds have a new runtime struct to store this data. Functions
for tagging the data dirty are improved for added for point clouds
and improved for curves. A missing tag has also been fixed for mesh
sculpt mode.
**Future**
There are further improvements which can be worked on next
- Apply changes to volume objects and other types where it makes sense
- Continue cleanup changes described in T96968
- Apply shared cache design to more expensive data like triangulation
or normals
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16204
Motivation is to disambiguate on the naming level what the matrix
actually means. It is very easy to understand the meaning backwards,
especially since in Python the name goes the opposite way (it is
called `world_matrix` in the Python API).
It is important to disambiguate the naming without making developers
to look into the comment in the header file (which is also not super
clear either). Additionally, more clear naming facilitates the unit
verification (or, in this case, space validation) when reading an
expression.
This patch calls the matrix `object_to_world` which makes it clear
from the local code what is it exactly going on. This is only done
on DNA level, and a lot of local variables still follow the old
naming.
A DNA rename is setup in a way that there is no change on the file
level, so there should be no regressions at all.
The possibility is to add `_matrix` or `_mat` suffix to the name
to make it explicit that it is a matrix. Although, not sure if it
really helps the readability, or is it something redundant.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16328
Add the eModifierMode_Editmode to the required modes for curves modifier
evaluation. Only this way the modifier can be skipped in evaluation.
Maniphest Tasks: T101888
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16280
This is the conventional way of dealing with unused arguments in C++,
since it works on all compilers.
Regex find and replace: `UNUSED\((\w+)\)` -> `/*$1*/`
Previously, curves sculpt tools only worked on original data. This was
very limiting, because one could effectively only sculpt the curves when
all procedural effects were turned off. This patch adds support for curves
sculpting while looking the result of procedural effects (like deformation
based on the surface mesh). This functionality is also known as "crazy space"
support in Blender.
For more details see D15407.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15407
These mutable pointers present problems with ownership in relation to
proper copy-on-write for attributes. The simplest solution is to just
remove them and retrieve the layers from `CustomData` when they are
needed. This also removes the complexity and redundancy of having to
update the pointers as the curves change. A similar change will apply
to meshes and point clouds.
One downside of this change is that it makes random access with RNA
slower. However, it's simple to just use the RNA attribute API instead,
which is unaffected. In this patch I updated Cycles to do that. With
the future attribute CoW changes, this generic approach makes sense
because Cycles can just request ownership of the existing arrays.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15486
Previously, things like materials, symmetry, and selection options
stored on `Curves` weren't copied to the result in nodes like the
subdivide and resample nodes. Now they are, which fixes some
unexpected behavior and allows visualization of the sculpt mode
selection.
In the realize instances and join nodes the behavior is the same as
for meshes, the parameters are taken from the first (top) input.
I also refactored some functions to return a `CurvesGeometry` by-value,
which makes it the responsibility of the node to copy the parameters.
That should make the algorithms more reusable in other situations.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15408
This mirrors the C++ attribute API better, separates the implementation
of attributes from CustomData slightly, and makes functions simpler,
clearer, and safer.
Also fix an issue with removing an attribute caused by 97712b018d
meant the first attribute with the given type was removed instead of
the attribute with the given name.
The fix is to unify with the name we had for the old Curves objects.
That means that we will see them bothi (old and new curves) in the outliner
(under two different categories but with different names).
This is considered to be a temporary solution until we remove the old
curve system entirely.
In the latest discussions about curves/hair mesh attachement
information (T95776), it was decided to use UV coordinates to
store where on the mesh each root is. For that, we have to specify
which of the UV map attributes to use for UV lookups.
This property isn't used yet, but it will be shortly when refactoring
the attachement information in the add brush and the to particle
system conversion.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15115
Previously the function had a fair amount of ugly boilerplate to avoid
allocating the temporary layers array, and then free it if necessary.
`blender::Vector` solves that problem more elegantly. Passing a span,
using references in a few cases, and using a switch statement also make
the functions simpler.
This refactoring is in preparation for D14583 and D14685.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15011
Remembering the number of curves of every type makes it fast to know
whether processing specific to a single curve type has to be done.
This information was accessed in quite a few places, so this should be
an overall reduction in overhead for the new curves type.
The cache is computed eagerly, in other words every time after changing
the curve types. In order to reduce verbosity I added helper functions
for some common ways to set the types.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14732
* Curves objects now support the geometry nodes modifier.
* It's possible to use the curves object with the Object Info node.
* The spreadsheet shows the curve data.
The main thing holding this back currently is that the drawing code
for the curves object is very incomplete. E.g. it resamples the curves
always in the end, which is not expected for curves in general.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14277
Add "for_write" on function names that retrieve mutable data arrays.
Though this makes function names longer, it's likely worth it because
it allows more easily using the const functions in a non-const context,
and reduces cases of mistakenly retrieving with edit access.
In the long term, this situation might change more if we implement
attributes storage that is accessible directly on `CurvesGeometry`
without duplicating the attribute API on geometry components,
which is currently the rough plan.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14562
Rename "size" variables and functions to use "num" instead,
based on T85728 (though this doesn't apply to simple C++
containers, it applies here). Rename "range" to "points" in
some functions, so be more specific.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14431
Create `Curves` directly, instead of using the conversion from
`CurveEval`. This means that the `tilt` and `radius` attributes
don't need to be allocated. The old behavior is kept by using the
right defaults in the conversion to `CurveEval` later on.
The Bezier segment primitive isn't ported yet, because functions
to provide easy access to built-in attributes used for Bezier curves
haven't been added yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14212
Currently, any time a Curves data-block is created, the `curves_random`
function runs, filling it with 500 random curves, also adding a radius
attribute. This is just left over from the prototype in the initial
commit that added the type.
This commit moves the code that creates the random data to the curve
editors module, like the other primitives are organized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14211
The general idea here is to wrap the `CurvesGeometry` DNA struct
with a C++ class that can do most of the heavy lifting for the curve
geometry. Using a C++ class allows easier ways to group methods, easier
const correctness, and code that's more readable and faster to write.
This way, it works much more like a version of `CurveEval` that uses
more efficient attribute storage.
This commit adds the structure of some yet-to-be-implemented code,
the largest thing being mutexes and vectors meant to hold lazily
calculated evaluated positions, tangents, and normals. That part might
change slightly, but it's helpful to be able to see the direction this
commit is aiming in. In particular, the inherently single-threaded
accumulated lengths and Bezier evaluated point offsets might be cached.
Ref T95355
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14054
This patch reverses the dependency between `BLI_math_vec_types.hh` and
`BLI_math_vector.hh`. Now the higher level `blender::math` functions
depend on the header that defines the types they work with, rather than
the other way around.
The initial goal was to allow defining an `enable_if` in the types header
and using it in the math header. But I also think this operations to types
dependency is more natural anyway.
This required changing the includes some files used from the type
header to the math implementation header. I took that change a bit
further removing the C vector math header from the C++ header;
I think that helps to make the transition between the two systems
clearer.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14112
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
Based on discussions from T95355 and T94193, the plan is to use
the name "Curves" to describe the data-block container for multiple
curves. Eventually this will replace the existing "Curve" data-block.
However, it will be a while before the curve data-block can be replaced
so in order to distinguish the two curve types in the UI, "Hair Curves"
will be used, but eventually changed back to "Curves".
This patch renames "hair-related" files, functions, types, and variable
names to this convention. A deep rename is preferred to keep code
consistent and to avoid any "hair" terminology from leaking, since the
new data-block is meant for all curve types, not just hair use cases.
The downside of this naming is that the difference between "Curve"
and "Curves" has become important. That was considered during
design discussons and deemed acceptable, especially given the
non-permanent nature of the somewhat common conflict.
Some points of interest:
- All DNA compatibility is lost, just like rBf59767ff9729.
- I renamed `ID_HA` to `ID_CV` so there is no complete mismatch.
- `hair_curves` is used where necessary to distinguish from the
existing "curves" plural.
- I didn't rename any of the cycles/rendering code function names,
since that is also used by the old hair particle system.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14007
