This allows adding spans, arrays, etc. directly to SculptSession, which
simplifies accessing mesh data, especially in #105938. A few files
aren't moved to C++ yes, so I had to add three C accessor functions.
Workaround for compiler issue on AMD
platforms resulting in the erroneous
discarding of valid rays in fragment
raytracing.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: blender/blender#105967
Add control over how bone relation lines are drawn. Instead of always
drawing from the head of the child to the tail of the parent, give users
a choice for the parent side of the line. This can now be toggled
between the head and the tail of the bone, where the tail is Blender's
original behaviour and is retained as default value.
Pull request: blender/blender#105427
Translating an image in fullframe compositor now also translates
the backdrop image for the viewer node.
Attached gif shows the behavior. Notice how gizmo moves with correct
values with the image but the frame stays to indicate what will get
rendered.
Note: This patch is a continuation of [D12750]
(https://archive.blender.org/developer/D12750). In a previous patch,
display offset on screen was not computed correctly. This has now
been fixed.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105677
Use C++ types for more automatic memory management, simpler code,
and easier potential performance improvements. Also document each
item in the cache and access a named struct by pointer for the "poly
sorted" instead of using an identical unnamed struct.
Add `index_range()` and `is_empty()` functions, rename `ranges_num()`
to `size()` (clarifying the final extra integer as an implementation
detail). Also remove the `size(index)` function which gave almost the
same assembly as `[index].size()` (https://godbolt.org/z/PYzqYs3Kr).
Implements #102359.
Split the `MLoop` struct into two separate integer arrays called
`corner_verts` and `corner_edges`, referring to the vertex each corner
is attached to and the next edge around the face at each corner. These
arrays can be sliced to give access to the edges or vertices in a face.
Then they are often referred to as "poly_verts" or "poly_edges".
The main benefits are halving the necessary memory bandwidth when only
one array is used and simplifications from using regular integer indices
instead of a special-purpose struct.
The commit also starts a renaming from "loop" to "corner" in mesh code.
Like the other mesh struct of array refactors, forward compatibility is
kept by writing files with the older format. This will be done until 4.0
to ease the transition process.
Looking at a small portion of the patch should give a good impression
for the rest of the changes. I tried to make the changes as small as
possible so it's easy to tell the correctness from the diff. Though I
found Blender developers have been very inventive over the last decade
when finding different ways to loop over the corners in a face.
For performance, nearly every piece of code that deals with `Mesh` is
slightly impacted. Any algorithm that is memory bottle-necked should
see an improvement. For example, here is a comparison of interpolating
a vertex float attribute to face corners (Ryzen 3700x):
**Before** (Average: 3.7 ms, Min: 3.4 ms)
```
threading::parallel_for(loops.index_range(), 4096, [&](IndexRange range) {
for (const int64_t i : range) {
dst[i] = src[loops[i].v];
}
});
```
**After** (Average: 2.9 ms, Min: 2.6 ms)
```
array_utils::gather(src, corner_verts, dst);
```
That's an improvement of 28% to the average timings, and it's also a
simplification, since an index-based routine can be used instead.
For more examples using the new arrays, see the design task.
Pull Request: blender/blender#104424
The name #ensure_valid_reflection seems to indicate that the resulted
reflection must be valid, whereas in the reality it only ensure validity
for specular reflections. The new name matches the behavior better.
Actually both potential roots lie in the interval [0, 1], so the
function ended up checking both roots all the time.
The new implementation explains why only one of the roots is valid; it
saves two square roots and a bunch of other computations.
Since UVs are now stored as 2D vectors in meshes, they can be copied
directly to the vertex buffers. Somewhat surprisingly, multithreading
the copying into the vertex buffer provides a good speedup-- on a CPU
with many cores at least.
Here is a test uploading two UV maps created in geometry
nodes with a 1 million quad mesh, with a Ryzen 7950x:
| | Before | After | Speedup |
| ------- | ------- | ------ | ------- |
| Average | 24.3 ms | 7.5 ms | 3.2x |
| Min | 17.6 ms | 7.0 ms | 2.5x |
I added the copying utilities to the array utils header, since the
need for them has come up in a few different places already, and the
existing function with a selection argument didn't make sense here.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105793
Implement GBuffer prepass and deferred lighting (lights only).
This decouple lighting from the material shaders making them lighter,
less expensive and faster to compile.
Trying to keep a nice data flow so we could potentially use the
subpass programable blending feature on tiled GPU arch.
Not everything is covered yet and #105880 is making the GBuffer layout
a bit awkward and not easily extendable.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105868
Other areas like blenkernel and Cycles clamp the material indices to be
positive so this should be consistent with them. There is still discussion
if material indices should be made impossible, but this at least avoids
crashing for the 3.5 release.
There was also an inconsistency in how sculpt mode handles material index
higher than the number of slots.
Ref #105577
When an object has no UV layers and an anonymous UV layer is created,
the anonymous layer gets set as the default (render) layer. This is
very confusing because it then uses a hidden anonmous layer. This patch
suppresses the usage of anonymous layers for rendering.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105192
A renaming of UI scale factors from names that imply a relationship to
monitor DPI to names that imply that they simply change "scale"
Pull Request: blender/blender#105750
This is an issue revealed by the recent optimization in 4d3bfb3f41 to have
CPU and GPU subdivision topology both cached.
BKE_subsurf_modifier_subdiv_descriptor_ensure is what (re)creates the
topology refiner when needed. Invalidating the topology refiner on changes
must be done before it, otherwise we end up with an incomplete Subdiv that
either does not draw or draws incorrectly.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105844
This was likely caused by a bad merge when doing the uniform name
patching for Metal.
This also fix the same issue for active UDIM tile overlay which wasn't
reported.
The switch from `stroke_start` to `vertex_start` in 8c6d4aa103 forgot
to also update `iter->stroke_index_last` which also needs to use
`vertex_start`.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105797
Fix support for Wireframe and parametric nodes by resolving
compilation failures surrounding barycentric coordinates.
A final missing part of the Metal implementation for barycentric
coordinates was missing.
Feedback also addressed to move barycentric calculation out
of code-gen and into surface_lib.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
This also resolves#103606.
Ref #96261
Pull Request: blender/blender#105740
This renames the `BKE_gpencil_*` as well as the `DNA_gpencil_types.h`
files to indicate that it's the legacy grease pencil.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105597
Refactoring mesh code, it has become clear that local cleanups and
simplifications are limited by the need to keep a C public API for
mesh functions. This change makes code more obvious and makes further
refactoring much easier.
- Add a new `BKE_mesh.hh` header for a C++ only mesh API
- Introduce a new `blender::bke::mesh` namespace, documented here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/Mesh#Namespaces
- Move some functions to the new namespace, cleaning up their arguments
- Move code to `Array` and `float3` where necessary to use the new API
- Define existing inline mesh data access functions to the new header
- Keep some C API functions where necessary because of RNA
- Move all C++ files to use the new header, which includes the old one
In the future it may make sense to split up `BKE_mesh.hh` more, but for
now keeping the same name as the existing header keeps things simple.
Pull Request: blender/blender#105416
The function to upload the normals uses an optimization to avoid
checking the smooth status or face normal of the triangle is part
of the same face. The smooth status needs to be initialized before
the loop for that to work.
Also do a bit of cleanup:
- Decrease variable scope
- Fix the reversed incorrect naming of `smooth`
- Retrieve mesh data at the start of the function
The previous API for clearing storage buffers was following the OpenGL
api. OpenGL has many options to support for data conversions, striding
and sizzling. Metal and Vulkan don't have these features and we have to
deal it ourselves.
Blender internally only uses a tiny subset for what is possible in
OpenGL. Making the current API to difficult to implement on our future
platforms as we had to implement all cases, most even not used at all.
By changing the API we make future development easier as we only need
to implement what we are actually using.
**New API**
`GPU_storagebuf_clear(GPUStorageBuf* ssbo, uint32_t clear_value)`
Related issue: #105492
Pull Request: blender/blender#105521
Clearing of clipmaps is the only place in Blender that uses non
uniform data (not all components of the cleared data to be exact
the same).
Vulkan has only the possibility to clear buffers using a single
uint32_t. There were two solutions:
- Add compute shader to Vulkan backend.
- Make Eevee-next responsible to clear the clipmaps.
When fixing this in the Vulkan backend it could lead to other issues
as the backend isn't aware what is exactly required and might overwrite
active bindings. We chose to make it a responsibility of Eevee-next
as there it is clear what is needed.
Related issue: #105492
Pull Request: blender/blender#105560
Both the shader_builder and existing shader tests eventually
tested the same aspects. shader_builder is more modern and
handles more cases.
The old shader test requires a full backend in order to run
This commit replaces the old tests to just use the
shader builder for validation.
Shader builder can still be run at compile time, this is
just a convenience to have as a test case as well for CI/CD.
Ref: #105482
