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.
Since the initial merge of the geometry nodes project, the modifyPointCloud
function already was already modifying a geometry set. The function wasn't
renamed back then, because then the merge would have touched many
more files.
Ref T83357.
Until there is a icon made specially for this, the nodetree icon is up
for grabs. Using it in the nodegroup + modifier + editor helps the users
to make a connection on where to edit those modifiers.
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
