Brecht authored this commit, but he gave me the honours to actually
do it. Here it goes; Blender Internal. Bye bye, you did great!
* Point density, voxel data, ocean, environment map textures were removed,
as these only worked within BI rendering. Note that the ocean modifier
and the Cycles point density shader node continue to work.
* Dynamic paint using material shading was removed, as this only worked
with BI. If we ever wanted to support this again probably it should go
through the baking API.
* GPU shader export through the Python API was removed. This only worked
for the old BI GLSL shaders, which no longer exists. Doing something
similar for Eevee would be significantly more complicated because it
uses a lot of multiplass rendering and logic outside the shader, it's
probably impractical.
* Collada material import / export code is mostly gone, as it only worked
for BI materials. We need to add Cycles / Eevee material support at some
point.
* The mesh noise operator was removed since it only worked with BI
material texture slots. A displacement modifier can be used instead.
* The delete texture paint slot operator was removed since it only worked
for BI material texture slots. Could be added back with node support.
* Not all legacy viewport features are supported in the new viewport, but
their code was removed. If we need to bring anything back we can look at
older git revisions.
* There is some legacy viewport code that I could not remove yet, and some
that I probably missed.
* Shader node execution code was left mostly intact, even though it is not
used anywhere now. We may eventually use this to replace the texture
nodes with Cycles / Eevee shader nodes.
* The Cycles Bake panel now includes settings for baking multires normal
and displacement maps. The underlying code needs to be merged properly,
and we plan to add back support for multires AO baking and add support
to Cycles baking for features like vertex color, displacement, and other
missing baking features.
* This commit removes DNA and the Python API for BI material, lamp, world
and scene settings. This breaks a lot of addons.
* There is more DNA that can be removed or renamed, where Cycles or Eevee
are reusing some old BI properties but the names are not really correct
anymore.
* Texture slots for materials, lamps and world were removed. They remain
for brushes, particles and freestyle linestyles.
* 'BLENDER_RENDER' remains in the COMPAT_ENGINES of UI panels. Cycles and
other renderers use this to find all panels to show, minus a few panels
that they have their own replacement for.
Brushes themselves are still affected by the mask, but the viewport is not
showing the mask. This way it's easier to see details while sculpting.
Studio request by Julien Kaspar
It wasn't using old immediate mode, but was using
- client vertex arrays (obsolete)
- quads (obsolete)
- state attrib stack (obsolete)
- polygon mode (still allowed, but gross)
That was a nice and funny hunt, albeit rather time consumming!
To summarize, so far code was using a static global gpu_buffer for pbvh vbo drawing
of 'grid' types (multires mostly?).
There were two issues here:
1) Global gpu buffer was assigned to GPU_PBVH_Buffers->index_buf, but then nearly no
check was done when freeing that buffer, to ensure we were not freeing the global one
(not totally sure this one was actually causing any issue, but was bad and unsafe anyway).
Was solved by adding a flag to GPU_PBVH_Buffers to indicate when we are using some
'common' buffer here, which freeing is handled separately.
2) Main issue: if several multires objects in sculpt mode with different grid size
were present simultaneously, the global gpu buffer had to be resized for each object draw
(i.e., freed and re-allocated), but then the pbvh nodes from other objects storing freed reference
to that global buffer had no way to know that it had been freed, which was causing the segfault & crash.
Was solved by getting rid of that global buffer, and instead allocating one 'grid_commmon_gpu_buffer' per pbvh.
Told ya baby, globals are *PURE EVIL*!
A bit tricky, need to pass additional information about what the attribute
is and how to deal with it.
BI path stays unchanged, just to make things simplier for now.
Fixes T48555: Cycles GLSL- Incorrect Vertex Color results from Attribute node
GPU_buffer no longer has a fallback to client vertex arrays, so remove
comments about it.
Changed a few internal structs/function interfaces to use bool where
appropriate.
Use for-loop scope and flexible declaration placement. PBVH does the
same thing but needs ~150 fewer lines to do it!
The change to BLI_ghashIterator_init is admittedly hackish but makes
GHASH_ITER_INDEX nicer to use.
GPUBuffer rendering is now done using vertex buffers.
Vertex arrays are completely removed from GL 3.2 core profile, so we'll
have to do this change at some point anyway.
This commit, though big, is not modifying blender in any way. Use should
be exactly as if the vetex buffer option is constantly on.
This commit begins implementation of the idea about hidden face
separation outlined in
http://code.blender.org/2015/06/optimizing-blenders-real-time-mesh-
We split hidden and visible faces to different parts of the triangle
buffer.
Mapped drawing will now skip iterating through hidden polys.
Of course the final target, when all derived mesh types use
VBO sorting, is to skip checking for hide flag per face
completely. All faces will be pre-sorted anyway and we'll
be able to draw them with one draw call.
Also the refactor exposed an error where we requested too much
memory from the video memory in general for all mesh types.
Now we are back to normal :)
This stores loop indices into the loop array giving easier acess
to data such as vertex-colors and UV's,
removing the need to store an MFace duplicate of custom-data.
This doesn't yet move all internal code from MFace to LoopTri just yet.
Only applies to:
- opengl drawing
- sculpting (pbvh)
- vertex/weight paint
Thanks to @psy-fi for review, fixes and improvements to drawing!
Remove legacy code completely, now dyntopo, multires et al even work on
GL 1.1 for really hardcore users :p
Real purpose here though is to be able to have fast multires drawing
even with VBO off, since it requires using indices for vertex buffers.
Also made own code elf puke an eaten normal update function which
made multires not update normals in solid mode...sorry.
Get rid of legacy drawing, it's only used for selection,
in which case we can prepare a temporary color buffer and draw
at once. Code is not complete here because we still redundantly
set the draw color in the draw function and don't ommit hidden
faces automatically. Still it works 100% without immediate mode
now.
This patch changes the way we draw meshes by introducing
indexed drawing. This makes it possible to easily
upload and rearrange faces ad lib according to any criteria.
Currently we use material sorting but textured sorting and
hiding will be added to optimize textured drawing and skip
per face testing.
It also adds support for vertex buffers for subsurf
modifiers (Except from GLSL drawing), making drawing of
subsurf much faster without need for bogus modifiers.
Tests show that we gain approximately 20-25% performance
by that for solid mode drawing with up to 50% gains for
material drawing. Textured drawing should also have a
small performance gain, but more substantial optimizations
are possible there.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1406
We really don't need to iterate all edges of the mesh every frame to
search for loose edges, this calculation can be cached when filling the
edge index buffer.
Basically this commit gets rid of most of the derived mesh immediate mode
drawing (cases such as subsurf excluded). Even when VBO is turned off
in user preferences, we still use vertex arrays, which are very similar to
VBOs but memory is client side. Vertex arrays are OpenGL 1.1 so compatibility
is not an issue here.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey, jwilkins
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D919
Yep, at last it's here!
There are a few minor issues remaining but development can go on in
master after discussion at blender institute.
For full list of features see:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/Painting
Thanks to Sergey and Campbell for the extensive review and to the
countless artists that have given their input and reported issues during
development.
Avoid filling up buffers when total buffer triangles are zero.
Better still would be to tag a node as hidden when doing recreation of
the PBVH tree by checking for any visible elements. Original bug report
probably has to do with OpenGL doing something funky but hidden nodes
should be tagged as hidden to completely avoid iterating for painting.
This is to be done in a later commit.
Also some naming cleanup for consistency, GPU_build_pbvh_mesh_buffers to
GPU_build_mesh_pbvh_buffers.
Issue here is that "show diffuse" option does not respect its intended
purpose which is to be used only for masking.
There are a couple of caveats here:
Dyntopo and multires -always- have mask data enabled, and thus as soon
as one goes to dyntopo mode or adds a multires modifier he would get the
default grey color instead.
Matcaps would break when nodes asked for a diffuse material color (this
was broken before too). Solved by adding global material state for when
matcaps are enabled. Also matcaps don't always played well with VBOs
off.
Added a few more missing updates for mask operators to notify
show_diffuse property as changed. This was also needed on rebuilding
dyntopo pbvh.
Also make zero mask color duller again after artist feedback.
Was marked as a todo in the code.
This does not yet take care of correct display for multi material
meshes, since it would need correct separation of faces during pbvh
creation. Instead we just take material of first face in node and assume
that the rest faces have the same. This will create some funky effects
if one attempts to sculpt in this way.
Note: This does not yet address T39517
after objects are deleted until another big object is added. There's no good reason
to do this, or to think that our pool is somehow much faster than using the OpenGL
API to allocate and free buffers.
This adds an override to the CDDM edge drawing function that switches
to GPU_Buffers drawing for PBVHes of type PBVH_BMESH.
Within the GPU_Buffers code, glPolygonMode() is used to draw lines
instead of faces.
The GPU interface for PBVH drawing gets a new pair of build/update
buffers functions for drawing BMFaces and BMVerts.
TODO: the diffuse color is hardcoded to 0.8 gray rather than using
material color.
TODO: only VBO drawing is implemented, no immediate mode.
Refactoring of draw code showed another problem: The MCol we want to draw may change without dm rebuild (e.g. when enabling solid textured option)! Also, choosing which MCol layer to use in GPU code is stupid, different draw modes use different layers/order of precedence!
Solved this by adding a new colType parameter to GPU_color_setup, and removing any 'color choosing' code from gpu_buffers.c.
Appart from the color glitch, there was several problems with vpaint:
* "fast_update" mode was never on, because of wrong testing code;
* drawing refresh during stroke in "fast_update" (i.e. no dm rebuild) mode was broken in VBO mode, because updated (tess data) mcol wasn't moved to colors GPUBuffer.
Solved the later point by adding a new DM_DIRTY_MCOL_UPDATE_DRAW flag to DerivedMesh dirty var, which is set each time vpaint stroke directly update me->mcol, and forces GPU_color_setup() to refresh the gpu's colors buffer.
Also got rid of the uggly GPU_color3_upload(), which basically did the same thing, but with an additional intermediate buffer !
