This is especially useful when trying to add a node group instance, e.g. via
drag & drop from the Outliner or Asset Browser.
Previously this would just silently fail, with no information why. This is a
source of confusion, e.g. earlier, it took me a moment to realize I was
dragging a node group into itself, which failed of course.
Blender should always try to help the user with useful error messages.
Adds error messages like: "Nesting a node group inside of itself is not
allowed", "Not a compositor node tree", etc.
Adds a disabled hint return argument to node and node tree polling functions.
On error the hint is reported, or could even be shown in advance (e.g. if
checked via an operator poll option).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10422
Reviewed by: Jacques Lucke
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
Where possible, nodes in the "Geometry" category should support all
geometry component types. This adds support for volumes in the
recently added bounding box node, based on functions added in the
previous two commits.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10906
The problem was that you could getting write access to a grid from a
`const Volume *` without breaking const correctness. I encountered this
when working on support for volumes in the bounding box node. For
geometry nodes there is an important distinction between getting data
"for read" and "for write", with the former returning a `const` version
of the data.
Also, for volumes it was necessary to cast away const, since all of
the relevant functions in `volume.cc` didn't have const versions. This
patch adds `const` in these places, distinguising between "for read"
and "for write" versions of functions where necessary.
The downside is that loading and unloading in the global volume cache
needs const write-access to some member variables. I see that as an
inherent problem that comes up with caching that never has a beautiful
solution anyway.
Some of the const-ness could probably be propogated futher in EEVEE
code, but I'll leave that out, since there is another level of caching.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10916
The function name was not very specific, this makes it clearer that it
works on instances rather than only real geometry. Also use `r_`
prefix for the return argument.
During review of D10730 it was discovered that the "uv" name causes
issues for cycles, which uses it as a default internal data name. While
that could be fixed in the future, there was no particular reason to use
"uv" instead of "uv_map", so we use the latter instead here, which
is consistent with the lowercase naming scheme chosen for attributes.
Some of the BMesh primitive operators have a lot of overhead due to the
fact that they use other operators like extrusion, removing doubles,
and rotation, to build each shape rather than filling arrays directly.
Implementing the primitives directly with the Mesh data structure is
much more efficient, since it's simple to fill the result data based
on the known inputs. It also allows also skip the conversion from BMesh
to Mesh after the calculations.
Speed matters more for procedural operations than for the existing
operators accessible from the add menu, since they will be executed
every evaluation rather than once before a destructive workflow.
| Shape | Before (ms) | After (ms) | Speedup (x times faster) |
| -------- | -------------| ------------| -------------------------|
| Cylinder | 1.1676 | 0.31327 | 3.72 |
| Cone | 4.5890 | 0.17762 | 25.8 |
| Sphere | 64213.3 | 13.595 | 4720 |
The downside of this change is that there will be two implementations
for these three primitives, in these nodes and in `bmo_primitive.c`.
One option would be re-implementing the BMesh primitives in terms of
this code, but that would require `BMesh` to depend on `Mesh`, which
is currently avoided. On the other hand, it will be easier to add new
features to these nodes like different fill types for the top and the
bottom of a cylinder, rings for a cylinder, and tagging the output with
boolean attributes. Another factor to consider is that the add mesh
object operator could be implemented with these nodes, just providing
more benefit for a faster implementation.
As a future cleanup, there is room to share code that generates the
"rings" topology between different nodes that generate meshes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10730
The default insert link callback for nodes was trying to move the
existing link away, since it didn't properly handle multi-input sockets
(though the problem wasn't exposed for the join node). We can basically
skip all of this "moving existing links" for multi-input sockets, unless
we are at the link limit.
This commit adds a simple node to output the min and max of an
axis-aligned bounding box for the input geometry, as well a rectangular
prism mesh created from these values for convenience.
The initial use case for this node is a "bounding box boolean", where
doing the boolean with just a bounding box could be signigicantly
faster, for cases like cutting a hole in a wall for a window. But it's
easy to imagine other cases where it could be useful.
This node supports mesh and point cloud data right now, volume support
will come as a separate patch. Also note that there is plenty of room
to improve the performance of this node through parallelization.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10420
Since you can already specify a separate size for X and Y with the
grid node, it makes sense to be able to specify the size separately
for each axis also.
This also avoids some awkward math with a Transform node afterwards
when you want a specific size for each direction.
Versioning (except for animation and drivers) is handled in this commit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10834
Since these nodes are usually used for more basic operations and the
attribute nodes are used when more complexity is necessary, it makes
sense to give these nodes more accessible defaults-- hopefully this can
make learning about the core concepts of geometry nodes a bit easier.
The following primitives needed ME_EDGEDRAW, ME_EDGERENDER edge flags:
* Grid
* Circle
Set flags on the inside edges for grid and circle triangle fan (mesh primitive nodes)
so they are visible and selectable.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10878
The main goal here is to remove the need for a C API to the code in
`mesh_boolean_convert.cc`. This is achieved by moving `MOD_boolean.c`
to C++ and making the necessary changes for it to compile. On top of
that there are some other slight simplifications possible to the
direct mesh boolean code: it doesn't need to copy the material
remaps, and the modifier code can use some other C++ types directly.
This commit improves the performance of the node by up to 40% in some
cases when there are only two input meshes, mainly by skipping the
conversion to and from BMesh.
When there are more than two input meshes (note the distinction from
"Geometries", a geometry set can have many mesh instances), the
performance is actually worse, since boolean currently always does
self intersection in that case. Theoretically this could be improved
in the boolean code, or another option is automatically realizing
instances for each input geometry set.
Another improvement is using multi-input sockets for the inputs, which
removes the need to have a separate boolean node for every operation,
which can hopefully simplify some node trees.
The changes necessary for transforms in `mesh_boolean_convert.cc` are
somewhat subtle; they come from the fact that the collecting the
geometry set instances already gives transforms in the local space
of the modifier object. There is also a very small amount of cleanup
to those lines, using `float4x4::identity()`.
This commit also fixes T87078, where overlapping difference meshes
makes the operation not work, though I haven't investigated why.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10599
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.
For other "Attribute Name" fields we usually give a more specific name
that relates to what the attribute is actually used for, like "Mask" in
the point separate node. This is a similar situation, and would also
be consistent with the naming planned in D10506.
This is an implementation of Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing (SMAA)
The algorithm was proposed by:
Jorge Jimenez, Jose I. Echevarria, Tiago Sousa, Diego Gutierrez
This node provides only SMAA 1x mode, so the operation will be done with no spatial
multisampling nor temporal supersampling. See Patch for comparisons.
The existing AA operation seems to be used only for binary images by some other nodes.
Using SMAA for binary images needs no important parameter such as "threshold", so we
perhaps can switch the operation to SMAA, though that changes existing behavior.
Notes:
1. The program code assumes the screen coordinates are DirectX style that the
vertical direction is upside-down, so "top" and "bottom" actually represent bottom
and top, respectively.
Thanks for Habib Gahbiche (zazizizou) to polish and finalize this patch.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2411
Although "Grid" may not be techincally correct since a grid could be 3D,
it was decided to rename the "Plane" primtive to "Grid". The primitive
node allows subdivisions, so the name is more consistent with the
operator in the 3D view.
Ref T86819
This commit includes a file subversion bump for the versioning.
Change `float to boolean` and `int32 to boolean` to return false for zero and negative values.
This aligns with how artists would expect these values to work. This is in contrast to what a coder would expect. It was determined on blender.chat that this was a better default. This means that a negative float value would give a boolean false.
Change `Color4f to boolean` to return false for zero and negative grayscale values.
Likewise, for color to boolean, to account for negative value colors, the grayscale value would be used for determining if a colour was false or not.
See {T86454}
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10685
This patch adds support for the remaining operations of the Vector Math
node within Geometry Nodes. While the operations are already available
in the UI, they hadn't been implemented, yet. With this patch the node
uses the implementation that was added for the Attribute Vector Math
node - similar to how it's handled with the Math node and Attribute
Math node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10650
This adds a Clamp node for Geometry Nodes Attributes.
Supports both Min-Max and Range clamp modes.
Float, Vector, Color and Int data types supported.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly, simonthommes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10526
