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*/`
This adds support for showing geometry passed to the Viewer in the 3d
viewport (instead of just in the spreadsheet). The "viewer geometry"
bypasses the group output. So it is not necessary to change the final
output of the node group to be able to see the intermediate geometry.
**Activation and deactivation of a viewer node**
* A viewer node is activated by clicking on it.
* Ctrl+shift+click on any node/socket connects it to the viewer and
makes it active.
* Ctrl+shift+click in empty space deactivates the active viewer.
* When the active viewer is not visible anymore (e.g. another object
is selected, or the current node group is exit), it is deactivated.
* Clicking on the icon in the header of the Viewer node toggles whether
its active or not.
**Pinning**
* The spreadsheet still allows pinning the active viewer as before.
When pinned, the spreadsheet still references the viewer node even
when it becomes inactive.
* The viewport does not support pinning at the moment. It always shows
the active viewer.
**Attribute**
* When a field is linked to the second input of the viewer node it is
displayed as an overlay in the viewport.
* When possible the correct domain for the attribute is determined
automatically. This does not work in all cases. It falls back to the
face corner domain on meshes and the point domain on curves. When
necessary, the domain can be picked manually.
* The spreadsheet now only shows the "Viewer" column for the domain
that is selected in the Viewer node.
* Instance attributes are visualized as a constant color per instance.
**Viewport Options**
* The attribute overlay opacity can be controlled with the "Viewer Node"
setting in the overlays popover.
* A viewport can be configured not to show intermediate viewer-geometry
by disabling the "Viewer Node" option in the "View" menu.
**Implementation Details**
* The "spreadsheet context path" was generalized to a "viewer path" that
is used in more places now.
* The viewer node itself determines the attribute domain, evaluates the
field and stores the result in a `.viewer` attribute.
* A new "viewer attribute' overlay displays the data from the `.viewer`
attribute.
* The ground truth for the active viewer node is stored in the workspace
now. Node editors, spreadsheets and viewports retrieve the active
viewer from there unless they are pinned.
* The depsgraph object iterator has a new "viewer path" setting. When set,
the viewed geometry of the corresponding object is part of the iterator
instead of the final evaluated geometry.
* To support the instance attribute overlay `DupliObject` was extended
to contain the information necessary for drawing the overlay.
* The ctrl+shift+click operator has been refactored so that it can make
existing links to viewers active again.
* The auto-domain-detection in the Viewer node works by checking the
"preferred domain" for every field input. If there is not exactly one
preferred domain, the fallback is used.
Known limitations:
* Loose edges of meshes don't have the attribute overlay. This could be
added separately if necessary.
* Some attributes are hard to visualize as a color directly. For example,
the values might have to be normalized or some should be drawn as arrays.
For now, we encourage users to build node groups that generate appropriate
viewer-geometry. We might include some of that functionality in future versions.
Support for displaying attribute values as text in the viewport is planned as well.
* There seems to be an issue with the attribute overlay for pointclouds on
nvidia gpus, to be investigated.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15954
Using the attribute name semantics from T97452, this patch moves the
selection status of mesh elements from the `SELECT` of vertices, and
edges, and the `ME_FACE_SEL` of faces to generic boolean attribute
Storing this data as generic attributes can significantly simplify and
improve code, as described in T95965.
The attributes are called `.select_vert`, `.select_edge`, and
`.select_poly`. The `.` prefix means they are "UI attributes",so they
still contain original data edited by users, but they aren't meant to
be accessed procedurally by the user in arbitrary situations. They are
also be hidden in the spreadsheet and the attribute list.
Until 4.0, the attributes are still written to and read from the mesh
in the old way, so neither forward nor backward compatibility are
affected. This means memory requirements will be increased by one byte
per element when selection is used. When the flags are removed
completely, requirements will decrease.
Further notes:
* The `MVert` flag is empty at runtime now, so it can be ignored.
* `BMesh` is unchanged, otherwise the change would be much larger.
* Many tests have slightly different results, since the selection
attribute uses more generic propagation. Previously you couldn't
really rely on edit mode selections being propagated procedurally.
Now it mostly works as expected.
Similar to 2480b55f21
Ref T95965
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15795
The mesh's triangulation cache is often created for other operations
besides the drawing code, but during the mesh draw cache extraction
it is recalculated on every single time. It is simpler and faster to use
the existing MLoopTri array. It can also save memory if the cache
already exists by avoiding allocating a duplicate array. For a 4 million
face quad mesh, that is already 128 MB.
Also use face normals for mesh triangulation if they aren't dirty,
which should provide a general speedup when they're both necessary.
Recently 54182e4925 made this more reliable, since the triangulation
cache is invalidated properly when the mesh is deformed.
Fixes T98073
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15550
Similar to the other refactors from T95965, this commit moves sculpt
face sets to use a generic integer attribute named `".sculpt_face_set"`.
This makes face sets accessible in the Python API.
The attribute is not visible in the attributes list or the spreadsheet
because it is meant for internal use, though that could be an option
in the future along with other similar attributes. Currently the change
is small, but in the future this could simplify code by allowing use
of more generic attribute APIs.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16045
Use `verts` instead of `vertices` and `polys` instead of `polygons`
in the API added in 05952aa94d. This aligns better with
existing naming where the shorter names are much more common.
In 8cf52e8226 we assumed that the UV IBO's are only needed in edit mode,
however the UV lines also need to work in texture paint mode. So prefer to
use bmesh when available to fix the original bug, but don't assume the face
is hidden when there is no bmesh.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15895
For copy-on-write, we want to share attribute arrays between meshes
where possible. Mutable pointers like `Mesh.mvert` make that difficult
by making ownership vague. They also make code more complex by adding
redundancy.
The simplest solution is just removing them and retrieving layers from
`CustomData` as needed. Similar changes have already been applied to
curves and point clouds (e9f82d3dc7, 410a6efb74). Removing use of
the pointers generally makes code more obvious and more reusable.
Mesh data is now accessed with a C++ API (`Mesh::edges()` or
`Mesh::edges_for_write()`), and a C API (`BKE_mesh_edges(mesh)`).
The CoW changes this commit makes possible are described in T95845
and T95842, and started in D14139 and D14140. The change also simplifies
the ongoing mesh struct-of-array refactors from T95965.
**RNA/Python Access Performance**
Theoretically, accessing mesh elements with the RNA API may become
slower, since the layer needs to be found on every random access.
However, overhead is already high enough that this doesn't make a
noticible differenc, and performance is actually improved in some
cases. Random access can be up to 10% faster, but other situations
might be a bit slower. Generally using `foreach_get/set` are the best
way to improve performance. See the differential revision for more
discussion about Python performance.
Cycles has been updated to use raw pointers and the internal Blender
mesh types, mostly because there is no sense in having this overhead
when it's already compiled with Blender. In my tests this roughly
halves the Cycles mesh creation time (0.19s to 0.10s for a 1 million
face grid).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15488
- Adding in compatibility paths to support minimum per-vertex strides for vertex formats. OpenGL supports a minimum stride of 1 byte, in Metal, this minimum stride is 4 bytes. Meaing a vertex format must be atleast 4-bytes in size.
- Replacing transform feedback compile-time check to conditional look-up, given TF is supported on macOS with Metal.
- 3D texture size safety check added as a general capability, rather than being in the gl backend only. Also required for Metal.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14510
This patch moves material indices from the mesh `MPoly` struct to a
generic integer attribute. The builtin material index was already
exposed in geometry nodes, but this makes it a "proper" attribute
accessible with Python and visible in the "Attributes" panel.
The goals of the refactor are code simplification and memory and
performance improvements, mainly because the attribute doesn't have
to be stored and processed if there are no materials. However, until
4.0, material indices will still be read and written in the old
format, meaning there may be a temporary increase in memory usage.
Further notes:
* Completely removing the `MPoly.mat_nr` after 4.0 may require
changes to DNA or introducing a new `MPoly` type.
* Geometry nodes regression tests didn't look at material indices,
so the change reveals a bug in the realize instances node that I fixed.
* Access to material indices from the RNA `MeshPolygon` type is slower
with this patch. The `material_index` attribute can be used instead.
* Cycles is changed to read from the attribute instead.
* BMesh isn't changed in this patch. Theoretically it could be though,
to save 2 bytes per face when less than two materials are used.
* Eventually we could use a 16 bit integer attribute type instead.
Ref T95967
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15675
Issue arises when face areas are really large combined with small UV
areas (report has a mesh ~1.5 km), then precission of shorts is
insufficient.
Now use floats instead.
This also removes this negative signed version of the total area ratio
(since with floats it is no longer used).
Thx @brecht for a lot of hand-holding!
NOTE: this is an alternative to D15805 (and quick tests show this does
not introduce the tiny performance hit as D15805 did).
Maniphest Tasks: T93084
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15810
* Flip the logic to first detect if we are dealing with an unmodified mesh
in editmode. And then if not, detect if we need a mapping or not.
* runtime.is_original is only valid for the bmesh wrapper. Rename it to clarify
that and only check it when the mesh is a bmesh wrapper.
* Remove MR_EXTRACT_MAPPED and instead check only for the existence of the
origindex arrays. Previously it would sometimes access those arrays without
MR_EXTRACT_MAPPED set, which according to a comment means they are invalid.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15676
This fixes missing selection updates in UV editor, both with GPU subdivision
and with the Modified Edges display option for modifiers in general.
It also fixes the UV editor incorrectly showing the cage mesh with deformed
coordinates. These are not yet supported by the UV selection system.
Changes:
* Always read selection state from the editmesh when building batches. The
flags in the evaluated mesh can be outdated as selection bypasses depsgraph
evaluation for performance, and instead may just clear the batches.
* runtime.is_original is only valid for the bmesh wrapper. The check for
building the UV cage should only use that if the mesh is a bmesh wrapper.
* Don't create cage batches for objects whose mesh is in edit mode, but that
are not themselves in edit mode, there is no need.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15658
This commit moves the hide status of mesh vertices, edges, and faces
from the `ME_FLAG` to optional generic boolean attributes. Storing this
data as generic attributes can significantly simplify and improve code,
as described in T95965.
The attributes are called `.hide_vert`, `.hide_edge`, and `.hide_poly`,
using the attribute name semantics discussed in T97452. The `.` prefix
means they are "UI attributes", so they still contain original data
edited by users, but they aren't meant to be accessed procedurally by
the user in arbitrary situations. They are also be hidden in the
spreadsheet and the attribute list by default,
Until 4.0, the attributes are still written to and read from the mesh
in the old way, so neither forward nor backward compatibility are
affected. This means memory requirements will be increased by one byte
per element when the hide status is used. When the flags are removed
completely, requirements will decrease when hiding is unused.
Further notes:
* Some code can be further simplified to skip some processing when the
hide attributes don't exist.
* The data is still stored in flags for `BMesh`, necessitating some
complexity in the conversion to and from `Mesh`.
* Access to the "hide" property of mesh elements in RNA is slower.
The separate boolean arrays should be used where possible.
Ref T95965
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14685
Previously there was a special extraction process for "vertex colors"
that copied the color data to the GPU with a special format. Instead,
this patch replaces this with use of the generic attribute extraction.
This reduces the number of code paths, allowing easier optimization
in the future.
To make it possible to use the generic extraction system for attributes
but also assign aliases for use by shaders, some changes are necessary.
First, the GPU material attribute can now store whether it actually refers
to the default color attribute, rather than a specific name. This replaces
the hack to use `CD_MCOL` in the color attribute shader node. Second,
the extraction code checks the names against the default and active
names and assigns aliases if the request corresponds to a special active
attribute. Finally, support for byte color attributes was added to the
generic attribute extraction.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15205
Issue is caused by an off by one error which would map some edge loops to
the loops of some the next polygon in the list of polygon, which may not
be a topological neighbor.
Previously the attribute name was only stored in the request for curves.
Instead, pass it as part of the "add request" function, so that it is
always used. Since the whole attribute pipeline is name-based,
this can simplify code in a few places.
- Remove unnecessary braces in switch statements
- Move `default` to the end of other switch items
- Use camel case for type names
- Use `BLI_assert_unreachable()`
After this commit, all mesh data extraction and drawing code is in C++,
including headers, making it possible to use improved types for future
performance improvements and simplifications.
The only non-trivial changes are in `draw_cache_impl_mesh.cc`,
where use of certain features and macros in C necessitated larger
changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15088
Also cleaned up the code a tad bit. Note that I
found two more bugs:
* GPU subdivision attribute interpolation
is producing visual artifacts.
* "Show on cage" mode for subdivision surface
just shows black colors.
A global variable was mistakenly used here which would accumulate the
vertex attributes (leading to an assertion failure after a while), use
the wrong number of components depending on the attribute data type,
among other issues.
Faces, edges, and vertices are still shown when GPU subdivision is
actived. This is because the related edit mode flags were ignored by the
subdivision code.
The flags are now passed to the various compute shaders mostly as part of
the extra coarse data, also used for e.g. selection. For loose edges, a
temporary buffer is created when extracting them. Loose vertices are
already taken into account as it reuses the routines for coarse mesh
extraction, although `MeshRenderData.use_hide` was not initialized,
which is fixed now.
This adds support to render Curves attributes in EEVEE.
Each attribute is stored in a texture derived from a VBO. As the
shading group needs the textures to be valid upon creation, the
attributes are created and setup during its very creation, instead
of doing it lazily via create_requested which we cannot rely on
anyway as contrary to the mesh batch, we do cannot really tell if
attributes need to be updated or else via some `DRW_batch_requested`.
Since point attributes need refinement, and since attributes are all
cast to vec4/float4 to account for differences in type conversions
between Blender and OpenGL, the refinement shader for points is
used as is. The point attributes are stored for each subdivision level
in CurvesEvalFinalCache. Each subdivision level also keeps track of the
attributes already in use so they are properly updated when needed.
Some basic garbage collection was added similar to what is done
for meshes: if the attributes used over time have been different
from the currently used attributes for too long, then the buffers
are freed, ensuring that stale attributesare removed.
This adds `CurvesInfos` to the shader creation info, which stores
the scope in which the attributes are defined. Scopes are stored
as booleans, in an array indexed by attribute loading order which
is also the order in which the attributes were added to the material.
A mapping is necessary between the indices used for the scoping, and
the ones used in the Curves cache, as this may contain stale
attributes which have not been garbage collected yet.
Common utilities with the mesh code for handling requested
attributes were moved to a separate file.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14916
This uses the recently introduced evaluator's vertex
data to smoothly interpolate original coordinates instead
of using linear interpolation.
The orcos are interpolated at the same time as positions
and as such, the specific subdivision routine for the
orco extractor has been removed. The patch evaluation
shader uses a definition to enable code specific to
orco evaluation.
Since the orco layer may not have been requested on first
render, and since orco data is now stored in the OpenSubDiv
evaluator, the evaluator needs to be recreated if an
orco layer is suddenly available. For this, a callback
to check if the evaluator has the data was added. This is
added to the evaluator as the `Subdiv` cache stored in the
modifier is invalidated less often than the Mesh batch cache
and so leads to fewer evaluator recreations.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14999
Knowing when layers are retrieved for write access will be essential
when adding proper copy-on-write support. This commit makes that
clearer by adding `const` where the retrieved data is not modified.
Ref T95842
