This commit is a full refactor of the grease pencil modules including Draw Engine, Modifiers, VFX, depsgraph update, improvements in operators and conversion of Sculpt and Weight paint tools to real brushes.
Also, a huge code cleanup has been done at all levels.
Thanks to @fclem for his work and yo @pepeland and @mendio for the testing and help in the development.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6293
The constant variable was passed as reference to constant variable, but it's better use the new function to copy values.
This could be the problem with T67772
There were some problems in the engine because the data was saved inside e_data struct, but this struct is reset sometimes and the background texture is not valid.
Now, the data has been moved to stl->g_data and all creation and free has been moved to use stl->g_data. This fix also some small memory leak for the Buffer GPUBatch data.
The background texture has been moved to texture list because must be available all the time. When is not drawing, the texture is removed to safe memory. Also, if the mode is painting and the texture is not ready because it was removed by Draw Manager, the texture is reloaded with the background image again. This ensure the background image is always visible when painting.
Also I have used this patch to reduce the size of texture used for background to 16F instead of 32F and the blank texture to 1x1 pixels instead of 16x16.
Reviewed by: @fclem
See D5115 for more details
The unit system is designed for displaying and editing and not for
rendering. Eevee, Workbench and GPencil used these settings to convert
the focal length and sensor size to world units. Making depth of field
render differently with Cycles.
For now we will remove the scale in the draw engines to match cycles,
until we implemented a camera parameters specific scale.
Reviewed By: brecht, fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T64988
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4925
There is now a checkbox to enable/disable depth of field per camera. For Eevee
this replace the scene level setting. For Cycles there is now only an F-Stop
value, no longer a Radius.
Existing files are converted based on Cycles or Eevee being set in the scene.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4882
There was a bug when selected Solid mode with Material or Texture mode. The textures were not visible.
Now, the mode is passed to shaders to decide if use the solid color or the result texture color. The mode is passed using an array with shading type and mode.
Now it's possible use the different Wire modes (Single, Object & Random)
Also support for x-ray mode.
For random colors, the name of the object and the name of the layer is used.
Also some parameters cleanup.
When enable Wireframe mode in the shading type, all strokes are displayed as simple 1 pixel lines.
The color of the line is equal to the stroke color or the fill color if the fill is enabled and the stroke is disabled or has invisible alpha value.
In wireframe mode, all FX are disabled because sometimes the effects can make the lines invisible.
The modifiers are not disabled.
Still pending to decide if we must add support for Random colors, but not sure if this is useful in 2D.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
The problem was related to cache data that was removed from memory before the FX finished. This could affect to any FX.
Now all the information is saved in the FX itself in runtime struct to keep memory safe when cache memory is released.
The initial design assumed that there was only one object for each unique name, but that was not the case when instances were created.
Now, instances are supported and speed has been greatly improved when repetitions are used.
As a result of this change, the option to create objects has been removed in the Instances modifier. This option was strange and was also against Blender's design rules, since a modifier should never create objects. The old functionality of the modifier can be achieved with instances.
Also, several memory leakage problems that were not previously detected have been eliminated, and especially in the grid and in the drawing process
Onion Skin is not supported in multi-user datablocks. Support this, makes incompatible with instances. We need find a solution in the long term, but now it's better keep disabled and make instances work. Anyway, the new instances makes unnecessary to use muli-user datablocks.
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
