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.
Issue here is that remote connection will use OpenGL 1.1.
There was a call here that would free VBOs always without a check,
however the VBO free function pointer is NULL on such contexts causing a
crash.
This must have been causing some of the crashes with old contexts. While
I think supporting those systems is not such a good idea in general,
they can have a few more moments of support I guess.
Things might be better now for systems using OGL 1.1 though there are
still things that could be done better here - for instance going to
dyntopo can crash immediately because we don't have a fallback
implementation there. It might be worth reimplementing sculpting with
vertex arrays for the legacy case too, but I guess if we move on to
OpenGL 2.1 soon this is a bit of a wasted effort.
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
Bring back shading in texture painting.
This works now but it uses 3 texture units instead of two. Most GPUs of
DirectX 8 (OpenGL 1.4 should cover that) functionality even should have
those, but some old GPUs might not work with that. In any case, I hope
we will be moving to OpenGL 2.1 requirement soon anyway where 4-8
texture units are usually the norm.
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.
The variables are considered invalid unless DM_update_materials is
called prior to use. Only use case currently is
mesh drawing. This helps with excessive allocation on the stack during
GPUObject creation, but may help elsewhere in the future as well.
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
triangles.
It is possible to end up with such nodes using brushes in aggressive
collapse mode. Those nodes should normally be cleaned up, since they can
never be actually reused (adding more geometry to a node requires the
node having some geometry to begin with) but until we support dynamic
nodes, better delete those to avoid binding graphics driver resources.
If such zero elements buffers were used, GL error out of memory would be
reported.
This commit does various changes for matcaps:
One is taking advantage of drawing with pbvh (which would only happen
with dyntopo previously) and drawing with partial redraw during
sculpting.
The second one is support for masks. To make this work in the special
case of multires, which uses flat shading, I use the only available flat
shaded builtins in OpenGL 2.0 which are color and secondary color.
Abusing colors in that way is also essential for flat shading to work if
we are to use pbvh draw in multires, since it is the color that is being
interpolated flatly, not the normal (which can only interpolated
smoothly). The pbvh drawing code for multires used last triangle
element's normal to compute the shading which would only produce smooth
results. This could change if we did the shading in the vertex shader
for flat shaded primitives, but this is more complex and makes it harder
to have one shader to rule the mole.
Also increased the brightness of the default diffuse color for
sculpting. This should be useful since artists like to tweak the
lighting settings and it will give them the full dynamic range of the
lights, but also it helps with correct brightness of sculpted matcaps.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D435
A question here might be: why?
The answer is that GPUs will convert this to triangles so we are wasting
memory during conversion of the element buffer to a triangle buffer
anyway.
The second reason is that some modern GPUs are slower rendering GL_QUADS
The third reason is that due to element caching, this should not in
theory be slower (cached elements do not get recalculated on the GPU).
