Based on the previous overlay shader from merwin.
This shader takes care of clipped vertex cases and do all edit mode face info in one pass (except face centers).
As the shading is done one the triangle itself the visual can't go beyond the surface of the mesh. That leads to half displayed edges on the outline of the mesh.
This problem can be fixed by a second pass.
This is work in progress.
Note that since there is no (efficient) ways to get arrays of
MVert/MEdge/etc. out of a BMesh, I refactored quite heavily internals of
BKE_mesh_render.
Now, when you do need acess to mesh data to generate cached batches, you
create an abstract struct from mesh (either Mesh or BMesh if available),
and then use advanced helpers to extract needed data, on a per-item
basis (no more handling of arrays of verts/edges/... in batches code).
This allows to:
* Avoid having to create arrays of BMesh elements.
* Take advantage of existing advanced BMesh topology and connectivity data.
Reviewers: dfelinto, fclem, merwin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2521
Initial work by Clément Foucault with contributions from Dalai Felinto
(mainly per-collection engine settings logic, and depsgraph iterator placeholder).
This makes Blender require OpenGL 3.3. Which means Intel graphic card
and OSX will break. Disable CLAY_ENGINE in CMake in those cases.
This is a prototype render engine intended to help the design of real
render engines. This is mainly an engine with enphasis in matcap and
ambient occlusion.
Implemented Features
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* Clay Render Engine, following the new API, to be used as reference for
future engines
* A more complete Matcap customization with more options
* Per-Collection render engine settings
* New Ground Truth AO - not enabled
Missing Features
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* Finish object edit mode
- Fix shaders to use new matrix
- Fix artifacts when edge does off screen
- Fix depth issue
- Selection sillhouette
- Mesh wires
- Use mesh normals (for higher quality matcap)
- Non-Mesh objects drawing
- Widget drawing
- Performance issues
* Finish mesh edit mode
- Derived-Mesh-less edit mode API (mesh_rende.c)
* General edit mode
- Per-collection edit mode settings
* General engines
- Per-collection engine settings
(they are their, but they still need to be flushed by depsgraph, and
used by the drawing code)
Note: when in edit mode this depsgraph update is not being called. We are using DerivedMesh in those cases, so it is fine. I would like to investigate this though
This includes a few fixes in the MBC_ api.
The idea here is for this to be the only interface the render engines
will deal with for the meshes.
If we need to expose special options for sculpting engine we refactor
this accordingly. But for now we are shaping this in a per-case base.
Note:
* We still need to hook up to the depsgraph to force clear/update of
batch_cache when mesh changes
(I'm waiting for Sergey Sharybin's depsgraph update for this though)
* Also ideally we could/should use BMesh directly instead of
DerivedMesh, but this will do for now.
Note 2:
In the end I renamed the `BKE_mesh_render` functions to `static
mesh_render`. We can re-expose them as BKE_* later once we need it.
Reviewers: merwin
Subscribers: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2476
