This patch exposes functionality for performing partial mesh updates
for normal calculation and face tessellation while transforming a mesh.
The partial update data only needs to be generated once,
afterwards the cached connectivity information can be reused
(with the exception of changing proportional editing radius).
Currently this is only used for transform, in the future it could be
used for other operators as well as the transform panel.
The best-case overall speedup while transforming geometry is about
1.45x since the time to update a small number of normals and faces is
negligible.
For an additional speedup partial face tessellation is multi-threaded,
this gives ~15x speedup on my system (timing tessellation alone).
Exact results depend on the number of CPU cores available.
Ref D11494
Reviewed By: mano-wii
2 sided faces aren't supported and will cause problems in many areas
of Blender's code.
Removing (implied) support for faces with fewer than 3 sides
means the total number of triangles is known ahead of time.
This simplifies adding support for multi-threading and partial updates
to an existing tessellation - as the face and loop indices can be used
to access the range of triangles associated with a face.
Also correct outdated comments.
With constructive + deform modifiers, loop-cut visualization
wasn't following the displayed mesh.
This now gets the coordinates from the cage when available.
This resolves a performance regression in 2.8x where every edit-mode
update performed an edit-mesh to mesh conversion.
Now the conversion will be lazily initialized if/when it's required.
New BKE_mesh_wrapper_* functions abstract over mesh data access.
Currently only edit-mesh and regular meshes are supported.
In the future sub-surface meshes may be supported too.
Note that this is a bit clumsy having both edit-mesh and mesh,
BKE_editmesh_ensure_autosmooth & BKE_editmesh_lnorspace_update
are often called together, these could be made into a single functions.
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This is often invalid, outdated or misleading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.
This makes the Edit Mesh display settings common to all objects. They can
also be set differently per viewport.
Modifying extra data (seams, sharp edges etc...) will no longer set them
automaticaly visible.
Bumping version because we need to force set all extra draw options for
older files.
This adds initial multi-object editing support.
- Selected objects are used when entering edit & pose modes.
- Selection & tools work on all objects however many tools need porting
See: T54641 for remaining tasks.
Indentation will be done separately.
See patch: D3101
since enough bmesh operations can also take advantage of direct index lookups on verts/edges/faces.
developers note:
- EDBM_index_arrays_init/ensure/free -> BM_mesh_elem_table_ensure/init/free
- EDBM_vert/edge/face_at_index -> BM_vert/edge/face_at_index
- EDBM_uv_element_map_create/free -> BM_uv_element_map_create/free
- ED_uv_element_get -> BM_uv_element_get
