The main goal here is to remove the need for a C API to the code in
`mesh_boolean_convert.cc`. This is achieved by moving `MOD_boolean.c`
to C++ and making the necessary changes for it to compile. On top of
that there are some other slight simplifications possible to the
direct mesh boolean code: it doesn't need to copy the material
remaps, and the modifier code can use some other C++ types directly.
The old path that didn't skip the conversion to and from BMesh for
the exact solver was not yet removed from this file. At this point no
problems have came up in the new implementation, so it's safe
to remove it.
This commit improves the performance of the node by up to 40% in some
cases when there are only two input meshes, mainly by skipping the
conversion to and from BMesh.
When there are more than two input meshes (note the distinction from
"Geometries", a geometry set can have many mesh instances), the
performance is actually worse, since boolean currently always does
self intersection in that case. Theoretically this could be improved
in the boolean code, or another option is automatically realizing
instances for each input geometry set.
Another improvement is using multi-input sockets for the inputs, which
removes the need to have a separate boolean node for every operation,
which can hopefully simplify some node trees.
The changes necessary for transforms in `mesh_boolean_convert.cc` are
somewhat subtle; they come from the fact that the collecting the
geometry set instances already gives transforms in the local space
of the modifier object. There is also a very small amount of cleanup
to those lines, using `float4x4::identity()`.
This commit also fixes T87078, where overlapping difference meshes
makes the operation not work, though I haven't investigated why.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10599
The node tree evaluator now calls a callback for every used socket with
its corresponding value(s). Right now the callback does nothing.
However, we can use it to collect attribute name hints, socket values
for debugging or data that will be displayed in the spreadsheet.
The main difficulty here was to also call the callback for sockets in
nodes that are not directly executed (such as group nodes, muted
nodes and reroutes).
No functional changes are expected.
The geometry nodes modifier did not specify that it needs all custom data layers.
Therefore the modifier evaluation code tagged some layers so that they will not be
copied later on by calling `mesh_set_only_copy` in `mesh_calc_modifiers`.
When boolean's Object also has a modifier that depends back on
the target Object, a crash occurred.
In a case like this, BKE_modifier_get_evaluated_mesh_from_evaluated_object
returns NULL, so just have to protect against that case.
Previously, the code expected the id property to have the `IDP_FLOAT` type.
However, when assigning a Python float (which is a double internally)
to an id property, it would change the type to `IDP_DOUBLE`.
The fix is to allow both types in the geometry nodes modifier.
UI hints should only be modified when the depsgraph is active.
Otherwise two threads evaluating the same object in different depsgraphs
can conflict with each other.
I had done some experiments to see what Fast boolean did for material
mapping and thought it just used the same slot in the target as the
slot in the source. The truth is more complicated: if the target material
exists in any slot of the destination, we need to remap to whatever
slot has the matching material. I fixed Exact Boolean to do this.
Since the materials may be in the object, this means that BKE_mesh_boolean
had to get another argument, the remapping arrays.
I will note that the current behavior of Fast, and now Exact, is not ideal.
Ideally, if the source material does not exist in the target, a new material
slot should be created in the target and the source material copied there
(and incrementing the material's reference count). Maybe a future project,
but for now, I want the behavior of Exact to match that of Fast.
Note, this does not allow users to connect the same socket more than once to
a multi-input-socket in the UI. However, the situation could still happen when
using node muting.
A few changes to make this consistent with other modifier panels:
- Title case for UI labels
- Use property split (and therefore decorators)
- Declare sublayout variables after getting modifier info
projectors
Make this clear in property UI descriptions and deactivate aspect &
scale fields if no camera projectors are present.
ref T86268
Maniphest Tasks: T86268
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10634
The commit rB6f63417b500d that made exact boolean work on meshes
with holes (like Suzanne) unfortunately dramatically slowed things
down on other non-manifold meshes that don't have holes and didn't
need the per-triangle insideness test.
This adds a hole_tolerant parameter, false by default, that the user
can enable to get good results on non-manifold meshes with holes.
Using false for this parameter speeds up the time from 90 seconds
to 10 seconds on an example with 1.2M triangles.
Instead of returning a raw pointer, `LinearAllocator.construct(...)` now returns
a `destruct_ptr`, which is similar to `unique_ptr`, but does not deallocate
the memory and only calls the destructor instead.
This is a complete rewrite of the derived node tree data structure.
It is a much thinner abstraction about `NodeTreeRef` than before.
This gives the user of the derived node tree more control and allows
for greater introspection capabilities (e.g. before muted nodes were
completely abstracted away; this was convenient, but came with
limitations).
Another nice benefit of the new structure is that it is much cheaper
to build, because it does not inline all nodes and sockets in nested
node groups.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10620
This was reported for remesh and skin modifiers.
These dont preserve UV layers (and probably cannot in a reasonable way),
so instead let the UV Project modifier create a new (equally named) UV
layer (as was suggested by @brecht in T59376).
Maniphest Tasks: T59376
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10617
This enables the quick access button [to show the relevant Texture in
the Properties Editor] for textures used in geometry nodes.
This goes in line to what we do for other textures:
- modifier textures have this button
- particle textures have this button
- brush textures will soon have it, too (see D9813)
When outside of the Properties Editor, the button will always show (if a
texture is actually assigned), but will be inactive if no suiting
Properties Editor to show the texture in can be found.
Note this also changes the behavior to not show the button if _no_
texture is assigned (as in: we are still showing the "New" button).
Previously it was always there (e.g. for modifier textures), even if it
would take us to an empty texture tab. (Sure, we could add a texture
there then, but imho it makes more sense to just start showing it once a
texture is already there)
For this to work with geometry nodes, the following chages were done:
- implement foreachTexLink for geonode modifiers
- new buttons_texture_user_node_property_add() that stores prop as well
as node
- also use NODE_ACTIVE_TEXTURE flag in geometry nodetrees
notes:
- this still uses the first suiting (as in: pinning does not interfere)
Properties Editor it finds, this should (maybe?) find the _closest_
Property Editor instead (see related feedback in D9813).
- this will already show the button for brush textures as well
(disabled), but there is another mandatory change in an upcomming commit
to make it work there as well (see D9813)
ref. T85278
Maniphest Tasks: T85278
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10293
Geometry nodes were not adding referenced instanced collections as
dependencies to depsgraph.
This would lead to meshes and data not being ready on evaluation in
certain cases.
The Exact modifier code had been written to avoid using BMesh but
in the initial release the modifier still converted all Meshes to
BMeshes, and then after running the boolean code on the BMeshes,
converted the result back to a Mesh.
This change skips that. Most of the work here is in getting the
Custom Data layers right. The approach taken is to merge default
layers from all operand meshes into the final result, and then
use the original verts, edges, polys, and loops to copy or interpolate
the appropriate custom data layers from all operands into the result.
This patch adds icons to the right side of nodes when they encounter a
a problem. When hovered, a tooltip displays describing the encountered
while evaluating the node.
Some examples are: attribute doesn't exist, mesh has no faces,
incorrect attribute type, etc. Exposing more messages to the system
will be an ongoing process. Multiple warnings per node are supported.
The system is implemented somewhat generically so that the basic
structure can also be used to store more information from evaluation
for the interface, like a list of available attributes.
Currently the messages are just button tooltips. They could be styled
differently in the future. Another limitation is that every instance of
a node group in a parent node tree will have the same error messages,
the "evaluation context" used to decide when to display the tooltips
must be extended to support node tree paths.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10290
Since the derived node tree is already build for the evaluation system,
it's simpler to pass a derived node to the params struct. This will also
allow context lookups in nested node groups for node error messages,
since the derived node has that information readily accessible.
Currently moving or changing an object references in a node modifier's
node group does not trigger re-evaluation. Because there is no collection
relation in the dependency graph, we must add the relation to all objects
in the collection individually.
This node takes a volume and generates a mesh on it's "surface".
The surface is defined by a threshold value.
Currently, the node only works on volumes generated by the
Points to Volume node. This limitation will be resolved soonish.
Ref T84605.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10243
Normally sockets only have one input link. This commit adds the back-end
changes needed to use multiple input links per socket.
Multi-input sockets can be defined with a new flag in `bNodeSocketType`.
The changes necessary to make the sockets work in the geometry nodes
evaluator are generalizing input socket values as a vector of values,
and supporting this in the derived node tree structure.
This patch should contain no functional changes. Two upcoming patches
will use this system for the "Join Geometry" node and expose link picking
and updated display in the UI: D10069 and D10181.
Reviewed By: Jacques Lucke, Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10067
There are two issues here. First, like in T81988 there are cases
where the modifier would deform some vertices immediately after
bind. This is caused by wrong assumptions in the code about the
possible relative angles between various vectors, which can cause
negative weights that don't blend correctly to appear.
Specifically, it seems originally the code assumes that the
centroid-point vector in the polygon plane lies somewhere
between the mid-edge vectors. This is however not necessarily
the case for distant vertices, because the polygon is not
guaranteed to be truly planar, so normal projection may be
a bit off. The code has to use signed angles and checks to
support all possible angular arrangements.
The second issue is very thin and long triangles, which tend
to be very spatially unstable in their thin dimension, resulting
in excess deformation. The code was weighting distance using
the distances between the centroid and the mid-edge points, which
in this case end up as nearly opposite vectors of sizable length
and don't correctly represent how thin the triangle actually is.
It is thus better to use centroid-to-line distances, and an
additional even stricter value for the midpoint that will use
only 3 vertices at evaluation time.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10065
