**Changes**
As described in T93602, this patch removes all use of the `MVert`
struct, replacing it with a generic named attribute with the name
`"position"`, consistent with other geometry types.
Variable names have been changed from `verts` to `positions`, to align
with the attribute name and the more generic design (positions are not
vertices, they are just an attribute stored on the point domain).
This change is made possible by previous commits that moved all other
data out of `MVert` to runtime data or other generic attributes. What
remains is mostly a simple type change. Though, the type still shows up
859 times, so the patch is quite large.
One compromise is that now `CD_MASK_BAREMESH` now contains
`CD_PROP_FLOAT3`. With the general move towards generic attributes
over custom data types, we are removing use of these type masks anyway.
**Benefits**
The most obvious benefit is reduced memory usage and the benefits
that brings in memory-bound situations. `float3` is only 3 bytes, in
comparison to `MVert` which was 4. When there are millions of vertices
this starts to matter more.
The other benefits come from using a more generic type. Instead of
writing algorithms specifically for `MVert`, code can just use arrays
of vectors. This will allow eliminating many temporary arrays or
wrappers used to extract positions.
Many possible improvements aren't implemented in this patch, though
I did switch simplify or remove the process of creating temporary
position arrays in a few places.
The design clarity that "positions are just another attribute" brings
allows removing explicit copying of vertices in some procedural
operations-- they are just processed like most other attributes.
**Performance**
This touches so many areas that it's hard to benchmark exhaustively,
but I observed some areas as examples.
* The mesh line node with 4 million count was 1.5x (8ms to 12ms) faster.
* The Spring splash screen went from ~4.3 to ~4.5 fps.
* The subdivision surface modifier/node was slightly faster
RNA access through Python may be slightly slower, since now we need
a name lookup instead of just a custom data type lookup for each index.
**Future Improvements**
* Remove uses of "vert_coords" functions:
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_alloc`
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_get`
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_apply{_with_mat4}`
* Remove more hidden copying of positions
* General simplification now possible in many areas
* Convert more code to C++ to use `float3` instead of `float[3]`
* Currently `reinterpret_cast` is used for those C-API functions
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15982
Function casts hid casting between potentially incompatible type
signatures (using int instead of Py_ssize_t). As it happens this seems
not to have caused any bugs on supported platforms so this change is
mainly for correctness and to avoid problems in the future.
Missed these changes in [0].
Also replace designated initializers in some C code, as it's not used
often and would need to be removed when converting to C++.
[0] e555ede626
Use struct identifiers in comments before the value.
This has some advantages:
- The struct identifiers didn't mix well with other code-comments,
where other comments were wrapped onto the next line.
- Minor changes could re-align all other comments in the struct.
- PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT & tp_name are no longer placed on the same line.
Remove overly verbose comments copied from PyTypeObject (Python v2.x),
these aren't especially helpful and get outdated.
Also corrected some outdated names:
- PyTypeObject.tp_print -> tp_vectorcall_offset
- PyTypeObject.tp_reserved -> tp_as_async
Mathutils types were always GC tracked even when it wasn't intended.
Not having to track objects speeds up Python execution.
In an isolated benchmark created to stress test the GC
creating 4-million vectors (re-assigning them 100 times), this gives
an overall ~2.5x speedup, see: P3221.
Details:
Since [0] (which added support for sub-classed mathutils types)
tp_alloc was called which defaults to PyType_GenericAlloc which always
GC tracked the resulting object when Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC was set.
Avoid using PyType_GenericAlloc unless the type is sub-classed,
in that case the object is un-tracked.
Add asserts that the tracked state is as expected before tracking &
un-tracking, to ensure changes to object creation don't cause objects
to be tracked unintentionally.
Also assign the PyTypeObject.tp_is_gc callback so types optionally GC
track objects only do so when an object is referenced.
[0]: fbd9364944
Use `verts` instead of `vertices` and `polys` instead of `polygons`
in the API added in 05952aa94d. This aligns better with
existing naming where the shorter names are much more common.
For copy-on-write, we want to share attribute arrays between meshes
where possible. Mutable pointers like `Mesh.mvert` make that difficult
by making ownership vague. They also make code more complex by adding
redundancy.
The simplest solution is just removing them and retrieving layers from
`CustomData` as needed. Similar changes have already been applied to
curves and point clouds (e9f82d3dc7, 410a6efb74). Removing use of
the pointers generally makes code more obvious and more reusable.
Mesh data is now accessed with a C++ API (`Mesh::edges()` or
`Mesh::edges_for_write()`), and a C API (`BKE_mesh_edges(mesh)`).
The CoW changes this commit makes possible are described in T95845
and T95842, and started in D14139 and D14140. The change also simplifies
the ongoing mesh struct-of-array refactors from T95965.
**RNA/Python Access Performance**
Theoretically, accessing mesh elements with the RNA API may become
slower, since the layer needs to be found on every random access.
However, overhead is already high enough that this doesn't make a
noticible differenc, and performance is actually improved in some
cases. Random access can be up to 10% faster, but other situations
might be a bit slower. Generally using `foreach_get/set` are the best
way to improve performance. See the differential revision for more
discussion about Python performance.
Cycles has been updated to use raw pointers and the internal Blender
mesh types, mostly because there is no sense in having this overhead
when it's already compiled with Blender. In my tests this roughly
halves the Cycles mesh creation time (0.19s to 0.10s for a 1 million
face grid).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15488
Making the callers responsible for this isn't practical as matrices are
often passed indirectly to a functions such as mat3_to_axis_angle,
BKE_object_mat3_to_rot & BKE_pchan_mat3_to_rot.
Or the matrix is combined from other matrices which could be negative.
Given quaternions calculated from negative matrices are completely
invalid and checking only needs to negate matrices with a negative
determinant, move the check into mat3_to_quat and related functions.
Add mat3_normalized_to_quat_fast for cases no error checking on the
input matrix is needed such as blending rotations.
The result of mat3_normalized_to_quat isn't valid for negative matrices.
Isolate the fix to the Matrix.to_quaternion() instead of changing
mat3_normalized_to_quat to prevent unintended side effects elsewhere.
* Rename ambiguous rgb to scene_linear in some places
* Precompute matrices to directly go to scene instead of through XYZ
* Make function signatures more consistent
Between scene linear and sRGB, XYZ, linear Rec.709 and ACES2065-1.
And add some clarifications about color spaces in the docs.
Fixes T98267
Ref T68926
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14989
Since Python 3.10 is now supported on all platform,
bump the minimum version to reduce the number of Python versions that
need to be supported simultaneously.
Reviewed By: LazyDodo, sybren, mont29, brecht
Ref D13943
Instead of accessing the `CD_NORMAL` layer directly,
use the proper API for accessing mesh normals. Even if the
layer exists, the values might be incorrect due to a deformation.
Related to ef0e21f0ae, 969c4a45ce, and T95839.
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
Fixes several notable mistakes and missing information
regarding the API documentation (*.rst).
This will allow API stub generators like bpystubgen or
fake-bpy-module to produce more accurate result.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12639
