This simulation area mode moves the active area with the brush. When
enabled, the cloth brush has no restrictions on stroke length, area or
mesh vertex count.
In order to work, this enables PBVH nodes dynamically for simulation as
the stroke location moves and builds the constraints for new nodes
during the stroke. When a node is not inside the simulated area, all the
constraints that were created for it and vertex collisions are not
computed. The simulation limits falloff areas and constraints tweaking
control how the simulated and no simulated nodes blend.
Reviewed By: sergey, zeddb
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8726
Mainly a UI adjustment, no functional changes
To have the default mode in the advanced panel as separated option is not the best solution.
Now, there is a pin option and when it is enabled, the brush keeps this mode.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8974
This should improve the issue with Scrape accumulation in concave
surfaces. When the strength of the brush is higher, the area radius is
also bigger, so the scrape plane is more stable preventing it from
accumulating displacement in the same area.
The Scrape/Fill default presets are also updated to include this
functionality.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8821
This adds a new brush property called "Deformation Target" which
controls how the brush deformations is going to affect the mesh data. By
default is set to Geometry, which makes the brushes displace the
vertices. When set to Cloth Simulation, the deformation of the brush is
applied to the cloth solver constraints, so the simulation is
responsible to apply the final deformation. This allows to add cloth
simulation effects to other sculpt tools with minor modifications to their
code.
This patch enables Cloth Simulation deformation target for Pose and
Boundary brushes, which are tools that are already designed to work in
low poly counts and produce large deformations. This allows creating the
most common cloth effects, like bending and compressing folds, without
relying on collisions.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8578
Many of these popovers could use a design pass in 2.91, but for 2.90 we
don't want to change any UI strings at this point, so the best way to
solve the cutoff text is to widen the popovers. Sadly this won't affect
popovers when other languages besides English have longer strings, but
solving that is a much larger task.
Another benefit is that tweaking sculpt / paint brush options feels much
less cramped with slightly wider popovers.
I only know of one string that is still slightly cutoff by default with
this patch, the "Max Element Distance" property of the pose brush in the
sculpt mode brush settings popover. But I didn't think it was worth
widening that popover more to deal with that one case.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8575
This adds the boundary_falloff_type and boundary_offset to control how the
falloff of the Boundary Brush is applied.
Boundary Origin Offset is the same concept as the Pose Origin offset in
the Pose Brush. It is a multiplier that adds extra length to the brush
radius to locate the deformation pivot further from the boundary without
affecting the falloff.
The Falloff type includes Constant (previous default), brush radius, loop
and loop and invert. Loop and Loop and Invert can be used to create
deformation patterns in a mesh.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8526
Now the operators are split to define different default values. This is also required for the future Bezier primitive tools.
This allows to show in the Topbar the number of subdivisions. Before this value was totally hidden and it was number of Edges. The wheelmouse can be used to override the value while running, but does not change the default value.
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All operators share same code.
Also, fixed some bad practices done with Toolbar in python.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8506
This brush includes a set of deformation modes designed to deform and
control the shape of the mesh boundaries, which are really hard to do
with regular sculpt brushes (and even in edit mode). This is useful
for creating cloth assets and hard surface base meshes.
The brush detects the mesh boundary closest to the active vertex and
propagates the deformation using the brush falloff into the mesh.
It includes bend, expand, inflate, grab and twist deform modes.
The main use cases of this brush are the Bend and Expand deformation
modes, which depend on a grid topology to create the best results.
In order to do further adjustments and tweaks to the result of these
deformation modes, the brush also includes the Inflate, Grab and
Twist deformation modes, which do not depend that much on the topology.
Grab and Inflate are the same operation that is implemented in the
Grab and Inflate tools, they are also available in the boundary brush
as producing deformations with regular brushes in these areas is very
hard to control.
Even if this brush can produce deformations in triangle meshes and
meshes with a non-regular quad grid, the more regular and clean the
topology is, the better. Most of the assets this brush is intended to
deform are always created from a cylindrical or plane quad grid, so it
should be fine. Also, its algorithms can be improved in future versions
to handle more corner cases and topology patterns.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8356
This makes possible to choose between a local and a global simulation
when the cloth brush is used. Local simulation is the current default.
When global simulation is enabled, the cloth brush simulates the entire
mesh without taking any simulation limits into account.
This was possible before by setting the simulation limits to 10 (the
current maximum value allowed) so the entire mesh was inside the limits,
but this was a hack as the limits scale with the radius and there should
not be any limitation on how big the simulated area can be to be able to
simulate an entire object. This also allows to make a more clear
distinction between cloth brush presets that are intended to be used in
local areas to add details or globally to generate the base shape of the
mesh.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8481
This implements collisions in the solver of the cloth brush/filter. It
uses the scene colliders as a regular physics simulation.
There are still some parameters (friction, distance to the surface...)
that can be exposed as properties in later patches.
Thanks to Sebastian Parborg for helping me with the implementation.
Reviewed By: sergey, zeddb
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8019
The scale deform mode includes rotation by default, so when when scaling
down a part of the models it becomes harder to control as the effect of
the rotation less predictable (similar to using trackball rotation in a
very small radius). This locks the rotation of the segment, so parts of
the model can be scaled down in a more predictable way.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8465
The cloth brush has a defined simulated area with a falloff. In the falloff
area (the area between the dashed white circle and the exterior white
circle), simulation properties change in order to fade out the
simulation deformation effects towards the boundary.
With some brushes and stroke types (like anchored strokes with pinching
or grabbing with full strength), it is possible to apply more force than
what the boundary falloff can compensate, so the simulation breaks when
this happens.
This option pins the falloff area with softbody constraints, This
produces a much better deformation falloff and it is no longer possible
to move the vertices near the simulation boundary, so the simulation
won't break no matter the strength of the forces applied inside the
simulated areas.
This is an option as it is particularly useful for some brushes to add
localized details, but for brushes that are supposed to deform the
entire mesh (like the grab brush in D8424), this can add unwanted
softbody constraints that affect the simulation result.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8435
This property adds constraints to the simulation using the initial
location of the vertices, making it behave like a soft body. The
strength of these constraints can be modified with the brush parameter.
This makes some deformation modes more subtle and predictable, making it
possible to use the cloth brush to add surface detail in a more
controllable way without loosing completely the original shape of the
mesh.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7845
This adds extra deform modes to the slide mode of the Topology
Slide/Relax brush (both slide and smear are almost identical).
This is useful to move topology to a specific area to add more localized
details
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8349
This allows to use pen pressure modulation in hardness, wet mix, wet
persistence, flow and density, as well as inverting the modulation (more
pressure, less density...). With this, it is possible to create brushes
that mix paint or apply a new color based on the pressure.
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8267
The smear brush was using the stroke direction to slide colors across
the mesh surface (this is called drag in other sculpt tools). Similarly,
other deformations can be included. The most common ones in image
editing are pinch and expand, which can be used to sharpen transitions
between colors.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8270
Enables the color palette subpanel for brushes that have color
capabilities (only the paint brush for now)
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8268
This option allows posing meshes with different disconnected elements
using the Pose Brush.
This is achieved by doing the following:
- Creating an ID per vertex that stores the connected component of that vertex.
- By using those IDs, one fake topology connection is created per vertex to the nearest vertex in a different ID. The maximum distance to create that connection is determined by the "Max Element Distance" property. These fake connectivity neighbors are used in the Sculpt API functions iterators, so all the algorithms of the Pose Brush can run without modifications as if everything was part of the same mesh.
In order to make this work, the "Connected only" property of the Pose Brush needs to be disabled. This will add an extra performance cost to the Pose Brush and its preview. To achieve optimal results, max element distance should be as low as possible.
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7282
The report does not include any file, but probably that file is using the
settings for unified colors, which are currently not available in the UI,
so it always paints black. This enables unified colors and secondary
colors for sculpt vertex colors, so it should solve that issue.
Unified color does not make much sense now as the Paint tool is the only
one that has paint capabilities, but it will do in the future when
sculpt and paint at the same time is enabled and the paint capability is
added to more tools.
Reviewed By: sergey
Maniphest Tasks: T78323
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8136
Sculpt Vertex Colors is a painting system that runs inside sculpt mode, reusing all its tools and optimizations. This provides much better performance, easier to maintain code and more advanced features (new brush engine, filters, symmetry options, masks and face sets compatibility...). This is also the initial step for future features like vertex painting in Multires and brushes that can sculpt and paint at the same time.
This commit includes:
- SCULPT_UNDO_COLOR for undo support in sculpt mode
- SCULPT_UPDATE_COLOR and PBVH flags and rendering
- Sculpt Color API functions
- Sculpt capability for sculpt tools (only enabled in the Paint Brush for now)
- Rendering support in workbench (default to Sculpt Vertex Colors except in Vertex Paint)
- Conversion operator between MPropCol (Sculpt Vertex Colors) and MLoopCol (Vertex Paint)
- Remesher reprojection in the Voxel Remehser
- Paint Brush and Smear Brush with color smoothing in alt-smooth mode
- Parameters for the new brush engine (density, opacity, flow, wet paint mixing, tip scale) implemented in Sculpt Vertex Colors
- Color Filter
- Color picker (uses S shortcut, replaces smooth)
- Color selector in the top bar
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T72866
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5975
This Pose Brush origin mode simulates an FK deformation in the entire
model when clicking on the face sets, as they were controls of a fully
rigged character. Combined with the previous Face Sets modes that allow
creating IK chains, the pose brush should now be able to simulate most
of the common rigs deformations.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7839
This is an alternative deformation brush for the Pose Brush intended
quickly change the proportions of the mesh. The regular mode scales
using the segment's origin as a pivot. The inverted mode drags the
entire segment using the grab delta.
The only difference with the regular pose brush is that it is not
compatible with IK, so the option is disabled and set to 1 segment. The
rest of the options should work as expected.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7374
Now the brushes have several new random settings and use curves to define the effect. The curves have been moved below the parameter to keep UI standards and extra curve panels have been removed.
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The new curves are:
* Hue.
* Saturation.
* Value.
New option to random at stroke level instead to random at point level for the following values:
* Thickness.
* Strength.
* UV.
* Hue.
* Saturation.
* Value.
Curves have been moved below the corresponding parameter and only are displayed in properties panel. Display the curves in the popover made it unusable.
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Also, the Pressure random has been renamed to Radius because the old name was not clear enough.
Reviewed By: mendio, pablovazquez
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7577
Follow-up to previous commit.
Some examples:
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For more screenshots, please see D7430.
We use column or row headings here to bring more structure, and to give
the eye visual anchors which aid eye-scanning. The left-aligned
checkboxes likewise help with this. And we keep the adherence to the
center line, so the alignment matches up between the various buttons and
controls.
* Changes the property split percentage from 50/50% to 40/60%. This is
needed to give enough space for the checkboxes. But in most cases this
looks better anyway - see Transform panel. In some cases it simply
fills out the available space more efficently.
* Fix various hacks where we previously used manually defined splits.
When we did this, the alignment was never quite right, and the layout
code was a mess.
* Adds column headings to many places where a list of checkboxes all
share a common purpose or leading text.
* Add checkbox + value configurations various places where a checkbox
only serves to enable the value slider
* Removes most uses of grid flow layout. The grid flow layouts combine
poorly with column headings, and also they would mess alignment up
badly. The grid flow layouts also often made buttons and controls jump
around on the screen if you would just resize editors slightly,
causing visual confusion, making users lose their place. The logic for
at what time the list of items would re-flow was often flawed, jumping
to multiple columns too fast or too late - and frankly, the grid flow
layouts would often just look bad.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T65965
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7430
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Pablo Vazquez.
Most work here by William Reynish, few changes by Julian Eisel.
The Layer brush was in Blender before 2.81, when the sculpt API was
introduced. It had a huge amount of bugs and glitches which made it
almost unusable for anything but the most trivial cases. Also, it needed
some hacks in the code just to support the persistent base.
The brush was completely rewritten using the Sculpt API. It fulfills the
same use case as the old one, but it has:
- All previous artifacts fixed
- Simpler code
- Persistent base now works with multires thanks to the sculpt API
- Small cursor widget to preview the layer height
- More controllable and smoother strength and deformation
- More correct masking support
- More predictable invert support. When using persistent base, the brush invert mode resets to layer height 0, instead of jumping from +1 to -1. The brush can still be inverted in the brush direction property.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7147
With this brush option it is possible to mask the boundary vertices of
all face sets. This is especially useful in the cloth brush, where face
sets can be used to simulate seams between different patches of cloth
and produce different patterns and effects.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7230
This commit introduces a new mode for calculating the positions and
weights of the IK segments in the Pose Brush based on the Face Sets.
The first segment of the chain will always include all face sets inside
the brush radius and it will propagate until the boundary of the last
face sets added in the flood fill. Then consecutive connected face sets
are added to the chain until the chain length limit is reached or all
face sets of the mesh are already part of the chain.
This feature enables complete control over the pose brush origins in
case that is needed. Also, with this mode, the user can have a library
of base meshes with face sets already configured to get to the initial
pose as fast as possible.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7235
This implements the Surface Smooth Brush as a mode inside the Smooth tool,
which uses the HC algorithm from "Improved Laplacian Smoothing of Noisy Surface Meshes".
Comparted to the regular smooth brush with laplacian smooth, this brush removes
the surface while preserving the volume of the object.
The smooth result can be controlled by tweaing the original shape preservation,
displacement and iteration count.
The same surface smooth operation is also available as a mesh filter.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7057
This automasking option protects the open boundary edges of the mesh from the brush deformation. This is needed to sculpt cloths and it works nicely with the cloth brush.
It has a Propagation Steps property that controls the falloff of the mask from the edge.
Limitations:
- The automask is recalculated at the beginning of each stroke, creating a little bit of lag in high poly meshes, but it is not necessary. This can be fixed in the future by caching the edge distances, increasing a little bit the complexity of the code.
- The boundary vertex detection in meshes is not ideal and it fails with triangulated geometry, but it is the same as in the smooth brush. After fixing this, we should refactor the smooth brush to use the API and let the automasking option manually control the affected vertices.
- It does not work in Multires (it needs to be implemented in the API). The smooth brush in Multires is also not making boundary vertices.
- The falloff has a visible line artifact on grid patterns. We can smooth the final automasking factors several iterations, but it will make the initialization much slower. This can also be added in the future if we decided to cache the distances.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6705
This commit is a full refactor of the grease pencil modules including Draw Engine, Modifiers, VFX, depsgraph update, improvements in operators and conversion of Sculpt and Weight paint tools to real brushes.
Also, a huge code cleanup has been done at all levels.
Thanks to @fclem for his work and yo @pepeland and @mendio for the testing and help in the development.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6293
Face Sets are the new system to control the visibility state of the mesh in sculpt and paint modes. They are designed to work in modes where brushes are the primary way of interaction and they provide much more control when working with meshes with complex shapes and overlapping surfaces.
This initial commit includes:
- Sculpt Face Sets data structures and PBVH rendering.
- Face Set overlay and opacity controls.
- Sculpt Undo support.
- Remesher reprojection support. The visibility state of the mesh is also preserved when remeshing.
- Automasking and Mesh filter support.
- Mask expand operator mode to expand Face Sets (Shift + W) and flood fill areas by connectivity (press Ctrl while expanding).
- Sculpt Mode Face Sets and Visibility API.
- Sculpt Face Sets creation and visibility management operators.
- Operator to randomize the Face Sets colors.
- Draw Face Sets brush tool to create and edit the Face Sets. Drawing on the mesh creates a new Face Set. Pressing Ctrl before drawing modifies the Face Set under the brush at the beginning of the stroke.
- Updated keymap and menu to work with Face Sets from Sculpt Mode (H to toggle visibility, Alt + H to show all, Shit + H to hide).
- Pie menu on the W key with Face common Sets operations.
Know limitations:
- Multires support. The Face Sets and Visibility API needs to be implemented for Multires.
Reviewed By: jbakker, #user_interface, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6070
The hardness property moves the brush falloff towards the edges, making
the brush sharper.
This should be the intended way to control the brush falloff instead of
tweaking the falloff curve manually, as it can be mapped to pressure to
make the falloff variable during the stroke.
It is also a good idea to show in the UI that the custom curves is an
advance features and it should almost never be modified when sculpting/
painting unless you want to create some advanced effects. By modifying
the curves freely it is really easy to break the brushes and make them
produce artifacts. This needs to be done in a later after merging the
pending projects to reorganize all the brush properties accordingly.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6902
This brush has a simple physics solver that helps when sculpting cloth.
- The mass and the damping properties of the simulation are properties of the brush.
- It has two additional radius control to limit the influence and falloff of the simulation.
- Masked vertices are pinned in the simulation, and it applies the sculpt gravity directly in the solver.
- The Cloth Brush has 7 deformation modes with 2 falloff types (radial and plane).
The brush can create the constraints only on the required PBVH nodes, so the simulation is isolated on high poly meshes. As long
as the brush size is not too big it should be possible to keep it real time.
Known issues:
- The way constraints are created is extremely basic and it creates repeated constraints. Maybe there is another way to create fewer constraints while keeping the simulation quality decent. This part can also be multithreaded. (As it is it works ok, but it could be better)
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6715
This panel is not for 2D paint, IMAGEPAINT_PROJECT_LAYER_CLONE is only
ever used in projection painting, not 2D painting.
Add a proper poll for this.
Maniphest Tasks: T73774
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6836
This enables an extra layer of control in the sculpt brushes.
For now it is enabled only in Scrape, but it should work in all brushes (like normal radius). In the future it may also be enabled in other brushes.
You can tweak in this property in the scrape brush to achieve a much better behavior when working on curve surfaces and control how much volume you want to trim. In most cases, it also fixes the bug where the brush keeps trimming in the same area without disabling accumulate.
It should be possible to fix some other artifacts in other brushes by tweaking this default property.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5993
