When the mesh is using custom normals, those should always be exported,
regardless of the `ME_SMOOTH` flag on the invidivual polys.
Also replaced the loop normal writing with the same logic as we use for
reading (less pointer arithmetic, more normal counting).
Loop normals are called 'Face-varying normals' in Alembic. Before this
commit, the existence of such normals was used to enable smooth shading.
This is incorrect, as the normals could encode flat faces just as well.
This commit adds the loading of these normals as custom loop normals. It
then also enables Auto-Smoothing on the mesh (which is a bit of a
misnomer and indicates to Blender that the custom normals should be
used).
Fixes the glitching described in T65959.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5191
The only thing that is stored in this pointer is a `Mesh*`, and casting
it from/to `void*` is unnecessary and confusing. Maybe the entire
CDStreamConfig class could/should be removed at some point.
No functional changes.
By having a switch statement that lists all the values of the enum, it is
clear which cases we're not handling, and it also allows for warnings in
the future when the enum expands.
No functional changes.
CDData checking on file load was not taking into account deprecated
CD_MTEXPOLY datatype, which unfortunately shows same weird glitch as
CD_PAINT_MASK and CD_FACEMAP ones...
Note that it was annoying (due to amount of warnings in console), but
totally harmless, since that data type is just deleted anyway.
This commit also generally cleans up the CD_MTEXPOLY deprecation code, we
have a system to handle that, let's use it, instead of defining local
static values to replace it...
An Alembic file saved by 3DS Max caused Blender to crash when importing.
Either the UV indices in the file are out of bounds or they are written
in a way we don't expect. In either case, this now no longer causes Blender
to crash.
The `AbcMetaballWriter` now subclasses `AbcGenericMeshWriter` instead of
wrapping an `AbcMeshWriter`. `AbcGenericMeshWriter` was created for this
purpose (writing non-mesh objects as mesh to Alembic) and performs the work
in a cleaner and, more importantly, not crashing way.
Convention was not to but after discussion on 918941483f we agree its
best to change the convention.
Names now mostly follow RNA.
Some exceptions:
- Use 'nodetrees' instead of 'nodegroups'
since the struct is called NodeTree.
- Use 'gpencils' instead of 'grease_pencil'
since 'gpencil' is a common abbreviation in the C code.
Other exceptions:
- Leave 'wm' as it's a list of one.
- Leave 'ipo' as is for versioning.
We already have different storages for cddata of verts, edges etc.,
'simply' do the same for the mask flags we use all around Blender code
to request some data, or limit some operation to some layers, etc.
Reason we need this is that some cddata types (like Normals) are
actually shared between verts/polys/loops, and we don’t want to generate
clnors everytime we request vnors!
As a side note, this also does final fix to T59338, which was the
trigger for this patch (need to request computed loop normals for
another mesh than evaluated one).
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4407
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.
C++11 doesn't need the space between '> >' in a nested templated
declaration, so instead of `std::vector<std::pair<a, b> >` we can now
write `std::vector<std::pair<a, b> >`.
It's now possible to export curves and NURBS as mesh data to Alembic.
This allows artists to do any crazy thing on curves and export the
visual result to Alembic for interoperability with other software (or
caching for later use, etc.). It's an often-requested feature.
This works around T60503 and the fixes export part of T51311.
Note that exporting zero-width curves is currently not supported, as
exporting a faceless mesh (e.g. just edges and vertices) is not
supported by the mesh writer at all.
To test, create a curve with thickness (for example extruded), export to
Alembic and check the 'Curves to Mesh' checkbox in the export options.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4213
I moved most of the `AbcMeshWriter` code to a new class
`AbcGenericMeshWriter`. The latter is an abstract class and does not
make any assumptions about the type of Blender object being written.
This makes it possible to write metaballs, curves, nurbs surfaces, etc.
as mesh to Alembic files.
The `AbcMeshWriter` class now is the concrete implementation of
`AbcGenericMeshWriter` for writing mesh objects.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4213
If the triangulated mesh was in itself a new mesh that should be freed this
should happen before the function returns (as it only returns a single mesh,
and thus the caller can only free one).
That kind of implicit includes should really only be done when totally,
absolutely necessary, and ideally only with rather simple 'second-level'
headers.
Otherwise not being explicit with includes always end up biting in
unexpected ways...
The depsgraph was always created within a fixed evaluation context. Passing
both risks the depsgraph and evaluation context not matching, and it
complicates the Python API where we'd have to expose both which is not so
easy to understand.
This also removes the global evaluation context in main, which assumed there
to be a single active scene and view layer.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3152
- Only basis balls are exported, as they represent the resulting mesh.
As a result the mesh is written to Alembic using the name of the basis
ball.
- MetaBalls are converted to a mesh on every frame, then an
AbcMeshWriter is used to write that mesh to Alembic.
When the mesh changed topology but kept the vertex count the same, it would
result in a corrupt mesh. By checking the face & loop counts too, this has
become less likely.
I've checked IPolyMeshSchema::isConstant(), but it returns true even when
we see that the mesh changed topology.
