Paths to vulkan libraries, paths and related components were
hardcoded in the platform cmake file. This patch separates
this by using adding CMake modules for Vulkan and ShaderC.
This change has only been applied to the macOs configuration as
that is currently our main platform for development. Other platforms
will be added during the development of the Vulkan back-end.
This makes it convenient to build blender without referencing
pre-compiled libraries which don't always work on newer Linux systems.
Previously I had to rename ../lib while creating the CMakeCache.txt
to ensure my systems libraries would be used.
This change ensures LIBDIR is undefined when WITH_LIBS_PRECOMPILED is
disabled, so any accidental use warns with CMake's `--warn-unused-vars`
argument is given.
There are dependencies between shared libraries, and Python modules which are
always installed on Linux and macOS can use these also.
Instead of adding logic for dealing with dependencies and conditional Python
module installs, just always install everything when using precompiled
libraries. This does not affect compile time which would be the main reason to
turn off build options, and it does not affect the case where system libraries
are used.
(MacOS) only: In the System tab of the user preferences the user has the
ability to select a GPU backend that Blender will use. After changing
the GPU backend setting, the user has to restart Blender before the
setting is used.
It was added to start collecting feedback on the Metal backend without
using the command lines.
By default Blender will select OpenGL as backend. When Metal is selected
(via `--gpu-backend metal` or via user preferences) OpenGL will be used as
fallback when the platform isn't capable of running Metal.
* Make it clearer that contrib isn't shipped with releases, by already excluding it in beta.
* Improve the UI by hiding the "Testing" enum item in these case.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16729
This updates the libraries dependencies for VFX platform 2023, and adds various
new libraries. It also enables Python bindings and switches from static to
shared for various libraries.
The precompiled libraries for all platforms will be updated to these new
versions in the coming weeks.
New:
Fribidi 1.0.12
Harfbuzz 5.1.0
MaterialX 1.38.6 (shared lib with python bindings)
Minizipng 3.0.7
Pybind11 2.10.1
Shaderc 2022.3
Vulkan 1.2.198
Updated:
Boost 1.8.0 (shared lib)
Cython 0.29.30
Numpy 1.23.2
OpenColorIO 2.2.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenImageIO 2.4.6.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenSubdiv 3.5.0
OpenVDB 10.0.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OSL 1.12.7.1 (enable nvptx backend)
TBB (shared lib)
USD 22.11 (shared lib with python bindings, enable hydra)
yaml-cpp 0.8.0
Includes contributions by Ray Molenkamp, Brecht Van Lommel, Georgiy Markelov
and Campbell Barton.
Ref T99618
Instead of the the same folder as the Blender executable, generate a manifest
that lets us move the libraries out of the way of users and into a separate
folder.
Ref T99618
Shared libraries and USD plugins will be placed in the same folder, where USD
already looks for plugins.
This means that specifying the path to the plugins will no longer be needed
once the new libraries are available for all platforms. For now the code was
refactored to support both cases.
Ref T99618
This adds a vulkan backend to GHOST. The code was extracted from the
tmp-vulkan branch. The main difference with the original code is that
GHOST isn't responsible for fallback. For Metal backend there is already
an idea that the GPU module is responsible for the fallback, not the system.
For Blender we target Vulkan 1.2 at the time of this patch.
MoltenVK (needed to convert Vulkan calls to Metal) has been added as
a separate package.
This patch isn't useful for end-users, currently when starting blender with
`--gpu-backend vulkan` it would crash as the `VBBackend` doesn't initialize
the expected global structs in the GPU module.
Validated to be working on Windows and Apple. Linux still needs to be tested.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13155
The launcher is designed to exit as soon as possible
so there's no useless processes idling. Now when steam
launches blender with the launcher, this breaks the
time tracking steam has as the thing it just started
exits within milliseconds.
There already is some code in the launcher that makes
the launcher linger to support background mode. This
patch extends this a bit to also wait if the parent
process is steam.exe
Reviewed by: brecht lichtwerk dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16527
* Support bidirectional type lookups. E.g. finding the base type of a
field was supported, but not the other way around. This also removes
the todo in `get_vector_type`. To achieve this, types have to be
registered up-front.
* Separate `CPPType` from other "type traits". For example, previously
`ValueOrFieldCPPType` adds additional behavior on top of `CPPType`.
Previously, it was a subclass, now it just contains a reference to the
`CPPType` it corresponds to. This follows the composition-over-inheritance
idea. This makes it easier to have self-contained "type traits" without
having to put everything into `CPPType`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16479
This patch adds a placeholder for the vulkan backend.
When activated (`WITH_VULKAN_BACKEND=On` and `--gpu-backend vulkan`)
it might open a blender screen, but nothing should be visible as
none of the functions are implemented or otherwise crash on a nullptr.
This is expected as this is just a placeholder. The goal is to add shader compilation
+validation to this backend as one of the next steps so we can validate
changes to existing shaders on OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan at the same time.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16338
Add command line argument to switch gpu backend. Add `--gpu-backend` option to
override the gpu backend selected by Blender.
Values for this option that will be available in releases for now are:
* opengl: Force blender to select OpenGL backend.
During development and depending on compile options additional values can exist:
* metal: Force Blender to select Metal backend.
When this option isn't provided the internal logic for GPU backend selection will be used.
Note that this is at the time of writing the same as always selecting the opengl backend.
Reviewed By: fclem, brecht, MichaelPW
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16297
These functions are almost identical, the main difference being
BLI_join_dirfile didn't trim existing slashes when joining paths
however this isn't an important difference that warrants a separate
function.
This is a minimal set of changes, allowing a lot of cleanup that can
happen afterward as it allows sycl method and objects to be used outside
of kernel.cpp.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15397
Even though individual USER/SYSTEM paths could be set using environment variables,
it wasn't possible to override the USER or SYSTEM paths.
This meant the result of `bpy.utils.resource_path('USER')` &
`bpy.utils.resource_path('SYSTEM')` could still be used by scripts,
making the Blender session potentially the default USER directory
(even when `BLENDER_USER_CONFIG`, `BLENDER_USER_SCRIPTS` &
`BLENDER_USER_DATAFILES` all point elsewhere).
Resolve by adding environment variables:
- BLENDER_USER_RESOURCES
- BLENDER_SYSTEM_RESOURCES
These will be used for `bpy.utils.resource_path('USER')` &
`bpy.utils.resource_path('SYSTEM')`, as well as a basis for user &
system directories, unless those environment variables are
set (`BLENDER_USER_*` or `BLENDER_SYSTEM_*`).
Resolves issue raised by T101389.
Example usage & output:
{P3225}
Reviewed By: brecht
Ref D16111
In heavy scenes containing many hairs/curves and volumetrics
using SSBO can overwrite the binding information of the volumetric
resolve shader. This has been detected during project Heist and is
only reproducable on NVIDIA platform.
This patch adds an debug option to disable SSBOs from the command
line to replace the --debug-gpu-force-workarounds that has been
used as a workaround on the render farm. Reason is that
force workarounds will also add other limitations as well (number
of texture binds for example)
Build against Python from precompiled libraries by default, instead of
requiring framework from python.org package install. The resulting bpy module
can still be used with any Python install of the same version.
Use the same CMake find module as Linux. This simplifies code, and makes it
possible to manually set PYTHON_* variables in CMake configuration.
Remove WITH_PYTHON_FRAMEWORK option for regular Blender build, as this doesn't
work well due to missing required Python packages. Advanced users can still
set PYTHON_ROOT_DIR=/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10 for
the same result.
Replace the argument with an in ifdef in BKE_appdir_program_path_init.
At the time `blenkernel` didn't define WITH_PYTHON_MODULE, since it does
now there is no need for an argument. With the minor benefit of fewer
preprocessor checks in the main() function.
Building WITH_PYTHON_MODULE was creating a "bpy" module that required
Blenders data-files to be located in the module search path too.
This mean that a typical installation on Linux would create:
- `/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bpy.so`
- `/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/3.4`
(containing `scripts` & `datafiles`).
The new behavior creates:
- `/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bpy/__init__.so`
- `/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bpy/3.4`
With the advantage that the "bpy" directory is the self contained Python
module.
No changes are needed for the module loading logic as the mechanism to
swap in blend internal Python "bpy" module
(defined in `release/scripts/modules/bpy/__init__.py`)
works the same in both instances.
Thanks to Brecht for macOS support.
Reviewed by brecht
Ref D15911
BKE_appdir_program_path_init would override the module path extracted
from the Python module, replacing it with the Python executable.
This caused the data files not to be found and the module not to load.
PLATFORM_BUNDLED_LIBRARIES gathers shared libraries that will be installed
to the lib/ folder. The Blender executable gets a relative rpath pointing to
this folder as part of the install step.
The build rpath is different and uses absolute paths, so that it works for
executables like tests that are in different locations, and to support the
case where the build and install folders are different.
The system is already used for the OpenMP library on macOS. But on Linux it
will only kick in once we start using shared libraries for dependencies.
This also removes Mesa libraries from the old location, as these would cause
Blender to start with software OpenGL.
Ref T99618
Instead of using macros like GLIBC we can use the CMake build
systems internal functions to check if some header or functions are
present on the running system's libc.
Add ./build_files/cmake/have_features.cmake to add checks for
platform features which can be used to set defines for source
files that require them.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Ref D15696
The original intention from [0] was to force background-mode when built
WITH_HEADLESS or WITH_PYTHON_MODULE, with the else clause setting the
signal handler for Ctrl-C. Since WITH_PYTHON_MODULE now disables all
signal handlers this check no longer makes sense.
[0]: 9d9c05a101
This cleans up the OpenGL build flags and linking.
It additionally also removes some dead code.
One of these dead code paths is WITH_X11_ALPHA which actually never was
active even with the build flag on. The call to use this was never
called because the default initializer for GHOST was set to have it off
per default. Nothing called this function with a boolean value to enable it.
These cleanups are needed to support true headless OpenGL rendering.
Without these cleanups libepoxy will fail to load the correct OpenGL
Libraries as we have already linked them to the blender binary.
Reviewed By: Brecht, Campbell, Jeroen
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D15554
