The //Raycast// node intersects rays from one geometry onto another.
It computes hit points on the target mesh and returns normals, distances
and any surface attribute specified by the user.
A ray starts on each point of the input //Geometry//. Rays continue
in the //Ray Direction// until they either hit the //Target Geometry//
or reach the //Ray Length// limit. If the target is hit, the value of the
//Is Hit// attribute in the output mesh will be true. //Hit Position//,
//Hit Normal//, //Hit Distance// and //Hit Index// are the properties of the
target mesh at the intersection point. In addition, a //Target Attribute//
can be specified that is interpolated at the hit point and the result
stored in //Hit Attribute//.
Docs: D11620
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11619
This node creates splines with more control points in between the
existing control points. The point is to give the splines more
definition for further tweaking like randomization with white noise,
instead of deforming a resampled poly spline with a noise texture.
For poly splines and NURBS, the node simply interpolates new values
between the existing control points. However, for Bezier splines,
the result follows the existing evaluated shape of the curve, changing
the handle positions and handle types to make that possible.
The number of "cuts" can be controlled by an integer input, or an
attribute can be used. Both spline and point domain attributes are
supported, so the number of cuts can vary using the value from the
point at the start of each segment.
Dynamic curve attributes are interpolated to the result with linear
interpolation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11421
Implementation of T86970. This node takes a geometry input with
multiple components and outputs them by component type. Meshes,
Curves, and Point Clouds support combining multiple input instances,
while volumes will only output the first volume component input until
suitable instance realization for multiple volumes is finished.
When direct geometry instancing is implemented it will be possible to
avoid realizing instances in this node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11577
This is an implementation of T88722. It accepts a curve object and
for each spline, reverses the order of the points and all attributes.
This is more of a foundational node to support other nodes in the
future (like curve deform)
Selection takes spline domain attributes to determine which splines
are selected. If no selection is present all splines are reversed.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11538
This node implements the second option of T87429, creating points
along the input splines with the necessary evaluated information
for instancing: `tangent`, `normal`, and `rotation` attributes.
All generic curve point and spline attributes are copied to the
result points as well.
The "Count" and "Length" methods are just like the current options
in the resample node, but the output is points instead of a curve.
The "Evaluated" method uses the points you see on the curve directly,
and therefore should be the fastest.
The rotation data is retrieved from a transform matrix built with the
same method that the curve to mesh node uses. The radius attribute is
divided by 10 so the points don't look absurdly huge in the viewport.
In the future that could be an option.
For the implementation, one thing that could use an improvement
is the amount of temporary allocations while resampling to evaluated
points before the final points. I expect that reusing a buffer for
each thread would give a nice improvement.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11539
This commit adds a node to output the convex hull of any input geometry
as a mesh, which is an enclosing geometry around a set of points.
All geometry types are supported, besides volumes.
The code supports operating on instances to avoid copying all input
geometry before the operation. The implementation uses the same backend
as the operation in edit mode, but uses Mesh directly instead of BMesh.
Attribute transfer is not supported currently, but would be a point of
improvement for the future if it can work in a predictable way on
different geometry input types.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10925
This node creates a boolean face attribute that is "true" for
every face that has the given material.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11324
This commit adds a node that outputs the total length of all
evalauted curve splines in a geometry set as a float value.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11459
This node is similar to the mask modifier, but it deletes the elements
of the geometry corresponding to the selection, which is retrieved as
a boolean attribute. The node currently supports both mesh and point
cloud data. For meshes, which elements are deleted depends on the
domain of the input selection attribute, just like how behavior depends
on the selection mode in mesh edit mode.
In the future this node will support curve data, and ideally volume
data in some way.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10748
This node creates poly curve splines from mesh edges. A selection
attribute input allows only using some of the edges from the mesh.
The node builds cyclic splines from branchless groups of edges where
possible, but when there is a three-way intersection, the spline stops.
The node also transfers all attributes from the mesh to the resulting
control points. In the future we could add a way to limit that to a
subset of the attributes to improve performance.
The algorithm is from Animation Nodes, written by @OmarSquircleArt.
I added the ability to use a selection, attribute transferring, and
used different variable names, etc, but other than that the algorithm
is the same.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11265
This node can change all faces that use a specific material to use a
different material. Using this node is significantly more efficient
than creating a selection from all faces with a specific material
index and then using the Material Assign node.
Ref T88055.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11325
This node is similar to the Value and Vector node.
It just provides a way to use the same material in multiple nodes
without exposing it outside of a node group.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11305
This adds a new Material Assign node. It can be used to change the
material used by an existing mesh or to assign a material to a mesh
that has been generated from scratch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11155
This node generates a naturally parametarized (even length edge) poly
spline version of every spline in the input. There are two modes,
"Count", and "Length". These are similar to the same options for the
line primitive node in end points mode.
I implemented this instead of a "Sample Points" node, because for this
operation it's trivial to keep the result as a curve, which is nice
since it increases flexibility, and because it can make instancing
simpler, i.e. using the transforms of each evaluated point rather than
requiring the construction of a "rotation" attribute.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11173
This node has the same functionality as the color and vector curve
mapping nodes in the shader editor. Here is works on every value for
the selected attribute, and it can also output a float value. Other
than that, the implementation is quite straightforward-- almost
completely boilerplate code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10921
This patch adds initial curve support to geometry nodes. Currently
there is only one node available, the "Curve to Mesh" node, T87428.
However, the aim of the changes here is larger than just supporting
curve data in nodes-- it also uses the opportunity to add better spline
data structures, intended to replace the existing curve evaluation code.
The curve code in Blender is quite old, and it's generally regarded as
some of the messiest, hardest-to-understand code as well. The classes
in `BKE_spline.hh` aim to be faster, more extensible, and much more
easily understandable. Further explanation can be found in comments in
that file.
Initial builtin spline attributes are supported-- reading and writing
from the `cyclic` and `resolution` attributes works with any of the
attribute nodes. Also, only Z-up normal calculation is implemented
at the moment, and tilts do not apply yet.
**Limitations**
- For now, you must bring curves into the node tree with an "Object
Info" node. Changes to the curve modifier stack will come later.
- Converting to a mesh is necessary to visualize the curve data.
Further progress can be tracked in: T87245
Higher level design document: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Modules/Physics_Nodes/Projects/EverythingNodes/CurveNodes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11091
This is a first version of an Attribute Transfer node. It only supports two
modes for mapping attributes from one geometry to another for now.
More options are planned for the future.
Ref T87421.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11037
This is a first iteration of a switch node. It can only switch between
two inputs values based on a boolean. A more sophisticated switch
node that has an integer selector will probably come later.
Currently, the geometry nodes evaluator does not support lazy evaluation
of individual inputs. Therefore, all inputs will be computed currently.
An improvement to the evaluator will be worked on separately.
Ref: T85374
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10460
This is a minor change to add some plumbing code
to support custom geo nodes. This is working the
same way as the custom cycles and compositor nodes.
An example add-in is attached to D10784
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10784
This commit adds a simple node to output the min and max of an
axis-aligned bounding box for the input geometry, as well a rectangular
prism mesh created from these values for convenience.
The initial use case for this node is a "bounding box boolean", where
doing the boolean with just a bounding box could be signigicantly
faster, for cases like cutting a hole in a wall for a window. But it's
easy to imagine other cases where it could be useful.
This node supports mesh and point cloud data right now, volume support
will come as a separate patch. Also note that there is plenty of room
to improve the performance of this node through parallelization.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10420
Although "Grid" may not be techincally correct since a grid could be 3D,
it was decided to rename the "Plane" primtive to "Grid". The primitive
node allows subdivisions, so the name is more consistent with the
operator in the 3D view.
Ref T86819
This commit includes a file subversion bump for the versioning.
This adds a Clamp node for Geometry Nodes Attributes.
Supports both Min-Max and Range clamp modes.
Float, Vector, Color and Int data types supported.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly, simonthommes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10526
This commit adds a node with a "Map Range" operation for attributes
just like the non-attribute version of the node. However, unlike the
regular version of the node, it also supports operations on vectors.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10344
Following concerns raised in the commit that changed the name initially,
rB2e19509e60b39837, it makes more sense to keep the "Surface" name for
this node because it has a specific meaning that should not be confused
with other types of subdivision.
This commit includes nodes to build the following primitives:
- Cone
- Cylinder
- Circle
- Cube
- UV Sphere
- Ico Sphere
- Line
- Plane/Grid
In general the inputs are the same as the corresponding operators
in the 3D view.
**Line Primitive**
The line primitive has two modes-- adding vertices between two end
points, or adding vertices each at an offset from the start point.
For the former mode, there is a choice between a vertex count
and a distance between each point.
**Plane Primitive**
This commit includes the "Plane" and "Grid" primitives as one node.
Generally primitives are named after the simpler form of the shape they
create (i.e. "Cone" can make some more complex shapes). Also, generally
you want to tweak the number of subdivisions anyway, so defaulting to
plane is not an inconvenience. And generally having fewer redundant
base primitives is better.
**Future Improvements**
A following patch proposes to improve the speed of the cylinder, cone,
and sphere primitives: D10730. Additional possible future improvements
would be adding subdivisions to the cube node and rings to the cone
and cylinder nodes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10715
The Attribute Convert node provides functionality to change attributes
between different domains and data types. Before it was impossible to
write to a UV Map attribute with the attribute math nodes since they
did not output a 2D vector type. This makes it possible to
"convert into" a UV map attribute.
The data type conversion uses the implicit conversions provided by
`\nodes\intern\node_tree_multi_function.cc`.
The `Auto` domain mode chooses the domain based on the following rules:
1. If the result attribute already exists, use that domain.
2. If the result attribute doesn't exist, use the source attribute domain.
3. Otherwise use the default domain (points).
See {T85700}
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10624
This patch adds a node, that removes an attribute if possible,
otherwise it adds an error message.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10697
This makes the following changes to the name of the two
geometry nodes subvision nodes:
- `Subdivision Surface` -> `Subdivide Smooth`
- `Subdivision Surface Simple` -> `Subdivide`
Most of the benefit is that the names are shorter, but it also better
mirrors the naming of operations in edit mode, and phrases the names
more like actions. This was discussed with the geometry nodes team.
Add the Simple subdivision option to Geometry nodes, as a new node
instead of part of the existing subdivision node because of future
backend changes to the Simple option. (See T85584)
https://developer.blender.org/D10409
These are similar to the regular "Combine XYZ" and "Separate XYZ" nodes,
but they work on attributes. They will make it easier to switch between
vector attributes and float attributes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10308
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
This node calculates a distance from each point to the closest position
on a target geometry, similar to the vertex weight proximity modifier.
Mapping the output distance to a different range can be done with an
attribute math node after this node.
A drop-down changes whether to calculate distances from points,
edges, or faces. In points mode, the node also calculates distances
from point cloud points.
Design task and use cases: T84842
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10154
This node outputs true when geometry nodes is currently evaluated
for the viewport and false for final renders.
Ref T85277.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10302
Implements a node to get collection objects.
These objects are then passed along as instances in the node tree.
Follow up tasks:
Multiple nodes does not support instancing yet: T85159
Changing collection offset does not trigger a refresh: T85274
Reviewed By: Jacques, Dalai, Hans
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10151
This implements a new geometry node based on T84606.
It is the first node that generates a `VolumeComponent`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10169
This node allows sampling a texture for every vertex based on some
mapping attribute. Typical attribute names are the name of a uv map
(e.g. "UVMap") and "position". However, every attribute that can be
converted to a vector implicitly is supported.
It should be noted that as of right now, uv map attributes can only be
accessed after a Point Distribute node.
Ref T82584.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10121
The translate node moves every point in the geometry, and the scale
node multiplies the "scale" attribute of the input geometry by its input.
While these operations are already possible with the "Attribute" nodes,
these new nodes fit nicely with the nodes specifically for changing the
"rotation" attribute that already exist, and they provide a simpler way
to do the same thing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10100
This adds a new Align Rotation to Vector node based on the mockup
in T83669.
Reviewers: HooglyBoogly, simonthommes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10081
This patch implements the same operations and interface as the regular
vector math node, but it runs for every element of the attribute. This
should expand what's possible with geometry nodes quite a bit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9914
This node updates the "rotation" attribute on points.
Multiple ways to specify the rotation are supported.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9883
Ref T83668.
This patch adds two related nodes, a node for separating points
and mesh vertices based on a boolean attribute input, and a node
for creating boolean attributes with comparisons.
See the differential for an example file and video.
Point Separate (T83059)
The output in both geometries is just point data, contained in the mesh
and point cloud components, depending which components had data in the
input geometry. Any points with the mask attribute set to true will be
moved from the first geometry output to the second. This means that
for meshes, all edge and face data will be removed. Any point domain
attributes are moved to the correct output geometry as well.
Attribute Compare (T83057)
The attribute compare does the "Equal" and "Not Equal" operations by
comparing vectors and colors based on their distance from each other.
For other operations, the comparison is between the lengths of the
vector inputs. In general, the highest complexity data type is used
for the operation, and a new function to determine that is added.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9876
This node can be used to mix two attributes in various ways.
The blend modes are the same as in the MixRGB shader node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9737
Ref T82374.
This commit adds a node that fills every element of an attribute
with the same value. Currently it supports float, vector, and color
attributes. An immediate use case is for "billboard" scattering.
Currently people are using the same input to a Random Attribute node's
min and max input to fill every element of a vector with the same value,
which is an unintuitive way to accomplish the same thing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9790
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
