Based on the task T88006, there are a few simple changes
to make to improve the switch node:
- Change the label to "False" / "True" for clarity
- Change default to geometry, as it's the basic data container in
geometry nodes.
- Change node class to `NODE_CLASS_CONVERTOR`, which was an oversight
in the original patch.
I will add the new socket types (material and texture) in a separate commit.
Thanks to @EitanSomething for the original patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11165
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
Colors are often thought of as being 4 values that make up that can make any color.
But that is of course too limited. In C we didn’t spend time to annotate what we meant
when using colors.
Recently `BLI_color.hh` was made to facilitate color structures in CPP. CPP has possibilities to
enforce annotating structures during compilation and can adds conversions between them using
function overloading and explicit constructors.
The storage structs can hold 4 channels (r, g, b and a).
Usage:
Convert a theme byte color to a linearrgb premultiplied.
```
ColorTheme4b theme_color;
ColorSceneLinear4f<eAlpha::Premultiplied> linearrgb_color =
BLI_color_convert_to_scene_linear(theme_color).premultiply_alpha();
```
The API is structured to make most use of inlining. Most notable are space
conversions done via `BLI_color_convert_to*` functions.
- Conversions between spaces (theme <=> scene linear) should always be done by
invoking the `BLI_color_convert_to*` methods.
- Encoding colors (compressing to store colors inside a less precision storage)
should be done by invoking the `encode` and `decode` methods.
- Changing alpha association should be done by invoking `premultiply_alpha` or
`unpremultiply_alpha` methods.
# Encoding.
Color encoding is used to store colors with less precision as in using `uint8_t` in
stead of `float`. This encoding is supported for `eSpace::SceneLinear`.
To make this clear to the developer the `eSpace::SceneLinearByteEncoded`
space is added.
# Precision
Colors can be stored using `uint8_t` or `float` colors. The conversion
between the two precisions are available as methods. (`to_4b` and
`to_4f`).
# Alpha conversion
Alpha conversion is only supported in SceneLinear space.
Extending:
- This file can be extended with `ColorHex/Hsl/Hsv` for different representations
of rgb based colors. `ColorHsl4f<eSpace::SceneLinear, eAlpha::Premultiplied>`
- Add non RGB spaces/storages ColorXyz.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10978
Colors are often thought of as being 4 values that make up that can make any color.
But that is of course too limited. In C we didn’t spend time to annotate what we meant
when using colors.
Recently `BLI_color.hh` was made to facilitate color structures in CPP. CPP has possibilities to
enforce annotating structures during compilation and can adds conversions between them using
function overloading and explicit constructors.
The storage structs can hold 4 channels (r, g, b and a).
Usage:
Convert a theme byte color to a linearrgb premultiplied.
```
ColorTheme4b theme_color;
ColorSceneLinear4f<eAlpha::Premultiplied> linearrgb_color =
BLI_color_convert_to_scene_linear(theme_color).premultiply_alpha();
```
The API is structured to make most use of inlining. Most notable are space
conversions done via `BLI_color_convert_to*` functions.
- Conversions between spaces (theme <=> scene linear) should always be done by
invoking the `BLI_color_convert_to*` methods.
- Encoding colors (compressing to store colors inside a less precision storage)
should be done by invoking the `encode` and `decode` methods.
- Changing alpha association should be done by invoking `premultiply_alpha` or
`unpremultiply_alpha` methods.
# Encoding.
Color encoding is used to store colors with less precision as in using `uint8_t` in
stead of `float`. This encoding is supported for `eSpace::SceneLinear`.
To make this clear to the developer the `eSpace::SceneLinearByteEncoded`
space is added.
# Precision
Colors can be stored using `uint8_t` or `float` colors. The conversion
between the two precisions are available as methods. (`to_4b` and
`to_4f`).
# Alpha conversion
Alpha conversion is only supported in SceneLinear space.
Extending:
- This file can be extended with `ColorHex/Hsl/Hsv` for different representations
of rgb based colors. `ColorHsl4f<eSpace::SceneLinear, eAlpha::Premultiplied>`
- Add non RGB spaces/storages ColorXyz.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10978
Prepare node for conversion to Geometry Nodes.
There should be no functional changes.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11226
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 patch adds wavelength node support to Eevee, similar to how
Eevee Blackbody node works, thus it is a little off from Cycles.
Reviewed By: #eevee_viewport, fclem, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11326
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
The old geometry nodes evaluator was quite basic and missed many features.
It was useful to get the geometry nodes project started. However, nowadays
we run into its limitations from time to time.
The new evaluator is more complex, but comes with new capabilities.
The two most important capabilities are that it can now execute nodes in
parallel and it supports lazy evaluation.
The performance improvement by multi-threading depends a lot on the specific
node tree. In our demo files, the speedup is measurable but not huge. This
is mainly because they are bottlenecked by one or two nodes that have to be
executed one after the other (often the Boolean or Attribute Proximity nodes)
or because the bottleneck is multi-threaded already (often openvdb nodes).
Lazy evaluation of inputs is only supported by the Switch node for now.
Previously, geometry nodes would always compute both inputs and then just
discard the one that is not used. Now, only the input that is required
is computed.
For some more details read D11191, T87620 and the in-code documentation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11191
After this commit, all geometry node "init" and "update" functions are
at the top of each file, right below the "layout" function. This means
you can always scroll to the bottom of the file to see the entry point,
and the boring boilerplate code is grouped in one section.
With this patch you will be able to add and remove attributes from curve
data inside of geometry nodes. The following is currently implemented:
* Adding attributes with any data type to splines or spline points.
* Support for working with multiple splines at the same time.
* Interaction with the three builtin point attributes.
* Resampling attributes in the resample node.
The following is not implemented in this patch:
* Joining attributes when joining splines with the join geometry node.
* Domain interpolation between spline and point domains.
* More efficient ways to call attribute operations once per spline.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11251
The code incorrectly used the size of the second to last segment rather
than the last segment's size. That was a problem when the last segment
is a vector segment but the second to last isn't.
I also used the opportunity to slightly refactor the control point
offsets cache, making it one longer so it also contains information
about the size of the last segment, simplifying other code.
In {rB266cd7bb82ce}, support for muting links was added. It might be
debatable if we define a shader as "having" displacement even if the link
is muted, but after said commit, shader_has_displacement() would return
true but still leave the returned node as NULL.
Now also return false if the link is muted (otherwise the caller would
need to additionally check the returned node as well.)
Maniphest Tasks: T88234
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11256
There is a new Texture data-block socket that we can use in Geometry
Nodes now. This commit replaces the texture property of a node and
gives it a texture input socket instead. That increases flexibility.
The texture socket still has some limitations that will be lifted in the
next couple of days (e.g. it's not supported by the switch node and
cannot be exposed the a modifier yet).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11222
Unavailable sockets should generally be ignored during evaluation.
They mainly exist because we don't have a better mechanism to turn
some sockets on/off depending on node parameters.
Currently, it is still possible that a link connects an available with an
unavailable socket. This link is not displayed in the ui and should
generally be ignored.
Not allowing external direct access to the vector of splines in the
curve will help for things like reallocating custom data when a spline
is added or removed.
The sockets are not exposed in any nodes yet.
They work similar to the Object/Collection sockets, which also
just reference a data block.
This is part of D11222.
This turns links red if no implicit conversion can be made between the
from socket and the to socket. For geometry nodes this happens with
object, geometry, collection, and string sockets that are connected to
a different type. The change is simply implementing a callback that is
already implemented for other node tree types.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11229
Previously we had a lot merge conflicts since we always put the most
recently added node at the bottom. By sorting the list we will have
one fewer merge conflict when a node is added in most cases.
The spline `length` function assumed that the curve always had evaluated
edges. That is clearly false. This commit adds a check to `length` and a
special case for a single point in the curve resample node.
This commit uses two changes to improve the performance of the point
instance node.
**Prevent Reallocations**
At 64 bytes, the transform matrix for every instance is rather large,
so reallocating the vector as it grows can become a performance bottle-
neck. This commit reserves memory for the instances that will be added
to prevent unecessary reallocations as the instance vector grows.
In a test with 4 million instances of 3 objects in a collection, the
node was about 40% faster, from 370ms to 270ms for the node.
**Parallelization**
Currently the instances are added by appending to a vector. By changing
this slightly to fill indices instead, we can parallelize the operation
so that multiple threads can fill data at the same time. Tested on a
Ryzen 3700x, this reduced the runtime from the above 270ms to 44ms
average, bringing the total speedup to ~8x.
Note that displaying the instances in the viewport is still much slower
than the calculations in node, this change doesn't affect that.
This patch refactors the instance component to make use of the earlier
refactoring in rB4599cea15dcf. Now we don't have to build an array of
instance references the size of the point domain, and we can gather the
possible instances only once and use the same vector for all component
types. Generally the node should be a bit faster and use less memory.
The logic is moved around a bit, especially the hashing of the ID
attribute to pick from the instance list, but the result is unchanged.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11203
Those were mostly just left over from previous work on particle nodes.
They solved the problem of keeping a reference to an object over
multiple frames and in a cache. Currently, we do not have this problem
in geometry nodes, so we can also remove this layer of complexity
for now.
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 adds `parallel_for` to the Attribute Curve Map node to improve performance.
Grain size set to 512.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11194
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
The main goal of this refactor is to not store Object/Collection
pointers for every individual instance. Instead instances now
store a handle for the referenced data. The actual Object/Collection
pointers are stored in a new `InstanceReference` class.
This refactor also allows for some better optimizations further down
the line, because one does not have to search through all instances
anymore to find what data is instanced.
Furthermore, this refactor makes it easier to support instancing
`GeometrySet` or any other data that has to be owned by the
`InstancesComponent`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11125
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 commit significantly speeds up many of the attribute nodes when
multiple threads are available in linear situations when parallelism
cannot be achieved elsewhere.
See the differential for a table of timing comparisons tested on a
Ryzen 3700x. For an attribute with 4 million elements, the nodes were
about 3 to 9 times faster.
The changes are not exhaustive, other nodes could still be parallelized
in the future. Also, it would be possible to further optimize the grain
size in `parallel_for`, but I'd rather make sure it isn't too small.
I tested some different values, but also relied on intuition--
increasing grain size for less complex operations and vice versa.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11139
