As described in T91186, this commit moves mesh vertex normals into a
contiguous array of float vectors in a custom data layer, how face
normals are currently stored.
The main interface is documented in `BKE_mesh.h`. Vertex and face
normals are now calculated on-demand and cached, retrieved with an
"ensure" function. Since the logical state of a mesh is now "has
normals when necessary", they can be retrieved from a `const` mesh.
The goal is to use on-demand calculation for all derived data, but
leave room for eager calculation for performance purposes (modifier
evaluation is threaded, but viewport data generation is not).
**Benefits**
This moves us closer to a SoA approach rather than the current AoS
paradigm. Accessing a contiguous `float3` is much more efficient than
retrieving data from a larger struct. The memory requirements for
accessing only normals or vertex locations are smaller, and at the
cost of more memory usage for just normals, they now don't have to
be converted between float and short, which also simplifies code
In the future, the remaining items can be removed from `MVert`,
leaving only `float3`, which has similar benefits (see T93602).
Removing the combination of derived and original data makes it
conceptually simpler to only calculate normals when necessary.
This is especially important now that we have more opportunities
for temporary meshes in geometry nodes.
**Performance**
In addition to the theoretical future performance improvements by
making `MVert == float3`, I've done some basic performance testing
on this patch directly. The data is fairly rough, but it gives an idea
about where things stand generally.
- Mesh line primitive 4m Verts: 1.16x faster (36 -> 31 ms),
showing that accessing just `MVert` is now more efficient.
- Spring Splash Screen: 1.03-1.06 -> 1.06-1.11 FPS, a very slight
change that at least shows there is no regression.
- Sprite Fright Snail Smoosh: 3.30-3.40 -> 3.42-3.50 FPS, a small
but observable speedup.
- Set Position Node with Scaled Normal: 1.36x faster (53 -> 39 ms),
shows that using normals in geometry nodes is faster.
- Normal Calculation 1.6m Vert Cube: 1.19x faster (25 -> 21 ms),
shows that calculating normals is slightly faster now.
- File Size of 1.6m Vert Cube: 1.03x smaller (214.7 -> 208.4 MB),
Normals are not saved in files, which can help with large meshes.
As for memory usage, it may be slightly more in some cases, but
I didn't observe any difference in the production files I tested.
**Tests**
Some modifiers and cycles test results need to be updated with this
commit, for two reasons:
- The subdivision surface modifier is not responsible for calculating
normals anymore. In master, the modifier creates different normals
than the result of the `Mesh` normal calculation, so this is a bug
fix.
- There are small differences in the results of some modifiers that
use normals because they are not converted to and from `short`
anymore.
**Future improvements**
- Remove `ModifierTypeInfo::dependsOnNormals`. Code in each modifier
already retrieves normals if they are needed anyway.
- Copy normals as part of a better CoW system for attributes.
- Make more areas use lazy instead of eager normal calculation.
- Remove `BKE_mesh_normals_tag_dirty` in more places since that is
now the default state of a new mesh.
- Possibly apply a similar change to derived face corner normals.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12770
- Added space below non doc-string comments to make it clear
these aren't comments for the symbols directly below them.
- Use doxy sections for some headers.
- Minor improvements to doc-strings.
Ref T92709
Before this patch attempting to remove a particle modifier programmatically
through Python would fail, because it deleted the modifier associated with
the currently active particle system instead of the one passed as an argument
to `bpy.types.ObjectModifiers.remove()`.
This fix adds an additional argument for the particle system to
`object_remove_particle_system`. This allows to specify which particle system
and its associated modifier shall be removed. In case of
`particle_system_remove_exec` it will remain the currently active particle
system, whereas `object_remove_particle_system` passes the particle system
of the modifier. Hence, the correct modifier will be removed.
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12234
Remove DNA headers, using forward declarations where possible.
Also removed duplicate header, header including it's self
and unnecessary inclusion of libc system headers from BKE header.
Those were only shallow wrappers around `BKE_id_copy`, barely used (even
fully unused in some cases), and we want to get rid of those ID-specific
helpers for the common ID management tasks. Also prevents weird custom
behaviors (like `BKE_object_copy`, who was the only basic ID copy
function to reset user count of the new copy to zero).
Part of 71219.
This replaces header include guards with `#pragma once`.
A couple of include guards are not removed yet (e.g. `__RNA_TYPES_H__`),
because they are used in other places.
This patch has been generated by P1561 followed by `make format`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8466
The abbreviation 'init' is brief, unambiguous and already used
in thousands of places, also initialize is often accidentally
written with British spelling.
Duplication and deletion code of modifiers was totally wrong for
particle system, that special weird thing needs its own custom
management.
Note that for now I chose not to duplicate the particle settings ID when
duplicating the modifier...
I spotted a duplicate struct declaration, so I had to check for other duplicated as well
There might be some other but i am not confident enough for deleting them
this regex search for duplicate ^(.*;)$\n(\1)$
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8146
Instead of using anonymous booleans flags, also allows to keep the same
behavior in all cases, without needing special handling from calling
code for our beloved oddballs object proxies...
As correctly pointed out by a comment in the code, adding
new springs wasn't thread safe, and caused crashes.
Fix by buffering new springs in intermediate thread-local
arrays, which are flushed on the main thread. This is valid
because the new springs are not used until the next sim step.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6133
This reverts commit 36faf739a7.
Somewhat annoying but this change had some unforeseen consequences,
which lead to an actual bug.
Since this change was not sufficient to get original report fixed
is easier to simply revert for now.
Fixes T65842: Hair disappears when clicking on particle system name
Allows it to be preserved during copy-on-write update when on-geometry
related update is needed.
This is a required part for T63537, where we need to preserve the entire
evaluation data when object is tagged for only RECALC_COPY_ON_WRITE.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5023
The billboard particles were only used by Blender Internal. So until it is
supported by Cycles of Eevee there is no reason to keep it in the code and
UI.
Fix T61695 Billboard particles not displaying in Eevee viewport, render
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
There were two problems:
1. `mesh_get_eval_final` has to be called with the evaluated object.
2. Particle systems have to have unique names within an object.
The depsgraph seems to use the particle system name as identifier.
This issue is actually independent of duplication.
The old code used a small hack to create unique names.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4451
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.
The issue was caused by dependency graph resetting particles
when evaluating copy-on-write version of object. Solved by
only doing reset from dependency graph on user edits.
Other issue was caused by modifier itself trying to compare
topology and reset particles when number of vertices or faces
changed. This isn't reliable, since topology might change even
with same number of elements. But also, since copy-on-written
object initially always have those fields zero-ed the reset
was happening on every F12.
The latter issue is solved by moving reset from modifier stack
to places where we exit edit/paint modes which might be changing
topology.
There is still weird issue of particles generated at some
weird location after tapping tab twice, but this is not a new
issue in 2.8 branch and is to be looked separately.
Needed to port operator to use evaluated particle system.
But also changed interface to always show Convert button when
draw type is set to Path (Hair particle system is forced to
be draws as path). This avoid rather expensive lookup on every
redraw, but will show Convert button for un-baked particle
emitter.
Probably, an acceptable compromise.
Textures are now hooked up to the RESET operation of particle
settings, which ensures particles being re-distributed when
texture is changed.
This is limited to a direct user modifications, which matches
old behavior in 2.79.
