Both new normals (from rBb7fe27314b25) and vpaint (from rBf7bbc7cdbb6c)
RNA arrays were missing the `PROPOVERRIDE_IGNORE`. Those huge blobs of
geometry data should never be processed by liboverride code.
This adds vertex creasing support for OpenSubDiv for modeling, rendering,
Alembic and USD I/O.
For modeling, vertex creasing follows the edge creasing implementation with an
operator accessible through the Vertex menu in Edit Mode, and some parameter in
the properties panel. The option in the Subsurf and Multires to use edge
creasing also affects vertex creasing.
The vertex crease data is stored as a CustomData layer, unlike edge creases
which for now are stored in `MEdge`, but will in the future also be moved to
a `CustomData` layer. See comments for details on the difference in behavior
for the `CD_CREASE` layer between egdes and vertices.
For Cycles this adds sockets on the Mesh node to hold data about which vertices
are creased (one socket for the indices, one for the weigths).
Viewport rendering of vertex creasing reuses the same color scheme as for edges
and creased vertices are drawn bigger than uncreased vertices.
For Alembic and USD, vertex crease support follows the edge crease
implementation, they are always read, but only exported if a `Subsurf` modifier
is present on the Mesh.
Reviewed By: brecht, fclem, sergey, sybren, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10145
Since vertex and face normals are now stored on the mesh when necessary,
we can expose them as contiguous arrays of vectors in the Python API.
This can give render engines and other addons easy access to they data
for fast access through a regular collection property.
While "Mesh Vertex" still has a "normal" property in RNA, that is only
maintained in order to avoid breaking the existing API, and accessing
it is less efficient than accessing the normals directly.
I made the normal arrays read-only, because modifying them could
put them in an invalid state. This is inline with how we treat the data
internally, and helps keep relationships between data clear.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13839
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
When adding certain customdata layers (namely UVs, vertex colors and
sculpt vertex colors), the user does not get notified the specific limit
has been hit (blender just silently does nothing).
Now inform the user [decided to not do this in poll() since it could get
messy once operators are extended to operate on all selected objects, so
left this as a visible error in execute() -- or from python].
Maniphest Tasks: T92318
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13147
Avoid computationally expensive copying operations
when only some settings have been modified.
This is done by adding support for updating parameters
without tagging for copy-on-write.
Currently only mesh data blocks are supported,
other data-blocks can be added individually.
This prepares for changing values such as edit-mesh auto-smooth angle
in edit-mode without duplicating all mesh-data.
The benefit will only be seen when the user interface no longer tags
all ID's for copy on write updates.
ID_RECALC_GEOMETRY_ALL_MODES has been added to support situations
where non edit-mode geometry is modified in edit-mode.
While this isn't something user are likely to do,
Python scripts may change the underlying mesh.
Reviewed By: sergey
Ref D11377
Previously the smooth shading of the voxel remesher was controlled by a
mesh property. With this change, the output will try to match the
current shading of the object. This only takes into consideration the
shading mode of the first polygon of the model, but it is probably what
most users expect as it works as intended with the shade smooth/flat
object mode options.
Reviewed By: JulienKaspar, JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11626
This patch fixes many minor spelling mistakes, all in comments or
console output. Mostly contractions like can't, won't, don't, its/it's,
etc.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11663
Reviewed by Harley Acheson
Workaround for crash when accessing FaceMaps / PaintMask data in
editmode, just disallow access in editmode as is done with UVs.
Same fix as in {rB3e2619b3e72a}.
Maniphest Tasks: T87969
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11146
Before this change, you could have the new sculpt symmetry code and the
older weight paint symmetry code active at the same time. This would
lead to users easily trashing their weigh paint data if they were not
careful when switching between modes.
Now the specific weight paint symmetry code is an exclusive toggle so
the user can't accidentally mirror strokes and vertex groups at the same
time. This also paves the way of supporting Y and Z symmetry in the
future for weight groups mirroring if we decide to add it in the future.
Reviewed By: Sybren
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10426
Changes include using proper and consistent grammar, simplifying
phrasing, using correct terminology, and not including python API
identifiers in tooltips.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9924
Approximately 138 changes in the spelling of compound words
and proper names like "Light Probe", "Shrink/Fatten", "Face Map".
In many cases, hyphens were used where they aren't correct, like
"re-fit". Other common changes include:
- "Datablock" -> "data-block"
- "Floating point" -> "floating-point"
- "Ngons" -> "n-gons"
These changes help give the language used in the interface
a consistent, more professional feel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9923
This adds XYZ symmetry as a property of meshes and updates all modes to
use the mesh symmetry by default to have a consistent tool behavior
between all modes and when switching objects.
Reviewed By: brecht, mano-wii, campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T79785
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8587
This puts all generic float/int/vector/color/string geometry attributes in a new
.attributes property. For meshes it provides a more general API for existing
attributes, for point clouds attributes will be used as an essential part of
particle nodes.
This patch was implemented by @lichtwerk, with further changes by me. It's
still a work in progress, but posting here to show what is going on and for
early feedback.
Ref T76659
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8200
This is important at several level, mainly for overrides currently.
Note that this also includes shape keys, since from RNA point of view
those are also 'embedded' (they are not editable, not linkable, ...).
Sculpt Vertex Colors is a painting system that runs inside sculpt mode, reusing all its tools and optimizations. This provides much better performance, easier to maintain code and more advanced features (new brush engine, filters, symmetry options, masks and face sets compatibility...). This is also the initial step for future features like vertex painting in Multires and brushes that can sculpt and paint at the same time.
This commit includes:
- SCULPT_UNDO_COLOR for undo support in sculpt mode
- SCULPT_UPDATE_COLOR and PBVH flags and rendering
- Sculpt Color API functions
- Sculpt capability for sculpt tools (only enabled in the Paint Brush for now)
- Rendering support in workbench (default to Sculpt Vertex Colors except in Vertex Paint)
- Conversion operator between MPropCol (Sculpt Vertex Colors) and MLoopCol (Vertex Paint)
- Remesher reprojection in the Voxel Remehser
- Paint Brush and Smear Brush with color smoothing in alt-smooth mode
- Parameters for the new brush engine (density, opacity, flow, wet paint mixing, tip scale) implemented in Sculpt Vertex Colors
- Color Filter
- Color picker (uses S shortcut, replaces smooth)
- Color selector in the top bar
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T72866
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5975
This is related to T76659.
This just renames data type names to `CD_PROP_STRING`, `CD_PROP_FLOAT`
and `CD_PROP_INT32`. It makes them a bit more specific and removes
unnecessary abbreviations.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7980
This was not set anywhere, code relies on MLOOPUV_VERTSEL everywhere.
BMLoopUV.select_edge was never returning True and wasnt updating uv
select state when set manually.
Afaict, there were no official Addons using this from python.
Resolves T65836
Maniphest Tasks: T65836
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6772
Face Sets are the new system to control the visibility state of the mesh in sculpt and paint modes. They are designed to work in modes where brushes are the primary way of interaction and they provide much more control when working with meshes with complex shapes and overlapping surfaces.
This initial commit includes:
- Sculpt Face Sets data structures and PBVH rendering.
- Face Set overlay and opacity controls.
- Sculpt Undo support.
- Remesher reprojection support. The visibility state of the mesh is also preserved when remeshing.
- Automasking and Mesh filter support.
- Mask expand operator mode to expand Face Sets (Shift + W) and flood fill areas by connectivity (press Ctrl while expanding).
- Sculpt Mode Face Sets and Visibility API.
- Sculpt Face Sets creation and visibility management operators.
- Operator to randomize the Face Sets colors.
- Draw Face Sets brush tool to create and edit the Face Sets. Drawing on the mesh creates a new Face Set. Pressing Ctrl before drawing modifies the Face Set under the brush at the beginning of the stroke.
- Updated keymap and menu to work with Face Sets from Sculpt Mode (H to toggle visibility, Alt + H to show all, Shit + H to hide).
- Pie menu on the W key with Face common Sets operations.
Know limitations:
- Multires support. The Face Sets and Visibility API needs to be implemented for Multires.
Reviewed By: jbakker, #user_interface, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6070
The collection property `loop_triangles` was given the RNA type
`MeshLoopTriangle` (the type of the collection's items), instead
of `MeshLoopTriangles` (the actual expected RNA collection/array type).
The cutest, tiniest typo mistake in RNA code, leading to some complete
non-sense... It's fairly amazing that this did not cause more severe
issues actually.
This was causing an ArithmeticError in OpenVDB with a voxel size that
small.
Another solution could be scaling both the mesh and the OpenVDB grid
with opposite values to support a larger range of voxel sizes, but I
would like to have a better solution to the voxel remesher compatibility
with small objects.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Maniphest Tasks: T72747
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6498
This commit enables OpenVDB adaptivity in the voxel remesher. It can be useful to reduce the polygon count if you want to switch to dyntopo after using the voxel remesher workflow.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5918
This commit fixes most of the issues we currently have in the voxel remesher. Mesh volume is preserved when doing multiple iterations, so the sculpt won't shrink and smooth each time you run the remesher. Mesh topology is much better, fixing most issues related to mask extraction and other topology based operations.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5863
These were only strictly valid for texture space calculation, don't store them
since they should not be used after that. Only store a flag to indicate if the
auto texture space has been evaluated.
In the future it might make sense to store bounding boxes at the mesh level to
speed up bounding box computation for multiple objects using the same mesh, but
then it will need to be implemented differently.
