Goals of this refactor:
* More unified approach to updating everything that needs to be updated
after a change in a node tree.
* The updates should happen in the correct order and quadratic or worse
algorithms should be avoided.
* Improve detection of changes to the output to avoid tagging the depsgraph
when it's not necessary.
* Move towards a more declarative style of defining nodes by having a
more centralized update procedure.
The refactor consists of two main parts:
* Node tree tagging and update refactor.
* Generally, when changes are done to a node tree, it is tagged dirty
until a global update function is called that updates everything in
the correct order.
* The tagging is more fine-grained compared to before, to allow for more
precise depsgraph update tagging.
* Depsgraph changes.
* The shading specific depsgraph node for node trees as been removed.
* Instead, there is a new `NTREE_OUTPUT` depsgrap node, which is only
tagged when the output of the node tree changed (e.g. the Group Output
or Material Output node).
* The copy-on-write relation from node trees to the data block they are
embedded in is now non-flushing. This avoids e.g. triggering a material
update after the shader node tree changed in unrelated ways. Instead
the material has a flushing relation to the new `NTREE_OUTPUT` node now.
* The depsgraph no longer reports data block changes through to cycles
through `Depsgraph.updates` when only the node tree changed in ways
that do not affect the output.
Avoiding unnecessary updates seems to work well for geometry nodes and cycles.
The situation is a bit worse when there are drivers on the node tree, but that
could potentially be improved separately in the future.
Avoiding updates in eevee and the compositor is more tricky, but also less urgent.
* Eevee updates are triggered by calling `DRW_notify_view_update` in
`ED_render_view3d_update` indirectly from `DEG_editors_update`.
* Compositor updates are triggered by `ED_node_composite_job` in `node_area_refresh`.
This is triggered by calling `ED_area_tag_refresh` in `node_area_listener`.
Removing updates always has the risk of breaking some dependency that no
one was aware of. It's not unlikely that this will happen here as well. Adding
back missing updates should be quite a bit easier than getting rid of
unnecessary updates though.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13246
- 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.
Ref T92709
The are few things in the dependency graph which lead to the issue:
- IDs are only built once.
- Object-data level (Armature, i,e,) builder dependent on the object
visibility.
This caused issues when an armature is first built as not directly
visible (via driver, i.e.) and then was built as a directly visible.
This did not update visibility flag on the node for the custom shape
object.
The idea behind the fix is to go away form passing object visibility
flag to the geometry-level builders and instead rely on the common
visibility flush post-processing to make sure certain objects are
fully visible when needed.
This is the safest minimal part of the change for 3.0 release which
acts as an additional way to ensure visibility. This means that it
might not be a complete fix (if some configuration was overseen) but
it should not make currently working cases to not work.
The fix should also make modifiers used on rigify widgets to work.
The more complete fix will have `is_object_visible` argument removed
from the geometry-level builder functions.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13404
This resolves a bottleneck where every update while transforming
copied the entire mesh data-block, which isn't needed as the edit-mesh
is the source of the data being edited.
Testing shows a significant overall speedup when transforming:
- ~1.5x with a subdivided cube 1.5 million vertices.
- ~3.0x with the spring mesh (edit-mode with modifiers disabled,
duplicated 10x to drop performance).
Reviewed By: sergey
Ref D11337
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
This updates the usage of integer types in code I wrote according to our new style guides.
Major changes:
* Use signed instead of unsigned integers in many places.
* C++ containers in blenlib use `int64_t` for size and indices now (instead of `uint`).
* Hash values for C++ containers are 64 bit wide now (instead of 32 bit).
I do hope that I broke no builds, but it is quite likely that some compiler reports
slightly different errors. Please let me know when there are any errors. If the fix
is small, feel free to commit it yourself.
I compiled successfully on linux with gcc and on windows.
We decided that `blender::Vector` should be the default choice for
a vector data structure in Blender.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7981
For now the "Simulation" modifier only exists for point cloud objects, because
we need this for the particle system. Right now, the modifier is doing nothing.
There is a new `DEG_add_simulation_relation` function that is used
by the modifier to make sure that the simulation is evaluated before
the modifier is executed.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7549
Currently those IDs are not covered by copy-on-write mechanism since
that ruins the current design of BKE_sound, But this change allows to
move towards system where sound handlers are only valid for an evaluated
ID datablocks.
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.
Some summary of changes:
- Don't use DEG prefix for types and enumerator values:
the code is already inside DEG namespace.
- Put code where it locally belongs to: avoid having one
single header file with all sort of definitions in it.
- Take advantage of modern C++11 enabled by default.
