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
This commit adds a search menu when links are dragged above empty
space. When releasing the drag, a menu displays all compatible
sockets with the source link. The "main" sockets (usually the first)
are weighted above other sockets in the search, so they appear first
when you type the name of the node.
A few special operators for creating a reroute or a group input node
are also added to the search.
Translation is started after choosing a node so it can be placed
quickly, since users would likely adjust the position after anyway.
A small "+" is displayed next to the cursor to give a hint about this.
Further improvements are possible after this first iteration:
- Support custom node trees.
- Better drawing of items in the search menu.
- Potential tweaks to filtering of items, depending on user feedback.
Thanks to Juanfran Matheu for developing an initial patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8286
Code is simpler when the uiBlocks used during drawing are simply
stored in an array. Additionally, looping can be simpler when we use
an vector to hold a temporary copy of the tree's linked list of nodes.
This patch also slightly changes how uiBlocks are "named" in
`node_uiblocks_init`. Now it uses the node name instead of the
pointer, which is helpful so we rely less on the node's address.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13540
Though the interfacing with `rctf` becomes slightly more complicated,
this should be more helpful as more of this code usese `float2` instead
of two separate floats.
As a followup to 338c1060d5, apply the same change to the node
drawing callback. This helps to simplify code when the complexity
of a callback isn't necessary right now.
Currently there are a few callbacks on `bNodeType` that do the same
thing for every node type except reroutes and frame nodes. Having a
callback for basic things complicates code and makes it harder to
understand, and reroutes and frames are special cases in larger way.
Arguably frame nodes shouldn't even be drawn like regular nodes,
given that it adds a case of O(N^2) looping through all nodes.
"Unrolling" the callbacks makes it easier to see what's happening,
and therefore easier to optimize.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13463
This helps to tell when a pointer is expected to be null, and avoid
overly verbose code when dereferencing. This commit also includes
a few other cleanups in this area:
- Use const in a few places
- Use `float2` instead of `float[2]`
- Remove some unnecessary includes and old code
The change can be continued further in the future.
Adds a new overlay called "Timings" to the Geometry Node editor.
This shows the node execution time in milliseconds above the node.
For group nodes and frames, the total time for all nodes inside
(recursively) is shown. Group output node shows the node tree total.
The code is prepared for easily adding new rows of information
to the box above the node in the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13256
Now that `node_intern.hh` is a C++ header, we can use C++ types
there. This patch replaces the linked list of dragged links with a
vector. Also, the list of drag operator custom data, `nldrag`, doesn't
seem to need to be a list at all, so I just made it a unique pointer.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13252
