This was originally written by Ankit Meel as a GSoC 2020 project.
Howard Trickey added some tests and made some corrections/modifications.
See D13046 for more details.
This commit inserts a new menu item into the export menu called
"Wavefront OBJ (.obj) - New".
For now the old Python exporter remains in the menu, along with
the Python importer, but we plan to remove it soon (leaving the
old addon bundled with Blender but not enabled by default).
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
Use "filepath" which is the current convention for naming full paths.
- Main use "name" which isn't obviously a file path.
- BlendFileData & FileGlobal used "filename" which is often
used for the name component of a path (without the directory).
Some doc-strings were skipped because of blank-lines between
the doc-string and the symbol and needed to be moved manually.
- 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
When enabling or disabling a Mesh Sequence Cache modifier of an Object
with a hair particle system, the hair would switch positions. This is
caused because original coordinates in Blender are expected to be
normalized, and toggling the modifier would cause the usage of different
orco layers: one that is normalized, and the other which isn't.
This bug exposes a few related issues:
- if the Alembic file did not have orco data,
`MOD_deform_mesh_eval_get`, used by the particle system modifier, would
add an orco layer without normalization
- `MOD_deform_mesh_eval_get` would also ignore the presence of an orco
layer (e.g. one that could have been read from Alembic)
- if the Alembic file did have orco data, the data would be read
unnormalized
To fix those various issues, original coordinates are normalized when
read from Alembic and unnormalized when written to Alembic; and a new
utility function `BKE_mesh_orco_ensure` is added to add a normalized
orco layer if none exists on the mesh already, this function derives
from the code used in the particle system.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92561
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13306
`ABCPointsWriter::is_supported` already checked for valid particle
system types (liquid, spray, foam, bubbles, ...).
`AbstractHierarchyIterator::make_writers_particle_systems` did not
create a writer for these though, so now bring these in line and also
create writers for these.
Allow exporting of animated vertex colors to Alembic.
The changes are made to be in line with the way the UV Maps are written.
Each vertex color gets a OC4fGeomParam created and mapped into the
CDStreamConfig to avoid recreating the Param on each frame.
The time sample index is also stored in the config now and set onto the
UV and Vertex Color params each frame. Without this the exports would
get inconsistent timing results where animated UV maps and Vertex Colors
were not playing back at the original speed.
Reviewed By: sybren
Maniphest Tasks: T88074
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11278
Reference struct members by name instead relying on their order.
This also simplifies moving back to named members when all compilers
we use support them.
Some software may export velocity as a different type than 3D vectors
(e.g. as colors or flat arrays or floats), so we need to explicitely
check for this.
A more robust attribute handling system allowing us to cope with other
software idiosyncrasies is on the way, so this fix will do for now.
This will help detecting missing API changes. Those keywords were added
on classes which did not already use them. Also added missing
`accepts_object_type()` on NURBS reader.
Point clouds are not imported and read anymore. This was caused by an
API change in rB128eb6cbe928e58dfee1c64f340fd8d663134c26 which was not
applied to `AbcPointsReader`. It did not cause a compile error as the
base class as a default implementation for this method.
With this commit, curve objects support the geometry nodes modifier.
Curves objects now evaluate to `CurveEval` unless there was a previous
implicit conversion (tessellating modifiers, mesh modifiers, or the
settings in the curve "Geometry" panel). In the new code, curves are
only considered to be the wire edges-- any generated surface is a mesh
instead, stored in the evaluated geometry set.
The consolidation of concepts mentioned above allows remove a lot of
code that had to do with maintaining the `DispList` type temporarily
for modifiers and rendering. Instead, render engines see a separate
object for the mesh from the mesh geometry component, and when the
curve object evaluates to a curve, the `CurveEval` is always used for
drawing wire edges.
However, currently the `DispList` type is still maintained and used as
an intermediate step in implicit mesh conversion. In the future, more
uses of it could be changed to use `CurveEval` and `Mesh` instead.
This is mostly not changed behavior, it is just a formalization of
existing logic after recent fixes for 2.8 versions last year and two
years ago. Also, in the future more functionality can be converted
to nodes, removing cases of implicit conversions. For more discussion
on that topic, see T89676.
The `use_fill_deform` option is removed. It has not worked properly
since 2.62, and the choice for filling a curve before or after
deformation will work much better and be clearer with a node system.
Applying the geometry nodes modifier to generate a curve is not
implemented with this commit, so applying the modifier won't work
at all. This is a separate technical challenge, and should be solved
in a separate step.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11597
Previously fluid simulation and Alembic modifiers had a dedicated function
to query the velocity for motion blur. Now use a more generic system where
those modifiers output a velocity attribute.
Advantages:
* Geometry and particle nodes can output velocity through the same mechanism,
or read the attribute coming from earlier modifiers.
* The velocity can be preserved through modifiers like subdivision surface or
auto smooth.
* USD and Alembic previously only output velocity from fluid simulation, now
they work with velocity from other sources too.
* Simplifies the code for renderers like Cycles and exporters like
Alembic and USD.
This breaks compatibility:
* External renderers and exporters accessing these velocities through the
Python API now need to use the attribute instead.
* Existing modifier node setups that create an attribute named "velocity"
will render differently with motion blur.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12305
Support extracting identifiers RNA paths into fixed size buffer
since the maximum size of the identifier is known all cases.
- Add BLI_str_unescape_ex to support limiting the destination buffer.
- Add BLI_str_quoted_substr to copy values into a fixed size buffer.
The storage of IDProperty UI data (min, max, default value, etc) is
quite complicated. For every property, retrieving a single one of these
values involves three string lookups. First for the "_RNA_UI" group
property, then another for a group with the property's name, then for
the data value name. Not only is this inefficient, it's hard to reason
about, unintuitive, and not at all self-explanatory.
This commit replaces that system with a UI data struct directly in the
IDProperty. If it's not used, the only cost is of a NULL pointer. Beyond
storing the description, name, and RNA subtype, derived structs are used
to store type specific UI data like min and max.
Note that this means that addons using (abusing) the `_RNA_UI` custom
property will have to be changed. A few places in the addons repository
will be changed after this commit with D9919.
**Before**
Before, first the _RNA_UI subgroup is retrieved the _RNA_UI group,
then the subgroup for the original property, then specific UI data
is accessed like any other IDProperty.
```
prop = rna_idprop_ui_prop_get(idproperties_owner, "prop_name", create=True)
prop["min"] = 1.0
```
**After**
After, the `id_properties_ui` function for RNA structs returns a python
object specifically for managing an IDProperty's UI data.
```
ui_data = idproperties_owner.id_properties_ui("prop_name")
ui_data.update(min=1.0)
```
In addition to `update`, there are now other functions:
- `as_dict`: Returns a dictionary of the property's UI data.
- `clear`: Removes the property's UI data.
- `update_from`: Copy UI data between properties,
even if they have different owners.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9697
The current behavior of the Alembic importer is to only create a
`MeshSequenceCache` modifier or a `Transform Cache` constraint to imported
objects if they have some animated properties.
Since static objects do not have a cache reader, when reloading files those
objects are not updated. Currently, the only way to properly reload a file
because of this is to reimport it.
This adds an option to the importer to always add a cache reader, even if
there is no animated data, to ensure that all objects coming from Alembic
archive are linked to them and updated properly upon reloads.
Reviewed by: brecht, sybren
Ref D10197.
