First, expand on the interpolation to evaluated points with a templated
helper function, and a function that takes a GSPan. Next, add a set of
functions to `Spline` for interpolating at arbitrary intervals between
the evaluated points. The code for doing that isn't that complicated
anyway, but it's nice to avoid repeating, and it might make it easier
to unroll the special cases for the first and last points if we require
the index factors to be sorted.
This commit adds a node to output the convex hull of any input geometry
as a mesh, which is an enclosing geometry around a set of points.
All geometry types are supported, besides volumes.
The code supports operating on instances to avoid copying all input
geometry before the operation. The implementation uses the same backend
as the operation in edit mode, but uses Mesh directly instead of BMesh.
Attribute transfer is not supported currently, but would be a point of
improvement for the future if it can work in a predictable way on
different geometry input types.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10925
This commit adds a flag to disable displaying some socket labels which
just redundant eye sores. We still want to have a label, because that
information can potentially be accessed elsewhere in the UI.
The flag is used in a few geometry nodes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11540
This node creates a boolean face attribute that is "true" for
every face that has the given material.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11324
Some of the primitive nodes can return null in an error condition.
This is confusing mixed with adding a maderial slot in calling
functions. This is the second crash caused by that confusion. It's
simpler to add the slot right when allocating the mesh, and it will
lend itself better to copy & paste coding in the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11530
Cycles, Eevee, OSL, Geo, Attribute
This operator provides consistency with the standard math node. Allows users to use a single node instead of two nodes for this common operation.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10808
This commit adds a node that outputs the total length of all
evalauted curve splines in a geometry set as a float value.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11459
This commit implements support for deleting curve data in the geometry
delete node. Spline domain and point domain attributes are supported.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11464
The mesh to curve node generated an empty curve because no edges were
selected. This commit changes that node to not add a curve in that case.
This also changes the curve to mesh node to not add a material when
no mesh was created. Even though we don't expect null curves or meshes
in this case, the change is harmless.
This node is similar to the mask modifier, but it deletes the elements
of the geometry corresponding to the selection, which is retrieved as
a boolean attribute. The node currently supports both mesh and point
cloud data. For meshes, which elements are deleted depends on the
domain of the input selection attribute, just like how behavior depends
on the selection mode in mesh edit mode.
In the future this node will support curve data, and ideally volume
data in some way.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10748
This commit skips the eager recalculation of mesh normals in the
transform node. Often another deformation or topology-altering
operation will happen after the transform node, which means the
recalculation was redundant anyway.
In one of my test cases this made the node more than 14x faster.
Though depending on the situation the cost of updating the normals
may just be shifted elsewhere.
This fixes T88455 by adding an empty material slot to newly
generated meshes. This allows the object to overwrite the
"default" material without any extra nodes. Technically,
all polygons reference the material index 0 already, so it
makes sense to add a material slot for this material index.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11439
Based on the task T88006, there are a few simple changes
to make to improve the switch node:
- Change the label to "False" / "True" for clarity
- Change default to geometry, as it's the basic data container in
geometry nodes.
- Change node class to `NODE_CLASS_CONVERTOR`, which was an oversight
in the original patch.
I will add the new socket types (material and texture) in a separate commit.
Thanks to @EitanSomething for the original patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11165
This node creates poly curve splines from mesh edges. A selection
attribute input allows only using some of the edges from the mesh.
The node builds cyclic splines from branchless groups of edges where
possible, but when there is a three-way intersection, the spline stops.
The node also transfers all attributes from the mesh to the resulting
control points. In the future we could add a way to limit that to a
subset of the attributes to improve performance.
The algorithm is from Animation Nodes, written by @OmarSquircleArt.
I added the ability to use a selection, attribute transferring, and
used different variable names, etc, but other than that the algorithm
is the same.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11265
Colors are often thought of as being 4 values that make up that can make any color.
But that is of course too limited. In C we didn’t spend time to annotate what we meant
when using colors.
Recently `BLI_color.hh` was made to facilitate color structures in CPP. CPP has possibilities to
enforce annotating structures during compilation and can adds conversions between them using
function overloading and explicit constructors.
The storage structs can hold 4 channels (r, g, b and a).
Usage:
Convert a theme byte color to a linearrgb premultiplied.
```
ColorTheme4b theme_color;
ColorSceneLinear4f<eAlpha::Premultiplied> linearrgb_color =
BLI_color_convert_to_scene_linear(theme_color).premultiply_alpha();
```
The API is structured to make most use of inlining. Most notable are space
conversions done via `BLI_color_convert_to*` functions.
- Conversions between spaces (theme <=> scene linear) should always be done by
invoking the `BLI_color_convert_to*` methods.
- Encoding colors (compressing to store colors inside a less precision storage)
should be done by invoking the `encode` and `decode` methods.
- Changing alpha association should be done by invoking `premultiply_alpha` or
`unpremultiply_alpha` methods.
# Encoding.
Color encoding is used to store colors with less precision as in using `uint8_t` in
stead of `float`. This encoding is supported for `eSpace::SceneLinear`.
To make this clear to the developer the `eSpace::SceneLinearByteEncoded`
space is added.
# Precision
Colors can be stored using `uint8_t` or `float` colors. The conversion
between the two precisions are available as methods. (`to_4b` and
`to_4f`).
# Alpha conversion
Alpha conversion is only supported in SceneLinear space.
Extending:
- This file can be extended with `ColorHex/Hsl/Hsv` for different representations
of rgb based colors. `ColorHsl4f<eSpace::SceneLinear, eAlpha::Premultiplied>`
- Add non RGB spaces/storages ColorXyz.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10978
Colors are often thought of as being 4 values that make up that can make any color.
But that is of course too limited. In C we didn’t spend time to annotate what we meant
when using colors.
Recently `BLI_color.hh` was made to facilitate color structures in CPP. CPP has possibilities to
enforce annotating structures during compilation and can adds conversions between them using
function overloading and explicit constructors.
The storage structs can hold 4 channels (r, g, b and a).
Usage:
Convert a theme byte color to a linearrgb premultiplied.
```
ColorTheme4b theme_color;
ColorSceneLinear4f<eAlpha::Premultiplied> linearrgb_color =
BLI_color_convert_to_scene_linear(theme_color).premultiply_alpha();
```
The API is structured to make most use of inlining. Most notable are space
conversions done via `BLI_color_convert_to*` functions.
- Conversions between spaces (theme <=> scene linear) should always be done by
invoking the `BLI_color_convert_to*` methods.
- Encoding colors (compressing to store colors inside a less precision storage)
should be done by invoking the `encode` and `decode` methods.
- Changing alpha association should be done by invoking `premultiply_alpha` or
`unpremultiply_alpha` methods.
# Encoding.
Color encoding is used to store colors with less precision as in using `uint8_t` in
stead of `float`. This encoding is supported for `eSpace::SceneLinear`.
To make this clear to the developer the `eSpace::SceneLinearByteEncoded`
space is added.
# Precision
Colors can be stored using `uint8_t` or `float` colors. The conversion
between the two precisions are available as methods. (`to_4b` and
`to_4f`).
# Alpha conversion
Alpha conversion is only supported in SceneLinear space.
Extending:
- This file can be extended with `ColorHex/Hsl/Hsv` for different representations
of rgb based colors. `ColorHsl4f<eSpace::SceneLinear, eAlpha::Premultiplied>`
- Add non RGB spaces/storages ColorXyz.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10978
This node can change all faces that use a specific material to use a
different material. Using this node is significantly more efficient
than creating a selection from all faces with a specific material
index and then using the Material Assign node.
Ref T88055.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11325
This node is similar to the Value and Vector node.
It just provides a way to use the same material in multiple nodes
without exposing it outside of a node group.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11305
This adds a new Material Assign node. It can be used to change the
material used by an existing mesh or to assign a material to a mesh
that has been generated from scratch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11155
The old geometry nodes evaluator was quite basic and missed many features.
It was useful to get the geometry nodes project started. However, nowadays
we run into its limitations from time to time.
The new evaluator is more complex, but comes with new capabilities.
The two most important capabilities are that it can now execute nodes in
parallel and it supports lazy evaluation.
The performance improvement by multi-threading depends a lot on the specific
node tree. In our demo files, the speedup is measurable but not huge. This
is mainly because they are bottlenecked by one or two nodes that have to be
executed one after the other (often the Boolean or Attribute Proximity nodes)
or because the bottleneck is multi-threaded already (often openvdb nodes).
Lazy evaluation of inputs is only supported by the Switch node for now.
Previously, geometry nodes would always compute both inputs and then just
discard the one that is not used. Now, only the input that is required
is computed.
For some more details read D11191, T87620 and the in-code documentation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11191
After this commit, all geometry node "init" and "update" functions are
at the top of each file, right below the "layout" function. This means
you can always scroll to the bottom of the file to see the entry point,
and the boring boilerplate code is grouped in one section.
With this patch you will be able to add and remove attributes from curve
data inside of geometry nodes. The following is currently implemented:
* Adding attributes with any data type to splines or spline points.
* Support for working with multiple splines at the same time.
* Interaction with the three builtin point attributes.
* Resampling attributes in the resample node.
The following is not implemented in this patch:
* Joining attributes when joining splines with the join geometry node.
* Domain interpolation between spline and point domains.
* More efficient ways to call attribute operations once per spline.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11251
The code incorrectly used the size of the second to last segment rather
than the last segment's size. That was a problem when the last segment
is a vector segment but the second to last isn't.
I also used the opportunity to slightly refactor the control point
offsets cache, making it one longer so it also contains information
about the size of the last segment, simplifying other code.
There is a new Texture data-block socket that we can use in Geometry
Nodes now. This commit replaces the texture property of a node and
gives it a texture input socket instead. That increases flexibility.
The texture socket still has some limitations that will be lifted in the
next couple of days (e.g. it's not supported by the switch node and
cannot be exposed the a modifier yet).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11222
Not allowing external direct access to the vector of splines in the
curve will help for things like reallocating custom data when a spline
is added or removed.
This turns links red if no implicit conversion can be made between the
from socket and the to socket. For geometry nodes this happens with
object, geometry, collection, and string sockets that are connected to
a different type. The change is simply implementing a callback that is
already implemented for other node tree types.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11229
The spline `length` function assumed that the curve always had evaluated
edges. That is clearly false. This commit adds a check to `length` and a
special case for a single point in the curve resample node.
This commit uses two changes to improve the performance of the point
instance node.
**Prevent Reallocations**
At 64 bytes, the transform matrix for every instance is rather large,
so reallocating the vector as it grows can become a performance bottle-
neck. This commit reserves memory for the instances that will be added
to prevent unecessary reallocations as the instance vector grows.
In a test with 4 million instances of 3 objects in a collection, the
node was about 40% faster, from 370ms to 270ms for the node.
**Parallelization**
Currently the instances are added by appending to a vector. By changing
this slightly to fill indices instead, we can parallelize the operation
so that multiple threads can fill data at the same time. Tested on a
Ryzen 3700x, this reduced the runtime from the above 270ms to 44ms
average, bringing the total speedup to ~8x.
Note that displaying the instances in the viewport is still much slower
than the calculations in node, this change doesn't affect that.
This patch refactors the instance component to make use of the earlier
refactoring in rB4599cea15dcf. Now we don't have to build an array of
instance references the size of the point domain, and we can gather the
possible instances only once and use the same vector for all component
types. Generally the node should be a bit faster and use less memory.
The logic is moved around a bit, especially the hashing of the ID
attribute to pick from the instance list, but the result is unchanged.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11203
Those were mostly just left over from previous work on particle nodes.
They solved the problem of keeping a reference to an object over
multiple frames and in a cache. Currently, we do not have this problem
in geometry nodes, so we can also remove this layer of complexity
for now.
This node generates a naturally parametarized (even length edge) poly
spline version of every spline in the input. There are two modes,
"Count", and "Length". These are similar to the same options for the
line primitive node in end points mode.
I implemented this instead of a "Sample Points" node, because for this
operation it's trivial to keep the result as a curve, which is nice
since it increases flexibility, and because it can make instancing
simpler, i.e. using the transforms of each evaluated point rather than
requiring the construction of a "rotation" attribute.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11173
