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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
3157c3680b Cleanup: remove unnecessary namespace specifiers 2021-03-17 11:52:02 +01:00
633f1cdec9 Cleanup: improve gathering supported domains by geometry type 2021-03-17 11:52:02 +01:00
2966871a7a Geometry Nodes: Revert current normal attribute implementation
After further thought, the implementation of the "normal" attribute
from D10541 is not the best approach to expose this data, mainly
because it blindly copied existing design rather than using the
best method in the context of the generalized attribute system.

In Blender, vertex normals are simply a cache of the average normals
from the surrounding / connected faces. Because we have automatic
interpolation between domains already, we don't need a special
`vertex_normal` attribute for this case, we can just let the
generalized interpolation do the hard work where necessary,
simplifying the set of built-in attributes to only include the
`normal` attribute from faces.

The fact that vertex normals are just a cache also raised another
issue, because the cache could be dirty, so mutex locks were
necessary to calculate normals. That isn't necessarily a problem,
but it's nice to avoid where possible.

Another downside of the current attribute naming is that after the
point distribute node there would be two normal attributes.

This commit reverts the `vertex_normal` attribute so that
it can be replaced by the implementation in D10677.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10676
2021-03-13 14:05:00 -05:00
9ce950daab Cleanup: Move geometry component implementations to separate files
Currently the implementations specific to each geometry type are in
the same file. This makes it difficult to tell which code is generic
for all component types and which is specific to a certain type.
The two files, `attribute_access.cc`, and `geometry_set.cc` are
also getting quite long.

This commit splits up the implementation for every geometry component,
and adds an internal header file for the common parts of the attribute
access code. This was discussed with Jacques Lucke.
2021-03-08 11:41:23 -05:00