While this preprocessing does take some time upfront,
it avoids longer lookup later on, especially as nodes get
more sockets.
It's probably possible to make this more efficient in some cases
but this is good enough for now.
Unavailable sockets should generally be ignored during evaluation.
They mainly exist because we don't have a better mechanism to turn
some sockets on/off depending on node parameters.
Currently, it is still possible that a link connects an available with an
unavailable socket. This link is not displayed in the ui and should
generally be ignored.
The node tree evaluator now calls a callback for every used socket with
its corresponding value(s). Right now the callback does nothing.
However, we can use it to collect attribute name hints, socket values
for debugging or data that will be displayed in the spreadsheet.
The main difficulty here was to also call the callback for sockets in
nodes that are not directly executed (such as group nodes, muted
nodes and reroutes).
No functional changes are expected.
`NodeTreeRef` is a thin wrapper on top of `bNodeTree`. By default it
should not hide anything from the underlying `bNodeTree` (before this
it was hiding muted links).
For convenience some "derived" data is cached on sockets. For example
all the connected sockets when reroutes and muted links are ignored.
A nice side benefit of this refactor is that `NodeTreeRef` requires
less memory than before.
This patch adds the ability to mute individual wires in the node editor.
This is invoked like the cut links operator but with a new shortcut.
Mute = Ctrl + Alt
Cut = Ctrl
Dragging over wires will toggle the mute state for that wire.
The muted wires are drawn in red with a bar across the center.
Red is used in the nodes context to indicate invalid links, muted links and internal links.
When a wire is muted it exposes the original node buttons which are normally hidden when a wire is connected.
Downstream and upstream links connected using reroute nodes are also muted.
Outside scope of patch:
- Add support for pynodes e.g. Animation Nodes
- Requires minor change to check for muted links using the `is_muted` link property or the `is_linked` socket property.
Maniphest Tasks: T52659
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2807
The multi-input-socket cannot be connected to the same socket twice currently.
However, it is still possible to achieve this using an intermediate reroute node.
In this case the origin socket should be listed twice in the `linked_sockets_` list.
Higher level functions can still deduplicate the list of they want.
This Patch removes the auto sorting from Multi-Input Sockets and allows
the links to be sorted by drag and drop instead.
As a minor related change, it fixes the drawing of the mute line to
connect to the first input instead of the socket's center.
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
This is a convenience wrapper for `Map<Key, Vector<Value>>`.
It does not provide any performance benefits (yet). I need this
kind of map in a couple of places and before I was duplicating
the lookup logic in many places.
This also introduces the `blender::nodes` namespace. Eventually,
we want to move most/all of the node implementation files into
this namespace.
The reason for this file-move is that the code fits much better
into the `nodes` directory than in the `blenkernel` directory.
