This commit affects `id_sort_by_name()` and `check_for_dupid()` helper:
* Add a new parameter, `ID *id_sorting_hint`, to `id_sort_by_name()`,
and when non-NULL, check if we can insert `id` immediately before or
after it. This can dramatically reduce time spent in that function.
* Use loop over whole list in `check_for_dupid()` to also define the
likely ID pointer that will be neighbor with our new one.
This gives another decent speedup to all massive addition cases:
| Number and type of names of IDs | old code | new code | speed improvement |
| -------------------------------- | -------- | -------- | ----------------- |
| 40K, mixed (14k rand, 26k const) | 39s | 33s | 18% |
| 40K, fully random | 51s | 42s | 21% |
| 40K, fully constant | 40s | 34s | 18% |
Combined with the previous commits, this makes massive addition of IDs more
than twice as fast as previously.
This resolves a logical problem using tweak as a fallback tool.
See: T66304#828742
The select action would immediately show the gizmo underneath it,
then the tweak would be handled by the gizmo instead of moving the item
under the cursor.
Currently this works by hiding the gizmo until the tweak event ends.
While it's simpler to check if the gizmo received a mouse-down event,
it causes flickering before each drag event which feels like a glitch.
This is optional for each gizmo type because there are cases where this
can be useful to activate the gizmo immediately (mesh rip for example).
This commit introduces the first version of an exporter to Pixar's
Universal Scene Description (USD) format.
Reviewed By: sergey, LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6287
- The USD libraries are built by `make deps`, but not yet built by
install_deps.sh.
- Only experimental support for instancing; by default all duplicated
objects are made real in the USD file. This is fine for exporting a
linked-in posed character, not so much for thousands of pebbles etc.
- The way materials and UV coordinates and Normals are exported is going
to change soon.
- This patch contains LazyDodo's fixes for building on Windows in D5359.
== Meshes ==
USD seems to support neither per-material nor per-face-group
double-sidedness, so we just use the flag from the first non-empty
material slot. If there is no material we default to double-sidedness.
Each UV map is stored on the mesh in a separate primvar. Materials can
refer to these UV maps, but this is not yet exported by Blender. The
primvar name is the same as the UV Map name. This is to allow the
standard name "st" for texture coordinates by naming the UV Map as such,
without having to guess which UV Map is the "standard" one.
Face-varying mesh normals are written to USD. When the mesh has custom
loop normals those are written. Otherwise the poly flag `ME_SMOOTH` is
inspected to determine the normals.
The UV maps and mesh normals take up a significant amount of space, so
exporting them is optional. They're still enabled by default, though.
For comparison: a shot of Spring (03_035_A) is 1.2 GiB when exported
with UVs and normals, and 262 MiB without. We probably have room for
optimisation of written UVs and normals.
The mesh subdivision scheme isn't using the default value 'Catmull
Clark', but uses 'None', indicating we're exporting a polygonal mesh.
This is necessary for USD to understand our normals; otherwise the mesh
is always rendered smooth. In the future we may want to expose this
choice of subdivision scheme to the user, or auto-detect it when we
actually support exporting pre-subdivision meshes.
A possible optimisation could be to inspect whether all polygons are
smooth or flat, and mark the USD mesh as such. This can be added when
needed.
== Animation ==
Mesh and transform animation are now written when passing
`animation=True` to the export operator. There is no inspection of
whether an object is actually animated or not; USD can handle
deduplication of static values for us.
The administration of which timecode to use for the export is left to
the file-format-specific concrete subclasses of
`AbstractHierarchyIterator`; the abstract iterator itself doesn't know
anything about the passage of time. This will allow subclasses for the
frame-based USD format and time-based Alembic format.
== Support for simple preview materials ==
Very simple versions of the materials are now exported, using only the
viewport diffuse RGB, metallic, and roughness.
When there are multiple materials, the mesh faces are stored as geometry
subset and each material is assigned to the appropriate subset. If there
is only one material this is skipped.
The first material if any) is always applied to the mesh itself
(regardless of the existence of geometry subsets), because the Hydra
viewport doesn't support materials on subsets. See
https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/issues/542 for more info.
Note that the geometry subsets are not yet time-sampled, so it may break
when an animated mesh changes topology.
Materials are exported as a flat list under a top-level '/_materials'
namespace. This inhibits instancing of the objects using those
materials, so this is subject to change.
== Hair ==
Only the parent strands are exported, and only with a constant colour.
No UV coordinates, no information about the normals.
== Camera ==
Only perspective cameras are supported for now.
== Particles ==
Particles are only written when they are alive, which means that they
are always visible (there is currently no code that deals with marking
them as invisible outside their lifespan).
Particle-system-instanced objects are exported by suffixing the object
name with the particle's persistent ID, giving each particle XForm a
unique name.
== Instancing/referencing ==
This exporter has experimental support for instancing/referencing.
Dupli-object meshes are now written to USD as references to the original
mesh. This is still very limited in correctness, as there are issues
referencing to materials from a referenced mesh.
I am still committing this, as it gives us a place to start when
continuing the quest for proper instancing in USD.
== Lights ==
USD does not directly support spot lights, so those aren't exported yet.
It's possible to add this in the future via the UsdLuxShapingAPI. The
units used for the light intensity are also still a bit of a mystery.
== Fluid vertex velocities ==
Currently only fluid simulations (not meshes in general) have explicit
vertex velocities. This is the most important case for exporting
velocities, though, as the baked mesh changes topology all the time, and
thus computing the velocities at import time in a post-processing step
is hard.
== The Building Process ==
- USD is built as monolithic library, instead of 25 smaller libraries.
We were linking all of them as 'whole archive' anyway, so this doesn't
affect the final file size. It does, however, make life easier with
respect to linking order, and handling upstream changes.
- The JSON files required by USD are installed into datafiles/usd; they
are required on every platform. Set the `PXR_PATH_DEBUG` to any value
to have the USD library print the paths it uses to find those files.
- USD is patched so that it finds the aforementioned JSON files in a path
that we pass to it from Blender.
- USD is patched to have a `PXR_BUILD_USD_TOOLS` CMake option to disable
building the tools in its `bin` directory. This is sent as a pull
request at https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/pull/1048
Allows each File Browser list item in Volumes and System to use individual icons.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5802
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Implement T66304 as an experimental option,
available under the preferences "Experimental" section.
- When enabled most tools in the 3D view have a gizmo.
- Dragging outside the gizmo uses the 'fallback' tool.
- The fallback tool can be changed or disabled in the tool options
or from a pie menu (Alt-W).
Multisample buffers were used for smooth line drawing. As we now have
an algorithm that doesn't need the multisample buffers we can remove
them.
The user preference for viewport multi_sampling is replaced by single
toggle overlay `use_overlay_smooth_wire`. By default this setting is
enabled as the new drawing is really quick (<1ms) and uses zero hacks.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6367
BIF_gl.h included hacks like redefining glew functions and a constant.
The named constant `GLA_PIXEL_OFS` has been moved to `GPU_viewport.h`
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5860
When introducing "drag-all-selected" support all over Blender, we
figured this wouldn't work well with the Graph Editor
selection/transform behavior.
Hence, William and I worked on the following changes, although we used
this chance to improve the behavior in general too.
For more info see T70634.
* Handles now always move with the key, regardless if they are selected
or not.
* Selecting the key doesn't select the handles anymore, their selection
is separate.
* Multiple keys and handles can now be dragged.
* Dragging a handle moves all selected handles **on the same side**.
* Tweak-dragging any handle can never affect any keyframe location,
only handles.
* G/R/S should behave as before.
* Changing the handle type with a key selected always applies the change
to both handles.
* Box selection with Ctrl+Drag now allows deselecting handles (used to
act on entire triple only).
* Box selection //Include Handles// option now only acts on visible
handles, wasn't the case with Only Selected Keyframes Handles enabled.
* Box selection //Include Handles// is now enabled by default in all
bundled keymaps.
The changes have been tested for some days by the animators here in the
Blender Animation Studio. Some changes are based on their feedback.
Also, this improves/adds comments for related code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6235
Reviewed by: Sybren Stüvel, William Reynish
Previously these used a gizmo to redo the operator however this
complicated having on-screen gizmos to access tools (see T66304).
Replace this with a generic way to make an operator that only has an
execute function into a modal operator.
This is used for smooth and randomize tools.
Unlike operator gestures, this handles storing and resetting the data.
Currently this only handles edit-mode data, however it's can be
extended to other kinds of data.
This commit adds a new command line argument --debug-ghost and
makes it so X11 errors happening during context initialization
are only printed when this new flag is sued.
There is no need to flood users with errors when their GPU is
not supporting latest OpenGL version. Or, at a very minimum,
the error must be more meaning full.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6057
Steps to recreate were:
* Open a Node Editor, add some nodes
* Save the file
* Select all nodes (A)
* Save it again, but with Ctrl+S
* Try to select an already selected node
It's supposed to deselect other nodes now, but for as long as the report
banner is shown in the status-bar ('Saved "foo.blend"'), this doesn't
work.
Also happened in the VSE, Dopesheet, NLA or everywhere else we recently
added drag-all-selected support to.
Issue was in there since 2.80. Basically the timer event sent by the
report banner broke assumptions in the selection operator.
Hope this fix doesn't have any side effects. Checked with Bastien
(initial author of this logic), but seems things are fine.
This is useful for drawing keymap items into the header or status bar
While these icons are available directly,
mapping them from the keymap item isn't trivial.
Caused by rB46102cf4e0c4 [which removed the check if the image can
actually be loaded].
Maniphest Tasks: T70903
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6089
Allow different splash heights, without this changes the the
default splash would stop app templates splash screen from loading.
This also allows the default splash height to change without
manually editing the layout.
When executing the node selection operator through Python, or in fact
any similar select operator with drag-all-selected support, the operator
was enabling modal execution, which should not be done in this case.
Reason was simply a wrong default for an internal property.
