Added an utility function which performs vertex split based on the loop
normal so now backing API matches to what's happening in Cycles and BI
in terms of autosplit.
Reviewers: dfelinto, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1174
This is the core code for it, tools (datatransfer and modifier) will come in next commits).
RNA api is already there, though.
See the code for details, but basically, we define, for each 'smooth fan'
(which is a set of adjacent loops around a same vertex that are smooth, i.e. have a single same normal),
a 'loop normal space' (or lnor space), using auto-computed normal and relevant edges, and store
custom normal as two angular factors inside that space. This allows to have custom normals
'following' deformations of the geometry, and to only save two shorts per loop in new clnor CDLayer.
Normal manipulation (editing, mixing, interpolating, etc.) shall always happen with plain 3D vectors normals,
and be converted back into storage format at the end.
Clnor computation has also been threaded (at least for Mesh case, not for BMesh), since the process can
be rather heavy with high poly meshes.
Also, bumping subversion, and fix mess in 2.70 versioning code.
This is mandatory for incoming custom normal imports from io scripts, because
often geometry here is corrupted, so we need to call mesh.validate() to clean it up.
Issue is, we cannot set custom normals before geometry is clean, so we need to store
temporary plain loop normals in a CD_NORMAL layer, validate, and then set custom normals.
So we need a way to prevent 'temp' lnors to be freed by validate.
Issue was, when requesting (building) lnors for a mesh that has
autosmooth disabled, one would expect to simply get vnors as lnors.
Until now, it wasn't the case, which was bad e.g. for normal projections
of loops in recent remap code (projecting along split loop normals
when you would expect projection along vertex normals...).
Also, removed the 'angle' parameter from RNA's `mesh.calc_normals_split`.
This should *always* use mesh settings (both autosmooth and smoothresh),
otherwise once again we'd get inconsistencies in some cases.
Will update fbx and obj addons too.
This was a ToDo item, for mesh-based rigid body shapes (trimesh, convex)
the operator was simply using the bounding box volume, which can grossly
overestimate the volume and mass.
Calculating the actual volume of a mesh is not so difficult after all,
see e.g.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/chazhang/publications/icip01_ChaZhang.pdf
This patch also allows calculating the center-of-mass in the same way.
This is currently unused, because the rigid body system assumes the CoM
to be the same as the geometric object center. This is fine most of the
time, adding such user settings for "center-of-mass offset" would also
add quite a bit of complexity in user space, but it could be necessary
at some point. A number of other physical properties could be calculated
using the same principle, e.g. the moment of inertia.
New operator that can calls a bake function to the current render engine when available. This commit provides no feature for the users, but allows external engines to be accessed by the operator and be integrated with the baking api.
The API itself is simple. Blender sends a populated array of BakePixels to the renderer, and gets back an array of floats with the result.
The Blender Internal (and multires) system is still running independent, but we eventually will pipe it through the API as well. Cycles baking will come next as a separated commit
Python Operator:
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The operator can be called with some arguments, or a user interface can be created for it. In that case the arguments can be ommited and the interface can expose the settings from bpy.context.scene.render.bake
bpy.ops.object.bake(type='COMBINED', filepath="", width=512, height=512, margin=16, use_selected_to_active=False, cage_extrusion=0, cage="", normal_space='TANGENT', normal_r='POS_X', normal_g='POS_Y', normal_b='POS_Z', save_mode='INTERNAL', use_clear=False, use_split_materials=False, use_automatic_name=False)
Note: external save mode is currently disabled.
Supported Features:
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* Margin - Baked result is extended this many pixels beyond the border of each UV "island," to soften seams in the texture.
* Selected to Active - bake shading on the surface of selected object to the active object. The rays are cast from the lowpoly object inwards towards the highpoly object. If the highpoly object is not entirely involved by the lowpoly object, you can tweak the rays start point with Cage Extrusion. For even more control of the cage you can use a Cage object.
* Cage Extrusion - distance to use for the inward ray cast when using selected to active
* Custom Cage - object to use as cage (instead of the lowpoly object).
* Normal swizzle - change the axis that gets mapped to RGB
* Normal space - save as tangent or object normal spaces
Supported Passes:
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Any pass that is supported by Blender renderlayer system. Though it's up to the external engine to provide a valid enum with its supported passes. Normal passes get a special treatment since we post-process them to converted and "swizzled"
Development Notes for External Engines:
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(read them in bake_api.c)
* For a complete implementation example look at the Cycles Bake commit (next).
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Normal map pipeline "consulting" by Andy Davies (metalliandy)
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
* Add a new calcLoopNormals function to DerivedMesh struct, and implement it for CDDM and CCGDM (subsurf).
EditDerivedBMesh (edit mode DM) only gets a dummy one in this commit.
* Add a tessellated version of CD_LOOPNORMAL layer (CD_TESSLOOPNORMAL), with relevant code to handle it
(tessellation, rna access, etc.).
* Change auto_smooth options of Mesh (angle now in radian internaly, and toggle is now used to enable/disable
split normals in DM creation process). Note BI render code is not touched here, hence its behavior regarding
this option is now incoherent, will be addressed in a separate commit.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
CC: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D365
Own bug from rBc691551249f3. Now at least I understand why `test_index_face()` is needed for tessellated quads!
Added a bunch of comments to explain the issue, as it's far from an obvious one...
We loose some performances, but it's still much quicker than org code.
The main idea is to store (during tessellation) or recreate (during tessdata update) a tessfaceverts-to-loops mapping, and then update all tessdata
in one pass, instead of calling `BKE_mesh_loops_to_mface_corners` repeatedly for all tfaces!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D226
Reviewed by Campbell, thanks a lot!
This simply mimics code used for loopnormals, to enable py scripts to generate and access (temporary)
a tangent 3D vector and bitangent sign for each loop. Together with the split normals, this allow
to recreate a complete tangent space for normal mapping (bitangent = bitangent_sign * cross(normal, tangent)).
Expects all faces to be tri or quads.
Reviewed By: Brecht, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D185
Was a silly error introduced in algo during optimization, vertices having sharp and smooth edges would only get the first poly's normal for each "smooth loop group".
Also done a (minor) optimization, and some comment fixes.
In fact, the issue was that names of mloopuv/mtespoly layers could very easily get out of sync (a simple rename was enough), while most tools (such as the UVProject modifier) expect matching layers to have the same name!
Now matching names are check on load, and renaming of a layer through RNA is guaranted to be synchronized with its counterparts.
Thanks to Brecht & Campbell for reviews.
So now, their generation is controlled by a flag, else previous "simple values" group ids are generated (one per poly region, no need here to reduce the number of used IDs!).
Will update obj exporter too.
