Cycles old behaviour is to hide the duplicator on rendering at all times.
We have since a few months an option in 2.8 to control the duplicator
visibility on its own. However when the duplicator is also duplicated, things
were not working properly.
What we do now is, in addition to the duplicator visibility control, is to not
have the source collection of the duplicator object to ever influence its
visibility when the object is been duplicated.
So if the user wants to reproduce Cycles old behaviour all that is required is
to have different collections, one for the original to-be duplicated objects
that you hide in for the view layer used in the final render. And another
collection with only the first duplicator (which in turn duplicates other
duplicators).
I know this all may sound confusing, so please just give it a try, it's simpler
than it sounds.
Annoyingly, need to convert vfont to nurbs, do minmax and toss nurbs away.
This is likely to be fine, since this function is not intended to be used
a lot, and this is the only way to get more meaningful result.
However, it's not very clear what to do with font on curve.
This fixes rendering of font object with auto texture space in Cycles
introduced in c34f3c7.
It is probably possible to introduce new mode to vfont_to_curve which
will do boundbox without extra allocations, but that's more like an
optimization.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, mano-wii
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Subscribers: zeauro
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2971
Currently this is a no-visible-changes change, but the idea is to use this
dedicated flag to tell which exact components of ID changed, make it more
granular than just OBJECT and OBJECT_DATA. Allow setting this field based
on what components new dependency graph flushed on evaluation.
Since we are ditching layers from Blender (2.8) we need a replacement to
control groups visibility. This commit introduces collections as the building
blocks for groups, allowing users to control visibility as well as overrides
for groups.
Features
========
* Groups now have collections
This way you can change the visibility of a collection inside a group, and add
overrides which are part of the group and are prioritized over other overrides.
* Outliner
Groups can inspect their collections, change visibility, and add/remove members.
To change an override of a group collection, you need to select an instance of
the group, and then you can choose "group" in the collection properties editor
to edit this group active collection instead of the view layer one.
* Dupli groups overrides
We can now have multiple instances of the same group with an original "override"
and different overrides depending on the collection the instanced object is part
of.
Technical
=========
* Layers
We use the same api for groups and scene as much as possible.
Reviewers: sergey (depsgraph), mont29 (read/write and user count)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2892
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
This fixes the issue for the Draw Manager, but for Cycles this is still not
working. The iterator bpy.context.depsgraph.duplis seems to be correct though.
2.8x branch added bContext arg in many places,
pass eval-context instead since its not simple to reason about what
what nested functions do when they can access and change almost anything.
Also use const to prevent unexpected modifications.
This fixes crash loading files with shadows,
since off-screen buffers use a NULL context for rendering.
Note that some little parts of code have been dissabled because eval_ctx
was not available there. This should be resolved once DerivedMesh is
replaced.
Object Info node can be useful to give some variation to a single material assigned to multiple instances. This patch adds support for Viewport and BI.
{F499530}
Example: {F499528}
Reviewers: merwin, brecht, dfelinto
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: duarteframos, fclem, homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2425
Object Info node can be useful to give some variation to a single material assigned to multiple instances. This patch adds support for Viewport and BI.
{F499530}
Example: {F499528}
Reviewers: merwin, brecht, dfelinto
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: duarteframos, fclem, homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2425
Design Documents
----------------
* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Layers
* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/DataDesignRevised
User Commit Log
---------------
* New Layer and Collection system to replace render layers and viewport layers.
* A layer is a set of collections of objects (and their drawing options) required for specific tasks.
* A collection is a set of objects, equivalent of the old layers in Blender. A collection can be shared across multiple layers.
* All Scenes have a master collection that all other collections are children of.
* New collection "context" tab (in Properties Editor)
* New temporary viewport "collections" panel to control per-collection
visibility
Missing User Features
---------------------
* Collection "Filter"
Option to add objects based on their names
* Collection Manager operators
The existing buttons are placeholders
* Collection Manager drawing
The editor main region is empty
* Collection Override
* Per-Collection engine settings
This will come as a separate commit, as part of the clay-engine branch
Dev Commit Log
--------------
* New DNA file (DNA_layer_types.h) with the new structs
We are replacing Base by a new extended Base while keeping it backward
compatible with some legacy settings (i.e., lay, flag_legacy).
Renamed all Base to BaseLegacy to make it clear the areas of code that
still need to be converted
Note: manual changes were required on - deg_builder_nodes.h, rna_object.c, KX_Light.cpp
* Unittesting for main syncronization requirements
- read, write, add/copy/remove objects, copy scene, collection
link/unlinking, context)
* New Editor: Collection Manager
Based on patch by Julian Eisel
This is extracted from the layer-manager branch. With the following changes:
- Renamed references of layer manager to collections manager
- I doesn't include the editors/space_collections/ draw and util files
- The drawing code itself will be implemented separately by Julian
* Base / Object:
A little note about them. Original Blender code would try to keep them
in sync through the code, juggling flags back and forth. This will now
be handled by Depsgraph, keeping Object and Bases more separated
throughout the non-rendering code.
Scene.base is being cleared in doversion, and the old viewport drawing
code was poorly converted to use the new bases while the new viewport
code doesn't get merged and replace the old one.
Python API Changes
------------------
```
- scene.layers
+ # no longer exists
- scene.objects
+ scene.scene_layers.active.objects
- scene.objects.active
+ scene.render_layers.active.objects.active
- bpy.context.scene.objects.link()
+ bpy.context.scene_collection.objects.link()
- bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, use_active_layer=True, name=None)
+ bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, name=None)
- bpy.context.object.select
+ bpy.context.object.select = True
+ bpy.context.object.select = False
+ bpy.context.object.select_get()
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='SELECT')
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='DESELECT')
-AddObjectHelper.layers
+ # no longer exists
```
This reverts commit 5aa19be912 and b4a721af69.
Due to postponement of particle system rewrite it was decided to put particle code
back into the 2.8 branch for the time being.
- Remove 'rotate_m2', unlike 'rotate_m4' it created a new matrix
duplicating 'angle_to_mat2' - now used instead.
(better avoid matching functions having different behavior).
- Add 'axis_angle_to_mat4_single',
convenience wrapper for 'axis_angle_to_mat3_single'.
- Replace 'unit_m4(), rotate_m4()' with a single call to 'axis_angle_to_mat4_single'.
In addition to pack of conflicts listed below, also had to comment out particle part of new Alembic code... :/
Conflicts:
intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_WindowWin32.cpp
source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_effect.h
source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_pointcache.h
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/cloth.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/depsgraph.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/dynamicpaint.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/effect.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/particle_system.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/pointcache.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/rigidbody.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/smoke.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/softbody.c
source/blender/depsgraph/intern/builder/deg_builder_relations.cc
source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_debug.c
source/blender/makesdna/DNA_object_types.h
source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_particle.c
Replaces `G.is_rendering` with `use_render_params` argument.
This is needed for Cycles, which attempts to restore render-preview settings from particles,
after it gets its own particle data, but fails to restore because
`G.is_rendering` was being checked in psys_cache_paths (and other places).
This is a regression since 4310128 which is cased by really bad logic:
there might be dependencies between dupli-objects, which means _if_ we
really want to ensure derived mesh on dupli creation we have to do it
before any matrix is overwritten.
I'm not sure if such derived mesh trick is really the only way to go
without major refactor, but seems simple fix for now will do it.
In fact, it was not working with BI either - 'UV from dupli' would always take active UVLayer,
not render_active one.
Fixed now for both Cycles and BI, and for both particles and 'simple' dupli_face.
This is purely internal sanitizing/cleanup, no change in behavior is expected at all.
This change was also needed because we were getting short on ID flags, and
future enhancement of 'user_one' ID behavior requires two new ones.
id->flag remains for persistent data (fakeuser only, so far!), this also allows us
100% backward & forward compatibility.
New id->tag is used for most flags. Though written in .blend files, its content
is cleared at read time.
Note that .blend file version was bumped, so that we can clear runtimeflags from
old .blends, important in case we add new persistent flags in future.
Also, behavior of tags (either status ones, or whether they need to be cleared before/after use)
has been added as comments to their declaration.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1683
A nice bug combining all the broken features of blender:
Particles, duplis and multiple scene dependencies.
Fortunately this was solvable: Basically, we need to
make sure derivedmesh for dupli instance is generated before
obmat is overriden. This also makes sense, since no instance
has "true" obmat apart from original. Lazy initialization of
derivedmesh just does not work here (or it -does- work but first
use should be before instance drawing).
Fingers crossed nothing else breaks after this...
correctly.
Problem was that object layers are defined by duplis as the top-level
duplicator layers. This happens //during// the duplilist construction,
which breaks group layer checks for subsequent instances and hides them.
Now the duplilist generators leave Object DNA untouched, the
modification of layers for drawing, rendering, etc. happens afterward
in the duplilist_apply/restore functions, as a kind of second pass.
Fix T39286: Display percentage ignored in Cycles viewport.
The threaded depsgraph update changes included a cleanup of the global
is_rendering flag, which was replaced by a general EvalContext being
passed to dupli functions.
Problem is that the global flag was true for viewport duplis before
(ugly hack), which was used as a check for generating dupli orco/UV from
mesh data layers. The new flag is stricter and only true for actual
renders, which disables these attributes and breaks the Cycles
Texture Coordinates and UVMap nodes.
The solution is to extend the simple for_render boolean to an enum:
* VIEWPORT: OpenGL viewport drawing (dupli tex coords omitted)
* PREVIEW: Viewport preview render (simplified modifiers)
* RENDER: Full render with all details and attributes
There are still some areas that need to be examined, in particular
modifiers seem to totally ignore the EvaluationContext!
Instead they generally execute without render params from the depsgraph
(BKE_object_handle_update_ex) and are built with render settings
explicitly.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D613
Usual dupli object issue, sometimes it's needed that all the object in
dupli group have modified obmat.
Made it an utility function now, which is used by convertblender and
dupli draw code now.
