This encapsulates Node socket members behind a set of specific methods;
as such it is no longer possible to directly access Node class members
from exporters and parts of Cycles.
The methods are defined via the NODE_SOCKET_API macros in `graph/
node.h`, and are for getting or setting a specific socket's value, as
well as querying or modifying the state of its update flag.
The setters will check whether the value has changed and tag the socket
as modified appropriately. This will let us know how a Node has changed
and what to update, which is the first concrete step toward a more
granular scene update system.
Since the setters will tag the Node sockets as modified when passed
different data, this patch also removes the various modified methods
on Nodes in favor of Node::is_modified which checks the sockets'
update flags status.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8544
Uniform attributes require immediate access to the shader list
in object update code, so setting the field can't be deferred
to a background task. This required adding a parameter to the
clear method of Geometry.
Ref D2057
This encapsulates Node socket members behind a set of specific methods;
as such it is no longer possible to directly access Node class members
from exporters and parts of Cycles.
The methods are defined via the NODE_SOCKET_API macros in `graph/
node.h`, and are for getting or setting a specific socket's value, as
well as querying or modifying the state of its update flag.
The setters will check whether the value has changed and tag the socket
as modified appropriately. This will let us know how a Node has changed
and what to update, which is the first concrete step toward a more
granular scene update system.
Since the setters will tag the Node sockets as modified when passed
different data, this patch also removes the various `modified` methods
on Nodes in favor of `Node::is_modified` which checks the sockets'
update flags status.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8544
This improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many
mesh, hair and volume objects. Sync time speedups in benchmarks:
barbershop 5.2x
bmw 1.3x
fishycat 1.5x
koro 1.0x
sponza 3.0x
victor 1.4x
wdas_cloud 0.9x
Implementation by Nicolas Lelong, and Jagannadhan Ravi (AMD).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9258
Problem: the Blender synchronization process creates and tags nodes for usage. It does
this by directly adding and removing nodes from the scene data. If some node is not tagged
as used at the end of a synchronization, it then deletes the node from the scene. This poses
a problem when it comes to supporting procedural nodes who can create other nodes not known
by the Blender synchonization system, which will remove them.
Nodes now have a NodeOwner, which is set after creation. Those owners for now are the Scene
for scene level nodes and ShaderGraph for shader nodes. Instead of creating and deleting
nodes using `new` and `delete` explicitely, we now use `create_node` and `delete_node` methods
found on the owners. `delete_node` will assert that the owner is the right one.
Whenever a scene level node is created or deleted, the appropriate node manager is tagged for
an update, freeing this responsability from BlenderSync or other software exporters.
Concerning BlenderSync, the `id_maps` do not explicitely manipulate scene data anymore, they
only keep track of which nodes are used, employing the scene to create and delete them. To
achieve this, the ParticleSystem is now a Node, although it does not have any sockets.
This is part of T79131.
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79131
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8540
This splits the volume related data (properties for rendering and attributes) of the Mesh node
into a new `Volume` node type.
This `Volume` node derives from the `Mesh` class since we generate a mesh for the bounds of the
volume, as such we can safely work on `Volumes` as if they were `Meshes`, e.g. for BVH creation.
However such code should still check for the geometry type of the object to be `MESH` or `VOLUME`
which may be bug prone if this is forgotten.
This is part of T79131.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79131
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8538
This replaces the cmake options `WITH_NEW_OBJECT_TYPES` and
`WITH_NEW_SIMULATION_TYPE` with two experimental userpref settings:
* `use_new_particle_system`: Enables the point cloud type and the simulation editor.
* `use_new_hair_type`: Only displays the add-operator in the add menu for now.
Note, in the current state you can't do anything productive with the new particle
system or the new hair type. Features will be added step by step in the upcoming
weeks and months.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8096
Triangles were very memory intensive. The only reason they were not removed yet
is that they gave more accurate results, but there will be an accurate 3D curve
primitive added for this.
Line rendering was always poor quality since the ends do not match up. To keep CPU
and GPU compatibility we just remove them entirely. They could be brought back if
an Embree compatible implementation is added, but it's not clear to me that there
is a use case for these that we'd consider important.
Ref T73778
Reviewers: #cycles
Subscribers:
Voxels are loaded directly from the OpenVDB grid. Rendering still only supports
dense grid, so memory usage is not great for sparse volumes, this is to be
addressed in the future.
Ref T73201
