The reported crash case seems to be caused by freeing compiled Python
objects in a thread. Now this issue is avoided by allocating a buffer to
store a Python script and using BPY_string_exec() to run the script. This
makes it unnecessary to repeatedly create and destroy Text data blocks.
Many thanks to Campbell Barton for his help on the bug fix.
The reported problem was due to a special case where there are no strokes
to be rendered. Since rendering an empty scene is a waste of time, the issue
was addressed here by skipping the stroke rendering process entirely.
Previously individual strokes were represented by distinct mesh objects
no matter how many vertices and materials each stroke has, although
the vertex and material counts can be quite small depending on the input
scene data. Now stroke meshes are packed into a minimum number of
mesh objects, so as to reduce the overheads of Blender object creation.
The view map is mostly treated as a read-only data structure by line stylization
operations (i.e., selection, chaining, splitting, sorting and stroke creation). The
only exception is the chaining operation in some cases where insertion of extra
FEdge objects is necessary to ensure the continuity of underlying FEdges from
which a chain is constructed.
The present revision addresses the removal of extra FEdges so to keep the view
map clean and suitable for reuse in subsequent render frames.
New render layer option named "View map cache" is added to reuse a
previously computed view map for subsequent rendering. The cache is
automatically updated when the mesh geometry of the input 3D scene has
been changed.
This functionality offers a major performance boost for Freestyle
animation rendering when camera-space mesh geometry is static, as well
as for repeated still renders with updates of line stylization options.
Although the "View map cache" toggle is a render layer option, the cache
memory is shared by all render layers and scenes. This means that if
Freestyle is used for two or more render layers (possibly in different
scenes through the compositor), then the cached view map for one render
layer is replaced by a new view map for another render layer and hence
no performance gain is expected.
The stored context object was used for creation of shade nodes. A closer look at the
node system showed that the context is not actually used when shader nodes are
added to a shader node tree. Relying on this fact, now a NULL pointer is passed to
nodeAddStaticNode() instead of the stored bContext pointer.
Removed the previous changes for passing a line style through the Controller, and
revised the BlenderTextureShader to assign the shader node tree of a line style
(if specified) to strokes. This way the assignment of shading nodes can be done
through both the Freestyle GUI and Python scripting.
Now the shader node tree of a line style ID datablock is used to define textures
as well as their mapping and influence.
TODO: Textures alpha channel mapping and influence.
TODO: Blend mode in the Output Line Style shader node.
The scene file provided by the problem report has many degenerate faces coming from
a particle system. These zero-area faces were not expected in the ray-casting line visibility
algorithms of Freestyle. Now degenerate faces are properly excluded from the imported
mesh data and not fed to the line visibility algorithms.
(See commit e1771e72fbbf828dbf5bed871b814288389f3611 for more detail of
the problem).
Made changes to intern/view_map/Interface0D.h and intern/python/Director.h to
avoid #include <Python.h> and keep non-Python header files independent of it.
The issue was caused by including both Python.h and BLI_math.h. Since the macro
definition in Python.h was unconditional, it was necessary to include it first and then
BLI_math.h.
Addressing the issue turned out to affect many Freestyle source files. There were several
other coding flaws that complicated the situation:
1. intern/system/FreestyleConfig.h was abused just to include BLI_math.h which was in
fact unnecessary in FreestyleConfig.h. While addressing this, inclusion of both math.h
and BLI_math.h had to be duly dealt with to avoid a compiler error about round().
2. #include <Python.h> was not properly put in the extern "C" { ... } construct.
3. intern/view_map/Interface0D.h and intern/python/Director.h, both of which included
Python.h, were included from within Freestyle header files that were almost or completely
independent of Python. These non-Python header files were used everywhere in the
Freestyle code base, causing many cases of the reported macro redefinitions.
4. The Director.h file was also declaring 'using namespace Freestyle', which was causing
another scope issue in several Freestyle header files.
This commit is intended to address the first problem above. Subsequent commits will deal
with the other three.
Addition of the path to the Freestyle Python API modules to 'sys.path' was delayed until
the first Freestyle rendering, so that any import attempt of the modules in the Python
Console always failed. Now the update of 'sys.path' is done at Blender start-up.
This allows the Freestyle-specific modules to be imported without running Freestyle,
facilitating quick interactive testing in the Console.
Both C- and Python-coded API components were rearranged into logical groups.
New Python modules are packaged as follows:
freestyle - Top-level package
freestyle.types - Classes for core data structues (e.g., view map)
freestyle.chainingiterators - Pre-defined chaining iterators
freestyle.functions - Pre-defined 0D and 1D functions
freestyle.predicates - Pre-defined 0D and 1D predicates
freestyle.shaders - Pre-defined stroke shaders
freestyle.utils - Utility functions
The Python modules are installed in scripts/freestyle/modules. Pre-defined
styles are installed in scripts/freestyle/styles.
To-do: update styles according to the new Freestyle API package structure.
Changes for VC2013
Now, I can build Blender with VC2013 with Cycles, Collada, OpenExr,OpenImageIO disabled. Also, you need VC2008 sp1 installed to make old libs compatible.
Now add_freestyle() in pipeline.c takes a second argument to enable/disable
stroke rendering. When stroke rendering is disabled, the function allocates
data structures but does not perform stroke rendering. The allocated data
structures (mostly left unpopulated with data elements) are intended to allow
for the Read Full Sample Layers (Shift-R) command in the compositor.
A crash in the Freestyle renderer was reported by Ton on IRC with a stack trace
below. Note that #2 is in Freestyle, whereas #1 is in the compositor. The problem
was observed in a debug build on OS X 10.7 (gcc 4.2, openmp disabled, no llvm).
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Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: 13 at address: 0x0000000000000000
[Switching to process 72386 thread 0xf303]
0x0000000100c129f3 in NodeBase::~NodeBase (this=0x10e501c80) at COM_NodeBase.cpp:43
43 delete (this->m_outputsockets.back());
Current language: auto; currently c++
(gdb) where
#0 0x0000000100c129f3 in NodeBase::~NodeBase (this=0x10e501c80) at COM_NodeBase.cpp:43
#1 0x0000000100c29066 in Node::~Node (this=0x10e501c80) at COM_Node.h:49
#2 0x000000010089c273 in NodeShape::~NodeShape (this=0x10e501c80) at NodeShape.cpp:43
#3 0x000000010089910b in NodeGroup::destroy (this=0x10e501da0) at NodeGroup.cpp:61
#4 0x00000001008990cd in NodeGroup::destroy (this=0x10e5014b0) at NodeGroup.cpp:59
#5 0x00000001008990cd in NodeGroup::destroy (this=0x114e18da0) at NodeGroup.cpp:59
#6 0x00000001007e6602 in Controller::ClearRootNode (this=0x114e19640) at Controller.cpp:329
#7 0x00000001007ea52e in Controller::LoadMesh (this=0x114e19640, re=0x10aba4638, srl=0x1140f5258) at Controller.cpp:302
#8 0x00000001008030ad in prepare (re=0x10aba4638, srl=0x1140f5258) at FRS_freestyle.cpp:302
#9 0x000000010080457a in FRS_do_stroke_rendering (re=0x10aba4638, srl=0x1140f5258) at FRS_freestyle.cpp:600
#10 0x00000001006aeb9d in add_freestyle (re=0x10aba4638) at pipeline.c:1584
#11 0x00000001006aceb7 in do_render_3d (re=0x10aba4638) at pipeline.c:1094
#12 0x00000001006ae061 in do_render_fields_blur_3d (re=0x10aba4638) at pipeline.c:1367
#13 0x00000001006afa16 in do_render_composite_fields_blur_3d (re=0x10aba4638) at pipeline.c:1815
#14 0x00000001006b04e4 in do_render_all_options (re=0x10aba4638) at pipeline.c:2021
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Apparently a name conflict between the two Blender modules is taking place.
The present commit hence intends to address it by putting all the Freestyle C++
classes in the namespace 'Freestyle'. This revision will also prevent potential
name conflicts with other Blender modules in the future.
Special thanks to Lukas Toenne for the help with C++ namespace.
on the console during Freestyle rendering. The debug prints are turned off
by default now. Errors are still printed on the console.
A patch set implementing this functionality was provided by Bastien Montagne.
Many thanks! :)
