Similar to the previous commit, this simplifies future refactoring
to change the way edges are stored, and further differentiates
single poly variables from array pointers.
With the goal of clearly differentiating between arrays and single
elements, improving consistency across Blender, and using wording
that's easier to read and say, change variable names for Mesh edges
and polygons/faces.
Common renames are the following, with some extra prefixes, etc.
- `mpoly` -> `polys`
- `mpoly`/`mp`/`p` -> `poly`
- `medge` -> `edges`
- `med`/`ed`/`e` -> `edge`
`MLoop` variables aren't affected because they will be replaced
when they're split up into to arrays in #104424.
As part of #95966, move the `ME_SEAM` flag on mesh edges
to a generic boolean attribute, called `.uv_seam`. This is the
last bit of extra information stored in mesh edges. After this
is committed we can switch to a different type for them and
have a 1/3 improvement in memory consumption.
It is also now possible to see that a mesh has no UV seams in
constant time, and like other similar refactors, interacting with
only the UV seams can be done with less memory.
The attribute name starts with a `.` to signify that the attribute,
like face sets, isn't meant to be used in arbitrary procedural
situations (with geometry nodes for example). That gives us more
freedom to change things in the future.
Pull Request #104728
The material indices from the caps were only copied if the base mesh had
a material index attribute. Fix that by copying them manually if the cap
has the attribute.
Consistent with naming from 1af62cb3bf. Keep the "coord"
naming in the "vert_coords_alloc" set of functions since they should be
removed (see #103789).
Caused by 96abaae9ac. Just keep the old argument
in the `_ex` version of the function for now. It can be removed
when the explode modifier is removed in 4.0.
Blender currently has 2 algorithms for merging vertices:
- `BKE_mesh_merge_verts`;
- `blender::geometry::create_merged_mesh`
`BKE_mesh_merge_verts` has a simplified algorithm to work with Array,
Mirror and Screw modifiers. It doesn't support merge results that would
create new faces. However it has shortcuts to be more efficient in
these modifiers.
`blender::geometry::create_merged_mesh` tries to predict all possible
outcomes. So it's a more complex. But it loses in performance to
`BKE_mesh_merge_verts` in some cases.
The performance comparison between these two depends on many factors.
`blender::geometry::create_merged_mesh` works with a context that has
only the affected geometry. Thus a smaller region of the mesh is read
for duplicate checking. Therefore, the smaller the affected geometry,
the more efficient the operation.
By my tests `blender::geometry::create_merged_mesh` beats
`BKE_mesh_merge_verts` when less than 20% of the geometry is affected
in worst case `MESH_MERGE_VERTS_DUMP_IF_EQUAL` or 17% in case of
`MESH_MERGE_VERTS_DUMP_IF_MAPPED` .
For cases where the entire geometry is affected, a 30% loss was noticed,
largely due to the creation of a context that represents the entire mesh.
Co-authored-by: Germano Cavalcante <germano.costa@ig.com.br>
Pull Request #105136
Using spans instead of raw pointers helps to differentiate ararys from
pointers to single elements, gives bounds checking in debug builds, and
conveniently stores the number of elements in the same variable.
Also make variable naming consistent. For example, use `loops` instead
of `mloop`. The plural helps to clarify that the variable is an array.
I didn't change positions because there is a type mismatch between
C and C++ code that is ugly to manage. All remaining code can be
converted to C++, then that change will be simpler.
Pull Request #105138
This code seems to be left over from before edges, polys, and loops were
stored in CustomData. They are already copied by the CustomData copy
calls directly above, which already deal with every other layer.
Invalid node trees (e.g. when nodes are linked in a cycle) can not be
evaluated and the viewer is not available in them. This commit just adds
some null checks to handle this case more gracefully.
This reverts commit 19222627c6.
Something went wrong here, seems like this commit merged the main branch
into the release branch, which should never be done.
As described in #104171, add an operator that creates a new node group
that contain the current node group and named attribute nodes to deal
with the outputs. This saves manual work when moving a high-level
modifier to the node editor for better procedural control.
Pull Request #104546
When building a node group that's meant to be used directly in the
node editor as well as in the modifier, it's useful to be able to have
some inputs that are only meant for the node editor, like inputs that
only make sense when combined with other nodes.
In the future we might have the ability to only display certain assets
in the modifier and the node editor, but until then this simple solution
allows a bit more customization.
Pull Request #104517
As described in #95966, replace the `ME_EDGEDRAW` flag with a bit
vector in mesh runtime data. Currently the the flag is only ever set
to false for the "optimal display" feature of the subdivision surface
modifier. When creating an "original" mesh in the main data-base,
the flag is always supposed to be true.
The bit vector is now created by the modifier only as necessary, and
is cleared for topology-changing operations. This fixes incorrect
interpolation of the flag as noted in #104376. Generally it isn't
possible to interpolate it through topology-changing operations.
After this, only the seam status needs to be removed from edges before
we can replace them with the generic `int2` type (or something similar)
and reduce memory usage by 1/3.
Related:
- 10131a6f62
- 145839aa42
In the future `BM_ELEM_DRAW` could be removed as well. Currently it is
used and aliased by other defines in some non-obvious ways though.
Pull Request #104417
Subdivision surface efficiency relies on caching pre-computed topology
data for evaluation between frames. However, while eed45d2a23
introduced a second GPU subdiv evaluator type, it still only kept
one slot for caching this runtime data per mesh.
The result is that if the mesh is also needed on CPU, for instance
due to a modifier on a different object (e.g. shrinkwrap), the two
evaluators are used at the same time and fight over the single slot.
This causes the topology data to be discarded and recomputed twice
per frame.
Since avoiding duplicate evaluation is a complex task, this fix
simply adds a second separate cache slot for the GPU data, so that
the cost is simply running subdivision twice, not recomputing topology
twice.
To help diagnostics, I also add a message to show when GPU evaluation
is actually used to the modifier panel. Two frame counters are used
to suppress flicker in the UI panel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17117
Pull Request #104441
Straightforward port. I took the oportunity to remove some C vector
functions (ex: copy_v2_v2).
This makes some changes to DRWView to accomodate the alignement
requirements of the float4x4 type.