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b3fb73f325 Assets: bundle Essentials with Blender
This patch adds an "Essentials" asset library that is bundled with Blender.
Also see #103620. At build time, the `lib/assets/publish` folder is copied
to `datafiles/assets` in the build directory.

In the UI, the "Essentials" library can be accessed like other custom asset
libraries with the exception that assets from that library cannot be linked.

The immediate impact of this is that Blender now comes with some geometry
node groups for procedural hair grooming.

Pull Request #104474
2023-02-14 17:35:29 +01:00
ea2dda306c Asset system: New asset system code module (with files from BKE)
Adds a new `source/blender/asset_system` directory and moves asset
related files from BKE to it. More asset related code can follow
(e.g. asset indexing, ED_assetlist stuff) but needs further work to
untangle it. I also kept `BKE_asset.h` and `asset.cc` as is, since they
deal with asset DNA data mostly, thus make sense in BKE.

Motivation:
- Makes the asset system design more present (term wasn't even used in
  code before).
- An `asset_system` directory is quite descriptive (trivial to identify
  core asset system features) and makes it easy to find asset code.
- Asset system is mostly runtime data, with little relation to other
  `Main`/BKE/DNA types.
- There's a lot of stuff in BKE already. It shouldn't be just a dump for
  all stuff that seems core enough.
- Being its own directly helps us be more mindful about encapsulating
  the module well, and avoiding dependencies on other modules.
- We can be more free with splitting files here than in BKE.
- In future there might be an asset system BPY module, which would then
  map quite nicely to the `asset_system` directory.

Checked with some other core devs, consensus seems that this makes
sense.
2022-11-14 12:46:34 +01:00