Object sockets work now, but only the new Object Transforms and the
Particle Mesh Emitter node use it. The emitter does not actually
use the mesh surface yet. Instead, new particles are just emitted around
the origin of the object.
Internally, handles to object data blocks are passed around in the network,
instead of raw object pointers. Using handles has a couple of benefits:
* The caller of the function has control over which handles can be resolved
and therefore limit access to specific data. The set of data blocks that
is accessed by a node tree should be known statically. This is necessary
for a proper integration with the dependency graph.
* When the pointer to an object changes (e.g. after restarting Blender),
all handles are still valid.
* When an object is deleted, the handle is invalidated without causing crashes.
* The handle is just an integer that can be stored per particle and can be cached easily.
The mapping between handles and their corresponding data blocks is
stored in the Simulation data block.
This also introduces the `blender::nodes` namespace. Eventually,
we want to move most/all of the node implementation files into
this namespace.
The reason for this file-move is that the code fits much better
into the `nodes` directory than in the `blenkernel` directory.
Function names will be updated in a separate commit.
This will be the place for the new particle system and other
code related to the Simulation data block. We don't want
to have all that code in blenkernel.
Approved by brecht.
This commit introduces a new way to build unit tests. It is now possible
for each module to generate its own test library. The tests in these
libraries are then bundled into a single executable.
The test executable can be run with `ctest`. Even though the tests
reside in a single executable, they are still exposed as individual
tests to `ctest`, and thus can be selected via its `-R` argument.
Not yet ported tests still build & run as before.
The following rules apply:
- Test code should reside in the same directory as the code under test.
- Tests that target functionality in `somefile.{c,cc}` should reside in
`somefile_test.cc`.
- The namespace for tests is the `tests` sub-namespace of the code under
test. For example, tests for `blender::bke` should be in
`blender::bke:tests`.
- The test files should be listed in the module's `CMakeLists.txt` in a
`blender_add_test_lib()` call. See the `blenkernel` module for an
example.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7649
This adds new callbacks to `bNodeSocketType` and `bNodeType`.
Those are used to generate a multi-function network from a node
tree. Later, this network is evaluated on e.g. particle data.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8169
This adds two data structures that wrap a node tree. However, they work
on different abstraction levels.
`NodeTreeRef` is an immutable structure that makes working with a node
tree in C++ much more efficient and convenient. It supports various
queries efficiently, that are not easily possible using just `bNodeTree`.
`DerivedNodeTree` builds on top of `NodeTreeRef`. It contains a flattened
view on the node tree, i.e. with node groups being inlined. Every inlined
node still knows its "call stack". It supports pretty much the same queries
as `NodeTreeRef`.
Both data structures come with a dot graph exporter for debugging purposes.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7628
This resolves a performance regression in 2.8x where every edit-mode
update performed an edit-mesh to mesh conversion.
Now the conversion will be lazily initialized if/when it's required.
New BKE_mesh_wrapper_* functions abstract over mesh data access.
Currently only edit-mesh and regular meshes are supported.
In the future sub-surface meshes may be supported too.
All the driver-specific code in `fcurve.c` has been moved into a new file
`fcurve_driver.c`. The corresponding declarations have been moved from
`BKE_fcurve.h` to `BKE_fcurve_driver.h`.
All the `#include "BKE_fcurve.h"` statements have been investigated and
replaced with `BKE_fcurve_driver.h` where necessary.
No functional changes.
This introduces two alternative subdivision modes that generates
displacement on the grids that look as Simple subdivisions but while
using the Catmull-Clark subdivision type in the modifier. This way,
Simple and Catmull-Clark subdivision can be combined when creating new
levels if needed, for example, to sculpt hard surface objects.
Subdivide simple smooths the sculpted data when creating a new
subdivision level. Subdivide linear also preserves the sharpness
in the sculpted data.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7415
This implements the main unsubdivide algorithm which rebuilds a base mesh and extracts the grid's data from a high resolution mesh.
It includes the Rebuild Subdivisions operator, which generates all subdivision levels down to the level 0 base mesh.
It supports:
- Rebuilding an arbitrary number of levels (Unsubdivide) or as many levels as possible down to level 0 in a single step (Rebuild Subdivisions).
- Rebuilding with already existing grids.
- Meshes with n-gons and triangles
- Meshes with more than 2 faces per edge
- Base mesh made completely out of triangles
- Meshes without poles
- Meshes with multiple disconnected elements at the same subdivision level
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7372
This patch enables TBB as the default task scheduler. TBB stands for Threading Building Blocks and is developed by Intel. The library contains several threading patters. This patch maps blenders BLI_task_* function to their counterpart. After this patch we can add more patterns. A promising one is TBB:graph that can be used for depsgraph, draw manager and compositor.
Performance changes depends on the actual hardware. It was tested on different hardwares from laptops to workstations and we didn't detected any downgrade of the performance.
* Linux Xeon E5-2699 v4 got FPS boost from 12 to 17 using Spring's 04_010_A.anim.blend.
* AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Animation playback goes from 9.5-10.5 FPS to 13.0-14.0 FPS on Agent 327 , 10_03_B.anim.blend.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7475
This data block will be the container for simulation node trees.
It will be used for the new particle node system (T73324).
The new data block has the type `ID_SIM`.
It is not visible to users and other developers by default yet.
To enable it, activate the cmake option `WITH_NEW_SIMULATION_TYPE`.
New simulation data blocks can be created by running `bpy.data.simulations.new("name")`.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7225
The `BKE_animsys.h` and `anim_sys.c` files already had a an "AnimData
API" section. The code in that section has now been split off, and
placed into `BKE_anim_data.h` and `anim_data.c`.
All files that used to include `BKE_animsys.h` have been adjusted to
only include the animation headers they need (sometimes none).
No functional changes.
The files are now split up into the following sections:
- `BKE_anim_path.h` and `anim_path.c` for path/curve functions.
- `BKE_anim_visualization.h` and `anim_visualizationanim_path.c` for
animation visualization (mostly motion paths).
- `BKE_duplilist.h` for DupliList function declarations. These were
already implemented in `object_dupli.c`, so they were rather out of
place being declared in `BKE_anim.h` in the first place.
No functional changes.
Mpving utils from idcode to idtype proved to be somewhat painful for
some reasons, but now all looks good.
Had to add a fake/empty shell for the special snowflake too,
`ID_LINK_PLACEHOLDER/INDEX_ID_NULL`...
Only the volume drawing part is really finished and exposed to the user. Hair
plugs into the existing hair rendering code and is fairly straightforward. The
pointcloud drawing is a hack using overlays rather than Eevee and workbench.
The most tricky part for volume rendering is the case where each volume grid
has a different transform, which requires an additional matrix in the shader
and non-trivial logic in Eevee volume drawing. In the common case were all the
transforms match we don't use the additional per-grid matrix in the shader.
Ref T73201, T68981
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6955
NOTE: While most of the milestone 1 goals are there, a few smaller features and
improvements are still to be done.
Big picture of this milestone: Initial, OpenXR-based virtual reality support
for users and foundation for advanced use cases.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T71347
The tasks contains more information about this milestone.
To be clear: This is not a feature rich VR implementation, it's focused on the
initial scene inspection use case. We intentionally focused on that, further
features like controller support are part of the next milestone.
- How to use?
Instructions on how to use this are here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/How_to_Test
These will be updated and moved to a more official place (likely the manual) soon.
Currently Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus devices are usable. Valve/HTC
headsets don't support the OpenXR standard yet and hence, do not work with this
implementation.
---------------
This is the C-side implementation of the features added for initial VR
support as per milestone 1. A "VR Scene Inspection" Add-on will be
committed separately, to expose the VR functionality in the UI. It also
adds some further features for milestone 1, namely a landmarking system
(stored view locations in the VR space)
Main additions/features:
* Support for rendering viewports to an HMD, with good performance.
* Option to sync the VR view perspective with a fully interactive,
regular 3D View (VR-Mirror).
* Option to disable positional tracking. Keeps the current position (calculated
based on the VR eye center pose) when enabled while a VR session is running.
* Some regular viewport settings for the VR view
* RNA/Python-API to query and set VR session state information.
* WM-XR: Layer tying Ghost-XR to the Blender specific APIs/data
* wmSurface API: drawable, non-window container (manages Ghost-OpenGL and GPU
context)
* DNA/RNA for management of VR session settings
* `--debug-xr` and `--debug-xr-time` commandline options
* Utility batch & config file for using the Oculus runtime on Windows.
* Most VR data is runtime only. The exception is user settings which are saved
to files (`XrSessionSettings`).
* VR support can be disabled through the `WITH_XR_OPENXR` compiler flag.
For architecture and code documentation, see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/XR.
---------------
A few thank you's:
* A huge shoutout to Ray Molenkamp for his help during the project - it would
have not been that successful without him!
* Sebastian Koenig and Simeon Conzendorf for testing and feedback!
* The reviewers, especially Brecht Van Lommel!
* Dalai Felinto for pushing and managing me to get this done ;)
* The OpenXR working group for providing an open standard. I think we're the
first bigger application to adopt OpenXR. Congratulations to them and
ourselves :)
This project started as a Google Summer of Code 2019 project - "Core Support of
Virtual Reality Headsets through OpenXR" (see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/).
Some further information, including ideas for further improvements can be found
in the final GSoC report:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/Final_Report
Differential Revisions: D6193, D7098
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Jeroen Bakker
This change fixes artifacts produced by these operations.
On a technical aspect this is done by porting all of the operations
to the new subdivision surface implementation which ensures that
tangent space used to evaluate modifier and those operations is
exactly the same (before modifier will use new code and the operations
will still use an old one).
The next step is to get sculpting on a non-top level to work, and
that actually requires fixes in the undo system.
This extends the ocean modifier to add new spectra
(Pierson-Moskowitz, Jonswap, TMA).
These models are very different to the Phillips spectrum.
They are intended for more established,
large area, oceans and/or shallow water situations.
This moves the `alembic`, `avi`, `collada`, and `usd` modules into a common
`io` directory.
This also cleans up some `#include "../../{somedir}/{somefile}.h"` by
adding `../../io/{somedir}` to `CMakeLists.txt` and then just using
`#include "{somefile}.h"`.
No functional changes.
Introduce new IDTypeInfo structure.
Each ID type will have its own, with some minimal basic common info,
and ID management callbacks.
This patch only does it for Object type, for demo/testing purpose.
Moving all existing IDs is a goal of next "cleanup Friday".
Note that BKE_idcode features should then be merged back into BKE_idtype -
but this will have to be done later, once all ID types have been properly
converted to the new system.
Another later TODO might be to try and add callbacks for file read/write,
and lib_query ID usages looper.
This is part of T73719.
Thanks to @brecht for initial idea, and reviewing the patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6966
Even though we do not have much of those, this might change in the
future, and in any case having specific functions for this ID type in
generic `BKE_lib` area was really confusing.
Having functions defined in `BKE_lib_id.h` implemented into
`lib_remap.c` was confusing at best.
Besides trivial code splitting and header includes cleanup, had to add a
new `lib_intern.h` header for callbacks used by both remapping and
deletion code.
This is a more correct fix to the issue Brecht was fixing in D6600.
While the fix in that patch worked fine for linking it broke ASAN
runtime under some circumstances.
For example, `make full debug developer` would compile, but trying
to start blender will cause assert failure in ASAN (related on check
that ASAN is not running already).
Top-level idea: leave it to CMake to keep track of dependency graph.
The root of the issue comes to the fact that target like "blender" is
configured to use a lot of static libraries coming from Blender sources
and to use external static libraries. There is nothing which ensures
order between blender's and external libraries. Only order of blender
libraries is guaranteed.
It was possible that due to a cycle or other circumstances some of
blender libraries would have been passed to linker after libraries
it uses, causing linker errors.
For example, this order will likely fail:
libbf_blenfont.a libfreetype6.a libbf_blenfont.a
This change makes it so blender libraries are explicitly provided
their dependencies to an external libraries, which allows CMake to
ensure they are always linked against them.
General rule here: if bf_foo depends on an external library it is
to be provided to LIBS for bf_foo.
For example, if bf_blenkernel depends on opensubdiv then LIBS in
blenkernel's CMakeLists.txt is to include OPENSUBDIB_LIBRARIES.
The change is made based on searching for used include folders
such as OPENSUBDIV_INCLUDE_DIRS and adding corresponding libraries
to LIBS ion that CMakeLists.txt. Transitive dependencies are not
simplified by this approach, but I am not aware of any downside of
this: CMake should be smart enough to simplify them on its side.
And even if not, this shouldn't affect linking time.
Benefit of not relying on transitive dependencies is that build
system is more robust towards future changes. For example, if
bf_intern_opensubiv is no longer depends on OPENSUBDIV_LIBRARIES
and all such code is moved to bf_blenkernel this will not break
linking.
The not-so-trivial part is change to blender_add_lib (and its
version in Cycles). The complexity is caused by libraries being
provided as a single list argument which doesn't allow to use
different release and debug libraries on Windows. The idea is:
- Have every library prefixed as "optimized" or "debug" if
separation is needed (non-prefixed libraries will be considered
"generic").
- Loop through libraries passed to function and do simple parsing
which will look for "optimized" and "debug" words and specify
following library to corresponding category.
This isn't something particularly great. Alternative would be to
use target_link_libraries() directly, which sounds like more code
but which is more explicit and allows to have more flexibility
and control comparing to wrapper approach.
Tested the following configurations on Linux, macOS and Windows:
- make full debug developer
- make full release developer
- make lite debug developer
- make lite release developer
NOTE: Linux libraries needs to be compiled with D6641 applied,
otherwise, depending on configuration, it's possible to run into
duplicated zlib symbols error.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6642
A collection of smaller changes that are required in the /blender/source files. A lot of them are also due to variable renaming.
Reviewed By: sergey
Maniphest Tasks: T59995
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3855
After this commit it should be possible to share the same deformation
formulas that are used in the Elastic Deform brush with other areas of
Blender such as Grease Pencil or proportional editing.
This also removes a lot of code from sculpt.c that is not direclty
related to sculpting.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6281
Custom profiles in bevel allows the profile curve to be controlled by
manually placed control points. Orientation is regularized along
groups of edges, and the 'pipe case' is updated. This commit includes
many updates to comments and changed variable names as well.
A 'cutoff' vertex mesh method is added to bevel in addition to the
existing grid fill option for replacing vertices.
The UI of the bevel modifier and tool are updated and unified.
Also, a 'CurveProfile' widget is added to BKE for defining the profile
in the interface, which may be useful in other situations.
Many thanks to Howard, my mentor for this GSoC project.
Reviewers: howardt, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5516
This solves performance issues on some computers where there is significant
threading overhead. Rather than doing the complicated work of optimizing our
own task scheduler, use TBB which appears to work well. The downside is that
we have another thread pool, but it is already there when using OpenVDB voxel
remesh.
For future releases we can switch to using TBB to replace our task scheduler
implementation entirely, and use the same thread pool for BLI_task, Cycles,
Mantaflow, etc.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6030
This patch adds paint symmetry support to Quadriflow. It bisects and mirrors the input and the output from the remesher to build the final mesh using the preserve boundary option.
This is also an important performance improvement in Quadriflow because it only needs to process half of the mesh with half the resolution.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5855
