Please never, ever use same DNA var for two different things. Even worse
if they do not have same type and ranges!
This is only ensuring issues (as described in report, but also if
animating both RNA props using same DNA var... yuck).
And we were not even saving any byte in DNA, could reuse some padding
there to store the two new needed vars (yes, two, since we cannot re-use
existing one if we want to keep backward *and* forward compatibility).
Was actually harmeless and not crashing, but I'd say more or less only
by luck: the NULL-check for region data would only evaluate to true for
the correct 3D View region. However, if we were to add region data to a
different region type in future, this would lead to undefined behavior
if executed in the wrong region.
So... Curve+shapekey was even more broken than it looked, this report was
actually a nice crasher (immediate crash in an ASAN build when trying to
edit a curve shapekey with some viewport rendering enabled).
There were actually two different issues here.
I) The less critical: rB6f1493f68fe was not fully fixing issues from
T50614. More specifically, if you updated obdata from editnurb
*without* freeing editnurb afterwards, you had a 'restored' (to
original curve) editnurb, without the edited shapekey modifications
anymore. This was fixed by tweaking again `calc_shapeKeys()` behavior in
`ED_curve_editnurb_load()`.
II) The crasher: in `ED_curve_editnurb_make()`, the call to
`init_editNurb_keyIndex()` was directly storing pointers of obdata
nurbs. Since those get freed every time `ED_curve_editnurb_load()` is
executed, it easily ended up being pointers to freed memory. This was
fixed by copying those data, which implied more complex handling code
for editnurbs->keyindex, and some reshuffling of a few functions to
avoid duplicating things between editor's editcurve.c and BKE's curve.c
Note that the separation of functions between editors and BKE area for
curve could use a serious update, it's currently messy to say the least.
Then again, that area is due to rework since a long time now... :/
Finally, aligned 'for_render' curve evaluation to mesh one - now
editing a shapekey will show in rendered viewports, if it does have some
weight (exactly as with shapekeys of meshes).
This was fixed ages ago for the interface case but not for the
command line. The thing here is that currently external engines
are relying on reports system to indicate that error happened
so suppressing reports storage in the background mode prevented
render pipeline from detecting errors happened.
This is all weak and i don't like it, but this is better than
delivering black frames from the farm.
New logic of split_faces was leaving mesh in a proper state
from Blender's point of view, but Cycles wanted loop normals
to be "flushed" to vertex normals.
Now we do such a flush from Cycles side again, so we don't
leave bad meshes behind.
Thanks Bastien for assistance here!
Finding which loop should share its vertex with which others is not easy
with regular Mesh data (mostly due to lack of advanced topology info, as
opposed with BMesh case).
Custom loop normals computing already does that - and can return 'loop
normal spaces', which among other things contain definitions of 'smooth
fans' of loops around vertices.
Using those makes it easy to find vertices (and then edges) that needs
splitting.
This commit also adds support of non-autosmooth meshes, where we want to
split out flat faces from smooth ones.
The issue seems to be caused by vertex normal being re-calculated
to something else than loop normal, which also caused wrong loop
normals after re-calculation.
For now issue is solved by preserving CD_NORMAL for loops after
split_faces() is finished, so render engine can access original
proper value.
Logic of handling shapekeys when entering and leaving edit mode for
curves was... utterly broken.
Was leaving actual curve data with edited shapekey applied to it.
The release of these arrays should be the programmer's discretion since these arrays can continue to be used.
Only the expanded functions `bvhtree_from_mesh_edges_ex` and `bvhtree_from_mesh_looptri_ex` are currently being used in blender (in mesh_remap.c), and from what I could to analyze, these changes can prevent a crash.
A group of object groups can be formed by means of the dupli_group option in
the Object properties window. The present revision extends the Selection by
Group option in the Freestyle Line Set so as to support not only flat object
groups but also nested groups.
We need to first split all vertices before we can reliably
check whether edge can be reused or not.
There is still known issue happening with a edge-fan mesh
with some faces being on the same plane.
This commit adds a way to debug Cycles motion blur issues which
are usually happening due to something crazy happening in between
of frames. Biggest trouble was that artists had no clue about
what's happening in subframes before they render. This is at
least inefficient workflow when dealing with motion blur shots
with complex animation.
Now there is an option in Time Line Editor which could be found
in View -> Show Subframe. This option will expose current frame
with it's subframe to the time line editor header and it'll allow
scrubbing with a subframe precision in time line editor.
Please note that none of the tools in Blender are aware of
subframe, so they'll likely be using current integer frame still.
This is something we don't consider a bug for now, the whole
purpose for now is to give a tool for investigation. Eventually
we'll likely tweak all tools to be aware of subframe.
Hopefully now we can finish the movie here in the studio..
Now new edges will be properly created between original and
new split vertices.
Now topology is correct, but shading is still not quite in
some special cases.
Doesn't currently change anything, but would need for some future
work here.
It uses existing padding in kernel BVH structure, so there is
nothing changed memory-wise.
The issue here was mainly coming from minimal pixel width feature
which is quite commonly enabled in production shots.
This feature will use some probabilistic heuristic in the curve
intersection function to check whether we need to return intersection
or not. This probability is calculated for every intersection check.
Now, when we use multiple BVH nodes for curve primitives we increase
probability of that primitive to be considered a good intersection
for us. This is similar to increasing minimal width of curve.
What is worst here is that change in the intersection probability
fully depends on exact layout of BVH, meaning probability might
change differently depending on a view angle, the way how builder
binned the primitives and such. This makes it impossible to do
simple check like dividing probability by number of BVH steps.
Other solution might have been to split BVH into fully independent
trees, but that will increase memory usage of all the static
objects in the scenes, which is also not something desirable.
For now used most simple but robust approach: store BVH primitives
time and test it in curve intersection functions. This solves the
regression, but has two downsides:
- Uses more memory.
which isn't surprising, and ANY solution to this problem will
use more memory.
What we still have to do is to avoid this memory increase for
cases when we don't use BVH motion steps.
- Reduces number of maximum available textures on pre-kepler cards.
There is not much we can do here, hardware gets old but we need
to move forward on more modern hardware..
The change was delivering broken topology for certain cases.
The assumption that new edge only connects new vertices was
wrong.
Reverting to a commit which was giving correct render results
but was using more memory.
This reverts commit af1e48e8ab.
