No functional change.
The shader is complicated by itself, having hardcoded values makes it
even more cryptic.
I also renamed the shader because the shader is not for the keyfarme diamond only,
but for all the keyframe shapes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12615
This enabled multithreaded building of the keys that needs to be drawn
in the timeline (and other action editors).
On an AMD Ryzen 3800 using a mocap data test file (available in patch)
the performance went from 2fps to 8fps. The performance increase depends
on the number of rows of keyframes that is shown in for example the
timeline editor.
Each row will be using a different thread. Currently the bottleneck is
the summary channel that we could split up in the future even more (
although that is a complex refactoring work).
Reviewed By: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12198
Change data structure of keylists. Reducing the balancing overhead and therefore increases performance.
| **Function** | **Master** | **Patch** |
|`draw_summary_channel`| 0.202105s| 0.083874s |
When adding items to the keylist it will store it in a linked list. This linked list is
accompanied with the length (key_len) and a `last_accessed_column`. last_accessed_column is a cursor
that improve the performance when adding new items as they are mostly ordered by frame numbers.
last_accessed_column is reset when a new fcurve/mask/... is added to the keylist.
Before searching or array access. the listbase needs to be converted to an array.
`ED_keylist_prepare_for_direct_access`. After that the caller can use
`ED_keylist_find_*` or `ED_keylist_array*` functions.
The internal array can also be accessed via the `ED_keylist_listbase` function.
The items inside the array link to the previous/next item in the list.
Reviewed By: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12052
This change reduces the GPU context switches when drawing keyframes.
In the previous situation the keyframe blocks and keyframe keys were
drawn per channel. With this patch first all the keyframe blocks are
drawn for all channels and after that the keyframe keys are collected
for all channels and send to the GPU in a single draw call.
For T78995 we want to change the data structure of keylists to
improve performance. (Probably a Vector with bin-search capabilities).
This patch hides the internal structure of the keylists behind `AnimKeylist`
structure. This allows us to change the internals without 'breaking' where it is
being used.
The change adds functions to create, free, find and walk over the
keylist.
Reviewed By: sybren
Maniphest Tasks: T78995
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11974
This makes more visible where ends each keyframe. To use, as we did before, full block sometimes looks hard to view where a keyframe ends.
Reviewed By: pepeland, mendio, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10588
Add a bar between keyframes to indicate that keyframe is still used. This is part of a change to make the rec button be used by gpencil.
Example:
Before:
{F9592704}
After:
{F9592702}
Reviewed By: #user_interface, #grease_pencil, pepeland, Severin
Maniphest Tasks: T85463
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10179
This addresses warnings from Clang-Tidy's `readability-else-after-return`
rule in the `source/blender/editors/animation` module.
No functional changes.
Note this only changes cases where the variable was declared inside
the for loop. To handle it outside as well is a different challenge.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7320
Previously there was already "draw_shape" property,
but it was doing nothing. This commit renames the
property to "display_shape". Furthermore, different
shapes like SQUARE and DIAMOND are supported now.
Currently, the shapes are drawn using the shader that also
draws keyframes. In the future we might want to separate
this.
The new shapes are not used anywhere yet, but they can
be used by addon developers and will probably be useful
when we want to support different kinds node systems later.
For example, different shapes can be used to distinguish
between data and control flow.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2829
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
With the new automatic handle algorithm, it is possible to do a lot
of the animation via keyframes without touching the curves. It is
however necessary to change the keyframe interpolation and handle
types in certain cases. Currently the dopesheet/action editor
allows changing the types, but does not show them in any way.
To fix, add a new menu option to display this information. For handle
type, it is represented using the shape of the key icons: diamond for
Free, clipped diamond for Aligned, square for Vector, circle for Auto
Clamp, and cirle with dot for Automatic.
Non-bezier interpolation is a property of intervals between keys,
so it is marked by drawing lines, similar to holds. In this initial
version, only the fact of non-bezier interpolation is displayed,
without distinguishing types. For summaries, the line is drawn at
half alpha if not all curves in the group are non-bezier.
In addition, it is sometimes helpful to know the general direction
of change of the curve, and which keys are extremes. This commit
also adds an option to highlight extremes, based on comparing the
keyed values with adjacent keys. Half-intensity display is used
for overshot bezier extremes, or non-uniform summaries.
Reviewers: brecht, aligorith, billreynish
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3788
Add the necessary colors and/or alpha components to the theme instead.
Also switch the background for ordinary channels to use the likely
intended theme option, instead of the window background color.
The general rule is that the channel color is drawn full strength in the
channel list on the left, and with alpha in the actual key frame area on
the right. This alpha is also reused with bone group colors.
Reviewers: brecht, billreynish
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3813
Computation of hold blocks was done by storing ranges (with start and
an end, and likely overlapping) in a tree keyed only by the block start.
This cannot work well, and there even were comments that it is not
reliable in complex cases.
A much better way to deal with it is to split all ranges so they don't
overlap. The most thorough way of doing this is to split at all and every
known keyframe, and in this case the data can actually be stored in the
key column data structures, avoiding the need for a second tree.
In practice, splitting requires a pass to copy this data to newly added
keys, and the necessity to loop over all keyframes in the range being
added. Both are linear and don't add excess algorithmic complexity.
The new implementation also calls BLI_dlrbTree_linkedlist_sync for
its own needs, so the users of the *_to_keylist functions don't have
to do it themselves anymore.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3790
The automatic highlighting of constant curve areas was checking that
the bezier handles are horizontal even if a non-bezier interpolation
mode was active. Conversely, it was highlighting based on just handles
with Elastic interpolation, which always generates movement.
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
