`src` and `dst` are perfectly clear, and avoid repeating unecessary
characters when writing the variables many times, allowing more space
for everything else.
The depth cache (located in `RegionView3D::depths`) is used for quick
and simple occlusion testing in:
- particle selection,
- "Draw Curve" operator and
- "Interactive Light Track to Cursor" operator,
However, keeping a texture buffer in cache is not a recommended practice.
For displays with high resolution like 8k this represents something
around 132MB.
Also, currently, each call to `ED_view3d_depth_override` invalidates
the depth cache. So that depth is never reused in multiple calls from
an operator (this was not the case in blender 2.79).
This commit allows to create a depth cache and release it in the same
operator. Thus, the buffer is kept in cache for a short time, freeing
up space.
No functional changes.
A different data structure / implementation is used for curves in the
node tree currently. Converting from the DNA `Curve` structure to this
wasn't slow, but it's nice to decrease overhead. In a test of 14000
splines with 128000 points, this halves the runtime from about 5ms
to about 2.5ms.
The normals were broken because the normal calculation mode wasn't set.
This patch adds a default normal mode so all code creating a spline does
not necessarily have to set it manually. In the future there should be a
way to change this value in the node tree.
- Multi-thread BKE_mesh_recalc_looptri.
- Add BKE_mesh_recalc_looptri_with_normals,
this skips having to calculate normals for ngons.
Exact performance depends on number of faces, size of ngons and
available CPU cores.
For high poly meshes the isolated improvement to BKE_mesh_recalc_looptri
in my tests was between 6.7x .. 25.0x, with the largest gains seen in
meshes containing ngons with many sides.
The overall speedup for high poly meshes containing quads and triangles
is only ~20% although ngon heavy meshes can be much faster.
This patch adds support for filtering rows based on rules and values.
Filters will work for any attribute data source, they are a property
of the spreadsheet rather than of the attribute system. The properties
displayed in the row filter can depend on data type of the currently
visible column with that name. If the name is no longer visible, the
row filter filter is grayed out, but it will remember the value until
a column with its name is visible again.
Note: The comments in `screen.c` combined with tagging the sidebar
for redraw after the main region point to a lack of understanding
or technical debt, that is a point to improve in the future.
**Future Improvements**
* T89272: A search menu for visible columns when adding a new filter.
* T89273: Possibly a "Range" operation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10959
Currently B-Bone scaling can only be controlled via their
properties, thus requiring up to 8 drivers per joint between
B-Bones to transfer scaling factors from the handle bone.
A Scale Easing option is added to multiply the easing value
by the Y scale channels to synchronize them - this produces a
natural scaling effect where both the shape of the curve and
the scale is affected.
In addition, four toggles are added for each handle, which
multiply each of the X, Y, Z and Ease values by the matching
Local Scale channel of the handle bone, thus replacing trivial
drivers. The Scale Easing option has no effect on this process
since it's easy to just enable both Length and Ease buttons.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9870
Implement actual behavior for the B-Bone Y Scale channels added
to DNA and UI in the previous commit in addition to the existing
X and Z Scale inputs.
The two length scale inputs control the ratio between the lengths
of the start and end segments of the bone: although for convenience
two inputs are provided, the whole chain is still uniformly scaled
to fit the curve.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9870
In addition to the base bone transformation itself, B-Bones have
controls that affect transformation of its segments. For rotation
the features are quite complete, allowing to both reorient the
Bezier handles via properties, and to control them using custom
handle bones. However for scaling there are two deficiencies.
First, there are only X and Y scale factors (actually X and Z),
while lengthwise all segments have the same scaling. The ease
option merely affects the shape of the curve, and does not cause
actual scaling.
Second, scaling can only be controlled via properties, thus
requiring up to 6 drivers per joint between B-Bones to transfer
scaling factors from the handle bone. This is very inefficient.
Finally, the Z channels are confusingly called Y.
This commit adds a B-Bone Y Scale channel and extra B-Bone flag
fields to DNA with appropriate versioning (including for F-Curves
and drivers) in preparation to addressing these limitations.
Functionality is not changed, so the new fields are not used
until the following commits.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9870
When an object, whose mesh gets loaded from Alembic, gets animated in
Blender and the Alembic CacheFile datablock also gets animated, editing
keyframes causes both datablock to be re-copied for evaluation. This
caused a threading issue and a double-free of some memory. This is fixed
by expanding the scope of the spin lock in
`BKE_cachefile_reader_free()`.
This matches BMesh which also has tessellation in it's own file.
Using a separate file helps with organization when
extracting code into smaller functions.
The //Raycast// node intersects rays from one geometry onto another.
It computes hit points on the target mesh and returns normals, distances
and any surface attribute specified by the user.
A ray starts on each point of the input //Geometry//. Rays continue
in the //Ray Direction// until they either hit the //Target Geometry//
or reach the //Ray Length// limit. If the target is hit, the value of the
//Is Hit// attribute in the output mesh will be true. //Hit Position//,
//Hit Normal//, //Hit Distance// and //Hit Index// are the properties of the
target mesh at the intersection point. In addition, a //Target Attribute//
can be specified that is interpolated at the hit point and the result
stored in //Hit Attribute//.
Docs: D11620
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11619
This node creates splines with more control points in between the
existing control points. The point is to give the splines more
definition for further tweaking like randomization with white noise,
instead of deforming a resampled poly spline with a noise texture.
For poly splines and NURBS, the node simply interpolates new values
between the existing control points. However, for Bezier splines,
the result follows the existing evaluated shape of the curve, changing
the handle positions and handle types to make that possible.
The number of "cuts" can be controlled by an integer input, or an
attribute can be used. Both spline and point domain attributes are
supported, so the number of cuts can vary using the value from the
point at the start of each segment.
Dynamic curve attributes are interpolated to the result with linear
interpolation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11421
The minimum twist mode is important because it allows creating
normals without sudden changes in direction. The disadvantage
of minimum twist normals is that the normals depend on all control
points. So changing one control point can change the normals
everywhere. The computed normals do not match the existing
code exactly, although they do match quite well on non-cyclic and
on some cyclic curves. I also noticed that the existing implementation
has some fairly simple failure cases that I haven't found in the new
implementation so far.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11621
- BKE_mesh_copy_parameters_for_eval to be used for evaluated meshes only
as it doesn't handle ID user-counts.
- BKE_mesh_copy_parameters is a general function for copying parameters
between meshes.
This allows line art to run only once for each modifier stacks,
with an option to toggle a specific line art modifier should
use cache or re-do their own calculations.
Reviewed By: Sebastian Parborg (zeddb), Hans Goudey (HooglyBoogly)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11291
This makes it easier to use task isolation in c++ code.
Previously, one either had to check `WITH_TBB` (possibly indirectly
through `WITH_OPENVDB`) or one had to use the C function which
is less convenient.
This namespace groups threading related functions/classes. This avoids
adding more threading related stuff to the blender namespace. Also it
makes naming a bit easier, e.g. the c++ version of BLI_task_isolate could
become blender::threading::isolate_task or something similar.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11624
Used to detect if a shaderfx is purely local, or comes from linked data,
in case of a liboverride.
Not actually used yet since we do not currently support adding
shaderfx's to overrides, but will be in the future, and matches
constraints and modifiers code.
Implementation of T86970. This node takes a geometry input with
multiple components and outputs them by component type. Meshes,
Curves, and Point Clouds support combining multiple input instances,
while volumes will only output the first volume component input until
suitable instance realization for multiple volumes is finished.
When direct geometry instancing is implemented it will be possible to
avoid realizing instances in this node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11577
Use lookup string callback function for `sequences_all` RNA property
`rna_SequenceEditor_sequences_all_lookup_string` using a GHash for faster lookups.
When names are changed or strips are added/removed the lookup is tagged invalid.
The next time the lookup is used it will rebuild it.
Reviewed By: sergey, jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11544
There is no particular reason these two functions shouldn't be used
outside of the bezier spline implementation since they don't do anything
particularly controversial.
After looking into task isolation issues with Sergey, we couldn't find the
reason behind the deadlocks that we are getting in T87938 and a Sprite Fright
file involving motion blur renders.
There is no apparent place where we adding or waiting on tasks in a task group
from different isolation regions, which is what is known to cause problems. Yet
it still hangs. Either we do not understand some limitation of TBB isolation,
or there is a bug in TBB, but we could not figure it out.
Instead the idea is to use isolation only where we know we need it: when
holding a mutex lock and then doing some multithreaded operation within that
locked region. Three places where we do this now:
* Generated images
* Cached BVH tree building
* OpenVDB lazy grid loading
Compared to the more automatic approach previously used, there is the downside
that it is easy to miss places where we need isolation. Yet doing it more
automatically is also causing unexpected issue and bugs that we found no
solution for, so this seems better.
Patch implemented by Sergey and me.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11603
Clear the runtime data structs instead of individual members,
this simplifies adding new runtime members as there are at least
two places they would need to be cleared.
Resolves error in D8883.
This is an implementation of T88722. It accepts a curve object and
for each spline, reverses the order of the points and all attributes.
This is more of a foundational node to support other nodes in the
future (like curve deform)
Selection takes spline domain attributes to determine which splines
are selected. If no selection is present all splines are reversed.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11538
This node implements the second option of T87429, creating points
along the input splines with the necessary evaluated information
for instancing: `tangent`, `normal`, and `rotation` attributes.
All generic curve point and spline attributes are copied to the
result points as well.
The "Count" and "Length" methods are just like the current options
in the resample node, but the output is points instead of a curve.
The "Evaluated" method uses the points you see on the curve directly,
and therefore should be the fastest.
The rotation data is retrieved from a transform matrix built with the
same method that the curve to mesh node uses. The radius attribute is
divided by 10 so the points don't look absurdly huge in the viewport.
In the future that could be an option.
For the implementation, one thing that could use an improvement
is the amount of temporary allocations while resampling to evaluated
points before the final points. I expect that reusing a buffer for
each thread would give a nice improvement.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11539
Support calculating face normals when tessellating. When this is done
before updating vertex normals it gives ~20% performance improvement.
Now vertex normal calculation only needs to perform a single pass on the
mesh vertices when called after tessellation.
Extended versions of normal & looptri update functions have been added:
- BM_mesh_calc_tessellation_ex
- BM_mesh_normals_update_ex
Most callers don't need to be aware of this detail by using:
- BKE_editmesh_looptri_and_normals_calc
- BKE_editmesh_looptri_and_normals_calc_with_partial
- EDBM_update also takes advantage of this,
where calling EDBM_update with calc_looptri & calc_normals
enabled uses the faster normal updating logic.
