The implementation is pretty much the same as for Object sockets.
The socket color is the one that is used for collections in the outliner.
Part of D9739.
This node can be used to mix two attributes in various ways.
The blend modes are the same as in the MixRGB shader node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9737
Ref T82374.
This commit adds a node that fills every element of an attribute
with the same value. Currently it supports float, vector, and color
attributes. An immediate use case is for "billboard" scattering.
Currently people are using the same input to a Random Attribute node's
min and max input to fill every element of a vector with the same value,
which is an unintuitive way to accomplish the same thing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9790
This is a non-functional change. The functionality introduced in this commit
is not used in master yet. It is used by nodes that are being developed in
other branches though.
This just makes sure that the mesh coming out of the subdivision
surface node has correct normals. Ideally, we would lazily compute
derived data like normals in more cases, but that can be solved later.
Correctness is more important right now.
In order to solve this better, it would be nice if functions like
`BKE_mesh_ensure_normals` would take a `const Mesh *`.
The mesh could be considered to be logically const, because
normals are derived data that is only cached for the current
state of the mesh.
This patch adds support for AOVs in EEVEE. AOV Outputs can be defined in the
render pass tab and used in shader materials. Both Object and World based
shaders are supported. The AOV can be previewed in the viewport using the
renderpass selector in the shading popover.
AOV names that conflict with other AOVs are automatically corrected. AOV
conflicts with render passes get a warning icon. The reason behind this is that
changing render engines/passes can change the conflict, but you might not notice
it. Changing this automatically would also make the materials incorrect, so best
to leave this to the user.
**Implementation**
The patch adds a copies the AOV structures of Cycles into Blender. The goal is
that the Cycles will use Blenders AOV defintions. In the Blender kernel
(`layer.c`) the logic of these structures are implemented.
The GLSL shader of any GPUMaterial can hold multiple outputs (the main output
and the AOV outputs) based on the renderPassUBO the right output is selected.
This selection uses an hash that encodes the AOV structure. The full AOV needed
to be encoded when actually drawing the material pass as the AOV type changes
the behavior of the AOV. This isn't known yet when the GLSL is compiled.
**Future Developments**
* The AOV definitions in the render layer panel isn't shared with Cycles.
Cycles should be migrated to use the same viewlayer aovs. During a previous
attempt this failed as the AOV validation in cycles and in Blender have
implementation differences what made it crash when an aov name was invalid.
This could be fixed by extending the external render engine API.
* Add support to Cycles to render AOVs in the 3d viewport.
* Use a drop down list for selecting AOVs in the AOV Output node.
* Give user feedback when multiple AOV output nodes with the same AOV name
exists in the same shader.
* Fix viewing single channel images in the image editor [T83314]
* Reduce viewport render time by only render needed draw passes. [T83316]
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel, Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7010
During the development of the new nodes in the `geometry-nodes` branch
the color of the new nodes wasn't considered, so all of the nodes ended
up red, the color for "input" nodes. This patch introduces two new
colors, one for "Geometry" and one for "Attributes". There are only two
attribute nodes currently, but the next sprint will add two more,
attribute mix, and sample from texture. The attribute nodes are
conceptually different enough from the nodes that modify the geometry
that they deserve their own color.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9682
This commit adds functions to set and get the object's active
modifier, which is stored as a flag in the ModifierData struct,
similar to constraints. This will be used to set the context in
the node editor. There are no visible changes in this commit.
Similar to how the node editor context works for materials, this commit
makes the node group displayed in the node editor depend on the active
object and its active modifier. To keep the node group from changing,
just pin the node group in the header.
* Shortcuts performed while there is an active modifier will affect
only that modifier (the exception is the A to expand the modifiers).
* Clicking anywhere on the empty space in a modifier's panel will make it active.
These changes require some refactoring of object modifier code. First
is splitting up the modifier property invoke callback, which now needs
to be able to get the active modifier separately from the hovered
modifier for the different operators.
Second is a change to removing modifiers, where there is now a separate
function to remove a modifier from an object's list, in order to handle
changing the active.
Finally, the panel handler needs a small tweak so that this "click in panel"
event can be handled afterwards.
The handling of muted nodes is handled at the derived node tree
level now. This is also where expanding node groups is handled.
Muted nodes are relinked and removed from the derived tree
during construction. The geometry node evaluation code does
not have to know about muted nodes this way.
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
Don't refresh the list of sockets, so that when the .blend file is restored the
links remain valid. Also display such nodes in red to indicate an error, same
as when the node type info is missing.
The links where added to the socket one after the other. However,
the virtual socket had a link limit of 1, so whenever a new link was
added, the previously added one was removed.
There is not really a reason for why the link limit should be 1 instead
of something higher. I'm setting it to the max value: `0xFFF`.
I'm also setting the `input_link_limit` to that value. Blender does not
need this currently, but addons might have input sockets that allow
more than one incident link.
This patch allows the user to type a property name into the
Attribute node, which will then output the value of the property
for each individual object, allowing to e.g. customize shaders
by object without duplicating the shader.
In order to make supporting this easier for Eevee, it is necessary
to explicitly choose whether the attribute is varying or uniform
via a dropdown option of the Attribute node. The dropdown also
allows choosing whether instancing should be taken into account.
The Cycles design treats all attributes as one common namespace,
so the Blender interface converts the enum to a name prefix that
can't be entered using keyboard.
In Eevee, the attributes are provided to the shader via a UBO indexed
with resource_id, similar to the existing Object Info data. Unlike it,
however, it is necessary to maintain a separate buffer for every
requested combination of attributes.
This is done using a hash table with the attribute set as the key,
as it is expected that technically different but similar materials
may use the same set of attributes. In addition, in order to minimize
wasted memory, a sparse UBO pool is implemented, so that chunks that
don't contain any data don't have to be allocated.
The back-end Cycles code is already refactored and committed by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2057
Add a new Alpha socket to the Attribute node that outputs the
fourth component of the attribute. Currently the only such
attribute is vertex color, but there may be more in the future.
If the attribute has no alpha channel, the expected value is 1.
The Cycles code is already refactored and committed by Brecht.
Ref D2057
The design for how we approach the "Everything Nodes" project
has changed. We will focus on a different part of the project initially.
While future me will likely refer back to some of the code I remove here,
there is no point in keeping this code around in master currently.
It would just confuse other developers working on the project.
This does not remove the simulation modifier and data block. Those are
just cleaned up, so that the boilerplate code can be reused in the future.
Corrects incorrect usage of contraction for 'it is', when possessive 'its' was required.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9250
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
We have our own assert implementation, `BLI_assert()` that is prefered over the
C standard library one. Its output is more consistent across compilers and
makes termination on assert failure optional (through `WITH_ASSERT_ABORT`).
In many places we'd include the C library header without ever accessing it.
Based on http://jcgt.org/published/0008/01/03/
This is a simple trick that does *not* have a huge performance impact but
does work pretty well. It just modifies the Fresnel term to account for
the multibounce energy loss (coloration).
However this makes the shader variations count double. To avoid this we
use a uniform and pass the multiscatter use flag inside the sign of f90.
This is a bit hacky but avoids many code duplication.
This uses the simplification proposed by McAuley in
A Journey Through Implementing Multiscattering BRDFs and Area Lights
This does not handle area light differently than the IBL case but that's
already an issue in current implementation.
This is related to T68460.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8912
This follows the GPU module naming of other buffers.
We pass name to distinguish each GPUUniformBuf in debug mode.
Also remove DRW_uniform_buffer interface.
