Attributes are unifying around a name-based API, and we would like to
be able to move away from CustomData in the future. This patch moves
the identification of active and fallback (render) color attributes
to strings on the mesh from flags on CustomDataLayer. This also
removes some ugliness used to retrieve these attributes and maintain
the active status.
The design is described more here: T98366
The patch keeps forward compatibility working until 4.0 with
the same method as the mesh struct of array refactors (T95965).
The strings are allowed to not correspond to an attribute, to allow
setting the active/default attribute independently of actually filling
its data. When applying a modifier, if the strings don't match an
attribute, they will be removed.
The realize instances / join node and join operator take the names from
the first / active input mesh. While other heuristics may be helpful
(and could be a future improvement), just using the first is simple
and predictable.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15169
PBVH draw code now builds coarse triangle index buffers
for multires. Note that the coarse grids can be at any
multires depth but is currently hardcoded to 1.
The goal is to improve clarity and readability, without
introducing big design changes.
Follows the recent obmat to object_to_world refactor: the
similar naming is used, and it is a run-time only rename,
meaning, there is no affect on .blend files.
This patch does not touch the redundant inversions. Those
can be removed in almost (if not all) cases, but it would
be the best to do it as a separate change.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16367
Motivation is to disambiguate on the naming level what the matrix
actually means. It is very easy to understand the meaning backwards,
especially since in Python the name goes the opposite way (it is
called `world_matrix` in the Python API).
It is important to disambiguate the naming without making developers
to look into the comment in the header file (which is also not super
clear either). Additionally, more clear naming facilitates the unit
verification (or, in this case, space validation) when reading an
expression.
This patch calls the matrix `object_to_world` which makes it clear
from the local code what is it exactly going on. This is only done
on DNA level, and a lot of local variables still follow the old
naming.
A DNA rename is setup in a way that there is no change on the file
level, so there should be no regressions at all.
The possibility is to add `_matrix` or `_mat` suffix to the name
to make it explicit that it is a matrix. Although, not sure if it
really helps the readability, or is it something redundant.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16328
MTLBatch and MTLDrawList implementation enables use of Metal Viewport for UI and Workbench. Includes Vertex descriptor caching and SSBO Vertex Fetch mode draw call submission.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16101
This commit replaces the `Mesh_Runtime` struct embedded in `Mesh`
with `blender::bke::MeshRuntime`. This has quite a few benefits:
- It's possible to use C++ types like `std::mutex`, `Array`,
`BitVector`, etc. more easily
- Meshes saved in files are slightly smaller
- Copying and writing meshes is a bit more obvious without
clearing of runtime data, etc.
The first is by far the most important. It will allows us to avoid a
bunch of manual memory management boilerplate that is error-prone and
annoying. It should also simplify future CoW improvements for runtime
data.
This patch doesn't change anything besides changing `mesh.runtime.data`
to `mesh.runtime->data`. The cleanups above will happen separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16180
The attribute node already allows accessing attributes associated
with objects and meshes, which allows changing the behavior of the
same material between different objects or instances. The same idea
can be extended to an even more global level of layers and scenes.
Currently view layers provide an option to replace all materials
with a different one. However, since the same material will be applied
to all objects in the layer, varying the behavior between layers while
preserving distinct materials requires duplicating objects.
Providing access to properties of layers and scenes via the attribute
node enables making materials with built-in switches or settings that
can be controlled globally at the view layer level. This is probably
most useful for complex NPR shading and compositing. Like with objects,
the node can also access built-in scene properties, like render resolution
or FOV of the active camera. Lookup is also attempted in World, similar
to how the Object mode checks the Mesh datablock.
In Cycles this mode is implemented by replacing the attribute node with
the attribute value during sync, allowing constant folding to take the
values into account. This means however that materials that use this
feature have to be re-synced upon any changes to scene, world or camera.
The Eevee version uses a new uniform buffer containing a sorted array
mapping name hashes to values, with binary search lookup. The array
is limited to 512 entries, which is effectively limitless even
considering it is shared by all materials in the scene; it is also
just 16KB of memory so no point trying to optimize further.
The buffer has to be rebuilt when new attributes are detected in a
material, so the draw engine keeps a table of recently seen attribute
names to minimize the chance of extra rebuilds mid-draw.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15941
This is part of the effor to simplify the View struct in order to implement
multiview rendering.
`mouse_pixel` is only use for debug purpose and will be reintroduced later.
`is_inverted` is moved to `draw::View`.
This is part of the effor to simplify the View struct in order to implement
multiview rendering.
The viewvecs can easilly be replace by projection matrix operation.
Even if slightly more complex, there is no performance impact.
This is part of the effor to simplify the View struct in order to implement
multiview rendering.
The CameraTexCoFactors being only valid for a single view, and being only
used in very few places, it make sense to move it to the engine side.
This also removes the need to compute the persmat and saves some memory
from the `ViewInfos` struct. This is needed to allow multiview support.
Initial testing found no major performance regression during vertex
heavy workload.
Test file: {F13610017}
Results:
| Platform | Master | Split Matrix|
| Linux + Mesa + AMD W6600 | 48 fps | 47 fps |
| Macbook Pro M1 | 50 fps | 51 fps |
| Linux + NVidia 1080Ti | 51 fps | 52 fps |
| Linux + Radeon Vega 64 | 25.6 fps | 26.7 fps |
Increased precision when far from origin:
{F13610024}
{F13610025}
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16125
This is the conventional way of dealing with unused arguments in C++,
since it works on all compilers.
Regex find and replace: `UNUSED\((\w+)\)` -> `/*$1*/`
