This evaluator is used in order to evaluate subdivision at render time, allowing for
faster renders of meshes with a subdivision surface modifier placed at the last
position in the modifier list.
When evaluating the subsurf modifier, we detect whether we can delegate evaluation
to the draw code. If so, the subdivision is first evaluated on the GPU using our own
custom evaluator (only the coarse data needs to be initially sent to the GPU), then,
buffers for the final `MeshBufferCache` are filled on the GPU using a set of
compute shaders. However, some buffers are still filled on the CPU side, if doing so
on the GPU is impractical (e.g. the line adjacency buffer used for x-ray, whose
logic is hardly GPU compatible).
This is done at the mesh buffer extraction level so that the result can be readily used
in the various OpenGL engines, without having to write custom geometry or tesselation
shaders.
We use our own subdivision evaluation shaders, instead of OpenSubDiv's vanilla one, in
order to control the data layout, and interpolation. For example, we store vertex colors
as compressed 16-bit integers, while OpenSubDiv's default evaluator only work for float
types.
In order to still access the modified geometry on the CPU side, for use in modifiers
or transform operators, a dedicated wrapper type is added `MESH_WRAPPER_TYPE_SUBD`.
Subdivision will be lazily evaluated via `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh` which will
create such a wrapper if possible. If the final subdivision surface is not needed on
the CPU side, `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh_no_subsurf` should be used.
Enabling or disabling GPU subdivision can be done through the user preferences (under
Viewport -> Subdivision).
See patch description for benchmarks.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, jbakker, fclem, brecht, #eevee_viewport
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12406
The problem is that drw_batch_cache_generate_requested_delayed
is called on the object, which uses the original object data type to
choose which data type to get info for. So for curves and text it uses
the incorrect type (not the evaluated mesh like we hardcoded in the
armature overlay code).
To fix this I hardcoded the "delayed" generation to only use the
evaluated mesh. Luckily it wasn't use elsewhere besides this
armature overlay system. That seems like the simplest fix for
3.0. A proper solution should rewrite this whole area anyway.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13439
This was caused by `DRW_view_data_texture_list_size_validate` which now
delete everything from the render engine.
This might change in the future but for now we just avoid calling it from
the render loop (when using DRW_cache_restart).
There was a double lock in the object depth drawing function.
Also the texture read was not reading the texture with the right
format. Now it needs a conversion.
Fix T91981 Particle Edit make Blender Crash
Fix T92006 Light spot interactively point can't use
Addresses T77127 (Controller Drawing).
Adds VR controller visualization and custom drawing via draw
handlers. Add-ons can draw to the XR surface (headset display) and
mirror window by adding a View3D draw handler of region type 'XR' and
draw type 'POST_VIEW'. Controller drawing and custom overlays can be
toggled individually as XR session options, which will be added in a
future update to the VR Scene Inspection add-on.
For the actual drawing, the OpenXR XR_MSFT_controller_model extension
is used to load a glTF model provided by the XR runtime. The model's
vertex data is then used to create a GPUBatch in the XR session
state. Finally, this batch is drawn via the XR surface draw handler
mentioned above.
For runtimes that do not support the controller model extension, a
a simple fallback shape (sphere) is drawn instead.
Reviewed By: Severin, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10948
Issue is that test cases re-uses draw manager. The new
`DRWRegisteredDrawEngine` struct is only freed when a
valid opengl context was found. what isn't the case
when running test cases.
Also made sure that re-using draw manager would use re-inited
values.
This is a necessary step for EEVEE's new arch. This moves more data
to the draw manager. This makes it easier to have the render or draw
engines manage their own data.
This makes more sense and cleans-up what the GPUViewport holds
Also rewrites the Texture pool manager to be in C++.
This also move the DefaultFramebuffer/TextureList and the engine related
data to a new `DRWViewData` struct. This struct manages the per view
(as in stereo view) engine data.
There is a bit of cleanup in the way the draw manager is setup.
We now use a temporary DRWData instead of creating a dummy viewport.
Development: fclem, jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11966
This includes much improved GPU rendering performance, viewport interactivity,
new shadow catcher, revamped sampling settings, subsurface scattering anisotropy,
new GPU volume sampling, improved PMJ sampling pattern, and more.
Some features have also been removed or changed, breaking backwards compatibility.
Including the removal of the OpenCL backend, for which alternatives are under
development.
Release notes and code docs:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.0/Cycleshttps://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles
Credits:
* Sergey Sharybin
* Brecht Van Lommel
* Patrick Mours (OptiX backend)
* Christophe Hery (subsurface scattering anisotropy)
* William Leeson (PMJ sampling pattern)
* Alaska (various fixes and tweaks)
* Thomas Dinges (various fixes)
For the full commit history, see the cycles-x branch. This squashes together
all the changes since intermediate changes would often fail building or tests.
Ref T87839, T87837, T87836
Fixes T90734, T89353, T80267, T80267, T77185, T69800
This patch allows dropping material assets from material slot under the mouse
cursor. Before this change the material slot had to be hand-picked from the
properties panel.
For consistency it is chosen to do this in any shading mode as the tooltip shows
what is exactly going to happen during release.
The feature also works for other object types than Meshes as it uses the drawn surface on the
GPU to detect the material slots. Performance of this patch has been tested with AMD GCN3.0
cards and are very responsive.
Reviewed By: fclem, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12190
Previously, the Point Instance node in geometry nodes could only instance
existing objects or collections. The reason was that large parts of Blender
worked under the assumption that objects are the main unit of instancing.
Now we also want to instance geometry within an object, so a slightly larger
refactor was necessary.
This should not affect files that do not use the new kind of instances.
The main change is a redefinition of what "instanced data" is. Now, an
instances is a cow-object + object-data (the geometry). This can be nicely
seen in `struct DupliObject`. This allows the same object to generate
multiple geometries of different types which can be instanced individually.
A nice side effect of this refactor is that having multiple geometry components
is not a special case in the depsgraph object iterator anymore, because those
components are integrated with the `DupliObject` system.
Unfortunately, different systems that work with instances in Blender (e.g.
render engines and exporters) often work under the assumption that objects are
the main unit of instancing. So those have to be updated as well to be able to
handle the new instances. This patch updates Cycles, EEVEE and other viewport
engines. Exporters have not been updated yet. Some minimal (not master-ready)
changes to update the obj and alembic exporters can be found in P2336 and P2335.
Different file formats may want to handle these new instances in different ways.
For users, the only thing that changed is that the Point Instance node now
has a geometry mode.
This also fixes T88454.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11841
This is a simple engine used only to debug the texture of select ids.
It is only used when the `WITH_DRAW_DEBUG` option is enabled and the
debug value is 31.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5490
Since version 2.80, the annotations of the Scene strip were not displayed in VSE. Also, the UI panel was`Grease Pencil` and must be `Annotation`
The problem was the offscreen render hasn't evil_CTX and the section of the annotation was never called.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11329
Now `ED_view3d_backbuf_depth_validate`, `ED_view3d_draw_depth` and
`ED_view3d_draw_depth_gpencil` are unified in `ED_view3d_depth_override`.
This new function replaces `ED_view3d_autodist_init`.
Also, since `ED_view3d_depth_update` depends on the render context, and
changing the context is a slow operation, that function also was removed,
and the depth buffer cached is now updated inside the new unified drawing
function when the "bool update_cache" parameter is true.
Finally `V3D_INVALID_BACKBUF` flag has been renamed and moved to
`runtime.flag`.
Differential revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10678
Transforms in certain cases
This was caused by wrong flag checking in {rB278011e44d43}, which just
seems to be a copy-paste error.
For example, enabeling 'Auto-Offset' in the View menu would lead to CM
being ignored.
Maniphest Tasks: T86219
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10751
Regression introduced by {rBed809866b172} where overlays weren't drawn
when overlays are turned off. The background in wireframe, solid
(always) and material preview and render preview (when not using scene
world) are also part of the overlays.
During viewport rendering the color values were clamped in order to
apply the overlay on top of it. This clamping would show the scene
colors washed out.
This patch adds a work around to skip the clamping when the overlays are
turned off.
Parial fix for {T77909}
Stores cryptomatte hashes as meta data to the render result. Compositors could
use this for lookup on names in stead of hashes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9553
As proposed in T74432 and already implemented in several commits,
"region" is the preferred name for `ARegion` variables, rather than
any variant of "ar". This commit changes a few "ar" variables that have
popped up over time and also adjusted names of variants like "arnew".
Selecting an object by clicking on its instances only worked,
when the object itself is visible. However, it is possible to hide
the object and still keep the instances visible.
The solution is to give every object the correct `select_id` in the
depsgraph object iterator right before rendering.
Reviewers: fclem, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9640
This change will use the image engine to draw the backdrop of the compositor. With this patch the alpha blending will be done in Linear Scene Reference space and shows pure emissive colors.
See differential for an example image.
**Technical changes**
As only the backdrop drawing is done using the draw manager there are some technical changes.
1. The overlay buffer is partly drawn outside the draw manager. When drawing the backdrop image the overlay buffer needs to be masked to simulate premultiplied alpha under.
2. The backdrop of the node editor is done in region pixel space. A `DRWView` is constructed with this space.
3. UDIM textures uses world position to generate the UV coordinates. This has been implemented more strict by the `IMAGE_DRAW_FLAG_USE_WORLD_POS`. When the flag isn't used the local coordinates are used to generate the UV coordinates what is image space.
4. The draw manager now checks the actual `eSpaceType` of the space data to use different code paths. In the future the movie clip editor will be added.
NOTE: The preview images in nodes are drawn in display space and cannot show pure emissive colors. As preview images are used on more locations it is best to fix this in a separate patch.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9451
Perform grease pencil rendering delayed in this case, as there are no render
buffers available for compositing. This keeps memory usage lower, but does
involve multiple depsgraph evaluation. This seems in line with the intent of
the save buffers feature, to use minimal memory.
