Rewrite PBVH draw to allocate attributes into individual VBOs.
The old system tried to create a single VBO that could feed
every open viewport. This required uploading every color and
UV attribute to the viewport whether needed or not, often exceeding
the VBO limit.
This new system creates one VBO per attribute. Each attribute layout is
given its own GPU batch which is cached inside the owning PBVH node.
Notes:
* This is a full C++ rewrite. The old code is still there; ripping it out
can happen later.
* PBVH nodes now have a collection of batches, PBVHBatches, that keeps
track of all the batches inside the node.
* Batches are built exclusively from a list of attributes.
* Each attribute has its own VBO.
* Overlays, workbench and EEVEE can all have different attribute
layouts, each of which will get its own batch.
Reviewed by: Clement Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15428
Ref D15428
This adds support for showing geometry passed to the Viewer in the 3d
viewport (instead of just in the spreadsheet). The "viewer geometry"
bypasses the group output. So it is not necessary to change the final
output of the node group to be able to see the intermediate geometry.
**Activation and deactivation of a viewer node**
* A viewer node is activated by clicking on it.
* Ctrl+shift+click on any node/socket connects it to the viewer and
makes it active.
* Ctrl+shift+click in empty space deactivates the active viewer.
* When the active viewer is not visible anymore (e.g. another object
is selected, or the current node group is exit), it is deactivated.
* Clicking on the icon in the header of the Viewer node toggles whether
its active or not.
**Pinning**
* The spreadsheet still allows pinning the active viewer as before.
When pinned, the spreadsheet still references the viewer node even
when it becomes inactive.
* The viewport does not support pinning at the moment. It always shows
the active viewer.
**Attribute**
* When a field is linked to the second input of the viewer node it is
displayed as an overlay in the viewport.
* When possible the correct domain for the attribute is determined
automatically. This does not work in all cases. It falls back to the
face corner domain on meshes and the point domain on curves. When
necessary, the domain can be picked manually.
* The spreadsheet now only shows the "Viewer" column for the domain
that is selected in the Viewer node.
* Instance attributes are visualized as a constant color per instance.
**Viewport Options**
* The attribute overlay opacity can be controlled with the "Viewer Node"
setting in the overlays popover.
* A viewport can be configured not to show intermediate viewer-geometry
by disabling the "Viewer Node" option in the "View" menu.
**Implementation Details**
* The "spreadsheet context path" was generalized to a "viewer path" that
is used in more places now.
* The viewer node itself determines the attribute domain, evaluates the
field and stores the result in a `.viewer` attribute.
* A new "viewer attribute' overlay displays the data from the `.viewer`
attribute.
* The ground truth for the active viewer node is stored in the workspace
now. Node editors, spreadsheets and viewports retrieve the active
viewer from there unless they are pinned.
* The depsgraph object iterator has a new "viewer path" setting. When set,
the viewed geometry of the corresponding object is part of the iterator
instead of the final evaluated geometry.
* To support the instance attribute overlay `DupliObject` was extended
to contain the information necessary for drawing the overlay.
* The ctrl+shift+click operator has been refactored so that it can make
existing links to viewers active again.
* The auto-domain-detection in the Viewer node works by checking the
"preferred domain" for every field input. If there is not exactly one
preferred domain, the fallback is used.
Known limitations:
* Loose edges of meshes don't have the attribute overlay. This could be
added separately if necessary.
* Some attributes are hard to visualize as a color directly. For example,
the values might have to be normalized or some should be drawn as arrays.
For now, we encourage users to build node groups that generate appropriate
viewer-geometry. We might include some of that functionality in future versions.
Support for displaying attribute values as text in the viewport is planned as well.
* There seems to be an issue with the attribute overlay for pointclouds on
nvidia gpus, to be investigated.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15954
This code slipped through the final review step surely caused by a faulty
merge.
Fixes T101372 Regression: World shader setup crashes Blender in rendered view
Regression introduced by rB697b447c2069bbbbaa9929aab0ea1f66ef8bf4d0
Correction of U.dpi to hold actual monitor DPI. Simplify font sizing by
omitting DPI as API argument, always using 72 internally.
See D15961 for more details.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15961
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
Using the attribute name semantics from T97452, this patch moves the
selection status of mesh elements from the `SELECT` of vertices, and
edges, and the `ME_FACE_SEL` of faces to generic boolean attribute
Storing this data as generic attributes can significantly simplify and
improve code, as described in T95965.
The attributes are called `.select_vert`, `.select_edge`, and
`.select_poly`. The `.` prefix means they are "UI attributes",so they
still contain original data edited by users, but they aren't meant to
be accessed procedurally by the user in arbitrary situations. They are
also be hidden in the spreadsheet and the attribute list.
Until 4.0, the attributes are still written to and read from the mesh
in the old way, so neither forward nor backward compatibility are
affected. This means memory requirements will be increased by one byte
per element when selection is used. When the flags are removed
completely, requirements will decrease.
Further notes:
* The `MVert` flag is empty at runtime now, so it can be ignored.
* `BMesh` is unchanged, otherwise the change would be much larger.
* Many tests have slightly different results, since the selection
attribute uses more generic propagation. Previously you couldn't
really rely on edit mode selections being propagated procedurally.
Now it mostly works as expected.
Similar to 2480b55f21
Ref T95965
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15795
The mesh's triangulation cache is often created for other operations
besides the drawing code, but during the mesh draw cache extraction
it is recalculated on every single time. It is simpler and faster to use
the existing MLoopTri array. It can also save memory if the cache
already exists by avoiding allocating a duplicate array. For a 4 million
face quad mesh, that is already 128 MB.
Also use face normals for mesh triangulation if they aren't dirty,
which should provide a general speedup when they're both necessary.
Recently 54182e4925 made this more reliable, since the triangulation
cache is invalidated properly when the mesh is deformed.
Fixes T98073
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15550
Similar to the other refactors from T95965, this commit moves sculpt
face sets to use a generic integer attribute named `".sculpt_face_set"`.
This makes face sets accessible in the Python API.
The attribute is not visible in the attributes list or the spreadsheet
because it is meant for internal use, though that could be an option
in the future along with other similar attributes. Currently the change
is small, but in the future this could simplify code by allowing use
of more generic attribute APIs.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16045
Points cannot be selected atm in editmode, this patch just shows the
selection from sculptmode in editmode.
Since the selection in sculptmode is a float, a point is considered
selected as soon as the float selection is above 0.0f.
Implementation: this piggy-back on the existing drawing via
overlay_edit_curve_point.glsl which requires a "data" VBO which holds
flags for selection (next to others such as "active" - which we also
have to take care of later).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16021
This is required by the Metal backend to perform flushing of temporary objective-C resources. This is implemented as a global autoreleasepool, and is to ensure consistency such that all rendering operations, whether called via events, or via main loop will be within an autoreleasepool.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15900
For the Metal shader translation support for shader-global uniforms are remapped via macro's, and in such cases where a uniform name matches a vertex attribute name, compilation errors will occur due to this injected syntax being incompatible with the immediate code.
Also adding source-level function interface alternatives where sized arrays are passed in. These are not supported directly in Metal shading language and are instead handled as pointers. These pointers require explicit address-space qualifiers in some cases, if device/constant address space memory is passed into the function.
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15898
These implementations remove dependency on the Geometry pass by instead invoking one vertex shader instance for each expected output vertex, matching what a geometry shader would emit. Each vertex shader instance is then responsible for calculating the same output position based on its vertex_id as the logic would in the geometry shader version.
SSBO Vertex fetch enables full random-access into a vertex buffer by binding it as a read-only SSBO. This enables each instance to read neighbouring vertex data to perform contextual calculations as a geometry shader would, for cases where attribute Multiload is not supported.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15901
MTLContext provides functionality for command encoding, binding management and graphics device management. MTLImmediate provides simple draw enablement with dynamically encoded data. These draws utilise temporary scratch buffer memory to provide minimal bandwidth overhead during workload submission.
This patch also contains empty placeholders for MTLBatch and MTLDrawList to enable testing of first pixels on-screen without failure.
The Metal API also requires access to the GHOST_Context to ensure the same pre-initialized Metal GPU device is used by the viewport. Given the explicit nature of Metal, explicit control is also needed over presentation, to ensure correct work scheduling and rendering pipeline state.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
(The diff is based on 043f59cb3b)
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15953
In UV editor, previously unable to see grid and image at same time.
Maniphest Tasks: T78391
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16038
This was caused by the vertical/horizontal clasification being done in
NDC space which wasn't respecting the Aspect ratio.
Multiplying the test vector by the target size fixes the issue.
For example, allows a custom UV grid size of 4 x 12.
TODO: Fix snapping with custom UV grid sizes.
Manifest Tasks: T78391
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16000
Smooth flag should come from the evaluated mesh, only selection and hidding
state should be mapped to the original bmesh.
Pre-existing issue revealed by refactor in b247588dc0.
Sun Disc is currently not supported because it'll need special handling - on the one hand, I'm not sure if Eevee would handle a 1e6 coming out of a background shader without issues, and on the other hand it won't actually cast sharp shadows anyways.
I guess we'd want to internally add a sun to the lamps if Sun Disc is enabled, but getting that right is tricky since the user could e.g. swap RGB channels in the node tree and the lamp wouldn't match that.
Anyways, that can be handled later, the sky itself is already a start.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13522
This reverts commit 34051fcc12.
Although for normal use this doesn't make a difference. But when working with
huge scenes and volumetrics + NVIDIA it made a work-around not possible anymore.
For the heist production we added a fix on the render-farm (enable GPU workarounds).
{rB34051fcc12f388375697dcfc6da53e9909058fe1} made another work-around not
accessible anymore and it and was requested to revert this change.
When a change happens which invalidates view layers the syncing will be postponed until the first usage.
This will improve importing or adding many objects in a single operation/script.
`BKE_view_layer_need_resync_tag` is used to tag the view layer to be out of sync. Before accessing
`BKE_view_layer_active_base_get`, `BKE_view_layer_active_object_get`, `BKE_view_layer_active_collection`
or `BKE_view_layer_object_bases` the caller should call `BKE_view_layer_synced_ensure`.
Having two functions ensures that partial syncing could be added as smaller patches in the future. Tagging a
view layer out of sync could be replaced with a partial sync. Eventually the number of full resyncs could be
reduced. After all tagging has been replaced with partial syncs the ensure_sync could be phased out.
This patch has been added to discuss the details and consequences of the current approach. For clarity
the call to BKE_view_layer_ensure_sync is placed close to the getters.
In the future this could be placed in more strategical places to reduce the number of calls or improve
performance. Finding those strategical places isn't that clear. When multiple operations are grouped
in a single script you might want to always check for resync.
Some areas found that can be improved. This list isn't complete.
These areas aren't addressed by this patch as these changes would be hard to detect to the reviewer.
The idea is to add changes to these areas as a separate patch. It might be that the initial commit would reduce
performance compared to master, but will be fixed by the additional patches.
**Object duplication**
During object duplication the syncing is temporarily disabled. With this patch this isn't useful as when disabled
the view_layer is accessed to locate bases. This can be improved by first locating the source bases, then duplicate
and sync and locate the new bases. Will be solved in a separate patch for clarity reasons ({D15886}).
**Object add**
`BKE_object_add` not only adds a new object, but also selects and activates the new base. This requires the
view_layer to be resynced. Some callers reverse the selection and activation (See `get_new_constraint_target`).
We should make the selection and activation optional. This would make it possible to add multiple objects
without having to resync per object.
**Postpone Activate Base**
Setting the basact is done in many locations. They follow a rule as after an action find the base and set
the basact. Finding the base could require a resync. The idea is to store in the view_layer the object which
base will be set in the basact during the next sync, reducing the times resyncing needs to happen.
Reviewed By: mont29
Maniphest Tasks: T73411
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15885
Related to {D15885} that requires scene parameter
to be added in many places. To speed up the review process
the adding of the scene parameter was added in a separate
patch.
Reviewed By: mont29
Maniphest Tasks: T73411
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15930
