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 node allows access to the indices of neighboring control points
within a curve via an offset. This includes taking into consideration
curves that are cyclic.
Differential Revision: D13373
This patch replaces the existing transfer attribute node with three
nodes, "Sample Nearest Surface", "Sample Index", and "Sample Nearest".
This follows the design in T100010, allowing for new nodes like UV
sampling in the future. There is versioning so the new nodes replace
the old ones and are relinked as necessary.
The "Sample Nearest Surface" node is meant for the more complex
sampling algorithms that only work on meshes and interpolate
values inside of faces.
The new "Sample Index" just retrieves attributes from a geometry at
specific indices. It doesn't have implicit behavior like the old
transfer mode, which should make it more predictable. In order to not
change the behavior from existing files, the node has a has a "Clamp",
which is off by default for consistency with the "Field at Index" node.
The "Sample Nearest" node returns the index of the nearest element
on a geometry. It can be combined with the "Sample Index" node for
the same functionality as the old transfer node. This node can support
curves in the future.
Backwards compatibility is handled by versioning, but old versions can
not understand these nodes. The warning from 680fa8a523 should make
this explicit in 3.3 and earlier.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15909
From the nodes' description: "Retrieve the object that contains
the geometry nodes modifier currently being executed". This was
discussed in the most recent geometry nodes module meeting.
Because the node allows you to retrieve the position of the modifier
object, it has to add a depsgraph relation to object transform.
Expect that modifiers will be reevaluated when moving the object.
In the future, better static analysis of node trees could make this
check smarter.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16037
Currently node group assets are supported, but using them by dragging
from the asset browser is cumbersome. This patch adds all node group
assets from user asset libraries and the current file libraries to the
add node search menu and the link drag search menu.
Node groups added through the search will have their "options" hidden,
meaning the data-block selector is displayed. This helps keep the UI
clean, and the selector shouldn't be necessary anyway.
To make that possible, metadata like the node tree type and its inputs
and outputs has to be saved in the file. This requires re-saving the
files that contain the assets with the patch applied.
The node add search operator is moved from Python to C++ to ease
development and allow more flexibility. It supports a tooltip that
gives the description of assets.
Currently the node groups are added with the asset system's existing
"Append & Reuse" behavior. It's likely that linking should be possible
in the future too, but for now the idea is to use the more foolproof
option that doesn't create dependencies between files.
Because loading assets can potentially take a long time, the search
menu refreshes its items as new assets are loaded. However, changing
the search field is necessary to see the update.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15568
This commit adds a node to distribute points inside of volume grids.
The "Random" mode usese OpenVDB's "point scatter" implementation, and
there is also a "Grid" mode for uniform distributions. Both methods
operate on all of the float grids in the volume, using every voxel with
a value higher than the threshold. The random method is not stable as
the input volume deforms.
Based on a patch by Angus Stanton (@abstanton), which was based on a
patch by Kenzie (@kenziemac130).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15375
With the recent addition of the UV unwrapping node, there is a need to
be able to create seams easily. This node does that by outputting a
selection of the boundaries between different input face sets. In the
context of UV mapping, one inputs the "patches" you want, and the node
gives you the seams needed to make those patches.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15423
This refactors the geometry nodes evaluation system. No changes for the
user are expected. At a high level the goals are:
* Support using geometry nodes outside of the geometry nodes modifier.
* Support using the evaluator infrastructure for other purposes like field evaluation.
* Support more nodes, especially when many of them are disabled behind switch nodes.
* Support doing preprocessing on node groups.
For more details see T98492.
There are fairly detailed comments in the code, but here is a high level overview
for how it works now:
* There is a new "lazy-function" system. It is similar in spirit to the multi-function
system but with different goals. Instead of optimizing throughput for highly
parallelizable work, this system is designed to compute only the data that is actually
necessary. What data is necessary can be determined dynamically during evaluation.
Many lazy-functions can be composed in a graph to form a new lazy-function, which can
again be used in a graph etc.
* Each geometry node group is converted into a lazy-function graph prior to evaluation.
To evaluate geometry nodes, one then just has to evaluate that graph. Node groups are
no longer inlined into their parents.
Next steps for the evaluation system is to reduce the use of threads in some situations
to avoid overhead. Many small node groups don't benefit from multi-threading at all.
This is much easier to do now because not everything has to be inlined in one huge
node tree anymore.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15914
From re-checking related code, it seems that we already always ensure
consistency of the `lib` pointer between embedded IDs and their owners.
This commit only adds some asserts in ambedded ID read code to
double-check this.
Many existing .blend files (including startup ones) seem to have invalid
embedded IDs (they are not properly tagged with `LIB_EMBEDDED_DATA`).
We cannot `do_version` this so just fix it on the fly when detecting the
issue. User then need to re-save these files.
We also need to update some release files (default factory startup is
OK, but e.g. the VSE template one is not).
Keeping the assert is important here, as such missing flag is a critical
data corruption that can potentially have many serious consequences
throughout the ID management code.
Add a dedicated `owner_id` pointer to ID types that can be embedded
(Collections and NodeTrees), and modify slightly come code to make
handling those more safe and consistent.
This implements first part of T69169.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15838
The previous implementation iterated over all links multiple times
recursively. Instead, use the node tree topology cache, only iterate
over all links once, and use a stack to propagate the mute upsteam
and downstream.
The purpose of `NodeTreeRef` was to speed up various queries on a read-only
`bNodeTree`. Not that we have runtime data in nodes and sockets, we can also
store the result of some queries there. This has some benefits:
* No need for a read-only separate node tree data structure which increased
complexity.
* Makes it easier to reuse cached queries in more parts of Blender that can
benefit from it.
A downside is that we loose some type safety that we got by having different
types for input and output sockets, as well as internal and non-internal links.
This patch also refactors `DerivedNodeTree` so that it does not use
`NodeTreeRef` anymore, but uses `bNodeTree` directly instead.
To provide a convenient API (that is also close to what `NodeTreeRef` has), a
new approach is implemented: `bNodeTree`, `bNode`, `bNodeSocket` and `bNodeLink`
now have C++ methods declared in `DNA_node_types.h` which are implemented in
`BKE_node_runtime.hh`. To make this work, `makesdna` now skips c++ sections when
parsing dna header files.
No user visible changes are expected.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15491
This patch is a response to T92588 and is implemented
as a Function/Shader node.
This node has support for Float, Vector and Color data types.
For Vector it supports uniform and non-uniform mixing.
For Color it now has the option to remove factor clamping.
It replaces the Mix RGB for Shader and Geometry node trees.
As discussed in T96219, this patch converts existing nodes
in .blend files. The old node is still available in the
Python API but hidden from the menus.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly, JacquesLucke, simonthommes, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92588
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13749
Translate:
- new group socket names
- default names Input and Output
- on connecting a link from another node
- new geometry nodes input and output socket names
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15763
In some cases, there is a chance code already knows who might be the
owner of the given ID, in which case it can be more efficient to check
it first (especially in cases like embedded node trees or scene
collections, where the only other way is to loop over all possible
owners currently).
Will be used in next commit in some Outliner fix.
While this was not a critical issue (that lib pointer is only used for
some kind of sanity check that no linked data uses local ID pointers),
better to keep `IDP_BlendReadLib` in sync with all other lib-linking
code.
This name doesn't require understanding of fields, and
is phrased as an action which is consistent with other nodes.
Discussed in the latest geometry nodes sub-module meeting.
This adds three new nodes:
* `Shortest Edge Paths`: Actually finds the shortest paths.
* `Edge Paths to Curves`: Converts the paths to separate curves.
This may generate a quadratic amount of data, making it slow
for large meshes.
* `Edge Paths to Selection`: Generates an edge selection that
contains all edges that are part of a path. This can be used
with the Separate Geometry node to only keep the edges that
are part of a path. For large meshes, this approach can be
much faster than the `Edge Paths to Curves` node, because
less data is created.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15274
Curves that are attached to a surface can now follow the surface when
it is modified using shape keys or modifiers (but not when the original
surface is deformed in edit or sculpt mode).
The surface is allowed to be changed in any way that keeps uv maps
intact. So deformation is allowed, but also some topology changes like
subdivision.
The following features are added:
* A new `Deform Curves on Surface` node, which deforms curves with
attachment information based on the surface object and uv map set
in the properties panel.
* A new `Add Rest Position` checkbox in the shape keys panel. When checked,
a new `rest_position` vector attribute is added to the mesh before shape
keys and modifiers are applied. This is necessary to support proper
deformation of the curves, but can also be used for other purposes.
* The `Add > Curve > Empty Hair` operator now sets up a simple geometry
nodes setup that deforms the hair. It also makes sure that the rest
position attribute is added to the surface.
* A new `Object (Attach Curves to Surface)` operator in the `Set Parent To`
(ctrl+P) menu, which attaches existing curves to the surface and sets the
surface object as parent.
Limitations:
* Sculpting the procedurally deformed curves will be implemented separately.
* The `Deform Curves on Surface` node is not generic and can only be used
for one specific purpose currently. We plan to generalize this more in the
future by adding support by exposing more inputs and/or by turning it into
a node group.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14864
This is the start of a geometry node to do edge, vertex, and face
bevels.
It doesn't yet do anything but analyze the "Vertex cap" around
selected vertices for vertex bevel.
This commit adds new Unwrap and Pack Islands nodes, with equivalent
functionality to the existing Unwrap and Pack Islands operators. The
Unwrap node uses generic boolean attributes to determine seams instead
of looking at the seam flags in the mesh geometry.
Unlike the Unwrap operator, the Unwrap node doesn't perform aspect
ratio correction, because this is trivial for the user to implement
with a Vector Math node if it is desired.
The Unwrap node implicitly performs a Pack Islands operation upon
completion, because the results may not be generally useful otherwise.
This matches the behaviour of the Unwrap operator.
The nodes use the existing Vector socket type, and do not introduce a
new 2D Vector type (see T92765).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14389
This adds a Mesh To Volume Node T86838 based on the existing modifier.
The mesh to volume conversion is implemented in the geometry module,
and shared between the node and the modifier.
Currently the node outputs a grid with the name "density". This may
change in the future depending on the decisions made in T91668.
The original patch was by Kris (@Metricity), further implementation
by Geramy Loveless (@GeramyLoveless), then finished by Erik Abrahamsson
(@erik85).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10895
As described in T98943, this commit adds a node that can
evaluate a field on a separate domain in a larger field context.
This is potentially useful in many cases, to avoid relying on
a separate capture attribute node, which can make it easier
to build reusable fields that don't need geometry inputs.
Internally, the node just evaluates the input field in the larger
field context and then uses the generic domain interpolation,
so the code is simple. One future optimization might be using
the input selection to only evaluate part of the input field, but
then the selection has to be interpolated as well, and that might
not always be worth it.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15289
This node takes a point count,a vector field, and float field and creates
a pointcloud with n points at the positions indicated in the vector
field with the radii specified in the float field.The node is placed in
the "Point" menu.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13920
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T93044
This commit adds a Volume Cube primitive node. It outputs a volume that
contains a single "density" float grid. The density per voxel can be
controlled with a field that depends on the voxel position (using the
existing Position node). Other field inputs are not supported.
The density field is evaluated on every voxel.
Possible future improvements are listed in D15198.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15198
A field input node for the scale of each top-level instance transform.
The scale can be set with the "Scale Instances" node, but previously
could not be retrieved.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15132
A field input node for the rotation of each top-level instance transform.
The rotation can be set with the "Rotate Instances" node, but previously
could not be retrieved.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15131
This is a follow up to rBbb0fc675822f313c5546a2498a162472c2571ecb.
Now the same kind of run-time data is added to nodes and sockets.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15060
`bNodeTree` has a lot of run-time embedded in it currently. Having a separately
allocated run-time struct has some benefits:
* Run-time data is not stored in files.
* Makes it easy to use c++ types as run-time data.
* More clear distinction between what data only exists at run-time and which doesn't.
This commit doesn't move all run-time data to the new struct yet, only the data where
I know for sure how it is used. The remaining data can be moved separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15033
Previously, the depsgraph assumed that every node tree might contain
a reference to a video. This resulted noticeable overhead when there
was no video.
Checking whether a node tree contained a video was relatively expensive
to do in the depsgraph. It is cheaper now due to the structure of the new
node tree updater.
This also adds an additional run-time field to `bNodeTree` (there are
quite a few already). We should move those to a separate run-time
struct, but not as part of a bug fix.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14957
Inspired by D12936 and D12929, this patch adds general purpose
"Combine Color" and "Separate Color" nodes to Geometry, Compositor,
Shader and Texture nodes.
- Within Geometry Nodes, it replaces the existing "Combine RGB" and
"Separate RGB" nodes.
- Within Compositor Nodes, it replaces the existing
"Combine RGBA/HSVA/YCbCrA/YUVA" and "Separate RGBA/HSVA/YCbCrA/YUVA"
nodes.
- Within Texture Nodes, it replaces the existing "Combine RGBA" and
"Separate RGBA" nodes.
- Within Shader Nodes, it replaces the existing "Combine RGB/HSV" and
"Separate RGB/HSV" nodes.
Python addons have not been updated to the new nodes yet.
**New shader code**
In node_color.h, color.h and gpu_shader_material_color_util.glsl,
missing methods hsl_to_rgb and rgb_to_hsl are added by directly
converting existing C code. They always produce the same result.
**Old code**
As requested by T96219, old nodes still exist but are not displayed in
the add menu. This means Python scripts can still create them as usual.
Otherwise, versioning replaces the old nodes with the new nodes when
opening .blend files.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14034
- Fix default_value initialization of custom node tree interface:
This was crashing when adding a custom interface socket to a tree.
The node_socket_set_typeinfo function was called too early, creating a
default float socket, which then doesn't match the socket type after
changing to the custom type.
The node_socket_set_typeinfo only allocates and initializes
default_value when it isn't already set. That is because the function is
used either when creating new sockets or to initialize typeinfo after
loading files. So default_value has to be either null or has to be
matching the current type already.
- Fix RNA flag for string return value of the valid_socket_type callback:
String return values of registerable RNA functions need a
PROP_THICK_WRAP flag since they don't have a fixed buffer to write into.
