rBc473b2ce8bdbf8fa42 improved the situation somewhat, but
attribute search still crashes during animation playback, because
the UI search data references stale memory. The proper solution
is to allow the search to own data rather than just referencing it,
but I would prefer not to do that for 3.0. In the meantime, just
disable attribute search when animation is playing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13179
Nishita sky is not available in Eevee, display a warning to make this clear inside the Sky texture node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13161
This solves the issue in a more general that can also be used to solve
similar issues for other nodes in the future. Nodes can specify their
"main" socket in their declaration so that we don't have to rely on
heuristics.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13108
Size, position and scale of the "two-line" widget (the one to scale a
node horizontally) was not taking interface scale into account. In the
case of the report, it could happen it draws behind an output socket.
before (at 2.0 interface scale)
{F11698493}
after (at 2.0 interface scale)
{F11698501}
Maniphest Tasks: T92791
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13088
Currently, colored links overlay only supports standard sockets defined
by Blender. Some add-ons like Animation Nodes defines custom sockets for
everything and hence doesn't get colored sockets.
This patch uses the draw color from the socket type info to draw links
in order to support custom sockets.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13044
Reviewed By: Hans Goudey
Unlike translating existing nodes [which disables cursor wrapping and
enables edge-panning instead since rBSa1cc7042a74], adding new nodes
would still show the old behavior of cursor wrapping.
This has been disabled for the case when the node whould be added
outside (due to menus overlapping other editors).
Now enable edge-panning for adding new nodes as well and make sure
this only starts once the mouse has returned into the inside rect once.
Maniphest Tasks: T92427
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13005
This patch changes how nodes look visually, in an attempt to fix a number of issues:
* The header background is currently drawn using a theme color fully opaque, this limits the colors we can use because the node name/label is drawn on top.
* Hard-coded transparency makes nodes hard to read. The node backdrop already has alpha so if the user wants it they can set it. This patch uses alpha from the theme.
* Better muted status indicator, instead of simply making everything transparent and the wires inside red, draw a red outline around the node, darken the header and backdrop.
* On muted nodes, display wires behind the backdrop to not interfere with text/widgets inside the node.
Nodes:
* Darken header to improve readability of node label.
* Draw a line under the header
* Thicker outline.
* Do not hard-code transparency on nodes, use the theme's node backdrop alpha component.
* Use angle icon instead of triangle (to be consistent with the [[ https://developer.blender.org/D12814 | changes ]] to panels)
Style adjustment to sockets drawing:
* Do not hard-code the socket outline color to black, use `TH_WIRE` instead
* Do not use `TH_TEXT_HI` for selected sockets, use `TH_ACTIVE` (active node outline)
* Do not draw sockets background transparent on muted nodes.
* Thicker outline to help contrast and readability
{F11496707, size=full}
Reviewed By: #user_interface, HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12884
This patch upgrades node editor breadcrumbs to have slightly more
visual weight, to including the base path of object/modifier/world,
etc, have more visually pleasing spacing, and contain icons.
In the code, a generic "context path" is added to interface code.
The idea is that this could be used to draw other breadcrumbs in areas
like the property editor or the spreadsheet, and features could be added
to all of those areas at the same time.
Ideally we would be able to control the color of the breadcrumbs with a
specific theme color, but since they are drawn with the regular layout
system, that is not easily possible.
Thanks to @fabian_schempp for the original patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10413
Node links that are connected to selected nodes are highlighted
using the Wire Select theme color. Now it is possible to change the
transparency of this color to allow the actual link color to be visible
through the highlight (or to turn of the highlight entirely).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12973
Previously, the field on every socket was logged for later use. This had
two main negative consequences:
* Increased memory usage, because the fields may contain a lot of data
under some circumstances (e.g. a Ray Cast field contains the target geometry).
* Decreased performance, because anonymous attributes could not be
removed from geometry automatically, because there were still fields that
referenced them.
Now most fields are not logged anymore. Only those that are viewed by a
spreadsheet and constant fields. The required inputs of a field are still
logged in string form to keep socket inspection working.
The viewer node has been expanded to have a field input next to the
geometry input. When both are connected (by ctrl+shift clicking on a node)
the spreadsheet will show the evaluated field on the geometry.
The operator to link to the viewer has become a bit smarter. It automatically
detects if it should link to the geometry or field input. In the future some more
smartness could be added, such as automatically relinking the "right" geometry
when viewing a field.
Internally, there are two major changes:
* Refactor of what happens when ctrl+shift clicking on a node to link to
a viewer. The behavior of the geometry nodes viewer is a bit more complex
than that of the compositor viewers. The behavior in compositing nodes
should not have changed. Any change should be reported as a bug (and then
we can decide if it's worse than before or if it needs fixing).
* Evaluation, display and caching of fields in the spreadsheet editor.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12938
This patch makes the background grid of the node editor a grid of dots
instead of lines. This makes the background look a bit more subtle and
reduces visual complexity. The dots are meant to provide a reference
when panning and zooming. Based on the design of @pablovazquez, and
a patch originally authored by @fabian_schempp.
The "Grid Levels" controls how many levels of dots are drawn. As the
editor zooms in, the higher levels of dots fade in, making them closer
together visually. The zoom factor at which each grid starts and ends
fading in is controllable in the code, and could be tweaked further
in the future. The new default value is 7, out of a range from 0 to 9.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10345
This adds a new image texture node for geometry nodes. It does not
reuse the same node that is used in shading, because we want to be
able to expose the image and frame as sockets.
There is a known update issue when a movie or image sequence is
used. That will be fixed separately (also see D12957).
Currently, the image socket is just a pointer to an Image ID data block.
This can contain single images but also movies and image sequences.
In the future, the definition of an image socket can be expanded to
include images that are generated from scratch in the node tree.
For more details read the discussion in D12827.
Some of the code is a direct port from cycles and should be cleaned
up a bit in the future. For example `image_cubic_texture_lookup`.
For still images, the frame input is ignored. Otherwise, the frame
has to be in a valid range for the node to work. In the future we
may add e.g. automatic looping functionality.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12827
This patch includes code from D9891 and D12754, so credit goes to Juanfran and Dalai.
I updated the patches to work with `master` and with the new overlay toggle.
The reason to include both changes as part of one patch is that the dimmed dashed lines work much better together with colored wires.
Theme setting for dash opacity:
{F11370574, size=full}
{F11286177, size=full, autoplay, loop}
{F11149912, size=full}
For adding the overlay I used `SpaceImageOverlay` as reference, although I'm not familiar with this code so there might be mistakes.
Reviewed By: #user_interface, HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12886
This adds attribute search to the geometry nodes modifier
for the input and output attributes. The "New" search item
is only shown for the output attributes.
Some of the attribute search code is extracted to a new file
in the interface code, to avoid some code duplication.
The UI code required two fixes so that the search would work
for dynamic length strings (IDProperties do not have a fixed size).
Since this does changes to the UI layout of the modifier, I also
addressed T91485 here.
Differential Revisiion: https://developer.blender.org/D12788
Use arrays for wmEvent coordinates, this quiets warnings with GCC11.
- `x, y` -> `xy`.
- `prevx, prevy` -> `prev_xy`.
- `prevclickx, prevclicky` -> `prev_click_xy`.
There is still some cleanup such as using `copy_v2_v2_int()`,
this can be done separately.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, Severin
Ref D12901
The issue was that this menu was only looking at socket templates,
but not at the new node declarations. This fix is to just check those
as well. The fix comes with a small refactor that makes the memory
management a bit simpler.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12866
The sockets are not exposed in any nodes yet.
They work similar to the Object/Collection/Texture sockets,
which also just reference a data block.
Based on rB207472930834
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12861
In the original code depth=0 meant that there was no parents. But with
BLI_listbase_count we have depth 1 in those cases.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12817
This seems to happen only in a few files, and not so trivial to
reproduce from scratch.
The crash is real though, and this fixes it.
It also fix a wrong comment style that was introduced in the same faulty
commit.
Bug introduced on ebe2374528.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12794
The breadcrumbs alone may not be enough to indicate that a user is
inside a nodegroup. The original dark green color was a bit overwhelming
but having a different background helps.
This is a follow up to 919e513fa8.
The current background color and parent nodetrees is too distracting and noisy.
It drastically affect the readability of the nested node-trees.
Other techniques (better bread crumbs) can be used instead to indicate
to users that they are inside a node group.
---
The background drawing was introduced in 4638e5f99a as part of the
Python Nodes branch merge. This made its debut in Blender 2.67
(30/May/2021).
At the time the color used for the background was a light gray. Over the
years the color changed to the current dark green, aggravating the
problem further.
Before that, the (expanded) nodegroup already had the partially
transparent background, mingling with the other nodes. The Python Nodes
branch brought this concept with its changes, and would always draw up
to two levels up in the background (the parent nodetree, and its parent
nodetree).
To read the original inspiration for all the changes introduced then:
https://code.blender.org/2012/01/improving-node-group-interface-editing/
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12780
- Instead of making the enum expanded leave it in menu form.
- Use full words instead of letters.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12686
Use dashes to represent the function flow (while keeping continuous
lines for the data-flow).
It is important to tell both flows apart (the data and the function
flow). The sockets help with that, the noodles help this further.
The "data flow" is evaluated at every single node. A user can inspect
the output sockets of those nodes and have a glimpse at their values.
The "function flow" (nodes) however is only evaluated in the geometry
nodes. The noodles are not transporting data in the same sense of the
"data flow". All that can be inspected are the attributes the functions
depend on.
Having this clearly communicated should help users to inspect the
nodetrees, read and understand the different flows in the same tree.
---
Known limitations:
At the moment the dash lines are not equidistant:
* It would be nice to get the "uv.x" to be resampled for the bezier curve
so the dashes are equally distributed in the curve.
* Using distance between the P3 and P0 instead of the real bezier curve
length seems to be fine.
---
Full disclaimer:
Changes with that much of a visual impact tend to be controversial. So
far the main feedback is that dashed lines can be associated to broken
link, and that there are better ways to represent the flows (or
different information that should be visually represented).
I'm fully aware of that. However dashed lines are already used in the
viewport and outliner to indicate (hierarchical) relation. Besides,
other approaches (double-lines, having the data flow to be more
distinct, ...) didn't pan out in the end (or didn't look as good as
this).
---
Impact in other editors:
The compositor uses mostly a "data flow" nodetree, so no change is
expected there.
The shader nodetree is one that could but doesn't have to change its
visual language.
The shader nodetree uses mostly "function flow" with some "data flow" nodes.
One can argue that it should be adapted to follow the
same pattern as geometry nodes (with the new noodles and the diamond
sockets). Oh the other hand, a shader nodetree has a single context.
When a node depends on the "UV", there is only one UV at a time for the
entire nodetree. So it can also be treated as a psedo "data flow"
nodetree if we want to avoid too many changes in other parts of Blender.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12602
This makes it easier to spot which links contain fields and which
contain data. Actually, the patch makes all other links a bit thicker.
However, with soon-to-be-implemented theme changes, the
perceived thickness will be the same as before.
This is part of T91563.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12646
This adds initial limited support for socket tooltips. It's limited
in a couple of ways for now:
* Only works when hovering over the socket shape, not when hovering
over the value in the socket.
* Only works for built-in nodes that already use the new node
declaration system. This can later be extended to support pynodes.
Those limitations are well worth it for now, given that the
implementation is quite simple and the impact on usability is quite
large. More complex updates to the layout system, that would allow
showing socket tooltips in the nodes, can be done later. With the
current implementation we can at least start writing tooltips for
geometry nodes now.
This commit already adds tooltips for the Cylinder node as an example.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12607
This implements the update logic for the vizualization of which
sockets pass data or constants directly, and which pass functions.
The socket shapes may still have to be updated. That should be
done separately, because it might be a bit more involved, because
socket shapes are currently linked to keyframe shapes. Currently
the circle and diamond shapes are used with the following meanings:
- Input Sockets:
- Circle: Required to be a single value.
- Diamond: This input supports fields.
- Output Sockets:
- Circle: This output is a single value.
- Diamond: This output may be a field.
Connecting a field to a circle input socket is an error, since a
field cannot be converted to a single value. If the socket shape
is a diamond with a dot in the middle, it means it is currently
a single value, but could be a field.
In addition to socket shapes, the intention is to draw node links
differently based on the field status. However, the exact method for
conveying that isn't decided yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12584
No functional change.
The shader is complicated by itself, having hardcoded values makes it
even more cryptic.
I also renamed the shader because the shader is not for the keyfarme diamond only,
but for all the keyframe shapes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12615
This commit adds warning messages to "legacy" nodes that will be
removed in the future. The warning is shown in the node header, but
it is not printed in the terminal or displayed in the modifier. It is
also not propogated to node groups, but that is a more general task.
If the modifier's node tree has executed a deprecated node, it will
display a warning and a "Search" button that will select the nodes and
pan to them in the node editor. This doesn't open child node trees and
select nodes in there, because I want to keep this operator simple and
avoid wasting a lot of time perfecting this behavior.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12454
It's equivalent to the OpenImageDenoise prefiltering option in Cycles.
See D12043.
Prefilter modes:
- None: No prefiltering, use when guiding passes are noise-free.
- Fast: Denoise image and guiding passes together. Improves quality when
guiding passes are noisy using least amount of extra processing time.
- Accurate: Prefilter noisy guiding passes before denoising image.
Improves quality when guiding passes are noisy using extra
processing time.
Reviewed By: #compositing, jbakker, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12342
Since fields were committed to master, socket inspection did
not work correctly for all socket types anymore. Now the same
functionality as before is back. Furthermore, fields that depend
on some input will now show the inputs in the socket inspection.
I added support for evaluating constant fields more immediately.
This has the benefit that the same constant field is not evaluated
more than once. It also helps with making the field independent
of the multi-functions that it uses. We might still want to change
the ownership handling for the multi-functions of nodes a bit,
but that can be done separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12444
Recently we have decided to avoid fancier versioning for nodes with
string inputs for attribute names when updating the attribute workflow
for 3.0. In that case we would just duplicate any node that will
have an updated version to work with fields.
We want to be able to use the "proper" ID names for the new versions
of the nodes though, so this patch adds "Legacy" to the IDs of all
nodes that will be replaced in 3.0. This commit also removes the nodes
from the add menu when the fields experimental preference is enabled,
in order to make it clear what has been updated and what hasn't.
Nodes in the "Maybe" categories in versioning_300.c can be renamed
later if necessary. For now it's probably better to be conservative,
and to keep the list complete.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12420
