Now we use vcos when provided, and fall back to mesh vertices' co
otherwise.
Deform modifiers usually do not have up-to-date coordinates in Mesh
itself, only in given vcos array!
This modifier still has issues that are not related to this port:
- While editing the deformation mesh, the deformed mesh doesn't update.
This update only happens after exiting edit mode, making editing
cumbersome.
- Binding doesn't work yet. It works fine when binding in master and
loading pre-bound in 2.8. This was also an issue before this port, and
will be investigated separately.
Some notes here:
* Proximity with non-mesh objects (like curve, see TEST_2 scene in
weightvg testfile) are not working currently. This is known TODO of COW
depsgraph project.
* Proximity modifier is slower, due to some other TODO pending on
BVHTree creation/caching for Mesh.
Note that custom normals drawing seems to be broken, and there also are
some refresh issues in some cases... But this is same with old DM-based
code, so not related to modifiers themselves probably.
This introduces `BKE_mesh_to_bmesh_ex()`, which exposes all of the
`BMeshFromMeshParams` parameters to the caller. This is required to enable
the `calc_face_normal` flag, which is required for the Bevel modifier.
This also introduces `BKE_bmesh_to_mesh()`, which allocates a new `Mesh`,
converts the `BMesh` to it, and returns it. The returned mesh is owned by
the caller.
The contents of the ModifierEvalContext struct are constant while iterating
over the modifier stack. The struct thus should be only created once, outside
any loop over the modifiers.
This commit introduces `EditMeshData`. The fields in this struct are
extracted from `EditDerivedBMesh` into their own struct `EditMeshData`,
which can then also be used by the `Mesh` struct. This allows passing
deformed vertices efficiently to the draw routines.
The modifier code constructs a new Mesh instead of writing to ob->data;
even when ob->data is a CoW copy, it can still be used by different
objects and thus shouldn't be modified by a modifier.
Makes the follow changes:
- Add new `deform*` and `apply*` function pointers to `ModifierTypeInfo` that take `Mesh`, and rename the old functions to indicate that they take `DerivedMesh`. These new functions are currently set to `NULL` for all modifiers.
- Add wrapper `modifier_deform*` and `modifier_apply*` functions in two variants: one that works with `Mesh` and the other which works with `DerivedMesh` that is named with `*_DM_depercated`. These functions check which type of data the modifier supports and converts if necessary
- Update the rest of Blender to be aware and make use of these new functions
The goal of these changes is to make it possible to port to using `Mesh` incrementally without ever needing to enter into a state where modifiers don't work. After everything has been ported over the old functions and wrappers could be removed.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey, mont29
Subscribers: sybren
Tags: #bf_blender_2.8
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3155
