- Density, interpolation and slicing options in Volume Object's
Viewport Display are now not aligned to each other as they are not
closely related.
- Changed the enum property for slicing ('Method') to a boolean
property 'Slice' and added a sub-panel for slicing options under
the 'Viewport Display' panel in Volume Object and Fluid for better
clarity.
- Renamed `axis_slice_method` to `use_slice` in the python API for
Volume Object and Fluid.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9097
All the changes made in the branch `soc-2020-fluid-tools` are included in this patch.
**Major changes:**
=== Viewport Display ===
- //Raw voxel display// or //closest (nearest-neighbor)// interpolation for displaying the underlying voxel data of the simulation grids more clearly.
- An option to display //gridlines// when the slicing method is //single//.
==== Grid Display ====
- Visualization for flags, pressure and level-set representation grids with a fixed color coding based on Manta GUI.
==== Vector Display ====
- //**M**arker **A**nd **C**ell// grid visualization options for vector grids like velocity or external forces.
- Made vector display options available for external forces.
==== Coloring options for //gridlines// ====
- Range highlighting and cell filtering options for displaying the simulation grid data more precisely.
- Color gridlines with flags.
- Also, made slicing and interpolation options available for Volume Object.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, sebbas
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8705
* Space: volume density and step size in object or world space
* Step Size: override automatic step size
* Clipping: values below this are ignored for tighter volume bounds
The last two are Cycles only currently.
Ref T73201
Only the volume drawing part is really finished and exposed to the user. Hair
plugs into the existing hair rendering code and is fairly straightforward. The
pointcloud drawing is a hack using overlays rather than Eevee and workbench.
The most tricky part for volume rendering is the case where each volume grid
has a different transform, which requires an additional matrix in the shader
and non-trivial logic in Eevee volume drawing. In the common case were all the
transforms match we don't use the additional per-grid matrix in the shader.
Ref T73201, T68981
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6955