An index stored in Alembic wasn't used. Often this index is a no-op
(i.e. index[n] = n), in which case the result was fine. However, when it
isn't, it caused issues.
Since in Alembic the loop order seems to be reversed when exporting and
importing, and this was the only place where it was not, I was thinking
to match this to the convention of reversing the loop order as well.
Reviewers: sybren, kevindietrich
Tags: #alembic
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2968
Since we are ditching layers from Blender (2.8) we need a replacement to
control groups visibility. This commit introduces collections as the building
blocks for groups, allowing users to control visibility as well as overrides
for groups.
Features
========
* Groups now have collections
This way you can change the visibility of a collection inside a group, and add
overrides which are part of the group and are prioritized over other overrides.
* Outliner
Groups can inspect their collections, change visibility, and add/remove members.
To change an override of a group collection, you need to select an instance of
the group, and then you can choose "group" in the collection properties editor
to edit this group active collection instead of the view layer one.
* Dupli groups overrides
We can now have multiple instances of the same group with an original "override"
and different overrides depending on the collection the instanced object is part
of.
Technical
=========
* Layers
We use the same api for groups and scene as much as possible.
Reviewers: sergey (depsgraph), mont29 (read/write and user count)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2892
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
This is a final step of having proper ownership. Now selecting different
layers in the "top bar" will actually do what this is expected to do.
Surely, there are still things to be done under the hood, that will happen
in a less intrusive way.
- Only basis balls are exported, as they represent the resulting mesh.
As a result the mesh is written to Alembic using the name of the basis
ball.
- MetaBalls are converted to a mesh on every frame, then an
AbcMeshWriter is used to write that mesh to Alembic.
When the mesh changed topology but kept the vertex count the same, it would
result in a corrupt mesh. By checking the face & loop counts too, this has
become less likely.
I've checked IPolyMeshSchema::isConstant(), but it returns true even when
we see that the mesh changed topology.
Apparently with Maya in a certain configuration, it's possible to have an
Alembic object without schema in the Alembic file. This is now handled
properly, instead of crashing on a null pointer.
This can happen with Alembic files exported from Maya. I'm unsure as to the
root cause, but at least this fixes the crash itself.
Thanks to @looch for reporting this with a test file. The test file has to
remain confidential, though, so it's on my workstation only.
When a mesh changes its number of vertices during the animation,
Blender rebuilds the DerivedMesh, after which the materials weren't
applied any more (causing the default to the first material slot).
Note that some little parts of code have been dissabled because eval_ctx
was not available there. This should be resolved once DerivedMesh is
replaced.
It's now less confusing (for example, using nr_of_samples directly,
instead of using 1 / 1 / nr_of_samples). Might also have fixed a bug.
Also added unittests.
The scale matrix must have its homogeneous 'w' (at mat[3][3]) set to the
scale in order to also scale the translations along with it. However, this
also scales the transform matrix's 'w' component, which is not supposed
to happen.
