New operator that can calls a bake function to the current render engine when available. This commit provides no feature for the users, but allows external engines to be accessed by the operator and be integrated with the baking api.
The API itself is simple. Blender sends a populated array of BakePixels to the renderer, and gets back an array of floats with the result.
The Blender Internal (and multires) system is still running independent, but we eventually will pipe it through the API as well. Cycles baking will come next as a separated commit
Python Operator:
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The operator can be called with some arguments, or a user interface can be created for it. In that case the arguments can be ommited and the interface can expose the settings from bpy.context.scene.render.bake
bpy.ops.object.bake(type='COMBINED', filepath="", width=512, height=512, margin=16, use_selected_to_active=False, cage_extrusion=0, cage="", normal_space='TANGENT', normal_r='POS_X', normal_g='POS_Y', normal_b='POS_Z', save_mode='INTERNAL', use_clear=False, use_split_materials=False, use_automatic_name=False)
Note: external save mode is currently disabled.
Supported Features:
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* Margin - Baked result is extended this many pixels beyond the border of each UV "island," to soften seams in the texture.
* Selected to Active - bake shading on the surface of selected object to the active object. The rays are cast from the lowpoly object inwards towards the highpoly object. If the highpoly object is not entirely involved by the lowpoly object, you can tweak the rays start point with Cage Extrusion. For even more control of the cage you can use a Cage object.
* Cage Extrusion - distance to use for the inward ray cast when using selected to active
* Custom Cage - object to use as cage (instead of the lowpoly object).
* Normal swizzle - change the axis that gets mapped to RGB
* Normal space - save as tangent or object normal spaces
Supported Passes:
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Any pass that is supported by Blender renderlayer system. Though it's up to the external engine to provide a valid enum with its supported passes. Normal passes get a special treatment since we post-process them to converted and "swizzled"
Development Notes for External Engines:
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(read them in bake_api.c)
* For a complete implementation example look at the Cycles Bake commit (next).
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Normal map pipeline "consulting" by Andy Davies (metalliandy)
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
Previously this only worked for some datablocks relevant to rendering, now it
can be used to detect if any type of datablock was added or removed (but not
yet to detect if it was modified, we need many more depsgraph tags for that).
Most of the changes are some function parameter changes, the important parts
are the DAG_id_type_tag calls.
Reviewed By: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D195
Summary:
Curve ORCO was not calculating properly for cyclic 2D curves.
- Needed to split vertices for blender internal renderer.
Otherwise it's not possible to map last face to a proper
texture location.
- Needed to tweak curve->mesh conversion to respect cyclic
flag along U direction.
- Removed check for orcodm in curve.c:add_orco_dm since
this code is only called if there're enabled constructive
modifiers on the curve.
Reviewers: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T37225
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D45
In fact, the issue was that names of mloopuv/mtespoly layers could very easily get out of sync (a simple rename was enough), while most tools (such as the UVProject modifier) expect matching layers to have the same name!
Now matching names are check on load, and renaming of a layer through RNA is guaranted to be synchronized with its counterparts.
Thanks to Brecht & Campbell for reviews.
So now, their generation is controlled by a flag, else previous "simple values" group ids are generated (one per poly region, no need here to reduce the number of used IDs!).
Will update obj exporter too.
In fact, smooth groups are supposed to be bitflags, not simply integer values (would be far too much simple!). This adds quite a bit of work, as with only 32 values, we can't just assign one to each group. Somewhat related to the "Four colors theorem"! ;)
Here we simply use the first available bit for current smooth group (i.e. first bit not used by any of the already defined contiguous groups).
Object update used to free object-data level bounding box to trigger
it's re-calculation in the future. Such a freeing performed from
object update isn't thread-safe because mesh could be shared between
multiple objects.
Rather than freeing bounding box, tag it's as invalid, this is safe
from threading point of view and also prevents unnecessary memory
re-allocation.
Object-level bounding box is still reallocating, but think we could
change this easily in the future as well.
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svn merge -r58154:58156 -r59258:59259 ^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
Now modifier stack wouldn't modify original curve's nurbs
and will operate on a copy of nurbs.
This makes it possible to process curve object update with
shared curve datablocks from multiple threads. There's no
big overhead for creating a copy of nurbs comparing to old
behavior which was allocating original vertex array and
apply coordinates on curve after all modifier are applied.
The only remained issue with curves is curve's bounding box
and texture space. It's not thread-safe, but it wouldn't
lead to crashes -- it just could lead to either memory
leak or wrong texture coordinates due to difference in
modifiers stacks of objects which shares the same curve.
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svn merge -r57959:57961 ^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
I know this is not so much nice to have this guys hanging
around in a general Object datablock and ideally they better
be wrapped around into a structure like DerivedMesh or
something like this. But this is pure runtime only stuff and
we could re-wrap them around later.
Main purpose of this is making curves more thread safe,
so no separate threads will ever start freeing the same path
or the same bevel list.
It also makes sense because path and bevel shall include
deformation coming from modifiers which are applying on
pre-tesselation point and different objects could have
different set of modifiers. This used to be really confusing
in the past and now data which depends on object is stored
in an object, making things clear for understanding even.
This doesn't make curve code fully thread-safe due to
pre-tesselation modifiers still modifies actual nurbs and
lock is still needed in makeDispListsCurveTypes, but this
change makes usage of paths safe for threading.
Once modifiers will stop modifying actual nurbs, curves
will be fully safe for threading.
Actually, this commit also contains wrapping runtime curve
members into own structure
This allows easier assignment on file loading, keeps curve-
specific runtime data grouped and saves couple of bytes in
Object for non-curve types.
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svn merge -r57938:57939 ^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
svn merge -r57957:57958^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
Also construct orco uv layer when converting curve to a mesh.
This makes it possible to preserve automatically generated coordinates
("use uv for mapping" option) when using constructive modifiers or
converting curve to the mesh.
With cycles nothing special is needed to preserve texture mapping
after such operations, in blender internal you'll need to change
texture mapping from Generated to UV.
This feature is useful on it's own and also would help in potential
switch 3d viewport to always use DM to draw objects, which would
help making drawing more thread-safe.
