Current frame is stored in a scene, and scene might have multiple view
layers. The inactive view layers were not informed about scene's frame
being changed, so when user switched back to view after changing scene
frame it was in an inconsistent state between current scene frame and
animation.
Now we tag scene for time changes, so dependency graph can catch up
and do proper update.
Currently tagging is from quite generic place. Probably better approach
would be to tag from where frame is actually being assigned. Downside
of this is that it's easy to miss some places.
Reviewers: brecht, mont29
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T66378
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5332
Fix for GPencil and Cycles Render draw type. GPencil objects were only
shown when overlays were turned on. The cause of this is an
optimization we did to not populate any draw engine when an
external renderer was used with overlays turned off.
This will check if there is any visible GPencil object in the scene. if
so it will still perform the loop.
`DEG_id_type_any_exists` can check if any object of a certain type_id is in the
result. This check is also being used to check if there are any
visible grease pencil objects as a precheck in `DRW_render_check_grease_pencil`.
Reviewed By: brecht, fclem, antoniov
Maniphest Tasks: T65191
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4962
This change makes it so a minimal dependency graph which only includes
compositor and sequencer is built for the render pipeline purposes.
Tricky part here is that it's only compositor itself and sequencer who
to use this dependency graph and IDs from it. Render engines are still
to be provided original IDs because:
- They will create dependency graph for the given scene, and currently
it is not possible to create dependency graph from CoW scene.
- IDs from the compositor/sequencer dependency graph are "stripped",
as in, they wouldn't have all view layers, collections or objects
required for proper final render.
This creates annoying mess of mixing evaluated and original scene
access in various parts of the pipeline.
Fixes T63927: Compositing nodes - drivers don't really work
Reviewers: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T63927
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4911
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
Some summary of changes:
- Don't use DEG prefix for types and enumerator values:
the code is already inside DEG namespace.
- Put code where it locally belongs to: avoid having one
single header file with all sort of definitions in it.
- Take advantage of modern C++11 enabled by default.
Was happening when value of one shape key was driving property of
another shape key of same datablock.
Solved by making shape key blocks properties more granular.
Makes it more explicit whether RNA property is used as a source
dependency for something else, or whether some other dependency
is being hooked up to evaluate that property.
Allow more flexible use of drivers on B-Bone properties by
connecting the dependencies to the actual operation node that
uses the values, instead of the whole component.
COW nodes in the graph are mostly connected via a relation type
that doesn't propagate the update flags. Unfortunately, due to
the scheduling implementation that means the relations don't
actually guarantee execution order for indirect dependencies.
Relations also don't guarantee order in case of cycles.
As mentioned in IRC, the simplest way to fix possible problems
is to execute all COW nodes as a separate execution stage. This
seems to fix crashes with Data Transfer modifier in a cycle.
Staging works by simply delaying actual scheduling of tasks for
non-COW nodes until the second run of schedule_graph.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4027
To find all effectors in the scene, we need to loop over all objects.
Doing this during depsgraph evaluation caused crashes because not all
objects are guaranteed to be evaluated yet.
To fix this, we now cache the relations as part of the dependency graph
build. As a bonus this also makes evaluation faster for big scenes,
since looping over all objects for each particle system is slow.
Fixes T55156.
Make it more reliable and predictable way of getting pointer to
an original mesh which came from copy-on-write engine.
Related change: made it (hopefully) more clear name for flags.
When active dependency graph is evaluated, it will apply animation,
drivers and scalar evaluation data (such as object matrix) to an
original datablock. This way operators and tools can easily read
data from original datablock.
This will simplify porting them to copy-on-write, and solve issues
when some operator will allocate new datablock based on original one,
and will want to read data from it.
After discussion with Sergey and Dalai, we have decided to remove
this option completely. We're getting to the point where it is almost
impossible to really use 2.8 without COW, and keeping the old option
running ends up diverting dev resources away towards tracking down
and fixing problems with a parallel system that will be going away.
As was decided at today's dev kickoff, we're now moving to having
Copy-on-Write enabled by default, as 2.8 is barely functional with
it off.
To run Blender *without* COW (e.g. for testing), use:
--disable-copy-on-write
OVERVIEW
* In 2.7 terminology, all layers and groups are now collection datablocks.
* These collections are nestable, linkable, instanceable, overrideable, ..
which opens up new ways to set up scenes and link + override data.
* Viewport/render visibility and selectability are now a part of the collection
and shared across all view layers and linkable.
* View layers define which subset of the scene collection hierarchy is excluded
for each. For many workflows one view layer can be used, these are more of an
advanced feature now.
OUTLINER
* The outliner now has a "View Layer" display mode instead of "Collections",
which can display the collections and/or objects in the view layer.
* In this display mode, collections can be excluded with the right click menu.
These will then be greyed out and their objects will be excluded.
* To view collections not linked to any scene, the "Blender File" display mode
can be used, with the new filtering option to just see Colleciton datablocks.
* The outliner right click menus for collections and objects were reorganized.
* Drag and drop still needs to be improved. Like before, dragging the icon or
text gives different results, we'll unify this later.
LINKING AND OVERRIDES
* Collections can now be linked into the scene without creating an instance,
with the link/append operator or from the collections view in the outliner.
* Collections can get static overrides with the right click menu in the outliner,
but this is rather unreliable and not clearly communicated at the moment.
* We still need to improve the make override operator to turn collection instances
into collections with overrides directly in the scene.
PERFORMANCE
* We tried to make performance not worse than before and improve it in some
cases. The main thing that's still a bit slower is multiple scenes, we have to
change the layer syncing to only updated affected scenes.
* Collections keep a list of their parent collections for faster incremental
updates in syncing and caching.
* View layer bases are now in a object -> base hash to avoid quadratic time
lookups internally and in API functions like visible_get().
VERSIONING
* Compatibility with 2.7 files should be improved due to the new visibility
controls. Of course users may not want to set up their scenes differently
now to avoid having separate layers and groups.
* Compatibility with 2.8 is mostly there, and was tested on Eevee demo and Hero
files. There's a few things which are know to be not quite compatible, like
nested layer collections inside groups.
* The versioning code for 2.8 files is quite complicated, and isolated behind
#ifdef so it can be removed at the end of the release cycle.
KNOWN ISSUES
* The G-key group operators in the 3D viewport were left mostly as is, they
need to be modified still to fit better.
* Same for the groups panel in the object properties. This needs to be updated
still, or perhaps replaced by something better.
* Collections must all have a unique name. Less restrictive namespacing is to
be done later, we'll have to see how important this is as all objects within
the collections must also have a unique name anyway.
* Full scene copy and delete scene are exactly doing the right thing yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3383https://code.blender.org/2018/05/collections-and-groups/
Scene, view layer and mode are now set in the constructor and never changed.
Time is updated on frame changes to indicate which frame is being or has been
evaluated last.
This is a step towards making EvaluationContext obsolete.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3144