This was reported for the Triangulate geometry node, but was also true
for the triangulate modifier and in exporters.
Note the modifier was introduced with "Ngon Method" in rBa7b44c82e5b9 but
was renamed to "Polygon Method" in rBf4762eb12ba5.
Since quads are also polygons (and quads have their own method), the
term "N-gon" is more appropriate here and is also described in the
glossary https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.92/glossary/
index.html#term-N-gon
Docs have been updated in rBM7539 (partially - the method would also
have to be renamed once this patch lands).
Note this also fixes the wrong enum used for the alembic exporter.
Fixes T83907
Maniphest Tasks: T83907
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10022
Approximately 195 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
UI labels and property names should use MLA title case, while descriptions
should be capitalized like regular prose, generally with only the start of
a sentence capitalized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9922
Node tree types from addons were selectable in the modifier's drop-down.
Obviously they didn't do anything, but it shouldn't be possible anyway.
This was just caused by an unimplemented poll function.
Implement improvement from T73139 for merging along edges.
It is now called "Connected" mode, while the default is called "All".
With the recent performance improvement, the Connected Mode is in some
cases only double the speed than the usual merge all strategy but in
other cases it may be even faster. The bottleneck is somewhere further
down the line of merging geometry.
The motivation for this patch came from T80897, because the merging in
complex solidify is making it very slow.
Now merging can be removed from solidify without greater consequences,
as this is just a quicker and more advanced algorithm to do the same
thing that solidify currently does slowly.
Reviewed by: mano-wii, campbellbarton
Ref D8966
Until there is a icon made specially for this, the nodetree icon is up
for grabs. Using it in the nodegroup + modifier + editor helps the users
to make a connection on where to edit those modifiers.
This commit adds functions to set and get the object's active
modifier, which is stored as a flag in the ModifierData struct,
similar to constraints. This will be used to set the context in
the node editor. There are no visible changes in this commit.
Similar to how the node editor context works for materials, this commit
makes the node group displayed in the node editor depend on the active
object and its active modifier. To keep the node group from changing,
just pin the node group in the header.
* Shortcuts performed while there is an active modifier will affect
only that modifier (the exception is the A to expand the modifiers).
* Clicking anywhere on the empty space in a modifier's panel will make it active.
These changes require some refactoring of object modifier code. First
is splitting up the modifier property invoke callback, which now needs
to be able to get the active modifier separately from the hovered
modifier for the different operators.
Second is a change to removing modifiers, where there is now a separate
function to remove a modifier from an object's list, in order to handle
changing the active.
Finally, the panel handler needs a small tweak so that this "click in panel"
event can be handled afterwards.
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
The Vertex Weight Edit Modifier already got the Custom Curve, there was no
real reason for the proximity not to have it as well.
With some fixes by Bastien Montagne (@mont29).
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9594
This commit uses an enum to access expansion for specific panels for
each modifier, constraint, etc. Even though these values are quite simple,
this can help make the code more explicit when the ui_expand_flag is
accessed directly. Also update comments about this bitfield to make
them consistent.
The simple subdivision as a type only causes issues like no-continuous
normals across edges, inability to reliably switch the type and things
like this.
The new subdivision operators supports wider variety of how to add
details to the model, which are more powerful than a single one-time
decision on the subdivision type.
The versioning code is adjusting topology converter to specify all
edges as infinitely sharp. The reason for this (instead of using
settings.is_simple) is because in a longer term the simple subdivision
will be removed from Subsurf modifier as well, and will be replaced
with more efficient bmesh-based modifier.
This is finished up version of D8436.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9350
Those two features are not directly related and one might be activated
in master earlier than the other.
WITH_PARTICLE_NODES was removed, because we continue the project
under the name "Geometry Nodes".
The design for how we approach the "Everything Nodes" project
has changed. We will focus on a different part of the project initially.
While future me will likely refer back to some of the code I remove here,
there is no point in keeping this code around in master currently.
It would just confuse other developers working on the project.
This does not remove the simulation modifier and data block. Those are
just cleaned up, so that the boilerplate code can be reused in the future.
This modifier is the opposite of the recently added Mesh to Volume modifier.
It converts the "surface" of a volume into a mesh. The "surface" is defined
by a threshold value. All voxels with a density higher than the threshold
are considered to be inside the volume, while all others will be outside.
By default, the resolution of the generated mesh depends on the voxel
size of the volume grid. The resolution can be customized. It should be
noted that a lower resolution might not make this modifier faster. This
is because we have to downsample the openvdb grid, which isn't a cheap
operation.
Converting a mesh to a volume and then back to a mesh is possible,
but it does require two separate mesh objects for now.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9141
The strength has a high impact on performance. With the previous
step and default one could easily and accidentally make Blender unusably
slow, because of a too high displacement strength.
The 0.1 limit was too large. The issue with making it smaller is that
one can easily crash blender by making it to small. To counteract this,
the step has been reduced as well.
A voxel size/amount of 0 disables the modifier.
This modifier uses a 3D texture to displace a volume.
For now, this can only use the previously existing texture system,
because we do not have a better alternative yet. Still, the results
can be quite good and interesting. See D9075 for some examples.
Reviewers: brecht, simonthommes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9075
As noted in T80164, there are quite a few area of Blender where the
"Reset to Default Value" operator in button context menus doesn't work.
Modifiers are one of them, because the DNA defaults system was never
set up for them.
Additionally, this should make modifier versioning easier. Whenever a
new field is added it should be automatically initialized to the
default value.
I had to make some ordering changes in the following modifiers to work
around an error with `-Wsign-conversion` in the macros:
- Solidify Modifier
- Corrective Smooth Modifier
- Screw Modifier
Some modifiers are special cases and are skipped in this commit:
- Data Transfer Modifier
- Cloth Modifier
- Fluid Modifier
- Softbody Modifier
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8747
This adds the option to either smooth the entire boundary, or to keep
corners sharp, for the Subdivision Surface and Multiresolution modifiers.
This mainly helps with compatibility with other software. The default
behavior remains to smooth the entire boundary.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8485
This makes subdivision surfaces compatible with the old subdivision
surface modifier and other applications that do not use the limit surface.
This option is available on the Subdivision Surface modifier.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8413
Add an option to disable Alembic vertex interpolation.
Bump subversion from 5 to 6.
Alembic stores mesh samples at specific time keys; when a frame in
Blender maps to a timecode between two samples, Blender will interpolate
the mesh vertex positions. This interpolation only happens when the mesh
has a constant topology, but sometimes this was not detected properly
when the vertices change order, but the number of mesh elements remains
the same. This would result in a mesh with jumbled up vertices (T71981).
With this patch, users have the ability to disable vertex interpolation.
An alternative would be to have better detection of topology changes,
but that that'll cause a considerable slowdown.
Maniphest Tasks: T71981
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9041
This modifier can only be added to Volume objects. It takes a mesh
as input and generates a "density" grid near the surface or in
the enclosed volume.
Ref T73201.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9032
This reduces the number of places that have to be modified
when a new modifier is added.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9000
This commit replaces the BVH Tree currently used by the Weld Modifier
with the KD Tree used by `Merge > By Distance`.
This changes the result of the Weld Modifier to more closely match
`Merge > By Distance`.
There is also a big performance advantage.
Here is an overview (models in D8995):
| 2.90 (Duplicate Limit = 0) | 2.90 (Duplicate Limit = 1) | master (BVH) (Duplicate Limit = 1) | patch (KD) |
| 1.69s| 0.17s | 0.12s | 0.029s |
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8995
Also added code so that exact solver does the whole collection at once.
This patch allows users to use a collection (as an alternative to Object)
for the boolean modifier operand, and therefore get rid of a long modifier stack.
With this option, self-intersections in either or both operands
will be handled properly (if both sides are piecewise winding
number constant, and maybe some other cases too).
In the Boolean tool, this flag was there already but the code
forced a unary operation in that case; this commit corrects it
to make a binary operation. This flag makes the code slower, which
is why it is an option and not an always-on thing.
This is for design task T67744, Boolean Redesign.
It adds a choice of solver to the Boolean modifier and the
Intersect (Boolean) and Intersect (Knife) tools.
The 'Fast' choice is the current Bmesh boolean.
The new 'Exact' choice is a more advanced algorithm that supports
overlapping geometry and uses more robust calculations, but is
slower than the Fast choice.
The default with this commit is set to 'Exact'. We can decide before
the 2.91 release whether or not this is the right choice, but this
choice now will get us more testing and feedback on the new code.
For 2.90 release this should not be exposed in the RNA API.
In master this needs to be ON by default, that's all.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8589
This adds an option to the Multires modifier to sculpt directly on the
base mesh while previewing the displacement of a higher subdivisions
level. What this does it considering Multires as a regular modifier
without exposing the grid displacement to sculpt mode.
This allows to see the propagation happening in real time, which enables
to use complex tools like Cloth or Pose in much higher resolutions and
without surface noise and artifacts.
Reviewed By: sergey, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8555
Small tweaks to make labels and texts more correct, consistent and
polished.
Reviewed by: Aaron Carlisle, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8346
Following work done in 2.83, the resolution control is now a real
level-of-detail parameter. It is now useful to be able to set the
resolution for display independently from render. This is true for
both mesh generation and mesh deformation modes.
For compatibility with old scenes, resolution is retained and is the
render resolution. Old modifiers loaded have the value of resolution
also applied to viewport resolution. This allows newer modifiers to
be used in older versions without trouble
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8336
This patch adds the ability to render motion blur from Alembic caches.
The motion blur data is derived from a velocity attribute whose name has
to be defined by the user through the MeshSequenceCache modifier, with a
default value of ".velocities", which is the standard name in Alembic
for the velocity property, although other software may ignore it and
write velocity with their own naming convention (e.g. "v" in Houdini).
Furthermore, a property was added to define how the velocity vectors
are interpreted with regard to time : frame or second. "Frame"
means that the velocity is already scaled by the time step and we do not
need to modify it for it to look proper. "Second" means that the unit
the velocity was measured in is in seconds and so has to be scaled by
some time step computed here as being the time between two frames (1 /
FPS, which would be typical for a simulation). This appears to be
common, and is the default behavior.
Another property was added to control the scale of the velocity to
further modify the look of the motion blur.
Reviewed By: brecht, sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2388
The abbreviation 'init' is brief, unambiguous and already used
in thousands of places, also initialize is often accidentally
written with British spelling.
This matches the change that was done to the bevel modifier so that the
interface for the modifier, the active tool, and the operator are consistent.
This commit extends the refactor to the bmesh implementation too, so
that the parameters in the implementation don't stray too far from what
is exposed.
Tests are adjusted and still pass.
Internally the "show_expanded" property stores the expansion for every
subpanel, but for RNA we should only check the first bit of the flag that
corresponds to the main panel.
