This is the unification of all overlays into one overlay engine as described in T65347.
I went over all the code making it more future proof with less hacks and removing old / not relevent parts.
Goals / Acheivements:
- Remove internal shader usage (only drw shaders)
- Remove viewportSize and viewportSizeInv and put them in gloabl ubo
- Fixed some drawing issues: Missing probe option and Missing Alt+B clipping of some shader
- Remove old (legacy) shaders dependancy (not using view UBO).
- Less shader variation (less compilation time at first load and less patching needed for vulkan)
- removed some geom shaders when I could
- Remove static e_data (except shaders storage where it is OK)
- Clear the way to fix some anoying limitations (dithered transparency, background image compositing etc...)
- Wireframe drawing now uses the same batching capabilities as workbench & eevee (indirect drawing).
- Reduced complexity, removed ~3000 Lines of code in draw (also removed a lot of unused shader in GPU).
- Post AA to avoid complexity and cost of MSAA.
Remaining issues:
- ~~Armature edits, overlay toggles, (... others?) are not refreshing viewport after AA is complete~~
- FXAA is not the best for wires, maybe investigate SMAA
- Maybe do something more temporally stable for AA.
- ~~Paint overlays are not working with AA.~~
- ~~infront objects are difficult to select.~~
- ~~the infront wires sometimes goes through they solid counterpart (missing clear maybe?) (toggle overlays on-off when using infront+wireframe overlay in solid shading)~~
Note: I made some decision to change slightly the appearance of some objects to simplify their drawing. Namely the empty arrows end (which is now hollow/wire) and distance points of the cameras/spots being done by lines.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6296
BIF_gl.h included hacks like redefining glew functions and a constant.
The named constant `GLA_PIXEL_OFS` has been moved to `GPU_viewport.h`
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5860
The Random Per Island attribute is a random float associated with each
connected component (island) of the mesh. It is particularly useful
when artists want to add variations to meshes composed of separate
units. Like tree leaves created using particle systems, wood planks
created using array modifiers, or abstract splines created using AN.
Reviewed By: Sergey Sharybin, Jacques Lucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6154
With this commit sculpt mode draws the real mesh wireframe instead of the
triangulated version by ignoring non real edges when building the PBVH GPU buffers
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6032
This is pretty conservative. We do not show warnings for e.g. HD 4000 with the
latest drivers as they appear to be working mostly fine even if unsupported,
and there is nothing the user can do to improve things.
Ref T70520
Adds a check when starting blender if your platform is supported. We use a blacklist
as drivers are updated more regular then blender (stable releases).
The mechanism detects if the support level changed or has been validated by the user previously.
Changes can happen due to users updating their drivers, but also when we change the support
level in our code base.
When the user has seen the limited support level message it is saved in the user config.
It would be better to have a system specific config section, but currently not clear
what could benefit from that.
When the platform is unsupported or has limited support a dialog box will appear including a link
to our user manual describing what to do.
**Windows**
Windows uses the MessageBox that is provided by the windows kernel.
**X11**
We use a very lowlevel messagebox for X11. It is very limited in use and can be fine tuned when needed.
**SDL/APPLE**
There is no implementation for SDL or APPLE at this moment as the platform support feature targets mostly Windows users.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5955
This disable the indirect drawcall on all Nvidia hardware.
This has to be until nvidia fixes their drivers or instruct us
how to correctly fix the issue.
Related to T70011 Various display issues on NVIDIA
after draw call batching.
This reverts commit 44d042094e and adds a
simpler workaround for just the node links display issue. There are other
issues though so this is not a full workaround.
This improves performance of some sculpt tools, particularly those that modify
many vertices like filter and mask tools, or use brushes with large radius.
For mask expand it can make updates up to 2x faster on heavy meshes, but for
most tools it's more on the order of 1-1.1x. There are bigger bottlenecks to
solve, like normal updates.
Ref T70295
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5926
This was more of a general nvidia driver bug. Was caused by a
drawcall that had 0 vertex count. This worked in normal drawcalls
but not in indirect drawcalls.
This patch adds a new Vertex Color node. The node also returns the alpha
of the vertex color layer as an output.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5767
This patch allows the Voronoi node to operate in 1D, 2D, and 4D space.
It also adds a Randomness input to control the randomness of the texture.
Additionally, it adds three new modes of operation:
- Smooth F1: A smooth version of F1 Voronoi with no discontinuities.
- Distance To Edge: Returns the distance to the edges of the cells.
- N-Sphere Radius: Returns the radius of the n-sphere inscribed in
the cells. In other words, it is half the distance between the
closest feature point and the feature point closest to it.
And it removes the following three modes of operation:
- F3.
- F4.
- Cracks.
The Distance metric is now called Euclidean, and it computes the actual
euclidean distance as opposed to the old method of computing the squared
euclidean distance.
This breaks backward compatibility in many ways, including the base case.
Reviewers: brecht, JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5743
This patch extends Musgrave noise to operate in 1D, 2D, 3D, and 4D
space. The Color output was also removed because it was identical
to the Fac output.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5566
