In Blender 2.81 we update and draw all nodes inside the view planes.
When navigating with a pen tablet after an operation that tags the whole
mesh to update (like undo or inverting the mask), this introduces some
lag as nodes are updating when they enter the view. The viewport is not
fully responsive again until all nodes have entered the view after the
operation.
This commit delays nodes updates until the view navigation stops, so the
viewport navigation is always fully responsive. This introduces some
artifacts while navigating, so it can be disabled if you don't want to
see them.
I'm storing the update planes in the PBVH. This way I can add support
for some tools to update in real-time only the nodes inside this plane
while running the operator, like the mesh filter.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6269
This adds the automasking options to the Sculpt Tool options in a way
that they affect all brushes. This is more convenient when working with
some of these options while switching brushes as they don't need to be
enabled/disabled per brush.
An automasking option is enabled if it is enabled in the brush or in the
sculpt options.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7304
With this brush option it is possible to mask the boundary vertices of
all face sets. This is especially useful in the cloth brush, where face
sets can be used to simulate seams between different patches of cloth
and produce different patterns and effects.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7230
This adds the Voxel Mode to the current remesh modifier. It works
exactly the same way as the voxel remesh operator and uses the same
properties to control the remeshing. We can exand this with more options
in the future (fix poles, reprojection...)
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7292
This commit introduces a new mode for calculating the positions and
weights of the IK segments in the Pose Brush based on the Face Sets.
The first segment of the chain will always include all face sets inside
the brush radius and it will propagate until the boundary of the last
face sets added in the flood fill. Then consecutive connected face sets
are added to the chain until the chain length limit is reached or all
face sets of the mesh are already part of the chain.
This feature enables complete control over the pose brush origins in
case that is needed. Also, with this mode, the user can have a library
of base meshes with face sets already configured to get to the initial
pose as fast as possible.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7235
This commit aims to add functionality to the surface deform modifier that
gives more control and allows it to work better with the modifier stack.
* Maintains compatibility with older files. The default settings keep it
so that the whole object is bound and vertex coordinates get overwritten
as the modifier currently does.
* Turns the deformations from an absolute vertex coordinate overwrite into
an additive offset from the vertex location before the modifier to the
resulting bound deformation. This gives the ability to control the
strength of the deformation and mix the deformation of the modifier
with the modifier stack that comes before it.
* Also adds in a vertex group with the invert option. This is applied after
the bind deformation is added. So the whole object is still bound to target,
and the vertex group filters afterwards what parts get affected.
I experimented with a version to only binds the geometry weighted to the
vertex group, but that would break compatibility with old files.
I may bring it in later as a separate option/mode for the surface deform.
With several fixes from @mont29.
Reviewed By: mont29
Differencial Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6894
This commit gives the solidify modifier the ability to assign the newly created shell
and rim geometries to selected vertex groups. This expands the procedural control over
the modifier stack by letting users apply modifiers to the shell geometry without affecting
the original geometry.
This will be especially helpful for NPR users that use solidify to create backface
culling lines on their characters giving them the ability to add displace noise
and other effects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6903
This commit adds the option to use armature bones for the From and To targets
when using armature objects.
The changes are based on the UV Warp modifier.
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6820
This adds support for macOS aliases in addition to symlinks. It also adds
support for hidden, readonly and system file attributes.
Contributed by Ankit (ankitm) with modifications by me.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6679
This implements the Surface Smooth Brush as a mode inside the Smooth tool,
which uses the HC algorithm from "Improved Laplacian Smoothing of Noisy Surface Meshes".
Comparted to the regular smooth brush with laplacian smooth, this brush removes
the surface while preserving the volume of the object.
The smooth result can be controlled by tweaing the original shape preservation,
displacement and iteration count.
The same surface smooth operation is also available as a mesh filter.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7057
This commit adds the option to invert the resulting weights of the
falloff curve.
There is a workflow used by some to convert a texture mask into
vertex weights by using a custom curve and inverting the points.
This allows the same effect with a single click, and gives the modifier
more procedural functionality.
With minor UI tweaks by @mont29.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6899
This has some advantages over operator search:
- Some operators need options set to be usefully accessed.
- Shows key bindings to access menus
(for actions that don't have key bindings themselves).
- Non operator actions such as check-boxes are also shown.
- Menu items can control execution context, using invoke or execute
where appropriate so we can control how the operator runs.
Part of the design task T74157.
This can be tested using the 'Experimental' preferences section
or selected in the key-map editor.
This patch adds ability to set up colors and size of background
(transparency) checkerboard pattern in viewport and 2d editors. No new
backgrounds, only changing colors in existing ones.
This is not the background of the viewport, it is a transparency
checkerboard that is turned on only in render mode, when the
transparency mode is on. And also in 2D-editors, (image, sequencer,
etc).
Reviewed By: Pablo Vazquez, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6791
Add new option to change the stroke hardeness. This option works at stroke level, not at point level.
Also replaced the "Both" name mode by "Stroke and Fill".
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7195
This patch include changes:
- Thicker and clearer selection indication
- Slimmer handles
- More transparent muted strips
- Trim frame number is drawn inside the strip
- Strip text is drawn in upper part of strip
- Color strips now have specific color, with chosen color drawn under strip text
- Transition strip will use color of input strips showing direction of transition
- Selecting effect strip will highlight input strips
- Selecting multicam strips will highlight target channel
- Missing media state is now indicated by a red line drawn on the top part of the strip
- A checkerboard pattern is now drawn on the outsides of the meta range
- Hold still regions are now always drawn if existent, with a darker shade of the strip’s background color
Author: Alessio Monti di Sopra <a.monti>
Reviewed By: ISS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6883
This patch implements dumping images from cache to HDD.
The main goal of this system is to provide a means to achieve consistent playback speed mainly for strips that are not possible to preview in real time.
How to use:
Disk cache has own settings in user preferences for path to storage, size limit and compression level.
To use disk cache, you need to check `Use Disk Cache` box, set `Disk Cache Directory`, `Disk Cache Limit` and save or open existing .blend file.
By default sequencer output will be cached only. Manual setting is possible in cache panel.
Uses:
- Replacement or alternative for proxies. Disk cache will work with any strip type, supports float images as well.
- Storage for strip thumbnails.
- Less RAM needs to be allocated for preview cache
How it works:
Disk cache is extension of RAM cache. Every image, that is stored or deleted in RAM will be stored or deleted on HDD as well. Images can be compressed to save space and for use on slower drives. Compressed images are slower to write and read though.
Images are stored in bulk of 100 rendered frames per one file. This is to overcome slow file access time for large amount of files. Drawback is, that if one frame needs to be redrawn, all 100 frames are deleted.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5524
This check box alters how weights are displayed and painted,
similar to Multi Paint, but in a different way. Specifically,
weights are presented as if all locked vertex groups were
deleted, and the remaining deform groups normalized.
The new feature is intended for use when balancing weights within
a group of bones while all others are locked. Enabling the option
presents weight as if the locked bones didn't exist, and their
weight was proportionally redistributed to the editable bones.
Conversely, the Multi-Paint feature allows balancing a group of
bones as a whole against all unselected bones, while ignoring
weight distribution within the selected group.
This mode also allows temporarily viewing non-normalized weights
as if they were normalized, without actually changing the values.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3837
NOTE: While most of the milestone 1 goals are there, a few smaller features and
improvements are still to be done.
Big picture of this milestone: Initial, OpenXR-based virtual reality support
for users and foundation for advanced use cases.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T71347
The tasks contains more information about this milestone.
To be clear: This is not a feature rich VR implementation, it's focused on the
initial scene inspection use case. We intentionally focused on that, further
features like controller support are part of the next milestone.
- How to use?
Instructions on how to use this are here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/How_to_Test
These will be updated and moved to a more official place (likely the manual) soon.
Currently Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus devices are usable. Valve/HTC
headsets don't support the OpenXR standard yet and hence, do not work with this
implementation.
---------------
This is the C-side implementation of the features added for initial VR
support as per milestone 1. A "VR Scene Inspection" Add-on will be
committed separately, to expose the VR functionality in the UI. It also
adds some further features for milestone 1, namely a landmarking system
(stored view locations in the VR space)
Main additions/features:
* Support for rendering viewports to an HMD, with good performance.
* Option to sync the VR view perspective with a fully interactive,
regular 3D View (VR-Mirror).
* Option to disable positional tracking. Keeps the current position (calculated
based on the VR eye center pose) when enabled while a VR session is running.
* Some regular viewport settings for the VR view
* RNA/Python-API to query and set VR session state information.
* WM-XR: Layer tying Ghost-XR to the Blender specific APIs/data
* wmSurface API: drawable, non-window container (manages Ghost-OpenGL and GPU
context)
* DNA/RNA for management of VR session settings
* `--debug-xr` and `--debug-xr-time` commandline options
* Utility batch & config file for using the Oculus runtime on Windows.
* Most VR data is runtime only. The exception is user settings which are saved
to files (`XrSessionSettings`).
* VR support can be disabled through the `WITH_XR_OPENXR` compiler flag.
For architecture and code documentation, see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/XR.
---------------
A few thank you's:
* A huge shoutout to Ray Molenkamp for his help during the project - it would
have not been that successful without him!
* Sebastian Koenig and Simeon Conzendorf for testing and feedback!
* The reviewers, especially Brecht Van Lommel!
* Dalai Felinto for pushing and managing me to get this done ;)
* The OpenXR working group for providing an open standard. I think we're the
first bigger application to adopt OpenXR. Congratulations to them and
ourselves :)
This project started as a Google Summer of Code 2019 project - "Core Support of
Virtual Reality Headsets through OpenXR" (see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/).
Some further information, including ideas for further improvements can be found
in the final GSoC report:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/Final_Report
Differential Revisions: D6193, D7098
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Jeroen Bakker
The feature is hidden behind an experimental option, you'll have to
enable it in the preferences to try it.
This feature is not yet considered fully stable, crashes may happen, as
well as .blend file corruptions (very unlikely, but still possible).
In a nutshell, the ideas behind this code are to:
* Detect unchanged IDs across an undo step.
* Reuse as much as possible existing IDs memory, even when its content
did change.
* Re-use existing depsgraphs instead of building new ones from scratch.
* Store accumulated recalc flags, to avoid needless re-compute of things
that did not change, when the ID itself is detected as modified.
See T60695 and D6580 for more technical details.
Part of the fix was to get gputexture to use an array to accomodate each
eye. This takes care of viewports showing individual Left or Right
views.
For the combined view the fix was in overlay_image.c:camera_background_images_stereo_setup.
Note 1: Referece images are still not supporting stereo.
Note 2: For painting, and getting image bindcode I'm hardcording a
single-view experience.
Note 3: Without D6922 stereo is too broken to even test this patch.
With D6922 + this patch the fullscreen modes work (anaglyph/interlace
not yet).
Differential Revision: D7143
Both are doing almost the same and can be merged. This reduce complexity for user and less code to maintain.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7134
This extends the ocean modifier to add new spectra
(Pierson-Moskowitz, Jonswap, TMA).
These models are very different to the Phillips spectrum.
They are intended for more established,
large area, oceans and/or shallow water situations.
We implement cubemap array support for EEVEE's lightcache reflection probes.
This removes stretched texels and bottom hemisphere seams artifacts caused
by the octahedral projection previously used.
This introduce versioning code for the lightcache which will discard any
lightcache version that is not compatible.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7066
This patch is (almost) a complete rewrite of workbench engine.
The features remain unchanged but the code quality is greatly improved.
Hair shading is brighter but also more correct.
This also introduce the concept of `DRWShaderLibrary` to make a simple
include system inside the GLSL files.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7060
Update Dopesheet header to include missing buttons, remove Scene Active only buttton and also removed duplicated search box.
The removed options come from old 2.7x version and they are not required now.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7107
This is more in line with standard grids and means we don't have to make
many special exceptions in the upcoming change for arbitrary number of volume
grids support in Eevee.
The workbench shader was also changed to fix bugs where squared density was
used, and the smoke color would affect the density so that black smoke would
be invisible. This can change the look of smoke in workbench significantly.
When using the color grid when smoke has a constant color, the color grid
will no longer be premultiplied by the density. If the color is constant
we want to be able not to store a grid at all. This breaks one test for
Cycles and Eevee, but the setup in that test using a color without density
does not make sense. It suffers from artifacts since the unpremultiplied
color grid by itself will not have smooth boundaries.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6951
'Private' can be a rather confusing term, especially when considering
its meaning in programming languages.
So now root node trees and master collections are 'embedded' IDs
instead.
When scaling the root bone of a rig to apply a global scale, the
corrective smooth modifier results in wrong deformation due to incorrect
scaling. The delta calculations are not taking into account any scale
value.
To fix it, a scale property is added to the modifier, allowing to set
manually the scale value for the deltas by simply multiplying the
vectors by this value. There is a similar implementation in Maya's Delta
Mush deformer. This property can be for example driven by the scale of
the root bone of the rig, to dynamically update when the animator scale
this bone.
Reviewed By: brecht, sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6622
