Both the scene and workspace had an active view layer, and it was confusing
which settings were being used or displayed where. Now we always have one,
so there is no mismatch.
The "View Layers" tab in the properties editor is now "View Layer", no longer
showing a list of layers. Instead view layers can be added and removed with
the workspace view layer selector. They are also listed and selectable in the
outliner.
Single layer rendering uses the active view layer from the workspace.
This fixes bugs where the wrong active view layer was used, but more places
remain that are wrong and are now using the first view layer in the scene.
These are all marked with BKE_view_layer_context_active_PLACEHOLDER.
Previously it could have happened on every request to evaluated scene
or view layer.
This commit also removes expansion of view layer and scene from iterator.
Iterator is not to be used before depsgraph is evaluated.
Brecht authored this commit, but he gave me the honours to actually
do it. Here it goes; Blender Internal. Bye bye, you did great!
* Point density, voxel data, ocean, environment map textures were removed,
as these only worked within BI rendering. Note that the ocean modifier
and the Cycles point density shader node continue to work.
* Dynamic paint using material shading was removed, as this only worked
with BI. If we ever wanted to support this again probably it should go
through the baking API.
* GPU shader export through the Python API was removed. This only worked
for the old BI GLSL shaders, which no longer exists. Doing something
similar for Eevee would be significantly more complicated because it
uses a lot of multiplass rendering and logic outside the shader, it's
probably impractical.
* Collada material import / export code is mostly gone, as it only worked
for BI materials. We need to add Cycles / Eevee material support at some
point.
* The mesh noise operator was removed since it only worked with BI
material texture slots. A displacement modifier can be used instead.
* The delete texture paint slot operator was removed since it only worked
for BI material texture slots. Could be added back with node support.
* Not all legacy viewport features are supported in the new viewport, but
their code was removed. If we need to bring anything back we can look at
older git revisions.
* There is some legacy viewport code that I could not remove yet, and some
that I probably missed.
* Shader node execution code was left mostly intact, even though it is not
used anywhere now. We may eventually use this to replace the texture
nodes with Cycles / Eevee shader nodes.
* The Cycles Bake panel now includes settings for baking multires normal
and displacement maps. The underlying code needs to be merged properly,
and we plan to add back support for multires AO baking and add support
to Cycles baking for features like vertex color, displacement, and other
missing baking features.
* This commit removes DNA and the Python API for BI material, lamp, world
and scene settings. This breaks a lot of addons.
* There is more DNA that can be removed or renamed, where Cycles or Eevee
are reusing some old BI properties but the names are not really correct
anymore.
* Texture slots for materials, lamps and world were removed. They remain
for brushes, particles and freestyle linestyles.
* 'BLENDER_RENDER' remains in the COMPAT_ENGINES of UI panels. Cycles and
other renderers use this to find all panels to show, minus a few panels
that they have their own replacement for.
Was caused by ec0756af6c, once again, we can't pass view layer,
need to pass index.
The sad part is that currently we don't have quick way to look up
view layer by index. Can do similar thing as we do for bones and
bases.
This statement is only relevant in 2.8, but causes confusion in master.
I kept the 'default' label to prevent compiler warnings about unhandled
cases. The break is needed because there should be at least one statement
after 'default'.
Was caused by two things from the past:
- Tagging would set id->recalc to COW update flag.
This one is to be ignored.
- Particle tagging will use psys recalc flags on id->recalc,
but we only need to use flags from particles. Otherwise
it will be some collisions in bit masks.
The depsgraph was always created within a fixed evaluation context. Passing
both risks the depsgraph and evaluation context not matching, and it
complicates the Python API where we'd have to expose both which is not so
easy to understand.
This also removes the global evaluation context in main, which assumed there
to be a single active scene and view layer.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3152
This was only used for viewport rendering, where we can just pass the engine
type directly. There is no technical reason why we can't draw the same depsgrpah
with different render engines.
It also led to some weird things like requiring a render engine for snapping
and raycast API functions.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3145
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
Unless there is an external action from an user, there should not
be need in re-copying original datablock to a copied one.
This brings performance up from 5fps to 11fps with Spring runcycle
(performance in master is 14fps).
Quite straightforward implementation, allows us to remove all the cherry-picking
update of specified scene/view layer/collection fields. Makes it possible to use
generic function to update scene.
The tricky part is that we need to know view layer pointer before the whole
evaluation starts. So we actually expand scene at initialization of evaluation.
context. This is still a bit of an exceptional case, but at least we still avoid
dangerous cherry-picking update.
For the performance we convert object bases list to an array
during view layer evaluation. This makes it possible to have
very cheap index-based base lookup.
The goal of this change is to get rid of base used for function
binding, and avoid scene datablock expansion at the depsgraph
construction time.
Use single function to evaluate all the collections for the given view layer.
This way we avoid need to get scene ID sub-data. Similar to pchan index, this
allows us to avoid build-time scene expansion, which also simplifies update of
the scene datablock.
Well, sort of. There is still work to be done to get rid of build-time scene
datablock expansion, which includes:
- Need to pass view layer by index.
Annoying part would be to get actual view layer for that index. In practice
doing list lookup might not be such a bad idea, since such lookup will not
happen very often, and it is unlikely to have more than handful of view
layer anyway.
Other idea could be to use view layer from evaluation context.
Or maybe from depsgraph, which is supposed to be in the context. Can have
some assert statements to make sure everything is good.
- Need to get id of base binding for flags flush.
We can replace that with index-based lookup from an array created by view
layer evaluation.
Reviewers: dfelinto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3141
