When using grease pencil for drawing Storyboards, it's very common to require a transform of the layers. This transform can be done using the offset modifier, but in some cases, the scene requires a lot of modifiers and makes the file hard to work.
This new feature adds a transforms Location, Rotation and Scale at Layer level, and allows to transform the layer without using a modifier, keeping the scene more clean.
{F9480695}
This feature was suggested by @pepeland after receiving feedback from several artists.
Also, done some code cleanup and rename some functions to get a better naming.
Maniphest Tasks: T83660
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9761
Instead of submitting tons of tiny IO syscalls, we can speed things up
significantly by `mmap`ing the .blend file into virtual memory and directly
accessing it.
In my local testing, this speeds up loading the Dweebs file with all its
linked files from 19sec to 10sec (on Linux).
As far as I can see, this should be supported on Linux, OSX and BSD.
For Windows, a second code path uses `CreateFileMapping` and
`MapViewOfFile` to achieve the same result.
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8246
The green is still distinct from the more turquoise use for geometry, and
they are never used in the same node graph. The use of red makes sense, but
would need changes to other sockets and categories to set it apart well.
Ref T82689
This commit adds the "Save as Render" feature to the file output node,
that allows to disable the application of the configured view transform
and other color management settings on the image. If disable it uses
the standard view transform instead. This feature was originally
suggested in T83842 and is part of the color management improvements
task in T68926. With this feature it is possible to toggle the
application of the color management settings for each input socket
of the File Output node individually.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T68926, T83842
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9921
Adjust default cache settings for all files to store raw and final
images.
All settings are still available when developer extras option is
enabled in user preferences.
This is part of design task T80278
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9745
{D9211} introduced pre-multiplying the color for the keying node. This
pre-multiplication should also be done by other keying nodes and should be
the default operation for alpha node.
This patch will change the logic of keying nodes (Cryptomatte Node,
Channel Matte, Chroma Matte, Color Matte, Difference Matte, Distance
Matte, Luminance Matte) and breaks old files.
The Set alpha node has a mode parameter. This parameter changes
the logic to `Apply Mask` the alpha on the RGBA channels of the input color
or only replace the alpha channel (old behavior).
The replace mode is automatically set for older files. When adding
new files the the multiply mode is set.
Reviewed By: Sergey Sharybin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9630
Having a centeral place to find a list of all library overrides should be
useful for managing production scenes where library overrides are used a lot.
This change adds the individually overridden properties of a data-block under
the data-block itself. Just how we show modifiers, constraints or pose channels
there. This way we can also expose library override operations/options better
in future.
There's also a filter option for the library overrides now, so they can be
hidden. It is only available in the View Layer display mode though, like the
other filter options.
One internal change this has to do is adding more informative return values to
undo pushes and the library override functions called by it. That way we can
send a notifier when library overrides change for the Outliner to know when to
rebuild the tree.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7631
Reviewed by: Andy Goralczyk, Bastien Montagne, William Reynish
Mainly updated the Mantaflow version. It includes the new viscosity solver plugin based on the method from 'Accurate Viscous Free Surfaces for Buckling, Coiling, and Rotating Liquids' (Batty & Bridson).
In the UI, this update adds a new 'Viscosity' section to the fluid modifier UI (liquid domains only). For now, there is a single 'strength' value to control the viscosity of liquids.
`seq_convert_transform_animation()` converted only keyframed value, but
when bezier interpolation is used, posotion of handles was unchanged.
This caused significant difference in animation.
I have checked only linear interpolation when testing versioning originally.
This adds a popover to the properties editor. Currently the only setting
is for controlling outliner to properties syncing.
Because we cannot define a perfect heuristic to determine when
properties editors should change tabs based on outliner icon selection,
we need an option to enable or disable this behavior per properties
editor.
There are 3 options for controlling the syncing. Auto uses the heuristic
to only allow tab switching when a properties editor and outliner share
a border. On and off enable and disable syncing respectively.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9758
Code was removed in 247b10e6a2 but it was incorrect in first place.
Conversion was done for `offset_x` and `offset_y` channel originally,
but it should be done for `scale_x` and `scale_y`
Since creating the attribute node, a helper function has been added to
automatically get the input attribute or a constant value, depending on
the "input type" values for the node. This commit replaces the specific
implementation of that behavior with the new helper function.
The versioning is necessary since the node now has a "storage" struct.
This commit resolves problem introduced in e1665c3d31 - it was
difficult to import media at their original resolution.
This is done by using original resolution as reference for scale.
All crop and strip transform values and their animation is converted
form old files.
To make both workflows easy to use, sequencer tool settings have been
created with preset for preffered scaling method. This setting is in
sequencer timeline header and add image or movie strip operator
properties.
Two new operators have been added:
`sequencer.strip_transform_fit` operator with 3 options: Scale To Fit,
Scale to Fill and Stretch To Fill.
Operator can fail if strip image or video is not loaded currently, this
case should be either sanitized or data loaded on demand.
`sequencer.strip_transform_clear` operator with 4 options:
Clear position, scale, rotation and all (previous 3 options combined).
Reviewed By: sergey, fsiddi
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9582
This tool implements smearing for multires displacement over the limit
surface, similar to how smearing for colors and topology slide works.
When used the displacement values of the vertices "slide" over the
topology, creating the effect of smearing the surface detail.
As the brush just modifies displacement values instead of coordinates,
the total displacement of the affected area doesn't change. This means
that this smearing effect can be used multiple times over the same area
without generating any artifacts in the topology.
When the brush is used with the pinch or expand smear modes,
displacement differences are pushed into the same area, creating hard
surface effects without pinching the topology.
As any other brush that relies on the limit surface (like displacement
erasers), this will work better after using apply base.
Reviewed By: sergey, JulienKaspar, dbystedt
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9659
Add panels with overlay settings for strips and preview and overlay
enable/disable button.
Entries from the View menus moved to the overlay panels, which will
simplify cluttered View menus.
Additional options have been added:
- Strip Name
- Strip Source(ex. path)
- Strip Duration
So users can now select what info they need to see on the strips. When
No text is displayed, waveforms are drawn in full height.
Reviewed By: ISS, HooglyBoogly, pablovazquez
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9751
The Asset Browser will be a sub-editor of the File Browser. This prepares the
File Browser code for that.
**File-Lists**
* Support loading assets with metadata read from external files into the
file-list.
* New main based file-list type, for the "Current File" asset library.
* Refresh file-list when switching between browse modes or asset libraries.
* Support empty file-lists (asset library with no assets).
* Store file previews as icons, so scripts can reference them via icon-id. See
previous commit.
**Space Data**
* Introduce "browse mode" to differeniate between file and asset browsing.
* Add `FileAssetSelectParams` to `SpaceFile`, with `FileSelectParams` as base.
Makes sure data is separated between asset and file browsing when switching
between them. The active params can be obtained through
`ED_fileselect_get_active_params()`.
* `FileAssetSelectParams` stores the currently visible asset library ID.
* Introduce file history abstraction so file and asset browsing can keep a
separate history (previous and next directories).
**General**
* Option to only show asset data-blocks while file browsing (not exposed here).
* Add "active_file" context member, so scripts can get and display info about
the active file.
* Add "active_id" context member, so `ED_OT_lib_id_load_custom_preview` can set
a custom ID preview. (Only for "Current File" asset library)
* Expose some of `FileDirEntry` in RNA as (non-editable). That way scripts can
obtain name, preview icon and asset-data.
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9724
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
One of the core design aspects of the Asset Browser is that users can "mount"
custom asset libraries via the Preferences. Currently an asset library is just
a directory with one or more .blend files in it. We could easily support a
single .blend file as asset library as well (rather than a directory). It's
just disabled currently.
Note that in earlier designs, asset libraries were called repositories.
Idea is simple: In Preferences > File Paths, you can create custom libraries,
by setting a name and selecting a path. The name is ensured to be unique. If
the name or path are empty, the Asset Browser will not show it in the list of
available asset libraries.
The library path is not checked for validity, the Asset Browser will allow
selecting invalid libraries, but show a message instead of the file list, to
help the user understand what's going on.
Of course the actual Asset Browser UI is not part of this commit, it's in one
of the following ones.
{F9497950}
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9722
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Hans Goudey
* Support defining (not necessarily rendering) icons in threads. Needed so the
File Browser can expose file previews with an icon-id to scripts.
** For that, ported `icons.c` to C++, to be able to use scope based mutex locks
(cleaner & safer code). Had to do some cleanups and minor refactoring for
that.
* Added support for ImBuf icons, as a decent way for icons to hold the file
preview buffers.
* Tag previews as "unfinished" while they render in a thread, for the File
Browser to dynamically load previews as they get finished.
* Better handle cases where threaded preview generation is requested, but the
ID type doesn't support it (fallback to single threaded). This is for general
sanity of the code (as in, safety and cleanness)
* Enabled asset notifier for custom preview loading operator, was just disabled
because `NC_ASSET` wasn't defined in master yet.
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9719
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel
Asset metadata is what turns a regular data-block into an asset. It is a small
data-structure, but a key part of the technical design of the asset system.
The design foresees that asset data-blocks store an `ID.asset_data` pointer of
type `AssetMetaData`. This data **must not** have dependencies on other
data-blocks or data-block data, it must be an independent unit. That way we can
read asset-metadata from .blends without reading anything else from the file.
The Asset Browser will use this metadata (together with the data-block name,
preview and file path) to represent assets in the file list.
Includes:
* New `ID.asset_data` for asset metadata.
* Asset tags, description and custom properties.
* BKE code to manage asset meta-data and asset tags.
* Code to read asset data from files, without reading IDs.
* RNA for asset metadata (including tags)
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9716
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne, Brecht Van Lommel
Remove DNA headers, using forward declarations where possible.
Also removed duplicate header, header including it's self
and unnecessary inclusion of libc system headers from BKE header.
This changes the way how the mattes are stored in the compositor node. This used to
be a single string what was decoded/encoded when needed. The new data structure
stores all entries in `CryptomatteEntry` and is converted to the old `matte_id`
property on the fly.
This is done for some future changes in the workflow where a more structured
approach leads to less confusing and easier to read code.
In Cycles the volume transmittance is already composited into the color
passes. In Eevee the volume transmittance pass was separate and needed
to be composited in the compositor. This patch adds the volume
transmittance pass direct in the next render passes:
* Diffuse Color
* Specular Color
* Emission
* Environment
This patch includes the removal of the volume transmittance render pass.
It also renames the volume render passes to match Cycles. The setting
themselves aren't unified.
Maniphest Tasks: T81134
Remove 'U.wheellinescroll' preference, currently hidden and unused.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9616
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
The change to match socket color and category was already done, but it was missing
versioning code to update the theme on load.
Fixes T83500 (already closed as invalid, but this would solve the non-matching colors)
Reviewed by Hans Goudey (HooglyBoogly)
Change the default for the Show Channel Group Colors preference to OFF.
This option in the user preferences was introduced in rBad85256e7108. It
moved a per-file-per-editor option to the user preferences. As this
option would be frequently turned off by animators, this would now have
to happen only once. This commit takes this one step further, and turns
it off by default, as it can cause major readability issues of the
animation channel list.
This way Outliner internal data stays internal, non-Outliner code will not be
able to access and mess with this. Further it allows us to use the real type
(rather than `void *`), change the type to a C++ container if needed and
slightly reduces the size for every Outliner stored in files.
Slightly changed how we set the `SO_TREESTORE_REBUILD` for this, but it should
effectively behave the same way as before.
Cryptomatte is a standard to efficiently create mattes for compositing. The
renderer outputs the required render passes, which can then be used in the
compositor to create masks for specified objects. Unlike the Material and Object
Index passes, the objects to isolate are selected in compositing, and mattes
will be anti-aliased.
Cryptomatte was already available in Cycles this patch adds it to the EEVEE
render engine. Original specification can be found at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Psyop/Cryptomatte/master/specification/IDmattes_poster.pdf
**Accurate mode**
Following Cycles, there are two accuracy modes. The difference between the two
modes is the number of render samples they take into account to create the
render passes. When accurate mode is off the number of levels is used. When
accuracy mode is active, the number of render samples is used.
**Deviation from standard**
Cryptomatte specification is based on a path trace approach where samples and
coverage are calculated at the same time. In EEVEE a sample is an exact match on
top of a prepared depth buffer. Coverage is at that moment always 1. By sampling
multiple times the number of surface hits decides the actual surface coverage
for a matte per pixel.
**Implementation Overview**
When drawing to the cryptomatte GPU buffer the depth of the fragment is matched
to the active depth buffer. The hashes of each cryptomatte layer is written in
the GPU buffer. The exact layout depends on the active cryptomatte layers. The
GPU buffer is downloaded and integrated into an accumulation buffer (stored in
CPU RAM).
The accumulation buffer stores the hashes + weights for a number of levels,
layers per pixel. When a hash already exists the weight will be increased. When
the hash doesn't exists it will be added to the buffer.
After all the samples have been calculated the accumulation buffer is processed.
During this phase the total pixel weights of each layer is mapped to be in a
range between 0 and 1. The hashes are also sorted (highest weight first).
Blender Kernel now has a `BKE_cryptomatte` header that access to common
functions for cryptomatte. This will in the future be used by the API.
* Alpha blended materials aren't supported. Alpha blended materials support in
render passes needs research how to implement it in a maintainable way for any
render pass.
This is a list of tasks that needs to be done for the same release that this
patch lands on (Blender 2.92)
* T82571 Add render tests.
* T82572 Documentation.
* T82573 Store hashes + Object names in the render result header.
* T82574 Use threading to increase performance in accumulation and post
processing.
* T82575 Merge the cycles and EEVEE settings as they are identical.
* T82576 Add RNA to extract the cryptomatte hashes to use in python scripts.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Maniphest Tasks: T81058
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9165
This adds a new property to the sculpt vertex color paint brush to limit
the area of the brush that is going to be used to sample the wet paint
color. This is exactly the same concept as normal radius and area radius
that exist for sculpting brushes for sampling the surface depth and
orientation.
When working near color hard edges, this allows to prevent the color
from the other side of the edge to blend into the wet paint.
With 1.0 (the previous default) wet paint radius, as soon as the brush touches
one vertex of the other color, the wet paint mix color changes, making it
impossible to maintain the border between the two colors.
Reviewed By: sergey, dbystedt, JulienKaspar
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9587
During the development of the new nodes in the `geometry-nodes` branch
the color of the new nodes wasn't considered, so all of the nodes ended
up red, the color for "input" nodes. This patch introduces two new
colors, one for "Geometry" and one for "Attributes". There are only two
attribute nodes currently, but the next sprint will add two more,
attribute mix, and sample from texture. The attribute nodes are
conceptually different enough from the nodes that modify the geometry
that they deserve their own color.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9682
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
