This change makes it possible for platforms to only support high quality
normal rendering. This is part of {T82856} where current AMD drivers
running on the polaris architecture does not support the low quality
setting due to a driver bug.
In a next commit the work around will be enabled.
This adds high quality normals for non meshes. These include
* Volumetric Object Wireframe
* Metaballs
* Extracted Curves
* Curves in edit mode
This is in preparation to fix a regression in recent AMD
drivers where the `GL_INT_2_10_10_10_REV` data type isn't
working in Polaris cards.
This changes how the simplify volumes setting works. Before, it only
affeted viewport rendering. This was an issue, because all internal
computations would still have to happen on the high resolution volumes.
With this patch, the simplify setting already affects file loading and
procedural generation of volumes.
Rendering does not have to care about the simplify option anymore,
it just gets the correct simplified version from the depsgraph.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9176
The adds a new option to simplify volumes in the viewport.
The setting can be found in the Simplify panel in the render properties.
Volume objects use OpenVDB grids, which are sparse. For rendering,
we have to convert sparse grids to dense grids (for now). Those require
significantly more memory. Therefore, it's often a good idea to reduce
the resolution of volumes in the viewport.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9040
Ref T73201.
Previously, one could only select a volume object in the outliner
or by clicking on the object origin. This patch allows you to click
on the actual volume.
Furthermore, the generated (invisible) mesh that is used for
selection is also used to draw an outline for the volume object now.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9022
All the changes made in the branch `soc-2020-fluid-tools` are included in this patch.
**Major changes:**
=== Viewport Display ===
- //Raw voxel display// or //closest (nearest-neighbor)// interpolation for displaying the underlying voxel data of the simulation grids more clearly.
- An option to display //gridlines// when the slicing method is //single//.
==== Grid Display ====
- Visualization for flags, pressure and level-set representation grids with a fixed color coding based on Manta GUI.
==== Vector Display ====
- //**M**arker **A**nd **C**ell// grid visualization options for vector grids like velocity or external forces.
- Made vector display options available for external forces.
==== Coloring options for //gridlines// ====
- Range highlighting and cell filtering options for displaying the simulation grid data more precisely.
- Color gridlines with flags.
- Also, made slicing and interpolation options available for Volume Object.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, sebbas
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8705
This is to modernize the API:
- Add meaningful name to all textures (except DRW textures).
- Remove unused err_out argument: only used for offscreen python.
- Add mipmap count to creation functions for future changes.
- Clarify the data usage in creation functions.
This is a cleanup commit, there is no functional change.
# Conflicts:
# source/blender/gpu/GPU_texture.h
This is going to be unecessary after the GPU opengl texture backend refactor.
For now add a save/restore mechanism to leave the state untouched.
Also remove some calls where the caller would bind to particular binding
point and set the shader uniform.
Note this only changes cases where the variable was declared inside
the for loop. To handle it outside as well is a different challenge.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7320
