This evaluator is used in order to evaluate subdivision at render time, allowing for
faster renders of meshes with a subdivision surface modifier placed at the last
position in the modifier list.
When evaluating the subsurf modifier, we detect whether we can delegate evaluation
to the draw code. If so, the subdivision is first evaluated on the GPU using our own
custom evaluator (only the coarse data needs to be initially sent to the GPU), then,
buffers for the final `MeshBufferCache` are filled on the GPU using a set of
compute shaders. However, some buffers are still filled on the CPU side, if doing so
on the GPU is impractical (e.g. the line adjacency buffer used for x-ray, whose
logic is hardly GPU compatible).
This is done at the mesh buffer extraction level so that the result can be readily used
in the various OpenGL engines, without having to write custom geometry or tesselation
shaders.
We use our own subdivision evaluation shaders, instead of OpenSubDiv's vanilla one, in
order to control the data layout, and interpolation. For example, we store vertex colors
as compressed 16-bit integers, while OpenSubDiv's default evaluator only work for float
types.
In order to still access the modified geometry on the CPU side, for use in modifiers
or transform operators, a dedicated wrapper type is added `MESH_WRAPPER_TYPE_SUBD`.
Subdivision will be lazily evaluated via `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh` which will
create such a wrapper if possible. If the final subdivision surface is not needed on
the CPU side, `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh_no_subsurf` should be used.
Enabling or disabling GPU subdivision can be done through the user preferences (under
Viewport -> Subdivision).
See patch description for benchmarks.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, jbakker, fclem, brecht, #eevee_viewport
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12406
In almost all cases there is no difference between `G.relbase_valid`
and checking `G.main->filepath` isn't an empty string.
In many places a non-empty string is already being used instead of
`G.relbase_valid`.
The only situation where this was needed was when saving from
`wm_file_write` where they temporarily became out of sync.
This has been replaced by adding a new member to `BlendFileWriteParams`
to account for saving an unsaved file for the first time.
Reviewed By: brecht
Ref D13564
- Added space below non doc-string comments to make it clear
these aren't comments for the symbols directly below them.
- Use doxy sections for some headers.
- Minor improvements to doc-strings.
Ref T92709
Previously fluid simulation and Alembic modifiers had a dedicated function
to query the velocity for motion blur. Now use a more generic system where
those modifiers output a velocity attribute.
Advantages:
* Geometry and particle nodes can output velocity through the same mechanism,
or read the attribute coming from earlier modifiers.
* The velocity can be preserved through modifiers like subdivision surface or
auto smooth.
* USD and Alembic previously only output velocity from fluid simulation, now
they work with velocity from other sources too.
* Simplifies the code for renderers like Cycles and exporters like
Alembic and USD.
This breaks compatibility:
* External renderers and exporters accessing these velocities through the
Python API now need to use the attribute instead.
* Existing modifier node setups that create an attribute named "velocity"
will render differently with motion blur.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12305
This patch exposes the Cycles Alembic Procedural through the MeshSequenceCache
modifier in order to use and test it from Blender.
To enable it, one has to switch the render feature set to experimental and
activate the Procedural in the modifier. An Alembic Procedural is then
created for each CacheFile from Blender set to use the Procedural, and each
Blender object having a MeshSequenceCache modifier is added to list of objects
of the right procedural.
The procedural's parameters derive from the CacheFile's properties which are
already exposed in the UI through the modifier, although more Cycles specific
options might be added in the future.
As there is currently no cache controls and since we load all the data at the
beginning of the render session, the procedural is only available during
viewport renders at the moment. When an Alembic procedural is rendered, data
from the archive are not read on the Blender side.
If a Cycles render is not active and the CacheFile is set to use the Cycles Procedural,
bounding boxes are used to display the objects in the scene as a signal that the
objects are not processed by Blender anymore. This is standard in other DCCs.
However this does not reduce the memory usage from Blender as the Alembic data
was already loaded either during an import or during a .blend file read.
This is mostly a hack to test the Cycles Alembic procedural until we have a
better Blender side mechanism for letting renderers load their own geometry,
which will be based on import and export settings on Collections (T68933).
Ref T79174, D3089
Reviewed By: brecht, sybren
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10197
The check to include particle edit mode in the object-mode drop-down
didn't match the poll function to edit particle edit mode.
Share the check between both functions.
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.
It's easier to read and less 'weird' to check that an item is non-local
in a liboverride data-block, than the other way around. Thanks to
@sybren for noticing it.
RNA collections that support insertion of new items in liboverride
data-block need a special way to distiguish between locale and
orig-from-linked items (since some operations are allowed on the forer,
but no the latter).
In future we want a proper solution to abstract that at the
`BKE_lib_override` level, but for now we need to add some code for each
case.
Note that this commit also fixes a few potential issues with GPencil
modifiers, and constraints, regarding their handling of local overrides.
This commit adds functions to set and get the object's active
modifier, which is stored as a flag in the ModifierData struct,
similar to constraints. This will be used to set the context in
the node editor. There are no visible changes in this commit.
Similar to how the node editor context works for materials, this commit
makes the node group displayed in the node editor depend on the active
object and its active modifier. To keep the node group from changing,
just pin the node group in the header.
* Shortcuts performed while there is an active modifier will affect
only that modifier (the exception is the A to expand the modifiers).
* Clicking anywhere on the empty space in a modifier's panel will make it active.
These changes require some refactoring of object modifier code. First
is splitting up the modifier property invoke callback, which now needs
to be able to get the active modifier separately from the hovered
modifier for the different operators.
Second is a change to removing modifiers, where there is now a separate
function to remove a modifier from an object's list, in order to handle
changing the active.
Finally, the panel handler needs a small tweak so that this "click in panel"
event can be handled afterwards.
This commit uses an enum to access expansion for specific panels for
each modifier, constraint, etc. Even though these values are quite simple,
this can help make the code more explicit when the ui_expand_flag is
accessed directly. Also update comments about this bitfield to make
them consistent.
When outliner datablocks are selected, switch to the corresponding tab
for that datablock in properties editors. Only properties editors
that share an edge with the outliner will change tabs.
Additionally, when modifiers, constraints, and shader effects are
selected from the outliner, the panel will be expanded in all properties
editors.
Part of T77408
Manifest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T63991
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8638
This removes `foreachObjectLink` from `ModifierTypeInfo`, `GpencilModifierTypeInfo`
and `ShaderFxTypeInfo`. There is no need to have both, `foreachObjectLink` and `foreachIDLink`.
There is not code that actually depends on `foreachObjectLink`.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9078
Some underlying functionality was not ready for greasepencil:
- BKE_modifiers_get_virtual_modifierlist (now introduce dedicated BKE_gpencil_modifiers_get_virtual_modifierlist)
- BKE_modifiers_is_deformed_by_armature
- checks in drawing code
- checks in (pose) selection code
A couple of changes to make this work:
- `eGpencilModifierType_Armature` has to be respected (not only `eModifierType_Armature`)
- `OB_MODE_WEIGHT_GPENCIL` has to be respected (not only `OB_MODE_WEIGHT_PAINT`) -- (now use new `OB_MODE_ALL_WEIGHT_PAINT`)
- `gpencil_weightmode_toggle_exec` now shares functionality from `wpaint_mode_toggle_exec` -- moved to new `ED_object_posemode_set_for_weight_paint`
This patch will also set the context member "weight_paint_object" for greasepencil (otherwise some appropriate pose operators wont work when in weightpaint mode)
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T63125
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8483
This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for modifiers.
It also moves modifier drawing to a callback in ModifierTypeInfo
in line with the extensible architecture refactoring goal T75724.
This adds a PanelRegister callback and utilities for registering
panels and subpanels. It also adds the callbacks for expansion saving
and drag and drop reordering described in D7490.
These utilities, callbacks, and other common UI elements shared
between modifiers live in MOD_ui_common.c.
Because modifier buttons are now in panels, we can make use of
subpanels for organization. The UI layouts also use the single
column layout style consistently used elsewhere in Blender.
Additionally, the mode-setting buttons are aligned and ordered
consistently with the outliner.
However, the large number of UI changes in this patch may mean
that additional polishing is required in master.
Thanks to William Reynish (@billreynish) who did a fair amount of the
layout work and to Julian Eisel (@Severin) for consistent help.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7498
This resolves a performance regression in 2.8x where every edit-mode
update performed an edit-mesh to mesh conversion.
Now the conversion will be lazily initialized if/when it's required.
New BKE_mesh_wrapper_* functions abstract over mesh data access.
Currently only edit-mesh and regular meshes are supported.
In the future sub-surface meshes may be supported too.
There is no user visible difference in standard builds, as there are no
volume modifiers yet. When using WITH_NEW_OBJECT_TYPES some deform only
modifiers are now available for hair and pointcloud objects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7141
Mpving utils from idcode to idtype proved to be somewhat painful for
some reasons, but now all looks good.
Had to add a fake/empty shell for the special snowflake too,
`ID_LINK_PLACEHOLDER/INDEX_ID_NULL`...
This is in preparation of new object types. This only changes mesh_eval, we
may do the same for mesh_deform_eval and other areas in the future if there is
a need for it.
This previously caused a bug in T74283, that should be fixed now.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6695
This reverts commit f2b95b9eae.
Fix T74283: modifier display lost when moving object in edit mode.
The cause is not immediately obvious so better to revert and look at this
carefully.
This is in preparation of new object types. This only changes mesh_eval, we
may do the same for mesh_deform_eval and other areas in the future if there is
a need for it.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6695
A collection of smaller changes that are required in the /blender/source files. A lot of them are also due to variable renaming.
Reviewed By: sergey
Maniphest Tasks: T59995
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3855
The `modifiers_getVirtualModifierList()` function previously took a non-
const `Object *ob` parameter, preventing it from being called from more
restrictive functions. Since the function doesn't modify the passed
object, it could easily be made const.
No functional changes.
