These pointers point to the new nodes when duplicating,
and their even used to point to "original" nodes for
"localized" trees. They're just a bad design decision
that make code confusing and buggy.
Instead, node copy functions now optionally add to a map
of old to new socket pointers. The case where the compositor
abused these pointers as "original" pointers are handled
by looking up the string node names.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13518
Goals of this refactor:
* More unified approach to updating everything that needs to be updated
after a change in a node tree.
* The updates should happen in the correct order and quadratic or worse
algorithms should be avoided.
* Improve detection of changes to the output to avoid tagging the depsgraph
when it's not necessary.
* Move towards a more declarative style of defining nodes by having a
more centralized update procedure.
The refactor consists of two main parts:
* Node tree tagging and update refactor.
* Generally, when changes are done to a node tree, it is tagged dirty
until a global update function is called that updates everything in
the correct order.
* The tagging is more fine-grained compared to before, to allow for more
precise depsgraph update tagging.
* Depsgraph changes.
* The shading specific depsgraph node for node trees as been removed.
* Instead, there is a new `NTREE_OUTPUT` depsgrap node, which is only
tagged when the output of the node tree changed (e.g. the Group Output
or Material Output node).
* The copy-on-write relation from node trees to the data block they are
embedded in is now non-flushing. This avoids e.g. triggering a material
update after the shader node tree changed in unrelated ways. Instead
the material has a flushing relation to the new `NTREE_OUTPUT` node now.
* The depsgraph no longer reports data block changes through to cycles
through `Depsgraph.updates` when only the node tree changed in ways
that do not affect the output.
Avoiding unnecessary updates seems to work well for geometry nodes and cycles.
The situation is a bit worse when there are drivers on the node tree, but that
could potentially be improved separately in the future.
Avoiding updates in eevee and the compositor is more tricky, but also less urgent.
* Eevee updates are triggered by calling `DRW_notify_view_update` in
`ED_render_view3d_update` indirectly from `DEG_editors_update`.
* Compositor updates are triggered by `ED_node_composite_job` in `node_area_refresh`.
This is triggered by calling `ED_area_tag_refresh` in `node_area_listener`.
Removing updates always has the risk of breaking some dependency that no
one was aware of. It's not unlikely that this will happen here as well. Adding
back missing updates should be quite a bit easier than getting rid of
unnecessary updates though.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13246
This reverts to following commits:
* rB5cad004d716da02f511bd34983ac7da820308676
* rB97e3a2d935ba9b21b127eda7ca104d4bcf4e48bd
* rBf60b95b5320f8d6abe6a629fe8fc4f1b94d0d91c
* rB0bd3cad04edf4bf9b9d3b1353f955534aa5e6740
* rBf72cc47d8edf849af98e196f721022bacf86a5e7
* rB3f7014ecc9d523997062eadd62888af5fc70a2b6
* rB0578921063fbb081239439062215f2538a31af4b
* rBc20098e6ec6adee874a12e510aa4a56d89f92838
* rBd5efda72f501ad95679d7ac554086a1fb18c1ac0
The original move to c++ that the other commits depended upon had some issues
that should be fixed before committing it again. The issues were reported in
T93797, T93809 and T93798.
We should also find a better rule for not using c-style casts going forward,
although that wouldn't have been reason enough to revert the commits.
Introducing something like a `MEM_new<T>` and `MEM_delete<T>`
function might help with the the most common case of casting the return
type of `MEM_malloc`.
Going forward, I recommend first committing the changes that don't
require converting files to c++. Then convert the shading node files
in smaller chunks. Especially don't mix fairly low risk changes like
moving some simple nodes, with higher risk changes.
- 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
- Many cleanups of to use list base
- Some variable changes
These change is needed to migrate to the new socket builder API
Reviewed By: manzanilla
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12366
