This patch implements the vector types (i.e:float2) by making heavy
usage of templating. All vector functions are now outside of the vector
classes (inside the blender::math namespace) and are not vector size
dependent for the most part.
In the ongoing effort to make shaders less GL centric, we are aiming
to share more code between GLSL and C++ to avoid code duplication.
Motivations:
- We are aiming to share UBO and SSBO structures between GLSL and C++.
This means we will use many of the existing vector types and others we
currently don't have (uintX, intX). All these variations were asking
for many more code duplication.
- Deduplicate existing code which is duplicated for each vector size.
- We also want to share small functions. Which means that vector functions
should be static and not in the class namespace.
- Reduce friction to use these types in new projects due to their
incompleteness.
- The current state of the BLI_(float|double|mpq)(2|3|4).hh is a bit of a
let down. Most clases are incomplete, out of sync with each others with
different codestyles, and some functions that should be static are not
(i.e: float3::reflect()).
Upsides:
- Still support .x, .y, .z, .w for readability.
- Compact, readable and easilly extendable.
- All of the vector functions are available for all the vectors types and
can be restricted to certain types. Also template specialization let us
define exception for special class (like mpq).
- With optimization ON, the compiler unroll the loops and performance is
the same.
Downsides:
- Might impact debugability. Though I would arge that the bugs are rarelly
caused by the vector class itself (since the operations are quite trivial)
but by the type conversions.
- Might impact compile time. I did not saw a significant impact since the
usage is not really widespread.
- Functions needs to be rewritten to support arbitrary vector length. For
instance, one can't call len_squared_v3v3 in math::length_squared() and
call it a day.
- Type cast does not work with the template version of the math:: vector
functions. Meaning you need to manually cast float * and (float *)[3] to
float3 for the function calls.
i.e: math::distance_squared(float3(nearest.co), positions[i]);
- Some parts might loose in readability:
float3::dot(v1.normalized(), v2.normalized())
becoming
math::dot(math::normalize(v1), math::normalize(v2))
But I propose, when appropriate, to use
using namespace blender::math; on function local or file scope to
increase readability. dot(normalize(v1), normalize(v2))
Consideration:
- Include back .length() method. It is quite handy and is more C++
oriented.
- I considered the GLM library as a candidate for replacement.
It felt like too much for what we need and would be difficult to
extend / modify to our needs.
- I used Macros to reduce code in operators declaration and potential
copy paste bugs. This could reduce debugability and could be reverted.
- This touches delaunay_2d.cc and the intersection code. I would like to
know @Howard Trickey (howardt) opinion on the matter.
- The noexcept on the copy constructor of mpq(2|3) is being removed.
But according to @Jacques Lucke (JacquesLucke) it is not a real problem
for now.
I would like to give a huge thanks to @Jacques Lucke (JacquesLucke) who
helped during this and pushed me to reduce the duplication further.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey, JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D13791
Goal is to add the length attribute to the Hair Info node, for better control over color gradients or similar along the hair.
Reviewed By: #eevee_viewport, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10481
With this commit, curve objects support the geometry nodes modifier.
Curves objects now evaluate to `CurveEval` unless there was a previous
implicit conversion (tessellating modifiers, mesh modifiers, or the
settings in the curve "Geometry" panel). In the new code, curves are
only considered to be the wire edges-- any generated surface is a mesh
instead, stored in the evaluated geometry set.
The consolidation of concepts mentioned above allows remove a lot of
code that had to do with maintaining the `DispList` type temporarily
for modifiers and rendering. Instead, render engines see a separate
object for the mesh from the mesh geometry component, and when the
curve object evaluates to a curve, the `CurveEval` is always used for
drawing wire edges.
However, currently the `DispList` type is still maintained and used as
an intermediate step in implicit mesh conversion. In the future, more
uses of it could be changed to use `CurveEval` and `Mesh` instead.
This is mostly not changed behavior, it is just a formalization of
existing logic after recent fixes for 2.8 versions last year and two
years ago. Also, in the future more functionality can be converted
to nodes, removing cases of implicit conversions. For more discussion
on that topic, see T89676.
The `use_fill_deform` option is removed. It has not worked properly
since 2.62, and the choice for filling a curve before or after
deformation will work much better and be clearer with a node system.
Applying the geometry nodes modifier to generate a curve is not
implemented with this commit, so applying the modifier won't work
at all. This is a separate technical challenge, and should be solved
in a separate step.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11597
This patch replaces / redoes the entire MeshExtractors system.
Although they were useful and facilitated the addition of new buffers, they made it difficult to control the threads and added a lot of threading overhead.
Part of the problem was in traversing the same loop type in different threads. The concurrent access of the BMesh Elements slowed the reading.
This patch simplifies the use of threads by merging all the old callbacks from the extracts into a single series of iteration functions.
The type of extraction can be chosen using flags.
This optimized the process by around 34%.
Initial idea and implementation By @mano-wii.
Fine-tuning, cleanup by @atmind.
MASTER:
large_mesh_editing:
- rdata 9ms iter 50ms (frame 155ms)
- Average: 6.462874 FPS
PATCH:
large_mesh_editing:
- rdata 9ms iter 34ms (frame 136ms)
- Average: 7.379491 FPS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11425
This patch adds relatively small changes to the curve draw
cache implementation in order to draw the curve data in the
viewport. The dependency graph iterator is also modified
so that it iterates over the curve geometry component, which
is presented to users as `Curve` data with a pointer to the
`CurveEval`
The idea with the spline data type in geometry nodes is that
curve data itself is only the control points, and any evaluated
data with faces is a mesh. That is mostly expected elsewhere in
Blender anyway. This means it's only necessary to implement
wire edge drawing of `CurveEval` data.
Adding a `CurveEval` pointer to `Curve` is in line with changes
I'd like to make in the future like using `CurveEval` in more places
such as edit mode.
An alternate solution involves converting the curve wire data
to a mesh, however, that requires copying all of the data, and
since avoiding it is rather simple and is in-line with future plans
anyway, I think doing it this way is better.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11351
I'd like to use this file to draw curves from geometry nodes, which
would otherwise require implementing a C API. The changes in this
commit are minimal, mostly just casts and changing to nullptr.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11350
