The issue was that the `GeometrySet` that comes from the modifier does
not have full ownership of the mesh for legacy reasons to avoid copies.
Calling `ensure_owns_direct_data` makes sure that the geometry set
actually owns the geometry so that it can be instanced.
For consistency with other nodes, we also want to process
all instances in the Points input independently. This allows
for more efficient instancing of many objects but also leads
to nested instancing. All instances are processed in their
local space, so that instances don't have to be realized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12660
Implements T89789, T89792, custom grid (described as dynamic grid in
T78389) and UV grid snapping (T78391)
Replaces the default UV editor grid with 2 new types of grid :
* Custom grid: Allows the user to create an NxN grid, where the value
of N is specified by the user.
* Subdividing grid: Subdivides the UV editor grid when the user
zooms in the viewport and vice versa when zooming out.
UV snapping improvements :
* Increment snapping: Increment values for snapping are calculated based
on which grid type is being used in the UV editor
(subdividing or custom). In general the increment value is equal to
the distance between 2 visible grid lines.
* Absolute grid snap: New toggle added to increment snapping option in
the UV editor, allows UV grid snapping during translation.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Ref D12684
Add a fields-aware implementation of the attribute proximity node.
The Source position is an implicit position field, but can be
connected with a position input node with alterations before use.
The target input and mode function the same as the original node.
Patch by Johnny Matthews with edits from Hans Goudey (@HooglyBoogly).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12635
- 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
The updated version has a selection input as a field
and does not realize instances implicitly.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12506
Though the factor isn't so useful to adjust by itself, and is mostly
useful when used with a field connected, the slider from 0 to 1 can
help to make it clear that it's just used as a multiplier for the max
density after distribution.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12654
Because of a bug in VS2017 codecvt is replaced with Blender
BLI functions to convert from UTF8 to UTF32.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12655
This commit adds nodes to do direct conversion between meshes and point
clouds in geometry nodes. The conversion from mesh to points is helpful
to instance once per face, or once per edge, which was previously only
possibly with ugly work-arounds. Fields can be evaluated on the mesh
to pass them to the points with the attribute capture node.
The other conversion, point cloud to mesh vertices, is a bit less
obvious, though it is still a common request from users. It's helpful
for flexibility when passing data around, better visualization in the
viewport (and in the future, cycles), and the simplicity of points.
This is a step towards T91754, where point clouds are currently
combined with meshes when outputing to the next modifier after geometry
nodes. Since we're removing the implicit behavior for realizing
instances, it feels natural to use an explicit node to convert points
to vertices too.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12657
Change the toggle to switch between an attribute and a single value to
only display for inputs that are fields, as determined statically by
the field inferencing added in rB61f3d4eb7c7db7. This means the field
inferencing must be calculated on file load, since it's used in the UI.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12623
As described in T91672, often it can be much more efficient to run each
node only on the unique geometry of the instances, rather than realizing
all instances and potentially processing redundant data. Sometimes the
performance difference can be completely smooth vs. completely unusable.
Geometry nodes used to hide that choice from users by always realizing
instances, but recently we have decided to expose it. So this commit
makes nodes run once per unique reference in the entire tree of nested
instances in their input geometries, continuing the work started in
rB0559971ab377 and rBf94164d89629f0d2. For the old behavior, a realize
instances node can be added before the nodes, which is done in the
versioning code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12656
- Curve to Points: Needs output sockets
- Curve Endpoitns: Needs the same output sockets
- Edge Split: Should have a selection input instead
- Subdivision Surface: Should not use "crease" implicitly
All new versions of these nodes should also not implicitly
realize instances.
Only run the node once for every unique geometry set in the input's
instance heirarchy. This can massively improve performance when
there are many instances, but it will mean that the result is the same
for every instance. For the previous behavior, a "Realize Instances"
node can be used before this one.
This node can be changed without versioning since the old material
assign node was already deprecated and replaced.
With this commit, the distribute points on faces node runs only
once for every unique mesh in its input. That means if there are
100 instances of the same mesh, it will only run once.
This basically reverts rB84a4f2ae68d408301. The optimization there
didn't end up being worth it in the end, since it complicates code
quite a lot. It's also incompatible with this method of dealing with
instances, and it breaks field evaluation for instances, where we would
have to make sure to handle each instance transform properly otherwise,
evaluating the field separately for every instance.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12630
This adds a new `GeometrySet::modify_geometry_sets` method that can be
used to update each sub-geometry-set separately without making any
instances real.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12650
This adds a new Instance on Points node that is a replacement
for the old Point Instance node. Contrary to the old node,
it does not have a mode to instance objects or collections
directly. Instead, the node has to be used with an Object/
Collection Info to achieve the same effect.
Rotation and scale of the instances can be adjusted in the node
directly or can be controlled with a field to get some variation
between instances.
The node supports placing different instances on different points.
The user has control over which instance is placed on which point
using an Instance Index input. If that functionality is used, the
Instance Geometry has to contain multiple instances that can are
instanced separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12478
This adds two new input sockets to the Collection Info node:
* `Separate Children`: When turned off, the entire collection is output as a single
collection instance (same behavior as before). When turned on, each child of
the collection is output as a separate instance (children can be objects and collections).
Toggling this input should not change the visual transforms of the output geometry.
* `Reset Children`: Only used when `Separate Children` is on. When used, the transforms
of the instances are reset to the origin. This is useful when one wants to e.g. instance
the collection children separately in the upcoming instancing node.
Part of D12478.
This node replaces the deprecated Attribute Randomize node, populating
a vector, float, integer or boolean field with random values. Vector,
float, and integer have min/max settings, which are also field aware.
The boolean type has a probability value for controlling what portion
of the output should be true. All four types have a field seed input
which is implicitly driven by the index, otherwise, all values would
be the same "random" value.
The Random Float node is now deprecated like other nodes, since it is
redundant with this node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12603
This commit adds a node that generates a text paragraph as curve
instances. The inputs on the node control the overall shape of the
paragraph, and other nodes can be used to move the individual instances
afterwards. To output more than one line, the "Special Characters" node
can be used.
The node outputs instances instead of real geometry so that it doesn't
have to duplicate work for every character afterwards. This is much
more efficient, because all of the curve evaluation and nodes like fill
curve don't have to repeat the same calculation for every instance of
the same character.
In the future, the instances component will support attributes, and the
node can output attribute fields like "Word Index" and "Line Index".
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11522
This patch adds a new node called "Special Characters" with two string
outputs: "Line Break" and "Tab". This is necessary because the newline
character cannot be easily typed with a keyboard, but is necessary for
the string to curve node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12620
This adds initial limited support for socket tooltips. It's limited
in a couple of ways for now:
* Only works when hovering over the socket shape, not when hovering
over the value in the socket.
* Only works for built-in nodes that already use the new node
declaration system. This can later be extended to support pynodes.
Those limitations are well worth it for now, given that the
implementation is quite simple and the impact on usability is quite
large. More complex updates to the layout system, that would allow
showing socket tooltips in the nodes, can be done later. With the
current implementation we can at least start writing tooltips for
geometry nodes now.
This commit already adds tooltips for the Cylinder node as an example.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12607
This adds a replacement for the deprecated Point Distribute node.
Arguments for the name change can be found in T91155.
Descriptions of the sockets are available in D12536.
Thanks to Jarrett Johnson for the initial patch!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12536
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
This implements the update logic for the vizualization of which
sockets pass data or constants directly, and which pass functions.
The socket shapes may still have to be updated. That should be
done separately, because it might be a bit more involved, because
socket shapes are currently linked to keyframe shapes. Currently
the circle and diamond shapes are used with the following meanings:
- Input Sockets:
- Circle: Required to be a single value.
- Diamond: This input supports fields.
- Output Sockets:
- Circle: This output is a single value.
- Diamond: This output may be a field.
Connecting a field to a circle input socket is an error, since a
field cannot be converted to a single value. If the socket shape
is a diamond with a dot in the middle, it means it is currently
a single value, but could be a field.
In addition to socket shapes, the intention is to draw node links
differently based on the field status. However, the exact method for
conveying that isn't decided yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12584
This adds three new methods:
* `InstancesComponent::foreach_reference_as_geometry(...)`
* `GeometrySet::attribute_foreach(...)`
* `GeometrySet::gather_attributes_for_propagation(...)`
The goal is that these iteration primitives can be used in places
where we use more specialized iterators currently.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12613
