I know this is not so much nice to have this guys hanging
around in a general Object datablock and ideally they better
be wrapped around into a structure like DerivedMesh or
something like this. But this is pure runtime only stuff and
we could re-wrap them around later.
Main purpose of this is making curves more thread safe,
so no separate threads will ever start freeing the same path
or the same bevel list.
It also makes sense because path and bevel shall include
deformation coming from modifiers which are applying on
pre-tesselation point and different objects could have
different set of modifiers. This used to be really confusing
in the past and now data which depends on object is stored
in an object, making things clear for understanding even.
This doesn't make curve code fully thread-safe due to
pre-tesselation modifiers still modifies actual nurbs and
lock is still needed in makeDispListsCurveTypes, but this
change makes usage of paths safe for threading.
Once modifiers will stop modifying actual nurbs, curves
will be fully safe for threading.
Actually, this commit also contains wrapping runtime curve
members into own structure
This allows easier assignment on file loading, keeps curve-
specific runtime data grouped and saves couple of bytes in
Object for non-curve types.
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svn merge -r57938:57939 ^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
svn merge -r57957:57958^/branches/soc-2013-depsgraph_mt
On file save the mesh gets loads from the editmesh but the derived mesh caches
wer not cleared. This usually happens through the depsgraph but it needs to be
done manually here. Most changes are some refactoring to deduplicate derived
mesh freeing code.
Because of our release soon, feature has been added behind the Debug Menu.
CTRL+ALT+D and set it to -1. Or commandline --debug-value -1.
When debug set to -1, you can put the viewport to 'render' mode, just like
for Cycles. Notes for testers: (and please no bugs in tracker for this :)
- It renders without AA, MBlur, Panorama, Sequence, Composite
- Only active render layer gets rendered. Select another layer will re-render.
- But yes: it works for FreeStyle renders!
- Also does great for local view.
- BI is not well suited for incremental renders on view changes. This only
works for non-raytrace scenes, or zoom in ortho or camera mode, or for
Material changes. In most cases a full re-render is being done.
- ESC works to stop the preview render.
- Borders render as well. (CTRL+B)
- Force a refresh with arrow key left/right. A lot of settings don't trigger
re-render yet.
Tech notes:
- FreeStyle is adding a lot of temp objects/meshes in the Main database. This
caused DepsGraph to trigger changes (and redraws). I've prepended the names
for these temp objects with char number 27 (ESC), and made these names be
ignored for tag update checking.
- Fixed some bugs that were noticable with such excessive re-renders, like
for opening file window, quit during renders.
besides performance in some cases.
* DAG_scene_sort is now removed and replaced by DAG_relations_tag_update in
most cases. This will clear the dependency graph, and only rebuild it right
before it's needed again when the scene is re-evaluated.
This is done because DAG_scene_sort is slow when called many times from
python operators. Further the scene argument is not needed because most
operations can potentially affect more than the current scene.
* DAG_scene_relations_update will now rebuild the dependency graph if it's not
there yet, and DAG_scene_relations_rebuild will force a rebuild for the rare
cases that need it.
* Remove various places where ob->recalc was set manually. This should go
through DAG_id_tag_update() in nearly all cases instead since this is now
a fast operation. Also removed DAG_ids_flush_update that goes along with
such manual tagging of ob->recalc.
This was caused by multiple instantiations of the same basic problem. The
rigidbody handling code often assumed that "scene" pointers referred to the
scene where an object participating in the sim resided (and where the rigidbody
world for that sim lived). However, when dealing with background sets, "scene"
often only refers to the active scene, and not the set that the object actually
came from. Hence, the rigidbody code would often (wrongly) conclude that there
was nothing to do.
For example, we may have the following backgound set/scene chaining scenario:
"active" <-- ... <-- set i (rigidbody objects live here) <-- ... <-- set n
The fix here is a multi-part fix:
1) Moved sim-world calculation from BKE_scene_update_newframe() to
scene_update_tagged_recursive()
+ This is currently the only way that rigidbody sims in background sets will
get calculated, as part of the recursion
- These checks will get run on each update. <--- FIXME!!!
2) Tweaked depsgraph code so that when checking if there are any time-dependent
features on objects to tag for updating, the checking is done relative to the
scene that the object actually resides in (and not the active scene). Otherwise,
even if we recalculate the sim, the affected objects won't get tagged for
updating. This tagging is needed to actually flush the transforms out of the
RigidBodyObject structs (written by the sim/cache) and into the Object
transforms (obmat's)
3) Removed the requirement for rigidbody world to actually exist before we can
flush rigidbody transforms. In many cases, it should be sufficient to assume
that because the object with rigidbody data attached has been tagged for
updates, it should have updates to perform. Of course, we still check on this
data if we've got it, but that's only if the sim is in the active scene.
- TODO: if we have further problems, we should investigate passing the
"actual" scene down alongside the "active" scene for BKE_object_handle_update().
This is just the basic structure, the simulation isn't hooked up yet.
Scenes get a pointer to a rigid body world that holds rigid body objects.
Objects get a pointer to a rigdid body object.
Both rigid body world and objects aren't used directly in the simulation
and only hold information to create the actual physics objects.
Physics objects are created when rigid body objects are validated.
In order to keep blender and bullet objects in sync care has to be taken
to either call appropriate set functions or flag objects for validation.
Part of GSoC 2010 and 2012.
Authors: Joshua Leung (aligorith), Sergej Reich (sergof)
Setup: 2 windows, 2 scenes, shared objects and groups.
Errors:
- editing in 1 window, didn't correctly update shared stuff in the other
(like child - parent relations)
- deleting group members in 1 scene, could crash the other.
Fixes:
- On load, only a depsgraph was created for the "active" scene. Now it makes
depsgraphs for all visible scenes.
- "DAG ID flushes" were only working on active scenes too, they now take
the other visible into account as well.
- Delete object - notifier was only sent to the active scene.
All in all it's a real depsgraph fix (for once!) :) Using multi-window and
multi-scene setups now is more useful.
Documentation & Test blend files:
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http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:MiikaH/GSoC-2012-Smoke-Simulator-Improvements
Credits:
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Miika Hamalainen (MiikaH): Student / Main programmer
Daniel Genrich (Genscher): Mentor / Programmer of merged patches from Smoke2 branch
Google: For Google Summer of Code 2012
- don't overwrite the font path with "<builtin>" when the font file cant be found, it caused bad problems when loading files on someone elses systems when paths couldn't be found blender would silently clobber paths (tsk tsk).
- when fonts are freed their temp data is now freed too.
- assigning a new filepath to a font now refreshes the object data.
When initially coding this functionality, I was aware of the potential for
infinite recursion here, just not how frequently such setups are actually
used/created out in the wild (nodetree.ma_node -> ma -> ma.nodetree is all too
common, and often even with several levels of indirection!).
However, the best fix for these problems was not immediately clear. Alternatives
considered included...
1) checking for common recursive cases. This was the solution employed for one
of the early patches committed to try and get around this. However, it's all too
easy to defeat these measures (with all the possible combinations of indirection
node groups bring).
2) arbitrarily restricting recursion to only go down 2/3 levels? Has the risk
of missing some deeply chained/nested drivers, but at least we're guaranteed to
not get too bad. (Plus, who creates such setups anyway ;)
*3) using the generic LIB_DOIT flag (check for tagged items and not recurse down
there). Not as future-proof if some new code suddenly decides to start adding
these tags to materials along the way, but is easiest to add, and should be
flexible enough to catch most cases, since we only care that at some point those
drivers will be evaluated if they're attached to stuff we're interested in.
4) introducing a separate flag for Materials indicating they've been checked
already. Similar to 3) and solves the future-proofing, but this leads to...
5) why bother with remembering to clear flags before traversing for drivers to
evaluate, when they should be tagged for evaluation like everything else?
Downside - requires depsgraph refactor so that we can actually track the fact
that there are dependencies to/from the material datablock, and not just to the
object using said material. (i.e. Currently infeasible)
It used to be a dependency cycle which lead to incorrect or
missed tesselation on some circumstances.
Seems to be introduced in rev41627.
This commit seems to behaving properly on simple cases,
probably could fail in some other cases, so need to be
checked further.
Discovered when was looking into:
#32034: Metaball used as render object(group) for particle will display wire only.
There was some bad recursion introduced recently that caused crashes
when a Material node is the same material as the material itself (e.g.,
if Material.001 has a node with Material.001).
This commit attempt to correct this by keeping track of the material
at the root of the node tree, and doesn't recurse further if it
encounters it again within the nodetree.
Joshua, please review!
Until now, there was never any code for making drivers on materials get
recalculated when their dependencies were changed. However, since changing
material colors with drivers is something that is quite common, a workaround was
introduced to ensure that materials could still be driven (albeit with the
relevant drivers rooted at object level). This worked well enough so far with
traditional materials - though it was sometimes clunky and confusing for some
users - and would have been ok to tide us over until the depsgraph refactor.
The introduction of Cycles changed this, as it has in many other ways. Now that
people use Cycles to render, they'll need to drive the material colors through
the nested nodetree (and other things nested deeply within that). However, this
is much more difficult to generate hacks to create the relevant paths needed to
work around the problem.
== This Commit... ==
* Adds a recursive driver calculation step to the BKE_object_handle_update()
(which gets called whenever the depsgraph has finished tagging object datablocks
for updates), which goes through calculating the drivers attached to the object
(and the materials/nodetrees attached to that). This case gets handled everytime
the object is tagged as needing updates to its "data" (OB_RECALC_DATA)
* When building the depsgraph, every dependency that the drivers there have are
treated as if they were attached to object.data instead. This should trick the
depsgraph into tagging OB_RECALC_DATA to force recalculation of drivers, at the
expense perhaps of modifiers getting recalculated again.
== Todo ==
* The old workarounds noted are still in place (will be commented out in the
next commit). This fix renders at least the material case redundant, although
the textures case still needs a bit more work.
* Check on whether similar hacks can be done for other datablock combinations
* So far, only simple test cases have been tested. There is probably some
performance penalty for heavy setups still (due to need to traverse down all
parts of material/node hierarchy to find things that need updates). If there
really is a problem here, we could try introducing some tags to limit this
traversal (which get added at depsgraph build time). <--- USER TESTING
NEEDED!!!
