This loosens the current implementation a bit to only force optimal
display when editing on cage. It used to be any editing mode.
Brings GPU based subdivision closer to the CPU version.
Previously there was a special extraction process for "vertex colors"
that copied the color data to the GPU with a special format. Instead,
this patch replaces this with use of the generic attribute extraction.
This reduces the number of code paths, allowing easier optimization
in the future.
To make it possible to use the generic extraction system for attributes
but also assign aliases for use by shaders, some changes are necessary.
First, the GPU material attribute can now store whether it actually refers
to the default color attribute, rather than a specific name. This replaces
the hack to use `CD_MCOL` in the color attribute shader node. Second,
the extraction code checks the names against the default and active
names and assigns aliases if the request corresponds to a special active
attribute. Finally, support for byte color attributes was added to the
generic attribute extraction.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15205
Previously the attribute name was only stored in the request for curves.
Instead, pass it as part of the "add request" function, so that it is
always used. Since the whole attribute pipeline is name-based,
this can simplify code in a few places.
Instancing with geometry nodes uses just the evaluated Mesh, and ignores the
Object that it came from. That meant that it would try to look up the subsurf
modifier on the instancer object which does not have the subsurf modifier.
Instead of storing a session UUID and looking up the modifier data, store a
point to the subsurf modifier runtime data. Unlike the modifier data, this
runtime data is preserved across depsgraph CoW. It must be for the subdiv
descriptor contained in it to stay valid along with the draw cache.
As a bonus, this moves various Mesh_Runtime variables into the subsurf runtime
data, reducing memory usage for meshes not using subdivision surfaces.
Also fixes T98693, issues with subdivision level >= 8 due to integer overflow.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15184
This patch adds support for PBVH drawing in EEVEE.
Notes:
# PBVH_FACES only. For Multires we'll need an API to get/cache attributes. DynTopo support will be merged in later with sculpt-dev's DynTopo implementation.
# Supports vertex color and UV attributes only; other types can be added fairly easily though.
# Workbench only sends the active vertex color and UV layers to the GPU.
# Added a new draw engine API method, DRW_cdlayer_attr_aliases_add. Please review.
# The vertex format object is now stored in the pbvh.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault & Brecht Van Lommel & Jeroen Bakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13897
Ref D13897
After this commit, all mesh data extraction and drawing code is in C++,
including headers, making it possible to use improved types for future
performance improvements and simplifications.
The only non-trivial changes are in `draw_cache_impl_mesh.cc`,
where use of certain features and macros in C necessitated larger
changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15088
