This uses a special delayed extraction code path that is not used by
any other drawing code. Ensure we have the subdivided mesh when GPU
subdivision is off similar to the other code paths.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145268
Change `eCustomDataType` to `bke::AttrType` for uses of the attribute
API (the `AttributeAccessor` one anyway). I didn't touch any values that
might be saved in files; those should be handled on a case by case basis.
Part of #122398
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141301
For paint modes the selection and visibility were encoded in in the W
component of the normals. Separating the normals into a separate vertex
buffer, though it increases memory usage a bit in those paint modes,
means the status doesn't need to be computed outside of paint modes,
and the whole system becomes less convoluted and easier to optimize.
The particular optimization I have in mind is better caching of vertex
buffers, which gets much more complicated when the normals VBO contains
data like selection and visibility and depends on the paint mode.
Internally, a there are now three mesh draw batches that are specific to
the paint overlay. The GPU subdivision normals buffer is now just three
components rather than 4 components.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140156
This prevents the use of unaligned data types in
vertex formats. These formats are not supported on many
platform.
This simplify the `GPUVertexFormat` class a lot as
we do not need packing shenanigans anymore and just
compute the vertex stride.
The old enums are kept for progressive porting of the
backends and user code.
This will break compatibility with python addons.
TODO:
- [x] Deprecation warning for PyGPU (4.5)
- [x] Deprecate matrix attributes
- [x] Error handling for PyGPU (5.0)
- [x] Backends
- [x] Metal
- [x] OpenGL
- [x] Vulkan
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138846
Caused by 617858e453.
These formats should use types aligned to 4 bytes. That's generally
required by modern GPUs. Uploading with these types also avoids
automatic conversion by the Vulkan backend which is something
we're hoping to remove fully.
In the end this PR removes a bunch of code related to supporting
the older single-byte formats.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138836
Switching to lattice edit mode when it has an armature modifier can
crash if the armature modifier's `show_in_editmode` is turned on. Now
prevent null `editlatt` access.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137701
The initial goal of this PR is to avoid creating vertex and index
buffers as part of the "request" phase of the drawing loop. Conflating
requesting and creating index buffers might not sound so bad, but it
ends up significantly complicating the whole process. It is also
incompatible with a future buffer cache that would allow avoiding
re-uploading mesh buffers.
Specifically, this means removing the use of `DRW_vbo_request` and
`DRW_ibo_request` from the mesh batch extraction process. Instead, a
list of buffer types is gathered based on the requested batches. Then
that list is filtered to find the batches that haven't been requested
yet. Overall I find the new process much easier to understand.
A few examples of simplifications this allows are avoiding allocating
`MeshRenderData` on the heap, and the removal of its `use_final_mesh`
member. That's just replaced by passing the necessary information
through the call stack.
Another notable difference is that for meshes, EEVEE's velocity module
now requests a batch that contains the buffer rather than just requesting
the buffer itself. This is just simpler to get working since it doesn't require
a separate code path.
The task graph argument for extraction is unused after this change. It wasn't
used effectively anyway; a simpler method of multithreading extractions is
used in this PR. I didn't remove it completely because it will probably be
repurposed in the next step of this project.
The next step in this project is to replace `MeshBufferList` with a
global cache that's keyed based on the mesh data that compromises each
batch, when possible (i.e. for non edit-mode meshes). This changes above
should be applied to other object types too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135699
This makes it possible for Cycles adaptive subdivision to always get the
base mesh, and will enable the same for other external renderers as well.
Metal and Vulkan now support GPU subdivision, so by default the wrapper
will be used most of the time. However this can be disabled in the
preferencesas well. For those cases, the subdiv wrapper is still created
but cached immediately as part of modifier evaluation. This way it can
take advantage of multithreaded depsgraph evaluation, which is not
guaranteed for other cases.
The draw code access the object data through a wrapper that will return
either the base mesh or subdivided mesh depending if GPU subdivision is
enabled or not. Previously Object.data would have the appropriate mesh
already, but now that Cycles may do adaptive subdivision while GPU
subdivision is disabled this is no longer possible.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135895
This refactor part of `draw_manager_c.cc` to make it more understandable
and less bug prone.
- Splits the context handing to `draw_gpu_context.cc`
- Rename `draw_manager_c.cc` to `draw_context.cc`
- Merge `DRWContextState` into `DRWContext`
- Merge lots of static functions into `DRWContext` to avoid global access
- Deduplicate code between entry point functions
- Move context init logic to `DRWContext` constructor
- Move resource init logic to `DRWContext::acquire_data`
- Move extraction `TaskGraph` out of `DRWContext`
- Reduce / centralize complexity of enabling draw engines
- Reduce the amount of `drw_get` calls
- Remove unused code
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135821
This wrap some functions as class methods
and rename members to reduce confusion with
the old class meaning.
Rename the old DRWManager to DRWContext.
Also wrap access to DST inside a function
to allow to change it to thread local in a
following PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135268
This uses a fixed point size for selection, so that point selection is always visible
regardless of radius size.
The radius size is used to offset the selection point, so it is always visible, even when the radius is too large.
Co-authored by Hans Goudey.
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Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134908
This happend for meshes without UVs.
The call to `texpaint_request_active_uv` in
`DRW_mesh_batch_cache_get_surface_edges` is from 9c010c44f4.
Looks like this is not needed (assumed to be copy paste error).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134856
The core issue was that the geometry batch cache (e.g. `MeshBatchCache` or
`PointCloudBatchCache`) was dependent on the object. This is problematic when
the the same geometry is used with multiple different objects because the cache
can't be consistent with all of them.
Fortunately, the only thing that was retrieved from the object was the number of
material slots, so if that can be avoided we should be fine. We can't just use
the number of material slots stored on the geometry because that may have no
material slots but still has material indices which are overridden on the object
level.
The solution is to take make the number of materials for a geometry only
dependent on the actual `material_index` attribute and not on the number of
available slots. More specifically, we find the maximal referenced material
index and handle that many materials. This number does not depend on how many
material slots there are on the object, but it still allows the object to
override materials slots that the mesh references.
A downside is that the maximum material index has to be computed which often
requires an iteration over the mesh. Fortunately, we can cache that quite easily
and the computation can be done in parallel. Also we are probably able to
eagerly update the material index in many cases when it's set instead of
computing it lazily. That is not implemented in this patch though.
The largest part of the patch is making the maximal material index easily
available on all the geometry types. Besides that, the material API is slightly
replaced and the drawing code now makes use of the updated API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133498
Especially through DRW_render.hh, there were a lot of unnecessary
includes almost everywhere in the module. This typically makes
dependencies less explicit and slows down compile times, so switch
to including what files actual use.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133450
Previously, the number of material slots on the geometry (e.g. mesh) was the
ground truth. However, this had limitations in the case when the object had more
material slots than the evaluated geometry. All extra slots on the object were
ignored.
This patch changes the definition so that the number of materials used for
rendering is the maximum of the number of material slots on the geometry and on
the object. This also implies that one always needs a reference to an object
when determining that number, but that was fairly straight forward to achieve in
current code.
This patch also cleans up the material count handling a fair amount by using the
`BKE_object_material_*_eval` API more consistently instead of manually accessing
`totcol`. Cycles uses the the same API indirectly through RNA.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131869
Previously, the number of material slots on the geometry (e.g. mesh) was the
ground truth. However, this had limitations in the case when the object had more
material slots than the evaluated geometry. All extra slots on the object were
ignored.
This patch changes the definition so that the number of materials used for
rendering is the maximum of the number of material slots on the geometry and on
the object. This also implies that one always needs a reference to an object
when determining that number, but that was fairly straight forward to achieve in
current code.
This patch also cleans up the material count handling a fair amount by using the
`BKE_object_material_*_eval` API more consistently instead of manually accessing
`totcol`. Cycles uses the the same API indirectly through RNA.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131761
The formats was not using the correct attribute type.
Fixes assert in graph drawing and potential assert in cursor drawing
Fixes assert in sequencer and file browser
Currently replacing the Mesh during evaluation with the object info node
can cause us to use invalid original indices when the source object is
in edit mode. This is really a more fundamental problem though: we have
no way to tell whether an evaluated mesh actually corresponds to the
object's original mesh.
This commit changes to explicitly propagating the edit mesh pointer
through copied and changed meshes during modifier and nodes evaluation,
instead of just blindly copying the edit mode pointer from the original
mesh to the evaluated mesh. A benefit of not writing to the evaluated
mesh means it can be shared, potentially offering a future performance
improvement for uses of the object info node.
When we detect an invalid correspondence between the evaluated/original
meshes, we skip extracting the cage mesh's data and skip extracting edit
mesh data from the evaluated object.
This commit also moves the source of "object is in edit mode" truth in
the draw module from whether the evaluated mesh has an edit mode pointer
to the object's mode flag. That's a simplification that's also helpful
to reduce the strong linking between BMesh and edit mode.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120999
For C/C++ doc-strings should be located in headers,
move function comments into the headers, in some cases merging
with existing doc-strings, in other cases, moving implementation
notes into the function body.
Removes unused GPv2 functions in blenkernel.
Notes:
- Functions for layer masks are still in use, but annotations never
have layer masks in the first place. Would be good to remove the data
structures so we can remove the functions too.
- Some multi-frame edit functions are also still nominally used, but
multi-frame editing is not an active feature for annotations. This
should also be removed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128709
Functional Changes:
- Custom shapes using empties now supports line width.
- Line width is supported on MacOS.
- Fixed Stick bone drawing on MacOS.
Some shaders are duplicated and ported to the new
primitive expansion API.
The legacy code inside `overlay_armature.cc` have been
guarded behind `NO_LEGACY_OVERLAY` which can
be enabled to make sure no legacy code is used unnoticed.
This allows for spotting more easily code that needs to be
ported. Moreover, it is easier to remove this legacy code
when the time comes.
Rel #102179
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126474
This increases playback performance from 2.9fps to 3.2fps in the test file from #126391.
The check is unnecessary in draw code, because we know that the depsgraph
finished evaluation before. These checks were introduced to handle dependency
cycles during depsgraph evaluation.
At some point it may be nice to look into making these checks cheaper to avoid having
to use the unchecked version for performance reasons.
Add a `.data<T>()` method that retrieves a mutable span. This is useful
more and more as we change to filling in vertex buffer data arrays
directly, and compared to raw pointers it's safer too because of asserts
in debug builds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123338
Now that all relevant code is C++, the indirection from the C struct
`GPUVertBuf` to the C++ `blender::gpu::VertBuf` class just adds
complexity and necessitates a wrapper API, making more cleanups like
use of RAII or other C++ types more difficult.
This commit replaces the C wrapper structs with direct use of the
vertex and index buffer base classes. In C++ we can choose which parts
of a class are private, so we don't risk exposing too many
implementation details here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119825
Overall the transition to C++ in the draw module is awkwardly half
complete, but moving more code to a C++ namespace makes cleaning up
this code in other ways much easier, and the next C++ cleanup steps
are clear anyway.
"mesh" reads much better than "me" since "me" is a different word.
There's no reason to avoid using two more characters here. Replacing
all of these at once is better than encountering it repeatedly and
doing the same change bit by bit.
