Rewrite of the Workbench engine using C++ and the new Draw Manager API.
The new engine can be enabled in Blender `Preferences > Experimental > Workbench Next`.
After that, the engine can be selected in `Properties > Scene > Render Engine`.
When `Workbench Next` is the active engine, it also handles the `Solid` viewport mode rendering.
The rewrite aims to be functionally equivalent to the current Workbench engine, but it also includes some small fixes/tweaks:
- `In Front` rendered objects now work correctly with DoF and Shadows.
- The `Sampling > Viewport` setting is actually used when the viewport is in `Render Mode`.
- In `Texture` mode, textured materials also use the material properties. (Previously, only non textured materials would)
To do:
- Sculpt PBVH.
- Volume rendering.
- Hair rendering.
- Use the "no_geom" shader versions for shadow rendering.
- Decide the final API for custom visibility culling (Needed for shadows).
- Profile/optimize.
Known Issues:
- Matcaps are not loaded until they’re shown elsewhere. (e.g. when opening the `Viewort Shading` UI)
- Outlines are drawn between different materials of the same object. (Each material submesh has its own object handle)
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T101619
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16826
This patch moves the realtime compositor out of experimental. See
T99210.
The first milestone is finished with regards to implementing most
essential nodes for single pass compositing. It is also now documented
in the manual and no major issues are known.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16891
Reviewed By: Clement Foucault
(MacOS) only: In the System tab of the user preferences the user has the
ability to select a GPU backend that Blender will use. After changing
the GPU backend setting, the user has to restart Blender before the
setting is used.
It was added to start collecting feedback on the Metal backend without
using the command lines.
By default Blender will select OpenGL as backend. When Metal is selected
(via `--gpu-backend metal` or via user preferences) OpenGL will be used as
fallback when the platform isn't capable of running Metal.
The draw locking was implemented for project Heist and moved behind an experimental
feature after it became clear there were issues with it. Nowadays it isn't used,
and the idea is to replace it with a different solution after all draw engines have
been ported to the new draw manager API. {T102180}
This patch will remove the experimental feature as it isn't used, or useful.
Many reports and a few labels used string formatting without
explicitly calling tip_() or iface_(), so the untranslated message
was used instead of the translated one, even when it was extracted.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16405
This operator (Alt + D) allows users to explicitly create a linked copy
of a group node (same current behaviour for the Duplicate operator).
The duplicate operator (Shift + D) now takes the new User Preference
duplicate data option for Node Tree into account. It is by default
disabled, leading to no functional change for users.
Although we could make in the future make this option "on" by default,
to make it consistent with the rest of Blender we do not at the time.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16210
When app-templates are enabled, support resetting defaults only for the
app-templates.
Without this, it's not possible to reset app-template preferences
without also resetting the default preferences for all settings the
app-template does not override (used when there is no application
template loaded, and other app-templates).
These additional menu items are shown in menus when an app-template has
been loaded.
Address issue raised by T96427.
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Ref D16150
Available on Windows and macOS, where such gestures are supported.
For Windows, disabling this option restores touchpad behavior to
match Blender 3.2.
Ref T97925
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16005
This is a new implementation of the draw manager using modern
rendering practices and GPU driven culling.
This only ports features that are not considered deprecated or to be
removed.
The old DRW API is kept working along side this new one, and does not
interfeer with it. However this needed some more hacking inside the
draw_view_lib.glsl. At least the create info are well separated.
The reviewer might start by looking at `draw_pass_test.cc` to see the
API in usage.
Important files are `draw_pass.hh`, `draw_command.hh`,
`draw_command_shared.hh`.
In a nutshell (for a developper used to old DRW API):
- `DRWShadingGroups` are replaced by `Pass<T>::Sub`.
- Contrary to DRWShadingGroups, all commands recorded inside a pass or
sub-pass (even binds / push_constant / uniforms) will be executed in order.
- All memory is managed per object (except for Sub-Pass which are managed
by their parent pass) and not from draw manager pools. So passes "can"
potentially be recorded once and submitted multiple time (but this is
not really encouraged for now). The only implicit link is between resource
lifetime and `ResourceHandles`
- Sub passes can be any level deep.
- IMPORTANT: All state propagate from sub pass to subpass. There is no
state stack concept anymore. Ensure the correct render state is set before
drawing anything using `Pass::state_set()`.
- The drawcalls now needs a `ResourceHandle` instead of an `Object *`.
This is to remove any implicit dependency between `Pass` and `Manager`.
This was a huge problem in old implementation since the manager did not
know what to pull from the object. Now it is explicitly requested by the
engine.
- The pases need to be submitted to a `draw::Manager` instance which can
be retrieved using `DRW_manager_get()` (for now).
Internally:
- All object data are stored in contiguous storage buffers. Removing a lot
of complexity in the pass submission.
- Draw calls are sorted and visibility tested on GPU. Making more modern
culling and better instancing usage possible in the future.
- Unit Tests have been added for regression testing and avoid most API
breakage.
- `draw::View` now contains culling data for all objects in the scene
allowing caching for multiple views.
- Bounding box and sphere final setup is moved to GPU.
- Some global resources locations have been hardcoded to reduce complexity.
What is missing:
- ~~Workaround for lack of gl_BaseInstanceARB.~~ Done
- ~~Object Uniform Attributes.~~ Done (Not in this patch)
- Workaround for hardware supporting a maximum of 8 SSBO.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15817
The info provided by add-ons is very valuable to users, yet it wasn’t translatable yet.
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15747
Since VBO stands for vertex buffer object it should always be uppercase.
"Vertex" in "vertex buffer object" should only be capitalized at the
beginning of a sentence.
This patch adds the core realtime compositor evaluator as well as a
compositor draw engine powered by the evaluator that operates in the
viewport. The realtime compositor is a new GPU accelerated compositor
that will be used to power the viewport compositor imminently as well as
the existing compositor in the future.
This patch only adds the evaluator and engine as an experimental
feature, the implementation of the nodes themselves will be committed
separately.
See T99210.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15206
Reviewed By: Clement Foucault
openSubdiv_init() would detect available evaluators before any OpenGL context
exists, causing a crash with libepoxy. This test however is redundant as we
already check the requirements on the Blender side through the GPU API.
To simplify things, completely remove the device detection in the opensubdiv
module and reduce the evaluators to just CPU and GPU. The plan here is to move
to the GPU module abstraction over OpenGL/Metal/Vulkan and so all these
different backends no longer make sense.
This also removes the user preference for OpenSubdiv compute device, which was
not used for the new GPU subdivision implementation.
Ref D15291
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15470
* Don't nest "Show Recent Locations" and "Show System Locations" under a
"Defaults" heading. They are not just a default setting but completely
hide panels from the UI.
* Use own "Show Locations" heading instead, and remove redundant words
from labels.
* Move the options to the top of the panel, they are more general since
they can't be toggled in a File Browser session, and thus have bigger
impact.
We may want to remove these options in a future major release, I don't
think they are useful.
Agreed on with Pablo Vazquez.
This is temporary to investigate which behavior should be kept when
creating an override hierarchy if there are no cherry-picked data
defined: make all overrides user-editable, or not.
This removes the 'make override - fully editable' menu entries.
Part of T98560.
See https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/Views
Adds all the basic functionality needed for grid views. They display
items in a grid of rows and columns, typically with a preview image and
a label underneath. Think of the main region in the Asset Browser.
Current features:
- Active item
- Notifier listening (also added this to the tree view)
- Performance: Skip adding buttons that are not scrolled into view
(solves performance problems for big asset libraries, for example).
- Custom item size
- Preview items (items that draw a preview with a label underneath)
- Margins between items scale so the entire region width is filled with
column, rather than leaving a big empty block at the right if there's
not enough space for another column (like the File and current Asset
Browser does it).
- "Data-View Item" theme colors. Not shown in the UI yet.
No user visible changes expected since the grid views aren't used for
anything yet.
This was developed as part of a rewrite of the Asset Browser UI
(`asset-browser-grid-view` branch), see T95653. There's no reason to
keep this part in a branch, continuing development in master makes
things easier.
Grid and tree views have a lot of very similar code, so I'm planning to
unify them to a degree. I kept things separate for the start to first
find out how much and what exactly makes sense to override.
It can be assumed that all scripts comply with basic pep8 formatting
regarding white-space, indentation etc.
Also remove note in best practices page & update `tests/python/pep8.py`.
If we want to exclude some scripts from make format,
this can be done by adding them to `ignore_files` in:
source/tools/utils_maintenance/autopep8_format_paths.py
Or using `# nopep8` for to ignore for individual lines.
Ref T98554
The acquire locking of the draw manager introduced other issues.
The current implementation was a hacky solution as we know that the
final solution is something totally different {T98016}.
Related issues:
* {T97988}
* {T97600}
Now there are two experimental feature options:
* "New Curves Type": Enables the new data type and a couple of tools
that are meant to be in the first release that comes with the new curves object.
* "New Curves Tools": This is only available when the new curve type is available
as well. It mainly exists to keep some tools experimental even after the initial
curves object is release officially.
* For now this only includes the curves edit mode which is not usable yet and
probably won't be for the initial release.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14840
Unlike regular selection cycling that is activated when clicking again
in the same location, object mode would cycle to another object
if the object that was selected happened to already be active.
This made it impossible to click-drag to tweak the active object
if there were other objects behind it as those would be activated first.
Resolves T96752.
color attribute system.
This commit removes sculpt colors from experimental
status and unifies it with vertex colors. It
introduces the concept of "color attributes", which
are any attributes that represents colors. Color
attributes can be represented with byte or floating-point
numbers and can be stored in either vertices or
face corners.
Color attributes share a common namespace
(so you can no longer have a floating-point
sculpt color attribute and a byte vertex color
attribute with the same name).
Note: this commit does not include vertex paint mode,
which is a separate patch, see:
https://developer.blender.org/D14179
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12587
Ref D12587
Add a new panel called "Tweaks" so we can get feedback from users
about minor tweaks to behavior as exposing these minor changes.
Currently this only has a single item in it, however we may want to
get feedback from users about small changes in the future so I'd
prefer to have a place to list these kinds of options.
Ref D14542
This only adds a experimental flag to enable the 3d texturing brush,
so future developments could check. Currently the flag does nothing
as no functionality of the 3d texturing brush has been implemented.
Object mode selection does a kind of cycling that excludes the active
selected object. This is separate from regular selection cycling which
is enabled when clicking multiple times without moving the cursor.
This has the down-side that clicking on an object to drag it always
selects the object behind it (in the case of overlapping objects).
Since object mode selection is fundamental functionality, this is
exposed as an experimental preference for user feedback & testing.
See T96752 for details.
This is supposed to hold the latest improvement from the EEVEE rewrite branch.
Note that a restart is necessary in order for the engine to appear.
The registration code is a bit convoluted as it needs to be after the WM_init.
