Briefly about this change:
- OpenColorIO C-API is removed.
- The information about color spaces in ImBuf module is removed.
It was stored in global ListBase in colormanagement.cc.
- Both OpenColorIO and fallback implementation supports GPU drawing.
- Fallback implementation supports white point, RGB curves, etc.
- Removed check for support of GPU drawing in IMB.
Historically it was implemented in a separate library with C-API, this
is because way back C++ code needed to stay in intern. This causes all
sort of overheads, and even calls that are strictly considered bad
level.
This change moves OpenColorIO integration into a module within imbuf,
next to movie, and next to IMB_colormanagement which is the main user
of it. This allows to avoid copy of color spaces, displays, views etc
in the ImBuf: they were used to help quickly querying information to
be shown on the interface. With this change it can be stored in the
same data structures as what is used by the OpenColorIO integration.
While it might not be fully avoiding duplication it is now less, and
there is no need in the user code to maintain the copies.
In a lot of cases this change also avoids allocations done per access
to the OpenColorIO. For example, it is not needed anymore to allocate
image descriptor in a heap.
The bigger user-visible change is that the fallback implementation now
supports GLSL drawing, with the whole list of supported features, such
as curve mapping and white point. This should help simplifying code
which relies on color space conversion on GPU: there is no need to
figure out fallback solution in such cases. The only case when drawing
will not work is when there is some actual bug, or driver issue, and
shader has failed to compile.
The change avoids having an opaque type for color space, and instead
uses forward declaration. It is a bit verbose on declaration, but helps
avoiding unsafe type-casts. There are ways to solve this in the future,
like having a header for forward declaration, or to flatten the name
space a bit.
There should be no user-level changes under normal operation.
When building without OpenColorIO or the configuration has a typo or
is missing a fuller set of color management tools is applies (such as the
white point correction).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138433
This adds basic templating support to render output paths. By putting
"{variable_name}" in the path string, it will be replaced by the named
variable's value when generating the actual output path. This is similar
to how "//" is already substituted with the path to the blend file's
current directory.
This templating system is implemented for both the primary render output
path as well as the File Output node in the compositing nodes. Support
for using templates in other places can be implemented in future PRs.
In addition to the "{variable_name}" syntax, some additional syntax is
also supported:
- Since "{" and "}" now have special meaning, "{{" and "}}" are now
escape sequences for literal "{" and "}".
- "{variable_name:format_specifier}", where "format_specifier" is a
special syntax using "#", which allows the user to specify how numeric
variables should be formatted:
- "{variable_name:###}" will format the number as an integer with at
least 3 characters (padding with zeros as needed).
- "{variable_name:.##}" will format the number as a float with
precisely 2 fractional digits.
- "{variable_name:###.##}" will format the number as a float with at
least 3 characters for the integer part and precisely 2 for the
fractional part.
For the primary render output path: if there is a template syntax error,
a variable doesn't exist, or a format specifier isn't valid (e.g. trying
to format a string with "##"), the render that needs to write to the
output path fails with a descriptive error message.
For both the primary and File Output node paths: if there are template
syntax errors the field is highlighted in red in the UI, and a tooltip
describes the offending syntax errors. Note that these do *not* yet
reflect errors due to missing variables. That will be for a follow-up
PR.
In addition to the general system, this PR also implements a limited set
of variables for use in templates, but more can be implemented in future
PRs. The variables added in this PR are:
- `blend_name`: the name of the current blend file without the file
extension.
- `fps`: the frames per second of the current scene.
- `resolution_x` and `resolution_y`: the render output resolution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134860
Added a new operator `OBJECT_OT_material_slot_remove_all`
that removes all materials from the material slots of selected objects
This was inspired by a request proposal on RCS.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138402
This patch adds a new `BLI_mutex.hh` header which adds `blender::Mutex` as alias
for either `tbb::mutex` or `std::mutex` depending on whether TBB is enabled.
Description copied from the patch:
```
/**
* blender::Mutex should be used as the default mutex in Blender. It implements a subset of the API
* of std::mutex but has overall better guaranteed properties. It can be used with RAII helpers
* like std::lock_guard. However, it is not compatible with e.g. std::condition_variable. So one
* still has to use std::mutex for that case.
*
* The mutex provided by TBB has these properties:
* - It's as fast as a spin-lock in the non-contended case, i.e. when no other thread is trying to
* lock the mutex at the same time.
* - In the contended case, it spins a couple of times but then blocks to avoid draining system
* resources by spinning for a long time.
* - It's only 1 byte large, compared to e.g. 40 bytes when using the std::mutex of GCC. This makes
* it more feasible to have many smaller mutexes which can improve scalability of algorithms
* compared to using fewer larger mutexes. Also it just reduces "memory slop" across Blender.
* - It is *not* a fair mutex, i.e. it's not guaranteed that a thread will ever be able to lock the
* mutex when there are always more than one threads that try to lock it. In the majority of
* cases, using a fair mutex just causes extra overhead without any benefit. std::mutex is not
* guaranteed to be fair either.
*/
```
The performance benchmark suggests that the impact is negilible in almost
all cases. The only benchmarks that show interesting behavior are the once
testing foreach zones in Geometry Nodes. These tests are explicitly testing
overhead, which I still have to reduce over time. So it's not unexpected that
changing the mutex has an impact there. What's interesting is that on macos the
performance improves a lot while on linux it gets worse. Since that overhead
should eventually be removed almost entirely, I don't really consider that
blocking.
Links:
* Documentation of different mutex flavors in TBB:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/onetbb/developer-guide-api-reference/2021-12/mutex-flavors.html
* Older implementation of a similar mutex by me:
https://archive.blender.org/developer/differential/0016/0016711/index.html
* Interesting read regarding how a mutex can be this small:
https://webkit.org/blog/6161/locking-in-webkit/
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138370
* Remove `DEG_get_evaluated_object` in favor of `DEG_get_evaluated`.
* Remove `DEG_is_original_object` in favor of `DEG_is_original`.
* Remove `DEG_is_evaluated_object` in favor of `DEG_is_evaluated`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138317
Sort of a followup to d177388979
Resolves the limitation mentioned there "A known limitation with this
will be that changes to dependencies won't be indicated in the brush.
E.g. Changing the texture attached to a brush won't make
the brush be indicated as changed."
Part of #136895
Does not fully fix the report though, seems like deleting/relinking the
brush in `asset_reload` still need to do additional stuff to properly
revert the brush textures.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136988
Fixes: #136842, #136645
Caused by 76d6d169ba
When multiple objects are selected to mark as assets, preview generation
job of previous ID in the for loop is cleared by `ED_preview_kill_jobs`
inside `generate_preview`. To fix this, check if `id->preview` exists then
clear the preview job if exists inside the new function
`ED_preview_kill_jobs_for_id`.
Solution proposed by @JulianEisel. I came up with idea to use `wm_job_find`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136918
If render engines dont specify `RE_USE_PREVIEW` / `bl_use_preview`, they
wont pass the `ED_check_engine_supports_preview` test.
That is mostly meant to tell blender this engine is capable of
generating (Material) previews and if it isnt, they will skip generating
button previews in `icon_preview_startjob_all_sizes`.
There are already exceptions for type of IDs that can still generate
previews (think Asset previews for Objects or Actions), so the same
exception can be made for Images and Brushes as well (these previews
will just befulled from the Image buffer, that should not rely on the engine
whatsoever). We can also be permissive on Groups (they are treated
similar to Objects).
NOTE: this was reported for the Workbench engine, in another (future)
commit, we might even consider flagging that engine `RE_USE_PREVIEW` as
well (see comments in the PR)?
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136824
Use enum types for event modifier and types,
`wmEventModifierFlag` & `wmEventType` respectively.
This helps with readability and avoids unintended mixing with other
types. To quiet GCC's `-Wswitch` warnings many `default` cases needed
to be added to switch statements on event types.
Ref !136759
When adding a texture to a brush datablock, currently, the resulting
undo step does not have any effect when undone. This is due to the
texture being added to the linked asset library. As we do not want this
extraneous undo step to be created since it has no effect, this commit
does the following:
* Removes the automatic undo handling with OPTYPE_UNDO
* Manually adds a undo step if the newly created Texture datablock was
not moved to a library.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136336
Callbacks: exec invoke & modal now use a typed enum wmOperatorStatus.
This helps avoid mistakes returning incompatible booleans or other
values which don't make sense for operators to return.
It also makes it more obvious functions in the WM API are intended
to be used to calculate return values for operator callbacks.
Operator enums have been moved into DNA_windowmanager_enums.h
so this can be used in other headers without loading other includes
indirectly.
No functional changes expected.
Ref !136227
WM_report was originally added for special cases however new code
has been using this in operators for example, where reports should be
sent to the operator via BKE_report, so the caller can handle,
and so Python can catch the errors.
Rename the functions to make them less easily confused with BKE_report
and add a code-comment on why their use should be avoided.
This avoid having to flush explicitely and the need for syncing.
It also removes a lot of complexity in the process.
These updates are not granular and do not need to so much
boiler plate code.
The depsgraph update counter now becomes atomic to avoid
undefined behavior when a depsgraph is being destroyed and
its memory reused (same thinking as the non-copy-on-eval IDs).
I tested some use cases (object update, sculpt update,
shading update) and they are all working.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135580
This PR creates 2 namespaces for VSE code:
- `blender::seq` for sequencer core code
- `blender::ed::vse` for editor code
These names are chosen to not be in conflict with each other.
No namespace was used for RNA.
Finally, file `BKE_sequencer_offscreen.h` was moved from BKE to sequencer.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135500
The general idea is to keep the 'old', C-style MEM_callocN signature, and slowly
replace most of its usages with the new, C++-style type-safer template version.
* `MEM_cnew<T>` allocation version is renamed to `MEM_callocN<T>`.
* `MEM_cnew_array<T>` allocation version is renamed to `MEM_calloc_arrayN<T>`.
* `MEM_cnew<T>` duplicate version is renamed to `MEM_dupallocN<T>`.
Similar templates type-safe version of `MEM_mallocN` will be added soon
as well.
Following discussions in !134452.
NOTE: For now static type checking in `MEM_callocN` and related are slightly
different for Windows MSVC. This compiler seems to consider structs using the
`DNA_DEFINE_CXX_METHODS` macro as non-trivial (likely because their default
copy constructors are deleted). So using checks on trivially
constructible/destructible instead on this compiler/system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134771
Caused by 40ac21e5a5 [does not remember/resore the previous ScrArea &
ARegion anymore].
Without this, the operator reporting might get confused by using the
wrong area/region, so added back
NOTE: I tried to just notify `NC_SPACE | ND_SPACE_INFO_REPORT` in
`screen_opengl_render_end` (same as in `wm_operator_finished` >
`wm_operator_register`), but to no avail...
Think this is quite good pratice to leave us with the original area/
region anyways though.
Thx @brecht for improvements (restoring in `screen_opengl_render_init`
already, also taking care of restoring in some early out cases)
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135394
Move `Library.runtime` to be a pointer, move the related
`LibraryRuntime` struct to `BKE_library.hh`. Similar to e.g.
Mesh.runtime, that pointer is expected to always be valid, and is
allocated at readtime or when creating a new Library ID.
Related smaller changes:
* Write code now uses standard ID writing codepath for Library IDs too.
* Runtime pointer is reset to nullptr before writing.
* Looking up a library by its absolute path is now handled through a
dedicated utils, `search_filepath_abs`, instead of using
`BLI_findstring`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134188
Custom preview images loaded from disk are supposed to load one by one
in a background thread, but pop up in the UI as they get ready. This
gradual/progressive loading wasn't working correctly, previews would
only show up after all current preview requests were handled. I think
there would still be some progressive loading, since handling a batch of
requests might finish before all requests for the current frame are in.
Now it works as intended, by actually tagging loaded previews.
Mistake in 16ab6111f7.
Noticed while working on #131871.
When loading preview images from disk, we'd first scale them to the
standard preview image size (in `icon_copy_rect()`) and then scale them
again to the drawing size when eventually drawing to screen. The first
scaling would happen on the CPU, which is slow, and without filtering.
Now the image is stored in its original size and only scaled when
drawing, which uses scaling on the GPU with mipmaps and bi-linear
filtering. While a bit more blurry, the resulting image has less
artifacts and represents the original image better. Keeping the images
unscaled means memory footprint is bigger, we could cap the size if
necessary.
Noticed while working on #131871. Asset shelf previews would have more
artifacts than before.
See pull request for comparisons.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133559