Check if either the memory is zero or already matches the default value,
and copy. This simplifies a common pattern to a single line.
Preparing for default initializers in DNA (#134531).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138830
The old name `modifier_panel_end` was not great because:
* There is no corresponding `*_begin`.
* It sounds more magical then it really is (it just draws the error message).
* It doesn't even have to be at the end as is sometimes the case when there are subpanels.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138797
This converts the public `uiItemR` function to an object oriented
API (`uiLayout::prop`), matching the python API.
This reduces the difference between the C++ API with the python version,
its also helps while converting code from python to C++ code (or vice-versa),
making it almost seamless.
Part of: #117604
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138617
Reading curves from alembic files did not interpolate the curves between
frames, leading to incorrect motion blur. This uses the existing
`use_vertex_interpolation` flag on the MeshSequenceCache to enable the
subframe interpolation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135698
When using Alembic procedurals, the Mesh Sequence Cache attempts to
replace the original geometry with a plain old cube. However, it never
frees this new cube geometry. Transfer ownership to the underlying
GeometrySet instead.
Investigating the scenario also showed that the `~AlembicProcedural`
dtor was removing an item from the `nodes` vector while iterating over
it, which triggers debug asserts on at least MSVC. I believe the removal
is unnecessary since this is the dtor and ASAN appears clean now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134085
- Gives O(1) access to string length in more cases
- Convenient string manipulation functions
- Clarify difference between "no string" and "empty string"
- Avoid the need for raw pointers in the API
- Shows which API string arguments are optional
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131473
In 4.2, Alembic points are imported as PointCloud objects instead of as
mesh vertices.
The code inside Mesh Sequence Cache which converts geometry into a
bounding-box mesh when using Render Procedurals needed to be updated
to support PointCloud objects.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125846
This commit moves generated `RNA_blender.h`, `RNA_prototype.h` and
`RNA_blender_cpp.h` headers to become C++ header files.
It also removes the now useless `RNA_EXTERN_C` defines, and just
directly use the `extern` keyword. We do not need anymore `extern "C"`
declarations here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124469
The recently added `modify_geometry_set` code path [1] inside the Mesh
Sequence Cache was meant to follow what was done inside `modify_mesh`
but failed to use the correct data type for the time offset. Double is
used throughout Blender when dealing with the frame time and this was
simply missed.
This results in rounding errors and downstream consumers like USD would
re-read the wrong frames. e.g. it would read frame 4 twice because the
values provided when switching from frame 4 to frame 5 were
`4.000000119209290` and `4.999999880790710` instead of
`4.000000000000000` and `5.000000000000000` with this patch.
[1] ea256346a8
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120790
This rewrites the Alembic and USD data importers to work with and
output GeometrySets instead of Meshes.
The main motivation for this change is to be able to import properly
point clouds, which are currently imported as Meshes, and curves
data, which suffer from a lot of issues due to limitations of
legacy curves structures (fixed by the new curves data-block) and are
also converted to Meshes. Further, for Curves, it will allow importing
arbitrary attributes.
This patch was primarily meant for Alembic, but changes to USD import
were necessary as they share the same modifier.
For Alembic:
There should be no behavioral changes for Meshes
Curves are imported as the new Curves object type
Points are imported as PointClouds
For USD:
There should be no behavioral changes for Meshes
Curves are imported as the new Curves object type
Note that the current USD importer does not support loading PointClouds,
so this patch does not add support for it.
For both Alembic and USD, knots arrays are not read anymore, as the new
Curves object does not expose the ability to set them. Improvements can
be made in the future if and when example assets are provided.
This fixes at least the following:
#58704: Animated Alembic curves don't update on render
#112308: Curves have offset animations (alembic / USD)
#118261: wrong motion blur from usd in cycles and reverting to the first
frame when disabeling motion blur
Co-authored-by: Jesse Yurkovich <jesse.y@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115623
The depsgraph CoW mechanism is a bit of a misnomer. It creates an
evaluated copy for data-blocks regardless of whether the copy will
actually be written to. The point is to have physical separation between
original and evaluated data. This is in contrast to the commonly used
performance improvement of keeping a user count and copying data
implicitly when it needs to be changed. In Blender code we call this
"implicit sharing" instead. Importantly, the dependency graph has no
idea about the _actual_ CoW behavior in Blender.
Renaming this functionality in the despgraph removes some of the
confusion that comes up when talking about this, and will hopefully
make the depsgraph less confusing to understand initially too. Wording
like "the evaluated copy" (as opposed to the original data-block) has
also become common anyway.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118338
This allows modifiers to have cache pointers that are preserved over undo steps.
I intend to use this for the baked data cache for the geometry nodes modifier.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117307
"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.
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
Previously the panel type name of a modifier (e.g. "MOD_PT_Smooth") was
created by copying from the ModifierTypeInfos name.
This meant that modifiers with the same default name would use
the same identifier for the panels.
Since different object types (e.g. OB_GREASE_PENCIL and OB_MESH)
might want to use the same default modifier name, this PR introduces
an idname field in the ModifierTypeInfo struct. This is then used to
generate the panel type name.
For compatibility reasons, the idname is the same as the name for now.
Note: Because the name was used previously, this means that some
modifiers have spaces in their panel type name.
E.g. "MOD_PT_Volume to Mesh".
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110468
Implements part of #101689.
The "poly" name was chosen to distinguish the `MLoop` + `MPoly`
combination from the `MFace` struct it replaced. Those two structures
persisted together for a long time, but nowadays `MPoly` is gone, and
`MFace` is only used in some legacy code like the particle system.
To avoid unnecessarily using a different term, increase consistency
with the UI and with BMesh, and generally make code a bit easier to
read, this commit replaces the `poly` term with `poly`. Most variables
that use the term are renamed too. `Mesh.totface` and `Mesh.fdata` now
have a `_legacy` suffix to reduce confusion. In a next step, `pdata`
can be renamed to `face_data` as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109819
More consistently return geometry bounds with the `Bounds` type that
holds the min and max in one variable. This simplifies some code and
reduces the need to initialize separate min and max variables first.
Meshes now use the same `bounds_min_max()` function as curves and
point clouds, though the wrapper mesh isn't affected yet.
The motivation is to make some of the changes for #96968 simpler.
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
Implements #95966, as the final step of #95965.
This commit changes the storage of mesh edge vertex indices from the
`MEdge` type to the generic `int2` attribute type. This follows the
general design for geometry and the attribute system, where the data
storage type and the usage semantics are separated.
The main benefit of the change is reduced memory usage-- the
requirements of storing mesh edges is reduced by 1/3. For example,
this saves 8MB on a 1 million vertex grid. This also gives performance
benefits to any memory-bound mesh processing algorithm that uses edges.
Another benefit is that all of the edge's vertex indices are
contiguous. In a few cases, it's helpful to process all of them as
`Span<int>` rather than `Span<int2>`. Similarly, the type is more
likely to match a generic format used by a library, or code that
shouldn't know about specific Blender `Mesh` types.
Various Notes:
- The `.edge_verts` name is used to reflect a mapping between domains,
similar to `.corner_verts`, etc. The period means that it the data
shouldn't change arbitrarily by the user or procedural operations.
- `edge[0]` is now used instead of `edge.v1`
- Signed integers are used instead of unsigned to reduce the mixing
of signed-ness, which can be error prone.
- All of the previously used core mesh data types (`MVert`, `MEdge`,
`MLoop`, `MPoly` are now deprecated. Only generic types are used).
- The `vec2i` DNA type is used in the few C files where necessary.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106638
Implements #95967.
Currently the `MPoly` struct is 12 bytes, and stores the index of a
face's first corner and the number of corners/verts/edges. Polygons
and corners are always created in order by Blender, meaning each
face's corners will be after the previous face's corners. We can take
advantage of this fact and eliminate the redundancy in mesh face
storage by only storing a single integer corner offset for each face.
The size of the face is then encoded by the offset of the next face.
The size of a single integer is 4 bytes, so this reduces memory
usage by 3 times.
The same method is used for `CurvesGeometry`, so Blender already has
an abstraction to simplify using these offsets called `OffsetIndices`.
This class is used to easily retrieve a range of corner indices for
each face. This also gives the opportunity for sharing some logic with
curves.
Another benefit of the change is that the offsets and sizes stored in
`MPoly` can no longer disagree with each other. Storing faces in the
order of their corners can simplify some code too.
Face/polygon variables now use the `IndexRange` type, which comes with
quite a few utilities that can simplify code.
Some:
- The offset integer array has to be one longer than the face count to
avoid a branch for every face, which means the data is no longer part
of the mesh's `CustomData`.
- We lose the ability to "reference" an original mesh's offset array
until more reusable CoW from #104478 is committed. That will be added
in a separate commit.
- Since they aren't part of `CustomData`, poly offsets often have to be
copied manually.
- To simplify using `OffsetIndices` in many places, some functions and
structs in headers were moved to only compile in C++.
- All meshes created by Blender use the same order for faces and face
corners, but just in case, meshes with mismatched order are fixed by
versioning code.
- `MeshPolygon.totloop` is no longer editable in RNA. This API break is
necessary here unfortunately. It should be worth it in 3.6, since
that's the best way to allow loading meshes from 4.0, which is
important for an LTS version.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105938
When creating the bounding box mesh for the viewport replacement,
copy the material from the original mesh. I'm not sure if Cycles is
meant to load materials from the original mesh or the Alembic file
itself, but either way, this should be a harmless change and fixes the
issue in the report.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105798
Refactoring mesh code, it has become clear that local cleanups and
simplifications are limited by the need to keep a C public API for
mesh functions. This change makes code more obvious and makes further
refactoring much easier.
- Add a new `BKE_mesh.hh` header for a C++ only mesh API
- Introduce a new `blender::bke::mesh` namespace, documented here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/Mesh#Namespaces
- Move some functions to the new namespace, cleaning up their arguments
- Move code to `Array` and `float3` where necessary to use the new API
- Define existing inline mesh data access functions to the new header
- Keep some C API functions where necessary because of RNA
- Move all C++ files to use the new header, which includes the old one
In the future it may make sense to split up `BKE_mesh.hh` more, but for
now keeping the same name as the existing header keeps things simple.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105416
