This adds support for running a set of nodes repeatedly. The number
of iterations can be controlled dynamically as an input of the repeat
zone. The repeat zone can be added in via the search or from the
Add > Utilities menu.
The main use case is to replace long repetitive node chains with a more
flexible alternative. Technically, repeat zones can also be used for
many other use cases. However, due to their serial nature, performance
is very sub-optimal when they are used to solve problems that could
be processed in parallel. Better solutions for such use cases will
be worked on separately.
Repeat zones are similar to simulation zones. The major difference is
that they have no concept of time and are always evaluated entirely in
the current frame, while in simulations only a single iteration is
evaluated per frame.
Stopping the repetition early using a dynamic condition is not yet
supported. "Break" functionality can be implemented manually using
Switch nodes in the loop for now. It's likely that this functionality
will be built into the repeat zone in the future.
For now, things are kept more simple.
Remaining Todos after this first version:
* Improve socket inspection and viewer node support. Currently, only
the first iteration is taken into account for socket inspection
and the viewer.
* Make loop evaluation more lazy. Currently, the evaluation is eager,
meaning that it evaluates some nodes even though their output may not
be required.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109164
When we don't need to preserve a persistent cache, we can use
the geometry from the last frame directly rather than copying it.
Though implicit lets us avoid copying large data arrays when they
aren't changed, this can still give a large improvement for something
like particle simulation where the majority of the data was copied
every frame.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109742
Sampling nodes produce fields, but can be used for
single values. If this used in simulation, this will not work
correctly, not similar as other singles. Just compute these
fields as single to store in Simulation Output node.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109879
The `BKE_bvhtree_from_pointcloud_get` function have requirements for
input point cloud argument and initialization of `BVHTreeFromPointCloud`
can be skipped. Due to `BVHTreeFromPointCloud` is not initialized by
default constructor, it can contains garbage data. To check if tree is
initialized field of `BVHTreeFromPointCloud`, return argument shouldn't
be ignored. `[[nodiscard]]` attributes is added.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109892
There's quite a few libraries that depend on dna_type_offsets.h
but had gotten to it by just adding the folder that contains it to
their includes INC section without declaring a dependency to
bf_dna in the LIB section.
which occasionally lead to the lib building before bf_dna and the
header being missing, while this generally gets fixed in CMake by
adding bf_dna to the LIB section of the lib, however until last
week all libraries in the LIB section were linked as INTERFACE so
adding it in there did not resolve the build issue.
To make things still build, we sprinkled add_dependencies wherever
we needed it to force a build order.
This diff :
Declares public include folders for the bf_dna target so there's
no more fudging the INC section required to get to them.
Removes all dna related paths from the INC section for all
libraries.
Adds an alias target bf:dna to signify it has been updated to
modern cmake
Declares a dependency on bf::dna for all libraries that require it
Removes (almost) all calls to add_dependencies for bf_dna
Future work:
Because of the manual dependency management that was done, there is
now some "clutter" with libs depending on bf_dna that realistically
don't. Example bf_intern_opencolorio itself has no dependency on
bf_dna at all, doesn't need it, doesn't use it. However the
dna include folder had been added to it in the past since bf_blenlib
uses dna headers in some of its public headers and
bf_intern_opencolorio does use those blenlib headers.
Given bf_blenlib now correctly declares the dependency on bf_dna
as public bf_intern_opencolorio will get the dna header directory
automatically from CMake, hence some cleanup could be done for
bf_intern_opencolorio
Because 99% of the changes in this diff have been automated, this diff
does not seek to address these issues as there is no easy way to
determine why a certain dependency is in place. A developer will have
to make a pass a this at some later point in time. As I'd rather not
mix automated and manual labour.
There are a few libraries that could not be automatically processed
(ie bf_blendthumb) that also will need this manual look-over.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109835
Slight speed up of face topology building for blur node.
Avoid using increment and replacing by adding size.
Multi-threading for accumulating offsets. Early returns
in one place places. In a test with a large grid, the node
became 36% faster, with 13 out of 40 ms saved from
the topology building.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109764
Add an offset indices utility to do fill constant size new offsets in
parallel, which was already done in the duplicate elements node.
For example, filling poly offsets for a new part of a mesh that is only
quads. In the extrude node this was single-threaded before, so the
new poly offsets is about 10x faster, saving about 10 out of 157 ms
when extruding 2 million faces.
This utility counts the number of occurrences of each index in an array.
This is used for building mesh topology maps offsets, or for counting
the number of connected elements. Some users are geometry nodes,
the subdivision draw cache, and mesh to curve conversion.
See #109628
Fix of assert for debug build. Offsets have one last extra
element, used to contain offset for last real element. When
copying values to offsets, the last element has to be ignored.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109476
The simulation state used by simulation nodes is owned by the modifier. Since a
geometry nodes setup can contain an arbitrary number of simulations, the modifier
has a mapping from `SimulationZoneID` to `SimulationZoneState`. This patch changes
what is used as `SimulationZoneID`.
Previously, the `SimulationZoneID` contained a list of `bNode::identifier` that described
the path from the root node tree to the simulation output node. This works ok in many
cases, but also has a significant problem: The `SimulationZoneID` changes when moving
the simulation zone into or out of a node group. This implies that any of these operations
loses the mapping from zone to simulation state, invalidating the cache or even baked data.
The goal of this patch is to introduce a single-integer ID that identifies a (nested) simulation
zone and is stable even when grouping and un-grouping. The ID should be stable even if the
node group containing the (nested) simulation zone is in a separate linked .blend file and
that linked file is changed.
In the future, the same kind of ID can be used to store e.g. checkpoint/baked/frozen data
in the modifier.
To achieve the described goal, node trees can now store an arbitrary number of nested node
references (an array of `bNestedNodeRef`). Each nested node reference has an ID that is
unique within the current node tree. The node tree does not store the entire path to the
nested node. Instead it only know which group node the nested node is in, and what the
nested node ID of the node is within that group. Grouping and un-grouping operations
have to update the nested node references to keep the IDs stable. Importantly though,
these operations only have to care about the two node groups that are affected. IDs in
higher level node groups remain unchanged by design.
A consequence of this design is that every `bNodeTree` now has a `bNestedNodeRef`
for every (nested) simulation zone. Two instances of the same simulation zone (because
a node group is reused) are referenced by two separate `bNestedNodeRef`. This is
important to keep in mind, because it also means that this solution doesn't scale well if
we wanted to use it to keep stable references to *all* nested nodes. I can't think of a
solution that fulfills the described requirements but scales better with more nodes. For
that reason, this solution should only be used when we want to store data for each
referenced nested node at the top level (like we do for simulations).
This is not a replacement for `ViewerPath` which can store a path to data in a node tree
without changing the node tree. Also `ViewerPath` can contain information like the loop
iteration that should be viewed (#109164). `bNestedNodeRef` can't differentiate between
different iterations of a loop. This also means that simulations can't be used inside of a
loop (loops inside of a simulation work fine though).
When baking, the new stable ID is now written to disk, which means that baked data is
not invalidated by grouping/un-grouping operations. Backward compatibility for baked
data is provided, but only works as long as the simulation zone has not been moved to
a different node group yet. Forward compatibility for the baked data is not provided
(so older versions can't load the data baked with a newer version of Blender).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109444
Also see #103343.
There was one unusual complication due to `openvdb` here. The `BKE_volume.h`
header included `openvdb` but that would not link correctly in rna code. I'm not entirely
sure why any of the openvdb code is actually instantiated, may be an issue in the
`openvdb` headers. The solution is to create a new header that gives access to the
underlying `openvdb` data structure for a `Volume` geometry. This header can't be
included in rna for now, until the linking issues are resolved.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109508
This PR adds a new operator to run a node group on object geometry.
Only curves sculpt mode is supported for now, to simplify the design.
A new geometry node editor context to edit operator groups is also
added. This allows changing any node group, rather than only node
groups that are part of the active modifier context.
3D viewport menus are added with any geometry node group
asset in a catalog that contains the `Operator` tag. Currently Blender
must be restarted to refresh the list of available operators.
This is only the first phase of the node group operator feature.
Many more features will be added in next steps.
See #101778
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108947
- "Front"/"Back": 'put something at the front/back' or 'the front/back
face of something'. (e. g. the Empty Image options, Depth and Side
option, both use the same strings as enum, which should be avoided
in some languages).
- "Flip": invert, as in normals, or mirror, as in an image.
- "Path": a path to a resource, in general a file but sometimes a
datablock, as opposed to a trajectory in space.
- "Join": disambiguate for the Grease Pencil operator, which may use a
different word as that for meshes.
- "Wave": an ondulating motion, as opposed to a fluid dynamics motion.
- "Step": can mean the distance between two things, or a number of
times to do something. In this case it is better to use the plural.
- "Edge": generally the edges of a mesh, but can also mean edge
detection. Additionally, it was used for the option to enable
Freestyle. This was changed to "Use Freestyle".
- "Boundary": the limit of a grease pencil drawing for filling
purposes, as opposed to the external limit of a (non-manifold) mesh.
- "Rotations": can be translated to something like "Turns", in the
context of a spiral.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108213
This brings back the `Fill Volume` and `Exterior Bandwidth` inputs in
the Mesh to Volume node and modifier. Those existed in Blender 3.5 but
were removed in 700d168a5c because the way they were
implemented did not use the openvdb api in the right way.
While it's rare that people turned off the `Fill Volume` option, the
exterior bandwidth was used more and can have significant impact on
the result. Furthermore, there is no clear replacement for the
functionality.
Therefore, we decided to roll back the changes in 3.6 to avoid breaking
compatibility. We intend to keep the changes in 4.0 for now, but need
to work on a more clear short term replacement for the removed
functionality.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109297
This brings back the `Fill Volume` and `Exterior Bandwidth` inputs in
the Mesh to Volume node and modifier. Those existed in Blender 3.5 but
were removed in 700d168a5c because the way they were
implemented did not use the openvdb api in the right way.
While it's rare that people turned off the `Fill Volume` option, the
exterior bandwidth was used more and can have significant impact on
the result. Furthermore, there is no clear replacement for the
functionality.
Therefore, we decided to roll back the changes in 3.6 to avoid breaking
compatibility. We intend to keep the changes in 4.0 for now, but need
to work on a more clear short term replacement for the removed
functionality.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109297
Recent `IndexMask` refactors introduced log(N) complexity for `mask[i]`.
The greater the fragmentation of the mask, the greater the complexity.
Also, new `IndexMask` implementation has new iterators represented
both real index, and position (`index = mask[position]`).
This PR simply replace manual loops by new methods for iterating.
Added `optimized` in some place as slightly speed up.
The Attribute Statistic became 5 times better, due to multithreading.
The Extrude (Faces Individual) has average changed 42 ms -> 36 ms.
Duplicate Elements (Faces) has average changed 220 ms -> 150 ms.
Transform Instances has average changed 12 ms -> 8 ms.
Other nodes have approximately similar improvement numbers.
All tests use Random(50%) selection as mask.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109174
This node splits all faces to duplicate each time. Corner edges and
vertices are just ordered sequences of indices. Most likely, due to
historical reasons, this was overlooked and as a result the code became
so complex with potential simplicity. The problem was found in a
benchmark of #109174. The code in the lambda could not be optimized.
Timings improved by about 30%, from 154 to 120 ms.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109222
This suffix is only preferred when the non-const version does more
work than the const version of a method (e.g. because it may duplicate
data because of implicit sharing).
If accumulated amount of points is zero, next offsets
will be empty too. Instead to expand offsets to create
empty curve, just delete source curve and skip any next steps.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109172
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.
Move `GeometrySet` and `GeometryComponent` and subclasses
to the `blender::bke` namespace. This wasn't done earlier since
these were one of the first C++ classes used throughout Blender,
but now it is common.
Also remove the now-unnecessary C-header, since all users of
the geometry set header are now in C++.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109020
The named attribute node gave connections from the "Exists" socket
to the new rotation socket type, and the sample volume node set its
type to unsupported values, causing a crash.
Add a quaternion rotation socket type, and using the recently added
rotation attribute type, support the type in most of the multi-type
geometry nodes, and modifier attribute inputs and outputs.
The socket is still exposed with an XYZ Euler default value.
In the future we can add modes to this rotation value similar
to object rotations.
Rotation values have no implicit conversions to other types.
Nodes to convert to and from rotation values will be added
in a follow-up commit.
For now, the new socket type is hidden behind and experimental
option, because we haven't chosen the final color for it yet.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108903
Store subdivision surface creases in two new named float attributes:
- `crease_vert`
- `crease_edge`
This is similar to 2a56403cb0.
The attributes are naming conventions, so their data type and domain
aren't enforced, and may be interpolated when necessary. Editing tools
and the subdivision surface modifier use the hard-coded name. It might
be best if these were edited as generic attributes in the future, but
in the meantime using generic attributes helps.
The attributes are visible in the list, which is how they're now meant
to be removed. They are now interchangeable with any tool that works
with the generic attribute system-- even tools like vertex paint can
affect creases now.
This is a breaking change. Forward compatibility isn't preserved for
versions before 3.6, and the `crease` property in RNA is removed in
favor of making a smaller API surface area with just the attribute API.
`Mesh.vertex_creases` and `Mesh.edge_creases` now just return the
matching attribute if possible, and are now implemented in Python.
New functions `*ensure` and `*remove` also replace the operators to
add and remove the layers for Python.
A few extrude node test files have to be updated because of different
(now generic) attribute interpolation behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108089
