This makes it possible to trigger a refresh of the data-block preview,
available next to the preview in the Asset Browser sidebar. The previews get
easily outdated and automatically refreshing it all the time is not an option
because it would be a consistently running, quite expensive process. So a
button to cause a refresh should be reasonable.
This button can also be used to switch back from a custom preview to a
generated one. Although that may not be clear, and we should probably think of
a way to explain that better.
Addresses T82719.
The current layout wasn't great at all, and it was planned to polish this. This
does a first round of improvements, some more tweaking may follow.
* Place name button at the top, with no panel and no leading label.
* Add "Preview" panel, people may not want to see the preview all the time,
it's already visible in the file list.
* Move button to browse for a custom preview to the right of the preview, as
icon-only. We have a similar layout in other places (UI-lists, matcaps).
* Don't make the details panel a sub-panel. Looked weird because the parent
doesn't have a header.
* Add info icon to "No asset selected", looks a bit friendlier.
* Minor cleanups in the UI script.
Based on designs and feedback by William Reynish.
This is something we wanted to support doing. It's confusing if users see the
name but it's always grayed out. So be convenient and avoid the confusion.
Add panels with overlay settings for strips and preview and overlay
enable/disable button.
Entries from the View menus moved to the overlay panels, which will
simplify cluttered View menus.
Additional options have been added:
- Strip Name
- Strip Source(ex. path)
- Strip Duration
So users can now select what info they need to see on the strips. When
No text is displayed, waveforms are drawn in full height.
Reviewed By: ISS, HooglyBoogly, pablovazquez
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9751
When in Sequencer/Preview mode, the Sampler was on top, which normally
is the place of Select, and Annotation seems to be after Sampler in the
bottom in the various editors.
Reviewed By: ISS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9821
Paste copied strips after playhead, because this is more intuitive.
Previous functionality is still available by enabling "Keep Offset"
property, or under shortcut Ctrl+Shift+V.
Reviewed By: ISS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9734
This introduces the User Interface part of the Asset Browser, based on the
design in T54642.
Additions:
* New Asset Browser (internally a sub-editor of the File Browser).
* Navigation region showing asset categories.
* Main region showing the assets of the selected asset library with previews.
The assets may be stored over multiple .blends in the directory that's
"mounted" as asset library in the Preferences. They will all be shown in this
list.
* Header with an asset library dropdown, allowing to choose the active asset
library to show. Options are the "Current File" as asset library and all
custom libraries.
* Display popover, filter popover and search box (partially dummies, see
T82680).
* Sidebar showing the metadata of the currently active file (name, preview,
description and tags), which can be edited for assets in the "Current File"
asset library. (For others it will reset on reload.)
* The sidebar includes a button to load a custom preview image from a file.
* Make asset files draggable (with preview image).
* If a library with invalid path is selected, a message is drawn in the main
region to help the user understand what's wrong.
* Operators to add and remove asset tags. Exposed in the sidebar.
* "Only Assets" option for Link/Append.
* Internal utilities for asset UI scripts.
For screenshots or demo videos, please see D9725. Or the 2.92 release notes.
Note that there are many things to be tweaked and polished in the Asset Browser
UI still. For example, the filter and display popovers are mostly dummies. See
T82680.
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9725
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Hans Goudey
One of the core design aspects of the Asset Browser is that users can "mount"
custom asset libraries via the Preferences. Currently an asset library is just
a directory with one or more .blend files in it. We could easily support a
single .blend file as asset library as well (rather than a directory). It's
just disabled currently.
Note that in earlier designs, asset libraries were called repositories.
Idea is simple: In Preferences > File Paths, you can create custom libraries,
by setting a name and selecting a path. The name is ensured to be unique. If
the name or path are empty, the Asset Browser will not show it in the list of
available asset libraries.
The library path is not checked for validity, the Asset Browser will allow
selecting invalid libraries, but show a message instead of the file list, to
help the user understand what's going on.
Of course the actual Asset Browser UI is not part of this commit, it's in one
of the following ones.
{F9497950}
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9722
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Hans Goudey
The geometry-nodes features no longer depend on the point cloud object.
Therefore the point cloud object, although important in the future, can
be postponed until we have render and edit mode fully working.
This reverts commits:
* ea74ed5a7a.
* dc614c68ef.
This adds the missing options for the effects as it is done in modifiers.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Maniphest Tasks: T83696
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9838
In Cycles the volume transmittance is already composited into the color
passes. In Eevee the volume transmittance pass was separate and needed
to be composited in the compositor. This patch adds the volume
transmittance pass direct in the next render passes:
* Diffuse Color
* Specular Color
* Emission
* Environment
This patch includes the removal of the volume transmittance render pass.
It also renames the volume render passes to match Cycles. The setting
themselves aren't unified.
Maniphest Tasks: T81134
Approximately 33 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9796
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Remove 'U.wheellinescroll' preference, currently hidden and unused.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9616
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
As a followup for rB2b3d85d7d6771, this commit adds the remove and
copy operators for grease pencil modifiers, effects, and constraints
where they apply.
This is similar to c4a2067130130d, but applies to the general UI and is only
about single data-blocks. Here there was a similar problem: How can buttons
pass the data they represent to operators? We currently resort to ugly ad-hoc
solutions like `UI_context_active_but_get_tab_ID()`. So the operator would need
to know that it is executed on a tab button that represents a data-block.
A single button can now hand operators a data-block to operate on. The operator
can request it via the "id" context member (`CTX_data_pointer_get_type(C, "id",
&RNA_ID)` in C, `bpy.context.id` in .py).
In this commit, it is already set in the following places:
* Generic RNA button code sets it to the pointed to data-block, if the button
represents a data-block RNA pointer property. (I.e for general data-block
search buttons.)
* Data-block selectors (`templateID`) set it to the currently active data-block.
* The material slot UI-List sets it for each slot to the material it represents.
The button context menu code is modified so its operators use the context set
for the layout of its parent button (i.e. `layout.context_pointer_set()`).
No user visible changes. This new design isn't actually used yet. It will be
soon for asset operators.
Reviewed as part of https://developer.blender.org/D9717.
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
This node can be used to mix two attributes in various ways.
The blend modes are the same as in the MixRGB shader node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9737
Ref T82374.
When compiling on Windows, the following warnings occur:
```[3468/4560] Building C object source\blender\draw\CMakeFiles\bf_draw.dir\engines\eevee\eevee_cryptomatte.c.obj
C:\blender-git\blender\source\blender\draw\engines\eevee\eevee_cryptomatte.c(306): warning C4047: 'function': 'bool' differs in levels of indirection from 'void *'
C:\blender-git\blender\source\blender\draw\engines\eevee\eevee_cryptomatte.c(306): warning C4024: 'eevee_cryptomatte_shading_group_create': different types for formal and actual parameter 5```
As @Severin pointed out [here](https://developer.blender.org/rB76a0b322e4d3244e59a154c8255b84a4fbc33117#288960), this is due to the last two arguments being flipped. This diff corrects the order.
Reviewed By: Severin, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9809
This commit adds a node that fills every element of an attribute
with the same value. Currently it supports float, vector, and color
attributes. An immediate use case is for "billboard" scattering.
Currently people are using the same input to a Random Attribute node's
min and max input to fill every element of a vector with the same value,
which is an unintuitive way to accomplish the same thing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9790
This adds deformation types to snake hook and the elastic deformation
type. This mode deforms the mesh using a kelvinlet instead of applying
the displacement directly inside the brush radius, which is great for
stylized shapes sketching.
Changes in rake rotation when using elastic are too strong when set
to 1, so I'll add a nicer way to support rake rotations with smoother
transitions in the future.
Reviewed By: sergey, JulienKaspar
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9560
This is a workaround for T80804.
There's a startup crash that happens on 2.91.0 on Windows, an `EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION`
on `atio6axx.dll`. It is triggered by `glClear` on the `detect_mip_render_workaround`
function. The workaround moves the function after the device/driver workaround section and
sets the flag to the affected one to avoid running the check.
It is deprecated hardware that has not meet the minimum requirements since 2.79, but is
still usable and this extends its usability a bit before the cards are finally blacklisted.
Reviewed By: Jeroen Bakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9667
Updating Industry Compatible keymap for Property filtering and new Modifier behavior.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9765
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Small improvements to the layout of the Tooltips section in Preferences.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9772
Reviewed by Pablo Vazquez
Blender has now the place to store the Cryptomatte settings. This patch
migrates Cycles to use the new settings.
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9746
New layout for the 'About' dialog featuring the full version of the Blender logo.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9507
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
This involves re-implementing some of Blender-defined helpers in utils,
we keep debug code to ensure those are still matching on
behavior/results sides.
This will allow to get more i18n tools independent from blender
executable.
In ad85256e71 the "Show Group Colors" option was changed from a
per-editor option to a user preference. Since so many people wanted to
turn this option off, this makes sense. However, this move caused some
confusion because the option was just gone from the menu.
This commit adds a dummy menu item. It's disabled, and the tooltip
explains that the option can now be found in Preferences.
T83390 was created to track the removal of these hints.
Reviewed by: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9735
Cryptomatte is a standard to efficiently create mattes for compositing. The
renderer outputs the required render passes, which can then be used in the
compositor to create masks for specified objects. Unlike the Material and Object
Index passes, the objects to isolate are selected in compositing, and mattes
will be anti-aliased.
Cryptomatte was already available in Cycles this patch adds it to the EEVEE
render engine. Original specification can be found at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Psyop/Cryptomatte/master/specification/IDmattes_poster.pdf
**Accurate mode**
Following Cycles, there are two accuracy modes. The difference between the two
modes is the number of render samples they take into account to create the
render passes. When accurate mode is off the number of levels is used. When
accuracy mode is active, the number of render samples is used.
**Deviation from standard**
Cryptomatte specification is based on a path trace approach where samples and
coverage are calculated at the same time. In EEVEE a sample is an exact match on
top of a prepared depth buffer. Coverage is at that moment always 1. By sampling
multiple times the number of surface hits decides the actual surface coverage
for a matte per pixel.
**Implementation Overview**
When drawing to the cryptomatte GPU buffer the depth of the fragment is matched
to the active depth buffer. The hashes of each cryptomatte layer is written in
the GPU buffer. The exact layout depends on the active cryptomatte layers. The
GPU buffer is downloaded and integrated into an accumulation buffer (stored in
CPU RAM).
The accumulation buffer stores the hashes + weights for a number of levels,
layers per pixel. When a hash already exists the weight will be increased. When
the hash doesn't exists it will be added to the buffer.
After all the samples have been calculated the accumulation buffer is processed.
During this phase the total pixel weights of each layer is mapped to be in a
range between 0 and 1. The hashes are also sorted (highest weight first).
Blender Kernel now has a `BKE_cryptomatte` header that access to common
functions for cryptomatte. This will in the future be used by the API.
* Alpha blended materials aren't supported. Alpha blended materials support in
render passes needs research how to implement it in a maintainable way for any
render pass.
This is a list of tasks that needs to be done for the same release that this
patch lands on (Blender 2.92)
* T82571 Add render tests.
* T82572 Documentation.
* T82573 Store hashes + Object names in the render result header.
* T82574 Use threading to increase performance in accumulation and post
processing.
* T82575 Merge the cycles and EEVEE settings as they are identical.
* T82576 Add RNA to extract the cryptomatte hashes to use in python scripts.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Maniphest Tasks: T81058
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9165
This patch adds support for AOVs in EEVEE. AOV Outputs can be defined in the
render pass tab and used in shader materials. Both Object and World based
shaders are supported. The AOV can be previewed in the viewport using the
renderpass selector in the shading popover.
AOV names that conflict with other AOVs are automatically corrected. AOV
conflicts with render passes get a warning icon. The reason behind this is that
changing render engines/passes can change the conflict, but you might not notice
it. Changing this automatically would also make the materials incorrect, so best
to leave this to the user.
**Implementation**
The patch adds a copies the AOV structures of Cycles into Blender. The goal is
that the Cycles will use Blenders AOV defintions. In the Blender kernel
(`layer.c`) the logic of these structures are implemented.
The GLSL shader of any GPUMaterial can hold multiple outputs (the main output
and the AOV outputs) based on the renderPassUBO the right output is selected.
This selection uses an hash that encodes the AOV structure. The full AOV needed
to be encoded when actually drawing the material pass as the AOV type changes
the behavior of the AOV. This isn't known yet when the GLSL is compiled.
**Future Developments**
* The AOV definitions in the render layer panel isn't shared with Cycles.
Cycles should be migrated to use the same viewlayer aovs. During a previous
attempt this failed as the AOV validation in cycles and in Blender have
implementation differences what made it crash when an aov name was invalid.
This could be fixed by extending the external render engine API.
* Add support to Cycles to render AOVs in the 3d viewport.
* Use a drop down list for selecting AOVs in the AOV Output node.
* Give user feedback when multiple AOV output nodes with the same AOV name
exists in the same shader.
* Fix viewing single channel images in the image editor [T83314]
* Reduce viewport render time by only render needed draw passes. [T83316]
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel, Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7010
Improvements to the layout of the Keymaps section of Preferences by removing unneeded Decorator columns.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9726
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
