Using ClangBuildAnalyzer on the whole Blender build, it was pointing
out that BLI_math.h is the heaviest "header hub" (i.e. non tiny file
that is included a lot).
However, there's very little (actually zero) source files in Blender
that need "all the math" (base, colors, vectors, matrices,
quaternions, intersection, interpolation, statistics, solvers and
time). A common use case is source files needing just vectors, or
just vectors & matrices, or just colors etc. Actually, 181 files
were including the whole math thing without needing it at all.
This change removes BLI_math.h completely, and instead in all the
places that need it, includes BLI_math_vector.h or BLI_math_color.h
and so on.
Change from that:
- BLI_math_color.h was included 1399 times -> now 408 (took 114.0sec
to parse -> now 36.3sec)
- BLI_simd.h 1403 -> 418 (109.7sec -> 34.9sec).
Full rebuild of Blender (Apple M1, Xcode, RelWithDebInfo) is not
affected much (342sec -> 334sec). Most of benefit would be when
someone's changing BLI_simd.h or BLI_math_color.h or similar files,
that now there's 3x fewer files result in a recompile.
Pull Request #110944
In RNA collections storing ID references, the name of the collection
item may not always be unique, when several IDs from different libraries
are present.
While rare, this situation can become deadly to liboverride, by causing
random but exponential liboverride hierarchies corruptions.
This has already been alleviated by using preferably both name and index
in items lookup (a05419f18b) and by reducing the risk of name collision
in general between liboverrides and their linked reference (b9becc47de).
This commit goes further, by ensuring that references to items of RNA
collections of IDs stored in liboverride operations become completely
unambiguous. This is achieved by storing an extra pointer to the item's
ID itself, when relevant.
Lookup then requires a complete match `name + ID` to be successful,
which is guaranteed to match at most a single item in the whole RNA
collection (since RNA collection of IDs do not allow duplicates, and
the ID pointer is always unique).
Note that this ID pointer is implemented as an `std::optional` one
(either directly in C++ code, or using an new liboverride operation `flag`
in DNA). This allows to smoothly transition from existing data to the
added ID pointer info (when needed), without needing any dedicated
versioning. This solution also preserves forward compatibility as much
as possible.
It may also provide marginal performances improvements in some cases, as
looking up for ID items in RNA collections will first check for the
ID pointer, which should be faster than a string comparision.
Implements #110421.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110773
The issue is visible on Apple Silicon when building Cycles.
Cycles includes sse2neon.h via two code paths: own CPU headers and
Blender's headers. The Blender headers will request higher precision
defines and Cycles does not need it (not for the kernel anyway, as
it has measurable performance penalty).
The solution is to wrap defines in the BLI_simd.h with check, so
that the flags are not re-defined.
The Blender's integration in Cycles does not really care if those
operations are precise or not, as the actual computations are done
elsewhere.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110953
Part 1/3 of #109135, #110272
Adds a new DNA structure for defining node group interfaces without
using `bNodeSocket` and with additional node UI item types.
Node group interfaces are organized as a hierarchy of "items", which
can be sockets or panels. Panels can contain both sockets and other
panels (although nested panels beyond the root panel may be disabled to
avoid complexity on the user level).
Sockets can be added to the interface in any order, not just the
conventional outputs..inputs order. Sockets can be marked as both input
and output, generating 2 sockets on node instances.
The C++ API in the DNA struct allows manipulating the interface
declaration by adding and removing items, moving them inside the
interface or into a different panel.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110885
Both the `Math` node and the `Vector Math` currently only explicitly
support modulo using truncated division which is oftentimes not the
type of modulo desired as it behaves differently for negative numbers
and positive numbers.
Floored Modulo can be created by either using the `Wrap` operation or
a combination of multiple `Math` nodes. However both methods obfuscate
the actual intend of the artist and the math operation that is actually
used.
This patch adds modulo using floored division to the scalar `Math` node,
explicitly stating the intended math operation and renames the already
existing `"Modulo"` operation to `"Truncated Modulo"` to avoid confusion.
Only the ui name is changed, so this should not break compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110728
The root cause was a classic fixed-size epsilon issue. The code that
checked if an fcurve was effectively flat, and thus shouldn't be
normalized, used a fixed-size epsilon that was reasonable for values
close-ish to zero, but didn't work well for values >= 1.0.
This patch addresses the issue by introducing a new function
`ulp_diff_ff()` that robustly computes the number of floating point
steps between two floats, and using that to ensure that a minimum
number of representable floats exist between the min/max values
of the curve. This approach scales appropriately up and down to
both huge and tiny values.
This patch also updates the existing `compare_ff_relative()` function
to use the new robust ulps code for the ulps-based part of its
comparison, resolving an issue documented in its unit tests where
it behaved poorly for values close to zero.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110796
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
Also see #103343.
Couldn't move two files yet:
* `softbody.c`: The corresponding regression test fails. It seems like the
conversion to C++ changes floating point accuracy, but it's not clear where that happens exactly.
* `writeffmpeg.c`: Is a bit more complex to convert because of the static array in `av_err2str`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110182
This formats code that is disabled using `#if 0`. Formatting was achieved
by temporarily changing `#if 0` to `#if 1 /*something*/`, then formatting,
and then changing it back to `#if 0`.
Many high-level functions with unrelated code were templated based on
the color attribute domain and type. In the end, those were just a few
branches though, similar to other branches. So to reduce binary bloat
and clarify code, move tempates to the point where separate types are
actually needed. Also move constant code out of loops, and use generic
arrays and spans to store some caches. The binary ended up 53 KB
smaller for me, which isn't much but it's in the right direction.
Performance wise nothing really changes. The vast majority of time in
vertex paint is spent on unrelated things like calculating normals or
uploading GPU buffers anyway.
The one ugly part I didn't account for when I started is the casting
between the "ColorGeometry" and "ColorPaint" types. I'm not sure that
this is correct, but it's just a more explicit version of what was
there already.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109941
The Voronoi distance output is clamped at 8, which is apparent for distance
metrics like Minkowski with low exponents.
This patch fixes that by setting the initial distance of the search loop to
FLT_MAX instead of 8. And for the Smooth variant of F1, the "h" parameter is set
to 1 for the first iteration using a signal value, effectively ignoring the
initial distance and using the computed distance at the first iteration instead.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109286
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
This introduces an alias target `bf::intern::atomic` for
`bf_intern_atomic`. This has the following benefits:
- Any target name with `::` in it will be recognized as an actual
target by cmake, rather than a library name it may not know about.
and will be validated by cmake to exist. Which means if you make
a typo in the LIB section, CMake will error out telling you it
doesn't know about this specific target rather than passing it on
to the build system, where you'll either get build or linker errors
because of said typo.
- Given there is quite a cleanup still to do in the build system,
it won't always be obvious which targets have been updated to
modern targets and which still need to be done. Having a namespaced
target name is a good indicator there.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109784
