Part 2 of the patch I wrote moving USD over to the new Attributes API
for Colors: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105347
This patch adds support for more types of generic Mesh Attributes.
Attribute Types and Domains are converted to their USD counterparts
where possible. For example, float Attributes used for modifying
shader masks or int Attributes for grouping are now able to be
round-tripped. Due to the differences in the two systems some
conversions are necessary, but attempts were made to keep data
loss to a minimum.
If you export to USDA, you'll find the Attributes get prefixed with
a "primvars:" namespace; this is expected behavior and identifies
the exported Attributes as different from other USD Schema.
Not supported:
- Edge domain. There doesn't seem to be a proper conversion for
this in USD. One exception is for creasing and sharpness, but if
they are desired I can add them in a future patch.
Co-authored-by: kiki <charles@skeletalstudios.com>
Co-authored-by: Charles Wardlaw <cwardlaw@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <h.goudey@me.com>
Co-authored-by: Charles Wardlaw <kattkieru@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Kowalski <makowalski@nvidia.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109518
For shader nodes, use the flat preview scene as default.
A new setting in the overlay panel adds the possibility to
use the material preview scene for the node previews.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110958
`TreeElement.idcode` would be reused to store the sequence type. This is
risky if the field is assumed to actually contain a valid ID-code,
without further checks.
This was only accessed in one place, which I've refactored to a clean,
type-safe solution now.
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
Implementation of the transform action for grease pencil frames, which enables translating and scaling grease pencil frames in the dopesheet.
This patch adds the following in the grease pencil API :
- `move_frames` to move a set of frames given a map of key transformations (with overwrite), and
- the structure `LayerTransformData` that stores in the layer runtime some useful data for the frames transformation.
Co-authored-by: Falk David <falk@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110743
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
Instead of removing frames one by one, the `GreasePencil::remove_frames`
function now expects a span of frame numbers, replacing the
`GreasePencil::remove_frame_at` function.
Now, when drawings need to be deleted, we shrink the array only once.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110957
Add a High Dynamic Range option in the Color Management > Display panel.
This enables display of extended color ranges above 1.0 for the 3D
viewport, image editor and render previews.
This requires a monitor that can display HDR colors, and a view
transform designed for HDR output. The Standard view transform works,
but Filmic does not as it was designed to bring values into the 0..1
range for SDR displays.
This patch is limited to allowing the display to visualize extended
colors, but does not include future looking work to better integrate HDR
into the full workflow.
It is implemented by rendering to high bit-depth texture formats for
the user interface, and uncapping the color range in color management.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105662
Support name-spaced add-ons, exposed via user configurable extension
repositories.
Directories for add-ons can be added at run-time and are name-spaced to
avoid name-collisions with Python modules or add-ons from other
repositories.
This is exposed as an experimental feature "Extension Repositories".
Details:
- A `bUserExtensionRepo` type which represents a repository which is
listed in the add-ons repository.
- `JunctionModuleHandle` class to manage a package with sub-modules
which can point to arbitrary locations.
- `bpy.app.handlers._extension_repos_update_{pre/post}` internal
callbacks run before/after changes to extension repositories,
callbacks are used to sync the changes to the Python package that
exposes these to add-ons.
- The size of an add-on name has been increased so a user-defined package
prefix can be included without enforcing shorter add-on names.
- Functionality relating to package management has been left out of this
change and will be developed separately.
Further work:
- While a repository can be renamed, enabled add-ons aren't renamed.
Eventually we might want to support this although we could also
disallow renaming repositories with add-ons enabled as the name isn't
all that significant.
- Removing a repository should remove all the add-ons located in this
repository.
- Sub-module names are currently restricted to `[A-Za-z]+[A-Za-z0-9_]*`
we might want to relax this to allow unicode characters (we might
still want to disallow `-` or any characters that would prevent
attribute access in code).
Ref !110869.
Reviewed By: brecht
Remove the 'SceneCollection' structure definition from DNA, and the
compatibility code converting it to the 'modern' viewlayer system.
'SceneCollection' was part at some point of the new collection system
during 2.80 development, but was never in any published Blender release.
So this code was only ensuring compatibility with a few potential
Blender files saved from in-development builds over four years ago.
Implements #110918.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110926
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
First implementation of node previews in the shader node editor. Using
the same user interface as compositor node previews, most shader nodes
can now be previewed (except group in/output and material output).
This is currently still an experimental feature, as polishing of the
user experience and performance improvements are planned. These will
be easier to do as incremental changes on this implementation.
See #110353 for details on the work that remains to be done and known
limitations.
Implementation notes:
We take advantage of the `RenderResult` available as `ImBuf` images to
store a `Render` for every viewed nested node tree present in a
`SpaceNode`. The computation is initiated at the moment of drawing nodes
overlays.
One render is started for the current nodetree, having a `ViewLayer`
associated with each previewed node. We separate the previewed nodes in
two categories: the shader ones and the non-shader ones.
- For non-shader nodes, we use AOVs which highly speed up the rendering
process by rendering every non-shader nodes at the same time. They are
rendered in the first `ViewLayer`.
- For shader nodes, we render them each in a different `ViewLayer`, by
rerouting the node to the output of the material in the preview scene.
The preview scene takes the same aspect as the Material preview scene,
and the same preview object is used.
At the moment of drawing the node overlay, we take the `Render` of the
viewed node tree and extract the `ImBuf` of the wanted viewlayer/pass
for each previewed node.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110065
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
This feature is going to be replaced with a more thorough refactoring
of the node group interface UI, which has actual node drawing support
and a new API for integration of panels into nodes.
Design task: #109135
Implementation: #110272
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110803
This allows irradiance volume that have less priority to
transfer lighting to the ones with higher priority.
Meaning interactive relighting from the world or
lookdev HDRI is now supported if the world isn't baked
inside the volume data.
This should improve workflow with larger scenes and
interactivity with light setups.
To help setup with dynamic objects, this patch introduce
3 new parameter to remove some components from the
irradiance grids.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110838
Add support in the UI for the edit mode of curves, mesh, and point
cloud objects. It's possible to control for which mode sand object
types the asset is available with a dropdown in the node header.
To make this per-mode filtering possible, the static asset tree
cache is now unique per context mode.
See #101778
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109526
This is currently meant mainly for testing, when "Developer Extras" is
enabled. The goal is to make interactive Hydra export and USD file export
identical. We are not there yet, and having the ability to compare both
in the viewport and automated tests should help us get and stay there.
Ref #110765
No user visible changes expected, except of new experimental feature
option.
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This introduces asset shelves as a new standard UI element for accessing
assets. Based on the current context (like the active mode and/or tool), they
can provide assets for specific workflows/tasks. As such they are more limited
in functionality than the asset browser, but a lot more efficient for certain
tasks.
The asset shelf is developed as part of the brush assets project (see #101895),
but is also meant to replace the current pose library UI.
Support for asset shelves can quite easily be added to different editor types,
the following commit will add support for the 3D View. If an editor type
supports asset shelves, add-ons can chose to register an asset shelf type for
an editor with just a few lines of Python.
It should be possible to entirely remove `UILayout.asset_view_template()` once
asset shelves are non-experimental.
Some changes are to be expected still, see #107881.
Task: #102879
Brush asset workflow blog post: https://code.blender.org/2022/12/brush-assets-workflow/
Initial technical documentation: https://developer.blender.org/docs/asset_system/user_interface/asset_shelf/
Pull Request: #104831
"Tool" is a more friendly word with mostly the same meaning within
Blender. Eventually it should be possible to create active tools with
node groups anyway, so the distinction isn't even helpful.
See #101778
Implement capture point bias. This offsets the capture
points to reduce the amount bad capture locations (i.e.:
inside objects, near walls etc...).
Two new parameters are added:
- Capture Surface Bias: Ensure a minimum distance between
capture points and surrounding geometry. This is expressed as the
relative distance between two capture point. Requires re-bake
to take effect.
- Capture Escape Bias: Moves capture points enclosed inside
objects above the nearest surface. This bias defines how far a
capture point can be moved for escaping the object. This is
expressed as the relative distance between two capture point.
Requires re-bake to take effect.
This is called virtual offset in the reference material.
A quick prepass runs before the baking to offset the samples away
from any surface that could potentially make bad samples.
In order to speedup the process, we create cluster list of surfels
near each irradiance grid point. This allow access to neighboring
surfels that can contribute to the virtual offset which should
never be more than half a cell wide.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110355
Implement invalid sample points filling. Improves invalid regions
but introduce light leak.
Grid sample points are considered invalid if they have a ratio of
front-face ray hit under the given threshold. This is a post-processing
pass on the baked lighting that fills dark regions produced by
invalid sample location (e.g.: inside walls) with valid neighbor
samples data.
Two new parameters are added:
- Dilation Threshold: Validity threshold under which grid samples are
considered invalid. Invalid samples will gather valid lighting data
from valid neighbors inside the dilation radius.
- Dilation Radius: Radius of the dilation process. Expressed in grid
sample distance.
The validity of each point is progressively refined just like the
lighting data during the baking process.
The dilation process is implemented as a post-processing pass during
the loading of the grid data into the irradiance atlas. This allows
live tweaking the dilation parameters.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110386
This is a full rewrite of the raytracing denoise pipeline. It uses the
same principle as before but now uses compute shaders for every stages
and a tile base approach. More aggressive filtering is needed since we
are moving towards having no prefiltered screen radiance buffer. Thus
we introduce a temporal denoise and a bilateral denoise stage to the
denoising. These are optionnal and can be disabled.
Note that this patch does not include any tracing part and only samples
the reflection probes. It is focused on denoising only. Tracing will
come in another PR.
The motivation for this is that having hardware raytracing support
means we can't prefilter the radiance in screen space so we have to
have better denoising. Also this means we can have better surface
appearance with support for other BxDF model than GGX. Also GGX support
is improved.
Technically, the new denoising fixes some implementation mistake the
old pipeline did. It separates all 3 stages (spatial, temporal,
bilateral) and use random sampling for all stages hoping to create
a noisy enough (but still stable) output so that the TAA soaks the
remaining noise. However that's not always the case. Depending on the
nature of the scene, the input can be very high frequency and might
create lots of flickering. That why another solution needs to be found
for the higher roughness material as denoising them becomes expensive
and low quality.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110117
Adaptation of the operator `ACTION_OT_keyframe_insert` to take into account grease pencil channels.
Grease pencil keyframes can now be inserted in blank mode, or in additive mode (duplicate the current frame in the new keyframe).
Two API functions were added :
* `add_duplicate_drawings` which copies the data of a drawing to creates a duplicate, and
* `insert_duplicate_frame` which creates a duplicate frame of an existing one either by copy or instance.
The additive mode option is also added to the UI.
The Layer method `frame_key_at` previously private was set to public.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110649
The Library Overrides view of the Outliner was casting a
`TreeElementOverridesData` pointer to an `ID` pointer, which would be
undefined behavior. Make sure it uses the actual ID referenced by the
`TreeElementOverridesData`.
Adds a user count to drawings to track how many frames use the drawing.
If the user count hits `0` the drawing should be deleted.
Also adds a function to delete a frame in a layer. This will
decrement the user count of the drawing and delete it if there are no
users left. This is consistent with the way GPv2 worked.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110579
No user visible changes expected.
This is needed for the asset shelf (#104831), so that the user can
resize the asset shelf region, but it's ensured to always be snapped to
a multiple of the row height (which can change over redraws).
Before this, `RGN_FLAG_DYNAMIC_SIZE` would have to be set so that
regions can control their own size in the `ARegionType::layout()`
callback. But this would also disable resizing the region by the user.
Tagging regions as being dynamically sized and disabling user resizing
are now two separate options/flags.
Included changes:
- Rename `RGN_FLAG_PREFSIZE_OR_HIDDEN` to `RGN_FLAG_NO_USER_RESIZE` and
make that generally disable user resizing like `RGN_FLAG_DYNAMIC_SIZE`
used to, so that it can be used for more than just the properties
editor tabs region.
- Ensure regions that relied on the previous `RGN_FLAG_DYNAMIC_SIZE`
behavior that disallowed user resizing have the
`RGN_FLAG_NO_USER_RESIZE` flag set too now.
- Versioning to ensure the previous point for old files.
- Update comments.
This commit adds modifier support for Grease Pencil 3.
The `BKE_grease_pencil_data_update` function evaluates the modifiers by
first creating a `GeometrySet` from the grease pencil data,
then evaluating the modifiers, and finally reading the
resulting `GreasePencilComponent` component and assigning
the evaluated object data.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110500
Dynamic topology drawing can now use the smooth status saved in each
edge. Because of that, the "Smooth Shading" draw option is unnecessary
and just adds confusion because of inconsistency between dynamic
topology drawing and other modes.
Fixes#109191
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110548
- Introduce `UnifiedBonePtr` to avoid having to pass `(EditBone *eBone,
pPoseChannel *pchan)` everywhere.
- Introduce `eArmatureDrawMode` and store that on the
`ArmatureDrawContext`, to avoid having to pass `bArmature *arm` and
then doing `arm->flag & ARM_POSEMODE` everywhere.
- Use the `eBone_Flag` type instead of `int`.
- Deprecate the `ARM_POSEMODE` armature flag. It is no longer necessary,
and also it was changing DNA data from the draw functions. The flag
was basically purely runtime-only, to pass some information to
lower-level drawing code, yet it was stored in DNA. It has been
replaced by the `eArmatureDrawMode` on the context.
Note that some comparisons `eBone != nullptr` (often using the implicit
conversion of pointer to boolean) have been replaced by a comparison to
`ctx->draw_mode`. This is used in cases where the pointer comparison was
actually indicative of the draw mode, and to help get the `else if
(draw_mode == ARM_DRAW_MODE_POSE)` symmetrical.
Disclaimer: this `UnifiedBonePtr` can probably be used in many other
places in Blender as well. We might move it somewhere else in the
future, but to keep things simple I just want to see how it behaves
locally first.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110424
