Currently, sequencer structs contain several pointers to data within
other structs. These pointers need to be remapped as the structs are
reallocated when reading from blend files. That has worked so far
because the pointers are exactly the values from the Blender session
that saved the file. With the implementation of #127706, the pointers
in the file aren't "real" anymore, and we can't offset them to get the
struct that contained the data. I'm working on the pointer stability
solution now to address a memfile undo performance regression
in 5.0 due to the `AttributeStorage` read/write design.
This commit replaces these 4 mid-struct pointers to point to the
containing strips instead, and uses some trivial logic to access the
fallback root sequence channels and strips. This makes the pointer
remapping on file load possible again.
This change is backward compatible but not forward compatible.
Second try after #144626
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144878
Currently, sequencer structs contain several pointers to data within
other structs. These pointers need to be remapped as the structs are
reallocated when reading from blend files. That has worked so far
because the pointers are exactly the values from the Blender session
that saved the file. WIth the implementation of #127706, the pointers
in the file aren't "real" anymore, and we can't offset them to get the
struct that contained the data.
This commit replaces these 4 mid-struct pointers to point to the
containing strips instead, and uses some trivial logic to access the
fallback root sequence channels and strips. This makes the pointer
remapping on file load possible again.
The downside is that this isn't strictly backward or forward compatible,
but only on a UI-level. The active meta-strip information will be lost,
and the sequencer will reset to displaying the root sequence.
Depends on #144624
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144626
With the aim of removing `seqbasep` to remove the complicated logic for
repairing pointers within the `Strip` struct when loading files and undo
steps, this commit just moves access of the variable behind a function.
In the future the function will retrieve the list from a Strip pointer,
for now it just returns the existing pointer.
Overall motivation is that blend file pointer manipulation is incompatible
with the changes required for #127706.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144624
Regression caused by 9e4c26574a.
Add strip stack as a key to the final cache.
Use the pointer to the list of sequences, as it is the easiest one to
obtain in all places where it is needed. This is slightly different
from the code prior to the 9e4c26574a where strips.last() was used,
but it allows to use the same logic in the prefetch job.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141778
Make display channel part of the key for the final cache.
The prefetch uses display channel of 0, which is the default. It might
need to be adjusted, but it is unclear whether it was behaving different
prior to the 9e4c26574a.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141670
We wouldn't clear the cache we disabled leading to end users needing to
trigger cache refreshes to eventually clear out the cache that they
disabled.
This also fixes a minor issue where the prefetch would try to prefetch
even if there were no caches enabled.
Sometimes we could get into scenarios where the prefetch would stop and
restart endlessly. Now we only stop the prefetch job when we don't want
to continue to prefetch anymore. Before we would exit when there is
currently no more prefetch work to do.
Before this change prefetching would not work correctly with only RAW
caches. The RAW caches wouldn't previously be emptied either if
switching them off while prefetching was turned on.
Now the prefetch will start prefetching from the start frame if it hits
the end frame and still have cache space to spare. This improves
playback when playing loops. It also makes it possible for end users to
define an area to pre-fetch by setting the preview range.
Rework internals of how VSE caching is done. Primarily to make all the
caching logic more understandable from development point of view, but
also has several user visible implications (more details in the PR):
- Simpler and fewer caching UI options,
- Disk cache is gone (primary reason: proxies are kinda the same thing),
- VSE cache size set in preferences is actual size used for VSE caches
now (previously caching stopped as soon as whole Blender used that
much memory, even if some memory usage was not about VSE at all),
- Certain scenarios of cache invalidation are faster now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137926
Ref: #132179
Renames:
- `Editing.act_seq` -> `Editing.act_strip`
- `SequenceModifierData` -> `StripModifierData`
- Its member `mask_sequence` is now `mask_strip`.
- `MetaStack.parseq` -> `MetaStack.parent_strip`
- Remaining function names/parameters that were not dealt with in #132748
- Various references to `seq` or `sequence` throughout code and docs when
referring to a strip
Also moves `_get` to the end of the renamed function names where
applicable for standardization (unless "by" or "from" are used).
There should be no changes to current behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138077
This PR creates 2 namespaces for VSE code:
- `blender::seq` for sequencer core code
- `blender::ed::vse` for editor code
These names are chosen to not be in conflict with each other.
No namespace was used for RNA.
Finally, file `BKE_sequencer_offscreen.h` was moved from BKE to sequencer.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135500
When using clangd or running clang-tidy on headers there are
currently many errors. These are noisy in IDEs, make auto fixes
impossible, and break features like code completion, refactoring
and navigation.
This makes source/blender headers work by themselves, which is
generally the goal anyway. But #includes and forward declarations
were often incomplete.
* Add #includes and forward declarations
* Add IWYU pragma: export in a few places
* Remove some unused #includes (but there are many more)
* Tweak ShaderCreateInfo macros to work better with clangd
Some types of headers still have errors, these could be fixed or
worked around with more investigation. Mostly preprocessor
template headers like NOD_static_types.h.
Note that that disabling WITH_UNITY_BUILD is required for clangd to
work properly, otherwise compile_commands.json does not contain
the information for the relevant source files.
For more details see the developer docs:
https://developer.blender.org/docs/handbook/tooling/clangd/
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132608
This renames the struct `Sequence` to `Strip`.
While the motivation for this partially comes from
the "Sequence Design" #131329, it seems like this
is a good refactor whether the design gets implemented
or not.
The `Sequence` represents what users see as strips in the
VSE. Many places in the code already refere to a `Sequence`
as "strip". It's the C-style "base class" of all strip types.
This also renames the python RNA type `bpy.types.Sequence`
to `bpy.types.Strip` which means that this technically breaks
the python API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132179
This change simplifies access to this state by prefetching code.
Previously it had to iterate over screens from `bMain` in code local to
prefetching. Now this state is available to other code in VSE.
This also moves the option to be a per editor space setting so you can
have different cache visualization options in different editor spaces
at the same time.
A quick toggle for the cache visualization is now available in the
overlays popover.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119428
- enum class StripEarlyOut instead of raw integer defines
- SeqRenderState default initializer instead of seq_render_state_init
- Vector<Sequence*> instead of manually sized arrays of pointers
- some const to several function arguments
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117829
When VSE cache is invalidated (on most VSE edit operation e.g.), or
Blender quits, in some cases (complex and very long edits), the
prefetch job would block several seconds after being requested to stop.
This was because one codepath would keep looping over all frames without
checking for the `stop` flag.
Use `VectorSet`, `Vector` or `Span` instead of `SeqCollection` struct.
It is now possible to use native `for` loops and `SEQ_ITERATOR_FOREACH`
macro can be removed.
Another feature is, sets of strips no longer needs to be freed. However,
this poses a limitation, that query functions can not be used in case,
where these sets need to be available outside of scope where they are
created.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111909
The last good commit was 8474716abb.
After this commits from main were pushed to blender-v4.0-release. These are
being reverted.
Commits a4880576dc from to b26f176d1a that happend afterwards were meant for
4.0, and their contents is preserved.