Add a `bone_collection.bones_recursive` property that returns the set of
bones assigned to that bone collection or any of its child collections.
This property is implemented in Python, as that made it considerably
simpler to create the set semantics.
Add custom properties to Action Bake.
objects will bake all animatable custom properties. Armatures will bake all bone custom properties,
as well as object (armature) custom properties.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113208
This adds option to bypass the raytracing pipeline
entirely and use a cheaper evaluation option.
This reuse the same evaluation as the Blended materials.
This exhibits some artifacts on Apple hardware due to
synchronization issues.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116622
Make it possible to nest bone collections. The data structure on the
armature is still a flat array. It is organised as follows:
- Sibling collections (i.e. ones with the same parent) are stored
sequentially in the array.
- Each bone collection keep track of the number of children, and the
index of the first child.
- Root collections (i.e. ones without parent) are stored as the first
elements in the array.
- The number of root collections is stored on the Armature.
This commit also contains the following:
- Replaced the flat UIList of bone collections with a tree view.
- Updated the M/Shift+M operators (move/assign to collection) to work
with hierarchical bone collections.
- Updated RNA interface to expose only root collections at
`armature.collections`. All collections are available on
`armature.collections.all`, and children at `bonecollection.children`.
- Library override support. Only new roots + their subtrees can be added
via overrides.
See https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/115934
Co-authored with @nathanvegdahl and @nrupsis.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115945
Combination of two operators by Ares Deveaux
#106524 and #106523
Introduces a new operator "Scale from Neighbor"
that scales selected keyframe segments from either
the left or right keyframe neighbor.
Pressing "D" during modal operation will switch
from which end of the segment the scaling happens.
This is useful to make a section of animation closer to a pose on either side.
Co-authored-by: Ares Deveaux <aresdevo@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112387
This is the initial implementation for the volume grid sockets that has been
discussed during the November 2023 geometry nodes workshop.
It adds initial support for passing volume grids around in sockets. Furthermore,
it adds two new nodes. Both are initially hidden under the "New Volume Nodes"
experimental option until we have a few mode nodes.
* **Get Named Grid**: Gets or extracts a volume grid from a volume geometry
based on the grid's name.
* **Store Named Grid**: Puts a volume grid back into a volume with a name.
`SocketValueVariant` is extended to support grids besides single values and fields.
Next steps:
* Implement grid socket shape and inferencing (currently, they just look like
single values).
* Add implicit conversions between grid types.
* Implement nodes that operate on the grids (#116021).
* Improved spreadsheet and viewer support.
Links:
* https://devtalk.blender.org/t/volumes-in-geometry-nodes-proposal/31917
* https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2023-11-06-geometry-nodes-workshop-notes/32007#volumes-3
Co-authored-by: Jacques Lucke <jacques@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115270
Ensure tool keymaps are registered when calling:
bl_keymap_utils.keymap_hierarchy.generate() in background mode.
This is an alternative to !116299 that doesn't require keymap
initialization in background mode.
Thanks to Damien Picard's for reporting & investigating this issue.
Extract:
- Compositor error messages.
- `bUnitDef`s were broken after cleanup commit 2b77cd726d. Since each
unit's "display name" is now preceded by a consistent "name_display"
comment, the regex which extracts the unit is greatly simplified.
It now relies on the presence of the comment instead of the struct
order.
- "Preset" menu and "Apply Preset" button from the curveprofile
template.
- Operator labels from the catalog context menu.
Disambiguate:
- "Bake Data": can mean "Which data to bake" (verb), or "The data that
were baked" (noun).
- "Cache" in the Simulation Nodes panel is a verb, not a noun.
- "Mix" in the snapping menu is a noun, not a verb.
- "Top" and "Bottom" can mean the upper part of an object or the
highest point or element of something like a menu or list.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115963
Previously, attribute values were only visualized as color overlay in the 3d viewport.
Now it's possible to optionally show the attribute values as text. This can be enabled
in the `Viewer Node` overlay settings in the 3d view.
This is just the first initial version. More work towards making it look better
will be done next.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115664
Split the `armature.collection_assign` operator in two. Before, the
operator could do two things: assign selected bones to the active/named
bone collection, or create a new bone collection with the given name.
This is now split up, where `armature.collection_assign` only assigns to
existing bone collections, and `armature.collection_create_and_assign`
always creates a new bone collection.
This makes the purpose of each operator clearer & more predictable.
This adds a new `Bake` node which allows saving and loading intermediate geometries.
Typical use cases we want address with this currently are:
* Bake some data for use with a render engine.
* Bake parts of the node tree explicitly for better performance.
For now, the format that is written to disk is not considered to be an import/export format.
It's not guaranteed that data written with one Blender version can be read by another
Blender version. For that it's better to use proper interchange formats. Better support for
those will be added eventually as well. We also plan an `Import Bake` node that allows
reading the blender-specific baked data independent of the Bake node and at different frames.
The baking works very similar to the baking in the simulation zone (UI and implementation
wise). Major differences are:
* The Bake node has a `Bake Still` and `Bake Animation` mode.
* The Bake node doesn't do automatic caching.
Implementation details:
* Refactored how we create the Python operators for moving socket items so that it also
makes sense for non-zones.
* The `ModifierCache` stores an independent map of `SimulationNodeCache` and
`BakeNodeCache`, but both share a common data structure for the actually baked data.
* For baking, the `Bake` node is added as a side-effect-node in the modifier. This will make
sure that the node is baked even if it's currently not connected to the output.
* Had to add a new `DEG_id_tag_update_for_side_effect_request` function that is used
during baking. It's necessary because I want to evaluate the object again even though none
of its inputs changed. The reevaluation is necessary to create the baked data. Using
`DEG_id_tag_update` technically works as well, but has the problem that it also uses the
`DEG_UPDATE_SOURCE_USER_EDIT` flag which (rightly) invalidates simulation caches
which shouldn't happen here.
* Slightly refactored the timeline drawing so that it can also show the baked ranges of
Bake nodes. It does not show anything for baked nodes with a in Still mode though.
* The bake operator is refactored to bake a list of `NodeBakeRequest` which makes the
code easier to follow compared to the previous nested
`ObjectBakeData > ModifierBakeData > NodeBakeData` data structure.
* The bake operators are disabled when the .blend file is not yet saved. This is technically
only necessary when the bake path depends on the .blend file path but seems ok to force
the user anyway (otherwise the bake path may be lost as well if it's set explicitly).
* The same operators are used to bake and delete single bakes in `Bake` nodes and
`Simulation Zones`. On top of that, there are separate operators of baking and deleting all
simulation bakes (those ignore bake nodes).
* The `Bake` node remembers which inputs have been fields and thus may be baked as attributes.
For that it uses an `Is Attribute` flag on the socket item. This is needed because the baked data
may still contain attribute data, even if the inputs to the bake node are disconnected.
* Similar to simulation zones, the behavior of `Bake` nodes is passed into the geometry nodes
evaluation from the outside (from the modifier only currently). This is done by providing the
new `GeoNodesBakeParams` in `GeoNodesCallData` when executing geometry nodes.
Next Steps (mostly because they also involve simulations):
* Visualize nodes that have not been evaluated in the last evaluation.
* Fix issue with seemingly loosing baked data after undo.
* Improve error handling when baked data is not found.
* Show bake node in link drag search.
* Higher level tools for managing bakes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115466
Before #108014, toggling "Auto Smooth" was an easy way to disable
evaluation of custom normals and face corner normals for faster
viewport playback performance. Now that corner normals are calculated
automatically as necessary, it's helpful to still have a way to disable
expensive normal computation for faster playback.
This commit adds a "Normals" scene simplify setting. To avoid a bunch
of complexity, it just influences which normals are requested from the
object by viewport rendering. In my tests, skipping calculating at
least doubled viewport FPS in a few test files with a large mesh with
custom normals. This works well because normals are cached and lazily
calculated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113975
Studio lights had gone over several iterations during 2.80. Some
unused options where still in the code, but not used.
This PR cleans up the studio lights to options that are still in use.
Removing:
- Spherical Harmonics: It was used by workbench, but was replaced
by regular OpenGL lights
- Irradiance textures: Was used by an old eevee world light evaluation
- Cached data files.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116186
This is a replacement for the workflow that uses
"Bake Curve" and "Unbake Curve" to quickly generate
dense key data.
Compared to the existing workflow it has the advantage
of allowing the user more control over the key types,
and distance between keys, as well as the frame range affected.
Operator options
* Range: the range that will be baked.
Defaults to the scene range or preview range.
* Step: Distance between keyframes.
Can be used to bake on 2s or even bake to subframes.
* Remove Existing Keys: Boolean option that
if enabled also removes keys outside the specified baking range
* Interpolation Type: Choose a interpolation mode used
for new keys e.g. Constant or Bezier
* Bake Modifiers: If enabled bakes the effect of the
modifier stack to keys and deletes the modifier stack.
If false, the code disables the modifiers before baking,
so the resulting keys will behave as if the modifiers didn't exist
The operator can be found in the Graph Editor under `Channel->Bake Channels`
Part of: #111050
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111263
The context menu for the channels is shared
between all animation editors.
Changed "Dope Sheet Channel" label to "Channel"
for consistent channel label in all animation editors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115845
Due to lack of forward compatibility, tool_settings.snap_uv_element
could return empty if a 4.0 file is opened in 3.6.
This causes a Python error when trying to identify the element's icon.
Avoid this python error.
This adds a new "Active Camera" input geometry node, per #105761.
The node outputs the the scene's current active camera. It is available
from Input > Scene > Active Camera in the geometry nodes Add menu.
Typical usage would be to connect this node to an Object Info node to
obtain its transform. This works as expected when the camera's
transform is animated, and also when there are markers on the timeline
that change the active camera.
In order to support the aforementioned changes in the active camera,
this implementation adds depsgraph relations for all cameras referenced
by timeline markers. This eliminates the complexity of updating the
depsgraph whenever the scene switches to a different active camera,
but of course it comes at the cost of including more objects than
strictly necessary in the depsgraph for scenes that switch cameras.
Dynamically updating the depsgraph upon camera changes could be a
future improvement if there proves to be sufficient need for it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113431
Adds new curves support to "Draw Curve" operator. This is a direct copy
and replace of the old code to the new editors directly, with a change to
create the new data structure instead of the old one. There is no attempt
at code deduplication, since that would complicate removing the old
curve type when it comes time.
To replace the "2D curve" option a new operator property is added
for projecting to the Z=0 plane.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115864
- "Frame Step" -> "Number of frames to skip forward while baking each
frame": expand description which was just copying the prop name.
- "b-bone" -> "B-Bone": title case.
- "Volumes Lighting" -> "Volume Lighting": typo.
- "Volumes Shadows" -> "Volume Shadows": typo.
- "Insert Blank Keyframe (All Layer)" -> "(All Layers)": typo.
- "the an" -> "an", typo.
- "Inverse" -> "Invert": use verb instead of noun for an action.
- "Desination" -> "Destination": typo.
- "Hides all other F-Curves other than the ones being framed": remove
extra "other".
- "Remove Bone from Bone collections" -> "Collection", singular because
the operator is only applied to the active collection. Also title
case on "Collection".
- "Change Stroke material with selected material" -> "Assign the
active material slot to the selected strokes": rephrase by reusing
the message from the non-Grease Pencil materials.
- "VisAction", "VisArea" -> "Visibility Action", "Visibility Area":
expand abbreviation. This is not exposed in the UI right now but
will show up in the API docs.
- "Stop Mode Right / Global Down" -> "Stop Move" (typo).
- "... for node input %s": remove extra space.
- "Move along their normal" -> "Move shadows along their normal":
rephrase unclear sentence.
- "Stat Vis" -> "Mesh Analysis": stands for "Statistical
visualization"? Unclear and not shown anywhere. Reuse the label
specified in the UI code instead.
- " Output data...": remove leading space.
- "Attribute domain for the selection and group id inputs": title case
on "Selection" and "Group ID" as that is how they appear in the UI.
- "Ior" -> "IOR": uppercase acronym, for consistency.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115964
This de-duplicate some passes in the raytracing
pipeline and make it more ready for adoption
of arbitrary closure evaluation. This last part
means the removal of some per closure type
options.
The put in common the tile classification step
that is now done only once for all 3 closure
type. Also add some speedup to the tile
compaction phase that is now only twice
faster.
The horizon-scan setup was also de-duplicated
and run only if needed, which can save up to
0.5ms is complex scenes.
However, this moves the max-roughness and and
resolution scaling to a common parameter.
This is to be able to support arbitrary closure
evaluation where multiple closure with conflicting
parameters could be evaluated in one tracing pass.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116009
Adds initial support for File Handler registration with the python API
for design task #68935. File Handlers will allow developers to associate
additional UI behavior and capability to operators traditionally used
only within the file browser.
The initial commit should have no user visible changes, but will serve
as the foundation for providing file drag & drop capabilities to
operators that can manage files (#111242).
See the PR for an example of python usage.
See design task #68935 for remaining work to be explored in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112466
