This rewrites the Alembic and USD data importers to work with and
output GeometrySets instead of Meshes.
The main motivation for this change is to be able to import properly
point clouds, which are currently imported as Meshes, and curves
data, which suffer from a lot of issues due to limitations of
legacy curves structures (fixed by the new curves data-block) and are
also converted to Meshes. Further, for Curves, it will allow importing
arbitrary attributes.
This patch was primarily meant for Alembic, but changes to USD import
were necessary as they share the same modifier.
For Alembic:
There should be no behavioral changes for Meshes
Curves are imported as the new Curves object type
Points are imported as PointClouds
For USD:
There should be no behavioral changes for Meshes
Curves are imported as the new Curves object type
Note that the current USD importer does not support loading PointClouds,
so this patch does not add support for it.
For both Alembic and USD, knots arrays are not read anymore, as the new
Curves object does not expose the ability to set them. Improvements can
be made in the future if and when example assets are provided.
This fixes at least the following:
#58704: Animated Alembic curves don't update on render
#112308: Curves have offset animations (alembic / USD)
#118261: wrong motion blur from usd in cycles and reverting to the first
frame when disabeling motion blur
Co-authored-by: Jesse Yurkovich <jesse.y@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115623
Previously, the viewer node would work, but since the simulation output node
was never evaluated, the new simulation state was never stored. Now make
sure that the simulation output node is executed when there is an active viewer
inside the simulation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118804
Armature deformation modifier for Grease Pencil v3.
Changes compared to GPv2:
- `multi` DNA field was unused and was removed.
- `vert_coords_prev` array is unused and was removed (gets passed to
armature functions but never gets allocated).
- GPv3 modifier uses the common `influence` struct to store the vertex
group name, for consistency. The
`GREASE_PENCIL_INFLUENCE_INVERT_VERTEX_GROUP` flag is copied to
`deformflag` as `ARM_DEF_INVERT_VGROUP` before evaluation, which is
used internally by armature functions.
- `BKE_armature_deform_coords_with_curves` is added as another variant
of the deform function, but uses C++ parameter types (spans instead
of raw pointers). It gets a `Span<MDeformVert>` directly instead of
deducing it internally from the object type. This is because we want
to do this curve-by-curve and already use arbitrary vector spans for
positions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118752
This is a migration of the current Line Art modifier to GPv3.
Note:
- The modifier is using the exact same DNA structure as the old one, it's re-defined in a different name. At the moment all the variable names and placement after the `ModifierData` part should stay exactly the same until we do proper versioning of the modifier data and completely remove the GPv2 support.
- Vertex weight transfer feature no longer supports name initial matching ("group" used to match "group1","group2" etc). Now it will only transfer vertex weight from source vertex groups that has the exact same name as specified.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117028
Add this data as a layer attribute. It's usage was already implemented
by the modifier filtering generic code, but data itself did not yet
exist in GPv3 data.
Also add RNA accessors and handle it in conversion code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118495
The depsgraph CoW mechanism is a bit of a misnomer. It creates an
evaluated copy for data-blocks regardless of whether the copy will
actually be written to. The point is to have physical separation between
original and evaluated data. This is in contrast to the commonly used
performance improvement of keeping a user count and copying data
implicitly when it needs to be changed. In Blender code we call this
"implicit sharing" instead. Importantly, the dependency graph has no
idea about the _actual_ CoW behavior in Blender.
Renaming this functionality in the despgraph removes some of the
confusion that comes up when talking about this, and will hopefully
make the depsgraph less confusing to understand initially too. Wording
like "the evaluated copy" (as opposed to the original data-block) has
also become common anyway.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118338
The `object_to_world` and `world_to_object` matrices are set during
depsgraph evaluation, calculated from the object's animated location,
rotation, scale, parenting, and constraints. It's confusing and
unnecessary to store them with the original data in DNA.
This commit moves them to `ObjectRuntime` and moves the matrices to
use the C++ `float4x4` type, giving the potential for simplified code
using the C++ abstractions. The matrices are accessible with functions
on `Object` directly since they are used so commonly. Though for write
access, directly using the runtime struct is necessary.
The inverse `world_to_object` matrix is often calculated before it's
used, even though it's calculated as part of depsgraph evaluation.
Long term we might not want to store this in `ObjectRuntime` at all,
and just calculate it on demand. Or at least we should remove the
redundant calculations. That should be done separately though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118210
Implements the design from #116067.
The socket type is called "Matrix" but it is often referred to as "Transform"
when that's what it is semantically. The attribute type is "4x4 Matrix" since
that's a lower level choice. Currently matrix sockets are always passed
around internally as `float4x4`, but that can be optimized in the future
when smaller types would give the same behavior.
A new "Matrix" utilities category has the following set of initial nodes"
- **Combine Transform**
- **Separate Transform**
- **Multiply Matrices**
- **Transform Direction**
- **Transform Vector**
- **Invert Matrix**
- **Transpose Matrix**
The nodes and socket type are behind an experimental flag for now,
which will give us time to make sure it's the right set of initial nodes.
The viewer node overlay doesn't support matrices-- they aren't supported
for rendering in general. They also aren't supported in the modifier interface
currently. But they are supported in the spreadsheet, where the value is
displayed in a tooltip.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116166
Currently, the geometry nodes modifier always creates a time dependency
if there is a bake animation node, even if there is no bake. Changing this is
not entirely trivial, because it is only known during evaluation if there is baked
data. Making `Still` the default works around that issue in many cases where
the Bake node is in a node group asset that does not depend on time.
Furthermore, it's nice to have the "cheaper" version of the node by default,
which is baking a single frame, instead of baking everything.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117999
Opacity modifier can also change hardness. It was creating the curve
"hardness" attribute but using the default zero value. Hardness should
be 1.0 by default.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118000
Ported lattice modifier from GPv2.
The `LatticeDeformData` is no longer stored in the modifier data, but calculated on-the-fly like in the mesh deform modifier. This is quite trivial data and only stores deformed positions of the lattice, so not really worth the effort and complexity of caching it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117955
- "can not" -> "cannot" in many places (ambiguous, also see
Writing Style guide).
- "Bezier" -> "Bézier": proper spelling of the eponym.
- Tool keymaps: make "Uv" all caps.
- "FFMPEG" -> "FFmpeg" (official spelling)
- Use MULTIPLICATION SIGN U+00D7 instead of MULTIPLICATION X U+2715.
- "LClick" -> "LMB", "RClick" -> "RMB": this convention is used
everywhere else.
- "Save rendered the image..." -> "Save the rendered image...": typo.
- "Preserve Current retiming": title case for property.
- Bend status message: punctuation.
- "... class used to define the panel" -> "header": copy-paste error.
- "... class used to define the menu" -> "asset": copy-paste error.
- "Lights user to display objects..." -> "Lights used...": typo.
- "-setaudio require one argument" -> "requires": typo.
Some issues reported by Joan Pujolar and Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117856
