The old python importer had a "if do_transparency, set blend_method to
BLEND" type of logic. This bit was missing in the new importer; it was
only setting the eevee blend method when a transparency texture was
present, but not in other cases of transparency (as driven by MTL
"illum" mode).
Reviewd By: Howard Trickey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14783
Even if available OBJ/MTL format documentations don't explicitly specify
which characters can possibly separate keywords & arguments, turns out
some files out there in the wild use TAB character after the line
keywords. Which is something the new 3.2 importer was not quite
expecting (T97417).
Fix this by factoring out a utility function that checks if line starts
with a keyword followed by any whitespace, and using that across the
importer. Also fix some other "possible whitespace around name-like
parts" of obj/mtl parser as pointed out by the repro files in T97417.
Reviewed By: Howard Trickey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14782
The "PROP" in the name reflects its generic status, and removing
"LOOP" makes sense because it is no longer associated with just
mesh face corners. In general the goal is to remove extra semantic
meaning from the custom data types.
This is mostly a cleanup to avoid hardcoding the eager calculation of
normals it isn't necessary, by reducing calls to `BKE_mesh_calc_normals`
and by removing calls to `BKE_mesh_normals_tag_dirty` when the mesh
is newly created and already has dirty normals anyway. This reduces
boilerplate code and makes the "dirty by default" state more clear.
Any regressions from this commit should be easy to fix, though the
lazy calculation is solid enough that none are expected.
Continued improvements to the new C++ based OBJ importer.
Performance: about 2x faster.
- Rungholt.obj (several meshes, 263MB file): Windows 12.7s -> 5.9s, Mac 7.7s -> 3.1s.
- Blender 3.0 splash (24k meshes, 2.4GB file): Windows 97.3s -> 53.6s, Mac 137.3s -> 80.0s.
- "Windows" is VS2022, AMD Ryzen 5950X (32 threads), "Mac" is Xcode/clang 13, M1Max (10 threads).
- Slightly reduced memory usage during import as well.
The performance gains are a combination of several things:
- Replacing `std::stof` / `std::stoi` with C++17 `from_chars`.
- Stop reading input file char-by-char using `std::getline`, and instead read in 64kb chunks, and parse from there (taking care of possibly handling lines split mid-way due to chunk boundaries).
- Removing abstractions for splitting a line by some char,
- Avoid tiny memory allocations: instead of storing a vector of polygon corners in each face, store all the corners in one big array, and per-face only store indices "where do corners start, and how many". Likewise, don't store full string names of material/group names for each face; only store indices into overall material/group names arrays.
- Stop always doing mesh validation, which is slow. Do it just like the Alembic importer does: only do validation if found some invalid faces during import, or if requested by the user via an import setting checkbox (which defaults to off).
- Stop doing "collection sync" for each object being added; instead do the collection sync right after creating all the objects.
Cleanup / Robustness:
This reworking of parser (see "removing abstractions" point above) means that all the functions that were in `parser_string_utils` file are gone, and replaced with different set of functions. However they are not OBJ specific, so as pointed out during review of the previous differential, they are now in `source/blender/io/common` library.
Added gtest coverage for said functions as well; something that was only indirectly covered by obj tests previously.
Rework of some bits of parsing made the parser actually better able to deal with invalid syntax. E.g. previously, if a face corner were a `/123` string, it would have incorrectly treated that as a vertex index (since it would get "hey that's one number" after splitting a string by a slash), instead of properly marking it as invalid syntax.
Added gtest coverage for .mtl parsing; something that was not covered by any tests at all previously.
Reviewed By: Howard Trickey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14586
- Was not exporting "Poly" curves at all,
- Had a crash when a single object contains multiple curves of different types -- it had a check for "is this nurbs compatible?" only for the first curve, and then proceeded to treat the other curves as nurbs as well, without checking for validity.
Fixed both issues by doing the same logic as in the old python exporter:
- Poly curves are supported,
- Treat object as "nurbs compatible" only if all the curves within it are nurbs compatible.
Added test coverage in the gtest suite. While at it, made "all_curves" test use the "golden obj file template" style test, instead of a manually coded test that checks intermediate objects but does not check the final exported result.
Reviewed By: Howard Trickey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14611
The new 3.1 OBJ exporter code had incorrect code to determine which vertex group a polygon belongs to -- for each vertex, it was only looking at the first vertex group it has, and not using the group weight either.
This 99% fixes T96824, but not 100% on the user's submitted mesh -- exactly two faces from that mesh get assigned a different group compared to the old exporter. Either choice is "correct" given that on these two faces there are two vertex groups with equal contribution. The old Python exporter was picking the group based on internal python group name map order, whereas the new C++ exporter is picking the group with the lowest index, in case of ties. I'm not sure if it's possible to fix this TBH, will have to wait until the importer is also C++.
While at it, the new vertex group calculation code was doing a lot of redundant work for each and every face (traversing group lists several times, allocating & freeing memory), so I fixed that. Exporting a 6-level subdivided Monkey mesh with 30 vertex groups was taking 810ms, now takes 330ms.
Reviewed By: Howard Trickey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14500
This adds a basic unit test to check USD has been correctly
build with imaging components to support building both with
the old and new libs, it automatically adds the test when it
detects a library with imaging enabled. (platform devs will
have to pay attention it runs the test to validate the libs
build correctly)
For future use in the code it also defines a USD_HAS_IMAGING
define one could check if we're building against an USD lib
that has it (just because we build/ship with it, doesn't
mean downstream builds will ship with it, so we'll have
to be a little pro-active there)
Reviewed By: sybren
Differential Revision:https://developer.blender.org/D14456
This adds a structure, `ABCReadParams`, to store some parameters passed
to `ABC_read_mesh` so we avoid passing too many parameters, and makes it
easier to add more parameters in the future without worrying about
argument order.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14484
- Missing star prefix.
- Unnecessary indentation.
- Blank line after dot-points
(otherwise doxygen merges with the previous dot-point).
- Use back-slash for doxygen commands.
- Correct spelling.
The `frame_offset` used for creating `TimeSamplings` when exporting was
being clamped, which would make subframe sampling potentially fail, or
get out of sync.
Both the Alembic and USD libraries use double precision floating
point numbers internally to store time. However the Alembic I/O
code defaulted to floats even though Blender's Scene FPS, which is
generally used for look ups, is stored using a double type. Such
downcasts could lead to imprecise lookups, and would cause
compilation warnings (at least on MSVC).
This modifies the Alembic exporter and importer to make use of
doubles for the current scene time, and only downcasting to float
at the very last steps (e.g. for vertex interpolation). For the
importer, doubles are also used for computing interpolation weights,
as it is based on a time offset.
Although the USD code already used doubles internally, floats were used
at the C API level. Those were replaced as well.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13855
The all_objects.blend test scene (in subversion tests repo) contained an
object with a subdivision surface. Which changes vertex positions
slightly, depending on used OpenSubDiv version and the compile flags. It
seems that the intent of the test was "test export of meshes that use
modifiers", so I changed that object to be a cube with a simple "taper"
modifier instead.
While at it, changed OBJ exporter test code to always print the
"expected and what we got" text difference details, when a test fails.
Much easier to see than just "the files are different" output. The code
to print that was behind an off by default flag for some reason.
This diff should get comitted together with updated all_objects templates
in subversion tests repo.
Reviewed By: Sebastian Parborg
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14597
This commit furthers some of the changes that were started in
rBb9febb54a492 and subsequent commits by changing the way surface
objects are presented to render engines and other users of evaluated
objects in the same way. Instead of presenting evaluated surface objects
as an `OB_SURF` object with an evaluated mesh, `OB_SURF` objects
can now have an evaluated geometry set, which uses the same system
as other object types to deal with multi-type evaluated data.
This clarification makes it more obvious that lots of code that dealt
with the `DispList` type isn't used. It wasn't before either, now it's
just *by design*. Over 1100 lines can be removed. The legacy curve
draw cache code is much simpler now too. The idea behind the further
removal of `DispList` is that it's better to focus optimization efforts
on a single mesh data structure.
One expected functional change is that the evaluated mesh from surface
objects can now be used in geometry nodes with the object info node.
Cycles and the OBJ IO tests had to be tweaked to avoid using evaluated
surface objects instead of the newly exposed mesh objects.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14550
This takes state of soc-2020-io-performance branch as it was at
e9bbfd0c8c7 (2021 Oct 31), merges latest master (2022 Apr 4),
adds a bunch of tests, and fixes a bunch of stuff found by said
tests. The fixes are detailed in the differential.
Timings on my machine (Windows, VS2022 release build, AMD Ryzen
5950X 32 threads):
- Rungholt minecraft level (269MB file, 1 mesh): 54.2s -> 14.2s
(memory usage: 7.0GB -> 1.9GB).
- Blender 3.0 splash scene: "I waited for 90 minutes and gave up"
-> 109s. Now, this time is not great, but at least 20% of the
time is spent assigning unique names for the imported objects
(the scene has 24 thousand objects). This is not specific to obj
importer, but rather a general issue across blender overall.
Test suite file updates done in Subversion tests repository.
Reviewed By: @howardt, @sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13958
Original report (T96763) only reported the issue of double-space before the texture path, but while adding test coverage I found some other issues that I fixed while at it:
- Incorrectly emits two spaces between `map_Xx` keyword and the texture path, leading to some 3rd party software not finding the textures,
- Emissive texture map (`map_Ke`) was not exported,
- When Mapping node is used on the texture UVs, the "Location" and "Scale" values were mixed up (location written as "scale", scale written as "location).
Added gtest coverage.
Reviewed By: Howard Trickey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14519
In Alembic curve topology is stored with an array of values describing
how many points each sub-curve has. Instead of writing the number of
points for the current curve, the Alembic exporter would write the
accumulated number of points.
This error has existed since the initial implementation.
On Windows/MSVC this gives a minor (~20%) speedup presumably due to a faster float/int formatter. On macOS (Xcode13), this gives a massive speedup, since snprintf that is in system libraries ends up spending almost all the time inside some locale-related mutex lock.
The actual exporter code becomes quite a bit smaller too, since it does not have to do any juggling to support std::string arguments, and the buffer handling code is smaller as well.
Windows (VS2022 release build, Ryzen 5950X 32 threads) timings:
- Blender 3.0 splash scene (2.4GB obj): 4.57s -> 3.86s
- Monkey subdivided level 6 (330MB obj): 1.10s -> 0.99s
macOS (Xcode 13 release build, Apple M1Max) timings:
- Blender 3.0 splash scene (2.4GB obj): 21.03s -> 5.52s
- Monkey subdivided level 6 (330MB obj): 3.28s -> 1.20s
Linux (ThreadRipper 3960X 48 threads) timings:
- Blender 3.0 splash scene (2.4GB obj): 10.10s -> 4.40s
- Monkey subdivided level 6 (330MB obj): 2.16s -> 1.37s
The produced obj/mtl files are identical to before.
Reviewed By: Howard Trickey, Dalai Felinto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13998
USD requires to be linked with /WHOLEARCHIVE so
the linker won't remove their static initializers.
This strangely has never worked for MSVC since
the flags were set on the LINK_FLAGS property
which is only used to link .dll and .exe files,
given this is a static lib, the flags were not
used, nor did CMake propagate the link directive
to the final targets that did link. Not quite sure
how this has not lead to more problems in the past.
Setting the link directive on the INTERFACE_LINK_OPTIONS
makes cmake do the right thing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14394
Reviewed by: sybren
For 3.2 USD will be bumped to a newer version with some
slight API changes, however since we cannot simultaneously
land the libs for all platforms as well as these code changes,
we'll have to support both 21.02 and 21.11+ for at least a
short period of time making the code slightly more messy than
it could have been.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14184
Reviewed by: sybren
This change makes it possible to add implementation of common
C++ methods for DNA structures which helps ensuring unsafe
operations like shallow copy are done explicitly.
For example, creating a shallow copy used to be:
Object temp_object = *input_object;
In the C++ context it was seen like the temp_object is
properly decoupled from the input object, while in the
reality is it not. Now this code becomes:
Object temp_object = blender:🧬:shallow_copy(*input_object);
The copy and move constructor and assignment operators are
now explicitly disabled.
Other than a more explicit resource management this change
also solves a lot of warnings generated by the implicitly
defined copy constructors w.r.t dealing with deprecated fields.
These warnings were generated by Apple Clang when a shallow
object copy was created via implicitly defined copy constructor.
In order to enable C++ methods for DNA structures a newly added
macro `DNA_DEFINE_CXX_METHODS()` is to be used:
tpyedef struct Object {
DNA_DEFINE_CXX_METHODS(Object)
...
} Object;
For the shallow copy use `blender:🧬:shallow_copy()`.
The implementation of the memcpy is hidden via an internal DNA
function to avoid pulling `string.h` into every DNA header.
This means that the solution does not affect on the headers
dependencies.
---
Ideally `DNA_shallow_copy` would be defined in a more explicit
header, but don;t think we have a suitable one already. Maybe
we can introduce `DNA_access.h` ?
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14427
This reverts commit 8c44793228.
Apparently, this generated a lot of warnings in GCC.
Didn't find a quick solution and is it not something I want to be
trading between (more quiet Clang in an expense of less quiet GCC).
Will re-iterate on the patch are re-commit it.
This change makes it possible to add implementation of common
C++ methods for DNA structures which helps ensuring unsafe
operations like shallow copy are done explicitly.
For example, creating a shallow copy used to be:
Object temp_object = *input_object;
In the C++ context it was seen like the temp_object is
properly decoupled from the input object, while in the
reality is it not. Now this code becomes:
Object temp_object = blender:🧬:shallow_copy(*input_object);
The copy and move constructor and assignment operators are
now explicitly disabled.
Other than a more explicit resource management this change
also solves a lot of warnings generated by the implicitly
defined copy constructors w.r.t dealing with deprecated fields.
These warnings were generated by Apple Clang when a shallow
object copy was created via implicitly defined copy constructor.
In order to enable C++ methods for DNA structures a newly added
macro `DNA_DEFINE_CXX_METHODS()` is to be used:
tpyedef struct Object {
DNA_DEFINE_CXX_METHODS(Object)
...
} Object;
For the shallow copy use `blender:🧬:shallow_copy()`.
The implementation of the memcpy is hidden via an internal DNA
function to avoid pulling `string.h` into every DNA header.
This means that the solution does not affect on the headers
dependencies.
---
Ideally `DNA_shallow_copy` would be defined in a more explicit
header, but don;t think we have a suitable one already. Maybe
we can introduce `DNA_access.h` ?
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14427
Fix provided by Piotr Makal in patch D14204.
This patch fixes volume grid duplication which was occurring during
importing USD files. This was caused by calling BKE_volume_grid_add
twice per grid (excluding 'density' grid) for the same Volume
object: (1) in USDVolumeReader::read_object_data and (2) later in
BKE_volume_load.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14204
This adds a const qualifier to some code path in the Alembic and USD
importers. More could be added elsewhere. This change is done as it will
be required when GeometrySets are supported and helps keeping diff noise
in the patch to a bare minimum.
A mistake in the mesh normal refactor caused the wrong mesh to
be used when calculating normals with a shape key's deformation.
This commit fixes the normal calculation by using the correct mesh,
with just adjusted vertex positions, and calculating the results
directly into the result arrays when possible. This completely avoids
the need to make a local copy of the mesh, which makes sense,
since the only thing that changes is the vertex positions.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14317
Currently there is a "calc_face_normal" argument to mesh to bmesh
conversion, but vertex normals had always implicitly inherited whatever
dirty state the mesh input's vertex normals were in. Probably they were
most often assumed to not be dirty, but this was never really correct in
the general case.
Ever since the refactor to move vertex normals out of mesh vertices,
cfa53e0fbe, the copying logic has been explicit: copy the
normals when they are not dirty. But it turns out that more control is
needed, and sometimes normals should be calculated for the resulting
BMesh.
This commit adds an option to the conversion to calculate vertex
normals, true by default. In almost all places except the decimate
and edge split modifiers, I just copied the value of the
"calc_face_normals" argument.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14406
