Previously we always had to set attribute values after creating
the attribute. This patch adds an initializer argument to
`attribute_try_create` which can fill it in a few ways, which
are explained in code comments.
This fixes T87597.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11045
Because we use virtual classes (and for other reasons), we had to do a
small allocation when simply retrieving the data type and domain of an
existing attribute. This happened quite a lot actually-- to determine
these values for result attributes.
This patch adds a simple function to retrieve this meta data without
building the virtual array. This should lower the overhead of every
attribute node, though the difference probably won't be noticible
unless a tree has very many nodes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11047
The `bisect_distance` in the mirror modifier was hard-coded to `0.001`.
This would result in some unexpected behavior like vertices close
to the mirror plane being deleted or merged.
The fix now adds a parameter to the mirror modifier to expose the
bisect distance to the user. The default is set to the previous
hard-coded value to not "change" previous files.
Ref D10201
Python scripts can now define the reason it's poll function fails using:
`Operator.poll_message_set(message, ...)`
This supports both regular text as well as delaying message creation
using a callback which should be used in situations where constructing
detailed messages is too much overhead for a poll function.
Ref D11001
Some persistent data code was disable due to a deeper design issue, which
meant some updates were not communicated to renderers.
Dependency graph updates work in two passes, once where Blender scene
animation updates are done, then app handler scripts can run to make further
scene modifications, and then the depsgraph is updated again to take those
into account.
Previously the viewport would update renderers twice when such app handler
scripts were present. Now both viewport and persistent data rendering update
the renderers only once, accumulating updates from both passes.
This is a first iteration of a switch node. It can only switch between
two inputs values based on a boolean. A more sophisticated switch
node that has an integer selector will probably come later.
Currently, the geometry nodes evaluator does not support lazy evaluation
of individual inputs. Therefore, all inputs will be computed currently.
An improvement to the evaluator will be worked on separately.
Ref: T85374
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10460
A virtual array is a data structure that is similar to a normal array
in that its elements can be accessed by an index. However, a virtual
array does not have to be a contiguous array internally. Instead, its
elements can be layed out arbitrarily while element access happens
through a virtual function call. However, the virtual array data
structures are designed so that the virtual function call can be avoided
in cases where it could become a bottleneck.
Most commonly, a virtual array is backed by an actual array/span or
is a single value internally, that is the same for every index.
Besides those, there are many more specialized virtual arrays like the
ones that provides vertex positions based on the `MVert` struct or
vertex group weights.
Not all attributes used by geometry nodes are stored in simple contiguous
arrays. To provide uniform access to all kinds of attributes, the attribute
API has to provide virtual array functionality that hides the implementation
details of attributes.
Before this refactor, the attribute API provided its own virtual array
implementation as part of the `ReadAttribute` and `WriteAttribute` types.
That resulted in unnecessary code duplication with the virtual array system.
Even worse, it bound many algorithms used by geometry nodes to the specifics
of the attribute API, even though they could also use different data sources
(such as data from sockets, default values, later results of expressions, ...).
This refactor removes the `ReadAttribute` and `WriteAttribute` types and
replaces them with `GVArray` and `GVMutableArray` respectively. The `GV`
stands for "generic virtual". The "generic" means that the data type contained
in those virtual arrays is only known at run-time. There are the corresponding
statically typed types `VArray<T>` and `VMutableArray<T>` as well.
No regressions are expected from this refactor. It does come with one
improvement for users. The attribute API can convert the data type
on write now. This is especially useful when writing to builtin attributes
like `material_index` with e.g. the Attribute Math node (which usually
just writes to float attributes, while `material_index` is an integer attribute).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10994
`ob->runtime.geometry_set_eval` can contain instances as well.
This only affected instances generated by geometry nodes.
We should probably have a separate function that tells us if an object
has instances or not..
In the past, custom attributes were rarely used in practice, because the
only way to use them was from Python. Since geometry nodes, more
users started to add their own attributes. Those attributes should not
be removed automatically. It is still possible to remove them in
geometry nodes explictly to improve performance.
This changes the following items:
- package name is now `blender-3.0.0-git.09eb04c0a865-windows64`
rather than `blender-3.00.0-git.09eb04c0a865-windows64`
- Fix version resource for blender.exe not building
- Data directories are now `3.0\...` rather than `3.00\....`
- User prefs are now in:
`c:\Users\users\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.0\`
rather than:
`c:\Users\users\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.00\`
- Updating startup & preferences from previous release
has a special exception for 3.0 to check for 3.93 and older.
See T87532
Ref D10986
Blender 3.0 is now in bcon1 (alpha).
There are likely a few places in Blender and the automated building pipeline
that may fail since we are switching our versioning number system.
For example, at the moment the splash and the status bar are showing
3.00.0, and it should show 3.1.0.
I suspect the Python API, version used to report a bug, buildname, are
all wrong too. These will be handled later.
This introduces a context path to the spreadsheet editor, which contains
information about what data is shown in the spreadsheet. The context
path (breadcrumbs) can reference a specific node in a node group
hierarchy. During object evaluation, the geometry nodes modifier checks
what data is currently requested by visible spreadsheets and stores
the corresponding geometry sets separately for later access.
The context path can be updated by the user explicitely, by clicking
on the new icon in the header of nodes. Under some circumstances,
the context path is updated automatically based on Blender's context.
This patch also consolidates the "Node" and "Final" object evaluation
mode to just "Evaluated". Based on the current context path, either
the final geometry set of an object will be displayed, or the data at
a specific node.
The new preview icon in geometry nodes now behaves more like
a toggle. It can be clicked again to clear the context path in an
open spreadsheet editor.
Previously, only an object could be pinned in the spreadsheet editor.
Now it is possible to pin the entire context path. That allows two
different spreadsheets to display geometry data from two different
nodes.
The breadcrumbs in the spreadsheet header can be collapsed by
clicking on the arrow icons. It's not ideal but works well for now.
This might be changed again, if we get a data set region on the left.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10931
This patch adds domain and data type information to each row of the
attribute search menu. The data type is displayed on the right, just
like how the list is exposed for the existing point cloud and hair
attribute panels. The domain is exposed on the left like the menu
hierarchy from menu search.
For the implementation, the attribute hint information is stored as a
set instead of a multi-value map so that every item (which we need to
point to descretely in the search process) contains the necessary data
type and domain information by itself. We also need to allocate a new
struct for every button, which requires a change to allow passing a
newly allocated argument to search buttons.
Note that the search does't yet handle the case where there are two
attributes with the same name but different domains or data types in
the input geometry set. That will be handled as a separate improvement.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10623
Previously, the bone position outside of "fit to curve length" mode was
incorrect.
It assumed that the curve was completely straight with no bends or
turns. This would lead to bones being scaled down as their final
position would be servery underestimated in some cases.
The solution is to do a sphere -> curve intersection test to see where
to put the bones while still preserving their length. As we are using
the tessellated curve data this essentially boils down to us doing a
sphere -> line intersection check.
Reviewed By: Sybren
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10849
This is especially useful when trying to add a node group instance, e.g. via
drag & drop from the Outliner or Asset Browser.
Previously this would just silently fail, with no information why. This is a
source of confusion, e.g. earlier, it took me a moment to realize I was
dragging a node group into itself, which failed of course.
Blender should always try to help the user with useful error messages.
Adds error messages like: "Nesting a node group inside of itself is not
allowed", "Not a compositor node tree", etc.
Adds a disabled hint return argument to node and node tree polling functions.
On error the hint is reported, or could even be shown in advance (e.g. if
checked via an operator poll option).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10422
Reviewed by: Jacques Lucke
Before rBf674976edd88, the flag indicating whether a curve was 2D or 3D was
ignored by Surfaces objects.
So it can be said that Surfaces objects were always 3D.
We could remove updates to 2D on Surface objects, so the behavior is
identical to what it was before.
But this would also cause the return of `data.dimensions` to be misleading,
complicate the code a bit and add a micro overhead.
So the solution here is just to init all Surface objects as 3D.
Surface objects can now be constrained to 2D with the command:
```
data.dimensions = '2D'
```
Linked override were not properly ignored in some part of the code,
leading to invalid resync results in some cases with recursive overrides
(i.e. overrides of overrides).
Reported by Andy @eyecandy from the studio.
We do not want to copy exiting overrides data from linked ID when
creating its local override (be it either a template, or because linked
ID is itself an override of another lib data).
Note that this was not a very serious issue, would just cause some memory
leak since override data is re-created on newly copied local data
anyway.
These use cases have been very little tested so far, but both complex
production pipeline and future restrictive workflow will make them fairly
common...
