Improvements to the drawing of shadows, used with blocks, menus, nodes,
etc. Improvements to shape, especially at the top corner or at extremes
of widget roundness. Allows transparent objects to have shadows. This
is a nice refactor that removes a lot of code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111794
# Issue
Having a lot of keys in your scene can dramatically slow down the Dope Sheet.
That is because everytime the Dope Sheet is redrawn,
the Keylists have to be recomputed.
In the case of the summary channel, that means going through
all keyframes of all the `FCurves` and adding them to the keylist.
That eats up 95% of the time it takes to draw a frame.
# This PR
It's not a perfect solution, rather it solves the performance issue
for the case when you are not displaying all keys.
Instead of going through all the keys, only add the
keys visible in the view to the keylist.
This speeds up the Dope Sheet significantly
depending on the zoom level.
This also improves the responsiveness when selecting and transforming keyframes.
# Performance changes
The function measured is `ED_channel_list_flush`
which is responsible for building the keylists and drawing them.
The test setup contains 62 bones with all
10 channels keyed (location, rot quaternion, scale) on 6000 frames.
So 3.720.000 keys. The heavier the dataset the bigger the performance impact.
The data was recorded with only the Dope Sheet open, and 3 channels visible
* Summary
* Object
* Action
The more channels are visible, the greater the performance gain. This can be seen in the video.
| visible range | before | after |
| - | - | - |
| 200f | 250ms | 10ms |
| 400f | 250ms | 18ms |
| 3000f | 250ms | 130ms |
| 6000f | 250ms | 250ms |
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114854
This PR adds the material locking functionality from the current grease pencil.
Material locking allows the user to lock strokes with that specific material. Locked strokes cannot be edited.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114580
Adds the Show All Materials operator.
Also includes a refresh of despgraph when the hide prop changes.
Note: The actual render engine does not support hiding by materials.
Related to #114997
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115001
Discussed in #114646.
This commit transforms the "alt_navigation" option of the transform
operators into a new modal key item. "PASSTHROUGH_NAVIGATE"
In addition to cleaning up a lot of the code, it allows you to
customize the key chosen to navigate while transforming.
No functional changes.
`ANIM_get_normalization_flags` had the argument type of `bAnimContext *`.
That made it more difficult than it needs to be to reuse that function.
Pass a `SpaceLink *` instead since that is what the function actually uses.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114676
No functional changes.
Move the following functions
`ANIM_fcurve_delete_from_animdata` and
`ANIM_remove_empty_action_from_animdata`
to
`ANIM_animdata.hh` / `animdata.cc`
in animrig
This removes some includes to `ED_anim_api.hh`
from animrig
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114581
No functional changes.
Move the functions
`insert_vert_fcurve` and
`insert_bezt_fcurve`
from `ED_keyframing.hh` / `keyframing.cc`
to `ANIM_fcurve.hh` / `fcurve.cc`
in animrig
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114570
Adds a new scene tool setting `use_grease_pencil_multi_frame_editing`.
The `foreach_*_drawing` functions are moved to the `ed::greasepencil` namespace in the editor, since they are now context sensitive and depend on the toolsetting. They are now named `retrieve_editable_drawings` and `retrieve_visible_drawings` and return
an array of drawings instead of calling a callback function.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114283
Changes to edit mode mesh overlays, use hue shift instead of color
fading/darkening for selection mode visual differentiation, and some
theme changes to improve the display of mesh edges and faces with good
selection visibility.
- Removed "edge" toggle from edit mode overlays panel.
- No longer halves the edge and face alpha depending on selection mode.
Half the face alpha in wire-frame mode. For better visibility on most
themes.
Ref !111431
This new member gives access to the current active panel category (i.e.
tab) if supported, and allows to set its value to another defined
category.
While typically add-ons should not force a tab to be the active one,
there are cases where this is a valid and necessary behavior, e.g. in
'Blender App' where an app can add some new tab to the UI and require
them to be active.
Note that there is a ctach here: typically at start time these panel
categories are unknown (enum is empty), since they are validated by
drawing code. So setting them usually needs to be done after initial
startup and drawing of the UI...
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114070
With two or more windows, edit-mode undo assumed it was
possible to load the undo state into the current scene.
When multiple windows are used this is not always the case.
Edit-mode undo steps now store the scene used to create them
which is used to read undo data back into this scene
(when it's shown in a window). Otherwise the current context is used.
Calling this state "active" has been confusing for a long time for a number of reasons:
- It's not clear that this is essentially a mouse hover state.
- Easy to confuse with "select" state (`UI_SELECT`), both terms are vague.
- Buttons can be "inactive" (`UI_BUT_INACTIVE`) which is totally related to this "active" state.
- Button handling can consider a button as active that doesn't have this flag set (e.g. during text input).
- Active and selected are well established terms in Blender, but they mean a different thing there.
See #112160.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114113
No functional changes.
Changing old C code to C++ by returning a `Vector` from `ANIM_setting_get_rna_values`.
This reduces the argument count for that function and simplifies the code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113931
Design task: #93551
This PR replaces the auto smooth option with a geometry nodes modifier
that sets the sharp edge attribute. This solves a fair number of long-
standing problems related to auto smooth, simplifies the process of
normal computation, and allows Blender to automatically choose between
face, vertex, and face corner normals based on the sharp edge and face
attributes.
Versioning adds a geometry node group to objects with meshes that had
auto-smooth enabled. The modifier can be applied, which also improves
performance.
Auto smooth is now unnecessary to get a combination of sharp and smooth
edges. In general workflows are changed a bit. Separate procedural and
destructive workflows are available. Custom normals can be used
immediately without turning on the removed auto smooth option.
**Procedural**
The node group asset "Smooth by Angle" is the main way to set sharp
normals based on the edge angle. It can be accessed directly in the add
modifier menu. Of course the modifier can be reordered, muted, or
applied like any other, or changed internally like any geometry nodes
modifier.
**Destructive**
Often the sharp edges don't need to be dynamic. This can give better
performance since edge angles don't need to be recalculated. In edit
mode the two operators "Select Sharp Edges" and "Mark Sharp" can be
used. In other modes, the "Shade Smooth by Angle" controls the edge
sharpness directly.
### Breaking API Changes
- `use_auto_smooth` is removed. Face corner normals are now used
automatically if there are mixed smooth vs. not smooth tags. Meshes
now always use custom normals if they exist.
- In Cycles, the lack of the separate auto smooth state makes normals look
triangulated when all faces are shaded smooth.
- `auto_smooth_angle` is removed. Replaced by a modifier (or operator)
controlling the sharp edge attribute. This means the mesh itself
(without an object) doesn't know anything about automatically smoothing
by angle anymore.
- `create_normals_split`, `calc_normals_split`, and `free_normals_split`
are removed, and are replaced by the simpler `Mesh.corner_normals`
collection property. Since it gives access to the normals cache, it
is automatically updated when relevant data changes.
Addons are updated here: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/pulls/104609
### Tests
- `geo_node_curves_test_deform_curves_on_surface` has slightly different
results because face corner normals are used instead of interpolated
vertex normals.
- `bf_wavefront_obj_tests` has different export results for one file
which mixed sharp and smooth faces without turning on auto smooth.
- `cycles_mesh_cpu` has one object which is completely flat shaded.
Previously every edge was split before rendering, now it looks triangulated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108014
Currently, we always prioritize the words in the last section of a search item
(the words that are highlighted). This generally works well, but the situation
is a bit different for link-drag-search, because there the last part is the socket
name, which is usually less descriptive than the node name.
This patch allows us to use different heuristics to select the prioritized section
per search.
Unfortunately, the link-drag-search is not fully consistent with itself. Sometimes
the last group is a socket name, but sometimes it's also the mode of a node
(`Math > Add`). Therefore, the patch currently simply prioritizes all words in the
same instead of prioritizing only the first part. This seems to work much better
than before even if not perfect in all cases yet.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113648
Similar to #104426, this adds a simple operator to set attribute values
for curves edit mode. The operator is very basic and is only meant to
be a first step for more attribute editing features. Some of the
functionality could be achieved with node tools, but without dynamic
socket types or access to the active attribute, it would be incomplete.
Some of the RNA property registration, retrieval, and setting is reused
from the mesh edit mode operator. The rest of the logic is similar but
harder to de-duplicate.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105076
There was a little hack to remove padding from buttons following the collapse
icon by setting the `UI_BUT_NO_TEXT_PADDING` flag, since that added excessive,
weird looking spacing. This shouldn't be done for buttons with icons, as it
moves the icons too close to the collapse chevron, and is visibly inconsistent
with other icon labels in the tree.
Turns out, that the entire hack to set the `UI_BUT_NO_TEXT_PADDING` flag is
unnecessary since 5c2330203e, which sets the flag everywhere for comparable
situations. So the hack can be removed.
No functional changes
`ANIM_builtin_keyingset_get_named` had a `KeyingSet *` argument
that was always passed as `nullptr`
This patch removes it to simplify the code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113677
No functional changes
The keying set code was passing around a list
of `tRKS_DSource` through a lot of functions.
It turns it this was just a ListBase wrapper around `PointerRNA`.
So to make it clearer what is passed around, I replaced the
`ListBase` with a `Vector<PointerRNA>`
To make the use of `ANIM_relative_keyingset_add_source` clearer
I made two functions out of it with different parameters.
Those can take the vector as a reference and
EITHER only an `ID *`
OR an `ID *`, `StructRNA *` and a `void *`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113675
No functional changes
Make the code more readable by doing the following
* rename `BKE_keyingset_free` to `BKE_keyingset_free_paths` since that is what it does
* invert `if` and return early to reduce indentation
* add enum value `MODIFYKEY_SUCCESS` to explicitly state the return value, instead of eModifyKey_Returns(0)
* return `INSERTKEY_NOFLAGS` instead of eInsertKeyFlags(0)
* move variables closer to their usage
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113666
Avoids repeated and redundant lookups. Also simplifies some code.
Note that currently, these drop targets are volatile objects created whenever
needed, but not kept in memory. Should they ever be kept over multiple redraws,
this view item reference will have to be updated for each.
No functional changes
The following functions have been moved
`autokeyframe_cfra_can_key`
`autokeyframe_object`
`ED_autokeyframe_object`
`ED_autokeyframe_pchan`
`ED_autokeyframe_property`
they are all in a new file
keyframing_auto.cc
while the declarations are in
ANIM_keyframing.cc
The autokeyframe makros also have been moved
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113607
No functional changes.
Move the following keyframing functions to the animrig folder
* `insert_keyframe_direct`
* `insert_keyframe`
* `delete_keyframe`
* `clear_keyframe`
In order to disentangle the code I had to move the following as well
* `delete_keyframe_fcurve`
* `visualkey_can_use`
* `visualkey_get_values`
In order to sort the functions I made 3 files (and their header counterparts)
* fcurve.cc
* keyframing.cc
* visualkey.cc
The following functions I made public so they won't get duplicated
* `update_autoflags_fcurve_direct`
* `ANIM_setting_get_rna_values`
There are public keyframing functions that
I left in the editors/animation/keyframing.cc file
I'd like to limit the scope of this refactor, and then
clean up the moved functions before moving even more over
Part of #113278
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113503
Update to the new naming convention for `Light Probes`:
`Reflection Cubemap` -> `Sphere`
`Reflection Plane` -> `Plane`
`Irradiance Grid` -> `Volume`
Note that this breaks the Python API (`bpy.types.LightProbe.type`).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113452
