This fixes a bug that happens when two drawings in the same grease pencil
data-block reference the same array. In this case, the same attribute array
pointer is written to .blend files for both drawings. However, when loading the
.blend file, it was not detected that the data is shared. Instead each drawing
would think that it was the single owner of the array even though it was shared.
The same problem can technically occur for all kinds of shared data, and not
just for grease pencil. However, only grease pencil shows this issue currently,
because it can easily happen that the same attribute is shared between different
`CustomData` within the same data-block. This very rarely happens with meshes or
curves, because different `CustomData` usually have different sizes and don't
share the same arrays.
A previous fix (cc891aa699) solved pretty much the same issues for the case
when two layers in the same `CustomData` share data. This original fix is now
generalized and is integrated with `BLO_read_shared` which makes it less error
prone. For each data-block, the `BlendDataReader` now remembers which shared
data it has loaded before so that it is not loaded again.
In the future this could be extended to support data that is shared between
data-blocks, but that's not as straight forward as one would hope currently. For
various reasons, different data-blocks could store independent data at the same
pointer. I specifically noticed that with a regression test file:
`blender/tests/data/modeling/geometry_nodes/attributes/attribute_statistics.blend`.
To support it, one solution could be to tag `BHead` in .blend files to indicate
that a specific pointer is shared and unique within the entire file. But that's
for another day.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122780
Support for "System" extensions as an alternative to the current
"User" extensions repository.
The purpose of this change is to support bundling extensions for
offline work or in environments where users setting up thier own
extensions isn't desirable, see #122512.
Details:
The default "System" repository on Linux will for example use:
- `/usr/share/blender/4.2/extensions/{system}` For system installs.
- `./4.2/extensions/{system}` For portable installs.
- Blender's default startup now has a "System" repository
which users or administrators may populate.
- Repositories can select between User/System paths,
setting a custom path overrides overrides this setting.
- Add "BLENDER_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS" (matching "BLENDER_LOCAL_EXTENSIONS").
Ref !122832
Update PBVH GPU argument initialization to prefer using the PBVH mesh
attributes instead of the evaluated mesh attributes for color.
The values can be out of sync due to differences with the evaluated
and original mesh data.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122850
Originally this would replace scripts that come bundled with Blender,
but it's unclear how this is useful.
Searching for this online mainly leads to people asking how they can
use it to add scripts. For example in a studio environment you might
want to deploy add-ons and startup scripts for all users.
Even if you wanted to use it for replacement though, it wasn't really
doing that and inconsistent for different types of scripts:
* startup: ignored
* modules: replaces bundled scripts
* presets: adds to bundled scripts
* addons (in 4.1): ignored
* addons_core (in 4.2): ignored
* startup/bl_app_templates_system: replaces bundled scripts
This change makes it add scripts from this path for all. This is a
breaking change, though arguably this feature was just broken to
begin with and not used much in practice because of that.
The alternative would be add a new set of environment variables to
avoid breaking existing behavior. But that also means keeping around the
broken behavior or fixing it in another way.
Supporting multiple paths may be used too, but for now just support
a single one as doing this for all BLENDER_SYSTEM variables is
non-trivial. The main use case for that would be add-ons anyway, and
those will mainly be handled through upcoming
BLENDER_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS instead.
Ref #122512
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122689
Seems to be dependent on specific compiler/cmake version.
Is a typical mixture of missing dependencies between libraries,
object files which do not get referenced from other files in the
target, and whole-archive linking of the blender_test target.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122801
The code for recalculating bounds was fairly tricky to understand, with a
mixture of various flags, a mixture of recursive and parallel code, and
the "original bounds" concept.
This commit separates that update code into two separate paths. The regular
bounds update is split from the resetting of original bounds, which is only
needed in a few places and is best described by a separate function call.
The bounds update itself is split clearly into a parallel update of leaf node
bounds and a recursive merging of child node bounds.
The high level goals this helps to support are:
1. Use data-oriented storage to replace PBVHNode struct.
2. Document concepts like "original bounds", provide a self-descriptive API.
3. Allow brushes to update bounds themselves, for better CPU cache use.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122746
There is a mechanism to store config files in the same folder as the
Blender executable. The typical use case is putting Blender on a USB
drive and taking the config with you.
However the problem is that this is using the 4.2/ folder, which is fine
for config/ but with e.g. addons, studiolights and now extensions this
is mixing user and system files. This requires exceptions, doesn't
work well in some cases and is just generally not great design.
Instead use a folder named portable/ that is separate.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122778
Previously, the "Simplify" option was a world space distance threshold.
This meant that zooming in and out of the view changed the way
this option behaved. There were complaints from artists about this.
This change improves two things:
* The simplify algorithm uses the screen space coordinates rather than the
3D positions.
* The UI setting is in pixels making it much easier to tweak (no need
for values in the 1e-4 range).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122719
In GPv2 the brush strength was it's own setting in the
`brush->gpencil_settings`. Now we just use the `brush->alpha`
like all other brushes.
Note: The versioning will be done when GPv3 becomes the default.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122565
The Film-like curve mapping option in the RGB Curves node in the
compositor produces bad results when editing its RGB curves. That's
because Film-like curve mapping only works with the combined curve by
definition, since it is a hue preserving mapping. Furthermore, the
Film-like option ignored the white balancing step altogether.
To fix this, we hide the current curve option for the File-like option
and only allow editing the combined curve, handing the same case for
versioning and RNA updates. Further, we port the implementation from the
realtime compositor which is both correct and takes white balancing into
account.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122762
PBVH_UpdateRedraw was always combined with PBVH_UpdateBB.
The use for the "redraw update" isn't clear anyway, since there are
more specific tags for everything that would require a redraw.
This handles the transition to EEVEE-Next (now EEVEE).
This removes some things that make no sense to keep
even for compatibility.
- Scene.eevee.light_cache_data
- Scene Light cache operators
- Scene Light cache RNA properties
The remaining legacy properties will be removed later
on to avoid python API breakage.
We keep the identifier of EEVEE-Next as `BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT`
to avoid addons being incorrectly silently made compatible
with the EEVEE-Next where the Python API is different.
This renaming should be done in 5.0 release.
Thank you EEVEE-Legacy, you served us well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122433
By capturing multiple attributes with one node, the user can make sure that those
are evaluated together in the same context. This can be quite a bit more efficient
compared to capturing multiple fields separately (also because we don't optimize
grouping multiple capture nodes together yet).
The change is fully backward compatible. Forward compatibility has been added
for some cases. Especially, files created in older versions that are saved with this
newer version will still work in the older version.
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121665
Move the bounding box synchronization to the geometry evaluation component.
This way it is ensured that it is only done when the geometry is actually
evaluated, solving the problem of accessing stale data when object level
flags are modified.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122509
The setting adds the "Custom Shape Wire Width"
option to the "Viewport Display/Custom Shape" section of a pose bone.
As the setting says, this controls how thick the wire is drawn in the viewport.
This is done by adding a geometry shader that makes two triangles out of a line.
The Anti-Aliasing is controlled by the setting
Viewport->Quality->Smooth Wires->Overlay in the user preferences.
## Artifacts
When increasing the line width, the lines start to separate at their vertices.
This comes from extruding each edge along the normal of its direction.
This could be solved by adding round caps in a later PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120176
During the conversion of GPv3 to GPv2, we computed the
time difference between the points. So we we're keeping track
of the time a point was created relative to the previous point.
There doesn't seem to be a good reason to do this.
It can also go very wrong in case the times of two points are
very close to one another (which can result in catastrophic
cancellation).
With this change, the time delta values are now the time
a point was created, relative to the first point.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122367
Asserts triggered e.g. by opening Gold production files (like
`pro/shots/220_storm/220_0020/220_0020-anim.blend`). Their root cause
are zero tangent vectors.
The asserts initially came from unormalized normals, but the root issue
is actually using zero vector as axis in calls to
`math::rotate_direction_around_axis`.
While rotating a zero direction vector is possible (though useless),
rotating around a zero axis vector makes no sense?
So this commit adds an assert that the given axis is non-zero in
`rotate_direction_around_axis`. And 'fixes' the found cases triggering
such assert by skipping rotation when the axis (tangent) is null.
Another related issue fixed by this commit is the iterative process in
calls to `calculate_next_normal`, which can accumulate small floating
point errors over time, leading to generating not normalized-enough
normals at some point.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122441
This PR adds a new operator: `PAINT_OT_visibility_edit` to support
iteratively expanding or shrinking the visibility of a mesh, similar to
the *Grow / Shrink Mask* actions and the *Grow / Shrink Face Set*
options. This operator is exposed via two new entries in the *Sculpt*
toolbar entry as *Show More* and *Show Less* and have also been
assigned to Page Up and Page Down in the default Blender keybinds for
Sculpt Mode.
### Technical Details
Each of the PBVH types is solved slightly differently, though the
general principle for each is as follows:
1. Make a copy of the current mesh visibility state
2. Iterate over elements (faces & corners if available, otherwise
vertices) to look at adjacency information
3. Apply appropriate visibility change to vertices
4. Sync face visibility
### Limitations
* Currently, like all other operators in the `paint_hide.cc` file. This
new operator is limited to Sculpt mode only.
Based off of [this](https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/pz4y/)
RCS request.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120282
Extract
- Add to Quick Favorites tooltip.
- "Mask", the name of a newly created mask (DATA_).
- "New" in the context of the new mask ID button.
- A few strings using BLI_STR_UTF8_ defines were not extracted.
Take the special characters out of the translation macros.
- "External" menu items from the filebrowser's Files context
menu (right-click on a file). These items were already extracted,
but not translated.
Improve
- Separate formatted error message "%s is not compatible with
["the specified", "any"] 'refresh' options" into two messages.
Disambiguate
- Use Action context for new F-modifiers' names. This is already used
for the "type" operator prop.
- Translate ImportHelper's default confirmation text using the
Operator context, as it uses the operator name which is extracted
with this context.
- "Scale" can be a noun, the scale of something, or a verb, to scale
something. The latter mostly uses the Operator context, so apply
this context to verbs, and the default contexts to nouns.
- "Scale Influence" can mean "Influence on Scale" (tracking
stabilization) and "to Scale the Influence" (dynamic paint canvas).
- "Object Line Art" as type of Line Art to add, as opposed to the
active object's Line Art settings.
- Float to Integer node: use NodeTree context for the node label, as
this is already extracted and used for the enum.
Do not translate
- Sequencer labels containing only a string formatting field.
Some issues reported by Gabriel Gazzán and Ye Gui.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122283
Sometimes it is necessary to pass additional data through generic UI entities,
to specific implementations. For example to pass additional options to panel
polling & drawing when instantiating a panel through its panel type. Or storing
additional data in a button, without hardcoding it in the button struct/class.
Passing data via context is a simple solution to this, however so far this only
works using hardcoded context queries or RNA pointers. For passing arbitrary
strings we've used workarounds like creating an RNA type to wrap it already.
For example `RNA_AssetCatalogPath`, which is used to dynamically populate menu
items based on an asset catalog path, via a generic menu type.
type instantiation. This makes it possible to invoke specific asset shelves as
popover panels.
Idea is simply to let `bContextStore` entries hold copies of the string (as
`std::string`), avoiding lifetime issues. Context APIs are extended to support
setting/querying strings via a context member name.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122113
There were two issues:
* The const and non-const version behaved differently
* The frames map was not used to query the `frame_number`
Now both the const and non-const implementations behave
the same way. Additionally, the frames map is used to do a
lookup first and, on sucess , return the frame immediatly.
Otherwise we do a binary search for a keyframe that starts
before the frame number (and ends after).
Adds object conversion between Grease Pencil and Curves types.
GPv3 object is converted to Curves by combining all visible layers at
the current frame.
Curves object is converted to Grease Pencil by constructing a new layer
and keyframe with the curves geometry.
The type enum for the conversion operator gets a dynamic function to
check for the experimental flags and only show the enabled Grease Pencil
object types. It does not currently exclude unsupported type
combinations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122304
The materials array was being allocated even when `eval_totcol` is zero.
The material code assumes that the array is nullptr when totcol is zero
and would leak that memory. Only allocate the array when the material
count is greater than zero.
This was a consequence of the work done in #106321, where this specific
'active in UI' case was not identified and properly handled.
Now, consider most ID usages from UI (editors) as 'weak links', i.e.
keep a reference to these IDs even if they are only indirectly used.
Note that missing weak links will not create placeholders if the source
data is not found in the library anymore on load. they are just silently
dropped.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122207
Linking a datablock from a library does not update the namemap, but
there is an assert added in 47672bd06a that checks this at the end
of library linking.
Usually it does not trigger because the namemap does not exist, and it
is cleared at the end of the process. Now clear it earlier, at the
moment the namemap becomes invalid.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122182
