With this the simulation cache pointer is copied over to the evaluated modifier.
This allows the original modifier to be removed without breaking the evaluated
modifier, which results in better decoupling. This can avoid issues when a
non-active depsgraph is evaluated in the background while the user is manipulating
the scene.
Also, it is now assumed that the simulation cache is always allocated even if
there is no simulation (similar to run-time data). This simplifies the code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108976
Baking simulations for an object with more than one geonodes modifier
creates cache folders for _all_ modifiers, even if some of them do not
actually have simulation zones. The simulations zones also don't need to
be connected to the output to generate cache folders.
This patch restricts cache folder generation to modifiers which actually
have simulation zones and use them.
Extra cache folders were created because executed modifiers were only
checking if a simulation state exists and not whether it contains actual
zone data (`sim_state->zone_states_.is_empty()`). The modifiers are
always executed if the object is evaluated by the depsgraph, which
happens if _any_ of the modifiers is time-dependent. Time dependency in
turn is enabled if a simulation zone exists in the tree, regardless of
whether it is used.
Checking for zone states in the cache output during baking lets us
decide if a cache folder is needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108278
This adds `char *simulation_bake_directory` to the nodes modifier. The path is automatically generated the first time the modifier is baked. It is _not_ automatically changed afterwards. The path is relative to the .blend file by default. For now, the path is not exposed in the UI or Python API.
This fixes issues where renaming objects/modifiers can cause the baked data to not work anymore.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108201
See: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/103343
Changes:
1. Added `BKE_node.hh` file. New file includes old one.
2. Functions moved to new file. Redundant `(void)`, `struct` are removed.
3. All cpp includes replaced from `.h` on `.hh`.
4. Everything in `BKE_node.hh` is on `blender::bke` namespace.
5. All implementation functions moved in namespace.
6. Function names (`BKE_node_*`) changed to `blender::bke::node_*`.
7. `eNodeSizePreset` now is a class, with renamed items.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107790
When the the armature doesn't have an active pose bone yet so
`ED_object_pose_constraint_list` returns NULL unhandled during
`edit_constraint_property_get`, now fixed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107864
This patch will add support to select all channels between active channel
and last-clicked channel without deselecting previous selection. `Shift` key is
now assigned for the range selection and `ctrl` key to extend the selection. This
changes will make multi-selection similar as outliner tree-elements. New function is
created `animchannel_select_range` to handle the range selection of channels.
Old Differential revision: https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17079
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104565
For derived mesh triangulation information, currently the three face
corner indices are stored in the same struct as index of the mesh
polygon the triangle is part of. While those pieces of information are
often used together, they often aren't, and combining them prevents
the indices from being used with generic utilities. It also means that
1/3 more memory has to be written when recalculating the triangulation
after deforming the mesh, and that the entire triangle data has to be
read when only the polygon indices are needed.
This commit splits the polygon index into a separate cache on `Mesh`.
The triangulation data isn't saved to files, so this doesn't affect
.blend files at all.
In a simple test deforming a mesh with geometry nodes, the time used
to recalculate the triangulation reduced from 2.0 ms to 1.6 ms,
increasing overall FPS from 14.6 to 15.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106774
This adds support for building simulations with geometry nodes. A new
`Simulation Input` and `Simulation Output` node allow maintaining a
simulation state across multiple frames. Together these two nodes form
a `simulation zone` which contains all the nodes that update the simulation
state from one frame to the next.
A new simulation zone can be added via the menu
(`Simulation > Simulation Zone`) or with the node add search.
The simulation state contains a geometry by default. However, it is possible
to add multiple geometry sockets as well as other socket types. Currently,
field inputs are evaluated and stored for the preceding geometry socket in
the order that the sockets are shown. Simulation state items can be added
by linking one of the empty sockets to something else. In the sidebar, there
is a new panel that allows adding, removing and reordering these sockets.
The simulation nodes behave as follows:
* On the first frame, the inputs of the `Simulation Input` node are evaluated
to initialize the simulation state. In later frames these sockets are not
evaluated anymore. The `Delta Time` at the first frame is zero, but the
simulation zone is still evaluated.
* On every next frame, the `Simulation Input` node outputs the simulation
state of the previous frame. Nodes in the simulation zone can edit that
data in arbitrary ways, also taking into account the `Delta Time`. The new
simulation state has to be passed to the `Simulation Output` node where it
is cached and forwarded.
* On a frame that is already cached or baked, the nodes in the simulation
zone are not evaluated, because the `Simulation Output` node can return
the previously cached data directly.
It is not allowed to connect sockets from inside the simulation zone to the
outside without going through the `Simulation Output` node. This is a necessary
restriction to make caching and sub-frame interpolation work. Links can go into
the simulation zone without problems though.
Anonymous attributes are not propagated by the simulation nodes unless they
are explicitly stored in the simulation state. This is unfortunate, but
currently there is no practical and reliable alternative. The core problem
is detecting which anonymous attributes will be required for the simulation
and afterwards. While we can detect this for the current evaluation, we can't
look into the future in time to see what data will be necessary. We intend to
make it easier to explicitly pass data through a simulation in the future,
even if the simulation is in a nested node group.
There is a new `Simulation Nodes` panel in the physics tab in the properties
editor. It allows baking all simulation zones on the selected objects. The
baking options are intentially kept at a minimum for this MVP. More features
for simulation baking as well as baking in general can be expected to be added
separately.
All baked data is stored on disk in a folder next to the .blend file. #106937
describes how baking is implemented in more detail. Volumes can not be baked
yet and materials are lost during baking for now. Packing the baked data into
the .blend file is not yet supported.
The timeline indicates which frames are currently cached, baked or cached but
invalidated by user-changes.
Simulation input and output nodes are internally linked together by their
`bNode.identifier` which stays the same even if the node name changes. They
are generally added and removed together. However, there are still cases where
"dangling" simulation nodes can be created currently. Those generally don't
cause harm, but would be nice to avoid this in more cases in the future.
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <h.goudey@me.com>
Co-authored-by: Lukas Tönne <lukas@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104924
- Rename name/filename/path to filepath when it's used for full paths.
- Rename name/path to dirpath when it refers to a directory.
- Rename file to filepath or path (when it may be a file or dir).
- Rename ImBuf::name & anim::name to filepath.
The existing tooltip of Clear Constraints modifier in object mode
(`object.constraints_clear`) didn't match its functionality. It said it
works only on the active object, but it affects all selected objects.
Hence, the tooltip has been changed from 'Clear all the constraints for
the active object only' to 'Clear all the constraints for the selected
objects'.
Also the tooltip for 'Clear Pose Constraints' in Pose Mode was updated
for consistency with the above update.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106918
Use bl_run_operators to detect cases when operators would crash
when run in an expected context for the following operators:
- GIZMOGROUP_OT_gizmo_select
- GIZMOGROUP_OT_gizmo_tweak
- GPENCIL_OT_time_segment_move
- OBJECT_OT_add_named
- OBJECT_OT_data_instance_add
- OBJECT_OT_drop_named_material
- SCULPT_OT_mask_by_color
- SEQUENCER_OT_delete
- SEQUENCER_OT_rename_channel
- SEQUENCER_OT_retiming_handle_move
- SPREADSHEET_OT_change_spreadsheet_data_source
- UI_OT_drop_color
Note that some of these situations users were unlikely to encounter,
however there were cases script authors could run into such as deleting
sequence strips without a region or masking by color without a 3D view.
Implicit sharing means attribute ownership is shared between geometry
data-blocks, and the sharing happens automatically. So it's unnecessary
to choose whether to enable it when copying a mesh.
Add the ability to retrieve implicit sharing info directly from the
C++ attribute API, which simplifies memory usage and performance
optimizations making use of it. This commit uses the additions to
the API to avoid copies in a few places:
- The "rest_position" attribute in the mesh modifier stack
- Instance on Points node
- Instances to points node
- Mesh to points node
- Points to vertices node
Many files are affected because in order to include the new information
in the API's returned data, I had to switch a bunch of types from
`VArray` to `AttributeReader`. This generally makes sense anyway, since
it allows retrieving the domain, which wasn't possible before in some
cases. I overloaded the `*` deference operator for some syntactic sugar
to avoid the (very ugly) `.varray` that would be necessary otherwise.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107059
While replacing the extension with an empty string works,
it required a redundant string-size argument which took a dummy
value in some cases. Avoid having to pass in a redundant string size by
adding a function that strips the extension.
Implements #95966, as the final step of #95965.
This commit changes the storage of mesh edge vertex indices from the
`MEdge` type to the generic `int2` attribute type. This follows the
general design for geometry and the attribute system, where the data
storage type and the usage semantics are separated.
The main benefit of the change is reduced memory usage-- the
requirements of storing mesh edges is reduced by 1/3. For example,
this saves 8MB on a 1 million vertex grid. This also gives performance
benefits to any memory-bound mesh processing algorithm that uses edges.
Another benefit is that all of the edge's vertex indices are
contiguous. In a few cases, it's helpful to process all of them as
`Span<int>` rather than `Span<int2>`. Similarly, the type is more
likely to match a generic format used by a library, or code that
shouldn't know about specific Blender `Mesh` types.
Various Notes:
- The `.edge_verts` name is used to reflect a mapping between domains,
similar to `.corner_verts`, etc. The period means that it the data
shouldn't change arbitrarily by the user or procedural operations.
- `edge[0]` is now used instead of `edge.v1`
- Signed integers are used instead of unsigned to reduce the mixing
of signed-ness, which can be error prone.
- All of the previously used core mesh data types (`MVert`, `MEdge`,
`MLoop`, `MPoly` are now deprecated. Only generic types are used).
- The `vec2i` DNA type is used in the few C files where necessary.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106638
`BKE_mesh_nomain_to_mesh` expects the object's data to be the mesh.
Also, the curve to mesh conversion can return a null pointer, so use
an empty mesh in that case. Thanks to Falk David for finding these.
This integrates the new implicit-sharing system (from fbcddfcd68)
with `CustomData`. Now the potentially long arrays referenced by custom
data layers can be shared between different systems but most importantly
between different geometries. This makes e.g. copying a mesh much cheaper
because none of the attributes has to be copied. Only when an attribute
is modified does it have to be copied.
Also see the original design task: #95845.
This reduces memory and improves performance by avoiding unnecessary
data copies. For example, the used memory after loading a highly
subdivided mesh is reduced from 2.4GB to 1.79GB. This is about 25%
less which is the expected amount because in `main` there are 4 copies
of the data:
1. The original data which is allocated when the file is loaded.
2. The copy for the depsgraph allocated during depsgraph evaluation.
3. The copy for the undo system allocated when the first undo step is
created right after loading the file.
4. GPU buffers allocated for drawing.
This patch only gets rid of copy number 2 for the depsgraph. In theory
the other copies can be removed as part of follow up PRs as well though.
-----
The patch has three main components:
* Slightly modified `CustomData` API to make it work better with implicit
sharing:
* `CD_REFERENCE` and `CD_DUPLICATE` have been removed because they are
meaningless when implicit-sharing is used.
* `CD_ASSIGN` has been removed as well because it's not an allocation
type anyway. The functionality of using existing arrays as custom
data layers has not been removed though.
* This can still be done with `CustomData_add_layer_with_data` which
also has a new argument that allows passing in information about
whether the array is shared.
* `CD_FLAG_NOFREE` has been removed because it's no longer necessary. It
only existed because of `CD_REFERENCE`.
* `CustomData_copy` and `CustomData_merge` have been split up into a
functions that do copy the actual attribute values and those that do
not. The latter functions now have the `_layout` suffix
(e.g. `CustomData_copy_layout`).
* Changes in `customdata.cc` to make it actually use implicit-sharing.
* Changes in various other files to adapt to the changes in `BKE_customdata.h`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106228
Implements #95967.
Currently the `MPoly` struct is 12 bytes, and stores the index of a
face's first corner and the number of corners/verts/edges. Polygons
and corners are always created in order by Blender, meaning each
face's corners will be after the previous face's corners. We can take
advantage of this fact and eliminate the redundancy in mesh face
storage by only storing a single integer corner offset for each face.
The size of the face is then encoded by the offset of the next face.
The size of a single integer is 4 bytes, so this reduces memory
usage by 3 times.
The same method is used for `CurvesGeometry`, so Blender already has
an abstraction to simplify using these offsets called `OffsetIndices`.
This class is used to easily retrieve a range of corner indices for
each face. This also gives the opportunity for sharing some logic with
curves.
Another benefit of the change is that the offsets and sizes stored in
`MPoly` can no longer disagree with each other. Storing faces in the
order of their corners can simplify some code too.
Face/polygon variables now use the `IndexRange` type, which comes with
quite a few utilities that can simplify code.
Some:
- The offset integer array has to be one longer than the face count to
avoid a branch for every face, which means the data is no longer part
of the mesh's `CustomData`.
- We lose the ability to "reference" an original mesh's offset array
until more reusable CoW from #104478 is committed. That will be added
in a separate commit.
- Since they aren't part of `CustomData`, poly offsets often have to be
copied manually.
- To simplify using `OffsetIndices` in many places, some functions and
structs in headers were moved to only compile in C++.
- All meshes created by Blender use the same order for faces and face
corners, but just in case, meshes with mismatched order are fixed by
versioning code.
- `MeshPolygon.totloop` is no longer editable in RNA. This API break is
necessary here unfortunately. It should be worth it in 3.6, since
that's the best way to allow loading meshes from 4.0, which is
important for an LTS version.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105938
The goal is to solve confusion of the "All rights reserved" for licensing
code under an open-source license.
The phrase "All rights reserved" comes from a historical convention that
required this phrase for the copyright protection to apply. This convention
is no longer relevant.
However, even though the phrase has no meaning in establishing the copyright
it has not lost meaning in terms of licensing.
This change makes it so code under the Blender Foundation copyright does
not use "all rights reserved". This is also how the GPL license itself
states how to apply it to the source code:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software ...
This change does not change copyright notice in cases when the copyright
is dual (BF and an author), or just an author of the code. It also does
mot change copyright which is inherited from NaN Holding BV as it needs
some further investigation about what is the proper way to handle it.
For example
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver()
{
}
```
becomes
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver() {}
```
Saves quite some vertical space, which is especially handy for
constructors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105594
Implements #102359.
Split the `MLoop` struct into two separate integer arrays called
`corner_verts` and `corner_edges`, referring to the vertex each corner
is attached to and the next edge around the face at each corner. These
arrays can be sliced to give access to the edges or vertices in a face.
Then they are often referred to as "poly_verts" or "poly_edges".
The main benefits are halving the necessary memory bandwidth when only
one array is used and simplifications from using regular integer indices
instead of a special-purpose struct.
The commit also starts a renaming from "loop" to "corner" in mesh code.
Like the other mesh struct of array refactors, forward compatibility is
kept by writing files with the older format. This will be done until 4.0
to ease the transition process.
Looking at a small portion of the patch should give a good impression
for the rest of the changes. I tried to make the changes as small as
possible so it's easy to tell the correctness from the diff. Though I
found Blender developers have been very inventive over the last decade
when finding different ways to loop over the corners in a face.
For performance, nearly every piece of code that deals with `Mesh` is
slightly impacted. Any algorithm that is memory bottle-necked should
see an improvement. For example, here is a comparison of interpolating
a vertex float attribute to face corners (Ryzen 3700x):
**Before** (Average: 3.7 ms, Min: 3.4 ms)
```
threading::parallel_for(loops.index_range(), 4096, [&](IndexRange range) {
for (const int64_t i : range) {
dst[i] = src[loops[i].v];
}
});
```
**After** (Average: 2.9 ms, Min: 2.6 ms)
```
array_utils::gather(src, corner_verts, dst);
```
That's an improvement of 28% to the average timings, and it's also a
simplification, since an index-based routine can be used instead.
For more examples using the new arrays, see the design task.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104424
This simplifies the usage of the API and is preparation for #104478.
The `CustomData_add_layer` and `CustomData_add_layer_named` now have corresponding
`*_with_data` functions that should be used when creating the layer from existing data.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105708
Refactoring mesh code, it has become clear that local cleanups and
simplifications are limited by the need to keep a C public API for
mesh functions. This change makes code more obvious and makes further
refactoring much easier.
- Add a new `BKE_mesh.hh` header for a C++ only mesh API
- Introduce a new `blender::bke::mesh` namespace, documented here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/Mesh#Namespaces
- Move some functions to the new namespace, cleaning up their arguments
- Move code to `Array` and `float3` where necessary to use the new API
- Define existing inline mesh data access functions to the new header
- Keep some C API functions where necessary because of RNA
- Move all C++ files to use the new header, which includes the old one
In the future it may make sense to split up `BKE_mesh.hh` more, but for
now keeping the same name as the existing header keeps things simple.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105416
Currently the shade smooth status for mesh faces is stored as part of
`MPoly::flag`. As described in #95967, this moves that information
to a separate boolean attribute. It also flips its status, so the
attribute is now called `sharp_face`, which mirrors the existing
`sharp_edge` attribute. The attribute doesn't need to be allocated
when all faces are smooth. Forward compatibility is kept until
4.0 like the other mesh refactors.
This will reduce memory bandwidth requirements for some operations,
since the array of booleans uses 12 times less memory than `MPoly`.
It also allows faces to be stored more efficiently in the future, since
the flag is now unused. It's also possible to use generic functions to
process the values. For example, finding whether there is a sharp face
is just `sharp_faces.contains(true)`.
The `shade_smooth` attribute is no longer accessible with geometry nodes.
Since there were dedicated accessor nodes for that data, that shouldn't
be a problem. That's difficult to version automatically since the named
attribute nodes could be used in arbitrary combinations.
**Implementation notes:**
- The attribute and array variables in the code use the `sharp_faces`
term, to be consistent with the user-facing "sharp faces" wording,
and to avoid requiring many renames when #101689 is implemented.
- Cycles now accesses smooth face status with the generic attribute,
to avoid overhead.
- Changing the zero-value from "smooth" to "flat" takes some care to
make sure defaults are the same.
- Versioning for the edge mode extrude node is particularly complex.
New nodes are added by versioning to propagate the attribute in its
old inverted state.
- A lot of access is still done through the `CustomData` API rather
than the attribute API because of a few functions. That can be
cleaned up easily in the future.
- In the future we would benefit from a way to store attributes as a
single value for when all faces are sharp.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104422
Similar to the previous commit, this simplifies future refactoring
to change the way edges are stored, and further differentiates
single poly variables from array pointers.
