Add-ons may attempt to load the GPU module in background mode when no GPU
context has been initialized yet. This would give an error on import.
If then later the GPU context does get initialized, for example for a
render engine, import would still fail as the module is cached.
This reverts commit d7f124f06f, and again
throws errors in methods and constructors instead of module import.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123395
Add a `.data<T>()` method that retrieves a mutable span. This is useful
more and more as we change to filling in vertex buffer data arrays
directly, and compared to raw pointers it's safer too because of asserts
in debug builds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123338
Compute shaders are required since 4.0. There was one occasion where
an older AMD driver failed and support was turned off. This driver
is now marked unsupported.
This PR includes:
- removing the check in viewport compositing
- remove properties from system info
- always construct draw manager.
- remove unused pass logic in draw hair/curves
- add deprecation warning when accessed from python
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120909
Now that all relevant code is C++, the indirection from the C struct
`GPUVertBuf` to the C++ `blender::gpu::VertBuf` class just adds
complexity and necessitates a wrapper API, making more cleanups like
use of RAII or other C++ types more difficult.
This commit replaces the C wrapper structs with direct use of the
vertex and index buffer base classes. In C++ we can choose which parts
of a class are private, so we don't risk exposing too many
implementation details here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119825
This patch adds the maximum number of supported image units to the GPU
capabilities module. Currently, the GPU module assume a maximum of 8
units, so the patch is not currently particularly useful, but we can
consider committing it for the future anyways.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119057
Calls to `gpu.types.GPUBatch.draw#program` without a program parameter,
or a None as value of the program parameter now raises a deprecation warning.
Implements #103978
Performing an off-screen draw call while drawing the viewport isn't
supported, add a check that raises an exception when called from Python
instead of crashing.
Ref: !118780
* For materials with UDIM tiles support, get array and mapping in one call
* For viewers that can use render results, add a dedicated function
* Fix potential use of render results in stencil overlay and grease pencil
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117563
Exceptions:
* Links to personal wiki pages
* Pages that are not in the new developer docs yet (like Human Interface Guidelines)
* tools\check_wiki\check_wiki_file_structure.py needs a refactor
Along with the 4.1 libraries upgrade, we are bumping the clang-format
version from 8-12 to 17. This affects quite a few files.
If not already the case, you may consider pointing your IDE to the
clang-format binary bundled with the Blender precompiled libraries.
This patch adds an alternative path for devices/OSs
which do not support native texture atomics in Metal.
Support is encapsulated within the backend, ensuring
any allocated texture with the USAGE_ATOMIC flag is
allocated with a backing buffer, upon which atomic
operations happen.
The shader generation is also changed for the atomic
case, which instructs the backend to insert additional
buffer bind-points for the buffer resource. As Metal
also only supports buffer-backed textures for
textureBuffers or 2D textures, TextureArrays and
3D textures are emulated within a 2D texture, with
sample locations being indirected.
All usage of atomic textures MUST now utilise the
correct atomic texture types in the high level shader
and GPUShaderCreateInfo declarations.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115956
Due to changes in the build environment shader_builder wasn't able to
compile on macOs. This patch reverts several recent changes to CMake files.
* dbb2844ed9
* 94817f64b9
* 1b6cd937ff
The idea is that in the near future shader_builder will run on the buildbot as
part of any regular build to ensure that changes to the CMake doesn't break
shader_builder and we only detect it after a few days.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115929
Motivation: When discussing with @Jeroen-Bakker and @aras_p about how to
approach sorting when rendering Gaussian splats in Blender, we realised that
compute shaders could help there (and have many other use cases), and that also
due to Blender 4.0 being on OpenGL >= 4.3, we can now rely on compute shaders
existing.
This PR is an initial pass for that functionality. It comes with a Python example, which
runs a compute shader and saves the output to a texture, which is then rendered in the
viewport.
There is no exposed support for storage buffers yet, but I expect I'll be able to work on
them soon if this is accepted.
The newly added parts are:
1. `gpu.compute.dispatch()`
2. a way set the compute source to `GPUShaderCreateInfo`: `shader_info.compute_source()`
3. a way to set the image store for `GPUShaderCreateInfo`: `shader_info.image()`
4. a way to set the `local_group_size` for `GPUShaderCreateInfo`: `shader_info.local_group_size(x,y,z)`
5. a way to get `max_work_group_size` from capabilities: `gpu.capabilities.max_work_group_size_get(index)`
6. a way to get `max_work_group_count` from capabilities: `gpu.capabilities.max_work_group_count_get(index)`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114238
Some of these devices are not capable of running >=4.0, due to issues
with Mesa's Compute Shaders and their D3D drivers.
This PR marks those GPUs as unsupported, and prints info to stdout.
A driver update will be available for 8cx Gen3 on the 17th October
from here:
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/mobile/snapdragon/pcs-and-tablets/snapdragon-8-series-mobile-compute-platforms/snapdragon-8cx-gen-3-compute-platform#Software
It will take longer via the standard MS Windows Update channels,
as there is certification, testing, etc required, but it is possible
to get the drivers, at least.
This issue applies even when using emulated x64.
If this does not get merged, all WoA devices will break with 4.0,
where older ones will just launch a grey screen and crash, and newer
ones will open, but scenes will not render correctly in Workbench.
These devices work by using Mesa's D3D12 Gallium driver ("GLOn12"),
which is why we have to read the DirectX driver version - the version
reported by OpenGL is the mesa version, which is independent of the
driver (which is the part with the bug).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113674
Blender 4.0 requires OpenGL 4.3 which always support SSBO's.
Platforms that don't support enough SSBO bind points will be marked
as unsupported.
Users who start Blender on those platforms will be informed via a
dialog. This PR also updates the `--debug-gpu-force-workarounds`
to match our minimum requirements. Note that some bugs are still
there that should be solved in other PRs:
* Workbench only renders the object using a unit matrix this is because
there is a bug in the workaround for shader_draw_parameters
* Navigating with middle mouse button is not working. Unsure what the
cause is, but might be a missing feature check in the OpenGL backend.
Related to #112224
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112572
Enables performance optimizations and new rendering
features through allowing colour attachments to be
tagged with a rasterization order group. This means that
all accesses to the same pixel location are guaranteed
to happen in submission order.
This lays the ground work for tile-based architecture
optimizations, enabling additional features for
deferred rendering which allow subsequent passes
which operate on pixel data to occur in order, while
memory remains on-tile.
This patch allows fragment outputs to be tagged
with a raster order group and also adds a new
FragmentTileIn parameter to a shader, which allows
speciication of incoming parameters from a previous
draw.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111748
- Account for new member in _PyArg_Parser.
- Many Python op-codes have been removed.
For the moment these are disabled in is_opcode_secure.
Some should be added back as intrinsics, noted in code-comments.
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
