Current index builder is designed to be used in a single thread.
This makes all index buffer extractions single threaded.
This patch adds a thread safe solution enabling multithreaded
building of index buffers.
To reduce locking the solution would provide a task/thread local
index buffer builder (called sub builder).
When a thread is finished this thread local index buffer builder
can be joined with the initial index buffer builder.
`GPU_indexbuf_subbuilder_init`: Initialized a sub builder. The
index list is shared between the parent and sub buffer, but the
counters are localized. Ensuring that updating counters would
not need any locking.
`GPU_indexbuf_subbuilder_finish`: merge the information of the
sub builder back to the parent builder. Needs to be invoked outside
the worker thread, or when sure that all worker threads have been
finished. Internal the function is not thread safe.
For testing purposes the extract_points extractor has been migrated to
the new API. Herefore changes to the mesh extractor were needed.
* When creating tasks, the task number of current task is stored in
ExtractTaskData including the total number of tasks.
* Adding two functions in `MeshExtract`.
** `task_init` will initialize the task specific userdata.
** `task_finish` should merge back the task specific userdata back.
* adding task_id parameter to the iteration functions so they can
access the correct task data without any need for locking.
There is no noticeable change in end user performance.
Reviewed By: mano-wii
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11499
draw_cache_extract_mesh for task scheduling. Will be refactored to draw_cache_extract_mesh_scheduling later on after migrating to CPP.
draw_cache_extract_mesh_render_data extraction of mesh render data from edit mesh/mesh into a more generic structure.
draw_cache_extract_mesh_extractors containing all the extractors. This will be split up further into a single file per extractor.
This patch replaces / redoes the entire MeshExtractors system.
Although they were useful and facilitated the addition of new buffers, they made it difficult to control the threads and added a lot of threading overhead.
Part of the problem was in traversing the same loop type in different threads. The concurrent access of the BMesh Elements slowed the reading.
This patch simplifies the use of threads by merging all the old callbacks from the extracts into a single series of iteration functions.
The type of extraction can be chosen using flags.
This optimized the process by around 34%.
Initial idea and implementation By @mano-wii.
Fine-tuning, cleanup by @atmind.
MASTER:
large_mesh_editing:
- rdata 9ms iter 50ms (frame 155ms)
- Average: 6.462874 FPS
PATCH:
large_mesh_editing:
- rdata 9ms iter 34ms (frame 136ms)
- Average: 7.379491 FPS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11425
Reuse loose geometry during selection (and other operations) from
previous calculation. Loose geometry stays the same, but was
recalculated to determine the size of GPU buffers. This patch would
reuse the previous loose geometry when geometry wasn't changed.
Although not the main bottleneck during selection it is measurable.
Master.
`rdata 46ms iter 55ms (frame 410ms)`
This patch.
`rdata 5ms iter 52ms (frame 342ms)`
Reviewed By: mano-wii
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11339
This was caused by unsafe sqrt calls.
Fixes T86578 white artifacts in EEVEE
Reviewed By: brecht, dfelinto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11428
This patch will use compute shaders to create the VBO for hair.
The previous implementation uses transform feedback.
Timings before: between 0.000069s and 0.000362s.
Timings after: between 0.000032s and 0.000092s.
Speedup isn't noticeable by end-users. The patch is used to test
the new compute shader pipeline and integrate it with the draw
manager. Allowing EEVEE, Workbench and other draw engines to
use compute shaders with the introduction of `DRW_shgroup_call_compute`
and `DRW_shgroup_vertex_buffer`.
Future improvements are possible by generating the index buffer
of hair directly on the GPU.
NOTE: that compute shaders aren't supported by Apple and still use
the transform feedback workaround.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11057
This patch adds relatively small changes to the curve draw
cache implementation in order to draw the curve data in the
viewport. The dependency graph iterator is also modified
so that it iterates over the curve geometry component, which
is presented to users as `Curve` data with a pointer to the
`CurveEval`
The idea with the spline data type in geometry nodes is that
curve data itself is only the control points, and any evaluated
data with faces is a mesh. That is mostly expected elsewhere in
Blender anyway. This means it's only necessary to implement
wire edge drawing of `CurveEval` data.
Adding a `CurveEval` pointer to `Curve` is in line with changes
I'd like to make in the future like using `CurveEval` in more places
such as edit mode.
An alternate solution involves converting the curve wire data
to a mesh, however, that requires copying all of the data, and
since avoiding it is rather simple and is in-line with future plans
anyway, I think doing it this way is better.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11351
This reverts commit 8f9599d17e.
Mac seems to have an error with this change.
```
ERROR: /Users/blender/git/blender-vdev/blender.git/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_hair.c:115:44: error: use of undeclared identifier 'shader_src'
ERROR: /Users/blender/git/blender-vdev/blender.git/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_hair.c:123:13: error: use of undeclared identifier 'shader_src'
ERROR: make[2]: *** [source/blender/draw/CMakeFiles/bf_draw.dir/intern/draw_hair.c.o] Error 1
ERROR: make[1]: *** [source/blender/draw/CMakeFiles/bf_draw.dir/all] Error 2
ERROR: make: *** [all] Error 2
```
This patch will use compute shaders to create the VBO for hair.
The previous implementation uses tranform feedback.
Timings master (transform feedback with GPU_USAGE_STATIC between 0.000069s and 0.000362s
Timings transform feedback with GPU_USAGE_DEVICE_ONLY. between 0.000057s and 0.000122s
Timings compute shader between 0.000032 and 0.000092s
Future improvements:
* Generate hair Index buffer using compute shaders: currently done single threaded on CPU, easy to add as compute shader.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11057
With the compute pipeline calculation can be offloaded to the GPU.
This patch only adds the framework for compute. So no changes for users at
this moment.
NOTE: As this is an OpenGL4.3 feature it must always have a fallback.
Use `GPU_compute_shader_support` to check if compute pipeline can be used.
Check `gpu_shader_compute*` test cases for usage.
This patch also adds support for shader storage buffer objects and device only
vertex/index buffers.
An alternative that had been discussed was adding this to the `GPUBatch`, this
was eventually not chosen as it would lead to more code when used as part of a
shading group. The idea is that we add an `eDRWCommandType` in the near
future.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10913
Colors are often thought of as being 4 values that make up that can make any color.
But that is of course too limited. In C we didn’t spend time to annotate what we meant
when using colors.
Recently `BLI_color.hh` was made to facilitate color structures in CPP. CPP has possibilities to
enforce annotating structures during compilation and can adds conversions between them using
function overloading and explicit constructors.
The storage structs can hold 4 channels (r, g, b and a).
Usage:
Convert a theme byte color to a linearrgb premultiplied.
```
ColorTheme4b theme_color;
ColorSceneLinear4f<eAlpha::Premultiplied> linearrgb_color =
BLI_color_convert_to_scene_linear(theme_color).premultiply_alpha();
```
The API is structured to make most use of inlining. Most notable are space
conversions done via `BLI_color_convert_to*` functions.
- Conversions between spaces (theme <=> scene linear) should always be done by
invoking the `BLI_color_convert_to*` methods.
- Encoding colors (compressing to store colors inside a less precision storage)
should be done by invoking the `encode` and `decode` methods.
- Changing alpha association should be done by invoking `premultiply_alpha` or
`unpremultiply_alpha` methods.
# Encoding.
Color encoding is used to store colors with less precision as in using `uint8_t` in
stead of `float`. This encoding is supported for `eSpace::SceneLinear`.
To make this clear to the developer the `eSpace::SceneLinearByteEncoded`
space is added.
# Precision
Colors can be stored using `uint8_t` or `float` colors. The conversion
between the two precisions are available as methods. (`to_4b` and
`to_4f`).
# Alpha conversion
Alpha conversion is only supported in SceneLinear space.
Extending:
- This file can be extended with `ColorHex/Hsl/Hsv` for different representations
of rgb based colors. `ColorHsl4f<eSpace::SceneLinear, eAlpha::Premultiplied>`
- Add non RGB spaces/storages ColorXyz.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10978
Colors are often thought of as being 4 values that make up that can make any color.
But that is of course too limited. In C we didn’t spend time to annotate what we meant
when using colors.
Recently `BLI_color.hh` was made to facilitate color structures in CPP. CPP has possibilities to
enforce annotating structures during compilation and can adds conversions between them using
function overloading and explicit constructors.
The storage structs can hold 4 channels (r, g, b and a).
Usage:
Convert a theme byte color to a linearrgb premultiplied.
```
ColorTheme4b theme_color;
ColorSceneLinear4f<eAlpha::Premultiplied> linearrgb_color =
BLI_color_convert_to_scene_linear(theme_color).premultiply_alpha();
```
The API is structured to make most use of inlining. Most notable are space
conversions done via `BLI_color_convert_to*` functions.
- Conversions between spaces (theme <=> scene linear) should always be done by
invoking the `BLI_color_convert_to*` methods.
- Encoding colors (compressing to store colors inside a less precision storage)
should be done by invoking the `encode` and `decode` methods.
- Changing alpha association should be done by invoking `premultiply_alpha` or
`unpremultiply_alpha` methods.
# Encoding.
Color encoding is used to store colors with less precision as in using `uint8_t` in
stead of `float`. This encoding is supported for `eSpace::SceneLinear`.
To make this clear to the developer the `eSpace::SceneLinearByteEncoded`
space is added.
# Precision
Colors can be stored using `uint8_t` or `float` colors. The conversion
between the two precisions are available as methods. (`to_4b` and
`to_4f`).
# Alpha conversion
Alpha conversion is only supported in SceneLinear space.
Extending:
- This file can be extended with `ColorHex/Hsl/Hsv` for different representations
of rgb based colors. `ColorHsl4f<eSpace::SceneLinear, eAlpha::Premultiplied>`
- Add non RGB spaces/storages ColorXyz.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10978
I'd like to use this file to draw curves from geometry nodes, which
would otherwise require implementing a C API. The changes in this
commit are minimal, mostly just casts and changing to nullptr.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11350
