Design Documents
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* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/Layers
* https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/DataDesignRevised
User Commit Log
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* New Layer and Collection system to replace render layers and viewport layers.
* A layer is a set of collections of objects (and their drawing options) required for specific tasks.
* A collection is a set of objects, equivalent of the old layers in Blender. A collection can be shared across multiple layers.
* All Scenes have a master collection that all other collections are children of.
* New collection "context" tab (in Properties Editor)
* New temporary viewport "collections" panel to control per-collection
visibility
Missing User Features
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* Collection "Filter"
Option to add objects based on their names
* Collection Manager operators
The existing buttons are placeholders
* Collection Manager drawing
The editor main region is empty
* Collection Override
* Per-Collection engine settings
This will come as a separate commit, as part of the clay-engine branch
Dev Commit Log
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* New DNA file (DNA_layer_types.h) with the new structs
We are replacing Base by a new extended Base while keeping it backward
compatible with some legacy settings (i.e., lay, flag_legacy).
Renamed all Base to BaseLegacy to make it clear the areas of code that
still need to be converted
Note: manual changes were required on - deg_builder_nodes.h, rna_object.c, KX_Light.cpp
* Unittesting for main syncronization requirements
- read, write, add/copy/remove objects, copy scene, collection
link/unlinking, context)
* New Editor: Collection Manager
Based on patch by Julian Eisel
This is extracted from the layer-manager branch. With the following changes:
- Renamed references of layer manager to collections manager
- I doesn't include the editors/space_collections/ draw and util files
- The drawing code itself will be implemented separately by Julian
* Base / Object:
A little note about them. Original Blender code would try to keep them
in sync through the code, juggling flags back and forth. This will now
be handled by Depsgraph, keeping Object and Bases more separated
throughout the non-rendering code.
Scene.base is being cleared in doversion, and the old viewport drawing
code was poorly converted to use the new bases while the new viewport
code doesn't get merged and replace the old one.
Python API Changes
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```
- scene.layers
+ # no longer exists
- scene.objects
+ scene.scene_layers.active.objects
- scene.objects.active
+ scene.render_layers.active.objects.active
- bpy.context.scene.objects.link()
+ bpy.context.scene_collection.objects.link()
- bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, use_active_layer=True, name=None)
+ bpy_extras.object_utils.object_data_add(context, obdata, operator=None, name=None)
- bpy.context.object.select
+ bpy.context.object.select = True
+ bpy.context.object.select = False
+ bpy.context.object.select_get()
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='SELECT')
+ bpy.context.object.select_set(action='DESELECT')
-AddObjectHelper.layers
+ # no longer exists
```
This reverts commit 5aa19be912 and b4a721af69.
Due to postponement of particle system rewrite it was decided to put particle code
back into the 2.8 branch for the time being.
In addition to pack of conflicts listed below, also had to comment out particle part of new Alembic code... :/
Conflicts:
intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_WindowWin32.cpp
source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_effect.h
source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_pointcache.h
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/cloth.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/depsgraph.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/dynamicpaint.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/effect.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/particle_system.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/pointcache.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/rigidbody.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/smoke.c
source/blender/blenkernel/intern/softbody.c
source/blender/depsgraph/intern/builder/deg_builder_relations.cc
source/blender/gpu/intern/gpu_debug.c
source/blender/makesdna/DNA_object_types.h
source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_particle.c
All in all, this patch adds an Alembic importer, an Alembic exporter,
and a new CacheFile data block which, for now, wraps around an Alembic
archive. This data block is made available through a new modifier ("Mesh
Sequence Cache") as well as a new constraint ("Transform Cache") to
somewhat properly support respectively geometric and transformation data
streaming from alembic caches.
A more in-depth documentation is to be found on the wiki, as well as a
guide to compile alembic: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/
User:Kevindietrich/AlembicBasicIo.
Many thanks to everyone involved in this little project, and huge shout
out to "cgstrive" for the thorough testings with Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini
and Realflow as well as @fjuhec, @jensverwiebe and @jasperge for the
custom builds and compile fixes.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2060
Applying cflags globally can be problematic especially with extern, intern libs.
Now flags from target named will be used when defined,
allowing for developers to define flags for modules they maintain.
Convention is CMAKE_CFLAGS_${UPPERCASE_TARGET_NAME}, (CXXFLAGS for C++).
eg: CMAKE_CFLAGS_BF_BLENDER, CMAKE_CFLAGS_MAKESDNA, CMAKE_CXXFLAGS_CYCLES_KERNEL
On Linux run `make help` for full list of names, MSVC shows these in the solution.
Since SDNA was allocated for each undo step,
the new address meant it was considered different and included again.
Add an option not to duplicate the DNA string when calling DNA_sdna_from_data,
as well as avoiding a redundant copy, it writes the same address each time.
This was causing alignment issues which were only visible on a platform
of particular bitness, so it was easy to break stuff for 32bit when
working on 64bit platform and vice versa.
924c626 broke loading on systems with different endian.
We could support reading values from SDNA, it isn't really worth the extra hassle.
Long support is still removed, just keep enum values the same.
While SCons building system was serving us really good for ages it's no longer
having much attention by the developers and started to become quite a difficult
task to maintain.
What's even worse -- there started to be quite serious divergence between SCons
and CMake which was only accumulating over the releases now. The fact that none
of the active developers are really using SCons and that our main studio is also
using CMake spotting bugs in the SCons builds became quite a difficult task and
we aren't always spotting them in time.
Meanwhile CMake became really mature building system which is available on every
platform we support and arguably it's also easier and more robust to use.
This commit includes:
- Removal of actual SCons building system
- Removal of SCons git submodule
- Removal of documentation which is stored in the sources and covers SCons
- Tweaks to the buildbot master to stop using SCons submodule
(this change requires deploying to the server)
- Tweaks to the install dependencies script to skip installing or mentioning
SCons building system
- Tweaks to various helper scripts to avoid mention of SCons folders/files
as well
Reviewers: mont29, dingto, dfelinto, lukastoenne, lukasstockner97, brecht, Severin, merwin, aligorith, psy-fi, campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1680
This patch is the root of the GHash rework, all other diff will be based on it:
Reduce average load from 3.0 to 0.75
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This is the big performance booster part, e.g. makes tracing a dyntopo stroke between 25% and 30% faster.
Not much to say about it, aside that it obviously increase memory footprint (about 25% - 30% too).
Add optional shrinking
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I.e. ghashes/gsets can now shrink their buckets array when you remove enough entries. This remains optional and OFF by default.
Add code to use masking instead of modulo
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Buckets indices are obtained from hashes by “reducing” the hash value into the valid bucket range. This can be done either by bit-masking, or using modulo operation.
The former is quicker, but requires real hashes, while the later is slower (average 10% impact on ghash operations) but can also be used as a 'fake' hashing on raw values, like e.g. indices.
In Blender currently not all ghash usages actually hash their keys, so we stick to modulo for now (masking is ifdef’ed out), we may however investigate the benefits of switching to masking with systematic very basic hashing later…
Add various missing API helpers
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I.e. a way to deep-copy a ghash/gset, and a way to (re-)reserve entries (i.e. manually grow or shrink the ghash after its creation).
Various code refactoring
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* Get rid of the 'hack' regarding ghash size when used as gset (it’s simpler and safer to have two structs defined here, and cast pointers as needed).
* Various re-shuffle and factorization in low-level internal code.
* Some work on hashing helpers, introducing some murmur2a-based hashing too.
Thanks a bunch to Campbell for the extensive review work. :)
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Subscribers: psy-fi, lukastoenne
Projects: #bf_blender
Maniphest Tasks: T43766
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1178
This commit introduces a few ready made effects for the 3D viewport
and OpenGL rendering.
Included effects are Depth of Field, accessible from camera view
and screen space ambient occlusion. Those effects can be turned on and
tweaked from the shading panel in the 3D viewport.
Off screen rendering will use the settings of the current camera.
WIP documentation can be found here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Psy-Fi/Framebuffer_Post-processing
