The actual code is a bit convoluted but allows good and "pseudo efficient"
drawing. (pseudo efficient because rendering instances with that amount of
vertices is really inneficient. We should go full procedural but need to
have bufferTexture implemented first) But drawing speed is not a bottleneck
here and it's already a million time less crappy than the old (2.79) immediate
mode method.
Instead of drawing actual wires with different width we render a triangle
fan batch (containing 3 fans: bone, head, tail) which is then oriented in
screen space to the bone direction. We then interpolate a float value
accross vertices giving us a nice blend factor to blend the colors and
gives us really smooth interpolation inside the bone.
The outside edge still being geometry will be antialiased by MSAA if enabled.
In object mode, the axes are drawn like any other wire objects with
depth test and depth write. Thus enabling MSAA to work but not their xray
behaviour.
In edit armature/pose mode, draw smooth line without depth testing. This
produces wrong draw ordering problem but still gives the desired xray
behaviour. We do it outside of the MSAA pass since the xray behaviour is not
compatible with it. But we are drawing smoothed lines so no need for MSAA.
The lines are 2px thick and improve readability.
Now the axes are displayed correctly at the tip of the bone and with the
axes names.
I've made some modifications though:
- Axes are colored. (should not be in object mode but that's TODO)
- Axes ends are not flat arrows anymore. Replaced with a small diamond.
- Axes names are now scale by their respective axes instead of being
affected by other axes.
- Changed axes names "font" to be a bit more sexy.
This will enable us to do more nice stuff in future commits.
This commit is a temporary commit, it will compile but will crash if
trying to display any armature. Next commit does work.
For some we may add per object overrides, but for most we plan to keep them
strictly per viewport settings. Display settings from the mesh still need to
be moved here, only collections were done to remove that code.
The actual weighting calculation is not smooth as the bone display.
The bone itself can be smooth for esthetic purpose but the distance display
should match the underlying weighting formula.
Past shader was too slow and had bad artifacts. This method is much simpler
and eficient and only exhibit some popping when the raidus of the head/tail
is changed.
We now use a more pleasant and efficient way to display enveloppe bones
and their radius.
For this we use a capsule geometry that is displaced (in the vertex shader)
to a signed distance field that represents the bone shape.
The bone distance radius are now drawn in 3D using a "pseudo-fresnel" effect.
This gives a better understanding of what is inside the radius of influence.
When capsules are not needed, we switch to default raytraced points.
The capsules are not distorded by the bone's matrix (same as their actual
influence radius) and are correctly displayed even with complex scaled
parents hierarchy.
Here is how it works:
We render a high poly disc that we orient & scale towards the camera so that
it covers the same pixel of the sphere it's supposed to represent.
Then the pixel shader raytrace the sphere (effectively starting from
the poly disc depth) and outputs the depth to gl_FragDepth.
This approach has many benefit:
- high quality obviously: per pixel accurate depth!
- compatible with MSAA: since the sphere horizon is delimited by polygons,
we get the coverage computed by the rasterizer. However we still gets
aliasing if the sphere intersect directly other meshes.
- virtually no overdraw: there is no backface to shade but we still get
overdraw because by little triangle [gpus rasterize pixel by groups of 4].
- allows early depth test: since the poly disc is set at the nearest depth
we can output, we can use GL_ARB_conservative_depth to enable early depth
test and discard pixels that are already behind geometry.
- can draw outline pretty easily without geometry shader.
This fix the issue with the zfighting we were getting at bones edges.
Moreover, this enables us to render arbitrarly large outline with
varying thickness.
Because:
- Less redundancy.
- Better suffixes.
Also a few modification to GPU_texture_create_* to simplify the API:
- make the format explicit to the texture creation process.
- remove the component count as it's specified in the GPUTextureFormat.
- Disable VertexPaint and WeightPaint for OB_MATERIAL and OB_RENDER. Users want to see the final result
- When in OB_SOLID, the active object should be rendered without any color. The lighting information is multiplied with the VertexPaint/WeightPaint color
- Removed the use_shading flag from VertexPaint and WeightPaint
- add method to check if render engine should draw without color (DRW_object_in_only_lighting_mode)
Reviewers: fclem
Tags: #code_quest
Maniphest Tasks: T54894
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3191
Added Object Overlap Overlay
- Added R32UI support to GPU_framebuffer
- Added R32U support to draw manager
- The overlay mode has a object data pass that will render 'needed' data to specific buffers so we can mix them together via a deferred rendering. In future will also add UV's and other data
- Overlap is implemented as an overlay so it could be used on top of the Scene lighted Solid mode (that will be rendered by Eevee.
Reviewers: fclem, brecht
Reviewed By: fclem
Subscribers: sergey
Tags: #code_quest
Maniphest Tasks: T54726
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3174
- Added UInt R support to framebuffers
- Added the overlap as an overlay so should be reusable by other engines
(Scene lighted Solid mode)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3175