With Vulkan now having general feature parity with OpenGL, but with
some stability issues, it has become more important to offer ways for
users to quickly launch Blender with the OpenGL or Vulkan backend
in case Blender is unable to open with one of them.
This commit adds three new batch files to help with this:
- `blender_factory_startup_vulkan.cmd`
- Launches Blender with factory settings, but with Vulkan enabled.
Useful for helping test if a Vulkan crash at startup is related to
a addon.
- `blender_startup_opengl.cmd`
- Simply launches Blender with the OpenGL backend. It does not change
any other settings. Useful in case a user has complex user
preferences, enabled Vulkan for testing, and now Blender crashes on
startup. Now they want to switch back to OpenGL and they don't want
to lose their complex user preferences by using
`blender_factory_startup.cmd`
- `blender_startup_vulkan.cmd`
- Simply launches Blender with the Vulkan backend. It does not change
any other settings. Useful for people that encounter #127835 after
a Windows update. This issue can be worked around by using Vulkan.
But if you are experiencing the issue and are on the OpenGL
backend, you can't use the Blender interface and so you can't
easily switch to the Vulkan backend without the command line
or a script like this.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142169
* Add own simple logging system to replace glog, which is no longer
maintained by Google.
* When building in Blender, integrate with CLOG and print all messages
through that system instead.
* --log cycles now replaces --debug-cycles. The latter still works but
is no longer documented.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
We are now able to make antialiased mouse cursors at any size directly
from SVG sources. Therefore there is no need for the platform-specific
"cur" versions of these cursors. This removes the work required in
duplicating the cursors in this format. Otherwise the results should be
identical.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141309
Enable VK loader debug messages when running blender_debug_gpu_*
scripts.
Allows easier debugging for users not familiar with using terminal.
It won't log anything when using OpenGL.
Vulkan loading logging can be big (1000 lines) but gives a lot of insight
how vulkan and related applications are configured on the user system
Sadly it does contains actual paths but think it is OK as the user is still
responsible for uploading it in the tracker.
An example of a log has been attached.
See #135327.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135399
1 - Add an option to open up the fund.blender.org website at the end of
the install process.
2 - Use blender launcher to register blender in order to prevent a black
dialog box flashing onto the screen.
3- Since registering blender can take a bit, add a progress text during
registration
4- during installation on windows 10+ the installer displayed
`Copying new files File: [1], Directory: [9], Size [6]` fixed to just display
`Copying new files`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130762
Previously, logs from Windows bug-reporting scripts would include
a minimal level of messages from Blender itself due to the usage
of the default log level.
With this change, a new Cycles associated bug-reporting script
is now added with logging set to the maximum level, so all
debug details from the Blender application will be available
in the generated log file, which users can attach to bug reports.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130137
This allows the files to be re-used between x64 and amd64 builds
for Windows.
This adds 500 kilobyte of files, but they almost never change, they
are required for releases anyway, and having them in the repo solves
all sort of synchronization problems.
A new graphics is now used, as it was long requested by the UI and
release/PR team.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128588
Add multiple "hand" mouse cursors. These are mostly needed for Mac,
which needs open, close, and pointing hand cursors. This also adds
similar for Windows, but just for completeness and testing.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127164
- Move sys_info into an internal module to avoid having so many
top level modules for Blender's internal functionality.
- Rename system_info sub-modules that pre-fill URL's for clarity.
- Move top-level exception handling into the operator.
- Report an error if an unexpected exception occurs.
- Use `Exception` instead of `BaseException` as there is no reason to
catch the additional exceptions.
- Remove use of sys_info from the command line example,
replace with in-lined system info.
This commit adds a python script that can collect some of the
information necessary to fill out a bug report.
The primary use case is to help users collect system information for
a bug report in the case that Blender can't open.
CMD and sh files are included to help users use the Python script.
Ref !122191
VSE has three mouse cursors defined, WM_CURSOR_LEFT_HANDLE,
WM_CURSOR_RIGHT_HANDLE, and WM_CURSOR_BOTH_HANDLES that are currently
always using our default cursor format. This format works on all
platforms but does not support multiple sizes or antialiasing. This
PR makes these use custom cursors (created by Pablo Vazquez) on the
Windows platform.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125252
This makes a change to the debug scripts to make it easier for both
users and those tending to the issue tracker by setting Blender's
temporary directory location to the debug logs location
The is necessary because while the debug output and the system
information file go to %temp%\blender\debug_logs, the crash text file
does not. We then have to spend additional time asking the user to go
fetch it from the other location. Now the crash file ends up in the same
place.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116882
This updates the libraries dependencies for VFX platform 2023, and adds various
new libraries. It also enables Python bindings and switches from static to
shared for various libraries.
The precompiled libraries for all platforms will be updated to these new
versions in the coming weeks.
New:
Fribidi 1.0.12
Harfbuzz 5.1.0
MaterialX 1.38.6 (shared lib with python bindings)
Minizipng 3.0.7
Pybind11 2.10.1
Shaderc 2022.3
Vulkan 1.2.198
Updated:
Boost 1.8.0 (shared lib)
Cython 0.29.30
Numpy 1.23.2
OpenColorIO 2.2.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenImageIO 2.4.6.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OpenSubdiv 3.5.0
OpenVDB 10.0.0 (shared lib with python bindings)
OSL 1.12.7.1 (enable nvptx backend)
TBB (shared lib)
USD 22.11 (shared lib with python bindings, enable hydra)
yaml-cpp 0.8.0
Includes contributions by Ray Molenkamp, Brecht Van Lommel, Georgiy Markelov
and Campbell Barton.
Ref T99618
Instead of the the same folder as the Blender executable, generate a manifest
that lets us move the libraries out of the way of users and into a separate
folder.
Ref T99618
With this change Blender, delivered via the Microsoft store, will launch without the console window flashing.
Ref T88613
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16589
"Fix" should be taken with a grain of salt, this will fix
the issue on win10 1903 and newer.
OpenVDB uses boosts memory mapped files which call
CreateFileA in the back-end when you feed it a
regular string.
now the encoding for CreateFileA will be whatever the
default is for the system, it internally turns it into
a wide string with said encoding and calls CreateFileW.
This change changes that encoding to UTF-8 for just
blender so we can use utf-8 with any of the narrow
api functions. This is a manifest change and only win10
1903 will look for it, so that sadly limits the fix
to only a subset of users.
While ideally we would have fixed the issue our selves,
some of the calls to openvdb::io::file::open are beyond
our control (ie from inside USD or Mantaflow)
Note: This only changes the behaviour in regard to Win32
API functions, regular CRT functions like fopen or if_stream will
still not accept utf-8 filenames.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14981
Reviewed by: brecht
Removing scripts that were placed in the source tree that would drive
the old buildbot. With the new buildbot in place these scripts aren't
being used anymore.
The buildbit is currently driven by
`build_files/config/pipeline_config.json`. In the near future make
update would also use this config.
Overview of the new buildbot: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Infrastructure/BuildBot
Work done by James Monteath.
For 2.93 we bumped the minimum windows requirement
to windows 8.1, but did not do any clean-up of any
win 8/8.1 API usage we dynamically accessed though
LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress.
This patch bumps _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0603 (win 8.1)
and cleans up any API use that was accessed in a
more convoluted way than necessary
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11331
Reviewed by: harley, nicholas_rishel
This extends the "blender_debug_gpu.bat" batch file to also be useful for triaging Cycles
problems. OptiX initialization errors or problem while iterating CUDA devices are only
logged when the `--debug-cycles` flag is specified, so adding that here.
Reviewed By: brecht, LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10167
Fixed an issue that was causing the app icon to render with a
'plated' background color in the taskbar and other areas of Windows.
Updated all app icons in Microsoft Store package to match Microsoft's
design recommendations.
Added multiple scales for app icons for high resolution displays.
Added high contrast app icons.
Reviewed By: pablovazquez, jmonteath
Maniphest Tasks: T79356
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9681
Fixed an issue that was causing the app icon to render with a
'plated' background color in the taskbar and other areas of Windows.
Updated all app icons in Microsoft Store package to match Microsoft's
design recommendations.
Added multiple scales for app icons for high resolution displays.
Added high contrast app icons.
Reviewed By: pablovazquez, jmonteath
Maniphest Tasks: T79356
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9681
Script create_msix_package.py will download the ZIP file
from the given URL. It will create the MSIX package
with the version number and publisher ID given.
Strongly recommended are the path to a valid PFX file, and the
password to use that PFX file. These are needed for signing
the resulting MSIX package. The signing step is optional though,
but the resulting MSIX package cannot be installed outside of the
Microsoft Store
Example
set VERSION=2.83.2.0
set URL=https://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.83/blender-2.83.2-windows64.zip
set PUBID=CN=PUBIDHERE
set PFX=X:\path\to\cert.pfx
set PFXPW=pwhere
python create_msix_package.py --version %VERSION% --url %URL% --publisher %PUBID% --pfx %PFX% --password %PFXPW%
Requirements:
* Python default from the Microsoft Store should do (3.8)
* requests can be installed with `pip install requests`
Note that for an LTS release that gets uploaded to its own LTS application release
in the store you need to specify the `--lts` switch on the command-line to the script.
Upon completion there will be a file with the
name blender-2.83.2.0-windows64.msix. In case PFX file and its password were
given on the command line MSIX package will also be signed for the Microsoft Store.
Related Wiki page: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Process/Release_On_Windows_Store
Reviewed By: jbakker
Maniphest Tasks: T77348, T79356
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8310
NOTE: While most of the milestone 1 goals are there, a few smaller features and
improvements are still to be done.
Big picture of this milestone: Initial, OpenXR-based virtual reality support
for users and foundation for advanced use cases.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T71347
The tasks contains more information about this milestone.
To be clear: This is not a feature rich VR implementation, it's focused on the
initial scene inspection use case. We intentionally focused on that, further
features like controller support are part of the next milestone.
- How to use?
Instructions on how to use this are here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/How_to_Test
These will be updated and moved to a more official place (likely the manual) soon.
Currently Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus devices are usable. Valve/HTC
headsets don't support the OpenXR standard yet and hence, do not work with this
implementation.
---------------
This is the C-side implementation of the features added for initial VR
support as per milestone 1. A "VR Scene Inspection" Add-on will be
committed separately, to expose the VR functionality in the UI. It also
adds some further features for milestone 1, namely a landmarking system
(stored view locations in the VR space)
Main additions/features:
* Support for rendering viewports to an HMD, with good performance.
* Option to sync the VR view perspective with a fully interactive,
regular 3D View (VR-Mirror).
* Option to disable positional tracking. Keeps the current position (calculated
based on the VR eye center pose) when enabled while a VR session is running.
* Some regular viewport settings for the VR view
* RNA/Python-API to query and set VR session state information.
* WM-XR: Layer tying Ghost-XR to the Blender specific APIs/data
* wmSurface API: drawable, non-window container (manages Ghost-OpenGL and GPU
context)
* DNA/RNA for management of VR session settings
* `--debug-xr` and `--debug-xr-time` commandline options
* Utility batch & config file for using the Oculus runtime on Windows.
* Most VR data is runtime only. The exception is user settings which are saved
to files (`XrSessionSettings`).
* VR support can be disabled through the `WITH_XR_OPENXR` compiler flag.
For architecture and code documentation, see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/XR.
---------------
A few thank you's:
* A huge shoutout to Ray Molenkamp for his help during the project - it would
have not been that successful without him!
* Sebastian Koenig and Simeon Conzendorf for testing and feedback!
* The reviewers, especially Brecht Van Lommel!
* Dalai Felinto for pushing and managing me to get this done ;)
* The OpenXR working group for providing an open standard. I think we're the
first bigger application to adopt OpenXR. Congratulations to them and
ourselves :)
This project started as a Google Summer of Code 2019 project - "Core Support of
Virtual Reality Headsets through OpenXR" (see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/).
Some further information, including ideas for further improvements can be found
in the final GSoC report:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/Final_Report
Differential Revisions: D6193, D7098
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Jeroen Bakker
In older versions the ms crt was only a few dlls, in recent versions
this jumped to over 40 leading to quite a bit of clutter in our
bin folder.
This change moves the CRT into its own folder.
For developers that generally already have the runtime globaly
available on their machine, there is a new cmake option
(WITH_WINDOWS_BUNDLE_CRT, default ON) that you can use to toggle
installing the runtime to the blender bin folder, and save some
time during the initial build, this option is off by default for
only the developer profile.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6132
We had a manifest file, but it was seemingly not used, some
settings were done using linker pragmas, some of them visual
studio would set by default for us, others where not set at all.
This patch changes:
- Single manifest file where we can maintain all settings in
a single location, removal of any linker pragmas related to
the manifest.
- Compatibly settings for win vista - win10, without this any
call to any of the GetVersion and related functions (GetVersionEx,
VerifyVersionInfo, IsWindowsXxxx) will by default say we are
on vista and OS specific optimizations in external libraries may
be missed.
-Rather than having it in the .RC file in an #ifdef which may
or may not trigger depending on the build tool used, we tell
cmake to treat it as a source file and it will do the right
thing for both the ninja and visual studio generators.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6136
Reviewers: brecht
Changes to cursors that can be used for painting and sculpting.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5951
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
* Add more standard cursor types, that platforms can optionally support.
* Remove a few unused cursor types that were not properly supported and
would show the wrong cursor when used.
* Add native cursor files for Windows. These scale well with DPI and have
anti-aliasing. Designed by Duarte Farrajota Ramos.
Ref D5197
Previously this was done in the deps builder due to the fact we needed
both 32 and 64 bit versions of this dll and CMAKE does not support that
in a single build folder. Now that 32 bit support has been dropped, this
can be safely moved into the codebase.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5633
The PYTHONPATH environment variable sometimes causes issues,
clearing it in the helper batch files is easier than talking
every user individually though the process of removing it
to see if it resolves the issue they are having.
Unify all desktop icons on Mac, Win and Linux to fit with the correct, updated brand guidelines here: https://www.blender.org/about/logo/
This is using :
PANTONE 716 C = #EA7600 (RGB 234 118 0)
PANTONE 647 C = #236192 (RGB 35 97 146)
Thanks to Yevgeny Makarov (jenkm) for compiling this icon update.
See T63623
