Instead of having two APIs (`find_layer_by_name` +
`find_layer_group_by_name`) replace them with a single API
`find_node_by_name`.
This returns a `TreeNode` but the caller can easily check if it's a
layer or a group.
Design task: #93551
This PR replaces the auto smooth option with a geometry nodes modifier
that sets the sharp edge attribute. This solves a fair number of long-
standing problems related to auto smooth, simplifies the process of
normal computation, and allows Blender to automatically choose between
face, vertex, and face corner normals based on the sharp edge and face
attributes.
Versioning adds a geometry node group to objects with meshes that had
auto-smooth enabled. The modifier can be applied, which also improves
performance.
Auto smooth is now unnecessary to get a combination of sharp and smooth
edges. In general workflows are changed a bit. Separate procedural and
destructive workflows are available. Custom normals can be used
immediately without turning on the removed auto smooth option.
**Procedural**
The node group asset "Smooth by Angle" is the main way to set sharp
normals based on the edge angle. It can be accessed directly in the add
modifier menu. Of course the modifier can be reordered, muted, or
applied like any other, or changed internally like any geometry nodes
modifier.
**Destructive**
Often the sharp edges don't need to be dynamic. This can give better
performance since edge angles don't need to be recalculated. In edit
mode the two operators "Select Sharp Edges" and "Mark Sharp" can be
used. In other modes, the "Shade Smooth by Angle" controls the edge
sharpness directly.
### Breaking API Changes
- `use_auto_smooth` is removed. Face corner normals are now used
automatically if there are mixed smooth vs. not smooth tags. Meshes
now always use custom normals if they exist.
- In Cycles, the lack of the separate auto smooth state makes normals look
triangulated when all faces are shaded smooth.
- `auto_smooth_angle` is removed. Replaced by a modifier (or operator)
controlling the sharp edge attribute. This means the mesh itself
(without an object) doesn't know anything about automatically smoothing
by angle anymore.
- `create_normals_split`, `calc_normals_split`, and `free_normals_split`
are removed, and are replaced by the simpler `Mesh.corner_normals`
collection property. Since it gives access to the normals cache, it
is automatically updated when relevant data changes.
Addons are updated here: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/pulls/104609
### Tests
- `geo_node_curves_test_deform_curves_on_surface` has slightly different
results because face corner normals are used instead of interpolated
vertex normals.
- `bf_wavefront_obj_tests` has different export results for one file
which mixed sharp and smooth faces without turning on auto smooth.
- `cycles_mesh_cpu` has one object which is completely flat shaded.
Previously every edge was split before rendering, now it looks triangulated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108014
Caused by 425b871607.
The root issue was that these two states of the hash table were
mixed up in 425b871607: (1) the hash table exists and (2) the hash
table is empty.
The use of `std::optional` restores these two different states again.
The issue is probably deeper and affects more cases. The plane with an
edge loop in the center added was the case which shown the error.
Caused by a mistake in the refactor in 062169698a which left an array
size uninitialized before filling it in.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113972
Extract:
- Sculpt filter types from the Sculpt menu. Some of these types use a
custom label, different from those defined in the operator RNA,
which was never extracted.
- "Today" and "Yesterday" from the file browser modification date.
- All name_plural from IDs, as these are used in the UI to list which
data block is to be removed, when calling outliner.orphans_purge.
Disambiguate:
- "Area", meaning the measurement of a surface as opposed to a place.
Some messages reported by Satoshi Yamasaki in #43295.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113912
Their return value was only used in one place.
Change it to comparison with a stored name, and make the functions
to return void instead.
Removing the return boolean makes it possible to change underlying
functions to work with std::string and return unique name by value.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113934
Currently object bounds (`object.runtime.bb`) are lazily initialized
when accessed. This access happens from arbitrary threads, and
is unprotected by a mutex. This can cause access to stale data at
best, and crashes at worst. Eager calculation is meant to keep this
working, but it's fragile.
Since e8f4010611, geometry bounds are cached in the geometry
itself, which makes this object-level cache redundant. So, it's clearer
to build the `BoundBox` from those cached bounds and return it by
value, without interacting with the object's cached bounding box.
The code change is is mostly a move from `const BoundBox *` to
`std::optional<BoundBox>`. This is only one step of a larger change
described in #96968. Followup steps would include switching to
a simpler and smaller `Bounds` type, removing redundant object-
level access, and eventually removing `object.runtime.bb`.
Access of bounds from the object for mesh, curves, and point cloud
objects should now be thread-safe. Other object types still lazily
initialize the object `BoundBox` cache since they don't have
a data-level cache.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113465
Mainly to simplify code and also add some add type safety, replace
`GSet` with `blender::Set` for the storage of BMesh triangles and
vertices on each PBVH node. Some initial tests point to better
performance too, but the numbers are hard to verify so far.
Because of the larger `PBVHNode`, memory usage slightly increases
(observed a 2% increase with a 1M face grid) for regular Mesh sculpting,
but it seems `Set` is more memory efficient than `GSet`, because I also
observed a 10% decrease in memory usage for dynamic topology.
In the future nodes can be split in a more data-oriented fashion to
reduce memory usage overall.
This also makes it simpler to switch to another type in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113907
In 3.6 the names of node group sockets were using char arrays, but now
use allocated strings. The RNA system assigns nullptr to such strings
when assigning an empty string through python (UI assignment appears to
always generate a valid string). This creates issues with many STL
functions, in particular assigning nullptr to `std::string` will crash.
We have to check for valid pointers before using them in places that
don't handle nullptrs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113924
When renaming a layer to a (long) name that was already taken
by another layer, Blender would crash.
This was because the memory for the unique string was held by
`std::string` which cannot grow.
The solution is to use `char unique_name[MAX_NAME]`.
This node allows splitting up a geometry into groups. A group is defined as all
elements with the same group id. The output contains an instance per group.
The `Group ID` output can be used for further deterministic processing.
The node supports meshes, curves, point clouds and instances. It only works
on the top-level geometry, so it does not go into nested instances because it
also generates new instances.
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113083
Previously, Grease Pencil used a radius convention where
1 "px" = 0.001 units. This "px" was the brush size which would be
stored in the stroke thickness and then scaled by the point pressure
factor. Finally, the render engine would divide this thickness value by
2000 (we're going from a thickness to a radius, hence the factor of
two) to convert back into blender units.
Store the radius now directly in blender units. This makes it
consistent with how hair curves handle the radius.
* Removes the scaling in the render engine.
* Makes sure the grease pencil primitives use the correct radii
* Changes the drawing tool to work with screen space radius
* Draws the drawing tool cursor in screen space
* Makes sure the scaling is done when converting from legacy
grease pencil objects
* Makes sure the scaling is done when loading previous files
Consequences for the draw tool:
* Since the tool has a radius input in pixels, it now works in screen space. This is a pretty big change to how it works by default before, so a new option will have to be added that allows the brush to be in "Scene" space. This is similar to how it works in sculpt mode. But this is a bigger change, so I would like to split that into a separate PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113770
Previously the first group of deform modifiers didn't need to access
original coordinates explicitly because the deformation wasn't included
in the mesh positions. After d20f992322 the mesh is deformed
directly though, so the original coordinates need to be added first.
In the case of this report, the particle system (which is a "deform"
modifier for reasons) didn't have original coordinates to work with, so
it created the child particles at the deformed positions from the shape
keys every time. Though for some reason it only did that for renders.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113679
See #105317
In 46cf093270, face maps were just converted to an integer
attribute. While the internal data remains the same that way, we lose
the names and some convenient methods of interaction. This commit
additionally converts each face map to a separate boolean attribute
using the old name. This does require that no attributes were using that
name already.
Each boolean attribute can be thought of as a selection, accessible in
geometry nodes and properly interpolated by mesh processing
algorithms. The selections no longer have to be unique, meaning
one face can be part of multiple selections.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113769
Copy custom data and flag from the original edge to the ones created
from it when splitting a long edge.
Unfortunately, can not use generic "example" edge approach as there
is a temporary flag BM_ELEM_TAG is re-applied in a loop: the new
edges can not be tagged with this tag. Additional complication is
that even we clear this tag from the input edge before splitting it
this tag is re=applied via long_edge_queue_face_add().
Hence, use our own simple function to copy minimal subset of data and
tags.
Co-Authored-By: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113783
- More consistent naming of variables in diagram and code.
- Use C++ array and span, and make them short-lived, without
trying to reuse them.
Co-Authored-By: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
This was the last use of `CustomDataAttributes`. It's not very useful
nowadays because we have a lower level (`CustomData`) and higher level
(`AttributeAccessor`) API.
As part of this I removed the ability to `reserve` instances which was
useful when adding instances one by one. Generally, such code should
eventually be rewritten to handle more instances at once, instead of
handling them one by one. This will lead to better performance and
is more in line with how other geometry types (like mesh) are handled.
This also adds the ability to move and assign `Instances` just like we can
move and assign `CurvesGeometry`.
