Add a method to remove points from the new curves type, just like
the existing curve removal function. No functional changes are expected.
The code is simpler because all data is just stored as attributes, but
also different because the point data for all curves is stored in the same
arrays.
Similar performance improvements as other commits in T95443 are
expected, expecially for cases where there are many small curves.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15130
This commit ports the "Set Spline Type" node to the new curves type.
Performance should be improved in similar ways to the other refactors
from the conversion task (T95443). Converting to and from Catmull Rom
curves is now supported. There are a few cases where a lot of work can
be skipped: when the number of points doesn't change, and when the
types already match the goal type.
The refactor has a few other explicit goals as well:
- Don't count on initialization of attribute arrays when they are
first allocated.
- Avoid copying the entire data-block when possible.
- Make decisions about which attributes to copy when changing curves
more obvious.
- Use higher-level methods to copy data between curve points.
- Optimize for the common cases of single types and full selections.
- Process selected curves of the same types in the same loop.
The Bezier to NURBS conversion is written by Piotr Makal (@pmakal).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14769
This implements the new way to attach curves to a mesh surface using
a uv map (based on the recent discussion in T95776).
The curves data block now not only stores a reference to the surface object
but also a name of a uv map on that object. Having a uv map is optional
for most operations, but it will be required later for animation (when the
curves are supposed to be deformed based on deformation of the surface).
The "Empty Hair" operator in the Add menu sets the uv map name automatically
if possible. It's possible to start working without a uv map and to attach the
curves to a uv map later on. It's also possible to reattach the curves to a new
uv map using the "Curves > Snap to Nearest Surface" operator in curves sculpt
mode.
Note, the implementation to do the reverse lookup from uv to a position on the
surface is trivial and inefficient now. A more efficient data structure will be
implemented separately soon.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15125
This commit adds a float selection to curve control points or curves,
a sculpt tool to paint the selection, and uses the selection influence
in the existing sculpt brushes.
The selection is the inverse of the "mask" from mesh sculpt mode
currently. That change is described in more detail here: T97903
Since some sculpt tools are really "per curve" tools, they use the
average point selection of all of their points. The delete brush
considers a curve selected if any of its points have a non-zero
selection.
There is a new option to choose the selection domain, which affects how
painting the selection works. You can also turn the selection off by
clicking on the active domain.
Sculpt brushes can be faster when the selection is small, because
finding selected curves or points is generally faster than the
existing brush intersection and distance checks.
The main limitation currently is that we can't see the selection in the
viewport by default. For now, to see the selection one has to add a
simple material to the curves object as shown in the differential
revision. And one has to switch to Material Preview in the 3d view.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14934
When the curve types array isn't allocated, the default type
is Catmull Rom. Because the type counts are calculated eagerly,
they must be in a valid state.
For example, this can be used to find the indices of all Bezier curves
inside an existing selection. The important part is that it is optimized
for the case when all curves have the same type.
NURBS curves can be invalid when the order is less than the number
of points, or in a few other situations. Currently the evaluated data of
an invalid NURBS curve is empty. This is inconvenient because it
requires checking for empty curves when it otherwise wouldn't be
necessary. This patch replaces that fallback with copying the original
data to the evaluated points. This makes conceptual sense too, as if
the curve couldn't be evaluated-- which wouldn't necessarily delete it.
Usually the UI protects against this happening, but it's currently
possible to create an invalid curve with some operations like the
delete geometry node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14837
Remembering the number of curves of every type makes it fast to know
whether processing specific to a single curve type has to be done.
This information was accessed in quite a few places, so this should be
an overall reduction in overhead for the new curves type.
The cache is computed eagerly, in other words every time after changing
the curve types. In order to reduce verbosity I added helper functions
for some common ways to set the types.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14732
This commit changes the Curve to Mesh node to work with `Curves`
instead of `CurveEval`. The change ends up basically completely
rewriting the node, since the different attribute storage means that
the decisions made previously don't make much sense anymore.
The main loops are now "for each attribute: for each curve combination"
rather than the other way around, with the goal of taking advantage
of the locality of curve attributes. This improvement is quite
noticeable with many small curves; I measured a 4-5x improvement
(around 4-5s to <1s) when converting millions of curves to tens of
millions of faces. I didn't obverse any change in performance compared
to 3.1 with fewer curves though.
The changes also solve an algorithmic flaw where any interpolated
attributes would be evaluated for every curve combination instead
of just once per curve. This can be a large improvement when there
are many profile curves.
The code relies heavily on a function `foreach_curve_combination`
which calculates some basic information about each combination and
calls a templated function. I made assumptions about unnecessary reads
being removed by compiler optimizations. For further performance
improvements in the future that might be an area to investigate.
Another might be using a "for a group of curves: for each attribute:
for each curve" pattern to increase the locality of memory access.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14642
The ported normal calculation from ceed37fc5c neglected to
use the tilt attribute to rotate the normals around the tangents.
This commit adds that behavior back, adding a new math header file
to avoid duplicating the rotation function for normalized axes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14655
If all of the curves are poly curves, the evaluated positions are the
same as the original positions. In this case just reuse the original
positions span as the evaluated positions.
Port the "Normal" and "Curve Tangent" nodes to the new curves data-block
to avoid the conversion to `CurveEval`. This should make them faster by
avoiding all that copying, but otherwise nothing else has changed.
This also includes a fix to move the normal mode as a built-in curve
attribute when converting to and from `CurveEval`. The attribute is
needed because the option is used implicitly in many nodes currently.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14609
Previously, the new attributes were zero-initialized. However, sometimes
the default has to be something else. The old behavior led to unexpected
behavior in the Snap Curves to Surface operator in Deform mode, when the
curves were not attached to the surface before.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14588
- Use "curve" instead of "spline" in comments
- Use non-plural variable names
- Tag topology dirty after resolution modified rather than positions
- Reorder enum values to change which value is zero (and the default)
- Remove a duplicate unused variable
Add "for_write" on function names that retrieve mutable data arrays.
Though this makes function names longer, it's likely worth it because
it allows more easily using the const functions in a non-const context,
and reduces cases of mistakenly retrieving with edit access.
In the long term, this situation might change more if we implement
attributes storage that is accessible directly on `CurvesGeometry`
without duplicating the attribute API on geometry components,
which is currently the rough plan.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14562
Add support for the Curves object to the "Set Origin" and "Apply Object
Tansform" operators. Also change the automatic handle calculation to
avoid adding Bezier attributes if they don't need to be added.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14526
These functions are very simple, but some of them were showing up in
in profiles for curves sculpt mode and various curve nodes. Making sure
they are inlined will allow avoiding the compiler to optimize this logic
much better.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14529
This commit ports the "Set Handle Positions" and "Set Hanle Type"
nodes to use the new curves data-block. The nodes become simpler
and likely much faster too, though they're usually not the bottleneck
anyway.
Most of the code is ported from `BezierSpline` directly. The majority
of the complexity comes from the interaction between different
automatically calculated handle types. In comparison `BezierSpline`,
the calculation of auto handles is done eagerly-- mostly because it's
simpler. Eventually lazy calculation might be good to add.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14464
Using the evaluated lengths cache from 72d25fa41d, re-implement
the curve parameter node with the new data structure. Conceptually
it works the same way, but the code is restructured and cleaned up
a bit as well. This also adds support for Catmull Rom curves.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14461
This commit adds calculation of lengths along the curve for each
evaluated point. This is used for sampling, resampling, the "curve
parameter" node, and potentially more places in the future.
This commit also includes a utility for calculation of uniform samples
in blenlib. It can find evenlyspaced samples along a sequence of points
and use linear interpolation to move data from those points to the
samples. Making the utility more general aligns better with the more
functional approach of the new curves code and makes the behavior
available elsewhere.
A "color math" header is added to allow very basic interpolation
between two colors in the `blender::math` namespace.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14382
This commit implements generic evaluation for Bezier curves (which is
really just linear interpolation, since attributes are not stored on
Bezier handles). For complete parity with the old curve type, we would
have to add options for this (RNA: `Spline.radius_interpolation`),
but it's not clear that we want to do that.
This also adds a generic `interpolate_to_evaluate` utility on curves
that hides the implementation details. Though there is theoretically
a performance cost to that, without some abstraction calling code
would usually be too complex.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14447
This commit adds a utility that returns an array with the number
of curves of every type. One use case for this is detecting whether
to remove handle or NURBS attributes when changing curve types.
It's best to avoid using this when it's not necessary, but sometimes
it can't really be avoided, and having a utility at least makes using
an optimized version simple.
In the future, this information can be cached in the curves runtime.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14448
Clear the nurbs basis cache dirty flag when its evaluation finishes.
Remove an incorrect assert that the evaluated size couldn't be zero.
It can, when `check_valid_size_and_order` returns false.
Add a function to retrieve the points for an index range of curves,
and move "ensuring" the offsets to a separate function, since it's
often nicer to call that if you don't need the result span immediately.
Rename "size" variables and functions to use "num" instead,
based on T85728 (though this doesn't apply to simple C++
containers, it applies here). Rename "range" to "points" in
some functions, so be more specific.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14431
This adds a new Add brush for the new curves object type in sculpt mode.
The brush is used to insert new curves (typically hair) on the surface object.
Supported features:
* Add single curve exactly at the cursor position when `Add Amount` is 1.
* Front faces only.
* Independent interpolate shape and interpolate length settings.
* Smooth and flat shading affects curve shape interpolation.
* Spherical and projection brush.
This also adds the `surface_triangle_index` and `surface_triangle_coordinate`
attributes. Those store information about what position on the surface each
added curve is attached to:
* `surface_triangle_index` (`int`): Index of the internal triangle that a curve
is attached to. `-1` when the curve is not attached to the surface.
* `surface_triangle_coordinate` (`float2`): First two numbers of a barycentric
coordinate that reference a specific position within the triangle.
Ref T96444.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14340
Create a function on CurvesGeometry that can also be used for an edit
mode operator in the future. Dealing with CustomData directly means the
code is a bit more verbose than would be ideal, but this would be a
simple thing to clean up in the future if we get an attribute API here.
Also change the reverse node to first work on a read-only geometry
component, and only get write access if there is a curve selected.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14375
Make the new curves' translate and transform functions also affect
the handle position attributes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14372
This patch adds evaluation for NURBS, Bezier, and Catmull Rom
curves for the new `Curves` data-block. The main difference from
the code in `BKE_spline.hh` is that the functionality is not
encapsulated in classes. Instead, each function has arguments
for all of the information it needs. This makes the code more
reusable and removes a bunch of unnecessary complications
for keeping track of state.
NURBS and Bezier evaluation works the same way as existing code.
The Catmull Rom implementation is new, with the basis function
based on Cycles code. All three types have some basic tests.
For NURBS and Catmull Rom curves, evaluating positions is the
same as any generic attribute, so it's implemented by the generic
interpolation to evaluated points. Bezier curves are a bit special,
because the "handle" control points are stored in a separate attribute.
This patch doesn't include generic interpolation to evaluated points
for Bezier curves.
Ref T95942
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14284
Add the ability to move `CurvesGeometry` without copying its attributes
and data. The benefit is more intuitive management of the data-block
copying, and less overhead for copying in some cases. The "moved-from"
source is left in an empty but valid state. A test file is added to test
the move constructor.
