Texture usage flags can now be provided during texture creation specifying
the ways in which a texture can be used. This allows the GPU backends to
perform contextual optimizations which were not previously possible. This
includes enablement of hardware lossless compression which can result in
a 15%+ performance uplift for bandwidth-limited scenes on hardware such
as Apple-Silicon using Metal.
GPU_TEXTURE_USAGE_GENERAL can be used by default if usage is not known
ahead of time. Patch will also be relevant for the Vulkan backend.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15967
Fix a number of small memory leaks in the Metal backend. Unreleased blit
shader objects and temporary textures addressed. Static memory manager
modified to defer creation until use. Added reference count tracker to
shared memory manager across contexts, such that cached memory allocations
will be released if all contexts are destroyed and re-initialized.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16415
Implementing non-geometry-shader path for rendering stencil shadows,
used by the workbench engine.
Patch also contains a few small modifications to Create-info to ensure
usage of gl_FragDepth is explicitly specified.
This is required for testing of the patch.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16436
Implemented geometry shader alternative for rendering of UV edges in Metal, as geometry shaders are unsupported.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16452
There is a more recent implementation as a geometry node, but this code
is used by RNA and Cycles still. In order to help understand the code
to tell if it can be replaced this makes some small changes:
- Use indexing instead of pointer incrementing
- Add const to unchanged arguments
- Avoid unnecessary indentation
- Use references for expected non-null arguments
On linux a man page is generated before the
scripts are installed, this lead to USD getting
a null pointer for it's pluging path and crashing
the process.
Porting conservative depth rendering to use non-geometry shader path for
Metal.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16424
Additional mat3 constructors added, global variable namespace collisions
for uniform and object color avoided via re-name.
Metal vertex format compatibility added for shaders wherein vertex data
goes through a double-conversion and cannot be implicitly converted during
Metal vertex assembly e.g. bitmasks passed directly as unsigned type in
shader interface for certain shader interfaces.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16433
Required by Metal backend for efficient shader compilation. EEVEE material
resource binding permutations now controlled via CreateInfo and selected
based on material options. Other existing CreateInfo's also modified to
ensure explicitness for depth-writing mode. Other missing bindings also
addressed to ensure full compliance with the Metal backend.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16243
I organized the fields so that similar variables were closer together and
more "important" fields were closer to the beginning. I also added
comments to help describe the purpose of most fields.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16710
Based on feedback from Simon Thommes, for link-drag-serach it's most
useful to have the A and B sockets connected, first, then the factor
sockets, then the special color mix operations. This addresses that by
adding the search items in order and decrementing a weight manually
as items are added.
Make the `Object *` and `Mesh *` parameter of `USD_mesh_topology_changed()`
`const`. This function only inspects them, and doesn't need to modify
them.
No functional changes.
Since moving to float scaling, the method of accessing the text
width with the aspect applied wasn't working properly.
Based on contributions by @lone_noel & @harley, see D15043.
The optimization is done by removing the `len` member from the groups
and using fewer `for` loops.
But it's not a really impactful optimization.
Only 1.9% in the weld operation of a high poly mesh.
(disregarding getting the vertex map and all other operations on a
Blender frame).
The readability improvement comes from using more familiar types like
`int` and `int2` instead of `WeldGroup` and `WeldGroupEdge` structs.
In the merge_by_distance code, `vert_dest_map` is modified to become a
vertex group map. But this is not clear from the code.
Also use the `_map` suffix on `vert_final` and `edge_final`.
And remove some unnecessary variables.
The wrap function was a feature of the old compositor
but was never ported to the new CPP compositor node.
This simply removes the unused property, the function could alternatively be
restored but in has been missing for a decade so it does not seem missed.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16712
Fixes T102796
This diff improves the docs for bmesh by adding the default values to all methods. This is motivated by this issue https://github.com/nutti/fake-bpy-module/issues/118 in fake-bpy-module which generates a typed API for authoring Blender scripts and addons from the docs.
After this diff gets merged, the Blender docs get updated, and `fake-bpy-module` gets regenerated, the type signatures in `fake-bpy-module` will match the reality of Blender's API.
Here's a diff for the docs using the modified script:
https://gist.github.com/xixixao/1c83153adbcefbe0859f9cc9ba757d46
I "hardcoded" the defaults based on the types of the arguments, after some testing and consulting the Blender .c source for these APIs.
Here's a test script that verifies that the arguments with defaults added in this diff are indeed not required by Blender 3.3: https://gist.github.com/xixixao/adc4e5a076e80a63735bd60c7c9e7a0d
I made the minimum changes required to get this doc generation script fixed, but let me know if I should restructure this script more.
I also amended the comments of three args, 2 to align them with Python (NULL -> None) and one to mark it as optional (CurveProfile).
Reviewed By: Blendify
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16400
The executable would get boost python linking in when not needed, and even when
linking to Python libraries there were still unresolved symbols. Instead split
off boost python libraries and link them only where needed.
The Blur Attribute node mixes values of neighboring elements in meshes and curves.
Currently it supports points, edges and faces on meshes and points on curves.
In theory, support for face corners could be added, but useful semantics are not
obvious yet.
The node calculates a weighted average of each element with its neighbors (based
on curve/mesh topology). The weight of the element itself is always 1, and the weight
of the neighbor elements is controlled by the weight input socket. In the future,
more options for how different elements are weight can be added (e.g. smoothing
groups and selection).
The node can perform multiple blurring iterations to achieve a blurrier result.
Generally, it is better to do multiple iterations in one node instead of using
multiple blur nodes because it has better performance in the current implementation.
We use the term "Blur" (instead of "Smooth") because smoothing is generally more
related to removing roughness from surfaces. When viewing the result of the
Blur Attribute node in the viewport, it looks like an image is blurred. While the
node can also be used to smooth surfaces, other/better algorithms exists for that
purpose (which e.g. don't reduce the volume of the mesh to zero with too many
iterations).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13952
If there is a layer that hasn't frames but is not the active layer
the pointer to frames can be NULL and crash.
Now, the empty layers are skipped.
Reported to me by Samuel Bernou.
Image engine is used to draw the image inside the image editor, uv editor and node editor. The
performance during scrolling wasn't smooth when using larger textures on a dedicated GPU. Main
reason was the data transfers that happens when panning the image.
The original idea of the image engine was to have 4 textures that are as large as the editor.
Those textures would be used to simulate a larger canvas where if the texture is out of the
visible area the texture would be reused to contain the data of a new visible area. This would
reduce the data transfers to only on certain x/y coordinates. Between those coordinates no
data transfers would be needed.
This patch implements the mechanism described above. During development other areas to
improve have been detected (incorrect color management for float textures, using different
image formats to reduce data transfer bandwidths, using different render techniques for
images upto 8k). More improvements will follow.
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
Shared libraries and USD plugins will be placed in the same folder, where USD
already looks for plugins.
This means that specifying the path to the plugins will no longer be needed
once the new libraries are available for all platforms. For now the code was
refactored to support both cases.
Ref T99618
Issue was the lifetime of GPUVertFormat & GPUVertAttr.
Both need to be static in the function to be persistent here (and
handled appropriately).
Was an error in rB319ee296fd0c.
Maniphest Tasks: T102966
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16704
Support Esc / RMB to cancel dolly, move, rotate & zoom.
Previously only roll could be canceled.
This can be useful to temporary orbit away from the camera or an
orthographic view without having to manually set it back.
- Add VIEW_CANCEL event_code.
- De-duplicate operator freeing logic for the roll operator.
- Structure checks so adding cancel is is simplified.
- Split event checks into two blocks, one for model events, another
for all other events.
Migrate (some) of the UDIM offset calculation from inside one
of the packing engines (where it's consumed) to the packing
operator (where it's produced).
This change (and others) will help simplify the future migration
of the packing engine inside editors/uvedit/uvedit_islands.cc
to the Geometry module, so it can eventually replace the other
packing engine in geometry/intern/uv_parametrizer.cc
