Previously, the vector type in the compositor had 4-components to
accommodated float4 types, while the last component was ignored for the
rest of the vector types. But now that we have a dedicated type for
float4 in #134486. We can reduce that vector type to 3-components.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134570
The compositor previously overloaded the vector type to represent
multiple dimensions that are always stored in a 4D float vector. This
patch introduce a dedicated type for float4, leaving the vector type to
always represent a 3D vector, which will be done in a later commit.
This is not exposed to the user as a separate socket type with a
different color, it is only an internal type that uses the same vector
socket shape and color.
Since the vector socket represents both 4D and 3D vectors, code
generally assumes that such sockets represents 3D vectors, and the
developer is expected to set it to a 4D vector if needed in the node
operation constructor, or use the newly added skip_type_conversion flag
for nodes that do not care about types, like the File Output node.
Though this should be redundant once we add a dimension property for
vector sockets.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134486
Though "Point Cloud" written as two words is technically correct and should be used in the UI, as one word it's typically easier to write and parse when reading. We had a mix of both before this patch, so better to unify this as well.
This commit also renames the editor/intern/ files to remove pointcloud_ prefix.
point_cloud was only preserved on the user facing strings:
* is_type_point_cloud
* use_new_point_cloud_type
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134803
Previously, the code would assert in `BLI_fopen` when the path is relative.
There are two main options to make the path absolute:
1. Always use the path of the current .blend file as base.
2. Is the path of the .blend file "owns" the current node as base. So when
the Import node is part of a linked node tree, the path of the linked .blend
file is used as base.
Both options are useful depending on the specific use-case, but the latter
seems more consistent with other places in Blender. For more advanced
functionality, we might need nodes that give the current .blend file path
and one node to join paths.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134794
Restriction of the nodes api to clearly define never-null function arguments.
Side effects: some assertions and null-check (with early return) were removed.
On the caller side is ensured to never derefer null to pass argument (mainly in RNA).
In addition, one pointer argument now actually a return type.
By-reference return types instead of pointers going to be separate kind of
change since also imply of cleaning up variables created from reference.
Also good future improvement would be to mark a copy-constructor as
explicit for DNA node types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134627
Previously we generally expected CustomData layers to have implicit
sharing info, but we didn't require it. This PR clarifies that we do
require layers with non-null data to have implicit sharing info. This
generally makes code simpler because we don't have to have a separate
code path for non-shared layers. For example, it makes the "totelem"
arguments for layer freeing functions unnecessary, since shared data
knows how to free itself. Those arguments are removed in this PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134578
And replace nullptr arguments for tooltips in UI button
creation functions with std::nullopt. Though the distinction
between "no tooltip" and "empty tooltip" doesn't seem to exist,
it seems safer to keep the distinction since it existed with null before.
When calling the `lookup_or_add` functions on `MutableAttributeAccessor`
we need to make sure that the writer is actually created and the call
did not fail.
This fixes many of the instances where we would use an unchecked
attribute writer and potentially crash.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134413
Collapsing curves to a single point when just resampling is unexpected. This
patch changes it so that non-zero-length curves keep at least one segment.
The fix is fairly straight forward, but a bunch of additional code is added to
support the legacy option to avoid breaking backward compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133659
This commit adds the "is volume scatter" output to the light path node
in the shader editor.
All the funcitonal code for this feature already exists in Cycles SVM
and OSL, but the output wasn't exposed on the node.
EEVEE does not support the feature, so it's output will
always be zero.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134343
In setups where only very few elements are processed at once, the lazy-threading
hints that come from `parallel_for` are not triggered. However, often it can
still be worth to use multi-threading in such cases. Therefore, we need to find
additional places where the lazy-threading hints are sent. There are many
possibilities and we probably have to add them step by step as we find .blend
files that show missing multi-threading.
In this patch I choose to send the hint at the beginning of evaluating a repeat
zone if it has 10 or more iterations. The exact number here is just a guess and
could be fine tuned over time if necessary.
A slightly modified version of the file in #134230 speeds up from ~1100ms to
~100ms with this change. The exact speedup changes quite a bit each run, but is
always between 5 and 20x, so it's quite noticable.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134408
This patch refactors the ShaderNode class to be a concrete class that
is implemented in terms of the node type gpu_fn. This is done to make it
easier to reuse existing nodes in other parts of Blender.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134210
Move `Library.runtime` to be a pointer, move the related
`LibraryRuntime` struct to `BKE_library.hh`. Similar to e.g.
Mesh.runtime, that pointer is expected to always be valid, and is
allocated at readtime or when creating a new Library ID.
Related smaller changes:
* Write code now uses standard ID writing codepath for Library IDs too.
* Runtime pointer is reset to nullptr before writing.
* Looking up a library by its absolute path is now handled through a
dedicated utils, `search_filepath_abs`, instead of using
`BLI_findstring`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134188
Currently UI code always has to use char pointers when interacting with
the translation system. This makes benefiting from the use C++ strings
and StringRef more difficult. That means we're leaving some type safety
and performance on the table. This PR adds StringRef overloads to the
translation API functions and removes the few calls to `.c_str()` that
are now unnecessary.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133887
This patch refactors the Result class in the compositor to use
GMutableSpan and std::variant to wrap the result's data. This reduces
the complexity of the code and slightly optimizes performance. This will
also make it easier to add new types and interface with other code like
multi-function procedures.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134112
User may think of the `radius` vector value as RGB color, however it's
meant to be the depth of scattering for R/G/B channels. Now clarified in
the desctiption.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134088
It already doesn't work in a very fairly simple case when the Grease Pencil
geometry is transformed. This simple case used to work before we changed
the Transform Geometry node to transform layers instead of points.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134131
The issue was that the code did not handle input sockets that are fields
implicitly correctly. It just retrieved a single from them, instead of
treating them as having an unknown value.
The new Object and Collection constant geometry nodes do not register their dependency on their targets.
This causes the graph not to update properly when they are modified.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133784
The File Output node sometime ignores the transformations of their
inputs. That's due to the fact that transforms are now delayed and the
File Output node does not realize its inputs on its domain in case it
was not multi-layer.
To fix this, add another realization mode for transforms only. And use
that in the File Output node, as well as the Bokeh Blur, UV Map, and
Plane Track Deform, which also need this fix.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133850
There is a special case in the compositor code where viewer nodes are
treated as composite nodes. This patch renames relevant methods and
updates comments to clarify this use case.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133811
This patch changes how the Wrap option in the Translate node works. It
now repeats infinitely when realized, and not just in its own domain.
This is essentially how it used to work prior to version 4.2, so we are
reverting that change. We also rename Wrap to Repeat for clarity.
This is part of an ongoing to project to allow the user to control how
boundaries and empty areas are filled after transformations. So similar
options will be added to all transform nodes. But this patch is the
first step, since the functionality is already there, we just need to
extend it to work in all domains.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133766
