Use the attribute API for domain and type interpolation instead of doing
it manually. I observed a 3.8x improvement in curve selection mode and
an 18x improvement in point selection mode.
Implements #95966, as the final step of #95965.
This commit changes the storage of mesh edge vertex indices from the
`MEdge` type to the generic `int2` attribute type. This follows the
general design for geometry and the attribute system, where the data
storage type and the usage semantics are separated.
The main benefit of the change is reduced memory usage-- the
requirements of storing mesh edges is reduced by 1/3. For example,
this saves 8MB on a 1 million vertex grid. This also gives performance
benefits to any memory-bound mesh processing algorithm that uses edges.
Another benefit is that all of the edge's vertex indices are
contiguous. In a few cases, it's helpful to process all of them as
`Span<int>` rather than `Span<int2>`. Similarly, the type is more
likely to match a generic format used by a library, or code that
shouldn't know about specific Blender `Mesh` types.
Various Notes:
- The `.edge_verts` name is used to reflect a mapping between domains,
similar to `.corner_verts`, etc. The period means that it the data
shouldn't change arbitrarily by the user or procedural operations.
- `edge[0]` is now used instead of `edge.v1`
- Signed integers are used instead of unsigned to reduce the mixing
of signed-ness, which can be error prone.
- All of the previously used core mesh data types (`MVert`, `MEdge`,
`MLoop`, `MPoly` are now deprecated. Only generic types are used).
- The `vec2i` DNA type is used in the few C files where necessary.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106638
This type will be used to store mesh edges in #106638, but it could
be used for anything else too. This commit adds support for:
- The new type in the Python API
- Editing the type in the edit mode "Attribute Set" operator
- Rendering the type in EEVEE and Cycles for all geometry types
- Geometry nodes attribute interpolation and mixing
- Viewing the type in the spreadsheet and using row filters
The attribute uses the `blender::int2` type in most code, and
the `vec2i` DNA type in C code when necessary. The enum names
are based on `INT32_2D` for consistency with `INT8` and `INT32`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106677
The position attribute has special meaning for point clouds, and
meshes and curves have access methods for the attribute as well.
This saves boilerplate and gives more consistency between types.
This function was not exposed outside of internal GPU module.
Renaming `draw::Texture::depth()` to `is_depth` for consistency
and removing the ambiguity.
#### Summary
Occlude edit mode selection behind objects in object mode.
#### Problem
When doing retopology, you want to be able to select your edit mesh,
but only when you can see it.
Being able to select geometry behind reference objects is not
desirable.
#### Solution
Make it so reference objects occlude selection, while the edit mesh is
pushed towards the view using retopology offset.
#### Limitations
Poly Build is not supported, because it doesn't use the depth buffer.
It behaves the same as normal, unoccluded by reference meshes.
#### Notes
Selection occlusion is not used when xray is enabled. This is
intentional.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105498
Since e3801a2bd4, we would always respect
hiding for vertex paint and weight paint (drawing code and stroke based
painting), leaving an inconsistency between the different paintmodes.
To rectify this, now also always respect edit mode hiding for projection
painting as well.
Some feedback was gathered in #sculpt-paint-texture-module to ensure
this is desired behavior.
Note: this does not change the (experimental) texture painting in
sculptmode [this already respects hiding via PBVH, albeit in a manner
that bleeds into hidden faces if the brush center is over visible faces]
ref #106354
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106544
After investigating the crash logs it looked like the macro
unrolling wasn't working on Windows systems with these GPUs.
Macro unrolling was changed in order to cross compile to Metal and
in the future to Vulkan. The macro unrolling in OpenGL can be removed
by using a different naming scema.
This PR removes the macro unrolling by changing the generated GLSL
code:
**Before**
```
layout(std140) uniform _probe_block
{
ProbeBlock probe_block;
};
```
**After**
```
layout(std140) uniform probe_block
{
ProbeBlock _probe_block;
};
```
Some tweaks had to be done to the Eevee-shaders to make sure that
the macro unrolling is done correctly and could be compiled using
legacy opengl drivers.
Fix: #106278Fix: #106555
(and others)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106535
Implements #95967.
Currently the `MPoly` struct is 12 bytes, and stores the index of a
face's first corner and the number of corners/verts/edges. Polygons
and corners are always created in order by Blender, meaning each
face's corners will be after the previous face's corners. We can take
advantage of this fact and eliminate the redundancy in mesh face
storage by only storing a single integer corner offset for each face.
The size of the face is then encoded by the offset of the next face.
The size of a single integer is 4 bytes, so this reduces memory
usage by 3 times.
The same method is used for `CurvesGeometry`, so Blender already has
an abstraction to simplify using these offsets called `OffsetIndices`.
This class is used to easily retrieve a range of corner indices for
each face. This also gives the opportunity for sharing some logic with
curves.
Another benefit of the change is that the offsets and sizes stored in
`MPoly` can no longer disagree with each other. Storing faces in the
order of their corners can simplify some code too.
Face/polygon variables now use the `IndexRange` type, which comes with
quite a few utilities that can simplify code.
Some:
- The offset integer array has to be one longer than the face count to
avoid a branch for every face, which means the data is no longer part
of the mesh's `CustomData`.
- We lose the ability to "reference" an original mesh's offset array
until more reusable CoW from #104478 is committed. That will be added
in a separate commit.
- Since they aren't part of `CustomData`, poly offsets often have to be
copied manually.
- To simplify using `OffsetIndices` in many places, some functions and
structs in headers were moved to only compile in C++.
- All meshes created by Blender use the same order for faces and face
corners, but just in case, meshes with mismatched order are fixed by
versioning code.
- `MeshPolygon.totloop` is no longer editable in RNA. This API break is
necessary here unfortunately. It should be worth it in 3.6, since
that's the best way to allow loading meshes from 4.0, which is
important for an LTS version.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105938
This patch refactors the texture samples code by mainly splitting the
eGPUSamplerState enum into multiple smaller enums and packing them
inside a GPUSamplerState struct. This was done because many members of
the enum were mutually exclusive, which was worked around during setting
up the samplers in the various backends, and additionally made the API
confusing, like the GPU_texture_wrap_mode function, which had two
mutually exclusive parameters.
The new structure also improved and clarified the backend sampler cache,
reducing the cache size from 514 samplers to just 130 samplers, which
also slightly improved the initialization time. Further, the
GPU_SAMPLER_MAX signal value was naturally incorporated into the
structure using the GPU_SAMPLER_STATE_TYPE_INTERNAL type.
The only expected functional change is in the realtime compositor, which
now supports per-axis repetition control, utilizing new API functions
for that purpose.
This patch is loosely based on an older patch D14366 by Ethan Hall.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105642
Use the dot product of the normal of the two polygons connected to the
edge to calculate the edge factor.
This fixes#90641 and #102545 and ensures more predictable results for
boundary and non-manifold edges.
Co-authored-by: Germano Cavalcante <mano-wii>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105352
No functional changes.
Edges hidden by Optimal Display are hidden by edge factor Shader.
But there is not much advantage in doing this, as the number of edges
hidden by the Optimal Display is usually much higher than the number of
visible edges.
And the lines extractor does not include invisible edges due to other
factors.
So this change makes:
- Visibility test more consistent with what is actually seen.
- Smaller buffer for IBO sent to GPU
- consistency with GPU Subdivision that already considers Optimal Display
- Allows possible improvement in the "Edge Factor" extraction by making
it unnecessary to check the Optimal Display (except for optimization).
Co-authored-by: Germano Cavalcante <mano-wii>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106402
The goal is to solve confusion of the "All rights reserved" for licensing
code under an open-source license.
The phrase "All rights reserved" comes from a historical convention that
required this phrase for the copyright protection to apply. This convention
is no longer relevant.
However, even though the phrase has no meaning in establishing the copyright
it has not lost meaning in terms of licensing.
This change makes it so code under the Blender Foundation copyright does
not use "all rights reserved". This is also how the GPL license itself
states how to apply it to the source code:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software ...
This change does not change copyright notice in cases when the copyright
is dual (BF and an author), or just an author of the code. It also does
mot change copyright which is inherited from NaN Holding BV as it needs
some further investigation about what is the proper way to handle it.
For example
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver()
{
}
```
becomes
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver() {}
```
Saves quite some vertical space, which is especially handy for
constructors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105594
This patch implements the Anti-Aliasing node by porting SMAA from
Workbench into a generic library that can be used by the realtime
compositor and potentially other users. SMAA was encapsulated in an
algorithm to prepare it for use by other nodes that require SMAA
support.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106114
Use C++ types for more automatic memory management, simpler code,
and easier potential performance improvements. Also document each
item in the cache and access a named struct by pointer for the "poly
sorted" instead of using an identical unnamed struct.
Add `index_range()` and `is_empty()` functions, rename `ranges_num()`
to `size()` (clarifying the final extra integer as an implementation
detail). Also remove the `size(index)` function which gave almost the
same assembly as `[index].size()` (https://godbolt.org/z/PYzqYs3Kr).
Implements #102359.
Split the `MLoop` struct into two separate integer arrays called
`corner_verts` and `corner_edges`, referring to the vertex each corner
is attached to and the next edge around the face at each corner. These
arrays can be sliced to give access to the edges or vertices in a face.
Then they are often referred to as "poly_verts" or "poly_edges".
The main benefits are halving the necessary memory bandwidth when only
one array is used and simplifications from using regular integer indices
instead of a special-purpose struct.
The commit also starts a renaming from "loop" to "corner" in mesh code.
Like the other mesh struct of array refactors, forward compatibility is
kept by writing files with the older format. This will be done until 4.0
to ease the transition process.
Looking at a small portion of the patch should give a good impression
for the rest of the changes. I tried to make the changes as small as
possible so it's easy to tell the correctness from the diff. Though I
found Blender developers have been very inventive over the last decade
when finding different ways to loop over the corners in a face.
For performance, nearly every piece of code that deals with `Mesh` is
slightly impacted. Any algorithm that is memory bottle-necked should
see an improvement. For example, here is a comparison of interpolating
a vertex float attribute to face corners (Ryzen 3700x):
**Before** (Average: 3.7 ms, Min: 3.4 ms)
```
threading::parallel_for(loops.index_range(), 4096, [&](IndexRange range) {
for (const int64_t i : range) {
dst[i] = src[loops[i].v];
}
});
```
**After** (Average: 2.9 ms, Min: 2.6 ms)
```
array_utils::gather(src, corner_verts, dst);
```
That's an improvement of 28% to the average timings, and it's also a
simplification, since an index-based routine can be used instead.
For more examples using the new arrays, see the design task.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104424
Since UVs are now stored as 2D vectors in meshes, they can be copied
directly to the vertex buffers. Somewhat surprisingly, multithreading
the copying into the vertex buffer provides a good speedup-- on a CPU
with many cores at least.
Here is a test uploading two UV maps created in geometry
nodes with a 1 million quad mesh, with a Ryzen 7950x:
| | Before | After | Speedup |
| ------- | ------- | ------ | ------- |
| Average | 24.3 ms | 7.5 ms | 3.2x |
| Min | 17.6 ms | 7.0 ms | 2.5x |
I added the copying utilities to the array utils header, since the
need for them has come up in a few different places already, and the
existing function with a selection argument didn't make sense here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105793
Implement GBuffer prepass and deferred lighting (lights only).
This decouple lighting from the material shaders making them lighter,
less expensive and faster to compile.
Trying to keep a nice data flow so we could potentially use the
subpass programable blending feature on tiled GPU arch.
Not everything is covered yet and #105880 is making the GBuffer layout
a bit awkward and not easily extendable.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105868
Other areas like blenkernel and Cycles clamp the material indices to be
positive so this should be consistent with them. There is still discussion
if material indices should be made impossible, but this at least avoids
crashing for the 3.5 release.
There was also an inconsistency in how sculpt mode handles material index
higher than the number of slots.
Ref #105577
When an object has no UV layers and an anonymous UV layer is created,
the anonymous layer gets set as the default (render) layer. This is
very confusing because it then uses a hidden anonmous layer. This patch
suppresses the usage of anonymous layers for rendering.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105192
This is an issue revealed by the recent optimization in 4d3bfb3f41 to have
CPU and GPU subdivision topology both cached.
BKE_subsurf_modifier_subdiv_descriptor_ensure is what (re)creates the
topology refiner when needed. Invalidating the topology refiner on changes
must be done before it, otherwise we end up with an incomplete Subdiv that
either does not draw or draws incorrectly.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105844
Refactoring mesh code, it has become clear that local cleanups and
simplifications are limited by the need to keep a C public API for
mesh functions. This change makes code more obvious and makes further
refactoring much easier.
- Add a new `BKE_mesh.hh` header for a C++ only mesh API
- Introduce a new `blender::bke::mesh` namespace, documented here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/Mesh#Namespaces
- Move some functions to the new namespace, cleaning up their arguments
- Move code to `Array` and `float3` where necessary to use the new API
- Define existing inline mesh data access functions to the new header
- Keep some C API functions where necessary because of RNA
- Move all C++ files to use the new header, which includes the old one
In the future it may make sense to split up `BKE_mesh.hh` more, but for
now keeping the same name as the existing header keeps things simple.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105416
The function to upload the normals uses an optimization to avoid
checking the smooth status or face normal of the triangle is part
of the same face. The smooth status needs to be initialized before
the loop for that to work.
Also do a bit of cleanup:
- Decrease variable scope
- Fix the reversed incorrect naming of `smooth`
- Retrieve mesh data at the start of the function
The previous API for clearing storage buffers was following the OpenGL
api. OpenGL has many options to support for data conversions, striding
and sizzling. Metal and Vulkan don't have these features and we have to
deal it ourselves.
Blender internally only uses a tiny subset for what is possible in
OpenGL. Making the current API to difficult to implement on our future
platforms as we had to implement all cases, most even not used at all.
By changing the API we make future development easier as we only need
to implement what we are actually using.
**New API**
`GPU_storagebuf_clear(GPUStorageBuf* ssbo, uint32_t clear_value)`
Related issue: #105492
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105521
Currently the shade smooth status for mesh faces is stored as part of
`MPoly::flag`. As described in #95967, this moves that information
to a separate boolean attribute. It also flips its status, so the
attribute is now called `sharp_face`, which mirrors the existing
`sharp_edge` attribute. The attribute doesn't need to be allocated
when all faces are smooth. Forward compatibility is kept until
4.0 like the other mesh refactors.
This will reduce memory bandwidth requirements for some operations,
since the array of booleans uses 12 times less memory than `MPoly`.
It also allows faces to be stored more efficiently in the future, since
the flag is now unused. It's also possible to use generic functions to
process the values. For example, finding whether there is a sharp face
is just `sharp_faces.contains(true)`.
The `shade_smooth` attribute is no longer accessible with geometry nodes.
Since there were dedicated accessor nodes for that data, that shouldn't
be a problem. That's difficult to version automatically since the named
attribute nodes could be used in arbitrary combinations.
**Implementation notes:**
- The attribute and array variables in the code use the `sharp_faces`
term, to be consistent with the user-facing "sharp faces" wording,
and to avoid requiring many renames when #101689 is implemented.
- Cycles now accesses smooth face status with the generic attribute,
to avoid overhead.
- Changing the zero-value from "smooth" to "flat" takes some care to
make sure defaults are the same.
- Versioning for the edge mode extrude node is particularly complex.
New nodes are added by versioning to propagate the attribute in its
old inverted state.
- A lot of access is still done through the `CustomData` API rather
than the attribute API because of a few functions. That can be
cleaned up easily in the future.
- In the future we would benefit from a way to store attributes as a
single value for when all faces are sharp.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104422
