The core issue was that the geometry batch cache (e.g. `MeshBatchCache` or
`PointCloudBatchCache`) was dependent on the object. This is problematic when
the the same geometry is used with multiple different objects because the cache
can't be consistent with all of them.
Fortunately, the only thing that was retrieved from the object was the number of
material slots, so if that can be avoided we should be fine. We can't just use
the number of material slots stored on the geometry because that may have no
material slots but still has material indices which are overridden on the object
level.
The solution is to take make the number of materials for a geometry only
dependent on the actual `material_index` attribute and not on the number of
available slots. More specifically, we find the maximal referenced material
index and handle that many materials. This number does not depend on how many
material slots there are on the object, but it still allows the object to
override materials slots that the mesh references.
A downside is that the maximum material index has to be computed which often
requires an iteration over the mesh. Fortunately, we can cache that quite easily
and the computation can be done in parallel. Also we are probably able to
eagerly update the material index in many cases when it's set instead of
computing it lazily. That is not implemented in this patch though.
The largest part of the patch is making the maximal material index easily
available on all the geometry types. Besides that, the material API is slightly
replaced and the drawing code now makes use of the updated API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133498
Especially through DRW_render.hh, there were a lot of unnecessary
includes almost everywhere in the module. This typically makes
dependencies less explicit and slows down compile times, so switch
to including what files actual use.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133450
Caused by 839108f623.
The edit mapping was invalid so we just created a dummy GPU
batch for the selection edit data. But it was invalid because we
weren't in edit mode. The fix just requires tweaking the checks
for this data that's also used outside of edit mode.
Previously, the number of material slots on the geometry (e.g. mesh) was the
ground truth. However, this had limitations in the case when the object had more
material slots than the evaluated geometry. All extra slots on the object were
ignored.
This patch changes the definition so that the number of materials used for
rendering is the maximum of the number of material slots on the geometry and on
the object. This also implies that one always needs a reference to an object
when determining that number, but that was fairly straight forward to achieve in
current code.
This patch also cleans up the material count handling a fair amount by using the
`BKE_object_material_*_eval` API more consistently instead of manually accessing
`totcol`. Cycles uses the the same API indirectly through RNA.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131869
Previously, the number of material slots on the geometry (e.g. mesh) was the
ground truth. However, this had limitations in the case when the object had more
material slots than the evaluated geometry. All extra slots on the object were
ignored.
This patch changes the definition so that the number of materials used for
rendering is the maximum of the number of material slots on the geometry and on
the object. This also implies that one always needs a reference to an object
when determining that number, but that was fairly straight forward to achieve in
current code.
This patch also cleans up the material count handling a fair amount by using the
`BKE_object_material_*_eval` API more consistently instead of manually accessing
`totcol`. Cycles uses the the same API indirectly through RNA.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131761
The vertex length of the batch was 1 which lead to invalid
drawcall if trying to render triangles or lines.
Setting a length of 0 allows the GPU module to bypass the
drawcall.
The viewer node is not edit mode data, it should be extracted from
a final evaluated mesh (that's just the mechanism that geometry
nodes uses to get the data to the engines. The requests were probably
just added to the bottom by mistake.
Add a `short2` attribute type, intended to store the existing
`CD_CUSTOMLOOPNORMAL` custom data type in order to move the custom
normal storage to generic attributes. This type probably won't get much
use besides that, but generally we don't have reasons not to add these
generic types, besides binary size. In the future we should consolidate
usage of `convert_to_static_type` to avoid large binary size increases
(about 700KB here) for this sort of addition.
This is the first step of #130484.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130530
Currently replacing the Mesh during evaluation with the object info node
can cause us to use invalid original indices when the source object is
in edit mode. This is really a more fundamental problem though: we have
no way to tell whether an evaluated mesh actually corresponds to the
object's original mesh.
This commit changes to explicitly propagating the edit mesh pointer
through copied and changed meshes during modifier and nodes evaluation,
instead of just blindly copying the edit mode pointer from the original
mesh to the evaluated mesh. A benefit of not writing to the evaluated
mesh means it can be shared, potentially offering a future performance
improvement for uses of the object info node.
When we detect an invalid correspondence between the evaluated/original
meshes, we skip extracting the cage mesh's data and skip extracting edit
mesh data from the evaluated object.
This commit also moves the source of "object is in edit mode" truth in
the draw module from whether the evaluated mesh has an edit mode pointer
to the object's mode flag. That's a simplification that's also helpful
to reduce the strong linking between BMesh and edit mode.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120999
The PBVH struct is now called `bke::pbvh::Tree`. Expanding the acronym
in the file name just a little should help developers find things and make
the connection to the "paint" concept that loosely ties sculpt mode and
other painting modes together a little stronger.
This rename also lets us replace the weird `_api.hh` historical part of
the file name without reusing the old `BKE_pbvh.hh` file name, which
would have probably made understanding the git history a bit harder.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129684
Part of #118145.
In the future we want to move the ownership of the BVH tree to the
original mesh rather than `SculptSession`, in order to persist it
across some more general non-topology changing operations like
node tools. The first step of that change is replacing all places
that used `SculptSession::pbvh` for access with a function.
Part of #118145.
There is some complexity in this area because the normals need to be
updated on the original geometry only when there is no deformation
or multires modifier. The simplest way to encapsulate that usage of
the original geometry for now was adding a separate function that
contains the lookup with a comment justifying it.
Part of #118145.
These days we aren't really benefiting from making PBVH an opaque type.
As we remove its responsibilities to focus it on being a BVH tree and look
to improve performance with data-oriented design, that will only become
more true.
There are some other future developments the current header structure
makes difficult:
- Storing selections of nodes with `IndexMask` for simpler iteration, etc.
- Specialization of node type for each PBVH type
- Reducing overhead of access to node data as nodes get smaller
- General C++ cleanliness and consistency
This PR moves `PBVH` to `blender::bke::pbvh::Tree` and moves `PBVHNode`
to `blender::bke::pbvh::Node`. Both are classes visible to elsewhere in Blender
but with private data fields.
The difficult part about the change is that we're in the middle of a transition
removing data from PBVH. Rather than making some data truly private I
chose to just give it the `_` suffix, since it will ideally be removed later.
Other things should be class methods or implemented as part of friend
classes. But the "fake" private status is much simpler for now and avoids
increasing the scope of this PR too much. Though that's a bit ugly, there's a
straightforward way to resolve these issues-- it just looks like the sort of
inconsistency you'd expect in the middle of a large refactor.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124919
The value was set and transfered to `MeshBatchCache`but never
actually used. Even then, this is clearly not a good solution to the
problem the comments mentioned. If that happens if would be
better to solve it in a different way.
The `overlay_wireframe` shaders uses a `nor` input but it wasn't added
to the GPU batch since the normals were split to a separate vertex buffer.
Adding that input gets closer to the appearance in 4.0. But it still looks a
bit different-- the outline is not as bright overall.
Fixes#120781.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120827
Implements another phase of #116901, this time for the `lines` and
`lines_loose` index buffers that store indices for wireframe drawing.
The key improvement is removing loose edge's dependency on the main
edge index buffer. That means for the majority of meshes with no loose
edges, edge index extraction can be completely skipped. Even when there
are loose edges, only the loose edges need to be extracted with
wireframe turned off.
Besides that improvement, there are more changes to use data-oriented
code with visible hot loops instead of the virtual function call design
used for the existing mesh extractor system. For this step I completely
replaced the `extract_lines` object, which is in line with the general
plan for this area.
Additionally, hidden edge filtering is done ahead of time using several
`IndexMask` operations. This means only indices for visible edges need
to be uploaded to the GPU, and no restart index stripping needs to be
performed on macOS.
On my usual test file with 1.9 million vertices, I observed an
improvement from 26 to 33 FPS with wireframe off, and from 9.15 to 9.5
FPS with wireframe on.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120720
Also access the evaluated deform mesh with a function rather than
directly from object runtime data. The goal is to make it easier to use
implicit sharing for these meshes and to improve overall const
correctness.
After bace4c9a29, the vertex position and vertex normal VBOs
are split. The `overlay_paint_point` shader depends on the normals VBO
because the selection is stored in the `.w` component of the vector.
Now that all relevant code is C++, the indirection from the C struct
`GPUVertBuf` to the C++ `blender::gpu::VertBuf` class just adds
complexity and necessitates a wrapper API, making more cleanups like
use of RAII or other C++ types more difficult.
This commit replaces the C wrapper structs with direct use of the
vertex and index buffer base classes. In C++ we can choose which parts
of a class are private, so we don't risk exposing too many
implementation details here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119825
Currently there are two vertex buffers that contain mesh normals. First, the
normals are extracted and stored interleaved with positions. Then there is
a second vertex buffer for just normals. Interleaving them makes some
sense, since they change together, but it fights with the contiguous storage
benefits of `Mesh` and generally makes code more difficult to optimize.
This PR removes the normals interleaved with the positions and changes
the code for extracting positions and normals from meshes to be simpler
and faster, mainly by not using the "extract iterators" as described by the
#116901 design task. That moves most of the branching outside of hot
loops, so we don't do the same work for every mesh element. This also
gives us the option of not calculating or extracting normals in more
situations like wireframe display in the future.
This is only a small part of the work for #116901, so the state of the code
after this PR will have more design inconsistencies. I'll keep working to
resolve those in the future.
In general I observed at least a 5-40% improvement in FPS in playback
of files with large meshes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116902
The `object_to_world` and `world_to_object` matrices are set during
depsgraph evaluation, calculated from the object's animated location,
rotation, scale, parenting, and constraints. It's confusing and
unnecessary to store them with the original data in DNA.
This commit moves them to `ObjectRuntime` and moves the matrices to
use the C++ `float4x4` type, giving the potential for simplified code
using the C++ abstractions. The matrices are accessible with functions
on `Object` directly since they are used so commonly. Though for write
access, directly using the runtime struct is necessary.
The inverse `world_to_object` matrix is often calculated before it's
used, even though it's calculated as part of depsgraph evaluation.
Long term we might not want to store this in `ObjectRuntime` at all,
and just calculate it on demand. Or at least we should remove the
redundant calculations. That should be done separately though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118210
Overall the transition to C++ in the draw module is awkwardly half
complete, but moving more code to a C++ namespace makes cleaning up
this code in other ways much easier, and the next C++ cleanup steps
are clear anyway.
Except for vertex groups and a few older color types, these
are generally replaced by newer generic attribute types.
Also remove some includes of DNA_mesh_types.h, since it's
included indirectly by BKE_mesh.hh currently.
Each value is now out of the global namespace, so they can be shorter
and easier to read. Most of this commit just adds the necessary casting
and namespace specification. `enum class` can be forward declared since
it has a specified size. We will make use of that in the next commit.
Make the naming consistent with the recent change from "loop" to
"corner". Avoid the need for a special type for these triangles by
conveying the semantics in the naming instead.
- `looptris` -> `corner_tris`
- `lt` -> `tri` (or `corner_tri` when there is less context)
- `looptri_index` -> `tri_index` (or `corner_tri_index`)
- `lt->tri[0]` -> `tri[0]`
- `Span<MLoopTri>` -> `Span<int3>`
- `looptri_faces` -> `tri_faces` (or `corner_tri_faces`)
If we followed the naming pattern of "corner_verts" and "edge_verts"
exactly, we'd probably use "tri_corners" instead. But that sounds much
worse and less intuitive to me.
I've found that by using standard vector types for this sort of data,
the commonalities with other areas become much clearer, and code ends
up being naturally more data oriented. Besides that, the consistency
is nice, and we get to mostly remove use of `DNA_meshdata_types.h`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116238
The term `looptri` was used ambiguously for both single & arrays.
The term `tri` was also used, causing `tri->tri`.
Use terms:
- `looptris` for an array or when dealing with multiple items.
- `looptri` is used when dealing with a single item.
- `lt` for a single MLoopTri variables & arguments.
This was already a convention but not followed closely.
