The existing logic to copy `BMesh` custom data layers to `Mesh`
attribute arrays was quite complicated, and incorrect in some cases
when the source and destinations didn't have the same layers.
The functions leave a lot to be desired in general, since they have
a lot of redundant complexity that ends up doing the same thing for
every element.
The problem in #104154 was that the "rest_position" attribute overwrote
the mesh positions since it has the same type and the positions weren't
copied. This same problem has shown up in boolean attribute conversion
in the past. Other changes fixed some specific cases but I think a
larger change is the only proper solution.
This patch adds preprocessing before looping over all elements to
find the basic information for copying the relevant layers, taking
layer names into account. The preprocessing makes the hot loops
simpler.
In a simple file with a 1 million vertex grid, I observed a 6%
improvement animation playback framerate in edit mode with a simple
geometry nodes modifier, from 5 to 5.3 FPS.
Fixes#104154, #104348
Pull Request #104421
Don't crash on nonexisting uv selection layers. Add an assert
because for now it is a bug if they don't exist. But when converting
back to Mesh it is preferable to accept in release mode, as opposed to
crashing.
Pull Request #104600
When generating a Mesh from a BMesh the uv map bool layers are not
copied if all elements are false. To suppress the copying the flag
CD_FLAG_NOCOPY is set in the layer flags. However these layers *do*
need to be copied to other BMeshes (for example undo steps). So we
need to clear them afterwards.
Because of T95965, some attributes are stored as generic attributes
in Mesh but have special handling for the conversion to BMesh.
Expose a function to tell whether certain attribute names are handled
specially in the conversion, and refactor the error checking process
to use it. Also check for generic attributes on the face domain which
wasn't done before.
Author: Hans Goudey
Reviewed By: Joseph Eagar
Co-authored-by: Joseph Eagar <joeedh@gmail.com>
Pull Request #104567
As described in #95966, replace the `ME_EDGEDRAW` flag with a bit
vector in mesh runtime data. Currently the the flag is only ever set
to false for the "optimal display" feature of the subdivision surface
modifier. When creating an "original" mesh in the main data-base,
the flag is always supposed to be true.
The bit vector is now created by the modifier only as necessary, and
is cleared for topology-changing operations. This fixes incorrect
interpolation of the flag as noted in #104376. Generally it isn't
possible to interpolate it through topology-changing operations.
After this, only the seam status needs to be removed from edges before
we can replace them with the generic `int2` type (or something similar)
and reduce memory usage by 1/3.
Related:
- 10131a6f62
- 145839aa42
In the future `BM_ELEM_DRAW` could be removed as well. Currently it is
used and aliased by other defines in some non-obvious ways though.
Pull Request #104417
Currently this conversion (which happens when using modifiers in edit
mode, for example) is completely single threaded. It's harder than some
other areas to multithread because BMesh elements don't always know
their indices (and vise versa), and because the dynamic AoS format
used by BMesh makes some typical solutions not helpful.
This patch proposes to split the operation into two steps. The first
updates the indices of BMesh elements and builds tables for easy
iteration later. It also checks if some optional mesh attributes
should be added. The second uses parallel loops over all elements,
copying attribute values and building the Mesh topology.
Both steps process different domains in separate threads (though the
first has to combine faces and loops). Though this isn't proper data
parallelism, it's quite helpful because each domain doesn't affect the
others.
**Timings**
I tested this on a Ryzen 7950x with a 1 million face grid, with no
extra attributes and then with several color attributes and vertex
groups.
| File | Before | After |
| Simple | 101.6 ms | 59.6 ms |
| More Attributes | 149.2 ms | 65.6 ms |
The optimization scales better with more attributes on the BMesh. The
speedup isn't as linear as multithreading other operations, indicating
added overhead. I think this is worth it though, because the user is
usually actively interacting with a mesh in edit mode.
See the differential revision for more timing information.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16249
Also minor changes in comments:
- Reference BLENDER_HISTORY_FILE instead of the literal file-name
(simplifies looking up usage).
- Use usernames in tags, as noted in code-style.
This adds a new operator: bpy.ops.mesh.flip_quad_tessellation()
This operator rotates the internal loops of the selected quads, allowing
the user to control tessellation without destructively altering the
mesh.
{F14201995}
This operator can be found in the "Face" menu (Ctrl+F) under "Face
Data".
{F14201997}
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, dbystedt
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17056
Adds new options to UV Face selection in the UV Editor, with UV > Select > Select Similar
In multi object edit mode, "Similar Object" selects faces which have the same object.
"Similar Winding" will select faces which have the same winding, i.e. are they
facing upwards or downwards.
Resolves: T103975
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17125
There's a compromise of a code parameter called BEVEL_GOOD_ANGLE,
and bugs T44961, T86768, T95335, and this one, are all about problems
with various values of that parameter. If an angle of an adjacent
non-beveled edge is too close to that of the beveled edge, then you
get spikes. The BEVEL_GOOD_ANGLE says that if you are within that
angle difference, then no bevel happens. If the value is too small
then one gets spikes for certain models people build; if the value
is too large, then other people are annoyed that no bevel happens.
Hopefully this compromise in this commit is the final one I will do
before switching to Bevel v2, where none of this should be an issue.
Move the `ME_SHARP` flag for mesh edges to a generic boolean
attribute. This will help allow changing mesh edges to just a pair
of integers, giving performance improvements. In the future it could
also give benefits for normal calculation, which could more easily
check if all or no edges are marked sharp, which is helpful considering
the plans in T93551.
The attribute is generally only allocated when it's necessary. When
leaving edit mode, it will only be created if an edge is marked sharp.
The data can be edited with geometry nodes just like a regular edge
domain boolean attribute.
The attribute is named `sharp_edge`, aiming to reflect the similar
`select_edge` naming and to allow a future `sharp_face` name in
a separate commit.
Ref T95966
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16921
An apostrophe should not be used because it is not a mark of plural,
even for initialisms. This involves mostly comments, but a few UI
messages are affected as well.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16749
Currently the `MLoopUV` struct stores UV coordinates and flags related
to editing UV maps in the UV editor. This patch changes the coordinates
to use the generic 2D vector type, and moves the flags into three
separate boolean attributes. This follows the design in T95965, with
the ultimate intention of simplifying code and improving performance.
Importantly, the change allows exporters and renderers to use UVs
"touched" by geometry nodes, which only creates generic attributes.
It also allows geometry nodes to create "proper" UV maps from scratch,
though only with the Store Named Attribute node for now.
The new design considers any 2D vector attribute on the corner domain
to be a UV map. In the future, they might be distinguished from regular
2D vectors with attribute metadata, which may be helpful because they
are often interpolated differently.
Most of the code changes deal with passing around UV BMesh custom data
offsets and tracking the boolean "sublayers". The boolean layers are
use the following prefixes for attribute names: vert selection: `.vs.`,
edge selection: `.es.`, pinning: `.pn.`. Currently these are short to
avoid using up the maximum length of attribute names. To accommodate
for these 4 extra characters, the name length limit is enlarged to 68
bytes, while the maximum user settable name length is still 64 bytes.
Unfortunately Python/RNA API access to the UV flag data becomes slower.
Accessing the boolean layers directly is be better for performance in
general.
Like the other mesh SoA refactors, backward and forward compatibility
aren't affected, and won't be changed until 4.0. We pay for that by
making mesh reading and writing more expensive with conversions.
Resolves T85962
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14365
**Changes**
As described in T93602, this patch removes all use of the `MVert`
struct, replacing it with a generic named attribute with the name
`"position"`, consistent with other geometry types.
Variable names have been changed from `verts` to `positions`, to align
with the attribute name and the more generic design (positions are not
vertices, they are just an attribute stored on the point domain).
This change is made possible by previous commits that moved all other
data out of `MVert` to runtime data or other generic attributes. What
remains is mostly a simple type change. Though, the type still shows up
859 times, so the patch is quite large.
One compromise is that now `CD_MASK_BAREMESH` now contains
`CD_PROP_FLOAT3`. With the general move towards generic attributes
over custom data types, we are removing use of these type masks anyway.
**Benefits**
The most obvious benefit is reduced memory usage and the benefits
that brings in memory-bound situations. `float3` is only 3 bytes, in
comparison to `MVert` which was 4. When there are millions of vertices
this starts to matter more.
The other benefits come from using a more generic type. Instead of
writing algorithms specifically for `MVert`, code can just use arrays
of vectors. This will allow eliminating many temporary arrays or
wrappers used to extract positions.
Many possible improvements aren't implemented in this patch, though
I did switch simplify or remove the process of creating temporary
position arrays in a few places.
The design clarity that "positions are just another attribute" brings
allows removing explicit copying of vertices in some procedural
operations-- they are just processed like most other attributes.
**Performance**
This touches so many areas that it's hard to benchmark exhaustively,
but I observed some areas as examples.
* The mesh line node with 4 million count was 1.5x (8ms to 12ms) faster.
* The Spring splash screen went from ~4.3 to ~4.5 fps.
* The subdivision surface modifier/node was slightly faster
RNA access through Python may be slightly slower, since now we need
a name lookup instead of just a custom data type lookup for each index.
**Future Improvements**
* Remove uses of "vert_coords" functions:
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_alloc`
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_get`
* `BKE_mesh_vert_coords_apply{_with_mat4}`
* Remove more hidden copying of positions
* General simplification now possible in many areas
* Convert more code to C++ to use `float3` instead of `float[3]`
* Currently `reinterpret_cast` is used for those C-API functions
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15982
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
Since we free BMesh attributes by attempting on every domain,
sometimes the attribute wouldn't be found for a CustomData.
We avoid reallocating custom data blocks in that case, so we
need to pass the ownership of the "pool" back to the BMesh.
As part of T95966, this patch moves loose edge information out of the
flag on each edge and into a new lazily calculated cache in mesh
runtime data. The number of loose edges is also cached, so further
processing can be skipped completely when there are no loose edges.
Previously the `ME_LOOSEEDGE` flag was updated on a "best effort"
basis. In order to be sure that it was correct, you had to be sure
to call `BKE_mesh_calc_edges_loose` first. Now the loose edge tag
is always correct. It also doesn't have to be calculated eagerly
in various places like the screw modifier where the complexity
wasn't worth the theoretical performance benefit.
The patch also adds a function to eagerly set the number of loose
edges to zero to avoid building the cache. This is used by various
primitive nodes, with the goal of improving drawing performance.
This results in a few ms shaved off extracting draw data for some
large meshes in my tests.
In the Python API, `MeshEdge.is_loose` is no longer editable.
No built-in addons set the value anyway. The upside is that
addons can be sure the data is correct based on the mesh.
**Tests**
There is one test failure in the Python OBJ exporter: `export_obj_cube`
that happens because of existing incorrect versioning. Opening the
file in master, all the edges were set to "loose", which is fixed
by this patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16504
10131a6f62 replaced use of the `ME_EDGERENDER` flag with
`ME_EDGEDRAW`. However, left over from previous refactors, code
for leaving edit mode set that flag based on the edge angle. Edge angle
wireframe hiding is currently supposed to be adjustable with the
wireframe overlay settings. This patch restores the previous behavior
from before the cleanup commit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16451
If the edge you are going to slide along is very close to in line
with the adjacent beveled edge, then there will be sharp overshoots.
There is an epsilon comparison to just abandon loop slide if this
situation is happening. That epsilon used to be 0.25 radians, but
bug T86768 complained that that value was too high, so it was changed
to .0001 radians (5 millidegrees). Now this current bug shows that
that was too aggressively small, so this change ups it by a factor
of 10, to .001 radians (5 centidegrees). All previous bug reports
remained fixed.
The calls in the remesh operator were unnecessary because the mesh is
about to be replaced anyway, and nothing invalidates the caches, and
the call in BMesh -> Mesh conversion was unnecessary because the caches
are cleared at the top of the function already.
Separate freeing and clearing mesh runtime data in a more obvious way.
This makes it easier to see what data is meant to be cleared on certain
changes, rather than conflating it with freeing all of the runtime
caches.
Also comment and reduce the surface area of the "mesh runtime" API.
The redundancy in some functions made it confusing which one should
be used, resulting in subtle bugs or unnecessary boilerplate code.
Also, now bke::MeshRuntime is able to free all the data it owns by
itself, which makes this area easier to reason about. That required
changing the interface of a few functions to avoid passing Mesh when
they really just dealt with some runtime struct.
With more RAII semantics in the future, more of this manual freeing
will become unnecessary.
This gives a friendlier interface, an inline buffer, RAII, etc.
Also switch some BMesh functions that were only used by the snap
system's use of BVH utils.
Generally the `extern "C" {` brackets shouldn't be added around other
headers since it causes problems when using C++ features in them.
Follow that convention for the "bmesh.h" header.
If the edge you are going to slide along is very close to in line
with the adjacent beveled edge, then there will be sharp overshoots.
There is an epsilon comparison to just abandon loop slide if this
situation is happening. That epsilon used to be 0.25 radians, but
bug T86768 complained that that value was too high, so it was changed
to .0001 radians (5 millidegrees). Now this current bug shows that
that was too aggressively small, so this change ups it by a factor
of 10, to .001 radians (5 centidegrees). All previous bug reports
remained fixed.
Simplify API and improve accuracy of uv packing placement
by using pre-translation and double precision internally.
Will protect against future precision problems with UDIM.
No user visible changes expected.
Maniphest Tasks: T68889
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16362
Currently there are both "EDGERENDER" and "EDGEDRAW" flags, which are
almost always used together. Both are runtime data and not exposed to
RNA, used to skip drawing some edges after the subdivision surface
modifier. The render flag is a relic of the Blender internal renderer.
This commit removes the render flag and replaces its uses with the
draw flag.
Many connected edge loops could result in two edge loops sharing
vertices. This is more of a workaround, the reason for two edge loops
sharing vertices could be prevented some other way.
Add this check since it's a straightforward solution,
furthered investigation noted as a TODO.
