The import nodes are considered complete enough to expose without
the experimental option. This commit removes the option so they will
be exposed in 4.5. There are still some possible future improvements,
including automatic caching, possibly exposing more input sockets,
and possibly including imported paths in the "Internal Dependencies"
panel. Those are considered non blocking though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135957
This used custom data types before, which was misleading and didn't
scale well because the set of attribute types is different than the set
of grid types we can store. Now just use the grid data type, like how
the store named attribute node uses the attribute type.
This covers backward compatibility, but not forward compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135814
Implement shortcuts for viewer nodes. Viewer nodes are now activated using the operator `bpy.ops.node.activate_viewer()` instead of activating the viewer by setting the node to active.
This also unifies the behavior with viewer shortcuts in the compositor (see attachment in the original PR).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134555
The main issue of 'type-less' standard C allocations is that there is no check on
allocated type possible.
This is a serious source of annoyance (and crashes) when making some
low-level structs non-trivial, as tracking down all usages of these
structs in higher-level other structs and their allocation is... really
painful.
MEM_[cm]allocN<T> templates on the other hand do check that the
given type is trivial, at build time (static assert), which makes such issue...
trivial to catch.
NOTE: New code should strive to use MEM_new (i.e. allocation and
construction) as much as possible, even for trivial PoD types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135855
This replaces the implicit use of the `radius` attribute on the input
curves with an input field `Scale` that gets evaluated on the point
domain of the input curves to scale the profile.
It wasn't super intuitive that the `radius` would actually act as
a scale of the profile. E.g. if the radius of the input curve was
`1 meter` the resulting profile was unscaled (scaled by 1), but
wouldn't necessarily have a size of `1 meter` (only if the profile
also had a size of 1m)! If imperial units were used, `3.28084 ft`
would correspond to a scale of 1.
This change makes this behavior a lot more clear and potentially
removes the need for the assumption that the default curve radius
is `1.0f` (Ideally, the default curve radius should be `0.01f`).
While we did consider making the `Scale` input use the `radius`
field implicitly by default, we decided against it, because it again
"hides" the dependency on the radius and the fact that the radius
is used as a scale. Letting the user make this decision seems better.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134187
Unlike the legacy type, the radius isn't included in the bounds for the new
curves type. This hasn't been obvious because the drawing is quite broken
and doesn't use the radius properly.
This commit adds a separate cache for the bounds with the radius, which
is now used by default. The old cache is kept around for backward
compatibility in the bounding box geometry node, where a new
"Use Radius" option accesses the old behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135584
The name of each instance geometry is the character. This makes debugging
in the spreadsheet much easier, and the objects from "Visual Geometry to Objects"
are actually usable too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135599
As a small addition to the import node features for 4.5,
this simple node imports a text file as a string. Potential
use cases include retrieving text for motion graphics.
Currently this just allows .txt files. More extensions could
be allowed in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135459
The equivalent operation in edit mode reused existing vertices
rather than taking the new positions from the convex hull output.
This commit implements the same behavior for the geometry node.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135536
The general idea is to keep the 'old', C-style MEM_callocN signature, and slowly
replace most of its usages with the new, C++-style type-safer template version.
* `MEM_cnew<T>` allocation version is renamed to `MEM_callocN<T>`.
* `MEM_cnew_array<T>` allocation version is renamed to `MEM_calloc_arrayN<T>`.
* `MEM_cnew<T>` duplicate version is renamed to `MEM_dupallocN<T>`.
Similar templates type-safe version of `MEM_mallocN` will be added soon
as well.
Following discussions in !134452.
NOTE: For now static type checking in `MEM_callocN` and related are slightly
different for Windows MSVC. This compiler seems to consider structs using the
`DNA_DEFINE_CXX_METHODS` macro as non-trivial (likely because their default
copy constructors are deleted). So using checks on trivially
constructible/destructible instead on this compiler/system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134771
Previously, only `,` was a valid delimiter, but it's also common to have e.g.
tab or semicolon. Only single characters are supported as delimiters. A few
characters are not allowed because they have other meanings: `\n`, `\r`, `"`,
`\\`.
Note: The best way to get a tab character is the use the Special Characters node
currently.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135468
Adds a mode option to the node to choose between the existing
behavior and new behavior that converts each face to a cyclic curve.
Generally this is much faster than the existing mode because it's
easy to parallelize and because curve offsets and face and corner
attributes can be implicitly shared to avoid copies.
Resolves#134671.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134773
Currently, when selecting a file path using the file browser opened from the
node socket, there is no filter active making it harder than necessary to find
the correct file. This patch adds the proper filter. Something similar is done
when using e.g. the gltf import from the menu.
Supporting this requires changes in a bunch of places:
* `StringPropertyRNA` now has a callback that returns the file path pattern.
This has to be a callback, because the same property is used on all file path
sockets, but the valid extension depends on the node.
* The string socket declaration also has the optional path pattern. This can be
set in the node declarations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134931
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
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
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
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
