Adds a new node to set the Grease Pencil depth ordering.
Here are the options:
* 2D Layers: Uses the Layer order + Stroke order to calculate the depth ordering.
* 3D Location: Uses the 3D position of the points as the depth.
This reflects the same setting that is available in the Grease Pencil
object-data properties.
The node is added to the `Grease Pencil` > `Write` menu.
Resolves#129458.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135914
Adds a new `Set Grease Pencil Color` node.
It was already possible to write to the color and opacity attributes using the
`Store Named Attribute` node, but this required the user to know the names
of the "built in" attributes.
Similar to how we can set other built-in attributes (e.g. the curve radius) this
adds a node to write to the following Grease Pencil attributes:
* `vertex_color` (point domain): The color of a point (the alpha value is used
as a mix factor with the base material color).
* `opacity` (point domain): The opacity of a point.
* `fill_color` (curve domain): The fill color of a stroke (the alpha value is used
as a mix factor with the base material color).
* `fill_opacity` (curve domain): The fill opacity of a stroke.
For consistency with other nodes, there is a mode to switch between writing
to the points (`Stroke` mode) and the fills (`Fill` mode).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136260
Add a "dumb vector" storage option for custom normals, with the
"custom_normal" attribute. Adjust the mesh normals caching to
provide this attribute if it's available, and add a geometry node to
store custom normals.
## Free Normals
They're called "free" in the sense that they're just direction vectors
in the object's local space, rather than the existing "smooth corner
fan space" storage. They're also "free" in that they make further
normals calculation very inexpensive, since we just use the custom
normals instead. That's a big improvement from the existing custom
normals storage, which usually significantly decreases
viewport performance. For example, in a simple test file just storing
the vertex normals on a UV sphere, using free normals gives 25 times
better playback performance and 10% lower memory usage.
Free normals are adjusted when applying a transformation to the entire
mesh or when realizing instances, but in general they're not updated for
vertex deformations.
## Set Mesh Normal Node
The new geometry node allows storing free custom normals as well as
the existing corner fan space normals. When free normals are chosen,
free normals can be stored on vertices, faces, or face corners. Using
the face corner domain is necessary to bake existing mixed sharp and
smooth edges into the custom normal vectors.
The node also has a mode for storing edge and mesh sharpness, meant
as a "soft" replacement to the "Set Shade Smooth" node that's a bit
more convenient.
## Normal Input Node
The normal node outputs free custom normals mixed to whatever domain is
requested. A "true normal" output that ignores custom normals and
sharpness is added as well.
Across Blender, custom normals are generally accessed via face and
vertex normals, when "true normals" are not requested explicitly.
In many cases that means they are mixed from the face corner domain.
## Future Work
1. There are many places where propagation of free normals could be
improved. They should probably be normalized after mixing, and it
may be useful to not just use 0 vectors for new elements. To keep
the scope of this change smaller, that sort of thing generally isn't
handled here. Searching `CD_NORMAL` gives a hint of where better
propagation could be useful.
2. Free normals are displayed properly in edit mode, but the existing
custom normal editing operators don't work with free normals yet.
This will hopefully be fairly straightforward since custom normals
are usually converted to `float3` for editing anyway. Edit mode
changes aren't included here because they're unnecessary for the
procedural custom normals use cases.
3. Most importers can probably switch to using free normals instead,
or at least provide an option for it. That will give a significant
import performance improvement, and an improvement of Blender's
FPS for imported scenes too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132583
Some nodes like the Math and Mix Color node are duplicated when looking
at the link add search menu. That's because all nodes are considered in
that operation, even ones that are not listed in the menu. To fix this,
just disable the functionality for those legacy nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136979
This patch supports GPU OIDN denoising in the compositor. A new
compositor performance option was added to allow choosing between CPU,
GPU, and Auto device selection. Auto will use whatever the compositor is
using for execution.
The code is two folds, first, denoising code was adapted to use buffers
as opposed to passing in pointers to filters directly, this is needed to
support GPU devices. Second, device creation is now a bit more involved,
it tries to choose the device is being used by the compositor for
execution.
Matching GPU devices is done by choosing the OIDN device that matches
the UUID or LUID of the active GPU platform. We need both UUID and LUID
because not all platforms support both. UUID is supported on all
platforms except MacOS Metal, while LUID is only supported on Window and
MacOS metal.
If there is no active GPU device or matching is unsuccessful, we let
OIDN choose the best device, which is typically the fastest.
To support this case, UUID and LUID identifiers were added to the
GPUPlatformGlobal and are initialized by the GPU backend if supported.
OpenGL now requires GL_EXT_memory_object and GL_EXT_memory_object_win32
to support this use case, but it should function without it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136660
In several nodes such as the capture attribute, bake, simulation, repeat,
and For Each nodes, we already use alignment of input and output sockets
to show when they correspond, make better use of space, and simplify
the UI. This PR extends that change to many more nodes. Sockets are
aligned when they have the same name and data propagates between
them. For now the various "sampling" nodes like Raycast and Sample
Nearest Surface are left out since their interface is a bit more complex.
Backward and forward compatibility aren't affected by this change;
it's just visual.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135876
This patch adds a new interpolation option to the Scale node to control
how pixels are sampled during scaling. For constant sizes, this stores
the interpolation for later realization, while for variable sizes, the
interpolation takes effect immediately.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135989
This implements bundles and closures which are described in more detail in this
blog post: https://code.blender.org/2024/11/geometry-nodes-workshop-october-2024/
tl;dr:
* Bundles are containers that allow storing multiple socket values in a single
value. Each value in the bundle is identified by a name. Bundles can be
nested.
* Closures are functions that are created with the Closure Zone and can be
evaluated with the Evaluate Closure node.
To use the patch, the `Bundle and Closure Nodes` experimental feature has to be
enabled. This is necessary, because these features are not fully done yet and
still need iterations to improve the workflow before they can be officially
released. These iterations are easier to do in `main` than in a separate branch
though. That's because this patch is quite large and somewhat prone to merge
conflicts. Also other work we want to do, depends on this.
This adds the following new nodes:
* Combine Bundle: can pack multiple values into one.
* Separate Bundle: extracts values from a bundle.
* Closure Zone: outputs a closure zone for use in the `Evaluate Closure` node.
* Evaluate Closure: evaluates the passed in closure.
Things that will be added soon after this lands:
* Fields in bundles and closures. The way this is done changes with #134811, so
I rather implement this once both are in `main`.
* UI features for keeping sockets in sync (right now there are warnings only).
One bigger issue is the limited support for lazyness. For example, all inputs of
a Combine Bundle node will be evaluated, even if they are not all needed. The
same is true for all captured values of a closure. This is a deeper limitation
that needs to be resolved at some point. This will likely be done after an
initial version of this patch is done.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128340
Under some circumstances the `value_task` run by node tree updates
needs access to a node group topology cache. Unlike the `usage_task`
it was not ensuring the cache for the node group, so a stale cache
could be used (triggers assert).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136878
Part of incoming refactors in interface layout c++ code, this enables
forward declaring this enum type. Enum is renamed as `EmbossType` and
moved to `blender::ui` namespace. No user visible changes expected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136725
This adds a new Camera Info node to Geometry Nodes. It provides information
about the passed in camera like its projection matrix and focus distance.
This can be used for camera culling which was must more complex before.
It also allows building other view-dependent effects.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135311
The issue is caused by the fact that when both compositors are used,
`fftwf_plan_dft_r2c_2d` can end up being called in parallel, which is
only thread-safe if `fftwf_make_planner_thread_safe` is called before.
This is done by `fftw::initialize_float`, but only if the FFTW threading
support library is available. Said library was not detected correctly on
Windows because of a typo, which this change addresses. This should also
make the fog glow faster on Windows because it'll now use multithreaded
FFT as intended.
This change also moves the call to `initialize_float` to the main
function because the FFTW functions it calls are not thread-safe and
because FFTW is also used by Audaspace, which cannot call it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136557
The Glare node currently has a Maximum Highlights input, which has a
special value of 0.0, where the maximum is implicitly set to infinity,
that is, no suppression of highlights happen at that special value. Such
special values are hard to discover and make sliders non-continuous.
To fix this, we introduce a new panel toggle input called Suppress
Highlights, which the user can enable then control the maximum value.
This also have the advantage that the Maximum value is more clear, since
it is now under a panel more clearly named.
This is now possible since the introduction of boolean sockets and node
panel toggle inputs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136309
This patch makes it such that the compositor fallback to using the
order of the inputs to infer the domain priority if no domain priority
is specified. This is more robust since some nodes do not declare their
domain priorities and indirectly rely on the order of insertions in some
containers and thus might fail in the future.
We opt for this as opposed to requiting all nodes to declare their
priorities for code brevity.
This makes it possible to restore previous Blender 4.3 behavior of bump
mapping, where the large filter width was sometimes (ab)used to get a bevel
like effect on stepwise textures.
For bump from the displacement socket, filter width remains fixed at 0.1.
Ref #133991, #135841
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136465
Resolves#136183
To avoid quadratic worst case runtime when gathering values from
the modifier properties, build a temporary VectorSet of the modifier's
IDProperties. In the file from #136183, this change improves playback
performance by 1.4x for me, from 50 to 70ms.
Ideally IDProperty groups would have constant time lookup on their
own, but that's a much larger change, and this smaller change for just
Geometry Nodes is not so invasive.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136463
Usually we prefer to propogate attributes based on name, even for
conversion between geometry types. Builtin attributes are a common
exception though. The Curve to Points node and the Curve to Mesh node
didn't correctly handle the "custom_normal" attribute, which shouldn't
be propagated. This has only been a problem since custom normals were
converted to a generic attribute on meshes in f9b627d29c.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136452
The Cryptomatte node fails for image sequences in some cases. This is
due to a use after free error which might even crash in some cases. This
is because the loop that computes the image Cryptomatte layers calls the
cached images container to get the passes, which might free the render
layers structure that is used while looping.
To fix this, gather the render pass names first then retrieve all the
images at once.
If a panel has a toggle, then it's a best practice that everything inside it is
grayed out of the toggle is off. It's not something we can enforce for node
groups, but should enforce it for built-in nodes. Right now, we don't have
built-in nodes with panels, but that may change e.g. with #135990.
This patch makes it so that the socket usage inferencing takes panel toggles
into account when determining if an input socket in a built-in node in a panel
is used.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135993
The newly added Mix node causes the compositor to assert and misbehave.
That's because its has unavailable sockets, and the compositor code base
was not designed to handle unavailable sockets. To this patch fixes that
by handing unavailable sockets everywhere that matters.
This patch adds support for boolean sockets in the compositor. This
involves adding a new Bool ResultType and handling it in relevant code.
For shader operations, booleans are passes as floats since GPUMaterial
does not yet support boolean types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136296
Callbacks: exec invoke & modal now use a typed enum wmOperatorStatus.
This helps avoid mistakes returning incompatible booleans or other
values which don't make sense for operators to return.
It also makes it more obvious functions in the WM API are intended
to be used to calculate return values for operator callbacks.
Operator enums have been moved into DNA_windowmanager_enums.h
so this can be used in other headers without loading other includes
indirectly.
No functional changes expected.
Ref !136227
This patch adds support for all types of single values for the File
Output node, image types are not yet supported. This involves converting
integer types to float since image saving code does not support integer
images.
This patch adds a new Image Info node which returns information about
compositor images. The node has three sources:
The node returns the following information:
- Pixel Coordinates: The coordinates of the centers of the pixels in the
image. Those are essentially the integer coordinates with half pixels
offsets added.
- Texture Coordinates: Zero centered pixel coordinates normalized along
the greater dimension. Somewhat analogous to Object coordinates in
shader nodes.
- Resolution: The resolution of the image.
- Location: The location of the image in the virtual compositing space.
- Rotation: The rotation of the image in the virtual compositing space.
- Scale: The scale of the image in the virtual compositing space.
This node is very useful to allow greater flexibility and procedural
creations. For instance, coordinates can be used to create procedural
effects like vignette using very simple math nodes. And size can be used
to compute size-relative parameters for pixel-parameter nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135104
This patch adds common nodes that are used in Geometry Nodes and Shader
Nodes to the compositor. The following new nodes were added:
- Vector Math.
- Vector Rotate.
- Vector Mix.
- Value Mix.
- Clamp.
- Float Curve.
- Blackbody.
The follow nodes were replaced by common counterparts:
- Value.
- Color Ramp.
- Mix Color.
- Map Range.
- Math.
- Combine XYZ.
- Separate XYZ.
- Vector Curves.
Some new features were gained in the process:
- Mix Color can now clamp both factor and result.
- Map Range can map different types and interpolations.
- Vector Curves gained a new Factor input.
Some behaviors were changed:
- Map Range previously forcibly clamped values whose magnitude is larger
than the arbitrary value of 10000. This is no longer the case.
Some nodes were removed:
- Map Value. This was Map Range without the maximum 10000 limitation
followed by a Clamp node. Both are now available as nodes.
Some common nodes remain separate:
- Separate/Combine Color. Shader counterpart does not yet support all
color modes, and does not support alpha.
- RGB Curves. Shader variant does not support Film-Like curves or
Black/White balancing.
Texture nodes will also be added soon in a separate patch. Nodes that
were replaced are now deprecated but still exist and will later be
removed in v5.0. Backward compatibility code was introduced to convert
from the deprecated nodes to the new nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135300
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
The main reason that didn't work before because undefined custom node groups
have the undefined `bNodeType` (and thus are ignored in various places) but are
actually still groups that can be evaluated. The fix is just to handle custom
node groups a bit more explicitly.
In the future, we may want to have a separate "undefined custom group"
`bNodetype`, but that might a be a bit bigger project.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135974
