Add a command line option to load Blender without a window frame.
Currently this is only used on Wayland, enabled for WITH_UI_TESTS since
attempting to load LIBDECOR caused the tests to crash on start on Fedora.
For tests there is no need to use LIBDECOR, so disable the window frame.
This can also be used by users who don't want to use the X11 fallback if
LIBDECOR can't be found.
Ref !147716
This read as if it enabled window decorations.
Clarify & update the doc-strings of windowing arguments to be consistent.
Also order their inclusion in --help more logically.
There were two issues conspiring to prevent most BKE_reports from
surfacing when loading a file from the command line.
The first is that the "print_level" was left initialized to only
RPT_ERROR which prevents this particular warning from being traced to
the console.
The second is that, in order for us to display reports in the
notification area, we need to give the reports to the window manager.
This is typically all wired up during normal operator execution, but not
when just starting up from the command line.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/147251
New `--log-list-categories` command line argument to list all available
logging categories. This improves documentation of logging, allowing
users to understand what logging categories are available for use. It is
also useful for developers to understand what logging categories already
exist before making a change.
Implemented using static initializers to register all logrefs on startup.
Ref #141754
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146456
This is a port of iOS commit f3f8647 to main, for Xcode archiving to
also work for macOS bundles, allowing the bundle to be archived and
later distributed via Testflight, App Store Connect, etc...
Additonal Xcode property also had to be added to the extern draco shared
library target to prevent it from being included in the Xcode archive
(an implicit behavior for `SHARED` CMake libraries), without this,
the archive would get polluted, preventing it from being properly
recognized as a proper app bundle archive.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146027
This PR updates the VSE strip modifiers interface.
It now uses the same design as the object modifiers.
Changes:
* Except for the "Mask Input" subpanel, the modifier UIs are unchanged.
* Modifiers can now be rearranged using drag & drop.
* Additionally, there is now an active strip modifier. This is exposed
though python via `strip.modifiers.active`.
This is in part for !139634 which needs the concept of an active modifier.
Notes:
* The `modifier.cc` file included all the implementation of all modifiers.
With the addition of a another new callback in this PR, this file was
getting quite big so I split everything out into individual files for all
modifiers. The modifiers are getting registered at launch.
* The modifier panels are getting added using a UI template
(`template_strip_modifiers`) very similar to the object modifiers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145367
This PR adds code for setting the Quality of Service (QoS) level of the
process on Windows. This can, e.g., make sure that on hybrid systems
P-cores are utilized even when the app window is out of focus.
In the following cases, it is adjusted from the default behavior:
- In wm_jobs.cc the QoS level is raised while a priority job is running.
- The command line option `--qos [high|eco|default]` can be used to
change the QoS level of the process.
- By default, the QoS level is raised for the EEVEE performance tests,
as they check viewport rendering performance and would otherwise be
reliant on never going out of focus to not get a downgraded QoS level.
By default, they are created with an out of focus window at the time
of landing this PR. This PR makes sure that they actually measure the
animation replay performance attainable during real-world use.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144224
The PR restores the old behavior (after the changes in #139128) so that
specifying a path to a non-existing blend file will load Blender with
default blend default and with that name assigned. Paths to non-blend
files will load blender but then give the new warning message.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145274
When `--gpu-vsync` & `--gpu-compilation-subprocesses` received invalid
arguments, they weren't skipped (typically an attempt to load them as
a bland file would be made).
Dragging a non-Blend file onto the Blender executable currently
silently fails with Blender just aborting. With this PR any files used
as file argument will load Blender and show a warning if the file does
not exist or is not a blend file. Blend files that cannot be read are
treated as they are now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139128
Blender had some support for using MoltenVK. However there are some key
issues why MotlenVK cannot be used. Bugs have been reported up-stream.
As it doesn't work and holds back regular developments it will be removed
from the main branch.
Any efforts on making Vulkan run on Apple (including KosmicKrisp)
is considered a community effort and can be done in a development
branch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144602
Add a command line argument --gpu-vsync on/off/auto.
Prefer command line arguments for GPU settings,
as it means the value is error checked and set when Blender starts.
Also refactor GHOST_Context to take a parameter argument which
includes the stereo-visual & debug arguments and includes the newly
added vsync setting. This makes it possible to add GPU context
parameters more easily in the future.
It also removes redundant parsing & setting the VSync setting for
off-screen contexts.
Changes to recent PR !143049.
Ref !144473
This PR proposes to add a new flag `--shader-debug-info` that enables the generation of shader debug information.
I created this PR as WIP due to the following reasons:
- Currently it only works for the Vulkan backend. I do not know if it makes sense for other backends. For example, OpenGL directly receives the GLSL code, so there no need for this might exist.
- So far `--debug-gpu-renderdoc` already turns on the following changes for GLSL shader compilation with shaderc:
```
options.SetOptimizationLevel(shaderc_optimization_level_zero);
options.SetGenerateDebugInfo();
```
- While combining optimization level zero with debug info is a sensible choice for frame debuggers like RenderDoc, my use case for creating this PR is shader profiling. In this case, one does not want compiler optimizations to be turned off. At the current point in time, the only information my profiler uses (which is unfortunately not public at this point in time) is the name of the shader. When turning on debug information, shaderc/glslang store this information in the generated SPIR-V data. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the profiler to tell the user what the name of the shader it is that is profiled.
- An alternative solution would be to rename the entry point `main` of a shader to the name of the shader. But this might be an even uglier hack, as it requires editing the source code (and the name of the shader then needs to be a valid GLSL function name).
- We should first clarify if there is interest in the Blender side in upstreaming an option like this. While I could just keep this in my local fork of Blender, there is merit in having the possibility to profile arbitrary Blender builds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142986
* GHOST is an implementation detail, Blender environment variables should
have the BLENDER_ prefix.
* Don't put links in command line help output. We don't do this for other
arguments either, and it's trivial to search for this online.
* Make description more straightforward and line wrap.
* Use CLOG for logging.
Ref #143049
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144349
The --debug-ffmpeg flag now is the same as --log video, and only exists for
backwards compatibility. The ffmpeg verbosity can now be controlled with
--log-level.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143447
This PR proposes to add an environment variable for forcing vsync to
be on or off. My primary use case was to disable vsync for forcing
viewport rendering performance tests not to be capped at the display
refresh rate when #142984 is used for removing animation frame rate
limits.
I initially added the environment variable "GHOST_VSYNC_OFF", but
found "GHOST_VSYNC=0/1" to be more easily understandable.
Usage:
- GHOST_VSYNC=0 => Vsync is forced off
- GHOST_VSYNC=1 => Vsync is forced on
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143049
* Replace G.quiet by CLG_quiet_set/get
* CLOG_INFO_NOCHECK prints are now suppressed when quiet, these were
typically inside a if (!G.quiet) conditional already.
* Change some prints for blend files, color management and rendering to
use CLOG, that were previously using if (!G.quiet) printf().
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143138
With Vulkan now having general feature parity with OpenGL, but with
some stability issues, it has become more important to offer ways for
users to quickly launch Blender with the OpenGL or Vulkan backend
in case Blender is unable to open with one of them.
This commit adds three new batch files to help with this:
- `blender_factory_startup_vulkan.cmd`
- Launches Blender with factory settings, but with Vulkan enabled.
Useful for helping test if a Vulkan crash at startup is related to
a addon.
- `blender_startup_opengl.cmd`
- Simply launches Blender with the OpenGL backend. It does not change
any other settings. Useful in case a user has complex user
preferences, enabled Vulkan for testing, and now Blender crashes on
startup. Now they want to switch back to OpenGL and they don't want
to lose their complex user preferences by using
`blender_factory_startup.cmd`
- `blender_startup_vulkan.cmd`
- Simply launches Blender with the Vulkan backend. It does not change
any other settings. Useful for people that encounter #127835 after
a Windows update. This issue can be worked around by using Vulkan.
But if you are experiencing the issue and are on the OpenGL
backend, you can't use the Blender interface and so you can't
easily switch to the Vulkan backend without the command line
or a script like this.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142169
Crash popups were being displayed even when Blender was running in
background mode, causing the process to hang and blocking automated
workflows (e.g., render farms).
Therefore, disable the crash popup when running in background mode.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142518
The numeric levels have no obvious meaning. This removes the distinction
between severity and levels, instead there is a single list of named levels
with defined meaning.
Debug means information that's mainly useful for developers, and trace is for
very verbose code execution tracing.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
* Add render category, which is automatically enabled when using -f or -a
command line flags for background rendering.
* Add extra logs to mention scene, view layer and frame ahead of time rather
than including it in every line.
* Remaining time was removed from Cycles, this will be added back for animations
at the render pipeline level.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
* Modify --log-level to accept error/warning/info/debug string values
* Add --log-show-source, now hidden by default
* Remove --log-show-basename, path is now on own line
* Add --log-show-memory
* Remove --log-show-timestamp, now always shown
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
