Support for having an input and output socket in the same socket declaration
builder was added for the original node panels to be able to support inline
sockets. However, those were generally disabled for now. As can be seen in the
simulation and repeat zone, inline sockets can work differently too. Having an
input and output in the same socket declaration builder builder makes some
things simpler but makes other things much harder. For example, the current
design wouldn't work all that well if the input and output socket has different
types. This is easier to do with the `align_with_previous_socket` approach.
I'm not yet entirely sure whether we want to use the same approach for
corresponding sockets in the node tree interface, but that can be tried and
decided separately.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119599
Similar to the recently introduced `Solver` enum. This is just friendlier
and doesn't require including `DNA_node_types.h` in the geometry
module header. There's no strong benefit to declaring these enums in
DNA in practice.
This adds a "Solver" option to the geo boolean node, with the options
Exact and Float.
The current geo boolean node only uses the Exact solver.
This adds the ability to use the faster original floating point boolean solver.
The float solver has issues with coplanar and other coincident geometry,
but is generally much faster than the Exact solver, and users have asked
for this option (which is available in the Boolean Modifier and edit mode
boolean tool).
Like the modifier, the Float solver needs to convert the Mesh to BMesh,
do the operation, and then convert back to Mesh. It also has to do it
iteratively if more than two operands are supplied.
This is the first of a planned series of commits that will add a
new exact boolean solver, based on the Ember paper, as a solver option.
Ember will be much faster than the current exact solver, but may still not
be as fast as float, and also will not handle some non-volume-enclosing
inputs as well as Float, so it is likely that the Float solver will always remain.
We may eventually retire the old Exact Solver, however.
This commit also prepares for more sensible code in the future by
changing the internal enum names for the solvers to better reflect the
algorithms used: Fast -> Float, and Exact -> Mesh_Arr (which means
"Mesh Arrangments, the name of the paper upon which the current
exact solver is based).
Co-authored-by: Howard Trickey <trickey@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119294
Fix of error introduced in c31718649d. Attribute names will
be freed on domain resizing. This mean, ref-names which is attribute
ids is will be invalid. To avoid this, make sure names will be gathered
only after resize. To avoid unnecessary topology map computation before
mesh resize, check if attributes on required domain exists, instead
of gathering them and check if span is not empty.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119242
For various reasons, the animation system can't properly update the node tree
so that the socket availability caused by changing node enum properties
propagates completely. So animating node properties that affect
socket visibility to change isn't possible without issues like crashes.
Unfortunately that wasn't disallowed before. In this commit there is
a balance of disabling animation on sockets that could reasonably expected
to affect socket visibility, and minimizing breaking changes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119221
Header file is renamed to GEO_mesh_boolean_convert.cc and
files that included it are updated to use that path.
This is in preparation for bigger changes to the internal
boolean API, which make more sense as a "geometry" API
than a kernel API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119336
Typically nodes that edit instances only change the top level of
instances. As an oversight, that wasn't done in the sort elements node.
This causes problems as the top level of instances are reordered and
nested instances are edited. As the top-level is replaced, its
contained geometry sets (the nested instances) are deleted.
To fix, only reoder the top-level instances in this node.
Alternative to #118820 and #118815.
The current optimization to skip work when the offsets are zero
or the positions are the original positions is error prone and overly
specific. Such optimizations should be applied to field evaluation
and attribute capturing in general.
This PR significantly simplifies the set position node to compose
fields with the addition function instead of implementing it directly
in the node. Then the position is saved to the geometry with the
generic utility for capturing attributes on geometry.
The most significant lost optimization is for when the positions are
original and the offset is zero. That could still be added back here
directly if we wanted. Or it could be done later in a more general
way that would also help in other places.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118857
Adds two nodes as "grid" equivalents to the existing volume nodes:
- **Grid to Mesh**
- **Distribute Points in Grid**
The code for the latter is just duplicated for now. In a later step
old node can be replaced by versioning with two new nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118830
This adds a new special purpose container data structure that can be
used to gather many elements into many (potentially small) lists efficiently.
I originally worked on this data structure because I might want to use it
in #118772. However, also it's useful in the geometry nodes logger already.
I'm measuring a 10-20% speed improvement in my many-math-nodes file
when I enable logging for all sockets (not just the ones that are currently visible).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118774
String attributes are not handled correctly (or at all) by geometry nodes
currently because their storage is very inefficient and will likely have to
change in the future anyway. Elsewhere processing string attributes was
explicitly disabled. That was missing in these cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118802
Currently, we don't support this. Depending on the geometry type, the rotations
are either displayed as black, magenta or there is a crash. Better disable this for
now until we have a proper implementation. It's not quite obvious how rotation
values should be converted to a color, so this also needs some design work.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118808
The standard `threading::parallel_for` function tries to split the range into
uniformly sized subranges. This is great if each element takes approximately
the same amount of time to compute.
However, there are also situations where the time required to do the work for
a single index differs significantly between different indices. In such a case,
it's better to split the tasks into segments while taking the size of each task into
account.
This patch implements `threading::parallel_for_weighted` which allows passing
in an additional callback that returns the size of each task.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118348
This simple node finds the values of a volume grid at
positions in the local space used in geometry nodes
evaluation. There are three interpolation modes to
choose how to mix values between neighboring voxels.
For the implementation, first the values are sampled
with the grid's type directly, then implicit type conversions
are used to get the final type. This makes gives us flexibility
in case there aren't exact matches in support between grid
types and Blender types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118397
Similar to 2e6223d90f, but potentially 16 times more effective.
The new attribute is named "instance_transform". It isn't displayed in the
spreadsheet since that wouldn't really be useful. This simplifies a lot of
code since it doesn't have to handle transforms specially anymore. But
complexity is added in the store named attribute node and attribute input
node to keep the old "position" attribute working for compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118531
This adds support for removing multiple named attributes from a geometry at once
using a string pattern that can contain a single wildcard character (`*`).
Using the pattern `sim_*` removes all attributes with the `sim_` prefix for example.
The most difficult design issue here is the decision of what pattern matching language
to use. In the end we only settled on the lowest common denominator for now. This
is already very useful and does not limit us much in the future if we want to support
more complex pattern matching. Once we support lists, some of the use-cases can
also be solved more generally without extra functionality in the Remove Named Attribute
node.
Different pattern matching languages have been discussed before:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/string-pattern-matching-language-in-blender-and-geometry-nodes/27410
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118258
