Supporting selection operators and overlays in sculpt mode is necessary
to support masking operations.
This enables selection drawing in the overlay in sculpt mode,
and ensures all the necessary operators (pick, lasso, circle, box)
handle the differences in modes correctly.
The selection code so far was expecting object mode, so the `vc->obedit`
object was used without further checks. Now the selection code can be
called outside of edit mode, in which case the `vc->obact` object must
be used instead. Similarly edit mode and sculpt mode have separate
`selectmode` flags, so the correct mode property must be used from the
tool settings depending on the object mode. These changes require some
refactoring of unrelated selection code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128040
This requires writing selection attributes to a different domain than
the Point domain.
Note that for assigning/removing from vgroups the `adapt_domain`
function is used implicitly by always looking up attributes from the
Point domain: ".selection" may be stored on Curves and will
automatically be adapted to points. For select-by-vgroup `adapt_domain`
cannot be used because the selection has to be "greedy" (one point
selects the whole curve).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127799
Add new ID_IS_EDITABLE macro that checks if the ID can be edited in the
user interface. Replace usage of ID_IS_LINKED where it is used with this
meaning.
Also add a corresponding ID.is_editable property for Python.
This prepares for the ability to edit some linked datablocks for brush
assets.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121838
The main motivation for this is that it's part of a fix for #113377,
where I want to propagate the edit mesh pointers through copied
meshes in modifiers and geometry nodes, instead of just setting the
edit mesh pointer at the end of the modifier stack. That would have
two main benefits:
1. We avoid the need to write to the evaluated mesh, after evaluation
which means it can be shared directly among evaluated objects.
2. When an object's mesh is completely replaced by the mesh from another
object during evaluation (with the object info node), the final edit
mesh pointer will not be "wrong", allowing us to skip index-mapped
GPU data extraction.
Beyond that, using a shared pointer just makes things more automatic.
Handling of edit mesh data is already complicated enough, this way some
of the worry and complexity can be handled by RAII.
One thing to keep in mind is that the edit mesh's BMesh is still freed
manually with `EDBM_mesh_free_data` when leaving edit mode. I figured
that was a more conservative approach for now. Maybe eventually that
could be handled automatically with RAII too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120276
Reordering vertex groups (move up/down or sort) wasn't handled yet for
GPv3, resulting in an assert in `BKE_object_defgroup_array_get()`.
This PR fixes that.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119979
Move the public functions from the editors/object (`ED_object.hh`)
header to the `blender::ed::object` namespace, and move all of the
implementation files to the namespace too. This provides better code
completion, makes it easier to use other C++ code, removes unnecessary
redundancy and verbosity from local uses of public functions, and more
cleanly separates different modules.
See the diff in `ED_object.hh` for the main renaming changes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119947
These functions were declared in the editors/mesh module but
defined in the editors/object module. This commit moves them to
a separate header associated with the object editors module.
The depsgraph CoW mechanism is a bit of a misnomer. It creates an
evaluated copy for data-blocks regardless of whether the copy will
actually be written to. The point is to have physical separation between
original and evaluated data. This is in contrast to the commonly used
performance improvement of keeping a user count and copying data
implicitly when it needs to be changed. In Blender code we call this
"implicit sharing" instead. Importantly, the dependency graph has no
idea about the _actual_ CoW behavior in Blender.
Renaming this functionality in the despgraph removes some of the
confusion that comes up when talking about this, and will hopefully
make the depsgraph less confusing to understand initially too. Wording
like "the evaluated copy" (as opposed to the original data-block) has
also become common anyway.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118338
Adds vertex groups and basic operator support to the `GreasePencil` data
block.
Vertex groups in the `GreasePencil` ID are used as the source of truth
for vertex groups names and ordering in the UI. Individual drawings also
have vertex group lists, but they should not be modified directly by
users or the API. The main purpose of storing vertex group names in in a
drawing's `CurveGeometry` is to make it self-contained, so that vertex
weights can be associated with names without requiring the
`GreasePencil` parent data.
Vertex group operators are implemented generically for some ID types.
Grease Pencil needs its own handling in these operators. After
manipulating `vertex_group_names` the `validate_drawing_vertex_groups`
utility function should be called to ensure that drawings only contain a
true subset of the `GreasePencil` data block.
Operators for assigning/removing/selecting/deselecting vertices are also
implemented here. To avoid putting grease pencil logic into the generic
`object_deform.cc` file a number of utility functions have been added in
`BKE_grease_pencil_vgroup.hh`.
Fixes#117337
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117476
This simplifies code using these functions because of RAII,
range based for loops, and the lack of output arguments.
Also pass object pointer array as a span in more cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117482
Each value is now out of the global namespace, so they can be shorter
and easier to read. Most of this commit just adds the necessary casting
and namespace specification. `enum class` can be forward declared since
it has a specified size. We will make use of that in the next commit.
Use the standard "elements_num" naming, and use the "corner" name rather
than the old "loop" name: `verts_num`, `edges_num`, and `corners_num`.
This matches the existing `faces_num` field which was already renamed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116350
"mesh" reads much better than "me" since "me" is a different word.
There's no reason to avoid using two more characters here. Replacing
all of these at once is better than encountering it repeatedly and
doing the same change bit by bit.
This replaces the older dynamic c arrays with blender::Vector as
appropriate. Many files required minimal changes and the before/after
are quite similar.
There's 3 remaining usages of the old machinery but those will require
more involved changes and design.
See #103343
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110981
If an armature is present, but not active the group_select_mode defaults to WT_VGROUP_BONE_DEFORM, and throws an error because it can't find any active vertex groups. we're now checking to see if any bone is actively deforming before switching to WT_VGROUP_BONE_DEFORM (else defaulting to WT_VGROUP_ALL)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112648
This was noted in code comments and checked in Python documentation
generation but not at build time.
Since these enums are identifiers that end up included in various places
enforce the `rna_enum_*_items` convention which was noted as
the convention but not followed strictly.
Partially reverts [0], avoids having to deal with multiple prefix types.
[0]: 3ea7117ed1
With the end goal of simplifying ownership and memory management,
and allowing the use of `get_name` in contexts without statically
allocated strings, use `std::string` for the return values of these two
operator type callbacks instead of `const char *` and `char *`.
In the meantime things get uglier in some places. I'd expect `std::string`
to be used more in the future elsewhere in Blender though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110823
Using ClangBuildAnalyzer on the whole Blender build, it was pointing
out that BLI_math.h is the heaviest "header hub" (i.e. non tiny file
that is included a lot).
However, there's very little (actually zero) source files in Blender
that need "all the math" (base, colors, vectors, matrices,
quaternions, intersection, interpolation, statistics, solvers and
time). A common use case is source files needing just vectors, or
just vectors & matrices, or just colors etc. Actually, 181 files
were including the whole math thing without needing it at all.
This change removes BLI_math.h completely, and instead in all the
places that need it, includes BLI_math_vector.h or BLI_math_color.h
and so on.
Change from that:
- BLI_math_color.h was included 1399 times -> now 408 (took 114.0sec
to parse -> now 36.3sec)
- BLI_simd.h 1403 -> 418 (109.7sec -> 34.9sec).
Full rebuild of Blender (Apple M1, Xcode, RelWithDebInfo) is not
affected much (342sec -> 334sec). Most of benefit would be when
someone's changing BLI_simd.h or BLI_math_color.h or similar files,
that now there's 3x fewer files result in a recompile.
Pull Request #110944
Implements the rest of #101689, after 5e9ea9243b.
- `vdata` -> `vert_data`
- `edata` -> `edge_data`
- `pdata` -> `face_data`
- `ldata` -> `loop_data`
A deeper rename of `loop` to `corner` will be proposed as a next
step, and renaming `totvert` and `totedge` can be done separately.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110432
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
Combine the newer less efficient C++ implementations and the older
less convenient C functions. The maps now contain one large array of
indices, split into groups by a separate array of offset indices.
Though performance of creating the maps is relatively unchanged, the
new implementation uses 4 bytes less per source element than the C
maps, and 20 bytes less than the newer C++ functions (which also
had more overhead with larger N-gons). The usage syntax is simpler
than the C functions as well.
The reduced memory usage is helpful for when these maps are cached
in the near future. It will also allow sharing the offsets between
maps for different domains like vertex to corner and vertex to face.
A simple `GroupedSpan` class is introduced to make accessing the
topology maps much simpler. It combines offset indices and a separate
span, splitting it into chunks in an efficient way.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107861
Change display name of OBJECT_OT_vertex_group_copy to "Duplicate Vertex
Group" from "Copy Vertex Group". The word "duplicate" is a better
unambiguous descriptor of this operation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107691
Add the ability to retrieve implicit sharing info directly from the
C++ attribute API, which simplifies memory usage and performance
optimizations making use of it. This commit uses the additions to
the API to avoid copies in a few places:
- The "rest_position" attribute in the mesh modifier stack
- Instance on Points node
- Instances to points node
- Mesh to points node
- Points to vertices node
Many files are affected because in order to include the new information
in the API's returned data, I had to switch a bunch of types from
`VArray` to `AttributeReader`. This generally makes sense anyway, since
it allows retrieving the domain, which wasn't possible before in some
cases. I overloaded the `*` deference operator for some syntactic sugar
to avoid the (very ugly) `.varray` that would be necessary otherwise.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107059