The main goal is to simplify adding support for nested node panels. The patch
makes use of the updated recursive node declarations introduced in
6ffc585fb8.
The main changes are:
* Rewritten node drawing in a way that makes ui design decisions like panel
visibility and margins more explicit. Especially the handling of margins is
much better now imo. Previously, it was very hard to change the margin for
specific cases without accidentally breaking other situations. Now each
possible case has an explicit margin. This needs a few more lines of code but
is much easier to work with.
* Rewritten node drawing in panel (sidebar + material properties) using the new
ways to iterate over the declaration.
* It's possible to add custom layouts at any point in the node declaration now.
This also replaces the need for having a `draw_buttons` callback for panels.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128822
Fixes an issue with the new node insertion feature where, after a link drag search,
the main input of the new node is connected to, regardless of which one was chosen.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128640
This refactor contains the following changes:
* Each `PanelDeclaration` contains its direct children. Previously, it only knew
how many children it had. That added complexity to wherever we iterate over
the node declaration.
* Adds a new `DeclarationListBuilder` that is a base class of
`NodeDeclarationBuilder` and `PanelDeclarationBuilder`. It makes sure that the
same API for adding sockets, panels and separators exist for both.
* Modified declare functions for group, group input and group output nodes to
use the normal node builder api instead of doing something custom.
No functional changes are expected.
The main reason for this refactor is to simplify working with nested panels in
node declarations which is useful when we want to support nested panels in the
node editor. The node drawing code is not simplified in this patch, but that
should be easier afterwards.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128799
Previously, Cycles only supported the Henyey-Greenstein phase function for volume scattering.
While HG is flexible and works for a wide range of effects, sometimes a more physically accurate
phase function may be needed for realism.
Therefore, this adds three new phase functions to the code:
Rayleigh: For particles with a size below the wavelength of light, mostly athmospheric scattering.
Fournier-Forand: For realistic underwater scattering.
Draine: Fairly specific on its own (mostly for interstellar dust), but useful for the next entry.
Mie: Approximates Mie scattering in water droplets using a mix of Draine and HG phase functions.
These phase functions can be combined using Mix nodes as usual.
Co-authored-by: Lukas Stockner <lukas@lukasstockner.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123532
This makes link-drag-search more convenient when one wants to insert a new node
between existing nodes. The change currently also affects normal node-insertion
when dragging it. The exact behavior still has to be figured out.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128197
Send a WM notifier when deleting a node from a node tree/group. Removing
a node also removes its animation data, and thus animation editors need
to receive a notification to refresh.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128255
When assigning an Action with the new API:
- check the Actions ID type (if it is a legacy Action), and
- check whether the ID is in NLA tweak mode.
This means that action assignment can fail, so the
`animrig::assign_action()` and `animrig::unassign_action()` functions
now return a `[[nodiscard]] bool`.
Part of `generic_assign_action()` has now also been shielded with an
`#ifdef WITH_ANIM_BAKLAVA` just to be sure.
This also includes a change in `BKE_animdata_free()`. That function now
first exits NLA tweak mode (if enabled) before freeing the Actions. This
makes it possible to simply un-assign the assigned Action, as all the
NLA tweakmode stuff has already been taken care of by the responsible
function.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128199
After 4bf08198a7 it it no longer necessary to flip gizmo bounds if they are not valid.
Note: it is still possible to create an invalid crop and "losing" the gizmo if it is dragged and dropped outside the compositor canvas. This will be addressed in a different patch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127656
This makes the input field much wider. I enabled this for most string sockets
except for a few where it is important to see the label even if the user has
inserted a string already (usually because there is more than one string input).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127992
This adds a new type of zone to Geometry Nodes that allows executing some nodes
for each element in a geometry.
## Features
* The `Selection` input allows iterating over a subset of elements on the set
domain.
* Fields passed into the input node are available as single values inside of the
zone.
* The input geometry can be split up into separate (completely independent)
geometries for each element (on all domains except face corner).
* New attributes can be created on the input geometry by outputting a single
value from each iteration.
* New geometries can be generated in each iteration.
* All of these geometries are joined to form the final output.
* Attributes from the input geometry are propagated to the output
geometries.
## Evaluation
The evaluation strategy is similar to the one used for repeat zones. Namely, it
dynamically builds a `lazy_function::Graph` once it knows how many iterations
are necessary. It contains a separate node for each iteration. The inputs for
each iteration are hardcoded into the graph. The outputs of each iteration a
passed to a separate lazy-function that reduces all the values down to the final
outputs. This final output can have a huge number of inputs and that is not
ideal for multi-threading yet, but that can still be improved in the future.
## Performance
There is a non-neglilible amount of overhead for each iteration. The overhead is
way larger than the per-element overhead when just doing field evaluation.
Therefore, normal field evaluation should be preferred when possible. That can
partially still be optimized if there is only some number crunching going on in
the zone but that optimization is not implemented yet.
However, processing many small geometries (e.g. each hair of a character
separately) will likely **always be slower** than working on fewer larger
geoemtries. The additional flexibility you get by processing each element
separately comes at the cost that Blender can't optimize the operation as well.
For node groups that need to handle lots of geometry elements, we recommend
trying to design the node setup so that iteration over tiny sub-geometries is
not required.
An opposite point is true as well though. It can be faster to process more
medium sized geometries in parallel than fewer very large geometries because of
more multi-threading opportunities. The exact threshold between tiny, medium and
large geometries depends on a lot of factors though.
Overall, this initial version of the new zone does not implement all
optimization opportunities yet, but the points mentioned above will still hold
true later.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127331
Instead of assigning Actions by direct pointer manipulation (and the
corresponding juggling of user counts), call `animrig::assign_action()`
and `animrig::unassign_action()`.
These functions not only correctly handle user counts, but also ensure
that slot assignments & user tracking works. The former always happens,
the latter only when building with experimental features enabled.
Because (un)assigning slotted Actions need the animated ID (instead of
just the `AnimData *`), more functions now require an `OwnedAnimData`.
Note that there is still some user count juggling. This is caused by
`BKE_id_new()`, and by extension `BKE_action_add`, returning an ID with
user count = 1, even though that ID is not yet used. A todo task #128017
has been made to change `BKE_action_add()` so that the Action it returns
can be directly fed into `animrig::assign_action()`.
This PR updates the following areas:
- Creating a node group by grouping animated nodes, as this has to move
the animation data. This PR just handles the assignment of a new
Action.
- Temporary Action creation for ungrouping node groups.
- Versioning of pre-2.5 animation data.
No functional changes.
Ref: #123424
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128026
Previously, it was possible to get an invalid zone by copying e.g. the Simulation Input.
Now, whenever copying only one zone node, the other one will automatically be selected
as well. This effectively avoids the dangling zone node.
The same happens already when deleting and grouping nodes.
There are still ways to get dangling zone nodes, especially from Python.
We already have the `description` property on panels but are currently not
displaying it when hovering over a panel header. With this patch, the
descriptions will be shown in group nodes as well as the geometry nodes
modifier.
I had to do two lower level changes for layout panels because it didn't work
with tooltips properly.
* Tooltips make the label in the panel header interactive, but clicking to
open/close the panel should still work.
* The tooltip should disappear when clicking on the header. This is consistent
with tooltips in other places.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127852
Previously, we only measured the execution time of built-in nodes. To get
execution times of node groups, the time of each nested node was accumulated.
This can lead to very bad accuracy when multiple nodes are evaluated at the same
time.
With this patch, we measure the time spend in each compute context more directly
instead of relying on accumulating many small measurements. This also opens up
some potential optimization opportunities, because we can skip measuring the
time for contexts that we don't care about. However, that is not implemented
yet.
The time shown in the UI can still be misleading when many things are going on
at the same time, but it should at least be more accurate in more situations
now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127658
This adds support for line separators in nodes. Currently this is only available for
built-in nodes and it's only used in the Simulation Zone. However, we also want
to use it in the For Each Geometry Element zone (#127331). Support for node groups
can be added separately too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127501
Previously, all errors, warnings and info messages were propagated from the node
that generates it to the top level node group. This is a good default, but may
not always be desirable. For example, someone may build a node group asset that
generates some warning that is irrelevant to the user to the asset. Now, the
asset author can selectively disable propagating warnings from that node.
Each node has a new `Warning Propagation` setting. It controls if warnings from
this node should be propagated to the parent group node. By default, everything
is propagated. One can also choose to propagate nothing, only errors or only
errors and warnings.
Note, this does not affect whether the warning is shown in the node itself, only
if the warning is propagated one level up!
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126786
This replaces the plain texture selector with a proper TemplateID,
resulting in buttons to add a new texture if none is there yet, and if
there is one, there will be the usual conveniece buttons to add a fake
user, create single user copies, ..., as well as the button to go to the
textures tab in the Properties Editor for more fine-grained control over
the texture.
Fixes#126856
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126890
Previously, the inferencing result was only stored in the socket shape.
However, that was conflicting with experiments where the socket shape and
the field state was not related.
Use snake style naming for all the kernel nodes functions.
Omit kernel prefix in the names since of the using namespace.
Use full forms of the terms
('iter' -> 'iterator', 'ntree' -> 'node_tree', 'rem' -> 'remove', ...).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126416
This operator sets the new default group node width (from e842966c5e) based on
the parent group node. This makes it easier to initialize the value. Without
this, one had to create and delete the group node potentially many times to find
a good default width.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126239
This adds the ability to customize the default width of a group node that's
created for a node group. This feature works towards the goal of unifying the
features available to built-in nodes and node groups. We often customize the
width of built-in nodes from them to looks slightly better (e.g. to avoid
cut-off labels).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126054
This patch introduces a new experimental option for the new CPU
compositor under development. This is to make development easier such
that it happens directly in main, but the compositor is not expected to
work and will probably crash.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125960
Previously, values for `ID.flag` and `ID.tag` used the prefixes `LIB_` and
`LIB_TAG` respectively. This was somewhat confusing because it's not really
related to libraries in general. This patch changes the prefix to `ID_FLAG_` and
`ID_TAG_`. This makes it more obvious what they correspond to, simplifying code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125811
This patch adds support for multi-pass compositing for EEVEE. This is
done by copying the passes used by the compositor node tree to the DRW
view data, which can then be accessed by the viewport compositor.
The viewport compositor will fallback to the viewport texture or an
invalid output of the passes were not initialized, this is currently the
case for any render engine that is not EEVEE.
A future optimization that we can do is eliminate the film pass copy
shaders and only copy the data that EEVEE rendered, which can be a
subset of the viewport for border rendering. This is not done at the
moment because not all engines support passes at the moment, so the
compositor expects full viewport passes.
Depends on: #123685, #123817, #123815.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123378
This continues the cmake modernization effort and introduces support for
allowing our optional dependencies to integrate properly. TBB is added
here as it's proven troublesome to maintain correctly.
Currently the only Blender project which uses the TBB headers directly
is `blenlib`. However, all downstream projects which require blenlib as
their dependency, and wish to properly make use of its threading
facilities, needed to define various TBB items in their CMake files. Not
only is this unnecessary and arcane, but several projects didn't do this
and ended up not using threading as well as producing ODR violations
along the way[1].
This PR makes TBB a modern dependency and exposes it PUBLIC'ly from
`blenlib`. All downstream projects which depend on blenlib will now
receive everything they require from TBB automatically. This includes
the `WITH_TBB` define, the headers, and the library itself.
[1] blender/blender@05241f47f5
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124916
This PR removes the "Widget Label" text style, found in Preferences /
Themes / Text Style. This results in both labels and the text found in
input boxes sharing settings. This results in a slight loss of
customization but it isn't that useful to have these things separate
and results in code complication and errors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122898
Multi-layer image passes are missing after dragging and dropping an EXR
into the compositor editor. To fix this, we tag the new nodes as needing
an update due to changed ID.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124855
This commit moves generated `RNA_blender.h`, `RNA_prototype.h` and
`RNA_blender_cpp.h` headers to become C++ header files.
It also removes the now useless `RNA_EXTERN_C` defines, and just
directly use the `extern` keyword. We do not need anymore `extern "C"`
declarations here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124469
