Add a new section to the `Context` page that includes an explanation
on how to invoke "on demand" logging for context member access.
Design task: #144746
Logging added in: !144810
Ref !146862
The grid layout for UI lists wasn't used in practice from all we can
tell. It was badly maintained for a long time (bugs went unnoticed). I
think it was added for an earlier version of the asset UI design.
This was planned for removal in 5.0, see blender/blender#110461.
Usages in bundled scripts were already removed in efa8d942b8.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146656
"Use Nodes" was removed in the compositor to simplify the compositing
workflow. This introduced a slight inconsistency with the Shader Node
Editor.
This PR removes "Use Nodes" for object materials.
For Line Style, no changes are planned (not sure how to preserve
compatibility yet).
This simplifies the state of objects; either they have a material or
they don't.
Backward compatibility:
- If Use Nodes is turned Off, new nodes are added to the node tree to
simulate the same material:
- DNA: Only `use_nodes` is marked deprecated
- Python API:
- `material.use_nodes` is marked deprecated and will be removed in
6.0. Reading it always returns `True` and setting it has no effect.
- `material.diffuse_color`, `material.specular` etc.. Are not used by
EEVEE anymore but are kept because they are used by Workbench.
Forward compatibility:
Always enable 'Use Nodes' when writing blend files.
Known Issues:
Some UI tests are failing on macOS
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141278
This makes the shader node inlining from #141936 available to external renderers
which use the Python API. Existing external renderer add-ons need to be updated
to get the inlined node tree from a material like below instead of using the
original node tree of the material directly.
The main contribution are these three methods: `Material.inline_shader_nodes()`,
`Light.inline_shader_nodes()` and `World.inline_shader_nodes()`.
In theory, there could be an inlining API for node trees more generally, but
some aspects of the inlining are specific to shader nodes currently. For example
the detection of output nodes and implicit input handling. Furthermore, having
the method on e.g. `Material` instead of on the node tree might be more future
proof for the case when we want to store input properties of the material on the
`Material` which are then passed into the shader node tree.
Example from API docs:
```python
import bpy
# The materials should be retrieved from the evaluated object to make sure that
# e.g. edits of Geometry Nodes are applied.
depsgraph = bpy.context.view_layer.depsgraph
ob = bpy.context.active_object
ob_eval = depsgraph.id_eval_get(ob)
material_eval = ob_eval.material_slots[0].material
# Compute the inlined shader nodes.
# Important: Do not loose the reference to this object while accessing the inlined
# node tree. Otherwise there will be a crash due to a dangling pointer.
inline_shader_nodes = material_eval.inline_shader_nodes()
# Get the actual inlined `bpy.types.NodeTree`.
tree = inline_shader_nodes.node_tree
for node in tree.nodes:
print(node.name)
```
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145811
Fix several documentation related typos.
Found via `codespell -S "*.desktop,*.diff,./intern,./extern,./locale,./AUTHORS,./source/blender/blenlib/tests/BLI_string_utf8_test.cc,./doc/license/bf-members.txt" -L accessort,abd,aci,alo,ans,ba,bording,childrens,clen,constructin,datas,dependees,domin,eary,ege,eiter,elemt,eles,endianess,enew,espace,finded,fiter,fpt,groupd,hist,implementating,indext,ine,infront,inout,inouts,inpt,ist,lene,listenter,lod,maks,masia,mata,mis,mke,nam,nd,ned,opose,ot,outlow,parm,parms,passt,pinter,pixelx,poin,pres,ptd,re-usable,re-use,re-used,re-uses,re-using,ridiculus,schem,soler,strack,suh,te,tesselate,tham,ue,vai,varius,wew`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145824
Added the following notes to documentation:
- `msgbus` interaction with undo system that particularly makes
it not completely reliable, since users they easily skip it's effect.
- Details on when and how often message bus updates are triggered.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138557
This PR adds builtin shaders for drawing points. Using `FLAT_COLOR`,
`SMOOTH_COLOR`, `UNIFORM_COLOR` can lead to undesired behavior
on Metal and Vulkan backends. To ensure future compatibility this PR
adds `POINT_FLAT_COLOR` and `POINT_UNIFORM_COLOR`.
The point size can be set using `gpu.state.point_size_set`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139583
When submitting #135854 I've assumed that `RuntimeError` is
connected particularly to `{'CANCELLED'}` return status. Turned
out error is raised regardless of what return status is and it's
only based on the presence of error reports during operator
execution. Submitting a clarification for this.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138558
In Geometry Nodes a geometry is represented by a `GeometrySet`. This is a
container that can contain one geometry of each of the supported types (mesh,
curves, volume, grease pencil, pointcloud, instances). It's possible for a
`GeometrySet` to contain e.g. a mesh and a point cloud.
This patch creates a Python wrapper for the built-in `GeometrySet`. For now,
it's main purpose is to consume the complete evaluated geometry of an object
without having to go through complex hoops via `depsgraph.object_instances`. It
also also allows retrieving instances that have been created with legacy
instancing systems such as dupli-verts or particles.
In the future, the `GeometrySet` API could also be used for more kinds of
geometry processing from Python, similar to how we use `GeometrySet` internally
as generic geometry storage.
Since we can't really have constness guarantees in Python currently, it's
enforced that the `GeometrySet` wrapper always has its own copy of each geometry
type (so e.g. it does not share a `Mesh` data-block pointer with any other place
in Blender). Without the copy, changes to the mesh in the geometry set would
also affect the evaluated geometry that Blender sees. The copy has a small cost,
but typically the overhead should be low, because attributes and other run-time
data can still be shared. This should be entirely thread-safe, assuming that no
code modifies implicitly shared data, which is forbidden. For historic reasons
there are still cases like #132423 where this assumption does not hold in all
cases. Those cases should be fixed. To my knowledge, this patch does not
introduce any new such issues or makes existing issues worse.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135318
Add support for using BLF to draw into an ImBuf image buffer.
Once the imbuf context has been set, draw calls for that font_id will draw into the image.
This works by binding an imbuf to BLF which is then used as the target when drawing.
```
with blf.bind_imbuf(font_id, imbuf):
blf.draw_buffer(font_id, text)
```
See the example in the Python API documentation for reference.
The following BLF API's have been added to support a Python context manager.
- `BLF_buffer_state_push`.
- `BLF_buffer_state_pop`
- `BLF_buffer_state_free`
Ref !135772
When calling bpy.utils.expose_bundled_modules(), these modules are
added to sys.path.
This provides a solution/workaround to two problems:
* Using bpy together with packages like usd-core is problematic. Besides
crashing due to C++ symbol conflicts, it's just impossible to import
different versions of the same module, or to have distinct environment
variables for both. (#127132)
* Blender add-ons using these VFX modules do not currently work with
the bpy module.
This adds about 15MB to the bpy package.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133082
Updated the example to include new hook functions
material_import_poll and on_material_import as well
as the new import_texture and export_texture
utilities which were introduced in #131559.
Also reformatted the existing documentation to include
subheaders and internal links, as the previous paragraph
format became difficult to follow.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132259
When importing an USD, the Blender object names do not necessarily match
Prim names:
```
#usda 1.0
def Xform "xform1"
{
def Mesh "MyObject" # Will be imported as "MyObject"
}
def Xform "xform2"
{
def Mesh "MyObject" # Will be imported as "MyObject.001"
}
def Xform "xform2"
{
def Mesh "MyObject" # Will be imported as "MyObject.002"
}
```
This makes it difficult in the [USD Import Hooks]
(https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.USDHook.html) to link a
Blender object back to its source Prim for additional processing. A
typical use cases for games is to generate UVs, create and apply a
material on the fly when importing a collision shape that does not have
a visual representation (hence no materials) based on some Prim
attributes, but that the artist needs to differenciate in Blender's
viewport.
The Import context exposes a new method `get_prim_map()` that returns a
`dict` of `prim path` / `list of Blender ID`.
For example, given the following USD scene,
```
/
|--XformThenCube [def Xform]
| `--Cube [def Cube]
|--XformThenXformCube [def Xform]
| `--XformIntermediate [def Xform]
| `--Cube [def Mesh]
|--Cube [def Cube]
`--Material [def Material]
`--Principled_BSDF [def Shader]
```
the `get_prim_map()` method will return a map as:
```python
@static_method
def on_import(import_context):
pprint(import_context.get_prim_map())
```
```json
{
"/Cube": [bpy.data.objects["Cube.002"], bpy.data.meshes["Cube.002"]],
"/XformThenCube": [bpy.data.objects["XformThenCube"]],
"/XformThenCube/Cube": [bpy.data.objects["Cube"], bpy.data.meshes["Cube"]],
"/XformThenXformCube": [bpy.data.objects["XformThenXformCube"]],
"/XformThenXformCube/XformIntermediate": [bpy.data.objects["XformIntermediate"]],
"/XformThenXformCube/XformIntermediate/Cube": [bpy.data.objects["Cube.001"], bpy.data.meshes["Cube.001"]],
"/Material": [bpy.data.materials["Material"]],
}
```
Co-authored-by: Odréanne Breton <odreanne.breton@ubisoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Sttevan Carnali Joga <sttevan.carnali-joga@ubisoft.com>
Co-authored-by: Charles Flèche <charles.fleche@ubisoft.com>
