The File Output node always appends the frame number even if the render
is not an animation. This patch makes it such that the frame number is
only written if the render is an animation. The user can use a frame
variable to manually append the frame number if needed.
The command line rendering interface already uses animation rendering in
all cases, so it should not be affected. However, rendering using the
render.render() operator with animation=False will see the behavior
change, however, setting animation=False and start_frame and end_frame
to the same frame number should be sufficient to restore the old
behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141209
Border links (links going from an outer zone to an inner zone) need special
handling. When requesting the value of a linked socket from outside of the
current zone, the compute context of that parent zone has to be used.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146059
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
The tree-type argument for the `supports_socket_type` type should be
allowed to be anything. There doesn't seem to be a great benefit in
restricting it. Always returning false when the tree type is not supported
makes sense.
In addition it would also be good to double-check that one can't add
the bundle and closure nodes in the compositor yet. From my basic tests,
that seems to work as expected.
This adds a function that can turn an existing `bNodeTree` into an inlined one.
The new node tree has all node groups, repeat zones, closures and bundles
inlined. So it's just a flat tree that ideally can be consumed easily by render
engines. As part of the process, it also does constant folding.
The goal is to support more advanced features from geometry nodes (repeat zones,
etc.) in shader nodes which the evaluator is more limited because it has to be
able to run on the GPU. Creating an inlined `bNodeTree` is likely the most
direct way to get but may also be limiting in the future. Since this is a fairly
local change, it's likely still worth it to support these features in all render
engines without having to make their evaluators significantly more complex.
Some limitations apply here that do not apply in Geometry Nodes. For example,
the iterations count in a repeat zone has to be a constant after constant
folding.
There is also a `Test Inlining Shader Nodes` operator that creates the inlined
tree and creates a group node for it. This is just for testing purposes.
#145811 will make this functionality available to the Python API as well so that
external renderers can use it too.
node_geo_mesh_primitive_cube.cc uses M_PI_2 without including
BLI_math_constants.h. Unsure why this is a problem for me locally
but not for the bots but i'm guessing its a unity build difference.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145950
Previously, when a node was muted, all automatically hidden sockets suddenly
became visible. This is because of a rule where inputs that are never ever used,
are not-hidden (only sockets where the usage depends on some condition are
allowed to be hidden automatically). Since the inputs without internal link in a
muted nodes are never used, they become visible when a node is muted.
The solution is to ignore whether a node is muted in the case when the socket
usage for node-editor-drawing is computed. In nested nodes, muting should not be
ignored.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145729
This adds a boolean output for each of the menu items. The output is true, if
the passed in menu value is that item. This avoids the need to compare the
output value to the input values to get a boolean for whether a specific menu
item was passed in.
Support is added for Geometry Nodes as well as the Compositor. Usage/Value
inferencing has been updated as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145712
- "grease pencil" -> "Grease Pencil": title case.
- "Display type" -> "Display Type": title case for property name.
- "Bezier" -> "Bézier": proper noun.
- "Mem:%dM, Peak %dM" -> "Mem:%dM, Peak: %dM": missing colon.
- "cannot save image while rendering" -> "Cannot": Sentence case.
- "Linked data cannot text-space transform" -> "Cannot create
transform on linked data": rephrase strange sentence.
- "Unsupported object type for text-space transform" -> "... for
texture space transform": unnecessary abbreviation.
- "Cannot write to asset %s: %s": remove double space.
- "Failed to set tmpact" -> "temporary action": unclear abbreviation.
- "luminance at which the midetones of the image" -> "midtones: typo.
- "Line angle where the image should be split." -> trailing full stop.
- "... instances all the children in the collection" -> "... instances
of all the children...": missing "of".
- "Curves to generated rounded corners on" -> "generate": typo.
- "Instances that converted to a point per instance" -> "Instances to
convert to points": rephrase unclear sentence.
- "Great Pencil to set the depth order of" -> "Grease Pencil": typo.
- "Description to set the smoothness of" -> "Geometry to set the
smoothness of": typo.
- "A cannot use current file as library" -> "cannot use...": typo.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145840
Previously, group input values were logged for each group input socket. This
means that each value might be logged many times currently when there are many
Group Input nodes.
This patch changes it so that group input values are only logged for a single
socket. In the provided file from #145385 this speeds up playback performance
from 23 to 39 fps. The next bottleneck there is node editor drawing. If I change
the Geometry Nodes editor to another editor type the speedup is 36 (`main`) to
110 fps (this patch).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145781
Functions for convert between the color types and ostream support are
now outside the classes.
Many files were changed to fix cases where direct includes for headers
were missing.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145756
An existing node converts a value (float) to string. This node is intended as a conversion in
the other direction. If parsing is unsuccessful, floating point 0 is output. This node also
outputs the length of the parsed string (i.e. the index of the first character where the
number stopped).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112174
This PR renames the Shader and Compositing RGB nodes to unify them with
the Geometry Color input node. The Compositing node output socket was
also renamed from "RGBA" to "Color" following other nodes. This is a
5.0 breaking change as part of #96219
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140495
Currently attribute names are often added to a hash map that doesn't
maintain the original order. This is convenient for developers but it's
better for users if attributes aren't arbitrarily reordered. Instead,
use `VectorSet` which gives the benefit of a hash map but maintains the
insertion order. The main downside is the loss of O(1) removal which we
benefited from in a few cases. I used string comparison instead for now.
Fixes#144491, #122994
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145668
Improve handling of runtime defined python RNA properties. Mainly:
* Add `get_transform` and `set_transform` new callbacks.
These allow to edit the value, while still using the default
(IDProperty-based) storage system.
* Read-only properties should now be defined using a new `options` flag,
`READ_ONLY`.
* `get`/`set` should only be used when storing data outside of the
default system now.
* Having a `get` without a `set` defined forces property to be
read-only (same behavior as before).
* Having a `set` without a `get` is now an error.
* Just like with existing `get/set` callbacks, `get_/set_transform`
callbacks must always generate values matching the constraints defined
by their `bpy.props` property definition (same type, within required
range, same dimensions/sizes for the `Vector` properties, etc.).
* To simplify handling of non-statically sized strings, the relevant
RNA API has been modified, to use `std::string` instead of
(allocated) char arrays.
Relevant unittests and benchmarking have been added or updated as part
of this project.
Note: From initial benchmarking, 'transform' versions of get/set are
several times faster than 'real' get/set.
Implements #141042.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141303
This node is really just a function node. The main thing that's somewhat special about
it is the implicit input for the id, but that's supported for function nodes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145549
Currently, `InferenceValue` contains either a primitive value or is in the
"unknown" state. Previously, all code had the assumption that when the value is
not unknown, it is a primitive value. However, that may not be true anymore when
we support inferencing through e.g. bundles and closures as those are not
"primitive". This assumption is removed now, non-primitive values have not been
added yet though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145532
Value and usage inferencing can be done independently. Usage-inferencing uses
the value-inferencing but not the other way around. Extracting value-inferencing
makes the separation more clear and also simplifies potentially reusing the
value-inferencing code later on.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145492
This applies an OpenColorIO display, view and look transform on a color
in the scene_linear colorspace.
In general, OpenColorIO configurations do not contain a colorspace for
every view + display, especially if they are modern configs using the
display colorspace and shared view mechanisms. Nor do they include looks.
So the Convert Colorspace node is not sufficient.
Additionally, we would like to avoid making the colorspace list too long
in the default config, as we are adding many new views and transforms.
Exposure, gamma curves and white point functionality are not included
in this node, as there are native ways of doing that in the compositor.
These settings are marked non-editable in the Python API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145069
Caused by d7fa455e66
Due to an earlier experiment to get right alignment, above commit left a
space in the text (this was later solved by using
`UI_ITEM_R_SPLIT_EMPTY_NAME`, but... for this one node, the name was not
actually empty then...)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145303
This patch turns node Menu options into menu inputs. This patch only
covers node operations like Filter, Distort, and so on. Pixel nodes like
Color Balance, Matte, and so on will be done in a separate patch.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144495
Implementation of the design task #142969.
This adds the following:
- Exact GPU interpolation of curves of all types.
- Radius attribute support.
- Cyclic curve support.
- Resolution attribute support.
- New Cylinder hair shape type.

What changed:
- EEVEE doesn't compute random normals for strand hairs anymore. These are considered legacy now.
- EEVEE now have an internal shadow bias to avoid self shadowing on hair.
- Workbench Curves Strip display option is no longer flat and has better shading.
- Legacy Hair particle system evaluates radius at control points before applying additional subdivision. This now matches Cycles.
- Color Attribute Node without a name do not fetch the active color attribute anymore. This now matches Cycles.
Notes:
- This is not 100% matching the CPU implementation for interpolation (see the epsilons in the tests).
- Legacy Hair Particle points is now stored in local space after interpolation.
The new cylinder shape allows for more correct hair shading in workbench and better intersection in EEVEE.
| | Strand | Strip | Cylinder |
| ---- | --- | --- | --- |
| Main |  |  | N/A |
| PR |  |  |  |
| | Strand | Strip | Cylinder |
| ---- | --- | --- | --- |
| Main |  | | N/A |
| PR | ||  |
Cyclic Curve, Mixed curve type, and proper radius support:

Test file for attribute lookup: [test_attribute_lookup.blend](/attachments/1d54dd06-379b-4480-a1c5-96adc1953f77)
Follow Up Tasks:
- Correct full tube segments orientation based on tangent and normal attributes
- Correct V resolution property per object
- More attribute type support (currently only color)
TODO:
- [x] Attribute Loading Changes
- [x] Generic Attributes
- [x] Length Attribute
- [x] Intercept Attribute
- [x] Original Coordinate Attribute
- [x] Cyclic Curves
- [x] Legacy Hair Particle conversion
- [x] Attribute Loading
- [x] Additional Subdivision
- [x] Move some function to generic headers (VertBuf, OffsetIndices)
- [x] Fix default UV/Color attribute assignment
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143180
A node would not show the "Collapse/Expand" arrows (caused by
87c011f8bb which moved the drawing code for the input nodes a new
`custom_draw_fn` callback on the socket declaration).
Related fix: 7f07124d30
So in order to resolve, make sure we have correct conditions to show the
expander and also make sure we draw the custo buttons in appropriate
places.
NOTE: not sure if there are better ways to achieve the correct UI split
alignment, since we draw with empty labels, I had to flag with
`UI_ITEM_R_SPLIT_EMPTY_NAME` in the new `custom_draw_fn` callbacks.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144993
Blender grid rendering interprets voxel transforms in such a way that the voxel
values are located at the center of a voxel. This is inconsistent with OpenVDB
where the values are located at the lower corners for the purpose or sampling
and related algorithms.
While it is possible to offset grids when communicating with the OpenVDB
library, this is also error-prone and does not add any major advantage.
Every time a grid is passed to OpenVDB we currently have to take care to
transform by half a voxel to ensure correct sampling weights are used that match
the density displayed by the viewport rendering.
This patch changes volume grid generation, conversion, and rendering code so
that grid transforms match the corner-located values in OpenVDB.
- The volume primitive cube node aligns the grid transform with the location of
the first value, which is now also the same as min/max bounds input of the
node.
- Mesh<->Grid conversion does no longer require offsetting grid transform and
mesh vertices respectively by 0.5 voxels.
- Texture space for viewport rendering is offset by half a voxel, so that it
covers the same area as before and voxel centers remain at the same texture
space locations.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138449
This is an extension of 131404a1bd. The inferencing time is now down
to 4-5ms from 24ms originally.
Further improvements are likely possible. Especially, caching the results
can be very beneficial, but cache invalidation may not be entirely trivial.
This was found to be a bottleneck in the file from #144756 which has 235
group inputs and 174 group input nodes, which leads to 40,890 sockets.
Most of those are never used, so it's wasteful to add them to the map
of input values.
The inferencing time improved from 24ms to 16ms. Can likely still be
improved more, but that's a good improvement for such a small change
already.
The Curve, Curve::strinfo & EditFont::textbufinfo are now read-only
during evaluation. CharTrans is now used to store some evaluation
options such as wrap/overflow/smallcaps.
Since it's no longer possible to inspect evaluation flags from operators
without evaluating the curve, line beginning/end functionality has been
moved from the operator into vfont_to_curve.
This patch generalizes node tree subtypes to be usable for node trees
other than Geometry Nodes. In particular, this:
- Renames SpaceNode.geometry_nodes_type to node_tree_sub_type, which now
store a tree type-specific enum.
- Renames SpaceNode.geometry_nodes_tool_tree to selected_node_group,
which now stores any context-less tree of any type.
This breaks the python API due to renaming.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144544
This patch introduces a new Jitter option for the Sun Beams mode of the
Glare node. If non-zero, is uses an approximation that is faster to
compute but makes the result more noisy.
Internally, this is computed by reducing the number of samples used to
integrate the results and introducing a random offset during
integration.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141789
This patch unifies the Gamma node across editors:
- Compositor now uses the Shader Gamma node implementation.
- Geometry Nodes also uses the node as a new addition.
- UI-wise in the Compositor, only socket labels change to "Color".
Forward compatibility is broken for the compositor, and the python API
changed, since the node's ID name is now ShaderNodeGamma as opposed to
CompositorNodeGamma.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142414
The semantics of checking "has_value()" (etc.) are much better than
checking for an empty span when dealing with the result of an attribute
lookup. This mainly affects the Bezier curve handle position attributes
currently. Plenty of places assume those attributes exist now. In a
couple places the code is a bit safer now, otherwise it's just a bit
more obvious.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144506