Write RNA properties backed by IDProperties with the `IDP_INT` type like
before ef68a37e5d. That keeps forward compatibility, because
earlier versions don't support the boolean type. At some point in a future
release we can remove the forward compatibility. 4.0 is a good time to
do that because forward compatibility will be broken in other ways.
This commit also adds support for reading integer arrays for boolean
property defaults, which was only half-way supported before.
Pull Request #104995
This commit implements described in the #104573.
The goal is to fix the confusion of the submodule hashes change, which are not
ideal for any of the supported git-module configuration (they are either always
visible causing confusion, or silently staged and committed, also causing
confusion).
This commit replaces submodules with a checkout of addons and addons_contrib,
covered by the .gitignore, and locale and developer tools are moved to the
main repository.
This also changes the paths:
- /release/scripts are moved to the /scripts
- /source/tools are moved to the /tools
- /release/datafiles/locale is moved to /locale
This is done to avoid conflicts when using bisect, and also allow buildbot to
automatically "recover" wgen building older or newer branches/patches.
Running `make update` will initialize the local checkout to the changed
repository configuration.
Another aspect of the change is that the make update will support Github style
of remote organization (origin remote pointing to thy fork, upstream remote
pointing to the upstream blender/blender.git).
Pull Request #104755
This reverts commit 19222627c6.
Something went wrong here, seems like this commit merged the main branch
into the release branch, which should never be done.
This reverts commit 68181c2560.
I merged 3.6 into 3.5 by mistake. Basically I had a PR against main,
then changed it in the last minute to be against 3.5 via the
web-interface unaware that I shouldn't do it without updating the
patch.
Original Pull Request: #104889
Note that the node group has its sockets names
translated, while the built-in nodes don't.
So we need to use data_ for the built-in nodes names,
and the sockets of the created node groups.
Pull Request #104889
The Preferences for asset libraries are becoming more than a simple name
+ path. E.g. there is now an Import Method options, and we previously
also considered a Relative Paths option (which we may still want to
add). The previous UI, while consistent with the Auto Run Python Scripts
UI isn't well suited for less than trivial cases. Using UI lists makes
the UI more scalable and follows usual list UI patterns more. There is
also more space for the path button now.
Part of #104686.
The default import method for an asset library can now be determined in
the Preferences. The Asset Browser has a new "Follow Preferences" option
for the importing. The essentials asset library still only uses "Append
(Reuse Data)".
This is part of #104686, which aims at improving the import method
selection, especially for the introduction of the new essentials library
(which doesn't support certain import methods). Further changes are
coming to improve the UI, see #104686.
Pull Request: #104688
This adds a new `Curve Falloff` popover to the comb brush tool settings.
The curve control allows changing the brush weight along the curve to
e.g. affect the tip more than the root. This is a relative way to get
something like stiffness for short hair.
This functionality could potentially be added to some other brushes,
but the comb brush is the most important one, so that is added first.
I did add the buttons add the buttons to choose a curve map preset.
However, I did not add the preset dropdown, because that just adds
some unnecessary complexity in the code now and is redundant.
Pull Request #104589
This better aligns with OSX/Linux warnings.
Although `__pragma(warning(suppress:4100))` is not the same as
`__attribute__((__unused__))` in gcc (which only affects the attribute
instead of the line), it still seems to be better to use it than to
hide the warning entirely.
This adds a new overlay for curves sculpt mode that displays the curves that the
user currently edits. Those may be different from the evaluated/original curves
when procedural deformations or child curves are used.
The overlay can clash with the evaluated curves when they are exactly on top of
each other. There is not much we can do about that currently. The user will have
to decide whether the overlay should be shown or not on a case-by-case basis.
Pull Request #104467
Sculpt: Added vector displacement for the sculpting draw brush (area plane mapping only for now)
Vector displacement maps (VDM) provide a way to create complex displacements that can have overhangs in one brush dab.
This is unlike standard displacement with height maps that only displace in the normal direction.
Forms like ears, curled horns, etc can be created in one click if VMDs are used.
There is a checkbox on the draw brush in the texture settings "Vector Displacement" that enables/disables this feature.
Technical description: The RGB channels of a texture in a brush stroke are read and interpreted as individual vectors, that are used to offset vertices.
As of now, this is only working for the draw brush using the area plane mapping. Symmetry and radial symmetry are working.
A few things to consider when making VD-Maps:
* UVs need to stay intact for the bake mesh (e.g. voxel remeshing can't be used to create VD Meshes)
* When exporting a VD Map it should be in the file format OpenEXR (for positive and negative floating point values).
* Export resolution can be 512x512 or lower (EXR files can get very large, but VDM brushes don't need a high resolution)
And when using them:
* Inside Blender clamping needs to be unchecked on the texture
* The brush falloff should be set to constant (or nearly constant)
This patch was inspired by this [right-click-select proposal](https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/WqWx/) Thanks for the post!
(Moved [this patch](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17080) to here.)
Co-authored-by: Robin Hohnsbeen <robin@hohnsbeen.de>
Pull Request #104481
The Volume property of the Maintain Volume constraint was marked as a
distance, which made it confusing--especially with non-metric units.
The volume can actually be understood as a factor of the initial
volume, so it should be dimensionless.
Additionally, the volume had a range of 0.001 to 100.0. This is wide
enough in most cases, but sometimes you may need to go orders of
magnitude higher or lower to consider vast or thin objects, and there
should be no drawback to extending the limits, provided they stay
positive.
Pull Request #104489
## Cleanup: Refactor NLATrack / NLAStrip Remove
This PR adds 3 new methods:
* BKE_nlatrack_remove_strip
* BKE_nlastrip_remove
* BKE_nlastrip_remove_and_free
These named BKE methods are really just replacements for BLI_remlink, but with some added checks, and enhanced readability.
Co-authored-by: Nate Rupsis <nrupsis@gmail.com>
Pull Request #104437
Currently the passepartout color is hardcoded to black. While a
sensible default for cinema, it may make less sense for other media,
whether video, print, web, etc. It greatly affects viewing conditions
of the image and should be user selectable, much like painting
programs allow.
Pull Request #104486
When building a node group that's meant to be used directly in the
node editor as well as in the modifier, it's useful to be able to have
some inputs that are only meant for the node editor, like inputs that
only make sense when combined with other nodes.
In the future we might have the ability to only display certain assets
in the modifier and the node editor, but until then this simple solution
allows a bit more customization.
Pull Request #104517
During hair grooming in curves sculpt mode, it is very useful when hair strands
are prevented from intersecting with the surface mesh. Unfortunately, it also
decreases performance significantly so we don't want it to be turned on all the time.
The surface collision is used by the Comb, Pinch and Puff brushes currently.
It can be turned on or off on a per-geometry basis.
The intersection prevention quality of this patch is not perfect yet. This can
be improved over time using a better solver. Overall, perfect collision detection
at the cost of bad performance is not necessary for interactive sculpting,
because the user can fix small mistakes very quickly. Nevertheless, the quality
can probably still be improved significantly without too big slow-downs depending
on the use case. This can be done separately from this patch.
Pull Request #104469
Previously, the node used the "true" normal of every looptri. Now it uses the
"loop normals" which includes e.g. smooth faces and custom normals. The true
normal can still be used on the points by capturing it before the Distribute node.
We do intend to expose the smooth normals separately in geometry nodes as well,
but this is an important first step.
It's also necessary to generate child hair between guide hair strands that don't
have visible artifacts at face boundaries.
For perfect backward compatibility, the node still has a "Legacy Normal" option
in the side bar. Creating the exact same behavior with existing nodes isn't
really possible unfortunately because of the specifics of how the Distribute
node used to compute the normals using looptris.
Pull Request #104414
Add `contains_group` method in python api for `NodeTree` type, cleanup
`ntreeHasTree` function, reuse `ntreeHasTree` in more place in code.
The algorithm has been changed to not recheck trees by using set.
Performance gains from avoiding already checked node trees:
Based on tests, can say that for large files with a huge number
of trees, the response speed of opening the search menu in the
node editor increased by ~200 times (for really large projects
with 16 individual groups in 6 levels of nesting). Group insert
operations are also accelerated, but this is different in some cases.
Pull Request #104465
Using callback functions didn't scale well as more arguments are added.
It got very confusing when to pass tehmarguments weren't always used.
Instead use a `FunctionRef` with indices for arguments. Also remove
unused edge arguments to topology mapping functions.
Adds an experimental option under "New Features" in preferences,
which enables visibility of the new Volume Nodes.
Right now this option does nothing but will be used during development.
See #103248
Pull Request #104552
Without this, every access to "language" would warn that the enum
value didn't match a value in the enum items.
This made the bl_rna_manual_reference.py test output practically
unusable.
This allow to bypass all cost associated with shadow mapping.
This can be useful in certain situation, such as opening a scene on a
lower end system or just to gain performance in some situation (lookdev).
Implements virtual shadow mapping for EEVEE-Next primary shadow solution.
This technique aims to deliver really high precision shadowing for many
lights while keeping a relatively low cost.
The technique works by splitting each shadows in tiles that are only
allocated & updated on demand by visible surfaces and volumes.
Local lights use cubemap projection with mipmap level of detail to adapt
the resolution to the receiver distance.
Sun lights use clipmap distribution or cascade distribution (depending on
which is better) for selecting the level of detail with the distance to
the camera.
Current maximum shadow precision for local light is about 1 pixel per 0.01
degrees.
For sun light, the maximum resolution is based on the camera far clip
distance which sets the most coarse clipmap.
## Limitation:
Alpha Blended surfaces might not get correct shadowing in some corner
casses. This is to be fixed in another commit.
While resolution is greatly increase, it is still finite. It is virtually
equivalent to one 8K shadow per shadow cube face and per clipmap level.
There is no filtering present for now.
## Parameters:
Shadow Pool Size: In bytes, amount of GPU memory to dedicate to the
shadow pool (is allocated per viewport).
Shadow Scaling: Scale the shadow resolution. Base resolution should
target subpixel accuracy (within the limitation of the technique).
Related to #93220
Related to #104472
The goal is to give technical artists the ability to optimize modifier usage
and/or geometry node groups for performance. In the long term, it
would be useful if Blender could provide its own UI to display profiling
information to users. However, right now, there are too many open
design questions making it infeasible to tackle this in the short term.
This commit uses a simpler approach: Instead of adding new ui for
profiling data, it exposes the execution-time of modifiers in the Python
API. This allows technical artists to access the information and to build
their own UI to display the relevant information. In the long term this
will hopefully also help us to integrate a native ui for this in Blender
by observing how users use this information.
Note: The execution time of a modifier highly depends on what other
things the CPU is doing at the same time. For example, in many more
complex files, many objects and therefore modifiers are evaluated at
the same time by multiple threads which makes the measurement
much less reliable. For best results, make sure that only one object
is evaluated at a time (e.g. by changing it in isolation) and that no
other process on the system keeps the CPU busy.
As shown below, the execution time has to be accessed on the
evaluated object, not the original object.
```lang=python
import bpy
depsgraph = bpy.context.view_layer.depsgraph
ob = bpy.context.active_object
ob_eval = ob.evaluated_get(depsgraph)
modifier_eval = ob_eval.modifiers[0]
print(modifier_eval.execution_time, "s")
```
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17185
