Only run the node once for every unique geometry set in the input's
instance heirarchy. This can massively improve performance when
there are many instances, but it will mean that the result is the same
for every instance. For the previous behavior, a "Realize Instances"
node can be used before this one.
This node can be changed without versioning since the old material
assign node was already deprecated and replaced.
With this commit, the distribute points on faces node runs only
once for every unique mesh in its input. That means if there are
100 instances of the same mesh, it will only run once.
This basically reverts rB84a4f2ae68d408301. The optimization there
didn't end up being worth it in the end, since it complicates code
quite a lot. It's also incompatible with this method of dealing with
instances, and it breaks field evaluation for instances, where we would
have to make sure to handle each instance transform properly otherwise,
evaluating the field separately for every instance.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12630
This adds a new `GeometrySet::modify_geometry_sets` method that can be
used to update each sub-geometry-set separately without making any
instances real.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12650
This adds a new Instance on Points node that is a replacement
for the old Point Instance node. Contrary to the old node,
it does not have a mode to instance objects or collections
directly. Instead, the node has to be used with an Object/
Collection Info to achieve the same effect.
Rotation and scale of the instances can be adjusted in the node
directly or can be controlled with a field to get some variation
between instances.
The node supports placing different instances on different points.
The user has control over which instance is placed on which point
using an Instance Index input. If that functionality is used, the
Instance Geometry has to contain multiple instances that can are
instanced separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12478
This adds two new input sockets to the Collection Info node:
* `Separate Children`: When turned off, the entire collection is output as a single
collection instance (same behavior as before). When turned on, each child of
the collection is output as a separate instance (children can be objects and collections).
Toggling this input should not change the visual transforms of the output geometry.
* `Reset Children`: Only used when `Separate Children` is on. When used, the transforms
of the instances are reset to the origin. This is useful when one wants to e.g. instance
the collection children separately in the upcoming instancing node.
Part of D12478.
This node replaces the deprecated Attribute Randomize node, populating
a vector, float, integer or boolean field with random values. Vector,
float, and integer have min/max settings, which are also field aware.
The boolean type has a probability value for controlling what portion
of the output should be true. All four types have a field seed input
which is implicitly driven by the index, otherwise, all values would
be the same "random" value.
The Random Float node is now deprecated like other nodes, since it is
redundant with this node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12603
This commit adds a node that generates a text paragraph as curve
instances. The inputs on the node control the overall shape of the
paragraph, and other nodes can be used to move the individual instances
afterwards. To output more than one line, the "Special Characters" node
can be used.
The node outputs instances instead of real geometry so that it doesn't
have to duplicate work for every character afterwards. This is much
more efficient, because all of the curve evaluation and nodes like fill
curve don't have to repeat the same calculation for every instance of
the same character.
In the future, the instances component will support attributes, and the
node can output attribute fields like "Word Index" and "Line Index".
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11522
This patch adds a new node called "Special Characters" with two string
outputs: "Line Break" and "Tab". This is necessary because the newline
character cannot be easily typed with a keyboard, but is necessary for
the string to curve node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12620
This adds initial limited support for socket tooltips. It's limited
in a couple of ways for now:
* Only works when hovering over the socket shape, not when hovering
over the value in the socket.
* Only works for built-in nodes that already use the new node
declaration system. This can later be extended to support pynodes.
Those limitations are well worth it for now, given that the
implementation is quite simple and the impact on usability is quite
large. More complex updates to the layout system, that would allow
showing socket tooltips in the nodes, can be done later. With the
current implementation we can at least start writing tooltips for
geometry nodes now.
This commit already adds tooltips for the Cylinder node as an example.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12607
This adds a replacement for the deprecated Point Distribute node.
Arguments for the name change can be found in T91155.
Descriptions of the sockets are available in D12536.
Thanks to Jarrett Johnson for the initial patch!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12536
Goal is to add the length attribute to the Hair Info node, for better control over color gradients or similar along the hair.
Reviewed By: #eevee_viewport, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10481
This implements the update logic for the vizualization of which
sockets pass data or constants directly, and which pass functions.
The socket shapes may still have to be updated. That should be
done separately, because it might be a bit more involved, because
socket shapes are currently linked to keyframe shapes. Currently
the circle and diamond shapes are used with the following meanings:
- Input Sockets:
- Circle: Required to be a single value.
- Diamond: This input supports fields.
- Output Sockets:
- Circle: This output is a single value.
- Diamond: This output may be a field.
Connecting a field to a circle input socket is an error, since a
field cannot be converted to a single value. If the socket shape
is a diamond with a dot in the middle, it means it is currently
a single value, but could be a field.
In addition to socket shapes, the intention is to draw node links
differently based on the field status. However, the exact method for
conveying that isn't decided yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12584
This adds three new methods:
* `InstancesComponent::foreach_reference_as_geometry(...)`
* `GeometrySet::attribute_foreach(...)`
* `GeometrySet::gather_attributes_for_propagation(...)`
The goal is that these iteration primitives can be used in places
where we use more specialized iterators currently.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12613
This node can be used to fillet splines at control points to
create a circular arc.
The implementation roughly follows T89227's design.
The node works in two main modes: Bezier and Poly
* Bezier: Creates a circular arc at vertices by changing
handle lengths (applicable only for Bezier splines).
* Poly: Creates a circular arc by creating vertices (as
many as defined by the Count fields input) along
the arc (applicable for all spline types).
In both modes, the radius of the created arc is defined
by the Radius fields input.
The Limit Radius attribute can be enabled to prevent
overlapping when the defined radius exceeds the maximum
possible radius for a given point.
Reviewed By: Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12115
This commit adds a field input node that outputs the fraction of the
total length of the spline on each control point. This is useful for
anything that involves varying a value depending on how far along
the spline it is.
It also works when evaluated on the spline domain, where it outputs
the fraction of the total length of all of the splines at the start.
The operation isn't as well defined for NURB splines for the reasons
noted in the code comment. That can be said explicitly in the docs.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12548
This commit adds warning messages to "legacy" nodes that will be
removed in the future. The warning is shown in the node header, but
it is not printed in the terminal or displayed in the modifier. It is
also not propogated to node groups, but that is a more general task.
If the modifier's node tree has executed a deprecated node, it will
display a warning and a "Search" button that will select the nodes and
pan to them in the node editor. This doesn't open child node trees and
select nodes in there, because I want to keep this operator simple and
avoid wasting a lot of time perfecting this behavior.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12454
With this commit, each referenced instance data will be converted to
a geometry instances and processed separately. This should result in
a large speedup when the instances component has many insances
referring to the same data.
This change can act as a blueprint for other nodes that need to
implement similar behavior. It adds some helper functions on the
instances component to make that easier.
Thanks to Erik Abrahamsson for a proof of concept patch.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12572
This patch adds four new nodes to a new "Text" category:
- String Length: Outputs length of a string
- String Substring: Outputs part of a string
- Value to String: Converts a value to a string
- String Join: Concatenates multiple strings with a delimiter
The initial use case of these nodes is the upcoming string to curve
node. However, they could also be used to calculate dynamic attribute
names, or with string attributes in the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12532
This node outputs the direction vector, or tangent of a curve at every
control point. For poly splines this is simply the evaluated tangents,
so it all works very simply. For Bezier splines it uses the tangent at
the evaluated point corresponding to each control point, and NURBS
are interpereted as poly splines built from their control points.
Internally the node is called "Input Tangent" to simplify using it for
mesh tangents as well in the future like the "Normal" node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12581
I plan to use this for curve object data conversion to mesh in D12533,
and possibly for the implicit curve to mesh conversion in the curve
and text object modifier stack in the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12585
This includes much improved GPU rendering performance, viewport interactivity,
new shadow catcher, revamped sampling settings, subsurface scattering anisotropy,
new GPU volume sampling, improved PMJ sampling pattern, and more.
Some features have also been removed or changed, breaking backwards compatibility.
Including the removal of the OpenCL backend, for which alternatives are under
development.
Release notes and code docs:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.0/Cycleshttps://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles
Credits:
* Sergey Sharybin
* Brecht Van Lommel
* Patrick Mours (OptiX backend)
* Christophe Hery (subsurface scattering anisotropy)
* William Leeson (PMJ sampling pattern)
* Alaska (various fixes and tweaks)
* Thomas Dinges (various fixes)
For the full commit history, see the cycles-x branch. This squashes together
all the changes since intermediate changes would often fail building or tests.
Ref T87839, T87837, T87836
Fixes T90734, T89353, T80267, T80267, T77185, T69800
This node allows sampling positions, tangents, and normals at any
arbitrary point along a curve. The curve can include multiple splines,
all are taken into account. The node does not yet support transferring
generic attributes like radius, because some more general tooling will
make that much more feasible and useful in different scenarios.
This is a field node, so it is evaluated in the context of a data-flow
node like "Set Position". One nice thing about that is it can easily
be used to move an entire geometry like the follow path constraint.
The point along the curve is chosen either with a factor of the total
length of the curve, or a length into the curve, the same choice used
in the curve trim node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12565
This nodes evaluates a field on a geometry and outputs various
statistics about the entire data set, like min, max, or even
the standard deviation. It works for float and vector types currently,
though more types could be supported in the future.
- All statistics are calculated element-wise for vectors.
- "Product" was not added since the result could very easily overflow.
- The "Size" output was not added since it isn't specific to an
attribute and would fit better in another node.
The implementation shares work as much as possible when multiple
statistics are needed.
This node has been in development since the beginning of this year,
with additions from Johnny Matthews and Hans Goudey.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10202
This change makes the Set Position node do nothing by default.
Before, the geometry would always disappear, because it all points
would be moved to (0, 0, 0).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12553
This makes the Noise Texture node available in geometry nodes.
It should behave the same as in shader node, with the exception
that it does not have an implicit position input yet. That will
be added separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12467
Previously, the node would always realize instances implicitly.
Now it can change the position of entire instances.
The Realize Instances node can be used before if the old
behavior is required.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12555
This node has a simple geometry input and output.
If the input geometry contains instances, they will be realized
into actual geometry. When there are many instances, this can
be very slow and memory intensive. Generally, instances should
only be made real when necessary, e.g. when every instance
should be deformed independently.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12556
