Add a command line argument --gpu-vsync on/off/auto.
Prefer command line arguments for GPU settings,
as it means the value is error checked and set when Blender starts.
Also refactor GHOST_Context to take a parameter argument which
includes the stereo-visual & debug arguments and includes the newly
added vsync setting. This makes it possible to add GPU context
parameters more easily in the future.
It also removes redundant parsing & setting the VSync setting for
off-screen contexts.
Changes to recent PR !143049.
Ref !144473
Use RAII for `GHOST_WindowClass`.
For the main Blender executable, only one `GHOST_System` is ever
created. But when running tests, this can happen multiple times (eg,
GPUOpenGLTest and GPUOpenGLWorkaroundsTest).
This results in `GHOST_SystemWin32` trying to register
`GHOST_WindowClass` multiple times, so `RegisterClassW` fails with
`ERROR_CLASS_ALREADY_EXISTS`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144231
With 5.0 we start requiring this extension for GL and VK.
All of our target hardware supports it with up to date
drivers.
Some old drivers were disabling this extension because of
buggy behavior. We simply drop support for them in 5.0.
This allows us to remove a lot of code and the last
shader create info override done at startup. This will
unlock more refactoring of the shader create info into
static classes to reduce binary size and other benefits.
## TODO:
- [x] Remove checks for ARB_shader_draw_parameters
- [x] Remove checks for ARB_clip_control
- [x] Check for the extension on startup for OpenGL
- [x] Check for the extension on startup for Vulkan
- [x] ~~Add user facing popup message about minimum
requirements not being met.~~ Done using the same
popup as old hardware.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142334
This PR will swap device local memory to system ram. It relies on
VK_EXT_external_memory and VK_EXT_pageable_device_local_memory
extensions to be supported by the system.
Most platforms support these extensions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144422
* GHOST is an implementation detail, Blender environment variables should
have the BLENDER_ prefix.
* Don't put links in command line help output. We don't do this for other
arguments either, and it's trivial to search for this online.
* Make description more straightforward and line wrap.
* Use CLOG for logging.
Ref #143049
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144349
This PR proposes to add an environment variable for forcing vsync to
be on or off. My primary use case was to disable vsync for forcing
viewport rendering performance tests not to be capped at the display
refresh rate when #142984 is used for removing animation frame rate
limits.
I initially added the environment variable "GHOST_VSYNC_OFF", but
found "GHOST_VSYNC=0/1" to be more easily understandable.
Usage:
- GHOST_VSYNC=0 => Vsync is forced off
- GHOST_VSYNC=1 => Vsync is forced on
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143049
Resolve regression in [0] where setting the cursor wasn't checking
if a software cursor was used. This would then show the hardware &
software cursors.
[0]: 232b106e64
Swapchain handling of minimized windows wasn't correct. On some
platforms it still tried to create images with no surface.
This PR will discard swapchains of minimized windows, but still being
able to flush the render graph and free resources.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144189
Vulkan 1.0 render passes have been replaced by dynamic rendering in 1.2.
Blender Vulkan backend was implemented with dynamic rendering in mind.
All our supported platforms support dynamic rendering. Render pass support
was added to try to work around an issue with legacy drivers. However these
drivers also fail with render passes.
Using render passes had several limitations (blending and some workbench
features were not supported). As no GPU uses it and it is quite some code
to support it is better to remove it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144149
This PR removes the deferred allocation of swapchain images. A lot of layers
don't support this and will crash when used.
Thanks to Jorn Visser to point out the potential issue.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143924
Generate mouse events from touch devices on Wayland.
The code tracks a single contact point and converts it to mouse moves,
LMB presses & releases. Multi-touch, pinch & swipe aren't yet supported.
Addresses #121449.
Ref !143416
Co-authored-by: Campbell Barton <campbell@blender.org>
This commit renames the GHOST Metal graphic context class and related
files / references from `GHOST_ContextCGL` to `GHOST_ContextMTL`. When
the Metal backend was first introduced, this context file contained
both the old OpenGL context (CGL, for macOS Core OpenGL API), and the
newer Metal context. Since #110185 all CGL related code was removed
from the class, making it Metal only, and thus rendering the old class
name outdated and potentially misleading. In addition to the rename,
unused OpenGL related forward declarations and old TODOs were also
removed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142519
This PR allows blender to be compiled with OpenXR, but without
OpenGL support.
For investigating a bug we needed to compile Blender without
OpenGL (`WITH_OPENGL_BACKEND=OFF`) but it would fail to
compile OpenXR (`WITH_XR_OPENXR=ON`). This PR tweakes
the preprocess directives to compile the openxr graphics
binding without OpenGL.
Co-authored-by: Jonas Holzman <jonas@holzman.fr>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141668
- Cursors in wayland are expected to use pre-multiplied alpha.
Note that cursor generators create straight alpha,
pre multiplier in the wayland backend.
- Invert cursor colors on Wayland since dark cursors are often default,
this could use dark theme settings in the future.
Support showing vector cursors at the appropriate size based on each
monitors DPI.
This solves incorrectly sized cursors with Hi-DPI outputs as well as
supporting outputs with different DPI's.
Instead of passing pixel data, pass an object that can generate cursors,
GHOST/Wayland can then ensure the correct size is used based on the
display the cursor is shown on.
While may sound overly complicated it actually simplifies displaying
cursors on Wayland, especially for multiple monitors at different DPI's.
Showing cursors at higher or lower resolutions than the monitor's DPI
also behaves differently on GNOME & Plasma, resulting in situations
where the cursor would show larger/smaller than expected.
Details:
- Take advantage of the recently added SVG cursors & BLF time cursor
!140990 & !141367.
- Setting bitmap cursors via GHOST_SetCustomCursorShape is now a no-op
for Wayland since it's no longer used. This was supported in an
earlier version of this PR and could be restored if needed.
- While fractional scaling works it relies on the compositor downscaling
the cursors. Ideally they would be rendered at the target size but
this isn't a priority as the difference isn't noticeable.
Ref !141597
The Windows and Wayland platforms can both create antialiased mouse
cursors from SVG sources. Platforms with WM_CAPABILITY_CURSOR_RGBA
can therefore show a better version of "WM_cursor_time". Instead of
four blocky digits in two rows this displays beautiful digits in a
single row.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141367
Some Wintab drivers can randomly crash while loading. Guard against this
by catching such exceptions using SEH. Also save and restore the current
unhandled exception filter as some drivers replace it with their own for
some reason.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141685
The numeric levels have no obvious meaning. This removes the distinction
between severity and levels, instead there is a single list of named levels
with defined meaning.
Debug means information that's mainly useful for developers, and trace is for
very verbose code execution tracing.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
This PR solves running Wayland on compositors that don't support HDR/
color management. It also allows to let Blender window be drawn across
monitor boundaries and being transferred and clamped to the monitor
it is being displayed on.
From our point of view monitor configurations is a compositor/OS
responsibility. This PR provides the compositor that the provided
swapchain image will be using sRGB whitepoints and transfer
function. The compositor should then take care of performing the
final transfer to the monitor color volume.
The color management protocol doesn't provide guarantees that
every compositor does this. It is mentioned as a recommendation
and 'should do this'.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141598
