Mainly updated the Mantaflow version. It includes the new viscosity solver plugin based on the method from 'Accurate Viscous Free Surfaces for Buckling, Coiling, and Rotating Liquids' (Batty & Bridson).
In the UI, this update adds a new 'Viscosity' section to the fluid modifier UI (liquid domains only). For now, there is a single 'strength' value to control the viscosity of liquids.
Issues were:
* Abusing of `WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY` by both Audaspace and
Mantaflow.
- `PYTHON_INSTALL` options only decide whether we copy python (and
some extra modules) in our Blender installation. On linux it
makes much more sense to use global python installation.
- Now we have instead a proper `WITH_PYTHON_NUMPY`
* Bad assumptions regarding path of headers relative to path of python
module.
- In current Debian testing, modules are under `python3.9`
directory, while headers are under `python3` directory.
- Now we properly `find_path` for headers as well, modifying
`find_python_package` to take an optional argument for headers.
Note that the required changes done to `extern` libraries are in
blender-specific files that do not exist upstream.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9773
Issues were:
* Abusing of `WITH_PYTHON_INSTALL_NUMPY` by both Audaspace and
Mantaflow.
- `PYTHON_INSTALL` options only decide whether we copy python (and
some extra modules) in our Blender installation. On linux it
makes much more sense to use global python installation.
- Now we have instead a proper `WITH_PYTHON_NUMPY`
* Bad assumptions regarding path of headers relative to path of python
module.
- In current Debian testing, modules are under `python3.9`
directory, while headers are under `python3` directory.
- Now we properly `find_path` for headers as well, modifying
`find_python_package` to take an optional argument for headers.
Note that the required changes done to `extern` libraries are in
blender-specific files that do not exist upstream.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9773
This update introduces two improvements from the Mantaflow repository:
(1) Improved particle sampling:
- Liquid and secondary particles are sampled more predictably. With all parameters being equal, baked particles will be computed at the exact same position during every bake.
- Before, this was not guaranteed.
(2) Sparse grid caching:
- While saving grid data to disk, grids will from now on be saved in a sparse structure whenever possible (e.g. density, flame but not levelsets).
- With the sparse optimization grid cells with a value under the 'Empty Space' value (already present in domain settings) will not be cached.
- The main benefits of this optimization are: Smaller cache sizes and faster playback of simulation data in the viewport.
- This optimization works 'out-of-the-box'. There is no option in the UI to enable it.
- For now, only smoke simulation grids will take advantage of this optimization.
Basic support for velocity updates with the APIC method.
This commit adds APIC to the already existing dropdown menu for the simulation method. The APIC plugin within Mantaflow has been updated to the latest version.
This resolves a long list of linker warnings that is currently only showing up on macOS arm builds.
The warnings themselves are of this shape (one example):
```
ld: warning: direct access in function 'Manta::MeshDataImpl<Manta::Vector3D<float> >::_W_39(_object, object, object*)' from file '../../lib/libextern_mantaflow.a(mesh.h.reg.cpp.o)' to global weak symbol 'typeinfo for Manta::MeshDataImpl<Manta::Vector3D<float> >' from file '../../lib/libextern_mantaflow.a(mesh.cpp.o)' means the weak symbol cannot be overridden at runtime. This was likely caused by different translation units being compiled with different visibility settings.
```
Just would like to get your opinion to make sure this is an acceptable way to handle this on all platforms.
Reviewed By: LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9002
This patch changes openvdb from a static to a dynamic library.
this is in preparation for enabling pyopenvdb at some point
in the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8282
Reviewed by: brecht
Adjusted the fluid build system so that plugins that depend on numpy can be compiled as well.
Note that in this commit numpy support is still disabled. It can be enabled by re-running the Mantaflow update script with USE_NUMPY=1 and enabling WITH_MANTA_NUMPY in extern/mantaflow/CMakeLists.txt. This will happen in a future commit.
No longer including unused dependencies. Should numpy IO be needed at some point, the Manta source update script can be configured so that the required dependencies are included again.
This updated set of Mantaflow files includes the improved OpenVDB file IO. With this update it is finally possible to store multiple grids per file. It is also possible to save particle systems and particle data to OpenVDB files.
Updates include:
- std::move() cleanup in rcmatrix.h
- Enabled parallelization for fluid guiding (fairly noticeable speed improvement).
- More flexible flags setter function with control over boundary width.
Updates include:
- A fix from Jacques that changed the loop order in the mesh creation function (the fix speeds up the function significantly due to fewer cache misses).
- Some of the grid copy helper functions are now multithreaded.
- A fix for Windows file IO. Now it possible to load files with non ASCII characters on Windows too.
