One of the core design aspects of the Asset Browser is that users can "mount"
custom asset libraries via the Preferences. Currently an asset library is just
a directory with one or more .blend files in it. We could easily support a
single .blend file as asset library as well (rather than a directory). It's
just disabled currently.
Note that in earlier designs, asset libraries were called repositories.
Idea is simple: In Preferences > File Paths, you can create custom libraries,
by setting a name and selecting a path. The name is ensured to be unique. If
the name or path are empty, the Asset Browser will not show it in the list of
available asset libraries.
The library path is not checked for validity, the Asset Browser will allow
selecting invalid libraries, but show a message instead of the file list, to
help the user understand what's going on.
Of course the actual Asset Browser UI is not part of this commit, it's in one
of the following ones.
{F9497950}
Part of the first Asset Browser milestone. Check the #asset_browser_milestone_1
project milestone on developer.blender.org.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9722
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Hans Goudey
The geometry-nodes features no longer depend on the point cloud object.
Therefore the point cloud object, although important in the future, can
be postponed until we have render and edit mode fully working.
This reverts commits:
* ea74ed5a7a.
* dc614c68ef.
This adds the missing options for the effects as it is done in modifiers.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Maniphest Tasks: T83696
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9838
In Cycles the volume transmittance is already composited into the color
passes. In Eevee the volume transmittance pass was separate and needed
to be composited in the compositor. This patch adds the volume
transmittance pass direct in the next render passes:
* Diffuse Color
* Specular Color
* Emission
* Environment
This patch includes the removal of the volume transmittance render pass.
It also renames the volume render passes to match Cycles. The setting
themselves aren't unified.
Maniphest Tasks: T81134
Approximately 33 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9796
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Remove 'U.wheellinescroll' preference, currently hidden and unused.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9616
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
As a followup for rB2b3d85d7d6771, this commit adds the remove and
copy operators for grease pencil modifiers, effects, and constraints
where they apply.
This is similar to c4a2067130130d, but applies to the general UI and is only
about single data-blocks. Here there was a similar problem: How can buttons
pass the data they represent to operators? We currently resort to ugly ad-hoc
solutions like `UI_context_active_but_get_tab_ID()`. So the operator would need
to know that it is executed on a tab button that represents a data-block.
A single button can now hand operators a data-block to operate on. The operator
can request it via the "id" context member (`CTX_data_pointer_get_type(C, "id",
&RNA_ID)` in C, `bpy.context.id` in .py).
In this commit, it is already set in the following places:
* Generic RNA button code sets it to the pointed to data-block, if the button
represents a data-block RNA pointer property. (I.e for general data-block
search buttons.)
* Data-block selectors (`templateID`) set it to the currently active data-block.
* The material slot UI-List sets it for each slot to the material it represents.
The button context menu code is modified so its operators use the context set
for the layout of its parent button (i.e. `layout.context_pointer_set()`).
No user visible changes. This new design isn't actually used yet. It will be
soon for asset operators.
Reviewed as part of https://developer.blender.org/D9717.
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
This node can be used to mix two attributes in various ways.
The blend modes are the same as in the MixRGB shader node.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9737
Ref T82374.
When compiling on Windows, the following warnings occur:
```[3468/4560] Building C object source\blender\draw\CMakeFiles\bf_draw.dir\engines\eevee\eevee_cryptomatte.c.obj
C:\blender-git\blender\source\blender\draw\engines\eevee\eevee_cryptomatte.c(306): warning C4047: 'function': 'bool' differs in levels of indirection from 'void *'
C:\blender-git\blender\source\blender\draw\engines\eevee\eevee_cryptomatte.c(306): warning C4024: 'eevee_cryptomatte_shading_group_create': different types for formal and actual parameter 5```
As @Severin pointed out [here](https://developer.blender.org/rB76a0b322e4d3244e59a154c8255b84a4fbc33117#288960), this is due to the last two arguments being flipped. This diff corrects the order.
Reviewed By: Severin, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9809
This commit adds a node that fills every element of an attribute
with the same value. Currently it supports float, vector, and color
attributes. An immediate use case is for "billboard" scattering.
Currently people are using the same input to a Random Attribute node's
min and max input to fill every element of a vector with the same value,
which is an unintuitive way to accomplish the same thing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9790
This adds deformation types to snake hook and the elastic deformation
type. This mode deforms the mesh using a kelvinlet instead of applying
the displacement directly inside the brush radius, which is great for
stylized shapes sketching.
Changes in rake rotation when using elastic are too strong when set
to 1, so I'll add a nicer way to support rake rotations with smoother
transitions in the future.
Reviewed By: sergey, JulienKaspar
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9560
This is a workaround for T80804.
There's a startup crash that happens on 2.91.0 on Windows, an `EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION`
on `atio6axx.dll`. It is triggered by `glClear` on the `detect_mip_render_workaround`
function. The workaround moves the function after the device/driver workaround section and
sets the flag to the affected one to avoid running the check.
It is deprecated hardware that has not meet the minimum requirements since 2.79, but is
still usable and this extends its usability a bit before the cards are finally blacklisted.
Reviewed By: Jeroen Bakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9667
Updating Industry Compatible keymap for Property filtering and new Modifier behavior.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9765
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Small improvements to the layout of the Tooltips section in Preferences.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9772
Reviewed by Pablo Vazquez
Blender has now the place to store the Cryptomatte settings. This patch
migrates Cycles to use the new settings.
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9746
New layout for the 'About' dialog featuring the full version of the Blender logo.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9507
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
This involves re-implementing some of Blender-defined helpers in utils,
we keep debug code to ensure those are still matching on
behavior/results sides.
This will allow to get more i18n tools independent from blender
executable.
In ad85256e71 the "Show Group Colors" option was changed from a
per-editor option to a user preference. Since so many people wanted to
turn this option off, this makes sense. However, this move caused some
confusion because the option was just gone from the menu.
This commit adds a dummy menu item. It's disabled, and the tooltip
explains that the option can now be found in Preferences.
T83390 was created to track the removal of these hints.
Reviewed by: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9735
Cryptomatte is a standard to efficiently create mattes for compositing. The
renderer outputs the required render passes, which can then be used in the
compositor to create masks for specified objects. Unlike the Material and Object
Index passes, the objects to isolate are selected in compositing, and mattes
will be anti-aliased.
Cryptomatte was already available in Cycles this patch adds it to the EEVEE
render engine. Original specification can be found at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Psyop/Cryptomatte/master/specification/IDmattes_poster.pdf
**Accurate mode**
Following Cycles, there are two accuracy modes. The difference between the two
modes is the number of render samples they take into account to create the
render passes. When accurate mode is off the number of levels is used. When
accuracy mode is active, the number of render samples is used.
**Deviation from standard**
Cryptomatte specification is based on a path trace approach where samples and
coverage are calculated at the same time. In EEVEE a sample is an exact match on
top of a prepared depth buffer. Coverage is at that moment always 1. By sampling
multiple times the number of surface hits decides the actual surface coverage
for a matte per pixel.
**Implementation Overview**
When drawing to the cryptomatte GPU buffer the depth of the fragment is matched
to the active depth buffer. The hashes of each cryptomatte layer is written in
the GPU buffer. The exact layout depends on the active cryptomatte layers. The
GPU buffer is downloaded and integrated into an accumulation buffer (stored in
CPU RAM).
The accumulation buffer stores the hashes + weights for a number of levels,
layers per pixel. When a hash already exists the weight will be increased. When
the hash doesn't exists it will be added to the buffer.
After all the samples have been calculated the accumulation buffer is processed.
During this phase the total pixel weights of each layer is mapped to be in a
range between 0 and 1. The hashes are also sorted (highest weight first).
Blender Kernel now has a `BKE_cryptomatte` header that access to common
functions for cryptomatte. This will in the future be used by the API.
* Alpha blended materials aren't supported. Alpha blended materials support in
render passes needs research how to implement it in a maintainable way for any
render pass.
This is a list of tasks that needs to be done for the same release that this
patch lands on (Blender 2.92)
* T82571 Add render tests.
* T82572 Documentation.
* T82573 Store hashes + Object names in the render result header.
* T82574 Use threading to increase performance in accumulation and post
processing.
* T82575 Merge the cycles and EEVEE settings as they are identical.
* T82576 Add RNA to extract the cryptomatte hashes to use in python scripts.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Maniphest Tasks: T81058
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9165
This patch adds support for AOVs in EEVEE. AOV Outputs can be defined in the
render pass tab and used in shader materials. Both Object and World based
shaders are supported. The AOV can be previewed in the viewport using the
renderpass selector in the shading popover.
AOV names that conflict with other AOVs are automatically corrected. AOV
conflicts with render passes get a warning icon. The reason behind this is that
changing render engines/passes can change the conflict, but you might not notice
it. Changing this automatically would also make the materials incorrect, so best
to leave this to the user.
**Implementation**
The patch adds a copies the AOV structures of Cycles into Blender. The goal is
that the Cycles will use Blenders AOV defintions. In the Blender kernel
(`layer.c`) the logic of these structures are implemented.
The GLSL shader of any GPUMaterial can hold multiple outputs (the main output
and the AOV outputs) based on the renderPassUBO the right output is selected.
This selection uses an hash that encodes the AOV structure. The full AOV needed
to be encoded when actually drawing the material pass as the AOV type changes
the behavior of the AOV. This isn't known yet when the GLSL is compiled.
**Future Developments**
* The AOV definitions in the render layer panel isn't shared with Cycles.
Cycles should be migrated to use the same viewlayer aovs. During a previous
attempt this failed as the AOV validation in cycles and in Blender have
implementation differences what made it crash when an aov name was invalid.
This could be fixed by extending the external render engine API.
* Add support to Cycles to render AOVs in the 3d viewport.
* Use a drop down list for selecting AOVs in the AOV Output node.
* Give user feedback when multiple AOV output nodes with the same AOV name
exists in the same shader.
* Fix viewing single channel images in the image editor [T83314]
* Reduce viewport render time by only render needed draw passes. [T83316]
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel, Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7010
Improvements to the layout of the Keymaps section of Preferences by removing unneeded Decorator columns.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9726
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
This adds a new property to the sculpt vertex color paint brush to limit
the area of the brush that is going to be used to sample the wet paint
color. This is exactly the same concept as normal radius and area radius
that exist for sculpting brushes for sampling the surface depth and
orientation.
When working near color hard edges, this allows to prevent the color
from the other side of the edge to blend into the wet paint.
With 1.0 (the previous default) wet paint radius, as soon as the brush touches
one vertex of the other color, the wet paint mix color changes, making it
impossible to maintain the border between the two colors.
Reviewed By: sergey, dbystedt, JulienKaspar
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9587
These operators existed since 2.83, but the menu was hidden by error.
Also the operators have been cleanup and make multiframe compatible.
Reviewed By: mendio
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9671
Add Custom Space to the list of space conversions for constraints.
Constraints can use World Space, Local Space, Pose Space, Local with
Parent, and now also Custom Space with a custom object to define the
evaluation space.
The Custom Space option uses the Local Space of an other
object/bone/vertex group. If selected on owner or target it will show a
box for object selection. If an armature is selected, then it will also
show a box for bone selection. If a mesh object is selected it will show
the option for using the local space of a vertex group.
Reviewed By: #animation_rigging, sybren, Severin, angavrilov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7437
During the development of the new nodes in the `geometry-nodes` branch
the color of the new nodes wasn't considered, so all of the nodes ended
up red, the color for "input" nodes. This patch introduces two new
colors, one for "Geometry" and one for "Attributes". There are only two
attribute nodes currently, but the next sprint will add two more,
attribute mix, and sample from texture. The attribute nodes are
conceptually different enough from the nodes that modify the geometry
that they deserve their own color.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9682
The point cloud object is the only one that will support instancing at
first. So we can expose it as a regular object.
It is limited since it has no edit mode. But this is not different than
the volume object.
This commit adds functions to set and get the object's active
modifier, which is stored as a flag in the ModifierData struct,
similar to constraints. This will be used to set the context in
the node editor. There are no visible changes in this commit.
Similar to how the node editor context works for materials, this commit
makes the node group displayed in the node editor depend on the active
object and its active modifier. To keep the node group from changing,
just pin the node group in the header.
* Shortcuts performed while there is an active modifier will affect
only that modifier (the exception is the A to expand the modifiers).
* Clicking anywhere on the empty space in a modifier's panel will make it active.
These changes require some refactoring of object modifier code. First
is splitting up the modifier property invoke callback, which now needs
to be able to get the active modifier separately from the hovered
modifier for the different operators.
Second is a change to removing modifiers, where there is now a separate
function to remove a modifier from an object's list, in order to handle
changing the active.
Finally, the panel handler needs a small tweak so that this "click in panel"
event can be handled afterwards.
