The actual weighting calculation is not smooth as the bone display.
The bone itself can be smooth for esthetic purpose but the distance display
should match the underlying weighting formula.
Past shader was too slow and had bad artifacts. This method is much simpler
and eficient and only exhibit some popping when the raidus of the head/tail
is changed.
We now use a more pleasant and efficient way to display enveloppe bones
and their radius.
For this we use a capsule geometry that is displaced (in the vertex shader)
to a signed distance field that represents the bone shape.
The bone distance radius are now drawn in 3D using a "pseudo-fresnel" effect.
This gives a better understanding of what is inside the radius of influence.
When capsules are not needed, we switch to default raytraced points.
The capsules are not distorded by the bone's matrix (same as their actual
influence radius) and are correctly displayed even with complex scaled
parents hierarchy.
Here is how it works:
We render a high poly disc that we orient & scale towards the camera so that
it covers the same pixel of the sphere it's supposed to represent.
Then the pixel shader raytrace the sphere (effectively starting from
the poly disc depth) and outputs the depth to gl_FragDepth.
This approach has many benefit:
- high quality obviously: per pixel accurate depth!
- compatible with MSAA: since the sphere horizon is delimited by polygons,
we get the coverage computed by the rasterizer. However we still gets
aliasing if the sphere intersect directly other meshes.
- virtually no overdraw: there is no backface to shade but we still get
overdraw because by little triangle [gpus rasterize pixel by groups of 4].
- allows early depth test: since the poly disc is set at the nearest depth
we can output, we can use GL_ARB_conservative_depth to enable early depth
test and discard pixels that are already behind geometry.
- can draw outline pretty easily without geometry shader.
This manually resolve the content of a multisample FB to a single sample FB.
It resolves color (combine the 2 framebuffers in a logical maner keeping
depth buffer occlusion etc..) instead of a plain glBlitFramebuffer copy.
Group all fetches together without interleived alu to let compiler optimize.
Also do the color samples only if needed.
Went from 3.86ms to [1.11-2.22]ms [min-max] for the 16samples resolve pass
on my nvidia card.
This shader is used instead of blitting back and forth to a single sample
buffer.
This means it resolves the color and depth samples and outputs a fragment
which can be depth tested and blended on top of an existing framebuffer.
We do static shader variation with manual loop unrolling for performance
reason. In my test I get 25% more perf with intel integrated gpu and 75%
performance gain with dedicated nvidia card compared to a single shader
with a uniform for sample count.
This fix the issue with the zfighting we were getting at bones edges.
Moreover, this enables us to render arbitrarly large outline with
varying thickness.
It's usefull in some scenario to tweak the specular intensity of a light
without modifying the diffuse contribution.
Cycles allows it via lamps material which we currently not support in Eevee.
This is a good workaround for now.
The asserts were introduced on rB5f6c45498c92 (top-bar).
Although the asserts are technically correct, they would fail even in master.
And the commit simply added the asserts without fixing the situation itself
(as you can see in the report, it is really simple to reproduce this issue).
I propose we remove the asserts and bring them back only when the situation
itself is fixed. It doesn't make sense to introduce asserts that would fail
with the current state of the code.
This was a hard to reproduce bug, but it happens often enough.
Basically the tooltip of the active tool was been invoked when
context had no valid ScrArea which would lead to a crash.
We now just return no tooltip in these cases.
There are various values which depends on context in there, for example
current driver value and original DNA value f-curve is applied for.
This partially fixes issue with not being able to tweak keyed values
when material preview is open.
The material preview is not being currently updated against non-keyed
changes since every tweak of material property does full preview scene
depsgraph evaluation.
Now they are properly converted to Linear space before interpolation.
Since the only way to get vertex color in eevee and cycles is via the
attribute node with the CD_AUTO_FROM_NAME flag, we have to know at binding
time which type of buffer will be connected to this auto input.
We store this information inside the batch cache (together with the according
uniform name) and pass it as uniform to the shader which does conversion if
needed. The same shader can then be reused to draw another mesh with
different auto layers configuration.
