Artists often want to quickly switch back and forth between two or more nodes while compositing.
This patch implements two operators `NODE_OT_viewer_shortcut_set` and `NODE_OT_viewer_shortcut_get` that allow users to map a viewer node to a shortcut. For example, pressing `cltr+1` while a node is selected, assigns that node to the shortcut `1`, creates a viewer node if it has none attached and sets that viewer node to active. Pressing `1` will set the active node with shortcut `1` to active.
Shortcuts are saved in DNA to preserve them after saving/loading blend files.
Limitations:
- Only compositor node tree is supported, because shading editor has no viewer node and geometry nodes viewer works differently.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123641
This uses the following accessor methods in more places in more places:
`is_group()`, `is_group_input()`, `is_group_output()`, `is_muted()`,
`is_frame()` and `is_reroute()`.
This results in simpler code and reduces the use of `bNode.type_legacy`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132899
`BKE_main_ensure_invariants` was added in 1fae5fd8f6. The older
`ED_node_tree_propagate_change` was already implemented as a thin wrapper around
`BKE_main_ensure_invariants`. This patch removes the wrapper and calls the more
general function directly.
A new overload of `BKE_main_ensure_invariants` is added for the common case when
only a single data-block has been modified.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133048
Main goals of this refactor:
* Make it more obvious which update function should be used.
* Make it more obvious which parameters are required by using references instead
of pointers.
* Support passing in multiple modified trees instead of just a single one.
No functional changes are expected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132862
The new description for `bNode.type_legacy`:
```
/**
* Legacy integer type for nodes. It does not uniquely identify a node type, only the `idname`
* does that. For example, all custom nodes use #NODE_CUSTOM but do have different idnames.
* This is mainly kept for compatibility reasons.
*
* Currently, this type is also used in many parts of Blender, but that should slowly be phased
* out by either relying on idnames, accessor methods like `node.is_reroute()`.
*
* A main benefit of this integer type over using idnames currently is that integer comparison is
* much cheaper than string comparison, especially if many idnames have the same prefix (e.g.
* "GeometryNode"). Eventually, we could introduce cheap-to-compare runtime identifier for node
* types. That could mean e.g. using `ustring` for idnames (where string comparison is just
* pointer comparison), or using a run-time generated integer that is automatically assigned when
* node types are registered.
*/
```
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132858
The part that used the context does not seem to be necessary anymore. If the
given tree has any update tag set, the same notifiers will be sent anyway by the
`tree_changed_fn` callback.
If it turns out that we are now missing some notifier, then we have to change
the caller. It either has to call the proper `BKE_ntree_update_tag_*` function,
or create the notifier directly.
This change helps to generalize the concept of propagating changes in original
data, because the context is rarely available.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132810
A link is unavailable when any of its sockets are unavailable. Sometimes such
links are in a weird inbetween state between being there and not being there at
all. Generally, they should be considered to not be there, but sometimes it's
still useful if they automatically come back when toggling the availability of
sockets. We don't have a replacement for this functionality yet.
This patch changes behavior so that unavailable links are treated as not being
there at all in two places:
* When deciding whether to draw an input socket value.
* When deciding what to do when drawing from a socket (to create a link from it
or detach existing links). This is done by simply removing unavailable links
when starting to drag from a corresponding socket. This allows all of the
existing logic to stay the same.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132184
Currently each node's position is stored in the coordinate space of
its parent. To find the location of a node on the canvas, we have to
apply the translation of each of its parents. Also, nodes have hidden
"offset" values used while transforming frame nodes. Together,
those made the system much more complicated than necessary,
and they made the Python API ineffective.
This commit removes usage of the offset values and moves nodes
to be stored in the "global" space of the node canvas. It also resolves
some weird behavior when resizing frame nodes, and fixes a few bugs.
The change is forward compatible, so we still write files with nodes in
the old parent-space format. In 5.0 the conversion when writing can be
removed. The existing Python API also stays the same. A new
"location_absolute" property gives node locations in global space,
and changing the old property also moves the child nodes of frames.
Resolves#92458, #72904.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131335
For C/C++ doc-strings should be located in headers,
move function comments into the headers, in some cases merging
with existing doc-strings, in other cases, moving implementation
notes into the function body.
Fixes an issue with the new node insertion feature where, after a link drag search,
the main input of the new node is connected to, regardless of which one was chosen.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128640
This makes link-drag-search more convenient when one wants to insert a new node
between existing nodes. The change currently also affects normal node-insertion
when dragging it. The exact behavior still has to be figured out.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128197
Use snake style naming for all the kernel nodes functions.
Omit kernel prefix in the names since of the using namespace.
Use full forms of the terms
('iter' -> 'iterator', 'ntree' -> 'node_tree', 'rem' -> 'remove', ...).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126416
This commit moves generated `RNA_blender.h`, `RNA_prototype.h` and
`RNA_blender_cpp.h` headers to become C++ header files.
It also removes the now useless `RNA_EXTERN_C` defines, and just
directly use the `extern` keyword. We do not need anymore `extern "C"`
declarations here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124469
The swapping code incorrectly expected the link to have a start and end.
However, this was not necessarily the case when attempting to create
a link from a node to itself. This case has special handling in
`node_link_find_socket`.
The hidden socket in the Viewer is not shown when a new link to it is created.
This is because the hidden property of the socket is not updated when a new
link to it is created.
Fixing it by simply manually update the property after a new link is created.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120503
Since ebb61ef30f reroute nodes couldn't be inserted on links anymore,
when their socket's type is currently incompatible.
Because the sockets of reroute nodes change types dynamically
according to the sockets they are linked to, it should always be
allowed to insert reroutes onto links.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122637
This improves working with viewer nodes in geometry and compositor nodes.
Previously, the viewer node would typically stay at the position where it was first
inserted which leads to very long links in many cases. Now the viewer node
automatically moves to the place where the user ctrl+shift+clicked to view data.
The viewer is placed slightly to the right and top of the current node. It is moved
up a bit, so that it does not get in the way as quickly when the user wants to add
another new node. Furthermore, the viewer node position is chosen so that it
does not intersect with other nodes.
In the future we could implement animating the node position so that it slowly
transitions to it's new places.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121951
Previously, when dropping a node on a link with incompatible sockets, the link
would be removed. While sometimes useful in super simple setup, it is generally
useless for most work. Even worse, users might not notice that they accidentally
removed a link (this has been reported in the recent geometry nodes workshop).
This patch changes this behavior in two ways:
* A node can't be inserted onto an incompatible link anymore.
* A link will be dimmed while dragging a node over it, if it is incompatible or if
alt is pressed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121975
Previously, the new frame was always added as root frame and did not have a parent.
Now, the common root frame of all selected nodes is detected and the new frame is attached to it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121972
Move all header file into namespace.
Unnecessary namespaces was removed from implementations file.
Part of forward declarations in header was moved in the top part
of file just to do not have a lot of separate namespaces.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121637
- "Log Encoding with Chroma inset and rotation": add "of primaries" in
the description of the AgX Log color space to better explain the
operation, based on wording in !106355.
- Remove a few double spaces.
- Make Line Art title case everywhere, to convey it's the system /
brand / product name and not the generic concept.
- "Copy Absolute coordinates or Normal vector" -> "of Normal Vector":
typo.
- "Makes a link between selected output in input sockets" ->
"Make...", "output and input": typo.
- "Purge Unused Data From This File" -> "from this": title case as per
HIGs.
- GPencil -> Grease Pencil: no reason to use an abbreviation here.
- "Around Current Frame" -> "Around Frame": actual name of the
onion-skinning method.
- "... (layer height for layer tool, i.e.)" -> "(i.e. the layer height
for the layer tool)": put "i.e." at the start of the sentence.
- Expand description of toe-in stereo camera option.
- "Children collections their parent-collection-specific settings" ->
"Children collections with their...": typo.
- "Generate vertex weights base on..." -> "based on" : typo, lower
case.
- Expand description of GP modifier properties, based on their mesh
counterparts.
- "AEnvelope" -> "Envelope": typo.
- "Falloff type the feather" -> "of the feather": typo.
- "usually make transition as long as effect strip": rephrase.
- "When disabled a users extensions directory is created" -> "a
user's": typo.
- "successfull" -> "successful": typo.
- "Remove all attributes... a single wildcard (*).": remove trailing
".".
- "..., use "Save Preferences."": remove trailing ".".
Some issues reported by Marina Veselkova and Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120649
For historical reasons, the `multi_input_socket_index` was actually reversed
(large index comes first). This patch renames it to `multi_input_sort_id` and
adds a comment. This new name makes it less confusing that the id is reversed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119652
Implements the design from #116067.
The socket type is called "Matrix" but it is often referred to as "Transform"
when that's what it is semantically. The attribute type is "4x4 Matrix" since
that's a lower level choice. Currently matrix sockets are always passed
around internally as `float4x4`, but that can be optimized in the future
when smaller types would give the same behavior.
A new "Matrix" utilities category has the following set of initial nodes"
- **Combine Transform**
- **Separate Transform**
- **Multiply Matrices**
- **Transform Direction**
- **Transform Vector**
- **Invert Matrix**
- **Transpose Matrix**
The nodes and socket type are behind an experimental flag for now,
which will give us time to make sure it's the right set of initial nodes.
The viewer node overlay doesn't support matrices-- they aren't supported
for rendering in general. They also aren't supported in the modifier interface
currently. But they are supported in the spreadsheet, where the value is
displayed in a tooltip.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116166
This patch adds support for _Menu Switch_ nodes and enum definitions in
node trees more generally. The design is based on the outcome of the
[2022 Nodes Workshop](https://code.blender.org/2022/11/geometry-nodes-workshop-2022/#menu-switch).
The _Menu Switch_ node is an advanced version of the _Switch_ node which
has a customizable **menu input socket** instead of a simple boolean.
The _items_ of this menu are owned by the node itself. Each item has a
name and description and unique identifier that is used internally. A
menu _socket_ represents a concrete value out of the list of items.
To enable selection of an enum value for unconnected sockets the menu is
presented as a dropdown list like built-in enums. When the socket is
connected a shared pointer to the enum definition is propagated along
links and stored in socket default values. This allows node groups to
expose a menu from an internal menu switch as a parameter. The enum
definition is a runtime copy of the enum items in DNA that allows
sharing.
A menu socket can have multiple connections, which can lead to
ambiguity. If two or more different menu source nodes are connected to a
socket it gets marked as _undefined_. Any connection to an undefined
menu socket is invalid as a hint to users that there is a problem. A
warning/error is also shown on nodes with undefined menu sockets.
At runtime the value of a menu socket is the simple integer identifier.
This can also be a field in geometry nodes. The identifier is unique
within each enum definition, and it is persistent even when items are
added, removed, or changed. Changing the name of an item does not affect
the internal identifier, so users can rename enum items without breaking
existing input values. This also persists if, for example, a linked node
group is temporarily unavailable.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113445
Changes:
- Renamed Split Viewer Node to Split Node
- Split Node is now under `Utilities` (similar to Switch node)
- Versioning: split viewer from 4.0 and before is replaced with the new split node connected to a new viewer node.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114245
The goal here is to make it easier to make node links. Previously, it was quite
easy to accidentally start box selection or to trigger the link-drag-search when
that was not intended.
Now, the tolerances are a bit easier to work with. Also, instead of trying to use
the first socket that is close enough, it will find the closest socket instead. It feels
much better in my testing already, but obviously the values can be tuned more
with some testing.
Also we have to make sure to not accidentally make other things like resizing
nodes harder.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115010
