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1324 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Campbell Barton
b9d785d0a8 Cleanup: replace NULL with nullptr in freestyle, makesrna & other files 2023-08-01 21:15:52 +10:00
Hans Goudey
95edff7495 Cleanup: Rename mesh custom data fields
Implements the rest of #101689, after 5e9ea9243b.

- `vdata` -> `vert_data`
- `edata` -> `edge_data`
- `pdata` -> `face_data`
- `ldata` -> `loop_data`

A deeper rename of `loop` to `corner` will be proposed as a next
step, and renaming `totvert` and `totedge` can be done separately.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110432
2023-07-25 21:15:52 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
97007e56e5 Fix Freestyle build error when not using unity build 2023-07-25 19:19:51 +02:00
Ray molenkamp
4ea2baf4ae CMake: revert last weeks modernizations
The cleanup of blenkernel last weeks , caused the house of cards to
collapse on  top of bf_gpu's shader_builder, which is off by default
but used on a daily basis by the rendering team.

Given the fixes forward in #110394 ran into a ODR violation in OSL that
was hiding there for years, I don't see another way forward without
impeding the rendering teams productivity for "quite a while" as there
is no guarantee the OSL issue would be the end of it.

the only way forward appears to be back.

this reverts :

19422044ed
a670b53abe
0f541db97c
be516e8c81
3e88a2f44c
4e64b772f5
9547e7a317
07fe6c5a57

The problematic commit was 07fe6c5a57
as blenkernel links most of blender, it's a bit of a link order issue
magnet. Given all these commits stack, it's near impossible to revert
just that one without spending a significant amount of time resolving
merge conflicts. 99% of that work was automated, so easier to just
revert all of them, and re-do the work, than it is to deal with the
merge conflicts.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110438
2023-07-25 16:43:21 +02:00
Campbell Barton
530ee6e7fa Cleanup: make class doc-strings directly above classes
In some cases it wasn't clear if a comment before a class was meant
to be it's doc-string. Remove blank lines between the class & it's
doc-string.
2023-07-25 14:11:42 +10:00
Campbell Barton
921d6dc3e2 Cleanup: typedef uchar, ushort, uint & ulong in freestyle
source/blender/freestyle wasn't fillowing Blender's own
conventions for integer types.

This had the down-side of making the code_clean.py utility attempt to
replace `unsigned int` types which always failed.
While this edit could have been manually ignored for all files in
freestyle, add the typedef's to `FreestyleConfig.h` and follow Blender's
convention instead.
2023-07-25 12:59:22 +10:00
Hans Goudey
5e9ea9243b Mesh: Rename "polys" to "faces"
Implements part of #101689.

The "poly" name was chosen to distinguish the `MLoop` + `MPoly`
combination from the `MFace` struct it replaced. Those two structures
persisted together for a long time, but nowadays `MPoly` is gone, and
`MFace` is only used in some legacy code like the particle system.

To avoid unnecessarily using a different term, increase consistency
with the UI and with BMesh, and generally make code a bit easier to
read, this commit replaces the `poly` term with `poly`. Most variables
that use the term are renamed too. `Mesh.totface` and `Mesh.fdata` now
have a `_legacy` suffix to reduce confusion. In a next step, `pdata`
can be renamed to `face_data` as well.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109819
2023-07-24 22:06:55 +02:00
Ray molenkamp
be516e8c81 Cleanup: CMake: Modernize bf_blentranslation dependencies
Pretty straightforward:

- Remove any blentranslation paths from INC
- Add a dependency though LIB when needed

Slightly different than usual:

blentranslation still had a dependency on imbuf, from a time long
gone, cleaned that up since I was in the area

context: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cmake-cleanup/30260

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110324
2023-07-21 16:22:10 +02:00
Jacques Lucke
6fcecb7e46 BPY: move bpy and mathutils to C++
Also see #103343.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110299
2023-07-21 02:18:59 +02:00
Ray molenkamp
3e88a2f44c Cleanup: CMake: Modernize bf_depsgraph dependencies
Pretty straightforward

- Remove any depsgraph paths from INC
- Add a dependency though LIB when needed

context: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cmake-cleanup/30260

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110317
2023-07-20 22:13:00 +02:00
Campbell Barton
ac9f66e742 Cleanup: correct struct member comments 2023-07-18 14:34:59 +10:00
Campbell Barton
d594954bf2 Cleanup: use C++ compatible struct declarations for Python API
Also add m_base & ob_base comments.
2023-07-16 18:13:15 +10:00
Campbell Barton
ef1ddbaaca Cleanup: remove double spaces after a full-stop 2023-07-13 13:40:25 +10:00
Ray molenkamp
07fe6c5a57 Cleanup: CMake: Modernize bf_blenkernel dependencies
Pretty straightforward

- Remove any blenkernel paths from INC
- Add a dependency though LIB

context: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cmake-cleanup/30260

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109939
2023-07-11 19:28:01 +02:00
Ray Molenkamp
04235d0e55 Cleanup: CMake: Modernize bf_blenlib dependencies
Pretty straightforward

- Remove any blenlib paths from INC
- Add a dependency though LIB

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109934
2023-07-10 22:04:18 +02:00
Ray Molenkamp
57ad866d81 Cleanup: CMake: Modernize bf_guardedalloc dependencies
Pretty straightforward

- Removes any guardedalloc paths from INC
- Adds a dependency though LIB

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109925
2023-07-10 18:44:19 +02:00
Sergey Sharybin
d579ac2b3f Refactor: Use ImBuf to store passes in RenderResult
Doing so avoids having duplicated logic for working with pixel
data which is being passed throughout the render pipeline.

Notable changes:

- ImBug can now store GPU texture.
  This is not very finished part of the API, which will be
  worked further to support tiling for very-high-res images.

- Implicit sharing is removed from the image buffer, as it is
  no longer needed.

There should be no functional changes on user level with this
change.

Ref #108618

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109788
2023-07-10 16:33:32 +02:00
Ray Molenkamp
7cebb61486 Cleanup: CMake: Modernize bf_dna dependencies
There's quite a few libraries that depend on dna_type_offsets.h
but had gotten to it by just adding the folder that contains it to
their includes INC section without declaring a dependency to
bf_dna in the LIB section.

which occasionally lead to the lib building before bf_dna and the
header being missing, while this generally gets fixed in CMake by
adding bf_dna to the LIB section of the lib, however until last
week all libraries in the LIB section were linked as INTERFACE so
adding it in there did not resolve the build issue.

To make things still build, we sprinkled add_dependencies wherever
we needed it to force a build order.

This diff :

Declares public include folders for the bf_dna target so there's
no more fudging the INC section required to get to them.

Removes all dna related paths from the INC section for all
libraries.

Adds an alias target bf:dna to signify it has been updated to
modern cmake

Declares a dependency on bf::dna for all libraries that require it

Removes (almost) all calls to add_dependencies for bf_dna

Future work:

Because of the manual dependency management that was done, there is
now some "clutter" with libs depending on bf_dna that realistically
don't. Example bf_intern_opencolorio itself has no dependency on
bf_dna at all, doesn't need it, doesn't use it. However the
dna include folder had been added to it in the past since bf_blenlib
uses dna headers in some of its public headers and
bf_intern_opencolorio does use those blenlib headers.

Given bf_blenlib now correctly declares the dependency on bf_dna
as public bf_intern_opencolorio will get the dna header directory
automatically from CMake, hence some cleanup could be done for
bf_intern_opencolorio

Because 99% of the changes in this diff have been automated, this diff
does not seek to address these issues as there is no easy way to
determine why a certain dependency is in place. A developer will have
to make a pass a this at some later point in time. As I'd rather not
mix automated and manual labour.

There are a few libraries that could not be automatically processed
(ie bf_blendthumb) that also will need this manual look-over.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109835
2023-07-10 15:07:37 +02:00
Campbell Barton
69aee8ba6b Cleanup: remove redundant (void) for functions with no args in C++ 2023-07-02 19:54:27 +10:00
Campbell Barton
d1e6c8f5a6 Cleanup: spelling in comments 2023-06-28 12:27:48 +10:00
Campbell Barton
8bcad285de Cleanup: remove strcpy usage 2023-06-19 20:40:49 +10:00
Campbell Barton
65f99397ec License headers: use SPDX-FileCopyrightText in all sources 2023-06-15 13:35:34 +10:00
Campbell Barton
ffdce441ee License headers: use SPDX-FileCopyrightText for source/
There are still some files that need to be manually updated due to
missing copyright dates.
2023-06-14 23:36:23 +10:00
Campbell Barton
d4b23cae8f Cleanup: use C-style comments for descriptive text 2023-06-14 12:20:06 +10:00
Campbell Barton
39516324d2 Cleanup: various minor changes (code_clean.py) 2023-06-10 17:08:08 +10:00
Campbell Barton
e27bcb6e3e Cleanup: remove redundant struct qualifier 2023-06-04 19:27:38 +10:00
Sergey Sharybin
c1bc70b711 Cleanup: Add a copyright notice to files and use SPDX format
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.

This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.

Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.

Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:

    https://reuse.software/faq/
2023-05-31 16:19:06 +02:00
Campbell Barton
823685db76 Cleanup: consistent doxygen comment blocks
Also remove doxygen block for comments in a functions body.
2023-05-27 15:10:58 +10:00
Campbell Barton
13c815085b Cleanup: spelling in comments 2023-05-24 11:21:18 +10:00
Sergey Sharybin
a5677d225b Refactor Render Result to allow implicit buffer sharing
Allows to share buffer data between the render result and image buffers.

The storage of the passes and buffers in the render result have been
wrapped into utility structures, with functions to operate on them.

Currently only image buffers which are sharing buffers with the render
results are using the implicit sharing. This allows proper decoupling of
the image buffers from the lifetime of the underlying render result.

Fixes #107248: Compositor ACCESS VIOLATION when updating datablocks from handlers

Additionally, this lowers the memory usage of multi-layer EXR sequences
by avoiding having two copies of render passes in memory.

It is possible to use implicit sharing in more places, but needs
some API to ensure the render result is the only owner of data before
writing to its pixels.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108045
2023-05-23 09:19:37 +02:00
Sergey Sharybin
406cfd214a Refactor ImBuf buffer access
The goal is to make it more explicit and centralized operation to
assign and steal buffer data, with proper ownership tracking.

The buffers and ownership flags are wrapped into their dedicated
structures now.

There should be no functional changes currently, it is a preparation
for allowing implicit sharing of the ImBuf buffers. Additionally, in
the future it is possible to more buffer-specific information (such
as color space) next to the buffer data itself. It is also possible
to clean up the allocation flags (IB_rect, ...) to give them more
clear naming and not have stored in the ImBuf->flags as they are only
needed for allocation.

The most dangerous part of this change is the change of byte buffer
data from `int*` to `uint8_t*`. In a lot of cases the byte buffer was
cast to `uchar*`, so those casts are now gone. But some code is
operating on `int*` so now there are casts in there. In practice this
should be fine, since we only support 64bit platforms, so allocations
are aligned. The real things to watch out for here is the fact that
allocation and offsetting from the byte buffer now need an explicit 4
channel multiplier.

Once everything is C++ it will be possible to simplify public
functions even further.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107609
2023-05-18 10:19:01 +02:00
Iliya Katueshenock
f7388e3be5 Cleanup: Move BKE_node.h to C++
See: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/103343

Changes:
1. Added `BKE_node.hh` file. New file includes old one.
2. Functions moved to new file. Redundant `(void)`, `struct` are removed.
3. All cpp includes replaced from `.h` on `.hh`.
4. Everything in `BKE_node.hh` is on `blender::bke` namespace.
5. All implementation functions moved in namespace.
6. Function names (`BKE_node_*`) changed to `blender::bke::node_*`.
7. `eNodeSizePreset` now is a class, with renamed items.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107790
2023-05-15 15:14:22 +02:00
Campbell Barton
3958ae7241 Cleanup: use STRNCPY, SNPRINTF macros 2023-05-09 14:08:19 +10:00
Hans Goudey
d0705bd697 Mesh: Split MLoopTri poly indices into a separate array
For derived mesh triangulation information, currently the three face
corner indices are stored in the same struct as index of the mesh
polygon the triangle is part of. While those pieces of information are
often used together, they often aren't, and combining them prevents
the indices from being used with generic utilities. It also means that
1/3 more memory has to be written when recalculating the triangulation
after deforming the mesh, and that the entire triangle data has to be
read when only the polygon indices are needed.

This commit splits the polygon index into a separate cache on `Mesh`.
The triangulation data isn't saved to files, so this doesn't affect
.blend files at all.

In a simple test deforming a mesh with geometry nodes, the time used
to recalculate the triangulation reduced from 2.0 ms to 1.6 ms,
increasing overall FPS from 14.6 to 15.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106774
2023-05-04 15:39:10 +02:00
Campbell Barton
6b9a500a3a Cleanup: disambiguate terms "name", "file" & "str" / "string"
- Rename name/filename/path to filepath when it's used for full paths.
- Rename name/path to dirpath when it refers to a directory.
- Rename file to filepath or path (when it may be a file or dir).
- Rename ImBuf::name & anim::name to filepath.
2023-05-03 15:26:14 +10:00
Hong Shin
1a5ad33a57 Cleanup: Move pipeline.h to C++
Ref: #103343

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107516
2023-05-02 16:55:45 +02:00
Campbell Barton
a0db0a5580 Cleanup: move comments wrapped with MultiLine control statements
In some cases comments at the end of control statements were wrapped
onto new lines which made it read as if they applied to the next line
instead of the (now) previous line.

Relocate comments to the previous line or in some cases the end of the
line (before the brace) to avoid confusion.

Note that in quite a few cases these blocks didn't read well
even before MultiLine was used as comments after the brace caused
wrapping across multiple lines in a way that didn't follow
formatting used everywhere else.
2023-05-02 09:54:48 +10:00
Campbell Barton
6859bb6e67 Cleanup: format (with BraceWrapping::AfterControlStatement "MultiLine") 2023-05-02 09:37:49 +10:00
Campbell Barton
10fc2d6d96 Cleanup: remove basepath argument from BLI_path_normalize{_dir}
Keep these operations separate to simplify path handling logic & docs.
Many callers passed NULL and there were times paths were passed in which
didn't make any sense (where the paths had already been made absolute).
2023-04-24 12:23:04 +10:00
Hans Goudey
e45ed69349 Attributes: Integrate implicit sharing with the attribute API
Add the ability to retrieve implicit sharing info directly from the
C++ attribute API, which simplifies memory usage and performance
optimizations making use of it. This commit uses the additions to
the API to avoid copies in a few places:
- The "rest_position" attribute in the mesh modifier stack
- Instance on Points node
- Instances to points node
- Mesh to points node
- Points to vertices node

Many files are affected because in order to include the new information
in the API's returned data, I had to switch a bunch of types from
`VArray` to `AttributeReader`. This generally makes sense anyway, since
it allows retrieving the domain, which wasn't possible before in some
cases. I overloaded the `*` deference operator for some syntactic sugar
to avoid the (very ugly) `.varray` that would be necessary otherwise.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107059
2023-04-19 11:21:06 +02:00
Sergey Sharybin
c872b6b930 Fix set but unused variable in Freestyle 2023-04-19 10:02:09 +02:00
Hans Goudey
2a4323c2f5 Mesh: Move edges to a generic attribute
Implements #95966, as the final step of #95965.

This commit changes the storage of mesh edge vertex indices from the
`MEdge` type to the generic `int2` attribute type. This follows the
general design for geometry and the attribute system, where the data
storage type and the usage semantics are separated.

The main benefit of the change is reduced memory usage-- the
requirements of storing mesh edges is reduced by 1/3. For example,
this saves 8MB on a 1 million vertex grid. This also gives performance
benefits to any memory-bound mesh processing algorithm that uses edges.

Another benefit is that all of the edge's vertex indices are
contiguous. In a few cases, it's helpful to process all of them as
`Span<int>` rather than `Span<int2>`. Similarly, the type is more
likely to match a generic format used by a library, or code that
shouldn't know about specific Blender `Mesh` types.

Various Notes:
- The `.edge_verts` name is used to reflect a mapping between domains,
  similar to `.corner_verts`, etc. The period means that it the data
  shouldn't change arbitrarily by the user or procedural operations.
- `edge[0]` is now used instead of `edge.v1`
- Signed integers are used instead of unsigned to reduce the mixing
  of signed-ness, which can be error prone.
- All of the previously used core mesh data types (`MVert`, `MEdge`,
  `MLoop`, `MPoly` are now deprecated. Only generic types are used).
- The `vec2i` DNA type is used in the few C files where necessary.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106638
2023-04-17 13:47:41 +02:00
Hans Goudey
a2b259aa2c Fix: Wrong attribute name used for corner edges array
My regex to check for this didn't catch the mistake because
the repetition was split between two lines.
2023-04-05 22:18:30 -04:00
Hans Goudey
7966cd16d6 Mesh: Replace MPoly struct with offset indices
Implements #95967.

Currently the `MPoly` struct is 12 bytes, and stores the index of a
face's first corner and the number of corners/verts/edges. Polygons
and corners are always created in order by Blender, meaning each
face's corners will be after the previous face's corners. We can take
advantage of this fact and eliminate the redundancy in mesh face
storage by only storing a single integer corner offset for each face.
The size of the face is then encoded by the offset of the next face.
The size of a single integer is 4 bytes, so this reduces memory
usage by 3 times.

The same method is used for `CurvesGeometry`, so Blender already has
an abstraction to simplify using these offsets called `OffsetIndices`.
This class is used to easily retrieve a range of corner indices for
each face. This also gives the opportunity for sharing some logic with
curves.

Another benefit of the change is that the offsets and sizes stored in
`MPoly` can no longer disagree with each other. Storing faces in the
order of their corners can simplify some code too.

Face/polygon variables now use the `IndexRange` type, which comes with
quite a few utilities that can simplify code.

Some:
- The offset integer array has to be one longer than the face count to
  avoid a branch for every face, which means the data is no longer part
  of the mesh's `CustomData`.
- We lose the ability to "reference" an original mesh's offset array
  until more reusable CoW from #104478 is committed. That will be added
  in a separate commit.
- Since they aren't part of `CustomData`, poly offsets often have to be
  copied manually.
- To simplify using `OffsetIndices` in many places, some functions and
  structs in headers were moved to only compile in C++.
- All meshes created by Blender use the same order for faces and face
  corners, but just in case, meshes with mismatched order are fixed by
  versioning code.
- `MeshPolygon.totloop` is no longer editable in RNA. This API break is
  necessary here unfortunately. It should be worth it in 3.6, since
  that's the best way to allow loading meshes from 4.0, which is
  important for an LTS version.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105938
2023-04-04 20:39:28 +02:00
Sergey Sharybin
a12a8a71bb Remove "All Rights Reserved" from Blender Foundation copyright code
The goal is to solve confusion of the "All rights reserved" for licensing
code under an open-source license.

The phrase "All rights reserved" comes from a historical convention that
required this phrase for the copyright protection to apply. This convention
is no longer relevant.

However, even though the phrase has no meaning in establishing the copyright
it has not lost meaning in terms of licensing.

This change makes it so code under the Blender Foundation copyright does
not use "all rights reserved". This is also how the GPL license itself
states how to apply it to the source code:

    <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
    Copyright (C) <year>  <name of author>

    This program is free software ...

This change does not change copyright notice in cases when the copyright
is dual (BF and an author), or just an author of the code. It also does
mot change copyright which is inherited from NaN Holding BV as it needs
some further investigation about what is the proper way to handle it.
2023-03-30 10:51:59 +02:00
Sergey Sharybin
d32d787f5f Clang-Format: Allow empty functions to be single-line
For example

```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver()
{
}
```

becomes

```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver() {}
```

Saves quite some vertical space, which is especially handy for
constructors.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105594
2023-03-29 16:50:54 +02:00
Hans Goudey
16fbadde36 Mesh: Replace MLoop struct with generic attributes
Implements #102359.

Split the `MLoop` struct into two separate integer arrays called
`corner_verts` and `corner_edges`, referring to the vertex each corner
is attached to and the next edge around the face at each corner. These
arrays can be sliced to give access to the edges or vertices in a face.
Then they are often referred to as "poly_verts" or "poly_edges".

The main benefits are halving the necessary memory bandwidth when only
one array is used and simplifications from using regular integer indices
instead of a special-purpose struct.

The commit also starts a renaming from "loop" to "corner" in mesh code.

Like the other mesh struct of array refactors, forward compatibility is
kept by writing files with the older format. This will be done until 4.0
to ease the transition process.

Looking at a small portion of the patch should give a good impression
for the rest of the changes. I tried to make the changes as small as
possible so it's easy to tell the correctness from the diff. Though I
found Blender developers have been very inventive over the last decade
when finding different ways to loop over the corners in a face.

For performance, nearly every piece of code that deals with `Mesh` is
slightly impacted. Any algorithm that is memory bottle-necked should
see an improvement. For example, here is a comparison of interpolating
a vertex float attribute to face corners (Ryzen 3700x):

**Before** (Average: 3.7 ms, Min: 3.4 ms)
```
threading::parallel_for(loops.index_range(), 4096, [&](IndexRange range) {
  for (const int64_t i : range) {
    dst[i] = src[loops[i].v];
  }
});
```

**After** (Average: 2.9 ms, Min: 2.6 ms)
```
array_utils::gather(src, corner_verts, dst);
```

That's an improvement of 28% to the average timings, and it's also a
simplification, since an index-based routine can be used instead.
For more examples using the new arrays, see the design task.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104424
2023-03-20 15:55:13 +01:00
Jacques Lucke
92b607d686 CustomData: add separate function to add layer from existing data
This simplifies the usage of the API and is preparation for #104478.

The `CustomData_add_layer` and `CustomData_add_layer_named` now have corresponding
`*_with_data` functions that should be used when creating the layer from existing data.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105708
2023-03-14 15:30:26 +01:00
Hans Goudey
1dc57a89e9 Mesh: Move functions to C++ header
Refactoring mesh code, it has become clear that local cleanups and
simplifications are limited by the need to keep a C public API for
mesh functions. This change makes code more obvious and makes further
refactoring much easier.

- Add a new `BKE_mesh.hh` header for a C++ only mesh API
- Introduce a new `blender::bke::mesh` namespace, documented here:
  https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/Mesh#Namespaces
- Move some functions to the new namespace, cleaning up their arguments
- Move code to `Array` and `float3` where necessary to use the new API
- Define existing inline mesh data access functions to the new header
- Keep some C API functions where necessary because of RNA
- Move all C++ files to use the new header, which includes the old one

In the future it may make sense to split up `BKE_mesh.hh` more, but for
now keeping the same name as the existing header keeps things simple.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105416
2023-03-12 22:29:15 +01:00
Hans Goudey
5876573e14 Mesh: Move face shade smooth flag to a generic attribute
Currently the shade smooth status for mesh faces is stored as part of
`MPoly::flag`. As described in #95967, this moves that information
to a separate boolean attribute. It also flips its status, so the
attribute is now called `sharp_face`, which mirrors the existing
`sharp_edge` attribute. The attribute doesn't need to be allocated
when all faces are smooth. Forward compatibility is kept until
4.0 like the other mesh refactors.

This will reduce memory bandwidth requirements for some operations,
since the array of booleans uses 12 times less memory than `MPoly`.
It also allows faces to be stored more efficiently in the future, since
the flag is now unused. It's also possible to use generic functions to
process the values. For example, finding whether there is a sharp face
is just `sharp_faces.contains(true)`.

The `shade_smooth` attribute is no longer accessible with geometry nodes.
Since there were dedicated accessor nodes for that data, that shouldn't
be a problem. That's difficult to version automatically since the named
attribute nodes could be used in arbitrary combinations.

**Implementation notes:**
- The attribute and array variables in the code use the `sharp_faces`
  term, to be consistent with the user-facing "sharp faces" wording,
  and to avoid requiring many renames when #101689 is implemented.
- Cycles now accesses smooth face status with the generic attribute,
  to avoid overhead.
- Changing the zero-value from "smooth" to "flat" takes some care to
  make sure defaults are the same.
  - Versioning for the edge mode extrude node is particularly complex.
    New nodes are added by versioning to propagate the attribute in its
    old inverted state.
- A lot of access is still done through the `CustomData` API rather
  than the attribute API because of a few functions. That can be
  cleaned up easily in the future.
- In the future we would benefit from a way to store attributes as a
  single value for when all faces are sharp.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104422
2023-03-08 15:36:18 +01:00