* BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE set to beta
* Update pipeline_config.yaml to point to 3.5 branches and svn tags
* Update and uncomment BLENDER_VERSION in download.cmake
Usually when a menu item displays an icon, we indent all other items
with an empty icon so items align nicely. Now with more built-in asset
libraries (the new "Essentials" library), this inconsistency becomes
more apparent.
Also add a separator line between the "All" asset library and the
others, makes the menu look more organized.
The Preferences for asset libraries are becoming more than a simple name
+ path. E.g. there is now an Import Method options, and we previously
also considered a Relative Paths option (which we may still want to
add). The previous UI, while consistent with the Auto Run Python Scripts
UI isn't well suited for less than trivial cases. Using UI lists makes
the UI more scalable and follows usual list UI patterns more. There is
also more space for the path button now.
Part of #104686.
The default import method for an asset library can now be determined in
the Preferences. The Asset Browser has a new "Follow Preferences" option
for the importing. The essentials asset library still only uses "Append
(Reuse Data)".
This is part of #104686, which aims at improving the import method
selection, especially for the introduction of the new essentials library
(which doesn't support certain import methods). Further changes are
coming to improve the UI, see #104686.
Pull Request: #104688
The quick fur operator now uses the new hair system. It adds a new
curves object for every selected mesh, and adds geometry nodes
modifiers from the essentials assets that generate curves. A few
settings are exposed in the redo panel, including an option for whether
to apply the modifier to generate the initial curves so that there is
original editable data.
The point of the operator is to give people a sense of how to use the
node groups and to give a very fast way to build a basic setup for
further tweaking.
Pull Request #104764
Use the right hand side selection, as it fits the typical workflow
the best.
Arguably, the same would need to be done for the k-shortcut, but
that is another issue to be tackled. As well as making the selection
active.
Pull Request #104777
We (Dalai, Hans, Falk, Simon and me) decided that the curves edit mode
is useful enough to justify moving it out of experimental now. So far it
supports the following features:
* Various selection tools. The selections are synced with sculpt mode.
* Transform tools.
* Delete curves/points.
More functionality of the old curve edit mode will be ported over in
future releases.
This implements the delete operator in curves edit mode. The behavior
is similar to the delete operator in the edit mode of legacy curves,
i.e. it's actually dissolving and doesn't split curves. This is also
the behavior that we generally want for the hair use case.
The operator is added to the `Curves` menu and can be accessed via
the keyboard using `X` or `Del`.
Pull Request #104765
This adds a new `Curve Falloff` popover to the comb brush tool settings.
The curve control allows changing the brush weight along the curve to
e.g. affect the tip more than the root. This is a relative way to get
something like stiffness for short hair.
This functionality could potentially be added to some other brushes,
but the comb brush is the most important one, so that is added first.
I did add the buttons add the buttons to choose a curve map preset.
However, I did not add the preset dropdown, because that just adds
some unnecessary complexity in the code now and is redundant.
Pull Request #104589
This patch adds a simple operator to set values of the active
attribute for the selected element. The aim is to give simple control
over attribute values in edit mode rather than to provide the fastest
workflow for most cases. Eventually this operator might be less
important compared to more advanced attribute editing tools, but for
now, exposing a little bit of functionality is low hanging fruit and
will help to see the possibilities.
The implementation mostly consists of boilerplate to register the
necessary property types for the operator and draw their UI.
Beyond that, we just loop over selected elements and set a value.
Pull Request #104426
Caused by strips being flagged for removal, but the flag was never
cleared. As far as I can tell, this issue is not reproducible anymore,
but there may be files with this flag still set.
overlay_uniform_color_clipped was inheriting from overlay_depth_only, which doesn't
make much sense.
I've changed it to inherit from overlay_uniform_color instead, which is consistent
with other \*\_clipped variants of shaders.
Pull Request #104761
Certain material node graphs can be very expensive to run. This feature aims to produce secondary GPUPass shaders within a GPUMaterial which provide optimal runtime performance. Such optimizations include baking constant data into the shader source directly, allowing the compiler to propogate constants and perform aggressive optimization upfront.
As optimizations can result in reduction of shader editor and animation interactivity, optimized pass generation and compilation is deferred until all outstanding compilations have completed. Optimization is also delayed util a material has remained unmodified for a set period of time, to reduce excessive compilation. The original variant of the material shader is kept to maintain interactivity.
Also adding a new concept to gpu::Shader allowing assignment of a parent shader from which a shader can pull PSO descriptors and any required metadata for asynchronous shader cache warming. This enables fully asynchronous shader optimization, without runtime hitching, while also reducing runtime hitching for standard materials, by using PSO descriptors from default materials, ahead of rendering.
Further shader graph optimizations are likely also possible with this architecture. Certain scenes, such as Wanderer benefit significantly. Viewport performance for this scene is 2-3x faster on Apple-silicon based GPUs.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Pull Request #104536
The logic for looping over imported OBJ faces and checking whether any
of them are "invalid" (duplicate vertices) was wrongly skipping
validation of the next face right after some invalid face. It
was the previously invalid face, moving the last into its place,
but then the loop was incrementing the face index and that just-moved
face was not properly validated.
Fixes#104593 - importing attached obj file (which contains some faces
that have duplicate indices). Added test coverage with a much smaller
obj file.
When the attribute doesn't exist, the node should give the default
of 12, as defined by the accessor method for `bke::CurvesGeometry`.
Pull Request #104674
This better aligns with OSX/Linux warnings.
Although `__pragma(warning(suppress:4100))` is not the same as
`__attribute__((__unused__))` in gcc (which only affects the attribute
instead of the line), it still seems to be better to use it than to
hide the warning entirely.
As described in #104171, add an operator that creates a new node group
that contain the current node group and named attribute nodes to deal
with the outputs. This saves manual work when moving a high-level
modifier to the node editor for better procedural control.
Pull Request #104546
This adds a new overlay for curves sculpt mode that displays the curves that the
user currently edits. Those may be different from the evaluated/original curves
when procedural deformations or child curves are used.
The overlay can clash with the evaluated curves when they are exactly on top of
each other. There is not much we can do about that currently. The user will have
to decide whether the overlay should be shown or not on a case-by-case basis.
Pull Request #104467
This renames `data` and `color` to `selection`. This is better because
it's actually what the corresponding buffers contain. Using this
more correct name makes sharing vertex buffers between different
gpu batches for different shaders easier.
The "current file" mode is only useful when creating new assets.
However, the far more common use case and the one that should require
fewer steps is to use existing assets.
There is a risk that this causes freezing if the file browser preview
caching does not work properly. So we'll have to keep an eye on the bug
tracker to see if this is an issue in practice.
Pull Request #104749
This patch adds an "Essentials" asset library that is bundled with Blender.
Also see #103620. At build time, the `lib/assets/publish` folder is copied
to `datafiles/assets` in the build directory.
In the UI, the "Essentials" library can be accessed like other custom asset
libraries with the exception that assets from that library cannot be linked.
The immediate impact of this is that Blender now comes with some geometry
node groups for procedural hair grooming.
Pull Request #104474
The OBJ spec (page B1-17) allows "l" entries to specify
polylines with more than 2 vertices, optionally with texture
coordinates.
Previously, only the first 2 vertices of each polyline
were read and added as loose edges, failing when texture
coordinates were present.
This adds support for proper polylines, reading but ignoring
texture coordinates.
Pull Request #104503
In 161908157d we moved all warnings
coming out of the library folder to /W0 as many of them do not follow
our code-style nor can we force them to.
When i made this change, i took `/external:templates-` to mean
"and that goes for you too, templates" and it decisively does the
opposite leading to /W3 warnings coming out of openvdb
This change removes the flag as it should have never have been added
in the first place.
Sculpt: Added vector displacement for the sculpting draw brush (area plane mapping only for now)
Vector displacement maps (VDM) provide a way to create complex displacements that can have overhangs in one brush dab.
This is unlike standard displacement with height maps that only displace in the normal direction.
Forms like ears, curled horns, etc can be created in one click if VMDs are used.
There is a checkbox on the draw brush in the texture settings "Vector Displacement" that enables/disables this feature.
Technical description: The RGB channels of a texture in a brush stroke are read and interpreted as individual vectors, that are used to offset vertices.
As of now, this is only working for the draw brush using the area plane mapping. Symmetry and radial symmetry are working.
A few things to consider when making VD-Maps:
* UVs need to stay intact for the bake mesh (e.g. voxel remeshing can't be used to create VD Meshes)
* When exporting a VD Map it should be in the file format OpenEXR (for positive and negative floating point values).
* Export resolution can be 512x512 or lower (EXR files can get very large, but VDM brushes don't need a high resolution)
And when using them:
* Inside Blender clamping needs to be unchecked on the texture
* The brush falloff should be set to constant (or nearly constant)
This patch was inspired by this [right-click-select proposal](https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/WqWx/) Thanks for the post!
(Moved [this patch](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D17080) to here.)
Co-authored-by: Robin Hohnsbeen <robin@hohnsbeen.de>
Pull Request #104481
Curve type counts are updated eagerly but it was missing in this
node leading to a crash further down the line where the counts
were expected to be correct.
`MEM_delete()` is designed for type safe destruction and freeing, void
pointers make that impossible.
Was reviewing a patch that was trying to free a C-style custom data
pointer this way. Apparently MSVC compiles this just fine, other
compilers error out. Make sure this is a build error on all platforms
with a useful message.
