This is the conventional way of dealing with unused arguments in C++,
since it works on all compilers.
Regex find and replace: `UNUSED\((\w+)\)` -> `/*$1*/`
The mesh's triangulation cache is often created for other operations
besides the drawing code, but during the mesh draw cache extraction
it is recalculated on every single time. It is simpler and faster to use
the existing MLoopTri array. It can also save memory if the cache
already exists by avoiding allocating a duplicate array. For a 4 million
face quad mesh, that is already 128 MB.
Also use face normals for mesh triangulation if they aren't dirty,
which should provide a general speedup when they're both necessary.
Recently 54182e4925 made this more reliable, since the triangulation
cache is invalidated properly when the mesh is deformed.
Fixes T98073
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15550
In `BKE_mesh_tag_coords_changed_uniformly` the checks for dirty vertex
and dirty poly normals were swapped around, causing an assert to be
triggered.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16002
Use `verts` instead of `vertices` and `polys` instead of `polygons`
in the API added in 05952aa94d. This aligns better with
existing naming where the shorter names are much more common.
For copy-on-write, we want to share attribute arrays between meshes
where possible. Mutable pointers like `Mesh.mvert` make that difficult
by making ownership vague. They also make code more complex by adding
redundancy.
The simplest solution is just removing them and retrieving layers from
`CustomData` as needed. Similar changes have already been applied to
curves and point clouds (e9f82d3dc7, 410a6efb74). Removing use of
the pointers generally makes code more obvious and more reusable.
Mesh data is now accessed with a C++ API (`Mesh::edges()` or
`Mesh::edges_for_write()`), and a C API (`BKE_mesh_edges(mesh)`).
The CoW changes this commit makes possible are described in T95845
and T95842, and started in D14139 and D14140. The change also simplifies
the ongoing mesh struct-of-array refactors from T95965.
**RNA/Python Access Performance**
Theoretically, accessing mesh elements with the RNA API may become
slower, since the layer needs to be found on every random access.
However, overhead is already high enough that this doesn't make a
noticible differenc, and performance is actually improved in some
cases. Random access can be up to 10% faster, but other situations
might be a bit slower. Generally using `foreach_get/set` are the best
way to improve performance. See the differential revision for more
discussion about Python performance.
Cycles has been updated to use raw pointers and the internal Blender
mesh types, mostly because there is no sense in having this overhead
when it's already compiled with Blender. In my tests this roughly
halves the Cycles mesh creation time (0.19s to 0.10s for a 1 million
face grid).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15488
We store various lazily calculated caches on meshes, some of which
depend on the vertex positions staying the same. The current API to
invalidate these caches is a bit confusing. With an explicit set of
functions modeled after the functions in `BKE_node_tree_update.h`,
it becomes clear which function to call. This may become more
important if more lazy caches are added in the future.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14760
Continuing the refactors described in T93602, this commit moves
the face dot tag set by the subdivision surface modifier out of
`MVert` to `MeshRuntime`. This clarifies its status as runtime data
and allows further refactoring of mesh positions in the future.
Before, `BKE_modifiers_uses_subsurf_facedots` was used to check
whether subsurf face dots should be drawn, but now we can just check
if the tags exist on the mesh. Modifiers that create new new geometry
or modify topology will already remove the array by clearing mesh
runtime data.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14680
