This patch adds icons to the right side of nodes when they encounter a
a problem. When hovered, a tooltip displays describing the encountered
while evaluating the node.
Some examples are: attribute doesn't exist, mesh has no faces,
incorrect attribute type, etc. Exposing more messages to the system
will be an ongoing process. Multiple warnings per node are supported.
The system is implemented somewhat generically so that the basic
structure can also be used to store more information from evaluation
for the interface, like a list of available attributes.
Currently the messages are just button tooltips. They could be styled
differently in the future. Another limitation is that every instance of
a node group in a parent node tree will have the same error messages,
the "evaluation context" used to decide when to display the tooltips
must be extended to support node tree paths.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10290
Since the derived node tree is already build for the evaluation system,
it's simpler to pass a derived node to the params struct. This will also
allow context lookups in nested node groups for node error messages,
since the derived node has that information readily accessible.
Currently every attribute node assumes that the attribute exists on the
"points" domain, so it generally isn't possible to work with attributes
on other domains like edges, polygons, and corners.
This commit adds a heuristic to each attribute node to determine the
correct domain for the result attribute. In general, it works like this:
- If the output attribute already exists, use that domain.
- Otherwise, use the highest priority domain of the input attributes.
- If none of the inputs are attributes, use the default domain (points).
For the implementation I abstracted the check a bit, but in each
node has a slightly different situation, so we end up with slightly
different `get_result_domain` functions in each node. I think this makes
sense, it keeps the code flexible and more easily understandable.
Note that we might eventually want to expose a domain drop-down to some
of the nodes. But that will be a separate discussion; this commit focuses
on making a more useful choice automatically.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10389
Normally sockets only have one input link. This commit adds the back-end
changes needed to use multiple input links per socket.
Multi-input sockets can be defined with a new flag in `bNodeSocketType`.
The changes necessary to make the sockets work in the geometry nodes
evaluator are generalizing input socket values as a vector of values,
and supporting this in the derived node tree structure.
This patch should contain no functional changes. Two upcoming patches
will use this system for the "Join Geometry" node and expose link picking
and updated display in the UI: D10069 and D10181.
Reviewed By: Jacques Lucke, Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10067
Previously float2 was converted to float3 by implicitly converting to a
float pointer first, which was then passed to the float3 constructor.
This leads to uninitialized memory in the z component of the new float3.
Ideally this should be solved in float2/float3 itself, but my first fix for
that resulted in a compile error: rB6ac0a3d83c8e5a39bd5356aa0d68e3166bd91e82
This is an alternative fix that can be used for now. Will have to look
into the conversion in more detail again.
Some of these conversions are arbitrary to some degree.
However, the user experience is better when at least something
happens when converting between types, instead of just getting
zeros. I left out a few conversions that I wasn't sure about yet.
I also added conversions for float2.
This patch implements the same operations and interface as the regular
vector math node, but it runs for every element of the attribute. This
should expand what's possible with geometry nodes quite a bit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9914
This patch adds two related nodes, a node for separating points
and mesh vertices based on a boolean attribute input, and a node
for creating boolean attributes with comparisons.
See the differential for an example file and video.
Point Separate (T83059)
The output in both geometries is just point data, contained in the mesh
and point cloud components, depending which components had data in the
input geometry. Any points with the mask attribute set to true will be
moved from the first geometry output to the second. This means that
for meshes, all edge and face data will be removed. Any point domain
attributes are moved to the correct output geometry as well.
Attribute Compare (T83057)
The attribute compare does the "Equal" and "Not Equal" operations by
comparing vectors and colors based on their distance from each other.
For other operations, the comparison is between the lengths of the
vector inputs. In general, the highest complexity data type is used
for the operation, and a new function to determine that is added.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9876
This adds a boolean attribute and custom data type, to be used in the
point separate node. It also adds it as supported data types in the
random attribute and attribute fill nodes.
There are more clever ways of storing a boolean attribute that make
more sense in certain situations-- sets, bitfields, and others, this
commit keeps it simple, saving those changes for when there is a proper
use case for them. In any case, we will still probably always want the
idea of a boolean attribute.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9818
Remove DNA headers, using forward declarations where possible.
Also removed duplicate header, header including it's self
and unnecessary inclusion of libc system headers from BKE header.
This commit adds a simple utility function for getting the data type of an
attribute or its "constant" socket counterparts. No functional changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9819
The implementation is pretty much the same as for Object sockets.
The socket color is the one that is used for collections in the outliner.
Part of D9739.
This is a non-functional change. The functionality introduced in this commit
is not used in master yet. It is used by nodes that are being developed in
other branches though.
The handling of muted nodes is handled at the derived node tree
level now. This is also where expanding node groups is handled.
Muted nodes are relinked and removed from the derived tree
during construction. The geometry node evaluation code does
not have to know about muted nodes this way.
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
Don't refresh the list of sockets, so that when the .blend file is restored the
links remain valid. Also display such nodes in red to indicate an error, same
as when the node type info is missing.
The links where added to the socket one after the other. However,
the virtual socket had a link limit of 1, so whenever a new link was
added, the previously added one was removed.
There is not really a reason for why the link limit should be 1 instead
of something higher. I'm setting it to the max value: `0xFFF`.
I'm also setting the `input_link_limit` to that value. Blender does not
need this currently, but addons might have input sockets that allow
more than one incident link.
The design for how we approach the "Everything Nodes" project
has changed. We will focus on a different part of the project initially.
While future me will likely refer back to some of the code I remove here,
there is no point in keeping this code around in master currently.
It would just confuse other developers working on the project.
This does not remove the simulation modifier and data block. Those are
just cleaned up, so that the boilerplate code can be reused in the future.
This replaces header include guards with `#pragma once`.
A couple of include guards are not removed yet (e.g. `__RNA_TYPES_H__`),
because they are used in other places.
This patch has been generated by P1561 followed by `make format`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8466
This flag specifies that even when the socket is not connected,
the node should not display the input field for the constant input
value. This is useful for inputs like Normal, which have special
handling for the missing input case and don't use a constant value.
Currently there is no way to change this flag from Python, and
through UI it can only be done by re-creating the socket.
This patch exposes the flag through RNA and UI, makes sure it
is properly updated when changed, and adds special handling to
ensure that it is correctly set when creating a node group from
a node set that includes reroute nodes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8395
The abbreviation 'init' is brief, unambiguous and already used
in thousands of places, also initialize is often accidentally
written with British spelling.
This is a convenience wrapper for `Map<Key, Vector<Value>>`.
It does not provide any performance benefits (yet). I need this
kind of map in a couple of places and before I was duplicating
the lookup logic in many places.
Object sockets work now, but only the new Object Transforms and the
Particle Mesh Emitter node use it. The emitter does not actually
use the mesh surface yet. Instead, new particles are just emitted around
the origin of the object.
Internally, handles to object data blocks are passed around in the network,
instead of raw object pointers. Using handles has a couple of benefits:
* The caller of the function has control over which handles can be resolved
and therefore limit access to specific data. The set of data blocks that
is accessed by a node tree should be known statically. This is necessary
for a proper integration with the dependency graph.
* When the pointer to an object changes (e.g. after restarting Blender),
all handles are still valid.
* When an object is deleted, the handle is invalidated without causing crashes.
* The handle is just an integer that can be stored per particle and can be cached easily.
The mapping between handles and their corresponding data blocks is
stored in the Simulation data block.
This updates the usage of integer types in code I wrote according to our new style guides.
Major changes:
* Use signed instead of unsigned integers in many places.
* C++ containers in blenlib use `int64_t` for size and indices now (instead of `uint`).
* Hash values for C++ containers are 64 bit wide now (instead of 32 bit).
I do hope that I broke no builds, but it is quite likely that some compiler reports
slightly different errors. Please let me know when there are any errors. If the fix
is small, feel free to commit it yourself.
I compiled successfully on linux with gcc and on windows.
This also introduces the `blender::nodes` namespace. Eventually,
we want to move most/all of the node implementation files into
this namespace.
The reason for this file-move is that the code fits much better
into the `nodes` directory than in the `blenkernel` directory.
This adds new callbacks to `bNodeSocketType` and `bNodeType`.
Those are used to generate a multi-function network from a node
tree. Later, this network is evaluated on e.g. particle data.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8169
It was only checking for the identifier, but the type has to be equivalent as well.
Reviewers: mano-wii, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8101
