Optimize Workbench performance so it's on par with the previous
implementation.
Most of these changes are barely noticeable on powerful GPUs,
but can cause a notable performance improvement on old or low-end
hardware.
* Avoid unnecessary texture copies and draw directly to the viewport
textures.
* Optimize-out depth/stencil reads, using stencil testing instead.
* Avoid using `Texture::clear` and use framebuffer clears instead.
* Avoid framebuffer state changes (always use the same attachments).
* Avoid constant variation of acquired `TextureFromPool`s.
Fix#113010
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113251
Fixed version of #112544 (reverted).
`DRW_drawdata_get` reuses the same `DrawData` for all duplis,
so they all end up using the same `ObjectHandle` and `ObjectKey`,
which breaks motion vectors.
* Don't rely on `DRW_drawdata_get` for storing `ObjectKey`s.
* Simplify `ObjectKey`.
This also solves the issue of objects created "on the fly" always having
the `ID_RECALC_ALL` flag.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113252
This PR enables vulkan backend as experimental option.
It will only be available in alpha builds on Linux and Windows.
This option is highly experimental and enabled to get some insight
on supported platforms. Don't expect a fully working Blender
yet. Also don't expect it to have usable performance.
**What is known to not work?**
* OCIO textures are not supported on Intel and AMD GPUs. sRGB/Standard is supported
on those platforms.
* AMD Polaris based GPUs on Linux will generate a crash when drawing the 3d cursor as it
doesn't support the needed vertex format. Comment out `DRW_draw_cursor` in `DRW_draw_region_info`.
* The colors in the node editor and sequencer are of as sRGB viewports aren't detected correctly.
* The image / UV editor isn't working as many texture formats haven't been tested yet. Some
tweaks are also needed to do correct depth testing.
* 3D Viewport is known to be flickering. Sometimes workbench doesn't display anything.
* 3D Viewport wireframe will crash as it uses a framebuffer with gaps between color attachments,
which isn't supported yet. (#113141)
* Rotate the view widget is partially drawn due to incompatible depth clipping.
* GPU Selection isn't working. It is expected to be solved when Overlay-Next will become the
default engine. For now disable GPU depth picking in the preferences.
* Cycles/EEVEE are known to not work with Vulkan yet. Cycles requires Vulkan Pixel Buffer.
Cuda <-> Vulkan interop might require a different approach than OpenGL as Vulkan doesn't allow
importing memory from a Cuda context. EEVEE uses features that aren't available yet in the backend
* Workbench is working, except Workbench shadows.
* EEVEE-Next basics are working. Shadows, lights are known to be not working. Materials/Shading
works in simple scenes. Changes are expected in EEVEE-Next that will break Vulkan compatibility
in the near future.
* Systems with multiple GPUs is not expected to work.
* Wayland support is in development and requires some iterations. You can start Blender, but
the protocols are not aligned yet.
* OpenXR hasn't been modified and is expected to fail.
* The backend is very strict when mis-using the GPU module. In debug builds it may crash
on asserts.
* Older drivers/GPUs might not have all the features that we require. The workarounds
for the missing features still need to be implemented.
**A word about performance**
In the project planning we focus first on stability and platform support. The performance of Vulkan is
around 20% of what we want to achieve. The reason is that each command sent to the
GPU is done one at a time. The implementation even waits until we have feedback that the GPU
is idle again.
Geometry is currently stored in System RAM. The GPU will read and cache the data when
accessing geometry. This slows down when using objects with much geometry.
Some performance features like MDI (Multi-Draw-Indirect) hasn't been implemented and
falls back to Single Draw Indirect.
**Why enable it is an experimental option?**
* Ensures that new features are being tested with Vulkan
* Ensure that building with Vulkan is possible on supported platforms
* Get feedback from developers if Vulkan can run on their system or that
there are special cases that we are not aware of. Main development
environment has been Linux/X11 with occasionally testing using Windows.
* Validate Add-ons that use the `gpu` module.
* Possible to enable GLSL validation on the buildbot. (Needs more work).
* Does it compile on all machines or does it require more changes to cmake
config. We expect it to be able to compile without installing the Vulkan SDK.
The Vulkan SDK is a very powerful tool, but only when actually doing GPU
development. Otherwise it is an overhead which slows down other
activities.
**How can the backend be enabled?**
Currently the Vulkan backend can be enabled per Blender session by starting
using the command line argument `--gpu-backend vulkan`. In the future, when
the backend is more mature, we will add a user preference to switch between
OpenGL and Vulkan.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113057
This fixes several issues related to using reflection probes in EEVEE-Next.
- When using a single sample, the reflection probes weren't always updated.
- Composite world background in reflection probes
- Removing reflection probes wasn't working
- Update UBO when world and reflection probes are active in the scene.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113347
Previously the colors were just uploaded as white, the default value.
Even if they aren't interpolated properly, it is still helpful to see
the colors. At worst, the unaffected parts of the mesh will still look
right.
A previous commit made vertex colors interpolate properly, but
face corner colors will still reset to their default value.
As a reminder, only color and byte color attributes are currently
supported for the specialized PBVH drawing.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113333
This change makes it so the newly added vertices have properly
interpolated attributes. This includes things like vertex colors.
New vertices are created by splitting edges, so the interpolation
mixes between the edge's two vertices equally.
Co-Authored-By: Hans Goudey <hans@blender.org>
This assert triggers whenever dyntopo is used, even when all the
objects and environment is pristine. The semantic of the assert
is not very clear either.
Avoid having a false-positive trigger which gets in the way of any
development in the area.
The issue was that the code filtered for selected channels,
while the expectation was that it would only filter for selected keys.
This PR changes the behavior of the operator in the following way:
* when "Clean Channels" is **disabled**, it will clean only selected keyframes, regardless of the channel selection
* when "Clean Channels" is **enabled**, it will clean selected channels regardless of keyframe selection
The same logic was applied to the Graph Editor code.
It only makes a difference in the case when "Clean Channels" is enabled.
That is because channels were automatically selected when a key was selected.
In addition to that I moved the menu entry for "Clean Channels" to the channel menu
to reduce confusion.
Another solution would have been to make the Dope Sheet select channels
when keys are selected. This might still be done in the future, but I think the
only correct fix is to change the actual operator behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113335
Unify the way the different state's of a cache are shown in the timeline:
* Baked: fully opaque
* Cached: slightly transparent
* Invalid cache: slightly transparent, dark diagonal stripes
This improves accessibility since patterns are easier to recognize
for colorblind or otherwise visually impaired people.
The slight transparency is done with an alpha of 0.7 and the diagonal
stripes use the cache's color at 50% value.
Implements #108196.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108481
This fails to differentiate between active buttons and disabled buttons
for some custom themes (and also in blender light theme)
Instead use text color with 0.5 alpha value for disabled item's text.
(Don't blend between text and inner color)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113082
Update the label of the "Bone Pose" theme setting to "Bone Pose Selected".
That is now consistent with the already-existing "Bone Pose Active"
label.
Also add tooltips that clarify what these theme colors are used for.
This PR implements an initial drawing tool that can already be used for testing.
While this is not fully feature complete (compared to the current grease pencil draw tool) the following is already implemented:
* Pressure support for radius and opacity.
* Material color and vertex color support.
* New active smoothing algorithm based on curve fitting.
* Simplify algorithm as a post-process step.
Some deliberate limitations include:
* The drawing plane is always the front plane. Drawing on surfaces is also not supported.
*
The current approach has not been optimized for performance yet. The goal was to have a straightforward implementation
first and then focus on performance later.
There are numerous parameters in the code that are hard-coded for now. These should be exposed at some point, potentially as user settings.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110093
Resizing a window in Wayland caused cursor motion events in the window
which could be seen as buttons flashing when the cursor was detected
as hovering over buttons.
This was caused by two bugs:
- Missing checks for failure to access the cursor location before
converting the coordinates from GHOST to screen-space meant the
wmWindow::eventstate location would move each time the location
was updated.
- Resizing the window wasn't detecting state changes and would
continuously send window activation events. Window activation set
wmWindpw::addmousemove which triggered the previous bug, making the
cursor flicker during resize.
This commit only addresses the first issue, where failure to access
the cursor location wasn't accounted for
(window activation will be fixed separately).
All GHOST_GetCursorPosition & wm_cursor_position_get calls now account
for failure, resolving uninitialized stack memory use in some cases.
This resolves similar issues for macOS, WIN32 & X11 although it seems
likely these platforms rarely fail to access the cursor location.
BGL is deprecated and will not work on Metal devices. Although the
inital plan was to remove it in Blender 4.0, We don't see any harm
to still have it in the code-base until OpenGL itself is deprecated.
Add-on developers are warned when using the BGL module that the
add-on/script will not work on all platforms.
There are still some limitations inside the GPU module that needs
a more friendly API. This API isn't clear at this time.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112579
When units were initially defined having each on their own line was
compact, since them more fields have been added, making the lines
overly long and the difference between each field non-obvious.
Further, the conversion from C to C++ [0], wrapped definitions onto the
same line (for some reason), resulting in lines over 700 wide.
Use clang-format & add struct ID's for clarity.
[0]: 129f78eee7
This replaces the older dynamic c arrays with blender::Vector as
appropriate. Many files required minimal changes and the before/after
are quite similar.
There's 3 remaining usages of the old machinery but those will require
more involved changes and design.
See #103343
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110981
Fix various issues in import and export of cameras.
* Wrong units and flipped shift values on import
* Wrong clip start lower range on import
* Wrong units for aperture and focal length properties on export
* Issue with auto sensor fit and height > width on export
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112905
Optimization of EEVEE Next's Virtual Shadow Maps for TBDRs.
The core of these optimizations lie in eliminating use of
atomic shadow atlas writes and instead utilise tile memory to
perform depth accumulation as a secondary pass once all
geometry updates for a given shadow view have been updated.
This also allows use of fast on-tile depth testing/sorting, reducing
overdraw and redundant fragment operations, while also allowing
for tile indirection calculations to be offloaded into the vertex
shader to increase fragment storage efficiency and throughput.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Co-authored-by: Michael Parkin-White <mparkinwhite@apple.com>
Co-authored-by: Clément Foucault <foucault.clem@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111283
For some reasons, `WM_jobs_stop` and `WM_jobs_kill` would use their own
'type' of function pointer - and not even a matching one!
Among (many) other reasons why this was bad, it required very stupid
casting from code using these functions - and made editing wmJob `startjob`
signature needlessly complicated.
Enable tests for EEVEE Next.
As a workaround for allowing the use of EEVEE Next (still an
experimental feature) with `--factory-startup`, `arg_handle_engine_set`
enables the feature when `-E BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT` is used.
In addition, EEVEE Next is always registered, so it's available when
calling `WM_init`.
If it's actually disabled, it will be immediately unregistered after that.
Notes:
- `get_gpu_device_type` always fails with error:
> GPU API is not available in background mode
- Setup and tests are the same as EEVEE. There are many tests that
only make sense for Cycles, and many EEVEE Next features that are
not actually tested.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112161
A regression since d579ac2b3f.
Cycles delays allocation of the render buffers, which makes it impossible
to access effective render resolution during rendering. This was making the
drawing code to fall-back to the full scene resolution with only percentage
and crop accounted for.
This change makes it so an empty ImBuf is used to communicate the render
result resolution. It does not have any pixel buffer associated with it,
which actually matches the behaivor prior to the offending commit.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113282
Newly created bones and bone collections get a default name. Like
other types of data, these names should be translated if the user
enabled the translation of new data in the preferences.
This commit adds the appropriate `DATA_()` macro:
- when creating a new armature;
- when creating a new bone;
- when creating a new bone collection through `ANIM_bonecoll_new()`;
- when ensuring that a new bone collection has a unique name;
- when renaming a bone collection;
- in the bone collection tests, to check that new bones have the
expected translated name.
It also sets the default value of the bone name in the
`ARMATURE_OT_bone_primitive_add()` operator to a null string instead
of "Bone", so that the default name may be chosen while checking for
unique names, since an empty string will default to the translation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113171
