A solution for an older bug was causing it.
Added a special case to avoid an extra relation for context
variables as they do not change during the dependency graph
evaluation,
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107082
Force field absorption allows dampening of force fields by colliders, but it does not currently work when the scene only contains a rigid body simulation. It requires a particle simulation, cloth, dynamic paint, fluid sim, or softbodies for the feature to work correctly.
The reasons is that the effector function computing force field strength uses depsgraph relations to determine which colliders "absorb" the force field. If there are no dependencies between colliders and effectors registered in the depsgraph, the visibility function `eff_calc_visibility` does not add any absorption.
There is a function build_collision_relations which adds a dependency between the absorption object (the one with a collision modifier) and the forcefield object. It's currently only called by
1. Particle systems (DepsgraphRelationBuilder::add_particle_collision_relations)
2. Cloth, DynPaint, Fluid, and Softbody (DEG_add_collision_relations and indirectly through DEG_add_forcefield_relations).
The `DepsgraphRelationsBuilder` now adds the effector relations also when building rigid body relations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106503
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.
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
Happens if a scene has a PointerProperty of type collection which
is set to a collection containing rigid bodies.
The error is printed by the builder of the render pipeline graph,
which contains very minimal subset of the view layer: it includes
custom properties (which gets recursed into), but not the rigid
body simulation.
This fix is mainly suppressing the error print, without changing
the apparent behavior of the graph.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106045
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
Drivers: Introduce the Context Properties
The goal: allow accessing context dependent data, such as active scene camera
without linking to a specific scene data-block. This is useful in cases when,
for example, geometry node setup needs to be aware of the camera position.
A possible work-around without changes like this is to have some scene
evaluation hook which will update driver variables for the currently evaluating
scene. But this raises an issue of linking: it is undesirable that the asset
scene is linked to the shot file.
Surely, it is possible to have post-evaluation handler to clear the variables,
but it all starts to be quite messy. Not to mention possible threading
conflicts.
Another possibility of introducing a way to achieve the goal is to make it so
the dependency graph somehow parses the python expression where artists can
(and already are trying to) type something like:
depsgraph.scene.camera.matrix_world.col[3][0]
But this is not only tricky to implement properly and reliably, it hits two
limitations:
- Currently dependency graph can only easily resolve dependencies to a RNA
property.
- Some properties access which are valid in Python are not considered valid
RNA properties by the existing property resolution functions:
`camera.matrix_world[3][0]` is a valid RNA property, but
`camera.matrix_world.col[3][0]` is not.
Using driver variables allows to have visual feedback when the path resolution
fails, and there is no way to visualize errors in the python expression itself.
This change introduces the new variable type: Context Property. Using this
variable type makes allows to choose between Active Scene and Active View
Layer. These scene and view layer are resolved during the driver evaluation
time, based on the current dependency graph.
This allows to create a driver variable in the following configuration:
- Type: Context Property
- Context Property: Active Scene
- Path: camera.matrix_world[3][0]
The naming is a bit confusing. Tried my best to keep it clear keeping two
aspects in mind: using UI naming when possible, and follow the existing
naming.
A lot of the changes are related on making it so the required data is available
from the variable evaluation functions. It wasn't really clear what the data
would be, and the scope of the changes, so it is done together with the
functional changes.
It seems that there is some variable evaluation logic duplicated in the
`bpy_rna_driver.c`. This change does not change it. It is not really clear why
this separate code path with much more limited scope of supported target types
is even needed.
There is also a possible change in the behavior of the dependency graph: it
is now using ID of the resolved path when building driver variables. It used
to use the variable ID. In common cases they match, but when going into nested
data-blocks it is actually correct to use relation to the resolved ID. Not sure
if there was some code to ensure that, which now can be resolved. Also not sure
whether it is still needed to ensure the ID specified in the driver target is
build as well. Intuitively it is not needed.
Pull Request #105132
Happens, for example, when the object has animation, and disabled for
render, and animation render is performed.
The regression has been uncovered by f12f7800c2 which made it so
the dependency graph relies on runtime visibility tracking and
updates (without updating relations).
The optimization from a while ago in the ff60dd8b18 got in a way
of the visibilit updates because it removed relation between two
no-op nodes which belong to different IDs, which make the visibility
tracking impossible.
This change makes it so only relations which belong to the same
component are removed. This matches the expectations of the visibility
tracking (which, actually, also needed to happen at the moment of the
initial optimization commit). Technically, this change could introduce
some performance regression, but with the current design design of the
graph it is not really avoidable.
The idea to gain the best performance is to separate relations which
actually define the execution flow, and which are only needed to
define things like visibility dependencies.
The BONE_SEGMENTS operation node is only created if the bone is
actually a B-Bone. One location in the code wasn't checking that
before trying to create a relation.
The function is already doing a lot of memory indirections and
sub-optimal lookups, so for the simplicity and robustness of the
system might as well just do copy-on-write update.
This code mainly tags IDs with `ID_RECALC_SOURCE` when one of their file
paths is modified by `BKE_bpath_foreach_path_id`.
In addition, a check is added to `BKE_sound_evaluate` to call similar
code as when `ID_RECALC_AUDIO` is used.
Finally, Sergey added some changes to relations buildings between
components for Sound IDs in the depsgraph, linking `PARAMETER` to
`AUDIO`.
Maniphest Tasks: T101326
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16528
Base it in an existing building blocks rather than having dedicated
structure for it.
No functional changes is expected, just preparing to make the code
more reusable.
Make it so find type of methods receive const pointers and do not
modify graph topology.
The latter was violated in the find_operation() which could have
created an empty component. This is not intended behavior.
No functional changes is expected.
This was essentially a use-after-free issue. When a geometry nodes
group changes it has to be preprocessed again before it can be evaluated.
This part was working, the issue was that parent node groups have to be
preprocessed as well, which was missing. The lazy-function graph cached
on the parent node group was still referencing data that was freed when
the child group changed.
Now the depsgraph makes sure that all relevant geometry node groups are
preprocessed again after a change.
This issue was found by Simon Thommes.
When a change happens which invalidates view layers the syncing will be postponed until the first usage.
This will improve importing or adding many objects in a single operation/script.
`BKE_view_layer_need_resync_tag` is used to tag the view layer to be out of sync. Before accessing
`BKE_view_layer_active_base_get`, `BKE_view_layer_active_object_get`, `BKE_view_layer_active_collection`
or `BKE_view_layer_object_bases` the caller should call `BKE_view_layer_synced_ensure`.
Having two functions ensures that partial syncing could be added as smaller patches in the future. Tagging a
view layer out of sync could be replaced with a partial sync. Eventually the number of full resyncs could be
reduced. After all tagging has been replaced with partial syncs the ensure_sync could be phased out.
This patch has been added to discuss the details and consequences of the current approach. For clarity
the call to BKE_view_layer_ensure_sync is placed close to the getters.
In the future this could be placed in more strategical places to reduce the number of calls or improve
performance. Finding those strategical places isn't that clear. When multiple operations are grouped
in a single script you might want to always check for resync.
Some areas found that can be improved. This list isn't complete.
These areas aren't addressed by this patch as these changes would be hard to detect to the reviewer.
The idea is to add changes to these areas as a separate patch. It might be that the initial commit would reduce
performance compared to master, but will be fixed by the additional patches.
**Object duplication**
During object duplication the syncing is temporarily disabled. With this patch this isn't useful as when disabled
the view_layer is accessed to locate bases. This can be improved by first locating the source bases, then duplicate
and sync and locate the new bases. Will be solved in a separate patch for clarity reasons ({D15886}).
**Object add**
`BKE_object_add` not only adds a new object, but also selects and activates the new base. This requires the
view_layer to be resynced. Some callers reverse the selection and activation (See `get_new_constraint_target`).
We should make the selection and activation optional. This would make it possible to add multiple objects
without having to resync per object.
**Postpone Activate Base**
Setting the basact is done in many locations. They follow a rule as after an action find the base and set
the basact. Finding the base could require a resync. The idea is to store in the view_layer the object which
base will be set in the basact during the next sync, reducing the times resyncing needs to happen.
Reviewed By: mont29
Maniphest Tasks: T73411
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15885
The internal state tracking is not fully suited for such kind
of optimization yet.
It is probably not that much work to make them work, but the
issue caused by the changes is serious enough for the studio
so it feels better to revert changes for now and have a closer
look into remaining issues without pressure.
A regression since ac20970bc2
The issue was caused by depsgraph clearing all id->recalc flags
wrongly assuming that all IDs are fully evaluated.
This change makes it so the depsgraph becomes aware of possibly
incompletely evaluated IDs.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15946
This refactors the geometry nodes evaluation system. No changes for the
user are expected. At a high level the goals are:
* Support using geometry nodes outside of the geometry nodes modifier.
* Support using the evaluator infrastructure for other purposes like field evaluation.
* Support more nodes, especially when many of them are disabled behind switch nodes.
* Support doing preprocessing on node groups.
For more details see T98492.
There are fairly detailed comments in the code, but here is a high level overview
for how it works now:
* There is a new "lazy-function" system. It is similar in spirit to the multi-function
system but with different goals. Instead of optimizing throughput for highly
parallelizable work, this system is designed to compute only the data that is actually
necessary. What data is necessary can be determined dynamically during evaluation.
Many lazy-functions can be composed in a graph to form a new lazy-function, which can
again be used in a graph etc.
* Each geometry node group is converted into a lazy-function graph prior to evaluation.
To evaluate geometry nodes, one then just has to evaluate that graph. Node groups are
no longer inlined into their parents.
Next steps for the evaluation system is to reduce the use of threads in some situations
to avoid overhead. Many small node groups don't benefit from multi-threading at all.
This is much easier to do now because not everything has to be inlined in one huge
node tree anymore.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15914
If the RNA path of a Single Property variable goes through a pointer
to a different ID, the property should be attached to that ID using
the owner reference in the RNA pointer. This already happened when
building some, but not all of the relations and nodes.
This patch fixes the remaining cases.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15323
Solves long-standing issue when dependencies of disabled modifiers are
evaluated.
Simple test case: no drivers or animation. Manually enabling modifier
is expected to bring FPS up, enabling modifier will bring FPS (sine
evaluation can not be avoided)
F13336690
More complex test case: modifier visibility is driven by an animated
property. In am ideal world FPS during property being zero is fast
and when property is 1 the FPS is low.
F13336691.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15625
Adds `rna_path.cc` and `RNA_path.h`.
`rna_access.c` is a quite big file, which makes it rather hard and
inconvenient to navigate. RNA path functions form a nicely coherent unit
that can stand well on it's own, so it makes sense to split them off to
mitigate the problem. Moreover, I was looking into refactoring the quite
convoluted/overloaded `rna_path_parse()`, and found that some C++
features may help greatly with that. So having that code compile in C++
would be helpful to attempt that.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15540
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Campbell Barton, Bastien Montagne
The issue was caused by the fact that objects with driven or animated
visibility were considered visible by the dependency graph evaluation.
This change makes it so the dependency graph evaluation is aware of
visibility which might be changing. This is achieved by evaluating the
path of the graph which affects objects visibility and adjusts to it
before evaluating the rest of the graph.
There is some time penalty to this, but there does not seem to be a
way to fully avoid this penalty.
With the production shot from the heist project the FPS drops by a
tenth of a frame (~9.4 vs ~9.3 fps) when adding a driver to an object
which keeps it visible. Note that this is a bit hard to measure since
the FPS fluctuates quite a bit throughout the playback. On the other
hand, having a driver on a visibility of a heavy object from character
and setting visibility to false gives big speedup.
Also worth noting that there is no penalty at all when there are no
animated visibilities in the scene.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15498
