A recent change from [0] added an assert when a string lookup was
performed on a collection item with no name-property,
but silently failed with release builds.
This isn't correct in a couple of ways.
The assert makes it seem like the RNA API needs to be updated when
it's in fact valid to have collection items without a name-property.
It also misleads script authors to silently fail since it implies a
key that exists would return a result.
Raise a TypeError exception when string lookups are attempted on
collections that don't support them.
This change also applies to get() & __contains__().
[0]: 5bb3a3f157
Currently `Mesh to Volume` creates a volume using
`openvdb::tools::meshToVolume` which is then filled with the specified
density and the class set to Fog Volume. This is wrong because
`meshToVolume` creates a signed distance field by default that needs
to be converted to a Fog Volume with `openvdb::tools::sdfToFogVolume`
to get a proper Fog volume.
Here is the description of what that function does (from OpenVDB):
"The active and negative-valued interior half of the narrow band
becomes a linear ramp from 0 to 1; the inactive interior becomes
active with a constant value of 1; and the exterior, including the
background and the active exterior half of the narrow band, becomes
inactive with a constant value of 0. The interior, though active,
remains sparse."
This means with this commit old files will not look the same.
There is no way to version this as the options for external band width
and not filling the volume is removed (they don't make any sense for a
proper fog volume).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107279
This option is true by default, but it can be changed for
any asset library (that may be using Link as import method).
This also fix "Reset to Default Value" for the Import Method
since this was originally not using the defaults.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107345
Introduce `BKE_fcurve_deduplicate_keys()` to merge keys that are on the
same time, or within the time comparison threshold (1/100th of a frame).
When merging two consecutive keys, the last one 'wins' and determines
the final key *value*. The first key's *time* is retained, to ensure the
reference point for the next comparisons is stable. The only exception
here is when there is a key exactly on an integer frame number, in which
case that one is preferred.
The function is exposed in RNA as `fcurve.keyframe_points.deduplicate()`
This commit also introduces a new function `BKE_fcurve_bezt_shrink(fcu,
new_totvert);` that can reallocate the `bezt` array to ensure removed
keys no longer take up memory.
The RNA function `fcurve.update()` currently performs two steps, which
are now exposed to RNA as well, as `keyframe_points.sort()` and
`keyframe_points.handles_recalc()`. This is so that Python code can
sort, deduplicate, and then recalculate the handles only once (calling
`update` + `deduplicate` would do the latter twice).
In Blender 4.0 the deduplication will also be part of `fcurve.update()`,
see #107126.
Reviewed on https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107089
The RNA function `fcurve.keyframe_points.add(N)` was purely implemented
in the RNA wrapper. It now sits in `ED_keyframes_add(fcu, N)` where it
can be used by other C code as well.
It's in the editors code, as regular keyframe insertion is there as
well.
No functional changes.
This speeds up saving `070_0100.anim.blend` from the Heist project
from ~3s to ~300ms by adding PROPOVERRIDE_IGNORE in a few
places. It's not completely obvious to me when `PROPOVERRIDE_IGNORE`
should be used and when it shouldn't. Given that the same is done for
meshes already, it seems correct.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107196
Animation: Adds a new "Parent Space" Orientation option for the Transformation Gizmo.
---
For child targets (objects, bones, etc) being able to transform in parent space is a desired feature (especially when it comes to rigging / animation).
For objects:
* with a parent, the gizmo orients to it's parents orientation
* without a parent, the gizmo orients to Global space
For Armatures:
* Child bone shows parent's space regardless if "Local Location" is set for parent bone
* For root bone **without** "Local Location" set, use the armature objects space.
* For root bone **with** "Local Location" set, use local bone space.
---
No new transformation orientation code needs to be written, we can achieve the desired results be using the existing `transform_orientations_create_from_axis`, `ED_getTransformOrientationMatrix`, and `unit_m3` methods. To do this, we check to see if the bone has a parent, if so, we use the bones pose matrix (`pose_mat`). This is done similarly for objects using the parent's object matrix (`object_to_world`).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104724
This patch adds several tools and options to the weight paint mode of Grease Pencil.
* Blur tool: smooths out vertex weights, by calculating a gaussian blur of adjacent vertices.
* Average tool: painting the average weight from all weights under the brush.
* Smear tool: smudges weights by grabbing the weights under the brush and 'dragging' them.
* With the + and - icons in the toolbar, the user can easily switch between adding and subtracting weight while drawing weights.
* With shortcut `D` you can toggle between these two.
* The auto-normalize options ensures that all bone-deforming vertex groups add up to 1.0 while weight painting.
* With `Ctrl-F` a radial control for weight is invoked (in addition to the radial controls for brush size and strength).
* With `Ctrl-RMB` the user can sample the weight. This sets the brush Weight from the weight under the cursor.
* When painting weights in vertex groups for bones, the user can quickly switch to another vertex group by clicking on a bone with `Ctrl-LMB`.
For this to work, follow these steps:
* Select the armature and switch to Pose Mode.
* Select your Grease Pencil object and switch immediately to Weight Paint Mode.
* Select a bone in the armature with `Ctrl-LMB`. The corresponding vertex group is automatically activated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106663
Update the RNA and DNA documentation for two bone matrices:
- `PoseBone.matrix_channel` (`bPoseChannel::chan_mat` in DNA) contains
the evaluated loc/rot/scale channels, including constraints and drivers.
- `PoseBone.matrix` (`bPoseChannel::pose_mat` in DNA) contains the same
transform, but then expressed in the armature object space.
No functional changes, just clarifications in comments / tooltips.
Implements #95966, as the final step of #95965.
This commit changes the storage of mesh edge vertex indices from the
`MEdge` type to the generic `int2` attribute type. This follows the
general design for geometry and the attribute system, where the data
storage type and the usage semantics are separated.
The main benefit of the change is reduced memory usage-- the
requirements of storing mesh edges is reduced by 1/3. For example,
this saves 8MB on a 1 million vertex grid. This also gives performance
benefits to any memory-bound mesh processing algorithm that uses edges.
Another benefit is that all of the edge's vertex indices are
contiguous. In a few cases, it's helpful to process all of them as
`Span<int>` rather than `Span<int2>`. Similarly, the type is more
likely to match a generic format used by a library, or code that
shouldn't know about specific Blender `Mesh` types.
Various Notes:
- The `.edge_verts` name is used to reflect a mapping between domains,
similar to `.corner_verts`, etc. The period means that it the data
shouldn't change arbitrarily by the user or procedural operations.
- `edge[0]` is now used instead of `edge.v1`
- Signed integers are used instead of unsigned to reduce the mixing
of signed-ness, which can be error prone.
- All of the previously used core mesh data types (`MVert`, `MEdge`,
`MLoop`, `MPoly` are now deprecated. Only generic types are used).
- The `vec2i` DNA type is used in the few C files where necessary.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106638
The build seems to complain without this, though theoretically it isn't
meant to be necessary. Though keeping them defined can potentially
avoid quadratic lookups too.
Similar to 7eee378ecc, this change decreases memory usage and
improves performance when copying curves and meshes without changing
their topology. The same change used for custom data layers is applied
to face and curve offset indices, which aren't stored as a custom data
layer.
The implicit sharing info for the offsets is stored in the mesh and
curve runtime structs, since it doesn't need to be written to files
directly. When changing the offsets pointer directly, the sharing info
must be updated accordingly. To make that easier, a few utility
functions take care of common operations like making an array mutable,
resizing an array, and creating sharing info for allocated data.
This commit also clarifies the intention to not allocate the offsets
at all when there are no curves/faces. That slightly complicates some
of the logic, but there's no reason for the single `0` integer to be
allocated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106907
This type will be used to store mesh edges in #106638, but it could
be used for anything else too. This commit adds support for:
- The new type in the Python API
- Editing the type in the edit mode "Attribute Set" operator
- Rendering the type in EEVEE and Cycles for all geometry types
- Geometry nodes attribute interpolation and mixing
- Viewing the type in the spreadsheet and using row filters
The attribute uses the `blender::int2` type in most code, and
the `vec2i` DNA type in C code when necessary. The enum names
are based on `INT32_2D` for consistency with `INT8` and `INT32`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106677
Expose the full enum including separators and section titles,
useful for the tool system so it's possible to read separators
from brush enums (not part of this commit).
A buffer is a technical term most often referred to using the metaphor
of a "clipboard" in applications. However, the "clipboard" is usually
the system clipboard, used to carry data accross applications. To
avoid confusion, this replaces "clipboard" by "internal clipboard"
when not dealing with the system clipboard.
In addition, a few places still used the "[copy/paste] buffer"
terminology, so they are replaced with "internal clipboard as well.
The replacement from "[copy/paste] buffer" to "clipboard" was
undertaken in previous commits da6d6f99a8, 14b60c3a1c. This
commit should tackle the remaining occurrences.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106060
The existing utility cleared vertex group names and active attribute
names, which doesn't always make sense when the geometry is
replaced but the custom data layout remains mainly unchanged.
- "Lens" can be a transparent object used in cameras, or specifically
its property of focal length
- "Empty" can be an adjective meaning void, or an object type. The
latter is already disambiguated using `ID_ID`
- "New" and "Old" are adjectives that can have agreements in some
languages
- "Modified" is an adjective that can have agreement in some languages
- "Clipping" can be a property of a camera, or a behavior of the
mirror modifier
- "Value" in HSV nodes, see #105113
- "Area" in the Face Area geometry node, can mean a measurement or a
window type
- "New" is an adjective that can have agreement
- "Tab" can be a UI element or a whitespace character
- "Volume" can mean a measurement or an object type. The latter is
already disambiguated using `ID_ID`
These changes introduce the new `BLT_I18NCONTEXT_TIME` translation
context.
They also remove `BLT_I18NCONTEXT_VIRTUAL_REALITY`, which I added at
one point but then couldn't find which messages I wanted to fix with
it.
Ref #43295
Pull Request: #106718
When trying to search for the Vector Math node with a translated
interface, the node did not come up because it did not use the proper
translation context.
The Vector Math node's RNA had a translation context added in
db87e2a638, in order for the Floor operation to be disambiguated. I
made a mistake and added the context to the entire node struct instead
of just the Operation prop. This had the result that the Vector Math
was searched with an empty context in the search menu, but could not
be found.
Replacing the translation context from the struct to the property
fixes the issue, and actually allows disambiguating operations such as
Floor, which wasn't achieved previously.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106579
This checkin will use OIIO to replace the image save/load code for BMP,
DDS, DPX, HDR, PNG, TGA, and TIFF.
This simplifies our build environment, reduces binary duplication,
removes large amounts of hard to maintain code, and fixes some bugs
along the way.
It should also help reduce rare differences between Blender and Cycles
which already uses OIIO for most situations. Or potentially makes them
easier to solve once discovered.
This is a continuation of the work for #101413
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105785
Rename *Bright/Contrast* to *Brightness/Contrast* in order to avoid the use of shortened names and improve consistency within Blender and with industry conventions.
Reasoning:
The modified color characteristic is called *brightness*, not *bright*. You don't modify the *bright* of an image.
This also interferes with search in case someone searches for brightness, producing no results.
*Note: This patch should only touch UI names which do not need versioning. It leaves the actual property name in nodes for a future breaking release.*
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104998
Makes it possible to select multiple custom script directories in Preferences >
File Paths, replacing the single Scripts path option. Each of these directories
supports the regular script directory layout with a startup file (or files?),
add-ons, modules and presets.
When installing an add-on, the script directory can be chosen.
NOTE: Deprecates the `bpy.types.PreferencesFilePaths.script_directory`
property, and replaces `bpy.utils.script_path_pref` with
`bpy.utils.script_paths_pref`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104876
#### Summary
Occlude edit mode selection behind objects in object mode.
#### Problem
When doing retopology, you want to be able to select your edit mesh,
but only when you can see it.
Being able to select geometry behind reference objects is not
desirable.
#### Solution
Make it so reference objects occlude selection, while the edit mesh is
pushed towards the view using retopology offset.
#### Limitations
Poly Build is not supported, because it doesn't use the depth buffer.
It behaves the same as normal, unoccluded by reference meshes.
#### Notes
Selection occlusion is not used when xray is enabled. This is
intentional.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105498
Implements #95967.
Currently the `MPoly` struct is 12 bytes, and stores the index of a
face's first corner and the number of corners/verts/edges. Polygons
and corners are always created in order by Blender, meaning each
face's corners will be after the previous face's corners. We can take
advantage of this fact and eliminate the redundancy in mesh face
storage by only storing a single integer corner offset for each face.
The size of the face is then encoded by the offset of the next face.
The size of a single integer is 4 bytes, so this reduces memory
usage by 3 times.
The same method is used for `CurvesGeometry`, so Blender already has
an abstraction to simplify using these offsets called `OffsetIndices`.
This class is used to easily retrieve a range of corner indices for
each face. This also gives the opportunity for sharing some logic with
curves.
Another benefit of the change is that the offsets and sizes stored in
`MPoly` can no longer disagree with each other. Storing faces in the
order of their corners can simplify some code too.
Face/polygon variables now use the `IndexRange` type, which comes with
quite a few utilities that can simplify code.
Some:
- The offset integer array has to be one longer than the face count to
avoid a branch for every face, which means the data is no longer part
of the mesh's `CustomData`.
- We lose the ability to "reference" an original mesh's offset array
until more reusable CoW from #104478 is committed. That will be added
in a separate commit.
- Since they aren't part of `CustomData`, poly offsets often have to be
copied manually.
- To simplify using `OffsetIndices` in many places, some functions and
structs in headers were moved to only compile in C++.
- All meshes created by Blender use the same order for faces and face
corners, but just in case, meshes with mismatched order are fixed by
versioning code.
- `MeshPolygon.totloop` is no longer editable in RNA. This API break is
necessary here unfortunately. It should be worth it in 3.6, since
that's the best way to allow loading meshes from 4.0, which is
important for an LTS version.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105938
Previously the only way to control the subtype was to remove the group
input or output and create it again. This commit adds a dropdown to
change an existing socket, for supported socket types.
Based on a patch by Angus Stanton: https://developer.blender.org/D15715
It was necessary to fix the UI code slightly; the layout's context
wasn't being used in calls to an operator's enum items callback.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105614
Use raw Blender structs and mesh data rather than using the RNA API.
There isn't any benefit from using the RNA when Cycles is compiled
with Blender anyway, and a profile showed that the majority of time
was spent in Blender RNA API functions.
This gives a significant improvement in performance when ingesting
meshes. Here are some tests of the runtime of the `create_mesh`
function (in seconds):
| | Before | After |
| ------------------------- | ------ | ----- |
| Grid | 0.66 | 0.11 |
| Many realized cubes | 2.60 | 0.48 |
| Large curve to mesh setup | 4.18 | 1.14 |
Also change to resizing the arrays and filling them by index rather
than appending. This makes the parallel aspect of the logic clearer,
and makes the loops easier to parallelize in the future, and makes
it easier to have a performance benefit when an attribute like
`sharp_face` doesn't exist.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106275
Face Nearest only works with individual projection, so always set the
`SCE_SNAP_PROJECT` flag in this case.
Also gray out the `Project Individual Elements` option in the UI if
`Face Nearest` is enabled.
And change the description to indicate that `Project Individual Elements`
is always enabled with the `Face Nearest` option.
(I feel a better design for this option needs to be considered).
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.
When hitting the "normalize" button in the graph editor, set the y extents of the view to the extents of the `FCurves`.
Previously you had to search for your curves after pressing that button.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105857
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
