This patch adds initial cursor support for the blade tool, with bitmaps
for 16x16, 24x24, and 32x32 cursors.
Additional Changes:
- Locked strips now show a "stop" icon when hovered over.
- Previously, the frame to split was truncated when clicking in between frames.
Now, round to the closest frame.
- Previously, the blade operator was able to select padded strip handles
outside of strip bounds. This bug has been resolved, so that selection with
the blade tool can only happen via box-select passthrough.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136749
Remove logic to access LIBDECOR's underlying XDG window since it
required an "dummy-buffer" workaround which caused a crash with recent
drivers that require a DMA buffer.
This introduces a slight flicker on startup in some cases
see code-comments for details.
Ref: !136289
Some OpenXR platforms do not support OpenGL or Vulkan. To support these
platforms we use a bridge. Blender still renders in OpenGL/Vulkan, but
will copy the render result into a D3D11 swapchain.
OpenGL doesn this by importing the D3D11 swapchain into the OpenGL
context and perfor OpenGL calls to update the swapchain. However for
vulkan that could lead to construct 3 context for OpenXR
- Blender GPU Context
- OpenXR D3D Context
- New context that imports the Blender render result and the OpenXR
Swapchain image and copies them.
Due to Direct3D limitations importing into a vulkan context has known
issues (driver + extensions). Secondly we are not sure if we are running
on the same device as the OpenXR swapchain. The solution provided with
this PR is to only support CPU data transfers.
**SteamVR using d3d bridge**
SteamVR normally would use the Vulkan binding. But by changing the binding
priority in code you can make it select the D3D bridge.
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It has been tested and validated to work using Mixed reality portal as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137264
Current Windows on ARM GPUs don't support
extenral memory. External memory is required
for OpenXR. So most likely OpenXR will not work
on these devices.
Most (read all) OpenXR platforms that support
vulkan also require external memory. So might
just be that those platforms won't work at all
on these devices.
In any case when not supported, the GHOST
OpenXR platform will use CPU for data transfer.
This PR add support to use a win32 handle to perform share render
result with the OpenXR vulkan instance. This is only possible when
the GPU matches. Otherwise a CPU roundtrip will be performed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137093
Includes win32 specific extensions definitions when including
`vk_common.hh`. Inside `gpu_context.cc` vulkan needs to be
included before opengl, otherwise windows 10 builders will
report a warning.
```
[6421/7520] Building CXX object source\blender\gpu\CMakeFiles\bf_gpu.dir\intern\gpu_context.cc.obj
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.19041.0\shared\minwindef.h(130): warning C4005: 'APIENTRY': macro redefinition
C:\Users\blender\git\blender-vexp\blender.git\lib\windows_x64\epoxy\include\epoxy/gl.h(59): note: see previous definition of 'APIENTRY'
```
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137134
In the OpenXR/Vulkan specs it is mentioned that the swapchain layout
should be set to optimal color attachment. This wasn't the case and
could lead to validation errors.
Also fixes a memory size validation error. Not concerning as it was
abount already backed memory.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137143
This only worked for Ubuntu's discontinued Unity desktop.
Even though `libunity.so` can be used outside of Unity,
it's no longer actively developed.
Ref: !137128
When using SteamVR without starting SteamVR, the physical device cannot
be found. This isn't reported to the user nicely. This change will
tell the user why OpenXR couldn't be started.
Note that the physical device can be created when SteamVR has already
launched. OpenGL will start SteamVR automatically, but seems Vulkan
isn't able to do that.
Remove full-screen support from GHOST API's.
Note that this only had back-end implements for X11 and WIN32.
This was last used for the Game Engine to run games full-screen,
removing as it's unused and it doesn't seem likely to be used in the
future.
This doesn't impact making Blender full-screen from the window menu
which uses a window decoration setting.
Ref: !137050
Track the (per-thread) active `GHOST_Context`.
This is required to restore the active context after creating a new one
if the current context is unknown.
(Required for creating GPU contexts in the GPU module without depending
on the WM module)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136992
Current implementation uses a CPU roundtrip to transfer render result
to the Xr Swapchain. This PR adds support for sharing the render result
on Linux systems by using file descriptors.
To extend this solution to win32 or dx handles can be done by extending
the data transfer modes, register the correct extensions. When not
using the same GPU between Blender and OpenXR the CPU roundtrip
will still be used.
Solution has been validated with monado simulator and seems to be as
fast as OpenGL.
Performance can be improved by using GPU based synchronization.
Current API is limited as we cannot chain the different renders and
swapchains.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136933
Improve the number of images that are requested in the swapchain. For
mailbox presentation mode we select tripple buffering. For V-Sync
presentation mode we select double buffering.
In future we might want to make the presentation mode and swapchain
images dynamic based on the actual action that the user is performing.
When doing action that benefit from low latency (paint cursor) we should
select mailbox, otherwise we can use fifo to reduce CPU/GPU usage and
safe some energy usage along the way. See #136923 for design task.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136922
To make adding a dependeny on TBB easier.
Additional changes:
* Using LIB for libmv tests, as it now brings in includes
* Removing Eigen header listing in iTaSC
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136865
MacOS is currently using one of our custom "hourglass" cursors during
busy times. This PR changes it to an OS-supplied cursor, a pointer
arrow with an animated blue spinner, meant for this purpose. Although
undocumented it has been used by many applications for many years.
Including Firefox for 11 years now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136735
This PR refactors the way how swapchains are used.
Allow scaling of the swapchain content to the actual resolution of the swapchain.
can reduce artefacts when resizing windows when supported.
When frame rate is to fast the previous implementation could use a semaphore
that were still in use, leading to unwanted stuttering on certain platforms. Waiting
when the rendering has finished (GHOST_Frame.submission_fence), before the
next image is acquired from the swap chain.
Mailbox has been disabled as it can calculate more frames then actually been
presented, leading to a lag and increased power usage on others.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136603
Mailbox is lowest latency V-Sync enabled mode. Previously we selected
FIFO as that was always available and has more support when using debug
tools.
Improve the #136521 situation as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136753
Match the behavior of other platforms by clearing the active window
when it's de-activated.
On Win32 Blender always considered the last-active window to be active
because de-activation wasn't handled.
Part of !136122, needed to fix#134733.
Co-authored-by: Kamil Galik <kgalik@3dconnexion.com>
The Blender's VkInstance cannot be shared with OpenXR VkInstance. The
reason is a chicken and egg problem where OpenXR needs to be started
before Vulkan. OpenXR can add special vulkan specific requirements
(instance&device) that are only available when the user starts an OpenXR
session.
The goal implementation is to share memory between both instances using
[VK_KHR_external_memory](https://registry.khronos.org/vulkan/specs/latest/man/html/VK_KHR_external_memory.html) and related extensions. However this seems
to be a bridge to far as a initial step. Reason: There are not that many
samples/ guides and documentation to be found to handle the workflow that
we require. We want to do a smaller step by step approach to gain the needed
knowledge.
For that reason this PR does the most stupidest thing that can be done to
share memory between instances. Download the render result to CPU RAM share
the host pointer with the OpenXR instance which copies it to the swap chain.
Also the synchronization is done using wait idle commands.
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**Gaining knowledge**
- Experiment with `VK_KHR_external_memory_host` extension for uploading vertex buffers (not related to OpenXR).
- Import host pointer with `VK_KHR_external_memory_host`. This reduces the additional
memcpy on OpenXR side.
- Export host pointer from Blender side from a mappable buffer.
- Replace host pointers with fd/dmabuf/winhandle
- Remove mappable buffer.
Ref #133718
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133824
Add support for a 5th modifier key called "hyper",
this is a modifier supported on Wayland & X11 although
other platforms could support an additional modifier too.
Both GNOME and KDE can map CapsLock to Hyper.
Other compositors can use the XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS environment variable.
This allows users to have an additional modifier for their own use
that doesn't conflict with other keys.
Ref !136340
The crash regression comes from 583e2b7240.
Pass the s_sharedHGLRC directly to wglCreateContextAttribsARB instead
of using wglShareLists.
Context: https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/issues/1224
This doesn't only fix the recent regression, but solves all the long
standing issues with Renderdoc on Windows (F12 rendering support,
multiple windows, deferred compilation...).
(Fix suggested by @LazyDodo)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136140
Changes in [0] caused NDOF support on Unix to ignore the `hid_map_`.
- Add updateButtonRAW which takes the RAW button values and maps them
using `hid_map_` (what `updateButton` did before [0]).
- Keep the existing `updateButton` function using mapped events as
updateButtonsBitmask & updateButtonsArray GHOST_NDOF_ButtonT ordered
values.
[0]: c3d92f32dc
The render frame wasn't increased -> always the same semaphore was
selected. In case rendering is fast (or swapchain needs to be
recreated) it could select a semaphore that still had some pending
operations.
