This is the first step of moving the create infos
back inside shader sources.
All info files are now treated as source files.
However, they are not considered in the include tree
yet. This will come in another following PR.
Each shader source file now generate a `.info` file
containing only the create info declarations.
This renames all info files so that they do not
conflict with their previous versions that were
copied (non-generated).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146676
Use SSBO loads instead.
Contains a cleanup pass to bring this shader to current shader
standards.
This removes the non-instance version of the shader as it is
not necessary anymore.
The motivation for this is to remove the instance buffer from
the batch API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145238
Caused by 617858e453.
These formats should use types aligned to 4 bytes. That's generally
required by modern GPUs. Uploading with these types also avoids
automatic conversion by the Vulkan backend which is something
we're hoping to remove fully.
In the end this PR removes a bunch of code related to supporting
the older single-byte formats.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138836
Do this only when applicable.
This allow better compile time checking in Shader C++ compilation.
Moreover, this allows to have `constexpr` in shared code between
C++ and GLSL.
After investigation the `const` keyword in GLSL has the same
semantic than C/C++.
Rel #137333 and #137446
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137497
This unify the C++ and GLSL codebase style.
The GLSL types are still in the backend compatibility
layers to support python shaders. However, the C++
shader compilation layer doesn't have them to enforce
correct type usage.
Note that this is going to break pretty much all PRs
in flight that targets shader code.
Rel #137261
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137369
They are actually already some literals with the `f` suffix
that are in our shader codebase and we never had problem in
the past 5 years (or even 8 years).
So I think it is safe to do and improves convergence of codestyles.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137352
This adds support for attaching gizmos for input values. The goal is to make it
easier for users to set input values intuitively in the 3D viewport.
We went through multiple different possible designs until we settled on the one
implemented here. We picked it for it's flexibility and ease of use when using
geometry node assets. The core principle in the design is that **gizmos are
attached to existing input values instead of being the input value themselves**.
This actually fits the existing concept of gizmos in Blender well, but may be a
bit unintutitive in a node setup at first. The attachment is done using links in
the node editor.
The most basic usage of the node is to link a Value node to the new Linear Gizmo
node. This attaches the gizmo to the input value and allows you to change it
from the 3D view. The attachment is indicated by the gizmo icon in the sockets
which are controlled by a gizmo as well as the back-link (notice the double
link) when the gizmo is active.
The core principle makes it straight forward to control the same node setup from
the 3D view with gizmos, or by manually changing input values, or by driving the
input values procedurally.
If the input value is controlled indirectly by other inputs, it's often possible
to **automatically propagate** the gizmo to the actual input.
Backpropagation does not work for all nodes, although more nodes can be
supported over time.
This patch adds the first three gizmo nodes which cover common use cases:
* **Linear Gizmo**: Creates a gizmo that controls a float or integer value using
a linear movement of e.g. an arrow in the 3D viewport.
* **Dial Gizmo**: Creates a circular gizmo in the 3D viewport that can be
rotated to change the attached angle input.
* **Transform Gizmo**: Creates a simple gizmo for location, rotation and scale.
In the future, more built-in gizmos and potentially the ability for custom
gizmos could be added.
All gizmo nodes have a **Transform** geometry output. Using it is optional but
it is recommended when the gizmo is used to control inputs that affect a
geometry. When it is used, Blender will automatically transform the gizmos
together with the geometry that they control. To achieve this, the output should
be merged with the generated geometry using the *Join Geometry* node. The data
contained in *Transform* output is not visible geometry, but just internal
information that helps Blender to give a better user experience when using
gizmos.
The gizmo nodes have a multi-input socket. This allows **controlling multiple
values** with the same gizmo.
Only a small set of **gizmo shapes** is supported initially. It might be
extended in the future but one goal is to give the gizmos used by different node
group assets a familiar look and feel. A similar constraint exists for
**colors**. Currently, one can choose from a fixed set of colors which can be
modified in the theme settings.
The set of **visible gizmos** is determined by a multiple factors because it's
not really feasible to show all possible gizmos at all times. To see any of the
geometry nodes gizmos, the "Active Modifier" option has to be enabled in the
"Viewport Gizmos" popover. Then all gizmos are drawn for which at least one of
the following is true:
* The gizmo controls an input of the active modifier of the active object.
* The gizmo controls a value in a selected node in an open node editor.
* The gizmo controls a pinned value in an open node editor. Pinning works by
clicking the gizmo icon next to the value.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112677
* Better separation between drawing backdrop and main line.
* Pass u and v coordinates of line to fragment shader for further processing.
* Remove `colorGradient` which can also be computed from `lineUV`.
* Simplify drawing potentially more than one parallel line as is done in #112677.
When GLSL sources were first included in Blender they were treated as
data (like blend files) and had no license header.
Since then GLSL has been used for more sophisticated features
(EEVEE & real-time compositing)
where it makes sense to include licensing information.
Add SPDX copyright headers to *.glsl files, matching headers used for
C/C++, also include GLSL files in the license checking script.
As leading C-comments are now stripped,
added binary size of comments is no longer a concern.
Ref !111247
Adjust the width, dash length and amount of anti-aliasing of node links
so they look the same independent of the UI scaling.
Adding another parameter to the shader exceeded the limit of 16
attributes. Therefore the parameters to describe the dashes (length,
factor, alpha) are passed in together as a vector.
Ref #102919
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111270
Fix an issue when drawing node links that caused gaps, when sockets were
horizontally or vertically aligned.
When the inner and outer points of the node link's bezier control
polygon overlap, the link's tangent can be a zero vector. The shader
didn't check for this before normalizing the tangent leading to an
undefined vector which prevented the outermost segments of the link
from being drawn.
Since this only happens when the end points of the node link are
horizontally or vertically aligned, we can use the vector between the
link's end points instead of the tangent.
Fix#106929Fix#89282
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107636
A number of paths resulted in compilation errors after porting EEVEE to use Create-Info. Namely the fallback path for cubemap support. A number of other strict compilation failures regarding format comparison also required fixing when this mode is enabled.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261, T103313
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16819
Several visual tweaks to node links to make them overall fit in
better with the look of the node editor:
- Change the link thickness with the zoom level to a certain degree.
- Remove the fuzziness of the node link and its shadow/outline.
- The link outline color can now be made transparent.
- Add circles at the end of dragged links when connecting to sockets.
- Improve the banding of the color interpolation along the link.
- Adjust the spacing of dashes along straight node links.
Reviewed By: Pablo Vazquez, Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D15036
This was caused by macros interpreted as recursive. Workaround by
not using macros at all and just define local variables which
hopefully will be optimized.
Route cause was data alignment mismatch between GPU and CPU. This
mismatch would not allow us to bind the UBO where data wasn't available
on the GPU.
Fixed by using float4 in stead of float2. This could eventually be
packed, but that would lead to less readable code.
This is a first part of the Shader Create Info system could be.
A shader create info provides a way to define shader structure, resources
and interfaces. This makes for a quick way to provide backend agnostic
binding informations while also making shader variations easy to declare.
- Clear source input (only one file). Cleans up the GPU api since we can create a
shader from one descriptor
- Resources and interfaces are generated by the backend (much simpler than parsing).
- Bindings are explicit from position in the array.
- GPUShaderInterface becomes a trivial translation of enums and string copy.
- No external dependency to third party lib.
- Cleaner code, less fragmentation of resources in several libs.
- Easy to modify / extend at runtime.
- no parser involve, very easy to code.
- Does not hold any data, can be static and kept on disc.
- Could hold precompiled bytecode for static shaders.
This also includes a new global dependency system.
GLSL shaders can include other sources by using #pragma BLENDER_REQUIRE(...).
This patch already migrated several builtin shaders. Other shaders should be migrated
one at a time, and could be done inside master.
There is a new compile directive `WITH_GPU_SHADER_BUILDER` this is an optional
directive for linting shaders to increase turn around time.
What is remaining:
- pyGPU API {T94975}
- Migration of other shaders. This could be a community effort.
Reviewed By: jbakker
Maniphest Tasks: T94975
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13360
This patch includes code from D9891 and D12754, so credit goes to Juanfran and Dalai.
I updated the patches to work with `master` and with the new overlay toggle.
The reason to include both changes as part of one patch is that the dimmed dashed lines work much better together with colored wires.
Theme setting for dash opacity:
{F11370574, size=full}
{F11286177, size=full, autoplay, loop}
{F11149912, size=full}
For adding the overlay I used `SpaceImageOverlay` as reference, although I'm not familiar with this code so there might be mistakes.
Reviewed By: #user_interface, HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12886
Use dashes to represent the function flow (while keeping continuous
lines for the data-flow).
It is important to tell both flows apart (the data and the function
flow). The sockets help with that, the noodles help this further.
The "data flow" is evaluated at every single node. A user can inspect
the output sockets of those nodes and have a glimpse at their values.
The "function flow" (nodes) however is only evaluated in the geometry
nodes. The noodles are not transporting data in the same sense of the
"data flow". All that can be inspected are the attributes the functions
depend on.
Having this clearly communicated should help users to inspect the
nodetrees, read and understand the different flows in the same tree.
---
Known limitations:
At the moment the dash lines are not equidistant:
* It would be nice to get the "uv.x" to be resampled for the bezier curve
so the dashes are equally distributed in the curve.
* Using distance between the P3 and P0 instead of the real bezier curve
length seems to be fine.
---
Full disclaimer:
Changes with that much of a visual impact tend to be controversial. So
far the main feedback is that dashed lines can be associated to broken
link, and that there are better ways to represent the flows (or
different information that should be visually represented).
I'm fully aware of that. However dashed lines are already used in the
viewport and outliner to indicate (hierarchical) relation. Besides,
other approaches (double-lines, having the data flow to be more
distinct, ...) didn't pan out in the end (or didn't look as good as
this).
---
Impact in other editors:
The compositor uses mostly a "data flow" nodetree, so no change is
expected there.
The shader nodetree is one that could but doesn't have to change its
visual language.
The shader nodetree uses mostly "function flow" with some "data flow" nodes.
One can argue that it should be adapted to follow the
same pattern as geometry nodes (with the new noodles and the diamond
sockets). Oh the other hand, a shader nodetree has a single context.
When a node depends on the "UV", there is only one UV at a time for the
entire nodetree. So it can also be treated as a psedo "data flow"
nodetree if we want to avoid too many changes in other parts of Blender.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12602
This makes it easier to spot which links contain fields and which
contain data. Actually, the patch makes all other links a bit thicker.
However, with soon-to-be-implemented theme changes, the
perceived thickness will be the same as before.
This is part of T91563.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12646
This makes node trees with long links that cross other nodes easier to work with.
Dimmed links will be ignored by various modal operators like cut and reroute insertion.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11813
This patch adds the ability to mute individual wires in the node editor.
This is invoked like the cut links operator but with a new shortcut.
Mute = Ctrl + Alt
Cut = Ctrl
Dragging over wires will toggle the mute state for that wire.
The muted wires are drawn in red with a bar across the center.
Red is used in the nodes context to indicate invalid links, muted links and internal links.
When a wire is muted it exposes the original node buttons which are normally hidden when a wire is connected.
Downstream and upstream links connected using reroute nodes are also muted.
Outside scope of patch:
- Add support for pynodes e.g. Animation Nodes
- Requires minor change to check for muted links using the `is_muted` link property or the `is_linked` socket property.
Maniphest Tasks: T52659
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2807
Special shader to draw nodelinks for the node editor.
We only pass bezier points to the GPU and vertex position is handled inside
the vertex shader.
The arrow is also part of the batch to avoid separate drawcalls for it.
We still draw 2 pass one for shadow and one for the link color on top.
One variation to draw instances of theses links so that we only do one
drawcall.
