In ad85256e71 the "Show Group Colors" option was changed from a
per-editor option to a user preference. Since so many people wanted to
turn this option off, this makes sense. However, this move caused some
confusion because the option was just gone from the menu.
This commit adds a dummy menu item. It's disabled, and the tooltip
explains that the option can now be found in Preferences.
T83390 was created to track the removal of these hints.
Reviewed by: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9735
Cryptomatte is a standard to efficiently create mattes for compositing. The
renderer outputs the required render passes, which can then be used in the
compositor to create masks for specified objects. Unlike the Material and Object
Index passes, the objects to isolate are selected in compositing, and mattes
will be anti-aliased.
Cryptomatte was already available in Cycles this patch adds it to the EEVEE
render engine. Original specification can be found at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Psyop/Cryptomatte/master/specification/IDmattes_poster.pdf
**Accurate mode**
Following Cycles, there are two accuracy modes. The difference between the two
modes is the number of render samples they take into account to create the
render passes. When accurate mode is off the number of levels is used. When
accuracy mode is active, the number of render samples is used.
**Deviation from standard**
Cryptomatte specification is based on a path trace approach where samples and
coverage are calculated at the same time. In EEVEE a sample is an exact match on
top of a prepared depth buffer. Coverage is at that moment always 1. By sampling
multiple times the number of surface hits decides the actual surface coverage
for a matte per pixel.
**Implementation Overview**
When drawing to the cryptomatte GPU buffer the depth of the fragment is matched
to the active depth buffer. The hashes of each cryptomatte layer is written in
the GPU buffer. The exact layout depends on the active cryptomatte layers. The
GPU buffer is downloaded and integrated into an accumulation buffer (stored in
CPU RAM).
The accumulation buffer stores the hashes + weights for a number of levels,
layers per pixel. When a hash already exists the weight will be increased. When
the hash doesn't exists it will be added to the buffer.
After all the samples have been calculated the accumulation buffer is processed.
During this phase the total pixel weights of each layer is mapped to be in a
range between 0 and 1. The hashes are also sorted (highest weight first).
Blender Kernel now has a `BKE_cryptomatte` header that access to common
functions for cryptomatte. This will in the future be used by the API.
* Alpha blended materials aren't supported. Alpha blended materials support in
render passes needs research how to implement it in a maintainable way for any
render pass.
This is a list of tasks that needs to be done for the same release that this
patch lands on (Blender 2.92)
* T82571 Add render tests.
* T82572 Documentation.
* T82573 Store hashes + Object names in the render result header.
* T82574 Use threading to increase performance in accumulation and post
processing.
* T82575 Merge the cycles and EEVEE settings as they are identical.
* T82576 Add RNA to extract the cryptomatte hashes to use in python scripts.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Maniphest Tasks: T81058
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9165
This patch adds support for AOVs in EEVEE. AOV Outputs can be defined in the
render pass tab and used in shader materials. Both Object and World based
shaders are supported. The AOV can be previewed in the viewport using the
renderpass selector in the shading popover.
AOV names that conflict with other AOVs are automatically corrected. AOV
conflicts with render passes get a warning icon. The reason behind this is that
changing render engines/passes can change the conflict, but you might not notice
it. Changing this automatically would also make the materials incorrect, so best
to leave this to the user.
**Implementation**
The patch adds a copies the AOV structures of Cycles into Blender. The goal is
that the Cycles will use Blenders AOV defintions. In the Blender kernel
(`layer.c`) the logic of these structures are implemented.
The GLSL shader of any GPUMaterial can hold multiple outputs (the main output
and the AOV outputs) based on the renderPassUBO the right output is selected.
This selection uses an hash that encodes the AOV structure. The full AOV needed
to be encoded when actually drawing the material pass as the AOV type changes
the behavior of the AOV. This isn't known yet when the GLSL is compiled.
**Future Developments**
* The AOV definitions in the render layer panel isn't shared with Cycles.
Cycles should be migrated to use the same viewlayer aovs. During a previous
attempt this failed as the AOV validation in cycles and in Blender have
implementation differences what made it crash when an aov name was invalid.
This could be fixed by extending the external render engine API.
* Add support to Cycles to render AOVs in the 3d viewport.
* Use a drop down list for selecting AOVs in the AOV Output node.
* Give user feedback when multiple AOV output nodes with the same AOV name
exists in the same shader.
* Fix viewing single channel images in the image editor [T83314]
* Reduce viewport render time by only render needed draw passes. [T83316]
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel, Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7010
Improvements to the layout of the Keymaps section of Preferences by removing unneeded Decorator columns.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9726
Reviewed by Hans Goudey
This adds a new property to the sculpt vertex color paint brush to limit
the area of the brush that is going to be used to sample the wet paint
color. This is exactly the same concept as normal radius and area radius
that exist for sculpting brushes for sampling the surface depth and
orientation.
When working near color hard edges, this allows to prevent the color
from the other side of the edge to blend into the wet paint.
With 1.0 (the previous default) wet paint radius, as soon as the brush touches
one vertex of the other color, the wet paint mix color changes, making it
impossible to maintain the border between the two colors.
Reviewed By: sergey, dbystedt, JulienKaspar
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9587
These operators existed since 2.83, but the menu was hidden by error.
Also the operators have been cleanup and make multiframe compatible.
Reviewed By: mendio
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9671
Add Custom Space to the list of space conversions for constraints.
Constraints can use World Space, Local Space, Pose Space, Local with
Parent, and now also Custom Space with a custom object to define the
evaluation space.
The Custom Space option uses the Local Space of an other
object/bone/vertex group. If selected on owner or target it will show a
box for object selection. If an armature is selected, then it will also
show a box for bone selection. If a mesh object is selected it will show
the option for using the local space of a vertex group.
Reviewed By: #animation_rigging, sybren, Severin, angavrilov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7437
During the development of the new nodes in the `geometry-nodes` branch
the color of the new nodes wasn't considered, so all of the nodes ended
up red, the color for "input" nodes. This patch introduces two new
colors, one for "Geometry" and one for "Attributes". There are only two
attribute nodes currently, but the next sprint will add two more,
attribute mix, and sample from texture. The attribute nodes are
conceptually different enough from the nodes that modify the geometry
that they deserve their own color.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9682
The point cloud object is the only one that will support instancing at
first. So we can expose it as a regular object.
It is limited since it has no edit mode. But this is not different than
the volume object.
This commit adds functions to set and get the object's active
modifier, which is stored as a flag in the ModifierData struct,
similar to constraints. This will be used to set the context in
the node editor. There are no visible changes in this commit.
Similar to how the node editor context works for materials, this commit
makes the node group displayed in the node editor depend on the active
object and its active modifier. To keep the node group from changing,
just pin the node group in the header.
* Shortcuts performed while there is an active modifier will affect
only that modifier (the exception is the A to expand the modifiers).
* Clicking anywhere on the empty space in a modifier's panel will make it active.
These changes require some refactoring of object modifier code. First
is splitting up the modifier property invoke callback, which now needs
to be able to get the active modifier separately from the hovered
modifier for the different operators.
Second is a change to removing modifiers, where there is now a separate
function to remove a modifier from an object's list, in order to handle
changing the active.
Finally, the panel handler needs a small tweak so that this "click in panel"
event can be handled afterwards.
This is the initial merge from the geometry-nodes branch.
Nodes:
* Attribute Math
* Boolean
* Edge Split
* Float Compare
* Object Info
* Point Distribute
* Point Instance
* Random Attribute
* Random Float
* Subdivision Surface
* Transform
* Triangulate
It includes the initial evaluation of geometry node groups in the Geometry Nodes modifier.
Notes on the Generic attribute access API
The API adds an indirection for attribute access. That has the following benefits:
* Most code does not have to care about how an attribute is stored internally.
This is mainly necessary, because we have to deal with "legacy" attributes
such as vertex weights and attributes that are embedded into other structs
such as vertex positions.
* When reading from an attribute, we generally don't care what domain the
attribute is stored on. So we want to abstract away the interpolation that
that adapts attributes from one domain to another domain (this is not
actually implemented yet).
Other possible improvements for later iterations include:
* Actually implement interpolation between domains.
* Don't use inheritance for the different attribute types. A single class for read
access and one for write access might be enough, because we know all the ways
in which attributes are stored internally. We don't want more different internal
structures in the future. On the contrary, ideally we can consolidate the different
storage formats in the future to reduce the need for this indirection.
* Remove the need for heap allocations when creating attribute accessors.
It includes commits from:
* Dalai Felinto
* Hans Goudey
* Jacques Lucke
* Léo Depoix
This operators reset the vertex color information of the strokes.
If nothing is selected, all strokes are reset. If any is selected, only selected strokes are reset.
Also added a new menu Paint in Vertex Color mode.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9647
During revision of {D8952} one of the comments was to make a function that converts the render percentage to a factor. This to avoid code duplication. However the duplicated code was already all over the compositor code. So in order to avoid this code duplication for {D8952} I propose to first cleanup the duplicated code and build patch {D8952} based on this clean up.
The method that converts the render percentage to a factor is put in the CompositorContext. Why? The CompositorContext keeps DNA information like the renderdata. DNA, and thus the CompositorContext, keeps the size of the render resolution in percentage (user oriented). The compositor needs the size of the render resolution as a factor. So the CompositorContext seems like the obvious place to have this conversion method.
Why not in de NodeBase? The method could've been added to the nodebase, but I wanted to keep the nodebase as clean as possible and not put simple "conversion" methods into this base class. Also I didn't really like the call flow: you'd always have to get the renderdata size from the context and then convert.
Putting it in the CompositorContext avoids this extra invoke of a call.
Why not in the Converter? See nodebase. And the Converter seems more like a class for "structural" and complex node tree conversions. Not the simple conversions.
Reviewed By: Sergey Sharybin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9566
Previously, the alternate row color in the Video Sequence Editor was
just a shaded version of the editor's background color. This makes it
theme-able just like in the file browser and outliner, although the
default color is very slightly different.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9634
This adds an invert toggle for the outliner object state filters.
There are some cases where we want a filter for invertable states (Selected,
Unselected) and having a single toggle to invert the filter reduces the
number of separate filter types needed. This removes the "Hidden" filter
which can now be replicated with an inverted "Visible" filter.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9598
This option joins any stroke with an end near the actual stroke. Now it is not limited to the last stroke, any stroke in the same layer for the actual frame can be joined. The join can join two strokes drawing a third stroke.
If the end and the start of the result stroke are very small, the stroke is changed to be cyclic automatically.
There is a limit distance to join the stroke, if the distance is greater than this value, the strokes are not joined. Actually, a constant, threshold distance is used, but we could expose
as a parameter in the UI in the future.
The tool can be used with freehand drawing or with primitives.
Note: Great part of the patch is just a refactor of the old code to make it accessible and to keep code organized.
Reviewed By: mendio
Maniphest Tasks: T82377
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9440
The icons originally chosen for the collection colors were selected
during development and had a few issues with contrast in the light
theme, and the gray color was not a good choice against the default gray
backgrounds.
The new colors are more readable in both default Blender themes. Gray
was replaced with pink.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9504
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8660
This patch is the result of the GSoC 2020 "Editing Grease Pencil Strokes
Using Curves" project. It adds a submode to greasepencil edit mode that
allows for the transformation of greasepencil strokes using bezier
curves. More information about the project can be found
here: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Filedescriptor/GSoC_2020.
This patch adds an opacity slider to the wireframe overlay. The previous
wireframe in dense geometry scenes could be too dark and sometimes the
user just wants an impression of the geometry during modelling.
Reviewed By: Jeroen Bakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7622
And remove Blender preference, which was expected to be set to match the system
preference for correct behavior. Instead just handle this automatically.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9402
Make post-bake cleanup of the Bake Action operator optional, and disable
by default.
Previously Bake Action would do two things:
- Bake the Action
- Clean up the FCurves
It is now possible (and even the default) to only perform the baking
operation.
Reviewed By: #animation_rigging, looch, sybren
Maniphest Tasks: T82210
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9453
Move the "Show Group Colors" toggle from a per-editor option to a single
user preference in the Animation preferences. The Grease Pencil
animation channel side panel allows picking a channel color; this now
shows a message when channel colors are disabled.
The old "Show Group Colors" toggle had to be set per editor, and was on
by default. This meant that disabling group colors would require an
action for every file, for every editor. It is very hard to select a
color that works both as bone color in the 3D Viewport (needs to be
bright there) as well as the channel list (needs to be dark there), most
animators turn channel list colors off.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9391
This adds a Box option to the Text strip's style properties, plus related Box Margin value:
{F9208309}
When enabled the text is placed on top of a solid-filled rectangle of a chosen color, as shown below:
{F9208324}
When the box option is disabled the text strip works the same as it does now. When the box option is enabled the meaning of the Shadow option changes to provide a drop-shadow on the rectangle (and not on the text itself). The latter made more sense to me.
The box margin is specified as a fraction of the image width. The offset of the drop-down box shadow is fixed to a specific fraction of the image width as well.
I tested this feature on a movie of a couple of minutes containing dozens of text strips (all with box background), edge cases like multi-line strings and text overlapping the image edges.
Reviewed By: ISS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9468
"Camera Parent Lock" can be useful when rigging cameras, but it is not
intuitive, and has also generated a lot of confusion (bug reports).
This is because it breaks the fundamental parent <-> child relationship
conventions in Blender, and there is no indication that it's intended
without diving into the preferences.
This commit moves the setting to the object level, and exposes it in
the relations panel in the property editor. It is exposed for every
object type because any object type can be "View Locked" in the 3D view.
The property description is also updated to reflect this change and be
more specific without getting too long.
In the future this could become a more general feature of the transform
system, but for now it is limited to "Lock Camera to View".
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9239
Commit rBf5080c82dd915db6c7b9dd68a52aaaccf2600137
accidentally remove the Shift modifier key from
the `AUTOCONSTRAINPLANE` shortcut.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9480
Keymaps have previously been exported with an encoding dependent
on the current system locale. This caused issues when the
keymap contained non-ASCII characters, for instance in a string
property for an operator.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9449
Sybren A. Stüvel
Jeroen Bakker
Yevgeny Makarov
Pablo Dobarro
Antonio Vazquez
Henrik Dick
Aaron Carlisle
Hans Goudey
Jacques Lucke
Dalai Felinto
Pablo Vazquez
Monique Dewanchand
Germano Cavalcante
Erik Abrahamsson
Nathan Craddock
Bastien Montagne
Falk David
Jun Mizutani
Campbell Barton
Brecht Van Lommel
Richard Antalik
Paul Melis
Robert Guetzkow