This patch implements the list panel system D7490 for grease pencil
modifiers. It also moves their drawing to a callback in
GpencilModifierTypeInfo in line with the extensible architecture
refactoring goal T75724.
This also adds the "set_error" function for grease pencil modifiers,
which hadn't been copied from mesh modifiers yet.
The implementation is basically exactly the same as for the modifier
patch (9b099c8612).
Thanks to Matias Mendiola (mendio) for providing mockups for many
of the layout changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7978
This commit is a full refactor of the grease pencil modules including Draw Engine, Modifiers, VFX, depsgraph update, improvements in operators and conversion of Sculpt and Weight paint tools to real brushes.
Also, a huge code cleanup has been done at all levels.
Thanks to @fclem for his work and yo @pepeland and @mendio for the testing and help in the development.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6293
Before, the modifiers were evaluated in Draw Engine and this required to calculate a factor to increase the VBO size.
Now, the modifiers are evaluated in Depsgraph and the Draw Engine receives the evaluated stroke with the final number of vertices. As the number of vertices is the final value already, if Draw Manager increases the number with the modifiers only increases the memory with empty space because never would be used. This commit removes this double calculation, reducing the memory usage and removes a loop to calculate the size by modifier too.
Also, the function getDuplicationFactor() has been removed because is not required anymore.
Before, the evaluation of modifers were done in draw manager. The reason of the old design was grease pencil was designed before depsgraph was in place.
This commit moves this logic to depsgraph to follow general design and reduce Draw Manager complexity. Also, this is required in order to use modifiers in Edit modes.
Really, there is nothing really new in the creation of derived data, only the logic has been moved to depsgraph, but the main logic is the same. In order to get a reference to the original stroke and points, a pointer is added to Runtime data as part of the evaluated data. These pointers allow to know and use the original data.
As the modifiers now are evaluated in Depsgraph, the evaluated stroke is usable in Edit modes, so now it's possible to work with the evaluated version instead to use a "ghost" of the final image over the original geometry as work today.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5470
This commit adds the frame to deformStroke Callback as a preparation for new modifiers that will need this variable.
Actually, the existing modifiers are not using the frame.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
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- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
This is part of T57829.
Reduce the number of batches used to only one by shader type. This reduces GPU overhead and increase a lot the FPS. As the number of batches is small, the time to allocate and free memory was reduced in 90% or more.
Also the code has been simplified and all batch management has been removed because this is not necessary. Now, all shading groups are created after all vertex buffer data for all strokes has been created using DRW_shgroup_call_range_add().
All batch cache data has been moved to the Object runtime struct and not as before where some parts (derived data) were saved inside GPD datablock.
For particles, now the code is faster and cleaner and gets better FPS.
Thanks to Clément Foucault for his help and advices to improve speed.
The old name Instance was logic when the modifier created new object instances, but now works equal to mesh Array modifier, so the old name was not logic and must be Array.
Also added a Object to use as offset similar to mesh Array modifier.
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
Hans Goudey
Antonio Vazquez
Campbell Barton
Jacques Lucke
Sergey Sharybin