The subdivision is always recomputed on the CPU when displaying stats
if the mesh is animated which leads to bad performance.
This caches the subdivision topology counters from the draw code in the
mesh runtime and uses them for the viewport statistics.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14774
The crash is caused as the subdivision wrapper does not have loop
normals, which are generally computed at the end of the modifier stack
evaluation via `mesh_calc_modifier_final_normals`. (Note that they are
initially computed, but deleted by the subdivision wrapper creation.)
This records in the mesh runtime whether loop normals should have been
computed and computes them alongside the subdivision wrapper.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14489
When more than one, consecutive, subdivision modifier is used on a Mesh,
the last subsurf modifier is used for GPU subdivision even though it
might be disabled. This is because retrieving the last subsurf modifier
in the draw code did not check whether the modifier was disabled or not.
To fix this, the session UUID of the modifier which delegated evaluation
to the GPU code is cached and used in the draw to select the right subsurf
modifier.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14488
The "PROP" in the name reflects its generic status, and removing
"LOOP" makes sense because it is no longer associated with just
mesh face corners. In general the goal is to remove extra semantic
meaning from the custom data types.
Continuing the refactors described in T93602, this commit moves
the face dot tag set by the subdivision surface modifier out of
`MVert` to `MeshRuntime`. This clarifies its status as runtime data
and allows further refactoring of mesh positions in the future.
Before, `BKE_modifiers_uses_subsurf_facedots` was used to check
whether subsurf face dots should be drawn, but now we can just check
if the tags exist on the mesh. Modifiers that create new new geometry
or modify topology will already remove the array by clearing mesh
runtime data.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14680
Solves compilation warning with Clang, and moves manipulation with
DNA structures to the designed way for C++.
The tests and few other places are update to the new code by Jacques.
Ref T96847
Maniphest Tasks: T96847
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14625
These were only set in two places. One was related to "tessellated loop
normal", and the other derived corner normals. The values were never
checked though, after 59343ee162. The handling of dirty face
corner normals is clearly problematic, but in the future it should be
handled like the normal layers on the other domains instead.
Ref D14154, T95839
Currently, when normals are calculated for a const mesh, a custom data
layer might be added if it doesn't already exist. Adding a custom data
layer to a mesh is not thread-safe, so this can be a problem in some
situations.
This commit moves derived mesh normals for polygons and
vertices out of `CustomData` to `Mesh_Runtime`. Most of the
hard work for this was already done by rBcfa53e0fbeed7178.
Some changes to logic elsewhere are necessary/helpful:
- No need to call both `BKE_mesh_runtime_clear_cache` and
`BKE_mesh_normals_tag_dirty`, since the former also does the latter.
- Cleanup/simplify mesh conversion and copying since normals are
handled with other runtime data.
Storing these normals like other runtime data clarifies their status
as derived data, meaning custom data moves more towards storing
original/editable data. This means normals won't automatically benefit
from the planned copy-on-write refactor (T95845), so it will have to be
added manually like for the other runtime data.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14154
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
This adds vertex creasing support for OpenSubDiv for modeling, rendering,
Alembic and USD I/O.
For modeling, vertex creasing follows the edge creasing implementation with an
operator accessible through the Vertex menu in Edit Mode, and some parameter in
the properties panel. The option in the Subsurf and Multires to use edge
creasing also affects vertex creasing.
The vertex crease data is stored as a CustomData layer, unlike edge creases
which for now are stored in `MEdge`, but will in the future also be moved to
a `CustomData` layer. See comments for details on the difference in behavior
for the `CD_CREASE` layer between egdes and vertices.
For Cycles this adds sockets on the Mesh node to hold data about which vertices
are creased (one socket for the indices, one for the weigths).
Viewport rendering of vertex creasing reuses the same color scheme as for edges
and creased vertices are drawn bigger than uncreased vertices.
For Alembic and USD, vertex crease support follows the edge crease
implementation, they are always read, but only exported if a `Subsurf` modifier
is present on the Mesh.
Reviewed By: brecht, fclem, sergey, sybren, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10145
As described in T91186, this commit moves mesh vertex normals into a
contiguous array of float vectors in a custom data layer, how face
normals are currently stored.
The main interface is documented in `BKE_mesh.h`. Vertex and face
normals are now calculated on-demand and cached, retrieved with an
"ensure" function. Since the logical state of a mesh is now "has
normals when necessary", they can be retrieved from a `const` mesh.
The goal is to use on-demand calculation for all derived data, but
leave room for eager calculation for performance purposes (modifier
evaluation is threaded, but viewport data generation is not).
**Benefits**
This moves us closer to a SoA approach rather than the current AoS
paradigm. Accessing a contiguous `float3` is much more efficient than
retrieving data from a larger struct. The memory requirements for
accessing only normals or vertex locations are smaller, and at the
cost of more memory usage for just normals, they now don't have to
be converted between float and short, which also simplifies code
In the future, the remaining items can be removed from `MVert`,
leaving only `float3`, which has similar benefits (see T93602).
Removing the combination of derived and original data makes it
conceptually simpler to only calculate normals when necessary.
This is especially important now that we have more opportunities
for temporary meshes in geometry nodes.
**Performance**
In addition to the theoretical future performance improvements by
making `MVert == float3`, I've done some basic performance testing
on this patch directly. The data is fairly rough, but it gives an idea
about where things stand generally.
- Mesh line primitive 4m Verts: 1.16x faster (36 -> 31 ms),
showing that accessing just `MVert` is now more efficient.
- Spring Splash Screen: 1.03-1.06 -> 1.06-1.11 FPS, a very slight
change that at least shows there is no regression.
- Sprite Fright Snail Smoosh: 3.30-3.40 -> 3.42-3.50 FPS, a small
but observable speedup.
- Set Position Node with Scaled Normal: 1.36x faster (53 -> 39 ms),
shows that using normals in geometry nodes is faster.
- Normal Calculation 1.6m Vert Cube: 1.19x faster (25 -> 21 ms),
shows that calculating normals is slightly faster now.
- File Size of 1.6m Vert Cube: 1.03x smaller (214.7 -> 208.4 MB),
Normals are not saved in files, which can help with large meshes.
As for memory usage, it may be slightly more in some cases, but
I didn't observe any difference in the production files I tested.
**Tests**
Some modifiers and cycles test results need to be updated with this
commit, for two reasons:
- The subdivision surface modifier is not responsible for calculating
normals anymore. In master, the modifier creates different normals
than the result of the `Mesh` normal calculation, so this is a bug
fix.
- There are small differences in the results of some modifiers that
use normals because they are not converted to and from `short`
anymore.
**Future improvements**
- Remove `ModifierTypeInfo::dependsOnNormals`. Code in each modifier
already retrieves normals if they are needed anyway.
- Copy normals as part of a better CoW system for attributes.
- Make more areas use lazy instead of eager normal calculation.
- Remove `BKE_mesh_normals_tag_dirty` in more places since that is
now the default state of a new mesh.
- Possibly apply a similar change to derived face corner normals.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12770
This evaluator is used in order to evaluate subdivision at render time, allowing for
faster renders of meshes with a subdivision surface modifier placed at the last
position in the modifier list.
When evaluating the subsurf modifier, we detect whether we can delegate evaluation
to the draw code. If so, the subdivision is first evaluated on the GPU using our own
custom evaluator (only the coarse data needs to be initially sent to the GPU), then,
buffers for the final `MeshBufferCache` are filled on the GPU using a set of
compute shaders. However, some buffers are still filled on the CPU side, if doing so
on the GPU is impractical (e.g. the line adjacency buffer used for x-ray, whose
logic is hardly GPU compatible).
This is done at the mesh buffer extraction level so that the result can be readily used
in the various OpenGL engines, without having to write custom geometry or tesselation
shaders.
We use our own subdivision evaluation shaders, instead of OpenSubDiv's vanilla one, in
order to control the data layout, and interpolation. For example, we store vertex colors
as compressed 16-bit integers, while OpenSubDiv's default evaluator only work for float
types.
In order to still access the modified geometry on the CPU side, for use in modifiers
or transform operators, a dedicated wrapper type is added `MESH_WRAPPER_TYPE_SUBD`.
Subdivision will be lazily evaluated via `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh` which will
create such a wrapper if possible. If the final subdivision surface is not needed on
the CPU side, `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh_no_subsurf` should be used.
Enabling or disabling GPU subdivision can be done through the user preferences (under
Viewport -> Subdivision).
See patch description for benchmarks.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, jbakker, fclem, brecht, #eevee_viewport
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12406
Differentiate doc-strings from title/section text.
Also use explicit doxygen references to struct members
so it's not ambiguous which member is being referenced.
Note that these changes aren't complete (some files weren't touched).
Most of the fields in Mesh had no comments, or outdated misleading
comments. For example, "BMESH ONLY" referred to the BMesh project,
not the data structure. Given how much these structs are used, it should
save a lot of time to have proper comments.
I also rearranged the fields in mesh to have a more logical order. Now
the most important fields come first. In the process I was able to
remove 19 bytes of unnecessary padding (31->12). I just had to
change a `short` flag to `char`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13454
This reverts commit 03013d19d1.
This commit broke the windows build pretty badly and I don't
feel confident landing the fix for this without review.
Will post a possible fix in D12969 and we'll take it from there.
This adds generic attribute rendering support for meshes for Eevee and
Workbench. Each attribute is stored inside of the `MeshBufferList` as a
separate VBO, with a maximum of `GPU_MAX_ATTR` VBOs for consistency with
the GPU shader compilation code.
Since `DRW_MeshCDMask` is not general enough, attribute requests are
stored in new `DRW_AttributeRequest` structures inside of a convenient
`DRW_MeshAttributes` structure. The latter is used in a similar manner
as `DRW_MeshCDMask`, with the `MeshBatchCache` keeping track of needed,
used, and used-over-time attributes. Again, `GPU_MAX_ATTR` is used in
`DRW_MeshAttributes` to prevent too many attributes being used.
To ensure thread-safety when updating the used attributes list, a mutex
is added to the Mesh runtime. This mutex will also be used in the future
for other things when other part of the rendre pre-processing are multi-threaded.
`GPU_BATCH_VBO_MAX_LEN` was increased to 16 in order to accommodate for
this design.
Since `CD_PROP_COLOR` are a valid attribute type, sculpt vertex colors
are now handled using this system to avoid to complicate things. In the
future regular vertex colors will also use this. From this change, bit
operations for DRW_MeshCDMask are now using uint32_t (to match the
representation now used by the compiler).
Due to the difference in behavior for implicit type conversion for scalar types
between OpenGL and what users expect (a scalar `s` is converted to
`vec4(s, 0, 0, 1)` by OpenGL, vs. `vec4(s, s, s, 1)` in Blender's various node graphs) ,
all scalar types are using a float3 internally for now, which increases memory usage.
This will be resolved during or after the EEVEE rewrite as properly handling
this involves much deeper changes.
Ref T85075
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T85075
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12969
Some of the dna structs were not properly
aligned for 32 bit builds causing issues
for some of the 32 platforms Debian builds
for.
Reviewed By: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9389
This commit moves the storage of `bDeformGroup` and the active index
to `Mesh`, `Lattice`, and `bGPdata` instead of `Object`. Utility
functions are added to allow easy access to the vertex groups given
an object or an ID.
As explained in T88951, the list of vertex group names is currently
stored separately per object, even though vertex group data is stored
on the geometry. This tends to complicate code and cause bugs,
especially as geometry is created procedurally and tied less closely
to an object.
The "Copy Vertex Groups to Linked" operator is removed, since they
are stored on the geometry anyway.
This patch leaves the object-level python API for vertex groups in
place. Creating a geometry-level RNA API can be a separate step;
the changes in this commit are invasive enough as it is.
Note that opening a file saved in 3.0 in an earlier version means
the vertex groups will not be available.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11689
Previously the smooth shading of the voxel remesher was controlled by a
mesh property. With this change, the output will try to match the
current shading of the object. This only takes into consideration the
shading mode of the first polygon of the model, but it is probably what
most users expect as it works as intended with the shade smooth/flat
object mode options.
Reviewed By: JulienKaspar, JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11626
This patch fixes many minor spelling mistakes, all in comments or
console output. Mostly contractions like can't, won't, don't, its/it's,
etc.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11663
Reviewed by Harley Acheson
Before this change, you could have the new sculpt symmetry code and the
older weight paint symmetry code active at the same time. This would
lead to users easily trashing their weigh paint data if they were not
careful when switching between modes.
Now the specific weight paint symmetry code is an exclusive toggle so
the user can't accidentally mirror strokes and vertex groups at the same
time. This also paves the way of supporting Y and Z symmetry in the
future for weight groups mirroring if we decide to add it in the future.
Reviewed By: Sybren
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10426
It was rather a huge chunk of code, which started to become
more harder to maintain with the transition to OpenSubdiv based
implementation. Because of this transition, the compatibility was
also rather on a poor side.
Remove compatibility support for pre-2.50.9 multires.
Ref T77107
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9238
This adds XYZ symmetry as a property of meshes and updates all modes to
use the mesh symmetry by default to have a consistent tool behavior
between all modes and when switching objects.
Reviewed By: brecht, mano-wii, campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T79785
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8587
This puts all generic float/int/vector/color/string geometry attributes in a new
.attributes property. For meshes it provides a more general API for existing
attributes, for point clouds attributes will be used as an essential part of
particle nodes.
This patch was implemented by @lichtwerk, with further changes by me. It's
still a work in progress, but posting here to show what is going on and for
early feedback.
Ref T76659
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8200
This replaces header include guards with `#pragma once`.
A couple of include guards are not removed yet (e.g. `__RNA_TYPES_H__`),
because they are used in other places.
This patch has been generated by P1561 followed by `make format`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8466
Sculpt Vertex Colors is a painting system that runs inside sculpt mode, reusing all its tools and optimizations. This provides much better performance, easier to maintain code and more advanced features (new brush engine, filters, symmetry options, masks and face sets compatibility...). This is also the initial step for future features like vertex painting in Multires and brushes that can sculpt and paint at the same time.
This commit includes:
- SCULPT_UNDO_COLOR for undo support in sculpt mode
- SCULPT_UPDATE_COLOR and PBVH flags and rendering
- Sculpt Color API functions
- Sculpt capability for sculpt tools (only enabled in the Paint Brush for now)
- Rendering support in workbench (default to Sculpt Vertex Colors except in Vertex Paint)
- Conversion operator between MPropCol (Sculpt Vertex Colors) and MLoopCol (Vertex Paint)
- Remesher reprojection in the Voxel Remehser
- Paint Brush and Smear Brush with color smoothing in alt-smooth mode
- Parameters for the new brush engine (density, opacity, flow, wet paint mixing, tip scale) implemented in Sculpt Vertex Colors
- Color Filter
- Color picker (uses S shortcut, replaces smooth)
- Color selector in the top bar
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T72866
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5975
This patch changes the BVHCache implementation. It will use
a primitive array in stead of the ListBase. The locking is also
changed from a global lock to a per cache instance lock.
The performance of `gabby.blend` available on the cloud increased from 9.7
fps to 10.5 fps.
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7817
This resolves a performance regression in 2.8x where every edit-mode
update performed an edit-mesh to mesh conversion.
Now the conversion will be lazily initialized if/when it's required.
New BKE_mesh_wrapper_* functions abstract over mesh data access.
Currently only edit-mesh and regular meshes are supported.
In the future sub-surface meshes may be supported too.
This introduces a variable to store a face set ID which is going to be
rendered white. When initializing a mesh or randomizing the colors, this
variable gets updated to always render a white face set. This way the
face set overlay can be enabled without adding colors to the mesh if
face sets are not in use. After creating the first face set, new colors
are generated randomly like usual.
The face set stored as default does not have any special meaning for
tools or brushes, it just affects the rendering color.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7035
Face Sets are the new system to control the visibility state of the mesh in sculpt and paint modes. They are designed to work in modes where brushes are the primary way of interaction and they provide much more control when working with meshes with complex shapes and overlapping surfaces.
This initial commit includes:
- Sculpt Face Sets data structures and PBVH rendering.
- Face Set overlay and opacity controls.
- Sculpt Undo support.
- Remesher reprojection support. The visibility state of the mesh is also preserved when remeshing.
- Automasking and Mesh filter support.
- Mask expand operator mode to expand Face Sets (Shift + W) and flood fill areas by connectivity (press Ctrl while expanding).
- Sculpt Mode Face Sets and Visibility API.
- Sculpt Face Sets creation and visibility management operators.
- Operator to randomize the Face Sets colors.
- Draw Face Sets brush tool to create and edit the Face Sets. Drawing on the mesh creates a new Face Set. Pressing Ctrl before drawing modifies the Face Set under the brush at the beginning of the stroke.
- Updated keymap and menu to work with Face Sets from Sculpt Mode (H to toggle visibility, Alt + H to show all, Shit + H to hide).
- Pie menu on the W key with Face common Sets operations.
Know limitations:
- Multires support. The Face Sets and Visibility API needs to be implemented for Multires.
Reviewed By: jbakker, #user_interface, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6070