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
Those were only shallow wrappers around `BKE_id_copy`, barely used (even
fully unused in some cases), and we want to get rid of those ID-specific
helpers for the common ID management tasks. Also prevents weird custom
behaviors (like `BKE_object_copy`, who was the only basic ID copy
function to reset user count of the new copy to zero).
Part of 71219.
Just converts verts to points and vice versa.
Materials and Attribute layers are preserved (so for example if you set
custom radii on the pointcloud, convert to mesh, then convert back to
pointcloud, this will be preserved).
Also not add a Radius layer by default (it is still added and
filled when adding a pointcloud object from the menu), a global Radius
property that will be used if there is no radius attribute can be added
later. A Radius attribute can also be added in the pointcloud data
properties (and filled via python).
This will also add a new utility function that copies materials between
datablocks: BKE_id_materials_copy
ref T75717
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7391
Instead of custom data layer with special types, using general Vector and Float
attributes.
Ref T76659
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8635
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
Jacques Lucke
Jeroen Bakker
Bastien Montagne
Philipp Oeser
Brecht Van Lommel
Campbell Barton
Brecht Van Lommel