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author | Kévin Dietrich <kevin.dietrich@mailoo.org> | 2021-08-19 15:34:01 +0300 |
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committer | Kévin Dietrich <kevin.dietrich@mailoo.org> | 2021-08-19 15:40:51 +0300 |
commit | 51862c8445c8d5f573d1c86780db9e0972ef14dd (patch) | |
tree | 5dbcf975fde4b4ef9a348b8695bcc5aa9a09abab /source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_cachefile.h | |
parent | 5b97c00e9fc4e1e5d6cdfa7130eab5aada0e068e (diff) |
Cycles: experimental integration of Alembic procedural in viewport rendering
This patch exposes the Cycles Alembic Procedural through the MeshSequenceCache
modifier in order to use and test it from Blender.
To enable it, one has to switch the render feature set to experimental and
activate the Procedural in the modifier. An Alembic Procedural is then
created for each CacheFile from Blender set to use the Procedural, and each
Blender object having a MeshSequenceCache modifier is added to list of objects
of the right procedural.
The procedural's parameters derive from the CacheFile's properties which are
already exposed in the UI through the modifier, although more Cycles specific
options might be added in the future.
As there is currently no cache controls and since we load all the data at the
beginning of the render session, the procedural is only available during
viewport renders at the moment. When an Alembic procedural is rendered, data
from the archive are not read on the Blender side.
If a Cycles render is not active and the CacheFile is set to use the Cycles Procedural,
bounding boxes are used to display the objects in the scene as a signal that the
objects are not processed by Blender anymore. This is standard in other DCCs.
However this does not reduce the memory usage from Blender as the Alembic data
was already loaded either during an import or during a .blend file read.
This is mostly a hack to test the Cycles Alembic procedural until we have a
better Blender side mechanism for letting renderers load their own geometry,
which will be based on import and export settings on Collections (T68933).
Ref T79174, D3089
Reviewed By: brecht, sybren
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10197
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_cachefile.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_cachefile.h index a6b2aa8540a..58d876b184b 100644 --- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_cachefile.h +++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_cachefile.h @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ struct CacheReader; struct Depsgraph; struct Main; struct Object; +struct Scene; void BKE_cachefiles_init(void); void BKE_cachefiles_exit(void); @@ -60,6 +61,15 @@ void BKE_cachefile_reader_open(struct CacheFile *cache_file, const char *object_path); void BKE_cachefile_reader_free(struct CacheFile *cache_file, struct CacheReader **reader); +/* Determine whether the CacheFile should use a render engine procedural. If so, data is not read + * from the file and bouding boxes are used to represent the objects in the Scene. Render engines + * will receive the bounding box as a placeholder but can instead load the data directly if they + * support it. + */ +bool BKE_cache_file_uses_render_procedural(const struct CacheFile *cache_file, + struct Scene *scene, + const int dag_eval_mode); + #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif |