Geometry Nodes: Use separate field context for each geometry type

Using the same `GeometryComponentFieldContext` for all situations,
even when only one geometry type is supported is misleading, and mixes
too many different abstraction levels into code that could be simpler.
With the attribute API moved out of geometry components recently,
the "component" system is just getting in the way here.

This commit adds specific field contexts for geometry types: meshes,
curves, point clouds, and instances. There are also separate field input
helper classes, to help reduce boilerplate for fields that only support
specific geometry types.

Another benefit of this change is that it separates geometry components
from fields, which makes it easier to see the purpose of the two concepts,
and how they relate.

Because we want to be able to evaluate a field on just `CurvesGeometry`
rather than the full `Curves` data-block, the generic "geometry context"
had to be changed to avoid using `GeometryComponent`, since there is
no corresponding geometry component type. The resulting void pointer
is ugly, but only turns up in three places in practice. When Apple clang
supports `std::variant`, that could be used instead.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15519

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/geometry_component_mesh.cc b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/geometry_component_mesh.cc
index 436868ba375..14c31da488b 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/geometry_component_mesh.cc
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/geometry_component_mesh.cc
@@ -115,8 +115,7 @@ void MeshComponent::ensure_owns_direct_data()
 
 namespace blender::bke {
 
-VArray<float3> mesh_normals_varray(const MeshComponent &mesh_component,
-                                   const Mesh &mesh,
+VArray<float3> mesh_normals_varray(const Mesh &mesh,
                                    const IndexMask mask,
                                    const eAttrDomain domain)
 {
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ VArray<float3> mesh_normals_varray(const MeshComponent &mesh_component,
        * array and copy the face normal for each of its corners. In this case using the mesh
        * component's generic domain interpolation is fine, the data will still be normalized,
        * since the face normal is just copied to every corner. */
-      return mesh_component.attributes()->adapt_domain(
+      return mesh_attributes(mesh).adapt_domain(
           VArray<float3>::ForSpan({(float3 *)BKE_mesh_poly_normals_ensure(&mesh), mesh.totpoly}),
           ATTR_DOMAIN_FACE,
           ATTR_DOMAIN_CORNER);