Metaball: Evaluate metaball objects as mesh components

With the ultimate goal of simplifying drawing and evaluation,
this patch makes the following changes and removes code:
- Use `Mesh` instead of `DispList` for evaluated basis metaballs.
- Remove all `DispList` drawing code, which is now unused.
- Simplify code that converts evaluated metaballs to meshes.
- Store the evaluated mesh in the evaluated geometry set.

This has the following indirect benefits:
- Evaluated meshes from metaball objects can be used in geometry nodes.
- Renderers can ignore evaluated metaball objects completely
- Cycles rendering no longer has to convert to mesh from `DispList`.
- We get closer to removing `DispList` completely.
- Optimizations to mesh rendering will also apply to metaball objects.

The vertex normals on the evaluated mesh are technically invalid;
the regular calculation wouldn't reproduce them. Metaball objects
don't support modifiers though, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Eventually we can support per-vertex custom normals (T93551).

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14593

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/draw/engines/eevee/eevee_engine.c b/source/blender/draw/engines/eevee/eevee_engine.c
index ffe0863fb9f..cc7d0c6b22e 100644
--- a/source/blender/draw/engines/eevee/eevee_engine.c
+++ b/source/blender/draw/engines/eevee/eevee_engine.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ void EEVEE_cache_populate(void *vedata, Object *ob)
   }
 
   if (DRW_object_is_renderable(ob) && (ob_visibility & OB_VISIBLE_SELF)) {
-    if (ELEM(ob->type, OB_MESH, OB_SURF, OB_MBALL)) {
+    if (ELEM(ob->type, OB_MESH, OB_SURF)) {
       EEVEE_materials_cache_populate(vedata, sldata, ob, &cast_shadow);
     }
     else if (ob->type == OB_CURVES) {