Geometry Nodes: new Viewer node

This adds a viewer node similar to the one in the compositor.
The icon in the headers of nodes is removed because it served
the same purpose and is not necessary anymore.

Node outputs can be connected to the active viewer using
ctrl+shift+LMB, just like in the compositor. Right now this collides
with the shortcut used in the node wrangler addon, which will
be changed separately.

As of now, the viewed geometry is only visible in the spreadsheet.
Viewport visualization will be added separately.

There are a couple of benefits of using a viewer node compared
to the old approach with the icon in the node header:
* Better support for nodes that have more than one geometry output.
* It's more consistent with the compositor.
* If attributes become decoupled from geometry in the future,
  the viewer can have a separate input for the attribute to visualize.
* The viewer node could potentially have visualization settings.
* Allows to keep "visualization points" around by having multiple
  viewer nodes.
* Less visual clutter in node headers.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11470

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/modifiers/intern/MOD_nodes_evaluator.cc b/source/blender/modifiers/intern/MOD_nodes_evaluator.cc
index 8314a443ba6..205bfa34465 100644
--- a/source/blender/modifiers/intern/MOD_nodes_evaluator.cc
+++ b/source/blender/modifiers/intern/MOD_nodes_evaluator.cc
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ class GeometryNodesEvaluator {
     for (const DInputSocket &socket : params_.output_sockets) {
       nodes_to_check.push(socket.node());
     }
+    for (const DSocket &socket : params_.force_compute_sockets) {
+      nodes_to_check.push(socket.node());
+    }
     /* Use the local allocator because the states do not need to outlive the evaluator. */
     LinearAllocator<> &allocator = local_allocators_.local();
     while (!nodes_to_check.is_empty()) {
@@ -501,7 +504,8 @@ class GeometryNodesEvaluator {
           },
           {});
       if (output_state.potential_users == 0) {
-        /* If it does not have any potential users, it is unused. */
+        /* If it does not have any potential users, it is unused. It might become required again in
+         * `schedule_initial_nodes`. */
         output_state.output_usage = ValueUsage::Unused;
       }
     }
@@ -576,6 +580,20 @@ class GeometryNodesEvaluator {
         this->set_input_required(locked_node, socket);
       });
     }
+    for (const DSocket socket : params_.force_compute_sockets) {
+      const DNode node = socket.node();
+      NodeState &node_state = this->get_node_state(node);
+      this->with_locked_node(node, node_state, [&](LockedNode &locked_node) {
+        if (socket->is_input()) {
+          this->set_input_required(locked_node, DInputSocket(socket));
+        }
+        else {
+          OutputState &output_state = node_state.outputs[socket->index()];
+          output_state.output_usage = ValueUsage::Required;
+          this->schedule_node(locked_node);
+        }
+      });
+    }
   }
 
   void schedule_node(LockedNode &locked_node)
@@ -1124,10 +1142,14 @@ class GeometryNodesEvaluator {
     this->with_locked_node(node, node_state, [&](LockedNode &locked_node) {
       output_state.potential_users -= 1;
       if (output_state.potential_users == 0) {
-        /* The output socket has no users anymore. */
-        output_state.output_usage = ValueUsage::Unused;
-        /* Schedule the origin node in case it wants to set its inputs as unused as well. */
-        this->schedule_node(locked_node);
+        /* The socket might be required even though the output is not used by other sockets. That
+         * can happen when the socket is forced to be computed. */
+        if (output_state.output_usage != ValueUsage::Required) {
+          /* The output socket has no users anymore. */
+          output_state.output_usage = ValueUsage::Unused;
+          /* Schedule the origin node in case it wants to set its inputs as unused as well. */
+          this->schedule_node(locked_node);
+        }
       }
     });
   }