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`GeometrySet` contains at most one component of each type.
Previously, a map was used to make sure that each component
type only exists once. The overhead of a map (especially with
inline storage) is rather large though. Since all component types
are known at compile time and the number of types is low,
a simple `std::array` works as well.
Some benefits of using `std::array` here:
* Looking up the component of a specific type is a bit faster.
* The size of `GeometrySet` becomes much smaller from 192 to 40 bytes.
* Debugging a `GeometrySet` in many tools becomes simpler because
one can easily see which components exists and which don't
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Previously, the Point Instance node in geometry nodes could only instance
existing objects or collections. The reason was that large parts of Blender
worked under the assumption that objects are the main unit of instancing.
Now we also want to instance geometry within an object, so a slightly larger
refactor was necessary.
This should not affect files that do not use the new kind of instances.
The main change is a redefinition of what "instanced data" is. Now, an
instances is a cow-object + object-data (the geometry). This can be nicely
seen in `struct DupliObject`. This allows the same object to generate
multiple geometries of different types which can be instanced individually.
A nice side effect of this refactor is that having multiple geometry components
is not a special case in the depsgraph object iterator anymore, because those
components are integrated with the `DupliObject` system.
Unfortunately, different systems that work with instances in Blender (e.g.
render engines and exporters) often work under the assumption that objects are
the main unit of instancing. So those have to be updated as well to be able to
handle the new instances. This patch updates Cycles, EEVEE and other viewport
engines. Exporters have not been updated yet. Some minimal (not master-ready)
changes to update the obj and alembic exporters can be found in P2336 and P2335.
Different file formats may want to handle these new instances in different ways.
For users, the only thing that changed is that the Point Instance node now
has a geometry mode.
This also fixes T88454.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11841
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The main goal of this refactor is to not store Object/Collection
pointers for every individual instance. Instead instances now
store a handle for the referenced data. The actual Object/Collection
pointers are stored in a new `InstanceReference` class.
This refactor also allows for some better optimizations further down
the line, because one does not have to search through all instances
anymore to find what data is instanced.
Furthermore, this refactor makes it easier to support instancing
`GeometrySet` or any other data that has to be owned by the
`InstancesComponent`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11125
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This patch adds initial curve support to geometry nodes. Currently
there is only one node available, the "Curve to Mesh" node, T87428.
However, the aim of the changes here is larger than just supporting
curve data in nodes-- it also uses the opportunity to add better spline
data structures, intended to replace the existing curve evaluation code.
The curve code in Blender is quite old, and it's generally regarded as
some of the messiest, hardest-to-understand code as well. The classes
in `BKE_spline.hh` aim to be faster, more extensible, and much more
easily understandable. Further explanation can be found in comments in
that file.
Initial builtin spline attributes are supported-- reading and writing
from the `cyclic` and `resolution` attributes works with any of the
attribute nodes. Also, only Z-up normal calculation is implemented
at the moment, and tilts do not apply yet.
**Limitations**
- For now, you must bring curves into the node tree with an "Object
Info" node. Changes to the curve modifier stack will come later.
- Converting to a mesh is necessary to visualize the curve data.
Further progress can be tracked in: T87245
Higher level design document: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Modules/Physics_Nodes/Projects/EverythingNodes/CurveNodes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11091
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Now that object_dupli.cc is a C++ file, we don't have to have a specific
function to retrieve the instance data from the geometry set.
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This allows us to use it in rna for the spreadsheet editor.
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Ids stored in the `id` attribute cannot be assumed to be unique. While they
might be unique in some cases, this is not something that can be guaranteed
in general. For some use cases (e.g. generating "stable randomness" on points)
uniqueness is not important. To support features like motion blur, unique ids
are important though.
This patch implements a simple algorithm that turns non-unique ids into
unique ones. It might fail to do so under very unlikely circumstances, in
which it returns non-unique ids instead of possibly going into an endless
loop.
Here are some requirements I set for the algorithm:
* Ids that are unique already, must not be changed.
* The same input should generate the same output.
* Handle cases when all ids are different and when all ids are the same
equally well (in expected linear time).
* Small changes in the input id array should ideally only have a small
impact on the output id array.
The reported bug happened because cycles found multiple objects with
the same id and thought that it was a single object that moved on every
check.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10402
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Use transform matrices instead of loc, rot, scale variables to store instance transforms.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10211
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Instances are created with an "index" parameter used for persistence over
time through animation. Currently the geometry nodes instancer passes
the index in the array for this value, but the arrays created by the
"Point Distribution" node aren't necessarily stable in this way when
the input mesh is deformed. In D9832 we already mostly solved this
problem with an `id` attribute. The solution here is to create instances
with this attribute as well.
It's important to note that deforming the instanced points *after*
distribution will usually be a better solution for this problem. This
solution is likely still important though.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10024
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The Point Instance node can instance entire collections now.
Before, only individual collections were supported.
Randomly selecting objects from the collection on a per point basis
is not support, yet.
Last part of D9739.
Ref T82372.
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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
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