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As described in T91186, this commit moves mesh vertex normals into a
contiguous array of float vectors in a custom data layer, how face
normals are currently stored.
The main interface is documented in `BKE_mesh.h`. Vertex and face
normals are now calculated on-demand and cached, retrieved with an
"ensure" function. Since the logical state of a mesh is now "has
normals when necessary", they can be retrieved from a `const` mesh.
The goal is to use on-demand calculation for all derived data, but
leave room for eager calculation for performance purposes (modifier
evaluation is threaded, but viewport data generation is not).
**Benefits**
This moves us closer to a SoA approach rather than the current AoS
paradigm. Accessing a contiguous `float3` is much more efficient than
retrieving data from a larger struct. The memory requirements for
accessing only normals or vertex locations are smaller, and at the
cost of more memory usage for just normals, they now don't have to
be converted between float and short, which also simplifies code
In the future, the remaining items can be removed from `MVert`,
leaving only `float3`, which has similar benefits (see T93602).
Removing the combination of derived and original data makes it
conceptually simpler to only calculate normals when necessary.
This is especially important now that we have more opportunities
for temporary meshes in geometry nodes.
**Performance**
In addition to the theoretical future performance improvements by
making `MVert == float3`, I've done some basic performance testing
on this patch directly. The data is fairly rough, but it gives an idea
about where things stand generally.
- Mesh line primitive 4m Verts: 1.16x faster (36 -> 31 ms),
showing that accessing just `MVert` is now more efficient.
- Spring Splash Screen: 1.03-1.06 -> 1.06-1.11 FPS, a very slight
change that at least shows there is no regression.
- Sprite Fright Snail Smoosh: 3.30-3.40 -> 3.42-3.50 FPS, a small
but observable speedup.
- Set Position Node with Scaled Normal: 1.36x faster (53 -> 39 ms),
shows that using normals in geometry nodes is faster.
- Normal Calculation 1.6m Vert Cube: 1.19x faster (25 -> 21 ms),
shows that calculating normals is slightly faster now.
- File Size of 1.6m Vert Cube: 1.03x smaller (214.7 -> 208.4 MB),
Normals are not saved in files, which can help with large meshes.
As for memory usage, it may be slightly more in some cases, but
I didn't observe any difference in the production files I tested.
**Tests**
Some modifiers and cycles test results need to be updated with this
commit, for two reasons:
- The subdivision surface modifier is not responsible for calculating
normals anymore. In master, the modifier creates different normals
than the result of the `Mesh` normal calculation, so this is a bug
fix.
- There are small differences in the results of some modifiers that
use normals because they are not converted to and from `short`
anymore.
**Future improvements**
- Remove `ModifierTypeInfo::dependsOnNormals`. Code in each modifier
already retrieves normals if they are needed anyway.
- Copy normals as part of a better CoW system for attributes.
- Make more areas use lazy instead of eager normal calculation.
- Remove `BKE_mesh_normals_tag_dirty` in more places since that is
now the default state of a new mesh.
- Possibly apply a similar change to derived face corner normals.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12770
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- Added space below non doc-string comments to make it clear
these aren't comments for the symbols directly below them.
- Use doxy sections for some headers.
- Minor improvements to doc-strings.
Ref T92709
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When calculating the particle step in `get_effector_tot`, we have to
round up (otherwise we might get an extra round in the for-loop in
`BKE_effectors_apply` for certain cases).
Example from the report:
- 10.000 particles, Effector Amount 3
- was rounding the step down to 3333
- going into the for-loop for 0, 3333, 6666 and 9999 (4 times)
- now rounding the step up to 3334
- going into the for-loop for 0, 3334 and 6668 (3 times as desired)
Maniphest Tasks: T90346
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12113
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Use C comments for plain text.
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Generally the evaluated mesh should not be changed, since that is the
job of the modifier stack. Current code is far from const correct in
that regard. This commit uses a const variable for the reult of
`BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh` in some cases. The most common
remaining case is retrieving a BVH tree from the mesh.
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`BKE_displist_make_curveTypes` had a `for_orco` argument that was
always false in calls to the function. Removing it allows the curve
displist and modifier evaluation code to become simpler. There are
some related cleanups in rBdf4299465279 and rB93aecd2b8107.
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The issue was that where_on_path uses a resampled curve to get the data
from the curve. This leads to disconnects between the curve the user
sees and the evaluated location data.
To fix this we simply use the actual curve data the user can see.
The older code needed a cleanup either way as there were hacks in other
parts of the code trying to work around some brokenness. This is now
fixed and we no longer need to clamp the evaluation range to 0-1 or make
helper functions to make it do what we actually want.
Reviewed By: Campbell, Sybren
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D10898
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Most fields have Affect Location and Rotation options that switch
off their effect, but they are only checked as the last step after
the force is already computed. It is more efficient to check it
when building the list of field objects, just like zero weight.
It is also possible to check the strength-related fields for 0.
As an aside, this adds Location to Texture fields (they don't
handle rotation) and both Location & Rotation checkboxes to
Fluid Flow. Boid and Curve Guide remain without options for
now as they are completely different from others.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10087
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Use common prefix as this collided with existing API's (eg BLI_voronoi).
Also expand some non-obvious abbreviations:
- 'g' -> 'generic'
- 'vl' -> 'variable_lacunarity'
- 'V' -> 'v3'
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See the differential for some more information.
Reviewers: mano-wii
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8891
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This addresses warnings from Clang-Tidy's `readability-else-after-return`
rule in the `source/blender/blenkernel` module.
No functional changes.
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Currently all force effectors can only act on cloth when the force is
perpendicular to the surface. This makes sense for wind, but not for
other forces; and the user may want even wind to have some friction.
This changes effector code to output two force vectors - although
you of course can pass the same pointer for both. The force is split
between the two outputs based on a new per-effector setting.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8017
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Better to use more general term since in theory these forces can be used for smoke and liquid.
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Note this only changes cases where the variable was declared inside
the for loop. To handle it outside as well is a different challenge.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7320
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The files are now split up into the following sections:
- `BKE_anim_path.h` and `anim_path.c` for path/curve functions.
- `BKE_anim_visualization.h` and `anim_visualizationanim_path.c` for
animation visualization (mostly motion paths).
- `BKE_duplilist.h` for DupliList function declarations. These were
already implemented in `object_dupli.c`, so they were rather out of
place being declared in `BKE_anim.h` in the first place.
No functional changes.
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Only the volume object is exposed in the user interface. It is based on OpenVDB
internally. Drawing and rendering code will follow in another commit.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/Volume
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.83/Volumes
Hair and PointCloud object types are hidden behind a WITH_NEW_OBJECT_TYPES
build option. These are unfinished, and included only to make it easier to
cooperate on development in the future and avoid tricky merges.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Objects/New_Object_Types
Ref T73201, T68981
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6945
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While it might be handy to have type-less functionality which is
similar to how C++ math is implemented it can not be easily achieved
with just preprocessor in a way which does not have side-effects on
wrong usage.
There macros where often used on a non-trivial expression, and there
was at least one usage where it was causing an actual side effect/bug
on Windows (see change around square_f(sh[index++]) in studiolight.c).
For such cases it is handy to have a function which is guaranteed to
have zero side-effects. The motivation behind actually removing the
macros is that there is already a way to do similar calculation. Also,
not having such macros is a way to guarantee that its usage is not
changed in a way which have side-effects and that it's not used as an
inspiration for cases where it should not be used.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7051
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This is in preparation of new object types. This only changes mesh_eval, we
may do the same for mesh_deform_eval and other areas in the future if there is
a need for it.
This previously caused a bug in T74283, that should be fixed now.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6695
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than mesh"
This reverts commit f2b95b9eae2ee913c99cff7595527b18d8b49d0a.
Fix T74283: modifier display lost when moving object in edit mode.
The cause is not immediately obvious so better to revert and look at this
carefully.
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This is in preparation of new object types. This only changes mesh_eval, we
may do the same for mesh_deform_eval and other areas in the future if there is
a need for it.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6695
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A collection of smaller changes that are required in the /blender/source files. A lot of them are also due to variable renaming.
Reviewed By: sergey
Maniphest Tasks: T59995
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3855
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Some statements were split across multiple lines because of their
trailing comments.
In most cases it's clearer to put the comments above.
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This is old logic that no longer makes sense in the new depsgraph, and causes
issues when multiple threads try to modify the same bevel object.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4913
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Prepare for enabling ReflowComments.
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Apply clang format as proposed in T53211.
For details on usage and instructions for migrating branches
without conflicts, see:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Tools/ClangFormat
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Original and localized particle settings were sharing some
of the runtime pointers.
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While \file doesn't need an argument, it can't have another doxy
command after it.
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Done for smoke functions.
Smoke modifier functions seems an oddballs here,
but probably also to be renamed.
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This was caused by curves pointing to each other
creating a cyclic dependency.
While the dependency graph detects this, generating a mesh for render
recursively generates data which cashes in this case.
Add in a check to detect cyclic links.
Note, this bug exists in 2.7x too - but only crashes on render
since 2.7x didn't use 'for_render' when converting data.
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Move \ingroup onto same line to be more compact and
make it clear the file is in the group.
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BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
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Some features are incompatible with multithreading and reliable evaluation
of dependencies. We are now removing them as part of a bigger cleanup to
fix bugs in keyframing and invalid animation evaluations.
* Dupliframes have been removed. This was a hack added before there were
more powerful features like the array modifier.
* Slow parent has been removed, never worked in 2.8. It was always
unreliable for use in production due to depending on whatever frame was
previously evaluated, which was not always the previous frame.
* Particle instanced objects used to have their transform evaluated at
the particle time. Now it always gets the current time transform.
* Boids can no longer do predictive avoidance of force field objects,
but still for other particles.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4274
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