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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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This evaluator is used in order to evaluate subdivision at render time, allowing for
faster renders of meshes with a subdivision surface modifier placed at the last
position in the modifier list.
When evaluating the subsurf modifier, we detect whether we can delegate evaluation
to the draw code. If so, the subdivision is first evaluated on the GPU using our own
custom evaluator (only the coarse data needs to be initially sent to the GPU), then,
buffers for the final `MeshBufferCache` are filled on the GPU using a set of
compute shaders. However, some buffers are still filled on the CPU side, if doing so
on the GPU is impractical (e.g. the line adjacency buffer used for x-ray, whose
logic is hardly GPU compatible).
This is done at the mesh buffer extraction level so that the result can be readily used
in the various OpenGL engines, without having to write custom geometry or tesselation
shaders.
We use our own subdivision evaluation shaders, instead of OpenSubDiv's vanilla one, in
order to control the data layout, and interpolation. For example, we store vertex colors
as compressed 16-bit integers, while OpenSubDiv's default evaluator only work for float
types.
In order to still access the modified geometry on the CPU side, for use in modifiers
or transform operators, a dedicated wrapper type is added `MESH_WRAPPER_TYPE_SUBD`.
Subdivision will be lazily evaluated via `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh` which will
create such a wrapper if possible. If the final subdivision surface is not needed on
the CPU side, `BKE_object_get_evaluated_mesh_no_subsurf` should be used.
Enabling or disabling GPU subdivision can be done through the user preferences (under
Viewport -> Subdivision).
See patch description for benchmarks.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, jbakker, fclem, brecht, #eevee_viewport
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12406
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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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This reverts commit 41e650981861c2f18ab0548e18851d1d761066ff.
This broke "CubeMaskFirst" test.
Any value even slightly outside the [-1.0..1.0] range
caused the result to be nan, which can happen when calculating
the dot-product between two unit length vectors.
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The clamped version of acos isn't needed as degenerate (nan) coordinates
result in zeroed vectors which don't need clamping.
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This supported calculating normals for MPoly array which was copied to
an MFace aligned array.
Remove the functions entirely since MFace use is being phased out and
these function isn't used anywhere.
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Use capitalization, remove unnecessary ellipsis.
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Remove the 'only_face_normals' argument.
- BKE_mesh_calc_normals_poly for polygon normals.
- BKE_mesh_calc_normals_poly_and_vertex for poly and vertex normals.
Order arguments logically:
- Pair array and length arguments.
- Position normal array arguments (to be filled) last.
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Optimize mesh normal calculation.
- Remove the intermediate `lnors_weighted` array, accumulate directly
into the normal array using a spin-lock for thread safety.
- Remove single threaded iteration over loops
(normal calculation is now fully multi-threaded).
- Remove stack array (alloca) for pre-calculating edge-directions.
Summary of Performance Characteristics:
- The largest gains are for single high poly meshes, with isolated
normal-calculation benchmarks of meshes over ~1.5 million showing
2x+ speedup, ~25 million polygons are ~2.85x faster.
- Single lower poly meshes (250k polys) can be ~2x slower.
Since these meshes aren't normally a bottleneck,
and this problem isn't noticeable on large scenes,
we considered the performance trade-off reasonable.
- The performance difference reduces with larger scenes,
tests with production files from "Sprite Fight" showing
the same or slightly better overall performance.
NOTE: tested on a AMD Ryzen TR 3970X 32-Core.
For more details & benchmarking scripts, see the patch description.
Reviewed By: mont29
Ref D11993
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Caused by error converting this file to C++
eccdced972f42a451d0c73dfb7ce19a43c120d7f.
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Because mesh vertex and face normals are just derived data, they can
be calculated lazily instead of eagerly. Often normal calculation is
a relatively expensive task, and the calculation is often redundant
if the mesh is deformed afterwards anyway.
Instead, normals should be calculated only when they are needed. This
commit moves in that direction by adding a new function to tag a mesh's
normals dirty and replacing normal calculation with it in some places.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12107
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Supported multi-threading for bm_mesh_loops_calc_normals.
This is done by operating on vertex-loops instead of face-loops.
Single threaded operation still loops over faces since iterating
over vertices adds some overhead in the case of custom-normals
as the order used for accessing loops must be the same as iterating
of a faces loops.
From isolated timing tests of bm_mesh_loops_calc_normals on high
poly models, this gives between 3.5x to 10x speedup,
with larger gains for meshes with custom-normals.
NOTE: this is part one of two patches for multi-threaded auto-smooth,
tagging edges as sharp is still single threaded.
Reviewed By: mont29
Ref D11928
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No functional changes.
Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Ref D11744
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