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Currently this is needed to properly tag PointCache's for info update
(fixes an issue reported in T82503).
Suspect we may need this in more cases in the future though, RNA
assign/update processes are not always 100% enough to deal with
complicated corner cases.
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This implements the design proposed in T83357.
The goal is to allow the geometry nodes modifier on mesh objects to
output instances and potentially other geometry types. Both problems
are tackled by allowing mesh objects to evaluate to a geometry set,
instead of just a single mesh id data block. The geometry set can
contain a mesh but also other data like instances and a point cloud.
I can't say that I'm sure that this commit won't introduce bugs. Mainly
the temporary object creation during rendering seems a bit brittle.
BUT, we can be reasonably sure that this commit will not introduce
regressions (at least not ones, that are hard to fix). This is because
the code has been written in a way that minimizes changes for existing
functionality.
Given that we intend to hide the point cloud object for the next release,
we won't even have to worry about temporary object creation for now.
An important part of the technical design is to make sure that
`ObjectRuntime->data_eval` contains the same data before and after this
patch. This helps to make sure, that existing code paths are impacted as
little as possible.
Instead of fully replacing `data_eval`, there is `geometry_set_eval`,
which contains all the geometry components an object evaluated to
(including the data referenced by `data_eval`).
For now, not much code has to be aware of `geometry_set_eval`. Mainly
the depsgraph object iterator and the instances system have to know
about it.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9851
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Since the initial merge of the geometry nodes project, the modifyPointCloud
function already was already modifying a geometry set. The function wasn't
renamed back then, because then the merge would have touched many
more files.
Ref T83357.
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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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