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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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Ref T92709
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When enabling or disabling a Mesh Sequence Cache modifier of an Object
with a hair particle system, the hair would switch positions. This is
caused because original coordinates in Blender are expected to be
normalized, and toggling the modifier would cause the usage of different
orco layers: one that is normalized, and the other which isn't.
This bug exposes a few related issues:
- if the Alembic file did not have orco data,
`MOD_deform_mesh_eval_get`, used by the particle system modifier, would
add an orco layer without normalization
- `MOD_deform_mesh_eval_get` would also ignore the presence of an orco
layer (e.g. one that could have been read from Alembic)
- if the Alembic file did have orco data, the data would be read
unnormalized
To fix those various issues, original coordinates are normalized when
read from Alembic and unnormalized when written to Alembic; and a new
utility function `BKE_mesh_orco_ensure` is added to add a normalized
orco layer if none exists on the mesh already, this function derives
from the code used in the particle system.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92561
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13306
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This commit moves the storage of `bDeformGroup` and the active index
to `Mesh`, `Lattice`, and `bGPdata` instead of `Object`. Utility
functions are added to allow easy access to the vertex groups given
an object or an ID.
As explained in T88951, the list of vertex group names is currently
stored separately per object, even though vertex group data is stored
on the geometry. This tends to complicate code and cause bugs,
especially as geometry is created procedurally and tied less closely
to an object.
The "Copy Vertex Groups to Linked" operator is removed, since they
are stored on the geometry anyway.
This patch leaves the object-level python API for vertex groups in
place. Creating a geometry-level RNA API can be a separate step;
the changes in this commit are invasive enough as it is.
Note that opening a file saved in 3.0 in an earlier version means
the vertex groups will not be available.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11689
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Also use doxy style function reference `#` prefix chars when
referencing identifiers.
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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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This modifier is the opposite of the recently added Mesh to Volume modifier.
It converts the "surface" of a volume into a mesh. The "surface" is defined
by a threshold value. All voxels with a density higher than the threshold
are considered to be inside the volume, while all others will be outside.
By default, the resolution of the generated mesh depends on the voxel
size of the volume grid. The resolution can be customized. It should be
noted that a lower resolution might not make this modifier faster. This
is because we have to downsample the openvdb grid, which isn't a cheap
operation.
Converting a mesh to a volume and then back to a mesh is possible,
but it does require two separate mesh objects for now.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9141
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Note that possibility to pass the new ID pointer as parameter was kept,
as this is needed for some rather specific cases (like in depsgraph/COW,
when copying into already allocated memory).
Part of T71219.
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This modifier uses a 3D texture to displace a volume.
For now, this can only use the previously existing texture system,
because we do not have a better alternative yet. Still, the results
can be quite good and interesting. See D9075 for some examples.
Reviewers: brecht, simonthommes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9075
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This modifier can only be added to Volume objects. It takes a mesh
as input and generates a "density" grid near the surface or in
the enclosed volume.
Ref T73201.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9032
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This addresses warnings from Clang-Tidy's `readability-else-after-return`
rule in the `source/blender/modifiers` module.
No functional changes.
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- Use 'float (*)[3]' to avoid casts.
- Remove unnecessary float[3] copy in gpencil_deform_verts.
- Use MEM_SAFE_FREE
- Use const arguments.
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This resolves a performance regression in 2.8x where every edit-mode
update performed an edit-mesh to mesh conversion.
Now the conversion will be lazily initialized if/when it's required.
New BKE_mesh_wrapper_* functions abstract over mesh data access.
Currently only edit-mesh and regular meshes are supported.
In the future sub-surface meshes may be supported too.
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For now the "Simulation" modifier only exists for point cloud objects, because
we need this for the particle system. Right now, the modifier is doing nothing.
There is a new `DEG_add_simulation_relation` function that is used
by the modifier to make sure that the simulation is evaluated before
the modifier is executed.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7549
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Add a utility to deal with common 'object or posebone transform' case.
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This patch adds the option to use an armature bone in place of an object for texture mask coordinates.
This affects the 3 vertex weight modifiers, the displace modifier, the warp modifier, and the wave modifier.
With minor changes from Bastien Montagne (@mont29).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7348
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- Use 'BKE_object_defgroup' prefix for object functions.
- Rename 'defvert_verify_index' to 'defvert_ensure_index'
since this adds the group if it isn't found.
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Note that `BKE_library.h`/`library.c` were renamed to
`BKE_lib_id.h`/`lib_id.c` to avoid having a too generic name here.
Part of T72604.
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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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Part of T70240
This is the initial implementation of Weld Modifier.
New features will be added later.
ToDo:
- Seams: restrict welding to vertices along boundary edges.
- Edge Collapse: collapse edges below the length threshold.
- New icon.
- Some customdata are not being correctly interpolated.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6383
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Modifier stack evaluation would copy mesh settings other than mesh topology
automatically, outside of the individual modifier evaluation. This leads to hard
to understand code, and makes it unclear which settings are available in following
modifiers, and which only after the entire stack is evaluated.
Now every modifier is responsible to ensure the mesh it outputs preserves materials,
texture space and other settings, or alters them as needed.
Fixes T64739: incorrect texture space for various modifiers
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5808
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space issues"
This reverts commit e7a514369fe700dcc5a1fe433c8f709ed9595ded, it introduces
a bug in selection in edit mode.
Fixes T70103: can't select extruded Vertex
Ref T64739
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Modifier stack evaluation would copy mesh settings other than mesh topology
automatically, outside of the individual modifier evaluation. This leads to hard
to understand code, and makes it unclear which settings are available in following
modifiers, and which only after the entire stack is evaluated.
Now every modifier is responsible to ensure the mesh it outputs preserves materials,
texture space and other settings, or alters them as needed.
Fixes T64739: incorrect texture space for various modifiers
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5808
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When the result isn't used, prefer post increment/decrement
(already used nearly everywhere in Blender).
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This also splits vertex access and allocation so it's possible
to copy coordinates into an existing array without allocating it.
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Also remove duplicate comments in headers.
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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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This was wrong and violating design to force modifiers to query
evaluated objects and IDs. It is up to the caller to make sure
the object is properly evaluatable.
Effectively, reverting changes from de491abf9962 (and possibly
other related changes).
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We already have different storages for cddata of verts, edges etc.,
'simply' do the same for the mask flags we use all around Blender code
to request some data, or limit some operation to some layers, etc.
Reason we need this is that some cddata types (like Normals) are
actually shared between verts/polys/loops, and we don’t want to generate
clnors everytime we request vnors!
As a side note, this also does final fix to T59338, which was the
trigger for this patch (need to request computed loop normals for
another mesh than evaluated one).
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4407
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BLI should always comes first, before DNA, BKE etc. And
`BLI_utildefines.h` should come before any other BLI (since it's some
sort of system include really, among other things...).
Thisi should help to reduce the noise in patches when adding stuff
like uint64_t members to DNA structs... ;)
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While \file doesn't need an argument, it can't have another doxy
command after it.
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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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Turns out most of our 'local working copy' cases can use same set of
flags.
Note that this commit adds LIB_ID_COPY_CACHES to all our local meshes
copying, however this is no-op since that flag is unused during mesh
copying... We may want to add another set of flags without that one at
some point, but for now it would not be useful imho.
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This was used in *one* place only... much better to have a dedicated
helper for that kind of things. ;)
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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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This is a second attempt to get the crash fixed. The original fix
worked, but it was reverted by d3e0d7f0825.
Now the logic goes as:
- All pointers which we can not have shared (the ones which are
owned by the runtime) are cleared.
- The rest of runtime stays untouched.
This seems to be enough to keep particles happy.
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displacement
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Fix T58237: Exporters: Curve Modifier not applied when "apply modifiers" are selected.
Fix T58856: Python: "to_mesh" broken in 2.8.
...And many other cases... ;)
Thing is, we need target IDs to always be evaluated ones (at least I
cannot see any case where having orig ones is desired effect here).
Depsgraph/Cow system ensures us that when modifiers are evaluated by it,
but they can also be called outside of this context, e.g. when doing
binding, or object conversion...
So we need to ensure in modifiers code that we actually are always
working with eval data for those targets.
Note that I did not touch to physics modifiers, those are a bit touchy
and rather not 'fix' something there until proven broken!
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Now that function also takes expected number of vertices, and do the
checks against generated mesh internally.
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