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MSVC used to warn about const mismatch for arguments passed by value.
Remove these as newer versions of MSVC no longer show this warning.
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This adds `blender::is_same_any_v` which is the almost the same as
`std::is_same_v`. The difference is that it allows for checking multiple
types at the same time.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13673
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This patch refactors the instance-realization code and adds new functionality.
* Named and anonymous attributes are propagated from instances to the
realized geometry. If the same attribute exists on the geometry and on an
instance, the attribute on the geometry has precedence.
* The id attribute has special handling to avoid creating the same id on many
output points. This is necessary to make e.g. the Random Value node work
as expected afterwards.
Realizing instance attributes has an effect on existing files, especially due to the
id attribute. To avoid breaking existing files, the Realize Instances node now has
a legacy option that is enabled for all already existing Realize Instances nodes.
Removing this legacy behavior does affect some existing files (although not many).
We can decide whether it's worth to remove the old behavior as a separate step.
This refactor also improves performance when realizing instances. That is mainly
due to multi-threading. See D13446 to get the file used for benchmarking. The
curve code is not as optimized as it could be yet. That's mainly because the storage
for these attributes might change soonish and it wasn't worth optimizing for the
current storage format right now.
```
1,000,000 x mesh vertex: 530 ms -> 130 ms
1,000,000 x simple cube: 1290 ms -> 190 ms
1,000,000 x point: 1000 ms -> 150 ms
1,000,000 x curve spiral: 1740 ms -> 330 ms
1,000,000 x curve line: 1110 ms -> 210 ms
10,000 x subdivided cylinder: 170 ms -> 40 ms
10 x subdivided spiral: 180 ms -> 180 ms
```
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13446
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Ref T92709
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Most of our field inputs are currently specific to geometry. This patch introduces
a new `GeometryFieldInput` that reduces the overhead of adding new geometry
field input.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13489
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Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13384
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Currently the geometry nodes evaluator always stores a field for every
type that supports it, even if it is just a single value. This results in a lot
of overhead when there are many sockets that just contain a single
value, which is often the case.
This introduces a new `ValueOrField<T>` type that is used by the geometry
nodes evaluator. Now a field will only be created when it is actually
necessary. See D13307 for more details. In extrem cases this can speed
up the evaluation 2-3x (those cases are probably never hit in practice
though, but it's good to get rid of unnecessary overhead nevertheless).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13307
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Goals of this refactor:
* Simplify creating virtual arrays.
* Simplify passing virtual arrays around.
* Simplify converting between typed and generic virtual arrays.
* Reduce memory allocations.
As a quick reminder, a virtual arrays is a data structure that behaves like an
array (i.e. it can be accessed using an index). However, it may not actually
be stored as array internally. The two most important implementations
of virtual arrays are those that correspond to an actual plain array and those
that have the same value for every index. However, many more
implementations exist for various reasons (interfacing with legacy attributes,
unified iterator over all points in multiple splines, ...).
With this refactor the core types (`VArray`, `GVArray`, `VMutableArray` and
`GVMutableArray`) can be used like "normal values". They typically live
on the stack. Before, they were usually inside a `std::unique_ptr`. This makes
passing them around much easier. Creation of new virtual arrays is also
much simpler now due to some constructors. Memory allocations are
reduced by making use of small object optimization inside the core types.
Previously, `VArray` was a class with virtual methods that had to be overridden
to change the behavior of a the virtual array. Now,`VArray` has a fixed size
and has no virtual methods. Instead it contains a `VArrayImpl` that is
similar to the old `VArray`. `VArrayImpl` should rarely ever be used directly,
unless a new virtual array implementation is added.
To support the small object optimization for many `VArrayImpl` classes,
a new `blender::Any` type is added. It is similar to `std::any` with two
additional features. It has an adjustable inline buffer size and alignment.
The inline buffer size of `std::any` can't be relied on and is usually too
small for our use case here. Furthermore, `blender::Any` can store
additional user-defined type information without increasing the
stack size.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12986
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Previously, every node had to create warnings for unsupported input
geometry manually. Now this is automated. Nodes just have to specify
the geometry types they support in the node declaration.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12899
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This changes socket inspection for fields according to T91881.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13006
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This adds a new Instance on Points node that is a replacement
for the old Point Instance node. Contrary to the old node,
it does not have a mode to instance objects or collections
directly. Instead, the node has to be used with an Object/
Collection Info to achieve the same effect.
Rotation and scale of the instances can be adjusted in the node
directly or can be controlled with a field to get some variation
between instances.
The node supports placing different instances on different points.
The user has control over which instance is placed on which point
using an Instance Index input. If that functionality is used, the
Instance Geometry has to contain multiple instances that can are
instanced separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12478
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This implements the initial core framework for fields and anonymous
attributes (also see T91274).
The new functionality is hidden behind the "Geometry Nodes Fields"
feature flag. When enabled in the user preferences, the following
new nodes become available: `Position`, `Index`, `Normal`,
`Set Position` and `Attribute Capture`.
Socket inspection has not been updated to work with fields yet.
Besides these changes at the user level, this patch contains the
ground work for:
* building and evaluating fields at run-time (`FN_fields.hh`) and
* creating and accessing anonymous attributes on geometry
(`BKE_anonymous_attribute.h`).
For evaluating fields we use a new so called multi-function procedure
(`FN_multi_function_procedure.hh`). It allows composing multi-functions
in arbitrary ways and supports efficient evaluation as is required by
fields. See `FN_multi_function_procedure.hh` for more details on how
this evaluation mechanism can be used.
A new `AttributeIDRef` has been added which allows handling named
and anonymous attributes in the same way in many places.
Hans and I worked on this patch together.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12414
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Many ui features for geometry nodes need access to information generated
during evaluation:
* Node warnings.
* Attribute search.
* Viewer node.
* Socket inspection (not in master yet).
The way we logged the required information before had some disadvantages:
* Viewer node used a completely separate system from node warnings and
attribute search.
* Most of the context of logged information is lost when e.g. the same node
group is used multiple times.
* A global lock was needed every time something is logged.
This new implementation solves these problems:
* All four mentioned ui features use the same underlying logging system.
* All context information for logged values is kept intact.
* Every thread has its own local logger. The logged informatiton is combined
in the end.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11785
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The old geometry nodes evaluator was quite basic and missed many features.
It was useful to get the geometry nodes project started. However, nowadays
we run into its limitations from time to time.
The new evaluator is more complex, but comes with new capabilities.
The two most important capabilities are that it can now execute nodes in
parallel and it supports lazy evaluation.
The performance improvement by multi-threading depends a lot on the specific
node tree. In our demo files, the speedup is measurable but not huge. This
is mainly because they are bottlenecked by one or two nodes that have to be
executed one after the other (often the Boolean or Attribute Proximity nodes)
or because the bottleneck is multi-threaded already (often openvdb nodes).
Lazy evaluation of inputs is only supported by the Switch node for now.
Previously, geometry nodes would always compute both inputs and then just
discard the one that is not used. Now, only the input that is required
is computed.
For some more details read D11191, T87620 and the in-code documentation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11191
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Those were mostly just left over from previous work on particle nodes.
They solved the problem of keeping a reference to an object over
multiple frames and in a cache. Currently, we do not have this problem
in geometry nodes, so we can also remove this layer of complexity
for now.
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This is a first step towards T87620.
It should not have any functional changes.
Goals of this refactor:
* Move the evaluator out of `MOD_nodes.cc`. That makes it easier to
improve it in isolation.
* Extract core input/out parameter management out of `GeoNodeExecParams`.
Managing this is the responsibility of the evaluator. This separation of
concerns will be useful once we have lazy evaluation of certain inputs/outputs.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11085
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A virtual array is a data structure that is similar to a normal array
in that its elements can be accessed by an index. However, a virtual
array does not have to be a contiguous array internally. Instead, its
elements can be layed out arbitrarily while element access happens
through a virtual function call. However, the virtual array data
structures are designed so that the virtual function call can be avoided
in cases where it could become a bottleneck.
Most commonly, a virtual array is backed by an actual array/span or
is a single value internally, that is the same for every index.
Besides those, there are many more specialized virtual arrays like the
ones that provides vertex positions based on the `MVert` struct or
vertex group weights.
Not all attributes used by geometry nodes are stored in simple contiguous
arrays. To provide uniform access to all kinds of attributes, the attribute
API has to provide virtual array functionality that hides the implementation
details of attributes.
Before this refactor, the attribute API provided its own virtual array
implementation as part of the `ReadAttribute` and `WriteAttribute` types.
That resulted in unnecessary code duplication with the virtual array system.
Even worse, it bound many algorithms used by geometry nodes to the specifics
of the attribute API, even though they could also use different data sources
(such as data from sockets, default values, later results of expressions, ...).
This refactor removes the `ReadAttribute` and `WriteAttribute` types and
replaces them with `GVArray` and `GVMutableArray` respectively. The `GV`
stands for "generic virtual". The "generic" means that the data type contained
in those virtual arrays is only known at run-time. There are the corresponding
statically typed types `VArray<T>` and `VMutableArray<T>` as well.
No regressions are expected from this refactor. It does come with one
improvement for users. The attribute API can convert the data type
on write now. This is especially useful when writing to builtin attributes
like `material_index` with e.g. the Attribute Math node (which usually
just writes to float attributes, while `material_index` is an integer attribute).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10994
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This patch adds multi-input support to the Attribute Remove node.
Reviewed By: Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10698
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The crash would only happen when the output of the Join Geometry node is used.
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This is a complete rewrite of the derived node tree data structure.
It is a much thinner abstraction about `NodeTreeRef` than before.
This gives the user of the derived node tree more control and allows
for greater introspection capabilities (e.g. before muted nodes were
completely abstracted away; this was convenient, but came with
limitations).
Another nice benefit of the new structure is that it is much cheaper
to build, because it does not inline all nodes and sockets in nested
node groups.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10620
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There isn't really a reason for why this has to return a copy of
the data instead of a reference.
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This patch adds icons to the right side of nodes when they encounter a
a problem. When hovered, a tooltip displays describing the encountered
while evaluating the node.
Some examples are: attribute doesn't exist, mesh has no faces,
incorrect attribute type, etc. Exposing more messages to the system
will be an ongoing process. Multiple warnings per node are supported.
The system is implemented somewhat generically so that the basic
structure can also be used to store more information from evaluation
for the interface, like a list of available attributes.
Currently the messages are just button tooltips. They could be styled
differently in the future. Another limitation is that every instance of
a node group in a parent node tree will have the same error messages,
the "evaluation context" used to decide when to display the tooltips
must be extended to support node tree paths.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10290
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Since the derived node tree is already build for the evaluation system,
it's simpler to pass a derived node to the params struct. This will also
allow context lookups in nested node groups for node error messages,
since the derived node has that information readily accessible.
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I need to access this functionality from modifier code. Therefore it should
not be in the nodes module.
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Currently every attribute node assumes that the attribute exists on the
"points" domain, so it generally isn't possible to work with attributes
on other domains like edges, polygons, and corners.
This commit adds a heuristic to each attribute node to determine the
correct domain for the result attribute. In general, it works like this:
- If the output attribute already exists, use that domain.
- Otherwise, use the highest priority domain of the input attributes.
- If none of the inputs are attributes, use the default domain (points).
For the implementation I abstracted the check a bit, but in each
node has a slightly different situation, so we end up with slightly
different `get_result_domain` functions in each node. I think this makes
sense, it keeps the code flexible and more easily understandable.
Note that we might eventually want to expose a domain drop-down to some
of the nodes. But that will be a separate discussion; this commit focuses
on making a more useful choice automatically.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10389
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Normally sockets only have one input link. This commit adds the back-end
changes needed to use multiple input links per socket.
Multi-input sockets can be defined with a new flag in `bNodeSocketType`.
The changes necessary to make the sockets work in the geometry nodes
evaluator are generalizing input socket values as a vector of values,
and supporting this in the derived node tree structure.
This patch should contain no functional changes. Two upcoming patches
will use this system for the "Join Geometry" node and expose link picking
and updated display in the UI: D10069 and D10181.
Reviewed By: Jacques Lucke, Hans Goudey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10067
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This node allows sampling a texture for every vertex based on some
mapping attribute. Typical attribute names are the name of a uv map
(e.g. "UVMap") and "position". However, every attribute that can be
converted to a vector implicitly is supported.
It should be noted that as of right now, uv map attributes can only be
accessed after a Point Distribute node.
Ref T82584.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10121
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The depsgraph will have to be accessed in an upcoming patch.
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Undefined geometry nodes will just output a default value now.
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Currently, the random attribute node doesn't work well for most
workflows because for any change in the input data it outputs
completely different results.
This patch adds an implicit seed attribute input to the node, referred
to by "id". The attribute is hashed for each element using the CPPType
system's hash method, meaning the attribute can have any data type.
Supporting any data type is also important so any attribute can be
copied into the "id" attribute and used as a seed.
The "id" attribute is an example of a "reserved name" attribute,
meaning attributes with this name can be used implicitly by nodes like
the random attribute node. Although it makes it a bit more difficult
to dig deeper, using the name implicitly rather than exposing it as an
input should make the system more accessible and predictable.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9832
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This adds a boolean attribute and custom data type, to be used in the
point separate node. It also adds it as supported data types in the
random attribute and attribute fill nodes.
There are more clever ways of storing a boolean attribute that make
more sense in certain situations-- sets, bitfields, and others, this
commit keeps it simple, saving those changes for when there is a proper
use case for them. In any case, we will still probably always want the
idea of a boolean attribute.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9818
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This commit adds a simple utility function for getting the data type of an
attribute or its "constant" socket counterparts. No functional changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9819
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This is a non-functional change. The functionality introduced in this commit
is not used in master yet. It is used by nodes that are being developed in
other branches though.
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* Add typed attribute accessors for color attributes.
* Support implicit conversions between colors and floats.
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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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