More agressive optimization made the results differ a bit more than the
current error margin would allow. Bump the error margin to be 1e-6
instead of the previous 0.5e-7.
Relax limits of FCurve Bézier handles during evaluation. FCurve handles
can be scaled down to avoid the curve looping backward in time. This
scaling was done correctly but over-carefully, posing unnecessary
limitations on the possible slope of FCurves. This commit changes the
scaling approach such that the FCurve can become near-vertical.
Bump Blender's subversion from 291.0.1 to 291.0.2 to ensure that older
animation files are correctly updated.
Reviewed By: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8752
Write custom properties (aka ID properties) to Alembic, to the
`.userProperties` compound property.
Manifest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T50725
Scalar properties (so single-value/non-array properties) are written as
single-element array properties to Alembic. This is also what's done by
Houdini and Maya exporters, so it seems to be the standard way of doing
things. It also simplifies the implementation.
Two-dimensional arrays are flattened by concatenating all the numbers
into a single array. This is because ID properties have a limited type
system. This means that a 3x3 "matrix" could just as well be a list of
three 3D vectors.
Alembic has two container properties to store custom data:
- `.userProperties`, which is meant for properties that aren't
necessarily understood by other software packages, and
- `.arbGeomParams`, which can contain the same kind of data as
`.userProperties`, but can also specify that these vary per face of a
mesh. This property is mostly intended for renderers.
Most industry packages write their custom data to `.arbGeomParams`.
However, given their goals I feel that `.userProperties` is the more
appropriate one for Blender's ID Properties.
The code is a bit more involved than I would have liked. An
`ABCAbstractWriter` has a `uniqueptr` to its `CustomPropertiesExporter`,
but the `CustomPropertiesExporter` also has a pointer back to its owning
`ABCAbstractWriter`. It's the latter pointer that I'm not too happy
with, but it has a reason. Getting the aforementioned `.userProperties`
from the Alembic library will automatically create it if it doesn't
exist already. If it's not used to actually add custom properties to, it
will crash the Alembic CLI tools (and maybe others too). This is what
the pointer back to the `ABCAbstractWriter` is used for: to get the
`.userProperties` at the last moment, when it's 100% sure at least one
custom property will be written.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8869
Reviewed by: sergey, dbystedt
These were disabled in the newboolean merge commit.
This commit renables them, using the original 'FAST' solver
so that the result objects need not change.
A TODO to add more tests using the 'EXACT' solver,
though most functionality there is now covered by unit gtests.
This is for design task T67744, Boolean Redesign.
It adds a choice of solver to the Boolean modifier and the
Intersect (Boolean) and Intersect (Knife) tools.
The 'Fast' choice is the current Bmesh boolean.
The new 'Exact' choice is a more advanced algorithm that supports
overlapping geometry and uses more robust calculations, but is
slower than the Fast choice.
The default with this commit is set to 'Exact'. We can decide before
the 2.91 release whether or not this is the right choice, but this
choice now will get us more testing and feedback on the new code.
This adds a new `--debug-exit-on-error` flag. When it is set, Blender
will abort with a non-zero exit code when there are internal errors.
Currently, "internal errors" includes memory leaks detected by
guardedalloc and error/fatal log entries in clog.
The new flag is passed to Blender in various places where automated
tests are run. Furthermore, the `--debug-memory` flag is used in tests,
because that makes the verbose output more useful, when dealing
with memory leaks.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8665
Add a new depsgraph builder class that includes invisible objects and
use that in the Alembic exporter.
Alembic supports three options for visibility, "visible", "inherited",
and "hidden". This means that parents can be hidden and still have
visible children (contrary to USD, where invisibility is used to prune
an entire scene graph subtree). Because of this, the visibility is
stored on the transform node, as that represents the Object in Blender
and thus keeps the Alembic file as close to Blender's own structure as
possible.
Reviewed By: Sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8595
Rename test `alembic_tests` to `alembic_export_tests`, so that its name
is consistent with the Python file containing the tests,
`alembic_export_tests.py`.
No functional changes.
Instead of checking for the length of a list, just handle the error that
occurs when the length is incorrect.
No functional changes to any actual test.
This matches the change that was done to the bevel modifier so that the
interface for the modifier, the active tool, and the operator are consistent.
This commit extends the refactor to the bmesh implementation too, so
that the parameters in the implementation don't stray too far from what
is exposed.
Tests are adjusted and still pass.
Each duplicated (a.k.a. instanced) object has a Persistent ID, which
identifies a dupli within the context of its duplicator. This ID
consists of several numbers when there are nested duplis (for example a
mesh instancing empties on its vertices, where each empty instances a
collection). When exporting to Alembic/USD, these are used to uniquely
name the duplicated objects in the export.
This commit reverses the order of the persistent ID numbers, so that the
first number identifies the first level of recursion. This produces
trees like this:
ABC
`--Triangle
|--Triangle
|--Empty-1
| `--Pole-1-0
| |--Pole
| `--Block-1-1
| `--Block
|--Empty
| `--Pole-0
| |--Pole
| `--Block-1
| `--Block
|--Empty-2
| `--Pole-2-0
| |--Pole
| `--Block-2-1
| `--Block
`--Empty-0
`--Pole-0-0
|--Pole
`--Block-0-1
`--Block
It is now clearer that `Pole-2-0` and `Block-2-1` are instanced by
`Empty-2`. Before this commit, they would have been named `Pole-0-2` and
`Block-1-2`.
Exporting a scene to USD or Alembic would fail when there are multiple
duplicates of parent & child objects, duplicated by the same object. For
example, this happens when such a hierarchy of objects is contained in a
collection, and that collection is instanced multiple times by mesh
vertices. The problem here is that the 'parent' pointer of each
duplicated object points to the real parent; Blender would not figure
out properly which duplicated parent should be used.
This is now resolved by keeping track of the persistent ID of each
duplicated instance, which makes it possible to reconstruct the
parent-child relations of duplicated objects. This does use up some
memory for each dupli, so it could be heavy to export a Spring scene
(with all the pebbles and leaves), but it's only a small addition on top
of the USD/Alembic writer objects that have to be created anyway. At
least with this patch, they're created correctly.
Code-wise, the following changes are made:
- The export graph (that maps export parent to its export children) used
to have as its key (Object, Duplicator). This is insufficient to
correctly distinguish between multiple duplis of the same object by
the same duplicator, so this is now extended to (Object, Duplicator,
Persistent ID). To make this possible, new classes `ObjectIdentifier`
and `PersistentID` are introduced.
- Finding the parent of a duplicated object is done via its persistent
ID. In Python notation, the code first tries to find the parent
instance where `child_persistent_id[1:] == parent_persistent_id[1:]`.
If that fails, the dupli with persistent ID `child_persistent_id[1:]`
is used as parent.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8233
The Alembic exporter has been restructured by leverages the
`AbstractHierarchyIterator` introduced by the USD exporter. The produced
Alembic files have not changed much (details below), as the Alembic
writing code has simply been moved from the old exporter to the new. How
the export hierarchy is handled changed a lot, though, and also the way
in which transforms are computed. As a result, T71395 is fixed.
Differences between the old and new exporter, in terms of the produced
Alembic file:
- Duplicated objects now have a unique numerical suffix.
- Matrices are computed differently, namely by simply computing the
evaluated transform of the object relative to the evaluated transform
of its export-parent. This fixes {T71395}, but otherwise should
produce the same result as before (but with simpler code).
Compared to the old Alembic exporter, Subdivision modifiers are now
disabled in a cleaner, more efficient way (they are disabled when
exporting with the "Apply Subdivisions" option is unchecked). Previously
the exporter would move to a new frame, disable the modifier, evaluate
the object, and enable the modifier again. This is now done before
exporting starts, and modifiers are only restored when exporting ends.
Some issues with the old Alembic exporter that have NOT been fixed in
this patch:
- Exporting NURBS patches and curves (see T49114 for example).
- Exporting flattened hierarchy in combination with dupli-objects. This
seems to be broken in the old Alembic exporter as well, but nobody
reported this yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7664
Reviewed By: Sergey
Blender now always exports transforms as as "inheriting", as Blender has
no concept of parenting without inheriting the transform.
Previously only objects with an actual parent were marked as
"inheriting", and parentless objects as "non-inheriting". However,
certain packages (for example USD's Alembic plugin) are incompatible
with non-inheriting transforms and will completely ignore such
transforms, placing all such objects at the world origin.
When importing non-inheriting transforms from Alembic, Blender will
break the parent-child relation and thus force the child to (correctly)
interpret the transform as world matrix.
Other types already had spaces, periods, and colons replaced by
underscores. The upcoming Alembic exporter (based on the
`AbstractHierarcyIterator` class) will be more consistent and apply the
same naming rules everywhere. This is in preparation for that change.
The `get_…_name()` functions in `abc_util.{cc,h}` will be removed then.
Previously the Alembic exporter exported a mesh object to
`{object.name}/{object.name}Shape`. Now it exports to
`{object.name}/{mesh.name}` instead. The same change also applies to
other object data types.
Note that the code now is a bit hackish, as `m_name` is set even in
cases where it isn't used. This hackishness was already there, though,
but it's now just more visible. This will all be cleaned up when the
Alembic exporter is ported to use the `AbstractHierarchyImporter`
structure of the Universal Scene Description (USD) exporter.
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7672
Main change from user side, besides that all pointers should now be
properly remapped to new IDs, is that linked objects are no longer
preserved when doing a full copy of scenes.
Will open a task to check whether we actually still want that behavior
(and re-code it in a more correct way then).
This is the main part of work done here, it aims at uniformizing and
sanitizing that 'deep copy' process for supported IDs (currently scenes,
collections and objects).
Note that there will be more follow up commits after that one, but this
should be the most risky and changing one.
This was caused by a side-effect of our exporting code's memory
management (Alembic considers data "written" and "final" when its C++
objects go out of scope) in combination with my change in
rB65574463fa2d. I removed an "only export UVs on the first frame" clause
because it was unclear why this restriction was there. As it turns out,
it breaks the export of the 2nd and subsequent UV maps on an animated
mesh. Effectively, on every frame the Alembic library thought we want to
create a new UV map, instead of continuing to write a new frame of data
to the existing one.
This is resolved by keeping a reference to the C++ objects for the UV
maps in memory while the exporter is running.
When the Child Of constraint is owned by a bone, before the constraint is
run the matrix is converted from world to pose space. However, setting the
inverse should also take the armature object's transform into account.
Blender was not configured to exit with non-zero return code on Python errors.
A bunch of tests worked around this but not all. This removes the need for such
workarounds.
This uses the same framework as automated modifier tests. It adds a physics
modifier, bakes and compares vertex coordinates on the end frame.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7017
Submitting on behalf of Jesse Y (deadpin).
In test harness for modifier testing, now run mesh validation
on output mesh. Also, fix printing so it interleaves properly.
CentOS on the buildbot still runs Python 3.6, which is also used for the
unit tests. This means that the tests can't use language features that
are available to Blender itself. And testing with a different version of
Python than will be used by the actual code seems like a bad idea to me.
This commit adds `TEST_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE` as advanced CMake option. This
will allow us to set a specific Python executable when we need it. When
not set, a platform-specific default will be used:
- On Windows, the `python….exe` from the installation directory. This is
just like before this patch, except that this patch adds the
overridability.
- On macOS/Linux, the `${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}` as found by CMake.
Every platform should now have a value (configured by the user or
detected by CMake) for `TEST_PYTHON_EXE`, so there is no need to allow
running without. This also removes the need to have some Python files
marked as executable.
If `TEST_PYTHON_EXE` is not user-configured, and thus the above default
is used, a status message is logged by CMake. I've seen this a lot in
other projects, and I like that it shows which values are auto-detected.
However, it's not common in Blender, so if we want we can either remove
it now, or remove it after the buildbot has been set up correctly.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7395
Reviewed by: campbellbarton, mont29, sergey
Submitting on behalf of Jesse Y (deadpin).
In test harness for modifier testing, now run mesh validation
on output mesh. Also, fix printing so it interleaves properly.
NOTE: While most of the milestone 1 goals are there, a few smaller features and
improvements are still to be done.
Big picture of this milestone: Initial, OpenXR-based virtual reality support
for users and foundation for advanced use cases.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T71347
The tasks contains more information about this milestone.
To be clear: This is not a feature rich VR implementation, it's focused on the
initial scene inspection use case. We intentionally focused on that, further
features like controller support are part of the next milestone.
- How to use?
Instructions on how to use this are here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/How_to_Test
These will be updated and moved to a more official place (likely the manual) soon.
Currently Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus devices are usable. Valve/HTC
headsets don't support the OpenXR standard yet and hence, do not work with this
implementation.
---------------
This is the C-side implementation of the features added for initial VR
support as per milestone 1. A "VR Scene Inspection" Add-on will be
committed separately, to expose the VR functionality in the UI. It also
adds some further features for milestone 1, namely a landmarking system
(stored view locations in the VR space)
Main additions/features:
* Support for rendering viewports to an HMD, with good performance.
* Option to sync the VR view perspective with a fully interactive,
regular 3D View (VR-Mirror).
* Option to disable positional tracking. Keeps the current position (calculated
based on the VR eye center pose) when enabled while a VR session is running.
* Some regular viewport settings for the VR view
* RNA/Python-API to query and set VR session state information.
* WM-XR: Layer tying Ghost-XR to the Blender specific APIs/data
* wmSurface API: drawable, non-window container (manages Ghost-OpenGL and GPU
context)
* DNA/RNA for management of VR session settings
* `--debug-xr` and `--debug-xr-time` commandline options
* Utility batch & config file for using the Oculus runtime on Windows.
* Most VR data is runtime only. The exception is user settings which are saved
to files (`XrSessionSettings`).
* VR support can be disabled through the `WITH_XR_OPENXR` compiler flag.
For architecture and code documentation, see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/XR.
---------------
A few thank you's:
* A huge shoutout to Ray Molenkamp for his help during the project - it would
have not been that successful without him!
* Sebastian Koenig and Simeon Conzendorf for testing and feedback!
* The reviewers, especially Brecht Van Lommel!
* Dalai Felinto for pushing and managing me to get this done ;)
* The OpenXR working group for providing an open standard. I think we're the
first bigger application to adopt OpenXR. Congratulations to them and
ourselves :)
This project started as a Google Summer of Code 2019 project - "Core Support of
Virtual Reality Headsets through OpenXR" (see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/).
Some further information, including ideas for further improvements can be found
in the final GSoC report:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/Final_Report
Differential Revisions: D6193, D7098
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Jeroen Bakker
Fixed memory leak that showed up after the original issue (crash) had been fixed in 93ac4709ebe8. The fix ensures that light cache bakes free up GPU smoke textures and the smoke domain list correctly.
This commit also removes the workaround (f3a33a92987f) that disabled light cache bakes for fluid objects.
This allows fast access to various arrays in the Python API.
Most notably, `image.pixels` can be accessed much more efficiently now.
**Benchmark**
Below are the results of a benchmark that compares different ways to
set/get all pixel values. I do the tests on 2048x2048 rgba images.
The benchmark tests the following dimensions:
- Byte vs. float per color channel
- Python list vs. numpy array containing floats
- `foreach_set` (new) vs. `image.pixels = ...` (old)
```
Pixel amount: 2048 * 2048 = 4.194.304
Byte buffer size: 16.8 mb
Float buffer size: 67.1 mb
Set pixel colors:
byte - new - list: 271 ms
byte - new - buffer: 29 ms
byte - old - list: 350 ms
byte - old - buffer: 2900 ms
float - new - list: 249 ms
float - new - buffer: 8 ms
float - old - list: 330 ms
float - old - buffer: 2880 ms
Get pixel colors:
byte - list: 128 ms
byte - buffer: 9 ms
float - list: 125 ms
float - buffer: 8 ms
```
**Observations**
The best set and get speed can be achieved with buffers and a float image,
at the cost of higher memory consumption. Furthermore, using buffers when
using `pixels = ...` is incredibly slow, because it is not optimized.
Optimizing this is possible, but might not be trivial (there were multiple
attempts afaik).
Float images are faster due to overhead introduced by the api for byte images.
If I profiled it correctly, a lot of time is spend in the `[0, 1] -> {0, ..., 255}`
conversion. The functions doing that conversion is `unit_float_to_uchar_clamp`.
While I have an idea on how it can be optimized, I do not know if it can be done
without changing its functionality slightly. Performance wise the best solution
would be to not do this conversion at all and accept byte input from the api
user directly, but that seems to be a more involved task as well.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7053
Reviewers: JacquesLucke, mont29
This fixes {T70269}.
Before this commit there was complicated code to try and compute the
correct parent inverse matrix for the 'Child Of' and 'Object Solver'
constraints outside the constraint evaluation. This was done mostly
correctly, but did have some issues. The Set Inverse operator now defers
this computation to be performed during constraint evaluation by just
setting a flag. If the constraint is disabled, and thus tagging it for
update in the depsgraph is not enough to trigger immediate evaluation,
evaluation is forced by temporarily enabling it.
This fix changes the way how the inverse matrix works when some of the
channels of the constraint are disabled. Before this commit, the channel
flags were used to filter both the parent and the inverse matrix. This
meant that it was impossible to make an inverse matrix that would
actually fully neutralize the effect of the constraint. Now only the
parent matrix is filtered, while inverse is applied fully. As a result,
pressing the 'Set Inverse' matrix produces the same transformation as
disabling the constraint. This is also reflected in the changed values
in the 'Child Of' unit test.
This change is not backward compatible, but it should be OK because the
old way was effectively unusable, so it is unlikely anybody relied on
it.
The change in matrix for the Object Solver constraint is due to a
different method of computing it, which caused a slightly different
floating point error that was slightly bigger than allowed by the test,
so I updated the matrix values there as well.
This patch was original written by @angavrilov and subsequently updated
by me.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6091
The 'Clear Inverse' operator didn't properly update the constraint, so
it didn't do anything until the entire depsgraph was updated. It's now
properly tagged for update.
In the collections unit test file developers can now disable layer
collections and declutter the 3D Viewport while working in
`constraints.blend`, without influencing the actual unit tests themselves.
