Being able to compare Eevee reference images is useful for refactoring I'm
working on so might as well add them now, even if we can still improve them.
Workbench tests are just rendering the same files as Cycles and Eevee. This
doesn't really tests many workbench settings until we add tests specifically
for them, but does cover how it it handles the different object types.
To keep running these tests relatively fast and practical to run often,
running it on all .blend files is a bit much. So now we only run it on
files from this directory.
Additionally this adds supports for following symlinks, so that you can
easily symlinks to other directories if you want to tests extra files
which may have linked libraries.
This adds Eevee render tests using the Cycles files. Currently it must
be enabled by setting WITH_OPENGL_RENDER_TESTS=ON. Once we have reference
images we can enable it by default.
Some of the Cycles and Eevee tests are also currently broken due to
modifier and particle changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3182
OVERVIEW
* In 2.7 terminology, all layers and groups are now collection datablocks.
* These collections are nestable, linkable, instanceable, overrideable, ..
which opens up new ways to set up scenes and link + override data.
* Viewport/render visibility and selectability are now a part of the collection
and shared across all view layers and linkable.
* View layers define which subset of the scene collection hierarchy is excluded
for each. For many workflows one view layer can be used, these are more of an
advanced feature now.
OUTLINER
* The outliner now has a "View Layer" display mode instead of "Collections",
which can display the collections and/or objects in the view layer.
* In this display mode, collections can be excluded with the right click menu.
These will then be greyed out and their objects will be excluded.
* To view collections not linked to any scene, the "Blender File" display mode
can be used, with the new filtering option to just see Colleciton datablocks.
* The outliner right click menus for collections and objects were reorganized.
* Drag and drop still needs to be improved. Like before, dragging the icon or
text gives different results, we'll unify this later.
LINKING AND OVERRIDES
* Collections can now be linked into the scene without creating an instance,
with the link/append operator or from the collections view in the outliner.
* Collections can get static overrides with the right click menu in the outliner,
but this is rather unreliable and not clearly communicated at the moment.
* We still need to improve the make override operator to turn collection instances
into collections with overrides directly in the scene.
PERFORMANCE
* We tried to make performance not worse than before and improve it in some
cases. The main thing that's still a bit slower is multiple scenes, we have to
change the layer syncing to only updated affected scenes.
* Collections keep a list of their parent collections for faster incremental
updates in syncing and caching.
* View layer bases are now in a object -> base hash to avoid quadratic time
lookups internally and in API functions like visible_get().
VERSIONING
* Compatibility with 2.7 files should be improved due to the new visibility
controls. Of course users may not want to set up their scenes differently
now to avoid having separate layers and groups.
* Compatibility with 2.8 is mostly there, and was tested on Eevee demo and Hero
files. There's a few things which are know to be not quite compatible, like
nested layer collections inside groups.
* The versioning code for 2.8 files is quite complicated, and isolated behind
#ifdef so it can be removed at the end of the release cycle.
KNOWN ISSUES
* The G-key group operators in the 3D viewport were left mostly as is, they
need to be modified still to fit better.
* Same for the groups panel in the object properties. This needs to be updated
still, or perhaps replaced by something better.
* Collections must all have a unique name. Less restrictive namespacing is to
be done later, we'll have to see how important this is as all objects within
the collections must also have a unique name anyway.
* Full scene copy and delete scene are exactly doing the right thing yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3383https://code.blender.org/2018/05/collections-and-groups/
Currently only covering handful of files from reports about wrong fps detected.
It will need D3083 applied first to get tests passed, also tests themselves
are to be committed to svn.
But there are some python code which needs to be reviewed, like blendfile
passed to run_blender().
Reviewers: sybren, mont29
Reviewed By: sybren, mont29
Subscribers: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3096
This started with a fix for an animated Object Hierarchy. Then i decided to cleanup and optimize a bit. But at the end this has become a more or less full rewrite of the Animation Exporter. All of this happened in a separate local branch and i have retained all my local commits to better see what i have done.
Brief description:
* I fixed a few issues with exporting keyframed animations of object hierarchies where the objects have parent inverse matrices which differ from the Identity matrix.
* I added the option to export sampled animations with a user defined sampling rate (new user interface option)
* I briefly tested Object Animations and Rig Animations.
What is still needed:
* Cleanup the code
* Optimize the user interface
* Do the Documentation
Reviewers: mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3070
This reuses the Cycles regression test code to also work for OpenGL UI drawing.
We launch Blender with a bunch of .blend files, take a screenshot and compare
it with a reference screenshot, and generate a HMTL report showing the failed
tests and their differences.
For Cycles we keep small reference renders to compare to in svn, but for OpenGL
developers currently have to generate the references manually. How to use:
* WITH_OPENGL_DRAW_TESTS=ON in CMake
* BLENDER_TEST_UPDATE=1 ctest -R opengl_draw
* .. make code changes ..
* ctest -R opengl_draw
* open build_dir/tests/opengl_draw/report.html
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3064
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
