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Cleanup: use BKE_pose_is_layer_visible in more places

This was added in rBd13970de8627, now use in more places.

Nodes: Improve performance when freeing a node tree

This commit makes freeing a node tree about 25 to 30 times faster.
Freeing a node tree happens whenever it is edited. Freeing a node
tree with about 4000 nodes went from 30-50ms to about 2 ms.

This was so slow before because for every node that was freed
when freeing the node tree, `node_free_node` looped over all
other nodes to detach frames, and then looped over all links to
remove any links connected to the node. That was all pointless
work because everything else is about to be freed anyway.

Instead, move that "detaching" behavior to the dedicated function
for removing a single node, and to the "local" version of the free
function to be safe, since I know less about what that version expects.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13636

Fix T93960: Asset Catalogs I/O fails with unicode file paths on Windows

On Windows, encode file paths as UTF-16 before trying to open the file
for reading/writing.

This introduces a new class `blender::fstream`, which wraps
`std::fstream` and provides this UTF-16 encoding. This class should also
be used in other areas, like the Alembic importer/exporter.

Manifest Task: T93960

Reviewed By: JacquesLucke

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13633

Assets: log message when catalog definitions cannot be loaded

Log a message (via `CLOG`) when asset catalog definitions cannot be
loaded.

Reviewed by @jacqueslucke in D13633

Nodes: refactor node tree update handling

Goals of this refactor:
* More unified approach to updating everything that needs to be updated
after a change in a node tree.
* The updates should happen in the correct order and quadratic or worse
algorithms should be avoided.
* Improve detection of changes to the output to avoid tagging the depsgraph
when it's not necessary.
* Move towards a more declarative style of defining nodes by having a
more centralized update procedure.

The refactor consists of two main parts:
* Node tree tagging and update refactor.
* Generally, when changes are done to a node tree, it is tagged dirty
until a global update function is called that updates everything in
the correct order.
* The tagging is more fine-grained compared to before, to allow for more
precise depsgraph update tagging.
* Depsgraph changes.
* The shading specific depsgraph node for node trees as been removed.
* Instead, there is a new `NTREE_OUTPUT` depsgrap node, which is only
tagged when the output of the node tree changed (e.g. the Group Output
or Material Output node).
* The copy-on-write relation from node trees to the data block they are
embedded in is now non-flushing. This avoids e.g. triggering a material
update after the shader node tree changed in unrelated ways. Instead
the material has a flushing relation to the new `NTREE_OUTPUT` node now.
* The depsgraph no longer reports data block changes through to cycles
through `Depsgraph.updates` when only the node tree changed in ways
that do not affect the output.

Avoiding unnecessary updates seems to work well for geometry nodes and cycles.
The situation is a bit worse when there are drivers on the node tree, but that
could potentially be improved separately in the future.

Avoiding updates in eevee and the compositor is more tricky, but also less urgent.
* Eevee updates are triggered by calling `DRW_notify_view_update` in
`ED_render_view3d_update` indirectly from `DEG_editors_update`.
* Compositor updates are triggered by `ED_node_composite_job` in `node_area_refresh`.
This is triggered by calling `ED_area_tag_refresh` in `node_area_listener`.

Removing updates always has the risk of breaking some dependency that no
one was aware of. It's not unlikely that this will happen here as well. Adding
back missing updates should be quite a bit easier than getting rid of
unnecessary updates though.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13246

USD export format fixes.

Cleanup: clang format

Missed in rB7c9e4099854a, sorry.

USD Export: USD Preview Surface conversion.

Added "USD Preview Surface From Nodes" export option,
to convert a Principled BSDF material node tree to an
approximate USD Preview Surface shader representation.

Also added the following options for texture export.

Export Textures: If converting Preview Surface, export
textures referenced by shader nodes to a 'textures'
directory next to the USD file.

Overwrite Textures: Allow overwriting existing texture
files when exporting textures (this option is off by
default).

Relative Texture Paths: Save material texture asset
paths as relative paths in the USD.

Fix T92930: Outliner "Show Active" bone fails in certain situations

Outliner would frame the armature object instead of the bone if the bone
was on a hidden armature layer.

Similar to issues reported in e.g. T58068 and T80464, this is due to the
fact that `BKE_pose_channel_active` always checks for the armature layer
(and returns NULL if a bone is not on a visible armature layer).

Now propose to make this layer check **optional** (and e.g. from the
Outliner be more permissive). This also introduces
`BKE_pose_channel_active_if_layer_visible` which just wraps
`BKE_pose_channel_active` with the check being ON.

Maniphest Tasks: T92930

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13154

Review comments from Jacques

Tests: initialise BKE callbacks before loading blend file

Initialise the BKE callback system in
`BlendfileLoadingBaseTest::SetUpTestCase()`. This allows certain tests
to run in debug mode (when `BLI_assert` is enabled).

Fix T93757: Do not force-instantiate indrectly linked objects in linking case.

Fix T93839: Copy/Paste of empty instantiating a collection.

Do not also instantiate a collection in the view layer, if it is already
instantiated through an empty object.

Use add, moved wrap/unwrap outside C section.

Fix incorrect logic performing way to many remaps.

Add early exit when remapping multiple.

Fix build error in debug builds from recent commit

r7acd3ad7d8e58b913c5 converted a pointer to a reference,
but an assert still compares the variable to a pointer.

Fix T94280: Crash when splitting meta strip

This happens because in `SEQ_time_update_sequence` function
`SEQ_get_meta_by_seqbase` returns uninitialized value. This isn't nice,
but it shouldn't happen in first place. Problem is, that
`SEQ_edit_strip_split` does move strips into detached `ListBase`, so
other functions can't see them anymore. Detached `ListBase` is used
solely to preserve relationships during duplication.

Move strips to original `ListBase` immediately after duplication and
return `NULL` if `SEQ_get_meta_by_seqbase` can't find meta strip.

Splitting itself can still rely on fact, that number of original and
duplicated strips is same and they are placed next to each other in
exactly same order at the end of original `ListBase`.

Cleanup: Use span instead of raw pointer

This is a followup to the previous commit.

Cleanup: Use simpler loops in weld modifier

In this commit I changed many loops to range-based for loops.
I also removed some of the redundant iterator variables, using
indexing inside the loop instead. Generally an optimizing compiler
should have no problem doing the smartest thing in that situation,
and this way makes it much easier to tell where data is coming from.

I only changed the loops I was confident about, so there is still more
that could be done in the future.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13637