Blender Git Commits

Extended RigidBodyWorld stepping function with a tick callback.

This will allow hooking other simulations (e.g. hair) into the Bullet
time step loop to enable sync'ed stepping of Bullet and other solvers
for accurate collision response.

This means that more solvers have to become global (instead of object-
based), but that was a design goal anyway for reasons of avoiding
dependency issues.

The Bullet time step will have to be run more generally if there are
other simulations. In particular it should still be executed even when
rigid bodies are cached, because the collision info may be needed. In
case of cached rigid bodies it would probably be sufficient to make them
all kinematic bodies, so that no calculation takes place for the rigid
bodies themselves, while their collision shapes are still available and
interpolated between cache frames.

Merge branch 'master' into hair_system

Color tweak for debug hair display.

Fix for wrong hair root evaluation: The time value passed to the solver
was the end of the time step interval.

This causes extrapolation of the hair root location and overshooting
hair.

Draw hair points, as a visual debugging helper.

Multithreading for hair simulation.

The hair solver now uses the generic task BLI_taskpool implementation
to enable threaded stepping of the simulation. For now the hair data
can very easily be split into tasks, since all hairs are entirely
independent. Later on this becomes more restricted through hair-hair
collisions, but there are some advanced techniques for dealing with it
(static pair pruning etc.)

Removed some leftover debug print code.

Set a flag in the hair modifier whenever the hair data in the solver
becomes invalid.

This is needed when the number of hairs or points changes, but also
in case on sudden positional changes etc. (like resetting to rest
position), because the solver would otherwise calculate a large delta
and generate a lot of fake energy.

Fix problem of hair root animation by keeping the solver around as a
runtime instance.

The SolverData also functions as a short-term history for constructing
the hair root animation/deformation curves. This is necessary because
the DerivedMesh data on its own does not have interpolation intervals
nor velocity information.

It also means that we have to keep this data alive over multiple frames
in order to do root animation properly. So now the solver is created as
a runtime instance.

Base support for hair root animation.

Note: This does not work currently, because of the way the solver is
reconstructed in every time step currently, and so does not provide
actual changes in the transform.

Note2: The mesh sampling system does not support changes in DerivedMesh
topology so far. It can be necessary to move the hair system to the
bottom of the modifier stack, because the hair roots are created for
the final mesh version and for animation support it can only use the
mesh being passed to the modifier. Any later subsurf etc. (constructive
modifier) will alter the topology and cause a difference in the DM used
for hair roots vs. DM used for calculating deformation.

Also handle the applying of solver data to the scene DNA in the
SceneConverter class.

Moved Blender hair data conversion for the solver to a dedicated
SceneConverter class.

This should handle all the details of the DNA/SolverData differences
and keep the rest of the solver code clean.

Define hair root points when copying from particles, by converting
the old num/fuv data.

Use particle systems on the same object for "copy from particles" operator.

This allows using the same geometry reference for hair roots.

Usable random distribution algorithm.

Does not include area weighting yet.

Eval function to get a location and normal vector from mesh samples.

Added a basic RNA definition for the mesh sampling system.

Changed mesh sample definition to use 3 vertex weights instead of a
face index. This is easier to sample uniformly and avoids the need for
tesselation for evaluating.

Fix for error when converting int -> unsigned int with strict compiler
flags.

Normalize the normal vector after sample eval to account for
interpolation.