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Cleanup: remove redundant NULL check, reduce scope

Add option to link assets on drag & drop

Note: Linking in this case as in link vs. append. Easily confused with linking
a data-block to multiple usages (e.g. single material used by multiple
objects).

Adds a drop-down to the Asset Browser header to choose between Link and Append.
This is probably gonna be a temporary place, T54642 shows where this could be
placed eventually.

Linking support is crucial for usage of the asset browser in production
environments. It just wasn't enabled yet because a) the asset project currently
focuses on single user, not production assets, and b) because there were many
unkowns still for the workflow that have big impact on production use as well.
With the recently held asset workshop I'm more confident with enabling linking,
as design ideas relevant to production use were confirmed.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11536

Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne

Render Window as Non-Child on Win32 platform

This patch makes the "Render" window a top-level window, not a child of
the main window, which was the case in blender versions prior to 2.93.
This means it is no longer "on top", nor is the icon grouped on the
taskbar in the same way, but you can Alt-Tab between it and the main
window. This change only affects the Windows platform as the other
platforms behave this way.

See D11576 for links to negative feedback that prompts this change.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11576

Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel

Fix modifier deform by armature check ignoring virtual modifiers

Regression in f00cb93dbec7bf5dc05302c868f20fcd5aed7db7 (fix for T63125)

Fix T89001: node search not working anymore

Fix object assets getting duplicated after dropping

The operator run when dropping objects would duplicate the dropped object and
place that in the scene, even though that was just appended. Addressed by
making the duplication optional for the operator. If the duplication is not
requested, the object is just added to the scene (if needed), repositioned
based on the drop location and selected (deselecting other objects).
This makes the operator work as expected when using it to drop assets.

Reviewed as part of https://developer.blender.org/D11536.

Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne

Fix T88812: Child Windows on Vertical Monitors

This patch improves the positioning of child windows when on monitors
that are arranged vertically (any above any other). When calculating a
window position in Ghost coordinates from GL coordinates we were using
monitor height, which can give incorrect values when desktop is taller
than any single monitor. So use desktop height instead.

See D10637 for more details and examples.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10637

Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel

Overlays: Make flash on mode transfer an operator property

This moves the flash on mode transfer effect option from the overlays to
an operator property of the mode transfer operator.

- This effect is intended to show the target object when no overlays or
a minimal set of overlays is enabled. Making it part of the whole set of
overlays invalidates this use case.

- The effect is not intended to be configurable per viewport, it should
be a global option.

The effect is still implemented using the overlay engine (instead of a
draw modal callback) due to performance and drawing artifacts. Having it
implemented as an overlay with runtime timer data in the objects makes
also possible to run multiple animations at the same time without any
visual glitches.

Reviewed By: campbellbarton, JulienKaspar

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11519

Cleanup: misleading return argument for hair_create_input_mesh

- The argument with named with an `r_` prefix when it was in fact
also read from.
- The argument passed in had to be 'psys->clmd->hairdata',
if it was not - the function would not worked.

Fix missing directory in CMakeLists.txt

Fix: VSE search in mpegts files would fail

ffmpeg_generic_seek_workaround did work properly and our start pts
calculation was wrong.

Reviewed By: Richard Antalik

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11562

Refactor: Draw Cache: use 'BLI_task_parallel_range'

This is an adaptation of {D11488}.

A disadvantage of manually setting the iter ranges per thread is that
we don't know how many threads are running in the background and so we
don't know how to best distribute the ranges.

To solve this limitation we can use `parallel_reduce` and thus let the
driver choose the best distribution of ranges among the threads.

This proved to be especially beneficial for computers with few cores.

**Benchmarking:**
Here's the result on an 4-core laptop:
||master:|PATCH:
|---|---|---|
|large_mesh_editing:|Average: 5.203638 FPS|Average: 5.398925 FPS
||rdata 15ms iter 43ms (frame 193ms)|rdata 14ms iter 36ms (frame 187ms)

Here's the result on an 8-core PC:
||master:|PATCH:
|---|---|---|
|large_mesh_editing:|Average: 15.267482 FPS|Average: 15.906881 FPS
||rdata 9ms iter 28ms (frame 65ms)|rdata 9ms iter 25ms (frame 63ms)
|large_mesh_editing_ledge: |Average: 15.145966 FPS|Average: 15.520474 FPS
||rdata 9ms iter 29ms (frame 65ms)|rdata 9ms iter 25ms (frame 64ms)
|looptris_test:|Average: 4.001917 FPS|Average: 4.061105 FPS
||rdata 12ms iter 90ms (frame 236ms)|rdata 12ms iter 87ms (frame 230ms)
|subdiv_mesh_cage_and_final:|Average: 1.917769 FPS|Average: 1.971790 FPS
||rdata 7ms iter 37ms (frame 261ms)|rdata 7ms iter 31ms (frame 258ms)
||rdata 7ms iter 38ms (frame 252ms)|rdata 7ms iter 33ms (frame 249ms)
|subdiv_mesh_final_only:|Average: 6.387240 FPS|Average: 6.591251 FPS
||rdata 3ms iter 25ms (frame 151ms)|rdata 3ms iter 16ms (frame 145ms)
|subdiv_mesh_final_only_ledge:|Average: 6.247393 FPS|Average: 6.596024 FPS
||rdata 3ms iter 26ms (frame 158ms)|rdata 3ms iter 16ms (frame 148ms)

**Notes:**
- The improvement can only be noticed if all extracts are multithreaded.
- This patch touches different areas of the code, so it can be split into another patch if the idea is accepted.

These screenshots show how threads behave in a quadcore:
Master:
{F10164664}
Patch:
{F10164666}

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11558

Refactor: use 'BLI_task_parallel_range' in Draw Cache

One drawback to trying to predict the number of threads that will be
used in the `task_graph` is that we are only sure of the number when the
threads are running.

Using `BLI_task_parallel_range` allows the driver to
choose the best thread distribution through `parallel_reduce`.

The benefit is most evident on hardware with fewer cores.

This is the result on an 4-core laptop:
||before:|after:
|---|---|---|
|large_mesh_editing:|Average: 5.203638 FPS|Average: 5.398925 FPS
||rdata 15ms iter 43ms (frame 193ms)|rdata 14ms iter 36ms (frame 187ms)

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11558

Nodes: add utilities to check if there are undefined nodes/sockets

Fix: VSE indexer seeking not working correctly

Because of the added sanity checks in rB14508ef100c9 (D11492), seeking
in proxies would not work correctly any more. This is because it wasn't
working as intended before, but in most cases this wouldn't be
noticeable. However now when the sanity checks are tripped it is very
noticeable that something is wrong

The indexer tried to use dts values for time stamps when we used pts in
our decode functions to get the time positions. This would make it
start in the wrong GOP frames when searching. Now that we enforce no
crossing of GOP frames when decoding after seek, this would lead to
issues.

Now we correctly use pts (or dts if pts is not available) and thus we
don't have any seeking issues because of time stamp format missmatch.

Reviewed By: Richard Antalik

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11561

Performance: Use parallel range for ImBuf scanline processor.

Scanline processor did its own heurestic what didn't scale well when
having a multiple cores. In stead of using our own code this patch will
leave it to TBB to determine how to split the scanlines over the
available threads.

Performance of the IMB_transform before this change was 0.002123s, with
this change 0.001601s. This change increases performance in other areas
as well including color management conversions.

Reviewed By: zeddb

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11578

Fix: VSE timecodes being used even when turned off.

Reviewed By: Richard Antalik

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11567

Sequencer: Do not redraw during playback.

When using large sequences including audio the drawing of the audio on
top of the strip takes a lot of time. This effects the playback
performance heavily.

During the animation playback performance there was a solution for this
by only drawing the playhead overlay. This was reverted for the sequence
editor as it didn't update the color strips when they were animated.

This patch checks if there are animated color strips if so the full
screen is redrawn, otherwise only the playhead is redrawn.

Reviewed By: ISS

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11580

Nodes: cache socket identifier to index mapping

While this preprocessing does take some time upfront,
it avoids longer lookup later on, especially as nodes get
more sockets.

It's probably possible to make this more efficient in some cases
but this is good enough for now.

Fix T89033: segfault reordering animation channels

Fix segmentation fault that can occur when reordering animation
channels.

Under some specific conditions, the list "act->curves" is empty in the
"join_groups_action_temp" function. In particular, this happens when a
scene contains an action that has not been pushed down, and with no
keyframe in it.

Reviewed By: sybren

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11569