Update to Blender 4.1 and RD 1.31

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
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+**News** As of January 2024, an extra command line option `--disable_direct_composition=1` is recommended to prevent Chrome from restarting the GPU process.
+
 **News** As of January 2023, Only versions older or equal to 0.5.0 no longer work because the associated version of RenderDoc are no longer able to inject into Chrome. Use version 0.6.0 (for RenderDoc 1.25 and Blender 3.4) or newer!
 
 **News** As of Aug 23, 2020, [**Google Earth** web](https://earth.google.com/web/) is now supported on top of Google Maps!
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ You can follow instruction from the walkthrough video: https://youtu.be/X6Q7dbtX
 
 ```
 set RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0
-"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog
+"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1
 ```
 
   3. Do NOT press Ok on the dialog box yet;
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ set RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0
 For step 2. you can create a link to Chrome rather than usig the cmd, and put as target (again, adapt the path to `chrome.exe` to your installation):
 
 ```
-C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog"
+C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog --disable_direct_composition=1"
 ```
 
 Troubleshooting

blender/MapsModelsImporter/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2019 - 2021 Elie Michel
+# Copyright (c) 2019 - 2024 Elie Michel
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 # of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 bl_info = {
     "name": "Maps Models Importer",
     "author": "Elie Michel",
-    "version": (0, 6, 3),
-    "blender": (3, 1, 0),
+    "version": (0, 7, 0),
+    "blender": (4, 1, 0),
     "location": "File > Import > Google Maps Capture",
     "description": "Import meshes from a Google Maps or Google Earth capture",
     "warning": "",

blender/MapsModelsImporter/google_maps.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2019 - 2021 Elie Michel
+# Copyright (c) 2019 - 2024 Elie Michel
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 # of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
@@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ def addImageMaterial(name, obj, img):
     obj.data.materials.append(mat)
     nodes = mat.node_tree.nodes
     principled = nodes["Principled BSDF"]
-    principled.inputs["Specular"].default_value = 0.0
     principled.inputs["Roughness"].default_value = 1.0
     if img is not None:
         texture_node = nodes.new(type="ShaderNodeTexImage")
@@ -223,8 +222,8 @@ def addImageMaterial(name, obj, img):
         link = links.new(texture_node.outputs[0], principled.inputs[0])
 
 def numpyLoad(file):
-    (dim,) = np.fromfile(file, dtype=np.int, count=1)
-    shape = np.fromfile(file, dtype=np.int, count=dim)
+    (dim,) = np.fromfile(file, dtype=np.int32, count=1)
+    shape = np.fromfile(file, dtype=np.int32, count=dim)
     dt = np.dtype(file.read(2).decode('ascii'))
     array = np.fromfile(file, dtype=dt)
     array = array.reshape(shape)

blender/MapsModelsImporter/google_maps_rd.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2019 - 2021 Elie Michel
+# Copyright (c) 2019 - 2024 Elie Michel
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 # of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
@@ -194,14 +194,14 @@ def extractRelevantCalls(self, drawcalls, _strategy=4):
             while True:
                 skipped_drawcalls, new_min_drawcall = self.findDrawcallBatch(drawcalls[min_drawcall:], first_call, drawcall_prefix, last_call)
                 if not skipped_drawcalls or self.hasUniform(skipped_drawcalls[0], "_w"):
-                    break
+                    break # Found a good draw call
                 min_drawcall += new_min_drawcall
         else:
             print("Error: Could not find the beginning of the relevant 3D draw calls")
             return [], "none"
 
         print(f"Trying scraping strategy #{_strategy} (from draw call #{min_drawcall})...")
-        relevant_drawcalls, _ = self.findDrawcallBatch(
+        relevant_drawcalls, new_min_drawcall = self.findDrawcallBatch(
             drawcalls[min_drawcall:],
             first_call,
             drawcall_prefix,
@@ -225,6 +225,36 @@ def extractRelevantCalls(self, drawcalls, _strategy=4):
                 if self.hasUniform(call, "_uMeshToWorldMatrix")
             ]
 
+        if capture_type == "Google Maps":
+            # Accumulate multiple batches
+            batch_count = 1
+            while True:
+                min_drawcall += new_min_drawcall
+                # Find a batch
+                first_call = "" # Try from the beginning on
+                last_call = "Draw()"
+                drawcall_prefix = "DrawIndexed"
+                while True:
+                    skipped_drawcalls, new_min_drawcall = self.findDrawcallBatch(drawcalls[min_drawcall:], first_call, drawcall_prefix, last_call)
+                    if not skipped_drawcalls or self.hasUniform(skipped_drawcalls[0], "_w"):
+                        break # Found a good draw call
+                    min_drawcall += new_min_drawcall
+
+                # Accumulate the batch
+                new_relevant_drawcalls, new_min_drawcall = self.findDrawcallBatch(
+                    drawcalls[min_drawcall:],
+                    first_call,
+                    drawcall_prefix,
+                    last_call)
+
+                if not new_relevant_drawcalls:
+                    break
+
+                relevant_drawcalls.extend(new_relevant_drawcalls)
+                batch_count += 1
+
+            print(f"Found {batch_count} batches.")
+
         return relevant_drawcalls, capture_type
 
 

doc/Building RenderDoc module.md

@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 Get python source code in Python-X.X.X
 Get embedable release in python-X.X.X-embed-amd64
 
-Edit qrenderdoc/pythonXX.natvis
+Edit qrenderdoc/pythonXX.natvis by copying the existing pythonYY.natvis and replacing pythonYY by pythonXX everywhere in its content.
 
 Copy Python-X.X.X\Include\*.h to qrenderdoc\3rdparty\python\include
+Copy C:\PythonXX\Include\pyconfig.h to qrenderdoc\3rdparty\python\include, C:\PythonXX being the install path of PythonXX
 
 Copy python-X.X.X-embed-amd64/pythonXX.zip to qrenderdoc\3rdparty\python
 Copy python-X.X.X-embed-amd64/pythonXX.dll and _ctypes.pyd to qrenderdoc\3rdparty\python\x64
@@ -25,11 +26,11 @@ with
 pythonXX.lib
 (twice)
 
-Copy python310.dll in qrenderdoc\3rdparty\python\x64
 Manually run the lines of dll2lib.bat in qrenderdoc\3rdparty\python\x64
 
+Open renderdoc.sln in VisualStudio
 Right click on the solution, "Retarget Solution" to your latest
-Make sure you build the x64 version, not x86
+Make sure you build the x64 version, not x86, Release mode
 
 Build pyrenderdoc_module
 Copy x64/Release/renderdoc.dll and x64/Release/pymodules/renderdoc.pyd to MapsModelsImporter/blender/bin/win64

doc/dll2lib.bat

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 REM Set the python version and make shure lib.exe is in the path (e.g. run from the developer command prompt)
-set PYTHON_VERSION=python310
+set PYTHON_VERSION=python311
 
+REM If "dumpbin" is not recognized as a command, run from the developer command prompt
 dumpbin /EXPORTS %PYTHON_VERSION%.dll > %PYTHON_VERSION%.exports
 
 echo EXPORTS > %PYTHON_VERSION%.def