Apparently, the whole G.is_break is not used by OpenGL render, meaning
this flag will not be clear before running the operator. This was
causing missing file output after pressing Esc once for the rest of
Blender session.
Previously if the rendering is much faster than saving (for example,
when transcoding stuff via VSE) it was possible to have 100s of frames
in memory.
This isn't ideal because of limited amount of RAM, so need to have
some sort of limit. This is exactly what is implemented in this commit.
By the design of task scheduler it was possible that tasks from somewhere
in the middle of scheduled list will be handled first.
For example, one thread might be iterating over the scheduled list and
ignore tasks because there is other thread is working on task from the
same pool. However, if that other thread finishes task before iteration
is over current thread will pick up task from somewhere in in the middle
of the list.
This isn't a problem in general case, but for movie rendering we do need
to have strict order of frames.
Crashes occured immediately when clicking on "OpenGL render image" because there was only a task pool created previously when it was an animation. Solved it by introducing a variable is_animation to the openglrender and omitting the task_pool call when it's no animation.
@sergey: Please check my changes, moved the pool_ok and the lock into the is_animation clause.
The idea is to have a dedicated thread which is responsive for all the
file writing to a separate thread, so slow disk will not slow down
OpenGL itself.
Gives really nice speedup around 1.5x when exporting barber shop layout
file to h264 video.
It was annoyingly slow to do roundtrip from byte OpenGL render to
float render result and back to byte image format (which is used
in 99% of cases for the OpenGL previews),
Now we use render result's rect32 to store render result which is
already supposed to be in the display space.
Gives about 30% speed improvement for OpenGL previews here.
Such configuration used to cause quite confusing situation when
stamp will use actual scene's statistics but metadata from strip
will be used for the saved file (basically, causing different
information stamped and saved as metadata).
Don't think it was desired behavior and it's something what
artists here in the studio wants to be fixed.
The idea is to avoid having roundtrip from byte to float and back to byte buffer
and use render result's byte buffer to store result of sequencer rendering.
This actually matches to what regular render pipeline is doing and this gives
around 2-3 times speedup of sequencer export on a simple scenes.
non-power-of-2 texture support. Note that all I did was pass
the correct width/height into glReadPixels; the result may not
be the same as if non2 textures were enabled.
file, since we need the updated times and frames.
This was lost during stamp code refactoring. The refactoring moved the
stamp when render is initialized so we would be guaranteed to have
correct cameras even when saving render stills at a later time (and even
if cameras were changed). For regular render this would work since
render init takes care of stamp, but for openGL rendering we need to do
this manually.
Still not 100% correct, does not apply multiview cameras to metadata
Originally I wanted to get rid of RenderResult->rect* entirely, but it's
convenient to have for temporary structs.
This patch makes sure they are used only when really needed, which
should help clearing the code out.
(they are needed when using RE_AcquireResultImage() - which produces a
RenderResult with no RenderView)
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1270
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
range and extra frames.
Issue here is that the movie backend would unconditionally use the start
frame of the scene instead of the preview frame. Solved by passing an
explicit "preview" argument.
Strictly speaking, the preview argument is part of the renderdata
struct, that is also passed to the code, but when rendering the final
result we want to unconditionally render the full range regardless of
the preview setting of the render structure.
However, OpenGL rendering does use the preview range so we need to
account for that when making those exports.
This is also a nice chance to correct the filenames, which still used
the full range.
Show World will now influence if world is rendered in opengl rendering.
This is a little undefined according to blender history, since sky used
to always be drawn when offscreen rendering, as if "Only Render" was
ticked. Since if we don't draw sky in that case there's no valid color
really (and using theme colors is not so nice) we just draw transparent
background.
This commit introduces a few ready made effects for the 3D viewport
and OpenGL rendering.
Included effects are Depth of Field, accessible from camera view
and screen space ambient occlusion. Those effects can be turned on and
tweaked from the shading panel in the 3D viewport.
Off screen rendering will use the settings of the current camera.
WIP documentation can be found here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Psy-Fi/Framebuffer_Post-processing
