For simplicity we choose to execute the rendering of Opengl engines in the main thread and block the interface.
This might be addressed in the future at least for video rendering.
A drawmanager wrapper (DRW_render_to_image) is called by the render pipeline to set up the Opengl state and then call the specific draw_engine->render_to_image function.
Main idea is to make specific engine types be a subclass of generic
ObjectEngineData structure.
This required following changes:
- Have extra size argument to engine data allocation function.
Not sure whether there is less error-prone way of doing this.
- Add init() callback to engine data allocation function.
Additionally, added some extra checks to Eevee's engine data getters, so we do
not silently cast lamp data to lightprobe data.
Reviewers: dfelinto, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3027
This optimisation only works if no material in the scene require the AO pass.
For this either set the AO distance to 0 or both Cavity and Edges factors to 0.
This double the performance of scenes with very high triangle count.
This is because certain part of the engine may require a blank framebuffer to bind textures to.
This is the case when using only array textures, unsupported by DRW_framebuffer_init().
This allows a duplicator (as known as dupli parent) to be in a visible
collection so its duplicated objects are visible, however while being
invisible for the final render.
An object that is a particle emitter is also considered a duplicator.
Many thanks for the reviewers for the extense feedback.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2966
I had to make Eevee draw its scene in the scene pass (before it was doing it
in the background pass). This is not ideal since reference images require
a separation between scene and background.
But it's the best way to solve it now. Clay is working fine.
This replaces dedicated flag which wasn't clean who sets it and who clears it,
and which was also trying to re-implement existing functionality in a way.
Flushing is not currently very efficient but there are ways to speed this up
a lot, but needs more investigation.
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
The system now uses several 3D textures in order to decouple every steps of the volumetric rendering.
See https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite for more details.
On the technical side, instead of using a compute shader to populate the 3D textures we use layered rendering with a geometry shader to render 1 fullscreen triangle per 3D texture slice.
Engine is not stored in WorkSpaces. That defines the "context" engine, which
is used for the entire UI.
The engine used for the poll of nodes (add node menu, new nodes when "Use Nodes")
is obtained from context.
Introduce a ViewRender struct for viewport settings that are defined for
workspaces and scene. This struct will be populated with the hand-picked
settings that can be defined per workspace as per the 2.8 design.
* use_scene_settings
* properties editor: workshop + organize context path
Use Scene Settings
==================
For viewport drawing, Workspaces have an option to use the Scene render
settings (F12) instead of the viewport settings.
This way users can quickly preview the final render settings, engine and
View Layer. This will affect all the editors in that workspace, and it will be
clearly indicated in the top-bar.
Properties Editor: Add Workspace and organize context path
==========================================================
We now have the properties of:
Scene, Scene > Layer, Scene > World, Workspace
[Scene | Workspace] > Render Layer > Object
[Scene | Workspace] > Render Layer > Object > Data
(...)
Reviewers: Campbell Barton, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2842
You can change the amount of samples in the user preferences. You do not need to restart blender to see the effect in the new viewport.
This adds another Multisample Framebuffer and textures (so even more memory required).
It works by blitting the default_fb to the multisample_fb each time the renderer need to render one or more "wire" pass.
It it then blit back to the default_fb so that the rest of pipeline is working as expected.
We COULD lower the GPU memory / bandwidth usage to render everything to the same multisample fbo and change the logic depending on if MSAA is enabled or not, but I think it's a bit too much work for now.
Old performance debug was doing queries for every frame even if not debugging perf.
Also, it did not record when a pass was draw multiple time, leading to incorect measurement.
New module also allows to group the timers to limit infos displayed.
Also fix the background CPU draw timer.
This special case function enables rendering to a miplevel while using the miplevels above as texture input.
This is needed for some algorithm (i.e. creating a min-max depth pyramid texture).
We should be able to differentiate between OpenGL render (viewport
render), offline render (F12), and view render (viewport draw).
This allows for us preventing offline render to skip mode drawings, grid, ...
Even OpenGL render can benefit from this forcing a higher quality
anti-alias and sampling than the viewport drawing.
I'm not sure if it's clever to keep the memset(0x00) outside the render
loop function as it is in this patch. An alternative is to just pass the
render "type" as a flag to the render function, and set DST.options
inside it. (I may change this tomorrow, I will wait to hear from
Campbell on that).
Early implementation. Slow and still has quality
3 ways of storing irradiance:
- Spherical Harmonics: Have problem with directionnal lighting.
- HL2 diffuse cube: Very low resolution but smooth transitions.
- Diffuse cube: High storage requirement.
Also include some name change.
