The previous fix loaded the pixels so existing tiles were not overwritten.
However the Cycles render buffer is expected to be scaled by the number of
sample, which was not taken into account.
This is not ideal in that previews could have a mismatched number of samples
between multiple objects, though the result will be correct. The better solution
would be to bake all objects together per tile, rather than one after the other.
But that is a bigger change than we can do in 2.90.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8704
This splits the volume related data (properties for rendering and attributes) of the Mesh node
into a new `Volume` node type.
This `Volume` node derives from the `Mesh` class since we generate a mesh for the bounds of the
volume, as such we can safely work on `Volumes` as if they were `Meshes`, e.g. for BVH creation.
However such code should still check for the geometry type of the object to be `MESH` or `VOLUME`
which may be bug prone if this is forgotten.
This is part of T79131.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79131
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8538
The Pass struct is now a Node and the passes are moved from the Film
class to the Scene class.
The Pass Node only has `type` and `name` as sockets as those seem to be
the only properties settable by exporters (other properties are implicit
and depend on the pass type).
This is part of T79131.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8591
This moves `Session::get_requested_device_features`,
`Session::load_kernels`, and `Session::update_scene` out of `Session`
and into `Scene`, as mentioned in D8544.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8590
The previous algorithm was not using all of the requested grids to build a mesh
around the volume due to limitations regarding the use of a dense buffer to
gather information about the volume's topology. This resulted in artefacts during
rendering.
The mesh generation is now done by merging all of the input grids and using the
resulting grid's topology to create the mesh. The generation of the mesh
is still done in index space as before, and the vertices are converted to object
space by using the merged topology grid indexToWorld transform.
To be able to merge the grids together we have to make sure that their transformation
matrices and their index spaces match, thus, if they do not match we simply resample
the grids. This behaviour should tackle one other limitation of the current algorithm,
which is that only one transformation matrix was used to generate the final mesh.
If we do not have an OpenVDB grid for the requested volume data, we generate
a temporary OpenVDB grid for it.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8401
In an upcoming bugfix we'll use OpenVDB data structures directly to build mesh
for sparse OpenVDB volumes, loading them OpenVDB grids earlier and removing any
references to Blender data structures makes that easier.
This also makes changes to Blender volumes to support this, so Cycles can take
ownership of a grid without Blender having to keep its own reference to it.
This should also be useful in a future Python API.
Ref D8401
The sky will appear brighter than before by default. To compensate for this,
lower exposure in the Film panel. The default altitude was also changed from
90 to 15 degrees.
Patch contributed by Marco with the help of Ryan Jones.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8285
For animation/driver purposes, being able to go outside of the 0-360
range makes things easier.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8091
I'm not sure if the Sky was deliberately left out or was just waiting for a
better moment, but so many I was disappointed that Sky in EEVEE is
completely white.
There are already 2 implementations (osl and gpu) so this is the third one.
Looking at other cases it seems that we are not supposed to share sources
between cycles and the rest? So the new util_sky_model files are just
copies of what is already in cycles, except that the data file uses the RGB
variant of the Hosek/Wilkie model, because we output RGB anyway (but can be
easily changed to XYZ if desired - the results are nearly identical).
I am not sure if it is okay to pass 3*9 float values as 3 mat4 uniforms (I
wanted to use mat3 but it does not work).
Also, should I cache the sky model data between renders if the parameters
do not change?
Reviewed By: fclem, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7108
Don't apply the matrix transform optimization in this case, curve points and
radius can't represent non-uniform scale the way is possible with triangle
meshes and vertices.
This would cause abrupt change if objects had e.g. motion blur in one frame
and not in the next.
Compared to Optix denoise, this is usually slower since there is no GPU
acceleration. Some optimizations may still be possible, in avoid copies
to the GPU and/or denoising less often.
The main thing is that this adds viewport denoising support for computers
without an NVIDIA GPU (as long as the CPU supports SSE 4.1, which is nearly
all of them).
Ref T76259
Enabling render and viewport denoising is now both done from the render
properties. View layers still can individually be enabled/disabled for
denoising and have their own denoising parameters.
Note that the denoising engine also affects how denoising data passes are
output even if no denoising happens on the render itself, to make the passes
compatible with the engine.
This includes internal refactoring for how denoising parameters are passed
along, trying to avoid code duplication and unclear naming.
Ref T76259
Also removing the curve system manager which only stored a few curve intersection
settings. These are all changes towards making shape and subdivision settings
per-object instead of per-scene, but there is more work to do here.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8013
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8014
This keeps render results compatible for combined CPU + GPU rendering.
Peformance and quality primitives is quite different than before. There
are now two options:
* Rounded Ribbon: render hair as flat ribbon with (fake) rounded normals, for
fast rendering. Hair curves are subdivided with a fixed number of user
specified subdivisions.
This gives relatively good results, especially when used with the Principled
Hair BSDF and hair viewed from a typical distance. There are artifacts when
viewed closed up, though this was also the case with all previous primitives
(but different ones).
* 3D Curve: render hair as 3D curve, for accurate results when viewing hair
close up. This automatically subdivides the curve until it is smooth.
This gives higher quality than any of the previous primitives, but does come
at a performance cost and is somewhat slower than our previous Thick curves.
The main problem here is performance. For CPU and OpenCL rendering performance
seems usually quite close or better for similar quality results.
However for CUDA and Optix, performance of 3D curve intersection is problematic,
with e.g. 1.45x longer render time in Koro (though there is no equivalent quality
and rounded ribbons seem fine for that scene). Any help or ideas to optimize this
are welcome.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8012
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8013
The kernel did not work correctly when these were disabled anyway. The
optimized BVH traversal for the no instances case was also only used on
the CPU, so no longer makes sense to keep.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8010
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8011
The hair BSDFs are already designed to assume this, and disabling backface
culling would break them in some cases.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8009
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8010
Triangles were very memory intensive. The only reason they were not removed yet
is that they gave more accurate results, but there will be an accurate 3D curve
primitive added for this.
Line rendering was always poor quality since the ends do not match up. To keep CPU
and GPU compatibility we just remove them entirely. They could be brought back if
an Embree compatible implementation is added, but it's not clear to me that there
is a use case for these that we'd consider important.
Ref T73778
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