I found this while investigating why the backdrop shows 'blank' while I
update a node influence factor. This problem still persist, but maybe it
was there before multiview. In release it is not noticeable, but in my
debug build is quite evident.
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
frame start.
Issue here is that if we failed to get an image from the cache, we would
try to load from file. This would fail when the queried frame was less
than the animated sequence start frame, and invalidate the OK state of
the image.
Solution is that when loading from cache succeeds, we also reset the OK
state of the image for animated textures.
The fix might be relevant elsewhere too, but kept it isolated just in
case.
Running this operator and and closing Blender gives this:
Error: Not freed memory blocks: 2
ImBuf_struct len: 2480 0x69ba4f8
imb_addrectImBuf len: 1048576 0x6ccc2d8
Fixed with added call to IMB_freeImBuf in BKE_image_add_from_imbuf.
Could be fixed in the operator instead, but I think the BKE function
is the correct place since the comment says it should take ownership
of the ImBuf.
Reviewers: sergey
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1084
This is actually issue with Image datablock, which had obscure Fields settings
but didn't allow to de-interlace the video.
Now added the option to de-interlace Image with Movie input type.
Propper fix reverting most of rB60e70c0c6014e5, which was only partial specific fix.
This code uses generic `BKE_id_lib_local_paths()` func to handle all possible paths.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D977
Simply have to rebase onto main filepath when copying, if source datablock is lib and path is relative.
Afaict, only affected Image and Text datablocks. MovieClip would also be a candidate, but has
no copy implemented currently.
OpenGL in background mode is not used, so we can skip mutex lock and filling in
the list which later is never used.
This gives unmeasurable speedup by skipping mutex lock, plus solves memory leak
in the background mode.
The issue was caused by the fact that we never used to store the
generated image color in DNA, so image reload will loose this
information.
Now we store the color in DNA, making ti so re-loading the image
will preserve it's generated color.
It is now also possible to change generated image color using the
color swatch in image properties after the image was created.
Issue was caused by the cache limitor which was removing 4k textures from the
memory when accessing other images.
This is pretty much awful situation and solved by making it so only image sequences
and movies ace cache-guarded.
Could be optimized further so images used by viewport are not being freed, but
that's much more tricky to do..
This is a nice candidature for 'a'.
- deduplicate timecode_simple_string from image.c
- replace V2D_UNIT_SECONDSSEQ with V2D_UNIT_SECONDS
- avoid possible buffer overflow bugs (sprintf -> BLI_snprintf)
- remove option not to use timecode and split into 2 functions
Patch D227 by Andrew Buttery with own refactoring.
Previously this only worked for some datablocks relevant to rendering, now it
can be used to detect if any type of datablock was added or removed (but not
yet to detect if it was modified, we need many more depsgraph tags for that).
Most of the changes are some function parameter changes, the important parts
are the DAG_id_type_tag calls.
Reviewed By: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D195
Issue was caused by cache limitor removing viewer image buffer
from the memory during compositing. Now made it so all viewer
images are persistent in the memory.
This solves the crash mentioned above and also makes it so
render/compo results are never lost.
Further tweaks are possible, but pretty much happy now, at
least no stoppers for work are there.
Issue seems to be caused by thread-unsafe IMB_freeImBuf.
Now use generic BKE_image_release_ibuf to de-reference
image buffer which was acquired from image datablock.
Summary:
Issue was caused by the same tile being written twice to
the EXR file. This was happening because of partial update
of work-in-progress tiles was merging result to the final
render result in order to make color management pipeline
happy.
We need to avoid such a merges and keep memory usage as
low as possible when Save Buffers is enabled.
Now render pipeline will allocate special display buffer
in render layer which will contain combined pass in the
display space. This keeps memory usage as low as we can
do at this moment.
There's one weak thing which is changing color management
settings during rendering would lead to lossy conversion.
This is because render result's display buffer uses color
space from the time when rendering was invoked.
This is actually what was happening in previous release
already actually so not a big issue.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D162
This was actually a regression after color management re-implementation, need
to copy settings from saved image buffer to an original one since they might
be modified during save.
Also noticed image format planes detection didn't work properly from an image
buffer. Made it so save operator works fine now, but also marked a TODO in
BKE_imbuf_to_image_format() which needs to be investigated further.
Summary:
Mainly addressed to solve old TODO with color managed fallback
to CPU mode when displaying render result during rendering.
That fallback was caused by the fact that partial image update
was always acquiring image buffer for composite output and was
only modifying display buffer directly.
This was a big issue for Cycles rendering which renders layers
one by one and wanted to display progress of each individual
layer. This lead to situations when display buffer was based on
what Cycles passes via RenderResult and didn't take layer/pass
from image editor header into account.
Now made it so image buffer which partial update is operating
with always corresponds to what is set in image editor header.
To make Cycles displaying progress of all the layers one by one
made it so image_rect_update switches image editor user to
newly rendering render layer. It happens only once when render
engine starts rendering next render layer, so should not be
annoying for navigation during rendering.
Additional change to render engines was done to make it so
they're able to merge composite output to final result
without marking tile as done. This is done via do_merge_result
argument to end_result() callback. This argument is optional
so should not break script compatibility.
Additional changes:
- Partial display update for Blender Internal now happens from
the same thread as tile rendering. This makes it so display
conversion (which could be pretty heavy actually) is done in
separate threads. Also gives better UI feedback when rendering
easy scene with small tiles.
- Avoid freeing/allocating byte buffer for render result
if it's owned by the image buffer. Only mark it as invalid
for color management.
Saves loads of buffer re-allocations in cases when having
several image editors opened with render result. This change
in conjunction with the rest of the patch gave around
50%-100% speedup of render time when displaying non-combined
pass during rendering on my laptop.
- Partial display buffer update was wrong for buffers with number
of channels different from 4.
- Remove unused window from RenderJob.
- Made image_buffer_rect_update static since it's only used
in single file.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: dingto
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D98
