This attribute means how "pointy" the geometry surface is, which allows to do
effects like dirt maps and wear-off effects on render geometry. This means the
attribute is calculated for the final mesh which means no baking (which implies
UV unwrap) is needed. Apart from this the behavior is quite close to how vertex
dirty colors works.
The new attribute is available as an output socket of Geometry node.
There's no penalty for the render time, only some delay on scene preparation
(the delay is linear of the mesh complexity).
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: eyecandy, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1086
There was a differences between how Cycles and BI treats Normal shader:
- Different normal direction assumption
- Different policy about vector normalization
Previous idea of trying to use single function and flip the output if
needed becomes more tricky, so i've just added new GLSL function which
corresponds to how Cycles deals with the Normal shader.
This is added in the spirit of the general cycles GLSL system
which is pretty much WIP still.
This will only work on cycles at the moment but generating for blender
internal is possible too of course though it will be done in a separate
commit.
This hasn't been tested with all and every node in cycles, but
environment and regular textures with texture coordinates work.
There is some difference between the way cycles treats some coordinates,
which is in world space and the way GLSL treats them, which is in view
space.
We might want to explore and improve this further in the future.
...also </drumroll>
Even though GLSL allows to have polymorphic functions our codegen
is not aware of this at all.
Let's rename the functions for now, but in the future would be handy
to make codegen aware of the polymorphic functions.
Quite striaghtforward implementation, with the only weird thing that for some reason
my video driver wasn't happy with calling the function "clamp" giving some weirdo
shader compilation error messages.
Called the GPU function clamp_val which can handle float and vec3.
Issue here is that if there's a texture in the tree, chances are it has
already been set as active texture so groups are never traversed.
Now changed logic so that if a group node is active, its own active
texture takes priority over the parent group active texture.
* Anisotropic BSDF now supports GGX and Beckmann distributions, Ward has been
removed because other distributions are superior.
* GGX is now the default distribution for all glossy and anisotropic nodes,
since it looks good, has low noise and is fast to evaluate.
* Ashikhmin-Shirley is now available in the Glossy BSDF.
This can for example be useful if you want to manually terminate the path at
some point and use a color other than black.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D454
Implements a more flexible internal connect function for standard nodes
(compositor, shader, texture). Allow feasible datatype connections by
priority.
The priorities for common datatypes in compositor, shader and texture
nodes are encoded in a simple function. Certain impossible connections
(e.g. color -> cycles shader) are excluded by giving them -1 priority.
Priority overrides link status: If a higher priority input can be found,
this will be used regardless of link status. Link status only comes into
play for inputs with same priority.
Reviewers: brecht
CC: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D356
It would include/exclude shadow depending on the pass being disabled/enabled,
but that should have no influence on the combined render result. Now it always
includes shadow.
