The node would render black in this case (but should use the
'active_render' layer choosen in the object data properties -- this is
now in line to how this is handled for e.g. UVs)
This introduces ATTR_STD_VERTEX_COLOR and uses this thoughout, if no
particular layer is specified in the node.
Maniphest Tasks: T73938
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6887
A collection of smaller changes that are required in the /blender/source files. A lot of them are also due to variable renaming.
Reviewed By: sergey
Maniphest Tasks: T59995
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3855
The Random Per Island attribute is a random float associated with each
connected component (island) of the mesh. It is particularly useful
when artists want to add variations to meshes composed of separate
units. Like tree leaves created using particle systems, wood planks
created using array modifiers, or abstract splines created using AN.
Reviewed By: Sergey Sharybin, Jacques Lucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6154
This patch adds a new Vertex Color node. The node also returns the alpha
of the vertex color layer as an output.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5767
This could happen e.g. when changing smoke type from flow to domain or
connecting a volume shader with to a domain without an actual flow type
around.
Fixes T58569, T68359
Reviewers: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T58569, T68359
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5478
This also replaces the Use Alpha setting. We now have these alpha modes:
* Straight: store RGB and alpha channels separately with alpha acting as a
mask, also known as unassociated alpha.
* Premultiplied: transparent RGB pixels are multiplied by the alpha channel.
The natural format for renders.
* Channel Packed: different images are packed in the RGB and alpha channels,
and they should not influence each other. Channel packing is commonly used
by game engines to save memory.
* None: ignore alpha channel from the file and make image fully opaque.
Cycles OSL does not correctly support Channel Packed and None yet, we are
missing fine control over the OpenImageIO texture cache to do that.
Fixes T53672
These are the internal changes to Cycles, for Blender integration there are no
functional changes in this commit.
Images are converted to scene linear color space on file load, and on reading
from the OpenImageIO texture cache. 8-bit images are compressed with the sRGB
transfer function to avoid precision loss while keeping memory usages low. This
also means that for common cases of 8-bit sRGB images no conversion happens at
all on image loading.
Initial patch by Lukas, completed by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3491
Do it only for meshes/curves since those are potentially slow and need user
feedback to see things are not stuck. For object instances and lights assume
it's fast enough.
Printing too much can have a performance impact on slow Windows command
prompt or when logging complex scene renders.
Float2 are now a new type for attributes in Cycles. Before, the choices
for attribute storage were float and float3, the latter padded to
float4. This meant that UV maps were inflated to twice the size
necessary.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: #cycles
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4409
Object visibility is now handled by the depsgraph iterator, but this API
was incomplete as it made no distinction for visibility of the object itself,
particles and generated instances.
The depsgraph iterator API now includes information about which part of the
object is visible, and this is used by Cycles to replace the old custom logic.
Cycles and EEVEE visibility should now be consistent, which unfortunately does
means some subtle compatibility breakage for both.
Fixes T58956, T58202, T59284.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4109
Meshes from evaluated objects may already have modifiers applied, but
that's not the case for curves, we need to do that when converting them
to meshes.
Loop triangles are tessellated triangles create from polygons, for renderers
or exporters that need to match Blender's polygon tesselation exactly. These
are a read-only runtime cache.
Tessfaces are a legacy data structure from before Blender supported n-gons,
and were already mostly removed from the C code.
Details on porting code to loop triangles is in the release notes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3539
This replaces old single toggle option to subdivide UVs with
an enum which can have more options. The usecase for this is
to be compatible with other software. But we also might choose
different subdivision type as default in the future.
DNA and underlying code supports all possible options, but
only the ones which are compatible with old subdivision code
are currently exposes.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3575
Was only visible when doing command line, since it was happening due to
cache-free policy which was aimed to bring memory usage down.
The issue is that if object with particle system is used as a nested
duplicator multiple times, it will only generate children first time,
and after that its caches are freed. After that duplication system
can not generate any instances, since the path cache is lost.
Now we delay caches free to after all objects are synchronized, which
ensures all instances are generated.
This will increase a memory peak a bit during object synchronization
time, but overall it shouldn't be that bad, since memory footprint
after synchronization will stay the same as before this change.
The ultimate thing to do here would be to drop the whole dependency
graph away, but this will require:
- API on engine side, to inform it to drop the dependency graph.
- Changes in Cycles report system to NOT use evaluated scene to get
scene name (evaluated scene will be gone with dependency graph).
I've limited it to just the RGB<->XYZ stuff for now, correct image handling is the next step.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3478
For correct results these must have been set already when the depsgraph was
created and evaluated, so all dependencies have appropriate resolutions too.
For particle we no longer backup and restore the viewport particles to avoid
overwriting them during render, as copy-on-write solves this for us. Even
without COW particles seem to work ok.
This also removes the particle simplification options based on camera. This
was never used much and only available in Blender Internal.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3148
around the volume.
We generate a tight mesh around the active voxels of the volume in order
to effectively skip empty space, and start volume ray marching as close
to interesting volume data as possible. See code comments for details on
how the mesh generation algorithm works.
This gives up to 2x speedups in some scenes.
Reviewed by: brecht, dingto
Reviewers: #cycles
Subscribers: lvxejay, jtheninja, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3038
This adds midlevel and object/world space for displacement, and a
vector displacement node with tangent/object/world space, midlevel
and scale.
Note that tangent space vector displacement still is not exactly
compatible with maps created by other software, this will require
changes to the tangent computation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1734
This was disabled to avoid updating the geometry every time when the
material includes displacement, because there was no way to distinguish
between surface shader and displacement updates.
As a solution, we now compute an MD5 hash of the nodes linked to the
displacement socket, and only update the mesh if that changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3018
