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.
Issue was caused by mismatched logic in counting child/parent particles in
job initialization and actual job execution. Confusion here came from mixed
usage of psys->renderdata and G.is_rendering.
We need to get rid of G.is_rendering and use eval_ctx if it's really needed,
but we also might just use psys->renderdata check since it's expected psys
to have this structure anyway.
Speedup is non-linear, 2x-10x faster is quite normal.
Patch T43678.
- Switched from an Octree to BVH.
- Finding first points of surface no longer "wastes" density function evaluation: every result is cached.
- Use MemArena instead of using own memory management.
- Correct calculation of metaelem bounding box.
- Remove mball_count(): mballs are now counted "on the go".
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
Design task: T42339
Differential Revision: D840
Initial implementation proposal: T41867
Short description:
With this we can distinguish between holding and tabbing a key. Useful
is this if we want to assign to operators to a single shortcut. If two
operators are assigned to one shortcut, we call this a sticky key.
More info is accessible through the design task and the diff.
A few people that were involved with this:
* Sean Olson for stressing me with this burden ;) - It is his enthusiasm
that pushed me forward to get this done
* Campbell and Antony for the code and design review
* Ton for the design review
* All the other people that gave feedback on the patch and helped to
make this possible
A big "Thank You" for you all!
A nice bug combining all the broken features of blender:
Particles, duplis and multiple scene dependencies.
Fortunately this was solvable: Basically, we need to
make sure derivedmesh for dupli instance is generated before
obmat is overriden. This also makes sense, since no instance
has "true" obmat apart from original. Lazy initialization of
derivedmesh just does not work here (or it -does- work but first
use should be before instance drawing).
Fingers crossed nothing else breaks after this...
Caused by changes in 31e26bb83b. This makes it fall back to the old
method if we can't find a screen.
Patch is actually by @LazyDodo with minor edits by me.
Reshuffled order that in which NLA Strip's F-Curves vs its automatic settings are
evaluated so that the automatic settings can always override the custom settings,
since it's not that easy to get things working correctly the other way around.
Logically, it makes sense that this parameter only gets used to describe the action
that the F-Curve actually belongs to (if it belongs to one). Otherwise, it should not
be set at all.
This commit implements proper evaluation + keyframing support for animating influence
and time on NLA Strips (among other properties) by resolving a few long standing issues
which prevented the original design for this from working.
The original design for animating these properties (and/or some of the other settings
on NLA Strips) is that NLA Strips actually have some of their own F-Curves that are
used for animating settings which will affect how they are evaluated. As seen in this
bug report, the alternative of having these animated as part of the stack (which the
strips work above/outside/on-top of) means that glitches can occur.
Although one of the original considerations for why this wasn't implemented earlier
was that introducing keyframes there isn't so clean cut, and causes UI design issues
for how we expose these via the animation editors for editing (NOTE: support for that
is still to come). Another concern is that this sets a precedent for how FModifiers
might get evaluated.
There are two per-editor settings now, the Per-Strip setting (default)
and the Project setting.
The per strip setting basically uses the previous, per-strip options for
storing the proxies.
The project setting though will use a specified directory for -all-
proxies, or the blend file directory if no directory is given.
range and extra frames.
Issue here is that the movie backend would unconditionally use the start
frame of the scene instead of the preview frame. Solved by passing an
explicit "preview" argument.
Strictly speaking, the preview argument is part of the renderdata
struct, that is also passed to the code, but when rendering the final
result we want to unconditionally render the full range regardless of
the preview setting of the render structure.
However, OpenGL rendering does use the preview range so we need to
account for that when making those exports.
This is also a nice chance to correct the filenames, which still used
the full range.
Simply check and early return in case we have no source or destination items
(verts/edges/loops/polys) available...
Also, fix an assert in `BKE_mesh_calc_normals_poly()`, when called with no poly.
Added some guards to prevent clumping to non existing particles. Also, adjusted threaded child path evaluation, so each child is evaluated once - previously virtual parents were done twice.
directory is used.
This is done by appending the name of the file as extra folder. Existing
projects may need to regenerate their proxies but it should be possible
now to have all proxies nicely in the same custom folder.
Next commits will include operators to copy directory settings between
selected strips, making the process faster.
