the two files mikktspace.h and mikktspace.c. These are standalone files
which can be redistributed into any other application and regenerate the
same tangent spaces. The implementation is independent of the ordering
of faces and the vertex ordering of faces.
This was reverted by Brecht r22541 because its inefficient but there is no way to work around this with povray at the moment so adding it back as optional args.
These should not have any effect on render results, except in some cases with
you have overlapping faces, where the noise seems to be slightly reduced.
There are some performance improvements, for simple scenes I wouldn't expect
more than 5-10% to be cut off the render time, for sintel scenes we got about
50% on average, that's with millions of polygons on intel quad cores. This
because memory access / cache misses were the main bottleneck for those scenes,
and the optimizations improve that.
Interal changes:
* Remove RE_raytrace.h, raytracer is now only used by render engine again.
* Split non-public parts rayobject.h into rayobject_internal.h, hopefully
makes it clearer how the API is used.
* Added rayintersection.h to contain some of the stuff from RE_raytrace.h
* Change Isect.vec/labda to Isect.dir/dist, previously vec was sometimes
normalized and sometimes not, confusing... now dir is always normalized
and dist contains the distance.
* Change VECCOPY and similar to BLI_math functions.
* Force inlining of auxiliary functions for ray-triangle/quad intersection,
helps a few percentages.
* Reorganize svbvh code so all the traversal functions are in one file
* Don't do test for root so that push_childs can be inlined
* Make shadow a template parameter so it doesn't need to be runtime checked
* Optimization in raytree building, was computing bounding boxes more often
than necessary.
* Leave out logf() factor in SAH, makes tree build quicker with no
noticeable influence on raytracing on performance?
* Set max childs to 4, simplifies traversal code a bit, but also seems
to help slightly in general.
* Store child pointers and child bb just as fixed arrays of size 4 in nodes,
nearly all nodes have this many children, so overall it actually reduces
memory usage a bit and avoids a pointer indirection.
Compositor: Texture node didn't use texture-nodes itself.
Now composites initialize texture nodes correctly.
Also reviewed the fix for crashing texture nodes for displace.
It appears texture nodes also are used for sculpt/paint
brushes, in these cases it can be allowed again. But, don't
do this during rendering for now!
Also use const char in many other parts of blenders code.
Currently this gives warnings for setting operator id, label and description since these are an exception and allocated beforehand.
The main reason to have this is so renders can be scripted to write to a specific file without having to do annoying tricks like set a dummy start/end frame range, render an animation and work out the current frame image will be written to, then rename after rendering.
Also made some 'char *' args into 'const char *'
The scenes 'Render' is kept by blender while blender runs but the callbacks were not cleared when the render was done.
In this case the callback would reference a freed render job.
This isn't normally a problem because on re-rendering new callbacks are set, however the sequencer can render a previously rendered scene without setting up callbacks.
Simple fix is to to dummy callbacks applied onto the scenes 'Render' struct once its finished.
* The problem is that shadow pass is derived from the diffuse pass as
shad = shad'/diff, where shad' = shad*diff. In cases where diff is
0 and the division can't be done shad is left as shad' (=0).
* This all works just fine until the diffuse color is 0 on just one
channel (no red in material color for example). In this case the shadow
pass is left as 0 too regardless of the existence of an actual shadow,
so the end result is a colored shadow!
* The only real solution is to use the original shadow intensity to
determine if there actually is a shadow or not. This is now stored in
shr->shad[3] from the lamp shadow calculation.
Note: The best solution would probably be to calculate the shadow pass on
it's own and not to derive it from the diffuse pass, but I didn't dare to
start messing up the shading code totally.
Now, rather than the bit-too-alarming stop sign, threaded wmJobs
display a progress indicator in the header. This is an optional feature
for each job type and still uses the same hardcoded ui template
(could use further work here...).
Currently implemented for:
Render - parts completed, then nodes comped
Compositor - nodes comped
Fluid Sim - frames simulated
Texture Bake - faces baked
Example: http://mke3.net/blender/devel/2.5/progress.mov
mask, also avoid making vertex groups if they will not be filled.
* Add back image pin option in image editor header.
* Fix deep shadow not respecting Cast Buffer Shadows option.
* Tangent space normal map baking should work again now.
* Fix a problem with particle duplis, due to own bugfix for #20350,
the problem for that seems to be in dupliverts, not particles.
* Fix external multires data link getting lost on exiting editmode.
(commits 27776,27777,27830,27840,27841,27862 by Brecht from render25 branch)
if compositing, sequencer, fields, etc should be rendered, or if the
render does that itself. The weak point is that this only applies to
rendering, so if you open the compositor, it will still run on the
rendered result. Enabled by default, set to False to disable.
rendering.
RE_BlenderFrame() and RE_BlenderAnim() are Blender's internal
top-level rendering API functions for a single frame and a series of
frames, respectively. These functions rely on global variables to
keep render pipeline states. Freestyle's stroke rendering was also
using RE_BlenderFrame to render a temporary scene of stroke meshes.
These nested calls of the top-level rendering API functions were
causing broken render pipeline states and eventually led to a crash.
This commit is intended to fix the issue, by introducing an rendering
API function RE_RenderFreestyleStrokes specifically used for stroke
rendering in Freestyle. The new function does not do anything with
regard to the global variables in the rendering API implementation.
* Remove the manual OSA method but rather pass on derivatives to the
textures. This means that at the moment e.g. the bricks node is not
antialiased, but that image textures are now using mipmaps. Doing
oversampling on the whole nodetree is convenient but it is really
the individual textures that can do filtering best and quickest.
* Image textures in a texture node tree were not color corrected and
did not support 2d mapping, now it's passing along shadeinput to
make this possible. Would like to avoid this but not sure how.
* Fix preview not filling in all pixels when scaling or rotating in
the texture nodes.
