**What are push constants?**
Push constants is a way to quickly provide a small amount of uniform data to shaders.
It should be much quicker than UBOs but a huge limitation is the size of data - spec
requires 128 bytes to be available for a push constant range.
**What are the challenges with push constants?**
The challenge with push constants is that the limited available size. According to
the Vulkan spec each platform should at least have 128 bytes reserved for push
constants. Current Mesa/AMD drivers supports 256 bytes, but Mesa/Intel is only 128
bytes.
**What is our solution?**
Some shaders of Blender uses more than these boundaries. When more data is needed
push constants will not be used, but the shader will be patched to use an uniform
buffer instead. This mechanism will be part of the Vulkan backend and shader
developers should not see any difference on API level.
**Known limitations**
Current state of the vulkan backend does not track resources that are in the
command queue. This patch includes some test cases that identified this issue as
well. See #104771.
Pull Request #104880
The up_axis_update/forward_axis_update was the same logic between
the two, so factor that out.
Also use the same time reporting logic in PLY as in OBJ/USD/Alembic.
When render is triggered from python and the render result is displayed
it isn't being updated as it wasn't tagged as being invalid.
Pull Request #105480
If the texture image path in the MTL is a "quoted" absolute path, the importer will fail to find the
file. It was only attempting to un-quote the path for the relative case. Now we attempt to un-quote
in all cases.
Pull Request #105478
If the texture image path in the MTL is a "quoted" absolute path, the importer will fail to find the
file. It was only attempting to un-quote the path for the relative case. Now we attempt to un-quote
in all cases.
Pull Request #105478
- Add missing braces for if statements
- Tweak variable naming to use snake case
- Use more common name for `MLoop`s of a face
- Use `std::move` when appending an array
- Use const for a few variable declarations
This commit implements three OSL microfacet closures that are needed to support
MaterialX: dielectric_bsdf, conductor_bsdf and generalized_schlick_bsdf.
Internally these map to existing microfacet closures, only the Fresnel term is
different.
Currently, we use the closure type to encode the type of microfacet distribution
(GGX/Beckmann/Sharp/MultiGGX), the lobes we're interested in
(Reflection/Refraction/both) AND the Fresnel type (None or Principled v1).
This results in the mess of dozens of options that we currently have. Since
adding Principled v2 and the MaterialX OSL closures will involve adding more
Fresnel types, this clearly doesn't scale.
But, since the earlier Fresnel rework (D17101), the Fresnel type only matters
in one place now. This allows to significantly clean up the closure type
handling. To do this, MicrofacetBsdfs now separately store their Fresnel type,
and instead of a single MicrofacetExtra we have one struct per Fresnel type
(unless no extra data is needed).
Further, instead of having one _setup() function per combination, the Fresnel
setup is also split into separate functions. This decouples the implementation
of new Fresnel terms from most of the Microfacet logic, and makes it a very
simple and clean operation.
This commit replaces the current Glass approach, where Glass is a virtual closure
that gets replaced with a Glossy and a Refractive closure, with a combined
closure that handles Fresnel after sampling the microfacet. That way, the Fresnel
term is more accurate since it accounts for the microfacet normal, not the
shading normal.
Also updates the BSDF sampling to use a 3D sampler now, since we need two
dimensions to pick the microfacet normal and then a third dimension to pick
reflection/refraction. This can also be used to get rid of the LCG in the
Principled Hair BSDF, which means we can remove it altogether once MultiGGX is
gone.
Also, "sharp" is now supported as a microfacet distribution in OSL, and 2
is supported as the "refract" argument to microfacet() in order to get glass.
Address some issues discussed in PR #104404:
- Vertex color options changed to None/sRGB/Linear, default is sRGB
to match the existing Python addon.
- Change name to "Stanford PLY" from "PLY" in the menu item.
- Default "Export UVs" to on.
- After importing vertex colors, they are set as enabled for render.
New (experimental) Stanford PLY importer and exporter written in C++.
Handles: vertices, faces, edges, vertex colors, normals, UVs. Both
binary and ASCII formats are supported.
Usually 10-20x faster than the existing Python based PLY
importer/exporter.
Additional notes compared to the previous Python addon:
- Importing point clouds with vertex colors now works
- Importing PLY files with non standard line endings
- Exporting multiple objects (previous exporter didn't take the vertex
indices into account)
- The importer has the option to merge vertices
- The exporter supports exporting loose edges and vertices along with
UV map data
This is squashed commit of PR #104404
Reviewed By: Hans Goudey, Aras Pranckevicius
Co-authored-by: Arjan van Diest
Co-authored-by: Lilith Houtjes
Co-authored-by: Bas Hendriks
Co-authored-by: Thomas Feijen
Co-authored-by: Yoran Huzen
msgfmt has a TBB dependency though bf_blenlib, now for a release build
The MSVC linker is smart enough to realize none of the TBB code is
actually used and discards it. In debug mode the linker is a bit more
conservative and doesn't, leaving msgfmt with a runtime dependency
on TBB. The problem here is, we only copy the runtime dlls during
the install phase, and msgfmt runs long long before that.
For this reason when we run msgfmt we should make sure any runtime
needs it could have are met in the path, there already is a handy
variable for that since oslc has similar requirements.
Pull Request #105048
During install all dlls should copy to the blender.shared
folder regardless if the dependency is on or off, creators
CmakeLists.txt already did this correctly, but for boost
the BOOST_POSTFIX and BOOST_DEBUG_POSTFIX variables were
not set causing the boost dll's not to be copied.
This change takes the setting of these variables out of the
WITH_BOOST block, but still guards it with a
WITH_WINDOWS_FIND_MODULES block so we don't break the build
for people building with that on.
When drawing text with multiple lines inside a frame node, depending
on the zoom level some lines would wrongly get clipped despite being
inside the clipping region.
This was caused by the clipping check in `blf_glyph_draw` not accounting
for the font’s aspect.
Pull Request #105389
Caused by b4100ed377. Image strips with only 1 frame of content do
expect any timeline frame to be translated into frame index of 0.
Check this case and return 0 explicitly.
Fix error in b4100ed377
`seq_retiming_evaluate()` returns range from 0 to 1, to which framerate
correction was applied. this is incorrect, and correction should be
applied to function input.
Unify both functions in one, with a more telling name,
to be sure of the order of the arguments. Some functional
cleanup of the using code to make it more explicit.
Pull Request #105413
When movie framerate does not match scene, content length was clamped to strip
length in scen framerate. This also caused issues with retiming which behaved in
similar way. Retiming was modified to use frame index of strip content, so even
when scene framerate is changed, retiming data is preserved in correct
proportions. This means, that handles are mapped to time in seconds rather than
to frames.
During the discussion for #101413 there was consensus that we could make
OIIO a mandatory dependency. This patch does just that.
The `idiff` testing tool remains optional.
Pull Request #105111
Similar to the previous commit, this simplifies future refactoring
to change the way edges are stored, and further differentiates
single poly variables from array pointers.
The issue was that when using the `HD_ALIGNED` handle type,
Blender would not automatically move the keyframe handles with the key.
Instead one handle would get stuck in place.
To remedy that manually move the keyframe handles in case the type is `HD_ALIGNED`
This makes it consistent with moving a key with G
Pull Request #105401
