This code can't actually be enabled for building and is incomplete, but it's
here because we know we want to support this at some point and there's not much
reason to have it in a separate branch if a simple #ifdef can disable it.
Not the most memory efficient way to store these things but it's simple and
implementing it better requires some work to natively support subd grids as
a primitive in some way.
This is mostly work towards enabling the __KERNEL_SSE__ option to start using
SIMD operations for vector math operations. This 4.1 kernel performes about 8%
faster with that option but overall is still slower than without the option.
WITH_CYCLES_OPTIMIZED_KERNEL_SSE41 is the cmake flag for testing this kernel.
Alignment of int3, int4, float3, float4 to 16 bytes seems to give a slight 1-2%
speedup on tested systems with the current kernel already, so is enabled now.
This to avoids build conflicts with libc++ on FreeBSD, these __ prefixed values
are reserved for compilers. I apologize to anyone who has patches or branches
and has to go through the pain of merging this change, it may be easiest to do
these same replacements in your code and then apply/merge the patch.
Ref T37477.
* Add a "Normal" Input to the Fresnel node.
* Fix for the Fresnel GLSL code (normalize the Incoming vector).
Patch #37384 by Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) , thanks!
* Remove the compatible falloff SSS implementation. We shouldn't support two implementations in the long term, and 2.7x is a good release number do break some compatibility as well.
* Version patch added, so Files with Compatible falloff will automatically use Cubic now.
It was already mentioned in the manual, that Compatible is deprecated.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders#BSSRDF
* Remove support for CUDA Toolkit 4.x, only Toolkit 5.0 and above are supported now.
* Remove support for sm_1x cards (< Fermi) for good. We didn't officially support those cards for a few releases already, now remove some special code that was still there.
* 32 bit GCC builds now have the SSE BVH optimizations turned off, but still
compile with SSE flags for better performance.
* White color when rendering on Windows seems to have been unrelated to SSE,
rather it was a graphics driver not supporting half float textures, added a
check for that now.
use arrays instead of textures for general storage on this card (image textures
are still stored as texture). Textures were found to be faster on older cards,
but the limits on 1D texture size have not increased along with the memory size,
which meant that the full 6 GB could not be used.
The performance actually seems to be slightly better with arrays in some tests
on Titan. For older cards there seems to be a bit of a mix, some are better and
others not. We may change those to use arrays too, but more testing is needed,
only Titan and Tesla K20 (sm_35) is changed for now.
The fact that arrays are faster is a bit surprising, as others found textures
to be faster on Kepler. However even if they were, the memory limitation is
more important to solve anyway.
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/understanding-efficiency-ray-traversal-gpus-kepler-and-fermi-addendum
A new hair bsdf node, with two closure options, is added. These closures allow the generation of the reflective and transmission components of hair. The node allows control of the highlight colour, roughness and angular shift.
Llimitations include:
-No glint or fresnel adjustments.
-The 'offset' is un-used when triangle primitives are used.
- add missing headers from cmake (own omission)
- quiet rna_test.c unused define warnings.
- minor style edits
- spelling corrections and ignore all uppercase words with spell checking script.
* Avoid special code, when Subsurface is enabled.
Ideally we should only use the function, and get rid of the extra duplicate, but this is slower on CUDA.
give a result more similar to the Compatible falloff option. The scale is x2
though to keep the perceived scatter radius roughly the same while changing the
sharpness. Difference with compatible will be mainly on non-flat geometry.
except for curves, that's still missing from the OpenColorIO GLSL shader.
The pixels are stored in a half float texture, converterd from full float with
native GPU instructions and SIMD on the CPU, so it should be pretty quick.
Using a GLSL shader is useful for GPU render because it avoids a copy through
CPU memory.
* Added a new sky model by Hosek and Wilkie: "An Analytic Model for Full Spectral Sky-Dome Radiance" http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/projects/SkylightModelling/
Example render:
http://archive.dingto.org/2013/blender/code/new_sky_model.png
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Textures#Sky_Texture
Details:
* User can choose between the older Preetham and the new Hosek / Wilkie model via a dropdown. For older files, backwards compatibility is preserved. When we add a new Sky texture, it defaults to the new model though.
* For the new model, you can specify the ground albedo (see documentation for details).
* Turbidity now has a UI soft range between 1 and 10, higher values (up to 30) are still possible, but can result in weird colors or black.
* Removed the limitation of 1 sky texture per SVM stack. (Patch by Lukas Tönne, thanks!)
Thanks to Brecht for code review and some help!
This is part of my GSoC 2013 project, SVN merge of r59214, r59220, r59251 and r59601.
