It should behave like cycles.
Even if not efficient at all, we still do the same create - draw - free process that was done in the old viewport to save vram (maybe not really the case now) and not care about simulation's GPU texture state sync.
This is quite basic as it only support boundbing boxes.
But the material can refine the volume shape in anyway the user like.
To overcome this limitation, a voxelisation should be done on the mesh (generating a SDF maybe?) and tested against every volumetric cell.
The system now uses several 3D textures in order to decouple every steps of the volumetric rendering.
See https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite for more details.
On the technical side, instead of using a compute shader to populate the 3D textures we use layered rendering with a geometry shader to render 1 fullscreen triangle per 3D texture slice.
This moves background images out of the 3D viewport,
to be used only as camera reference images.
For 3D viewport references,
background images can be used, see: D2827
Some work is still needed
(background option isn't working at the moment).
Engine is not stored in WorkSpaces. That defines the "context" engine, which
is used for the entire UI.
The engine used for the poll of nodes (add node menu, new nodes when "Use Nodes")
is obtained from context.
Introduce a ViewRender struct for viewport settings that are defined for
workspaces and scene. This struct will be populated with the hand-picked
settings that can be defined per workspace as per the 2.8 design.
* use_scene_settings
* properties editor: workshop + organize context path
Use Scene Settings
==================
For viewport drawing, Workspaces have an option to use the Scene render
settings (F12) instead of the viewport settings.
This way users can quickly preview the final render settings, engine and
View Layer. This will affect all the editors in that workspace, and it will be
clearly indicated in the top-bar.
Properties Editor: Add Workspace and organize context path
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We now have the properties of:
Scene, Scene > Layer, Scene > World, Workspace
[Scene | Workspace] > Render Layer > Object
[Scene | Workspace] > Render Layer > Object > Data
(...)
Reviewers: Campbell Barton, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2842
There was noise correlation between the rotation random number and the radius random number used in the contact shadow algo.
Hacking a new distribution from the old distribution (may not be ideal because it's discrepency may be high)
Also distribute samples evenly on the shadow disc. (add sqrt)
Fix the "bias floating shadows", was cause by the discarding of backfacing geom which makes no sense in this case.
This adds a custom depth test that have the benefits to glitch less and be more visually pleasing.
Downside is that it let the grid pass trough the objects a little.
This effect is done in NDC space so that it counteract the logarithmic depth distribution imprecision (read as it's less visible near the camera but more present far away).
This patch also includes some cleanups.
This was caused by small float precision being insuficient. The blue component of R11F_G11F_B10F has lower precision than the other 2 components. This resulted in colors drifting towards a yellowish tone.
Using RGBA16F for the concerned buffer. This double the memory usage of the framebuffers and add subsequent bandwidth usage.
This bug (explained here https://github.com/dfelinto/opengl-sandbox/blob/downsample/README.md) is breaking eevee beyond the point it's workable.
This patch workaround the issue by making sure every fbo have mipmaps that are strictly greater than 16px. This break the bloom visuals a bit but only for this setup.
This add the possibility to add screen space raytraced shadows to fix light leaking cause by shadows maps.
Theses inherit of the same artifacts as other screenspace methods.
- Separate the Post Processes settings into sub panel.
- Rename "Viewport Anti-Aliasing" to sampling & super-sampling as it also reduce the noise of other effects.
- Remove Temporal Anti-Aliasing toggle and make it always active unless the number of samples is 1.
This required some small changes to the data display shaders so that they match the way the object mode renders them.
Strangely enough, I had to remove the normal attribute from the display code because it was being not bound as soon as I created another rendering call in object mode. The problem may be deeper but I did not have time for this so I derive the normal from the sphere pos.
