This adds midlevel and object/world space for displacement, and a
vector displacement node with tangent/object/world space, midlevel
and scale.
Note that tangent space vector displacement still is not exactly
compatible with maps created by other software, this will require
changes to the tangent computation.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1734
Previously only scalar displacement along the normal was supported,
now displacement can go in any direction. For backwards compatibility,
a Displacement node will be automatically inserted in existing files.
This will make it possible to support vector displacement maps in the
future. It's already possible to use them to some extent, but requires
a manual shader node setup. For tangent space maps the right tangent
may also not be available yet, depends on the map.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3015
This was we can introduce other types of BVH, for example, wider ones, without
causing too much mess around boolean flags.
Thoughs:
- Ideally device info should probably return bitflag of what BVH types it
supports.
It is possible to implement based on simple logic in device/ and mesh.cpp,
rest of the changes will stay the same.
- Not happy with workarounds in util_debug and duplicated enum in kernel.
Maybe enbum should be stores in kernel, but then it's kind of weird to include
kernel types from utils. Soudns some cyclkic dependency.
Reviewers: brecht, maxim_d33
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3011
This can be enabled in the Film panel, with an option to control the
transmisison roughness below which glass becomes transparent.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2904
The offscreen dicing scale helps to significantly reduce memory usage,
by reducing the dicing rate for objects the further they are outside of
the camera view.
The dicing camera can be specified now, to keep the geometry fixed and
avoid crawling artifacts in animation. It is also useful for debugging,
to see the tesselation from a different camera location.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2891
We can not store pointers to elements of collection property in the
case we modify that collection. This is like storing pointers to
elements of array before calling realloc().
No color pass because it's hard to define what to use as color in a volume.
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2903
Progressive refine undoes memory saving from save buffers, so enabling
both does not make much sense. Previously enabling progressive refine
would disable denoising, but it should be the other way around since
denoise actually affects the render result.
Includes some code refactor for progressive refine render buffers, and
avoids recomputing tiles for each progressive sample.
CPU rendering will be restricted to a BVH2, which is not ideal for raytracing
performance but can be shared with the GPU. Decoupled volume shading will be
disabled to match GPU volume sampling.
The number of CPU rendering threads is reduced to leave one core dedicated to
each GPU. Viewport rendering will also only use GPU rendering still. So along
with the BVH2 usage, perfect scaling should not be expected.
Go to User Preferences > System to enable the CPU to render alongside the GPU.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2873
This patch adds "Pixel Size" to the performance options, which allows to render
in a smaller resolution, which is especially useful for displays with high DPI.
Reviewers: Severin, dingto, sergey, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Severin, venomgfx, eyecandy, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1619
It doesn't seem that useful in practice, was mostly added to match some
other renderers but also seems to be causing user confusing and accidental
long render times. So let's just keep the UI simple and remove this.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2768
We're adding some bias by default, which now I think is the right thing
to do from a usability point of view since you really need to use those
options anyway to get clean renders in a practical time.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2769
We already detect this automatically based on shading nodes and per shader
settings, and performance of this option is ok now all devices.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2767
This commit contains the first part of the new Cycles denoising option,
which filters the resulting image using information gathered during rendering
to get rid of noise while preserving visual features as well as possible.
To use the option, enable it in the render layer options. The default settings
fit a wide range of scenes, but the user can tweak individual settings to
control the tradeoff between a noise-free image, image details, and calculation
time.
Note that the denoiser may still change in the future and that some features
are not implemented yet. The most important missing feature is animation
denoising, which uses information from multiple frames at once to produce a
flicker-free and smoother result. These features will be added in the future.
Finally, thanks to all the people who supported this project:
- Google (through the GSoC) and Theory Studios for sponsoring the development
- The authors of the papers I used for implementing the denoiser (more details
on them will be included in the technical docs)
- The other Cycles devs for feedback on the code, especially Sergey for
mentoring the GSoC project and Brecht for the code review!
- And of course the users who helped with testing, reported bugs and things
that could and/or should work better!
Previously, every RenderPass would have a bitfield that specified its type. That limits the number of passes to 32, which was reached a while ago.
However, most of the code already supported arbitrary RenderPasses since they were also used to store Multilayer EXR images.
Therefore, this commit completely removes the passflag from RenderPass and changes all code to use the unique pass name for identification.
Since Blender Internal relies on hardcoded passes and to preserve compatibility, 32 pass names are reserved for the old hardcoded passes.
To support these arbitrary passes, the Render Result compositor node now adds dynamic sockets. For compatibility, the old hardcoded sockets are always stored and just hidden when the corresponding pass isn't available.
To use these changes, the Render Engine API now includes a function that allows render engines to add arbitrary passes to the render result. To be able to add options for these passes, addons can now add their own properties to SceneRenderLayers.
To keep the compositor input node updated, render engine plugins have to implement a callback that registers all the passes that will be generated.
From a user perspective, nothing should change with this commit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2443
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2444
This implements branched path tracing for the split kernel.
General approach is to store the ray state at a branch point, trace the
branched ray as normal, then restore the state as necessary before iterating
to the next part of the path. A state machine is used to advance the indirect
loop state, which avoids the need to add any new kernels. Each iteration the
state machine recreates as much state as possible from the stored ray to keep
overall storage down.
Its kind of hard to keep all the different integration loops in sync, so this
needs lots of testing to make sure everything is working correctly. We should
probably start trying to deduplicate the integration loops more now.
Nonbranched BMW is ~2% slower, while classroom is ~2% faster, other scenes
could use more testing still.
Reviewers: sergey, nirved
Reviewed By: nirved
Subscribers: Blendify, bliblubli
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2611
It was totally unclear whether the device is enabled or disabled.
Lots of people got fully lost in the current interface.
While the solution is not fully ideal, it is at least solves
ambiguity in the interface.
It uses an idea of accumulating all possible light reachable across the
light path (without taking shadow blocked into account) and accumulating
total shaded light across the path. Dividing second figure by first one
seems to be giving good estimate of the shadow.
In fact, to my knowledge, it's something really similar to what is
happening in the denoising branch, so we are aligned here which is good.
The workflow is following:
- Create an object which matches real-life object on which shadow is
to be catched.
- Create approximate similar material on that object.
This is needed to make indirect light properly affecting CG objects
in the scene.
- Mark object as Shadow Catcher in the Object properties.
Ideally, after doing that it will be possible to render the image and
simply alpha-over it on top of real footage.
The range is controlled using the following command line arguments:
--cycles-resumable-start-chunk
--cycles-resumable-end-chunk
Those are 1-based index of range for rendering.
Single program generally compiles kernels faster (2-3 times), loads faster,
takes less drive space (2-3 times), and reduces the number of cached kernels.
