The idea is to make include statements more explicit and obvious where the
file is coming from, additionally reducing chance of wrong header being
picked up.
For example, it was not obvious whether bvh.h was refferring to builder
or traversal, whenter node.h is a generic graph node or a shader node
and cases like that.
Surely this might look obvious for the active developers, but after some
time of not touching the code it becomes less obvious where file is coming
from.
This was briefly mentioned in T50824 and seems @brecht is fine with such
explicitness, but need to agree with all active developers before committing
this.
Please note that this patch is lacking changes related on GPU/OpenCL
support. This will be solved if/when we all agree this is a good idea to move
forward.
Reviewers: brecht, lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto, juicyfruit, swerner
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto
Subscribers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2586
Mimics how regular triangles are working and makes it more clear where
the stuff is located in the kernel.
Needed to have some forward declarations because of the current placement
of things in the kernel.
Some of the files were wrongly attributing code to some other
organizations and in few places proper attribution was missing.
This is mainly either a copy-paste error (when new file was
created from an existing one and header wasn't updated) or due
to some refactor which split non-original-BF code with purely
BF code.
Should solve some confusion around.
Kernels can now be built without patch evaluation when not needed by the
scene (Catmull-Clark subdivision not in use), giving a performance boost
for some devices.
Enables Catmull-Clark subdivision meshes with support for creases and attribute
subdivision. Still waiting on OpenSubdiv to fully support face varying
interpolation for subdividing uv coordinates tho. Also there may be some
inconsistencies with Blender's subdivision which will be resolved at a
later time.
Code for reading patch tables and creating patch maps is borrowed
from OpenSubdiv.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2111
This adds support for ngons and attributes on subdivision meshes. Ngons are
needed for proper attribute interpolation as well as correct Catmull-Clark
subdivision. Several changes are made to achieve this:
- new primitive `SubdFace` added to `Mesh`
- 3 more textures are used to store info on patches from subd meshes
- Blender export uses loop interface instead of tessface for subd meshes
- `Attribute` class is updated with a simplified way to pass primitive counts
around and to support ngons.
- extra points for ngons are generated for O(1) attribute interpolation
- curves are temporally disabled on subd meshes to avoid various bugs with
implementation
- old unneeded code is removed from `subd/`
- various fixes and improvements
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2108
BVH traversal is not really that much a geometry and we've got
quite some traversals now. Makes sense to keep them separate in
the name of source structure clarity.
This seems to be straightforward way to support heterogeneous nodes
in the same tree.
There is some penalty related on 4gig limit of the address space now,
but here's are the thing:
Traversal code was already using ints to store final offset, so
there can't be regressions really.
This is a required commit to make it possible to encode both aligned
and unaligned nodes in the same array. Also, in the future we can use
this to get rid of __leaf_nodes array (which is a bit tricky to do since
trickery in pack_instances().
It was initially unsupported because initial idea of checking visibility
of all children was slowing scenes down a lot. Now the idea has changed
and we only perform visibility check of current node. This avoids huge
slowdown (from tests here it seems to be withing 1-2%, but more tests
would never hurt) and gives nice speedup of ray traversal for complex
scenes which utilized ray visibility.
Here's timing of koro.blend:
Without visibility check With visibility check
Original file 4min 20sec 4min 23sec
Camera rays only 1min 43 sec 55sec
Unfortunately, this doesn't come for free and requires extra data in
BVH node, which increases memory usage of BVH nodes by 15%. This we
can solve with some future trickery of avoiding __tri_storage created
for curve segments.
This way we can get rid of inefficient memory usage caused by BVH boundbox
part being unused by leaf nodes but still being allocated for them. Doing
such split allows to save 6 of float4 values for QBVH per leaf node and 3
of float4 values for regular BVH per leaf node.
This translates into following memory save using 01.01.01.G rendered
without hair:
Device memory size Device memory peak Global memory peak
Before the patch: 4957 5051 7668
With the patch: 4467 4562 7332
The measurements are done against current master. Still need to run speed tests
and it's hard to predict if it's faster or not: on the one hand leaf nodes are
now much more coherent in cache, on the other hand they're not so much coherent
with regular nodes anymore.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: venomgfx, eyecandy
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1236
This commit implements traversal for QBVH tree, which is based on the old loop
code for traversal itself and Embree for node intersection.
This commit also does some changes to the loop inspired by Embree:
- Visibility flags are only checked for primitives.
Doing visibility check for every node cost quite reasonable amount of time
and in most cases those checks are true-positive.
Other idea here would be to do visibility checks for leaf nodes only, but
this would need to be investigated further.
- For minimum hair width we extend all the nodes' bounding boxes.
Again doing curve visibility check is quite costly for each of the nodes and
those checks returns truth for most of the hierarchy anyway.
There are number of possible optimization still, but current state is good
enough in terms it makes rendering faster a little bit after recent watertight
commit.
Currently QBVH is only implemented for CPU with SSE2 support at least. All
other devices would need to be supported later (if that'd make sense from
performance point of view).
The code is enabled for compilation in kernel. but blender wouldn't use it
still.
This way extending intersection routines with some pre-calculation step wouldn't
explode the single file size, hopefully keeping them all in a nice maintainable
state.
These are internally stored as a 3D image textures, but accessible like e.g.
UV coordinates though the attribute node and getattribute().
This is convenient for rendering e.g. smoke objects where data like density is
really a property of the mesh, and it avoids having to specify the smoke object
in a texture node, instead the material will work with any smoke domain.
