In the outliner, right click > view layer > set holdout. This is
temporary until we have more general dynamic overrides, but helps
Spring production for now.
Was only visible when doing command line, since it was happening due to
cache-free policy which was aimed to bring memory usage down.
The issue is that if object with particle system is used as a nested
duplicator multiple times, it will only generate children first time,
and after that its caches are freed. After that duplication system
can not generate any instances, since the path cache is lost.
Now we delay caches free to after all objects are synchronized, which
ensures all instances are generated.
This will increase a memory peak a bit during object synchronization
time, but overall it shouldn't be that bad, since memory footprint
after synchronization will stay the same as before this change.
The ultimate thing to do here would be to drop the whole dependency
graph away, but this will require:
- API on engine side, to inform it to drop the dependency graph.
- Changes in Cycles report system to NOT use evaluated scene to get
scene name (evaluated scene will be gone with dependency graph).
* depsgraph.ids: all evaluated datablocks in the depsgraph
* depsgraph.objects: all evaluated objects in the depsgraph
* depsgraph.object_instances: all object instances to display or render
* depsgraph.updates: list of updates to datablocks
This introduces a new depsgraph API for getting updated datablocks,
rather than getting it from bpy.data.
* depsgraph.ids_updated gives a list of all datablocks in the depsgraph
which have been updated.
* depsgraph.id_type_updated('TYPE') is true if any datablock of the given
type has been added, removed or modified.
More API updates are coming to properly handle multiple depsgraphs and
finer update granularity, but this should make Cycles work again.
For correct results these must have been set already when the depsgraph was
created and evaluated, so all dependencies have appropriate resolutions too.
For particle we no longer backup and restore the viewport particles to avoid
overwriting them during render, as copy-on-write solves this for us. Even
without COW particles seem to work ok.
This also removes the particle simplification options based on camera. This
was never used much and only available in Blender Internal.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3148
This still does not make point density to work in Cycles, but at least it pass
the depsgraph down the line.
Note this was working fine before the depsgraph/render refactor to pass
evaluated depsgraph to the engines.
User notes
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Compositing, rendering of multi-layers in Eevee should be fully working now.
Development notes
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Up until now we were still using the same depsgraph for rendering and viewport
evaluation. And we had to go out of our ways to be sure the depsgraphs were
updated.
Now we iterate over the (to be rendered) view layers and create a depsgraph to
each one, fully evaluated and call the render engines (Cycles, Eevee, ...) with
this viewlayer/depsgraph/evaluation context.
At this time we are not handling data persistency, Depsgraph is created from
scratch prior to rendering each frame. So I got rid of most of the partial
update calls we had during the render pipeline.
Cycles: Brecht Van Lommel did a patch to tackle some of the required Cycles
changes but this commit mark these changes as TODOs. Basically Cycles needs to
render one layer at a time.
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3073
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
This patch moves all the functionality previously in SceneRenderLayer to SceneLayer.
If we want to rename some of these structs now would be a good time to do it, before they are in SceneLayer.
Everything should be working, though I will test things further tomorrow. Once this is committed depsgraph can get
rid of the workaround added in rna_Main_meshes_new_from_object and finish whatever this patch was preventing from being finished.
This patch also adds a few placeholders for the overrides (samples, ...). These are obviously not working, so some unittests that rely on 'lay', and 'zmask' will fail.
This patch does not addressed the change of moving samples to ViewRender (I have this as a separate patch and needs some separate discussion).
Following next is the individual note of the individual parts that were committed.
Note 1: It is up to Cycles to still get rid of exclude_layer internally.
Note 2: Cycles still need to handle its own doversion for the use_layer_samples cases and
(1) Remove the override as it is
(2) Add a new override (scene.cycles.samples) if scene.cycles.use_layer_samples != IGNORE
Respecting the expected behaviour when scene.cycles.use_layer_samples == BOUNDED.
Note 3: Cycles still need to implement the per-object holdout
(similar to how we do shadow catcher).
Note 4: There are parts of the old (Blender Internal) rendering pipeline that is still
using lay, e.g., in shi->lay.
Honestly it will be easier to purge the entire Blender Internal code away instead of taking things from it bit by bit.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2919
There are parts of the old (Blender Internal) rendering pipeline that is still
using lay, e.g., in shi->lay.
Honestly it will be easier to purge the entire Blender Internal code away instead
of taking things from it bit by bit.
Note: Cycles still need to handle its own doversion for theses cases and
(1) Remove the override as it is
(2) Add a new override (scene.cycles.samples) if scene.cycles.use_layer_samples != IGNORE
Respecting the expected behaviour when scene.cycles.use_layer_samples == BOUNDED.
Note that some little parts of code have been dissabled because eval_ctx
was not available there. This should be resolved once DerivedMesh is
replaced.
The issue was caused by usage of address of dupli-object (which will vary
from iteration process to iteration process) as something denoting whether
we've got the data synchronized to Cycles or not.
For now solved by using address of original object (the one DupliObject
points to) as a pointer for the map.
Need to do more thoughts about this.
This commit extends the work from Dalai made around scene iterators to
support iterating into objects from dupli-lists.
Changes can be summarized as:
- Depsgraph iterator will hold pointer to an object which created current
duplilist. It is available via `dupli_parent` field of the iterator.
It is only set when duplilist is not NULL and guaranteed to be NULL
for all other cases.
- Introduced new depsgraph.duplis collection which gives a more extended
information about depsgraph iterator. It is basically a collection on top
of DEGObjectsIteratorData.
It is used to provide access to such data as persistent ID, generated space
and so on.
Things which still needs to be done/finished/clarified:
- Need to introduce some sort of `is_instance` boolean property which will
indicate Python and C++ RNA that we are inside of dupli-list.
- Introduce a way to skip dupli-list for particular objects.
So, for example, if we are culling object due to distance we can skip all
objects it was duplicating.
- Introduce a way to skip particular duplicators.
So we can skip iterating into particle system.
- Introduce some cleaner API for C side of operators to access all data such as
persistent ID and friends.
This way we wouldn't need de-reference iterator and could keep access to such
data really abstract. Who knows how we'll be storing internal state of the
operator in the future.
While there is still stuff to do, current state works and moves us in the proper
direction.
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
Previously the logic was different for duplis and regular objects: regular objects
were using render visibility when Render Layer option is enabled which duplis were
always using viewport visibility when rendering from the viewport.
This was quite confusing because caused different results in viewport and render
when artists were expecting them to match 1:1.
This avoids write access happening in non-atomic manner in
Shader::tag_update which modifies the global managers. Even
for 1 byte data types it's quite dangerous.
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
This can be used together with camera culling to keep nearby objects visible in
reflections, using a minimum distance within which objects are visible. It is
also useful to cull small objects far from the camera.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2332
At some point the idea was that we could have an optimization where we could
render multiple render layers without re-exporting the scene, by just updating
the layer bits. We are not doing this now and in practice with the available
render layer control like exclude layers it's not always possible anyway.
This makes it easier to support an arbitrary number of layers in the future
(hopefully this summer), and frees up some useful bits in the kernel.
Reviewed By: sergey, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2020
This is to prevent situations such as when the camera gets very close to a mesh
and causes it to be tessellated into an excessive amount of micropolygons. In
REYES this is known as the eye-splits problem.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1922
This makes it easier to control overall dicing rate without having to tweak
every object. The preview rate makes viewport editing more interactive. The
default preview rate of 8 is roughly 64 times faster for some operations.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1919
