Failed as in did not allocate due to possibly weight cutoff.
Tryign to allocated Extra storage for closure in such situation
will consfuse Cycles and cause crashes later one due to obscure
values in ShaderData.
This is an initial implementation of BVH8 optimization structure
and packated triangle intersection. The aim is to get faster ray
to scene intersection checks.
Scene BVH4 BVH8
barbershop_interior 10:24.94 10:10.74
bmw27 02:41.25 02:38.83
classroom 08:16.49 07:56.15
fishy_cat 04:24.56 04:17.29
koro 06:03.06 06:01.45
pavillon_barcelona 09:21.26 09:02.98
victor 23:39.65 22:53.71
As memory goes, peak usage raises by about 4.7% in a complex
scenes.
Note that BVH8 is disabled when using OSL, this is because OSL
kernel does not get per-microarchitecture optimizations and
hence always considers BVH3 is used.
Original BVH8 patch from Anton Gavrikov.
Batched triangles intersection from Victoria Zhislina.
Extra work and tests and fixes from Maxym Dmytrychenko.
Building the CUDA kernels takes quite a bit of memory, and when building all of
them the combined usage can be too much on some systems (especially VMs).
Therefore, this patch adds an option to force the build system to build them
sequentially by making each build step depend on the previous kernel.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3623
Just basic algebra - because all vectors have the same z coordinate, a lot of terms end up cancelling out.
Not exactly a massive improvement, but it's measurable with Branched PT and a high sample count on the lamp.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: swerner
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3540
While changing the shading normal is a great way to add additional detail to a model, there are some problems with it.
One of them is that at grazing angles and/or strong changes to the normal, the reflected ray can end up pointing into the actual geometry, which results in a black spot.
This patch helps avoid this by automatically reducing the strength of the bump/normal map if the reflected direction would end up too shallow or inside the geometry.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2574
This increases stack memory usage some, and ideally we'd support a dynamic
size. But this is quite difficult on the GPU and hopefully 32 is enough even
for very complex cases.
This is a physically-based, easy-to-use shader for rendering hair and fur,
with controls for melanin, roughness and randomization.
Based on the paper "A Practical and Controllable Hair and Fur Model for
Production Path Tracing".
Implemented by Leonardo E. Segovia and Lukas Stockner, part of Google
Summer of Code 2018.
Features to get the 2nd, 3rd, 4th closest point instead of the closest, and
various distance metrics. No viewport/Eevee support yet.
Patch by Michel Anders, Charlie Jolly and Brecht Van Lommel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3503
This works for Cycles, Eevee, texture nodes and compositing. It helps to
reduce the number of math nodes required in various node setups.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3537
Textures in 16 bit integer format are sometimes used for displacement, bump and normal maps and can be exported by tools like Substance Painter. Without this patch, Cycles would promote those textures to single precision floating point, causing them to take up twice as much memory as needed.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht, sergey
Subscribers: sergey, dingto, #cycles
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3523
