I've limited it to just the RGB<->XYZ stuff for now, correct image handling is the next step.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3478
This was disabled to avoid updating the geometry every time when the
material includes displacement, because there was no way to distinguish
between surface shader and displacement updates.
As a solution, we now compute an MD5 hash of the nodes linked to the
displacement socket, and only update the mesh if that changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3018
This is possible to use surface-only nodes and connect them to volume output.
If there was something connected to surface output those extra connections
will not change anything visually but will force volume features to be included
into feature-adaptive kernels.
In fact, this exact reason seems to be causing slowdown of Barcelone file
comparing AMD OpenCL to NVidia CUDA.
Currently only supported by the final F12 renders because of the current design
of what gets optimized out when and how feature-adaptive kernel accesses
list of required features.
Reviewers: dingto, nirved, maiself, lukasstockner97, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: bliblubli
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2569
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
Before, Cycles would first sync the shader exactly as shown in the UI, then determine and sync the used attributes and later optimize the shader.
Therefore, even completely unconnected nodes would cause unneccessary attributes to be synced.
The reason for this is to avoid frequent resyncs when editing shaders interactively, but it can still be avoided for noninteractive renders - which is what this commit does.
Reviewed by: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2285
Bump mapping was happening in world space while displacement happens in object
space, causing shading errors when displacement type was used with bump mapping.
To fix this the proper transforms are added to bump nodes. This is only done
for automatic bump mapping however, to avoid visual changes from other uses of
bump mapping. It would be nice to do this for all bump mapping to be consistent
but that will have to wait till we can break compatibility.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2191
Some closures were missing from calculation, leading to an array
under-allocation, presumable causing memory corruption issues with
emission shaders on OpenCL and was causing issues with Volume 3D
textures with CUDA.
The issue was identified by Thomas Dinges, the patch is different
from the original D2006. See the brief discussion there. Current
approach is similar (or the same) as Brecht suggested.
The idea of this commit is to merge nodes which has identical settings
and matching inputs into a single node in order to minimize number of
SVM instructions.
This is quite simple bottom-top graph traversal and the trickiest part
is how to compare node settings without too much trouble which seems to
be solved is quite clean way.
Still possibilities for further improvements:
- Support comparison of BSDF nodes
- Support comparison of volume nodes
- Support comparison of curve mapping/ramp nodes
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1673
This reduces stress on the the stack memory which could be really handy
on certain operation systems which applies strict limits on the stack.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1656
The issue was than nodes dependencies were stored as set<ShaderNode*> which
is actually a so called "strict weak ordered", meaning order of nodes in
the set is strictly defined, but based on the ShaderNode pointer. This means
that between different render invokations order of original nodes could be
different due to different pointers allocated for ShaderNode.
This commit makes it so dependencies and maps used for ShaderNodes are based
on the node->id which has much more predictable order. It's still possible
to trick the system by doing some crazy edits during viewport rendfer and
cause difference between viewport and final render stacks.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1630
Basically we can not use sharp closure as a substitude when filter glossy is
used. This is because we can not blur sharp reflection/refraction.
This is quite quick and not really clean implementation. Not really happy
with manual handling of original settings, but this is as good as we can do
in the quick patch. It's a good acknowledgment and we now can re-consider
some aspects of graph simplification to make such cases more natively
supported.
P.S. This failure would have been shown by our regression tests, so please,
bother a bit to run Cycles's test sweep before doing such optimizations.
We fallback to Sharp closures for Glossy, Glass and Refraction nodes now, in case the Roughness input is disconnected and 0 (< 1e-4f to be exact).
This way we gain a few percentages of performance, in case the user did not manually set the closure type to "Sharp" in the UI.
Sharp will probably be removed from the UI as a followup, not needed anymore with this internal optimization.
Original idea by Lukas Stockner(Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1439), code implementation by myself.
The goal is to be able to compile kernel with nodes which are actually needed
to render current scene, hence improving performance of the kernel,
The idea is:
- Have few node groups, starting with a group which contains nodes are used
really often, and then couple of groups which will be extension of this one.
- Have feature-based nodes disabling, so it's possible to disable nodes related
to features which are not used with the currently used nodes group.
This commit only lays down needed routines for this approach, actual split will
happen later after gathering statistics from bunch of production scenes.
Now we calculate color in range 800..12000 using an approximation a/x+bx+c for R and G and ((at + b)t + c)t + d) for B.
Max absolute error for RGB for non-lut function is less than 0.0001, which is enough to get the same 8 bit/channel color as for OSL with a noticeable performance difference.
However there is a slight visible difference between previous non-OSL implementation because of lookup table interpolation and offset-by-one mistake.
The previous implementation gave black color outside of soft range (t > 12000), now it gives the same color as for 12000.
Also blackbody node without input connected is being converted to value input at shader compile time.
Reviewers: dingto, sergey
Reviewed By: dingto
Subscribers: nutel, brecht, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1280
This way memory overhead caused by the BVH building is not so visible and peak
memory usage will be reduced.
Implementing this idea is not so straightforward actually, because we need to
synchronize images used for true displacement before meshes. Detecting whether
image is used for true displacement is not so striaghtforward, so for now all
all displacement types will synchronize images used for them.
Such change brings memory usage from 4.1G to 4.0G with the 01_01_01_D scene
from gooseberry. With 01_01_01_G scene it's 7.6G vs. 6.8G (before and after
the patch).
Reviewers: campbellbarton, juicyfruit, brecht
Subscribers: eyecandy
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1217
This is the same as blender internal's texture mapping from another object,
so this way it's possible to control texture space of one object by another.
Quite straightforward change apart from the workaround for the stupidness of
the dependency graph. Now shader has flag telling that it depends on object
transform. This is the simplest way to know which shaders needs to be tagged
for update when object changes. This might give some false-positive tags now
but reducing them should not be priority for Cycles and rather be a priority
to bring new dependency graph.
Also GLSL preview does not support using other object for mapping.
This is actually correct for BI shading as well and to be addressed as
a part of general GLSL viewport improvements since it's not really clear
how to support this in GLSL.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: eyecandy, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1021
* If a Background node is set to a black color or zero strength,
it now gets removed from the shader graph.
* In case the graph is empty (no background node), the kernel will skip
evaluating it and save some rendertime. This can help quite a bit in scenes,
where the majority of the image consists of a black background.
Example: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=82650
In this case the render is ~16% faster.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D972
This is rather useful to see how good optimization went and so.
Currently uses quite simple notation: shader nodes are nodes on the
graph, connects between graph nodes are named by the sockets names,
so i.e. connection between BSDF and Mix would be named bsdf:closure1.
Could be improved in the feature to draw fancier graph, but it's good
enough already.
Use in the following way:
- To create graphix file call graph->dump_graph("graph.dot")
- To visualize the grapf call: dot -Tpng graph.dot -o graph.png
Basically the same as AC2c58e96685e8, but for Mix RGB Shaders, in case we use the Mix type. This way the node can be used as texture switch for example, setting the Factor to 0.0 or 1.0, without wasting extra memory / render time.
This was the original code to get things working on old GPUs, but now it is no
longer in use and various features in fact depend on this to work correctly to
the point that enabling this code is too buggy to be useful.
In practice this means that if you don't connect a texture to your volume nodes
it will figure that out and render the node faster, rather than you having to
specify it manually.
Main weakness is custom OSL nodes where we have to assume it is heterogeneous
because we don't know what kind of data the node accesses.
to standard nodes where the Blender socket names can differ from associated Cycles names and may require additional indices to make them unique. Script node sockets are already unique and exact due to
being generated from the script function parameters.
New features:
* Bump mapping now works with SSS
* Texture Blur factor for SSS, see the documentation for details:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders#Subsurface_Scattering
Work in progress for feedback:
Initial implementation of the "BSSRDF Importance Sampling" paper, which uses
a different importance sampling method. It gives better quality results in
many ways, with the availability of both Cubic and Gaussian falloff functions,
but also tends to be more noisy when using the progressive integrator and does
not give great results with some geometry. It works quite well for the
non-progressive integrator and is often less noisy there.
This code may still change a lot, so unless you're testing it may be best to
stick to the Compatible falloff function.
Skin test render and file that takes advantage of the gaussian falloff:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=57661http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=57662http://www.pasteall.org/blend/23501
* Added a node to convert a temperature in Kelvin to an RGB color. This can be used e.g. for lights, to easily find the right color temperature.
= Some common temperatures =
Candle light: 1500 Kelvin
Sunset/Sunrise: 1850 Kelvin
Studio lamps: 3200 Kelvin
Horizon daylight: 5000 Kelvin
Documentation: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/More#Blackbody
Thanks to Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk), who essentially contributed to this with a patch! :)
This is part of my GSoC 2013 project. SVN merge of r57424, r57487, r57507, r57525, r58253 and r58774
