This is more like a static optimisation when some parameters are set to 1.0
or 0.0. In theses case we use a more optimized version of the node.
This also revisit the transmission parameter behaviour to make it closer to
cycles.
Some of them are unecessary and should be removed from the shader instead.
But for now we need a quick fix for the crashes happening on some platforms.
See T55475.
This separate probe rendering from viewport rendering, making possible to
run the baking in another thread (non blocking and faster).
The baked lighting is saved in the blend file. Nothing needs to be
recomputed on load.
There is a few missing bits / bugs:
- Cache cannot be saved to disk as a separate file, it is saved in the DNA
for now making file larger and memory usage higher.
- Auto update only cubemaps does update the grids (bug).
- Probes cannot be updated individually (considered as dynamic).
- Light Cache cannot be (re)generated during render.
- Change gl_context_mutex to a ticket mutex ensuring interactivity even
when rendering.
- Add DRW_custom_pipeline for using DRW outside of the viewport and render
pipeline.
- DRW_opengl_render_context_*** and DRW_gawain_render_context_*** to use
with DRW_custom_pipeline.
- Add possibility to bypass deferred compilation on demand (not User
demand).
- Add union to access DRWMatrixState members more easily.
Note: Metaballs only support the first material slot. Splicing it per
material would create empty Batches. In order to overcome this we set
the batch for other materials to NULL. We added extra checks in EEVEE
and Workbench to not draw when the geom is NULL.
This patch reduce the branching in the lamp loop, improving compilation time
noticeably (2372ms to 1785ms for the default shader).
This should not change the appearance of the shader.
Performance impact is negligeable.
- Uses the roughness setting of the basic eevee material
- renamed gloss_mir to roughness
- set default of roughness to 0.25
- renamed ray_mirror to metallic
- cleaned up material rna (BI mirror struct)
- use BLINN phong model
- normalize incoming/outgoing specular light
- when using camera oriented studiolight, the SolidLight will be used
for specular highlights
- EXPERIMENT: when in world oriented studiolight only the shadow direction will be used.
- change the settings of the internal light to make scenes more
readable
This now can shade actual poly strips that mimics cylinders.
This makes hair coverage exact compared to the line method and result in
smoother fading hair.
This does make the sampling a bit more exact but needs more samples to
converge properly.
Scene lights are rendered when
- v3d is not available
- or shading type is other then OB_MATERIAL
- or shading type is OB_MATERIAL and use_scene_light is true
For some we may add per object overrides, but for most we plan to keep them
strictly per viewport settings. Display settings from the mesh still need to
be moved here, only collections were done to remove that code.
This mean we can now have different shadow resolutions for both.
However each shadow type keep the same size accross all lamps because of
future "real" Cube Shadowmaps limitation and to save texture sampler slots.
That said the cascade shadow resolution could (in the future) still be
changed to be adjustable per sun lamp.
Now they are properly converted to Linear space before interpolation.
Since the only way to get vertex color in eevee and cycles is via the
attribute node with the CD_AUTO_FROM_NAME flag, we have to know at binding
time which type of buffer will be connected to this auto input.
We store this information inside the batch cache (together with the according
uniform name) and pass it as uniform to the shader which does conversion if
needed. The same shader can then be reused to draw another mesh with
different auto layers configuration.
Because:
- Less redundancy.
- Better suffixes.
Also a few modification to GPU_texture_create_* to simplify the API:
- make the format explicit to the texture creation process.
- remove the component count as it's specified in the GPUTextureFormat.
Works on every probe type.
The function to see is EEVEE_lightprobes_obj_visibility_cb.
Set pinfo->vis_data.cached to true makes the computation faster for multiple
views using the same group.
We could even sort the probes by group for that mater to speed things up
even more (only applies to dynamic probes like the planar reflections because
other probes are only rendered one at a time).
This gets rid of the need of a geom shader and instancing.
Both are pretty slow compared to the new method.
The only moment the old method could be better is when scene is filled
with lots of objects and most of the objects in the shadow map appear
on every layer.
But even then, we could optimize the culling and minimize the overhead.
This refactor modernise the use of framebuffers.
It also touches a lot of files so breaking down changes we have:
- GPUTexture: Allow textures to be attached to more than one GPUFrameBuffer.
This allows to create and configure more FBO without the need to attach
and detach texture at drawing time.
- GPUFrameBuffer: The wrapper starts to mimic opengl a bit closer. This
allows to configure the framebuffer inside a context other than the one
that will be rendering the framebuffer. We do the actual configuration
when binding the FBO. We also Keep track of config validity and save
drawbuffers state in the FBO. We remove the different bind/unbind
functions. These make little sense now that we have separate contexts.
- DRWFrameBuffer: We replace DRW_framebuffer functions by GPU_framebuffer
ones to avoid another layer of abstraction. We move the DRW convenience
functions to GPUFramebuffer instead and even add new ones. The MACRO
GPU_framebuffer_ensure_config is pretty much all you need to create and
config a GPUFramebuffer.
- DRWTexture: Due to the removal of DRWFrameBuffer, we needed to create
functions to create textures for thoses framebuffers. Pool textures are
now using default texture parameters for the texture type asked.
- DRWManager: Make sure no framebuffer object is bound when doing cache
filling.
- GPUViewport: Add new color_only_fb and depth_only_fb along with FB API
usage update. This let draw engines render to color/depth only target
and without the need to attach/detach textures.
- WM_window: Assert when a framebuffer is bound when changing context.
This balance the fact we are not track ogl context inside GPUFramebuffer.
- Eevee, Clay, Mode engines: Update to new API. This comes with a lot of
code simplification.
This also come with some cleanups in some engine codes.
Calling the rendering operator seems to kill any other WM_job running, leaving
uncompiled materials into a GPU_MAT_QUEUED state. This then made the probe update
looping indefinitely (all_materials_updated remaining to false).
To fix this, we resume compilation for materials that are in this state.
Cancelling Render before all material compilation could make certain material
remain uncompiled. Fortunately, this is not allowed as of now.
