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
Object Info node can be useful to give some variation to a single material assigned to multiple instances. This patch adds support for Viewport and BI.
{F499530}
Example: {F499528}
Reviewers: merwin, brecht, dfelinto
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: duarteframos, fclem, homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2425
Pretty straight forward actually, just do not bother about obdata part
of vgroups in that case, only copy object part of it.
And let's curse once again those stuff spread accross several types of
data-blocks...
Previously, it was only possible to choose a single GPU or all of that type (CUDA or OpenCL).
Now, a toggle button is displayed for every device.
These settings are tied to the PCI Bus ID of the devices, so they're consistent across hardware addition and removal (but not when swapping/moving cards).
From the code perspective, the more important change is that now, the compute device properties are stored in the Addon preferences of the Cycles addon, instead of directly in the User Preferences.
This allows for a cleaner implementation, removing the Cycles C API functions that were called by the RNA code to specify the enum items.
Note that this change is neither backwards- nor forwards-compatible, but since it's only a User Preference no existing files are broken.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Subscribers: brecht, juicyfruit, mib2berlin, Blendify
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2338
All in all, this patch adds an Alembic importer, an Alembic exporter,
and a new CacheFile data block which, for now, wraps around an Alembic
archive. This data block is made available through a new modifier ("Mesh
Sequence Cache") as well as a new constraint ("Transform Cache") to
somewhat properly support respectively geometric and transformation data
streaming from alembic caches.
A more in-depth documentation is to be found on the wiki, as well as a
guide to compile alembic: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/
User:Kevindietrich/AlembicBasicIo.
Many thanks to everyone involved in this little project, and huge shout
out to "cgstrive" for the thorough testings with Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini
and Realflow as well as @fjuhec, @jensverwiebe and @jasperge for the
custom builds and compile fixes.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton, mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2060
Problem was in fact slightly wider, File space was nearly not taking into account
library navigation case and its 'virtual' directoris, except in a few places.
Add a wrapper around BLI_is_dir that also check for lib paths, and used it in
ED_file_change_dir(), such that we now always check path is a
valid directory - in the filebrowser context, not filesytem context. ;)
Separate the creation of trees from EditMesh from the creation of trees from DerivedMesh.
This was meant to simplify the API, but didn't work out so well.
`bvhtree_from_mesh_*` actually is working as `bvhtree_from_derivedmesh_*`.
This is inconsistent with the trees created from EditMesh. Since for create them does not use the DerivedMesh.
In such cases the dm is being used only to cache the tree in the struct DerivedMesh. What is immediately released once
bvhtree is being used in functions that change(tag) the DM cleaning the cache.
- Use a filter function so users of SnapObjectContext can define how edit-mesh elements are handled.
- Remove em_evil.
- bvhtree of EditMesh is now really cached in the snap functions.
- Code becomes organized and easier to maintain.
This is an important patch for future improvements in snapping functions.
Now CD_SHAPEKEY_INDEX customdata is stored in edit-mode when hooks and vertex parents are used.
This also fixes a bug where undo would loose key-index data.
Move to structs for BM_mesh_bm_to/from_me to avoid passing many argument, which mostly aren't used.
This fixes a lot of things in NLA RNA update handling (which basically did not update anything previously).
There are more update issues with this editor though...
This introduces a snap-context that can be re-used for casting rays into the scene
(by operators such as walk-mode, ruler and transform code).
This can be used to cache data between calls too.
This is a new option for panorama cameras to render
stereo that can be used in virtual reality devices
The option is available under the camera panel when Multi-View is enabled (Views option in the Render Layers panel)
Known limitations:
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* Parallel convergence is not supported (you need to set a convergence distance really high to simulate this effect).
* Pivot was not supposed to affect the render but it does, this has to be looked at, but for now set it to CENTER
* Derivatives in perspective camera need to be pre-computed or we shuld get rid of kcam->dx/dy (Sergey words, I don't fully grasp the implication shere)
* This works in perspective mode and in panorama mode. However, for fully benefit from this effect in perspective mode you need to render a cube map. (there is an addon for this, developed separately, perhaps we could include it in master).
* We have no support for "neck distance" at the moment. This is supposed to help with objects at short distances.
* We have no support to rotate the "Up Axis" of the stereo plane. Meaning, we hardcode 0,0,1 as UP, and create the stereo pair related to that. (although we could take the camera local UP when rendering panoramas, this wouldn't work for perspective cameras.
* We have no support for interocular distance attenuation based on the proximity of the poles (which helps to reduce the pole rotation effect/artifact).
THIS NEEDS DOCS - both in 2.78 release log and the Blender manual.
Meanwhile you can read about it here: http://code.blender.org/2015/03/1451
This patch specifically dates from March 2015, as you can see in the code.blender.org post. Many thanks to all the reviewers, testers and minor sponsors who helped me maintain spherical-stereo for 1 year.
All that said, have fun with this. This feature was what got me started with Multi-View development (at the time what I was looking for was Fulldome stereo support, but the implementation is the same). In order to make this into Blender I had to make it aiming at a less-specic user-case Thus Multi-View started. (this was December 2012, during Siggraph Asia and a chat I had with Paul Bourke during the conference). I don't have the original patch anymore, but you can find a re-based version of it from March 2013, right before I start with the Multi-View project https://developer.blender.org/P332
Reviewers: sergey, dingto
Subscribers: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1223
Steps to reproduce fixed glitches were:
* Change any editor to be file browser from menu, Ctrl+O *from the file browser area*, Esc -> area reset to what it was before changing to file browser initially
* Ctrl+O from any area, F12, Esc -> returns to initial editor in full-screen (expected is file browser in full-screen)
Fixes T46229
Core of the fix is removing old area from spacedata list when going back to previous area (see ED_area_prevspace -> BKE_spacedata_remove). Also, when creating a new temp area we now don't exit old area anymore (needed so SpaceFile->op is kept, but it also makes sense in general)
Aaand finally removes some ugly hacks.
Tested quite a bit, so I think it's safe to apply (besides of remark below), just would like to get things double checked and confirmed. After all, this full-screen stuff finally starts to feel like it's working :P
Note, there's still a memory leak when quitting Blender with temp area open. Haven't found out how to solve yet, but it's not that important for review anyway.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: plyczkowski, Blendify
Maniphest Tasks: T46229
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1531
The Vector Transform node is a useful node which is present in the Cycles renderer.
{F144283}
This patch implements the Vector Transform node for GLSL mode and the internal renderer.
Example: {F273060}
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, sergey
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, sergey
Subscribers: psy-fi, duarteframos, RobM, lightbwk, sergey, AlexKowel, valentin_b4w, Evgeny_Rodygin, yurikovelenov
Projects: #bf_blender:_next
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D909
It also fixes another issue (crash) related to symmetric editing.
Quite involved, we (try to!) fix complete broken logic of parts of particle code, which would use poly index
as tessface one (or vice-versa). Issue most probably goes back to BMesh integration time...
This patch mostly fixes particle editing mode:
- Adding/removing particles when using generative modifiers (like subsurf) should now work.
- Adding/removing particles with a non-tessellated mesh (i.e. one having ngons) should also mostly work.
- X-axis-mirror-editing particles over ngons does not really work, not sure why currently.
- All this in both 'modes' (with or without using modifier stack for particles).
Tech side:
- Store a deformed-only DM in particle modifier data.
- Rename existing DM to make it clear it's a final one.
- Use deformed-only DM's tessface2poly mapping to 'solve' poly/tessface mismatches.
- Make (part of) mirror-editing code able to use a DM instead of raw mesh, so that we can mirror based on final DM
when editing particles using modifier stack (mandatory, since there is no way currently to find orig tessface
from an final DM tessface index).
Note that this patch is not really nice and clean (current particles are beyond hope on this side anyway),
it's more like some urgency bandage. Whole crap needs complete rewrite anyway,
BMesh's polygons make it really hard to work with current system (and looptri would not help much here).
Also, did not test everything possibly affected by those changes, so it needs some users' testing & validation too.
Reviewers: psy-fi
Subscribers: dfelinto, eyecandy
Maniphest Tasks: T47038
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1685
This was getting very hard to follow,
- mixing input/output args.
- mixing arg order between functions.
- arg names (mode, snap_mode) rename to (snap_to, snap_select)
