* 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
The implementation is pretty straightforward.
In Cycles, sampling the shapes is currently done w.r.t. area instead of solid angle.
There is a paper on solid angle sampling for disks [1], but the described algorithm is based on
simply sampling the enclosing square and rejecting samples outside of the disk, which is not exactly
great for Cycles' RNG (we'd need to setup a LCG for the repeated sampling) and for GPU divergence.
Even worse, the algorithm is only defined for disks. For ellipses, the basic idea still works, but a
way to analytically calculate the solid angle is required. This is technically possible [2], but the
calculation is extremely complex and still requires a lookup table for the Heuman Lambda function.
Therefore, I've decided to not implement that for now, we could still look into it later on.
In Eevee, the code uses the existing ltc_evaluate_disk to implement the lighting calculations.
[1]: "Solid Angle Sampling of Disk and Cylinder Lights"
[2]: "Analytical solution for the solid angle subtended at any point by an ellipse via a point source radiation vector potential"
Reviewers: sergey, brecht, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3171
This allows a duplicator (as known as dupli parent) to be in a visible
collection so its duplicated objects are visible, however while being
invisible for the final render.
An object that is a particle emitter is also considered a duplicator.
Many thanks for the reviewers for the extense feedback.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2966
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
random_id() crashes when there is no current dupli object.
We could also throw a Python error when doing it via RNA, but as far as
Cycles is concerned we need to check if instanced.
Iterate over invisible objects too, so lamps can still lit the scene.
Also, now you can use a collection to set an object to invisible, not
only to visible.
For example:
Scene > Master collection > bedroom > furniture
Scene > View Layer > bedroom (visible)
> furniture (invisible)
The View Layer has two linked collections, bedroom and furniture.
This setup will make the furniture collection invisible.
Note: Unlike what was suggested on D2849, this does not make collection
visibility influence camera visibility. I will keep this as a separate
patch.
Reviewers: sergey
Subscribers: sergey, brecht, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2849
It doesn't seem that useful in practice, was mostly added to match some
other renderers but also seems to be causing user confusing and accidental
long render times. So let's just keep the UI simple and remove this.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2768
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.
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.
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
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
It uses an idea of accumulating all possible light reachable across the
light path (without taking shadow blocked into account) and accumulating
total shaded light across the path. Dividing second figure by first one
seems to be giving good estimate of the shadow.
In fact, to my knowledge, it's something really similar to what is
happening in the denoising branch, so we are aligned here which is good.
The workflow is following:
- Create an object which matches real-life object on which shadow is
to be catched.
- Create approximate similar material on that object.
This is needed to make indirect light properly affecting CG objects
in the scene.
- Mark object as Shadow Catcher in the Object properties.
Ideally, after doing that it will be possible to render the image and
simply alpha-over it on top of real footage.
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
When using the Normal output of the Texture Coordinate node on Point and Spot lamps, the coordinates now depend on the rotation of the lamp.
On Area lamps, the Parametric output of the Geometry node now returns UV coordinates on the area lamp.
Credit for the Area lamp part goes to Stefan Werner (from D1995).
Another issue with the modified particle motion blur fix: since
pre and post are used as validity markers, they must be set even
if there is no actual motion, like the original bool flags were.
Otherwise an object starting to move or stopping is interpreted
as having invalid blur data and hidden.
Currently cycles cannot correctly render motion blur for objects that appear or
disappear during the shutter window. Until that can be fixed properly, it may be
better to hide such particles rather than let them render as if they were
stationary for half of the frame.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2125
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 way we avoid passing structures which could be up to
few hundred bytes by value to the utility functions.
Ideally we'll also have to add `const` qualifier in majority
of the calls, but C++ RNA does not allow us to do that because
it does not know if some function modifies contents or not.
