Tested with AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100, where it brings performance back to 2.80
level, and combined with recent changes is about 2-15% faster than 2.80 in
our benchmark scenes.
This somehow appears to specifically address the issue where adding more shader
nodes leads to slower runtime. I found no additional speedup by applying this
to change to 2.80 or removing the new shader node code.
Ref T71479
Patch by Jeroen Bakker.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6252
We appear to be hitting some limit where adding any amount of code causes a
significant performance regression, no matter what it does. To work around
that a new node level was added.
Ref T71479
Back in 2.79 you could either use the debug panel or an
environment variable to override using OpenCL for unsupported
hardware. Which was rather useful for developers when testing
on NVidia just to be sure the CL kernels at-least build properly.
This broke in rB949ab753bb2
This diff restores testing though the CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST
environment variable.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7202
Reviewers: brecht
* Space: volume density and step size in object or world space
* Step Size: override automatic step size
* Clipping: values below this are ignored for tighter volume bounds
The last two are Cycles only currently.
Ref T73201
By default it will now set the step size to the voxel size for smoke and
volume objects, and 1/10th the bounding box for procedural volume shaders.
New settings are:
* Scene render/preview step rate: to globally adjust detail and performance
* Material step rate: multiplied with auto detected per-object step size
* World step size: distance to steo for world shader
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1777
Voxels are loaded directly from the OpenVDB grid. Rendering still only supports
dense grid, so memory usage is not great for sparse volumes, this is to be
addressed in the future.
Ref T73201
Rather than passing around void pointers, various Blender image sources now
subclass this. OIIO is also just another type of image loader.
Also fixes T67718: Cycles viewport render crash editing point density settings
This is mostly straightforward, but required some refactoring to ensure that
the default volume material does not always turn on the volume feature for GPU
rendering.
Enabling viewport denoising causes Cycles to use a multi-device, which always returned NULL when
asked for OSL memory and would subsequently crash. This fixes that by returning the correct OSL
memory pointer from the CPU device in the special viewport denoising multi-device.
