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When adjusting settings for world textures (with Both/World preview modes),
every tweak would result in the usercount of the texture increasing. As a
result, before long the texture would claim to have over 100 users. Fortunately,
this only appeared to be just a cosmetic issue (i.e. no real memory leak here),
though it was a bit unsettling.
NOTE: this is still a bit glitchy, as now we have flickering when updating
texture settings - the texture still temporarily has a second user during
preview rendering.
There was a missing check for whether color management enabled or not when
converting byte textures to linear space.
This commit also fixes wrong texture preview rendering, which was applying
sRGB transform twice, making procedural textures bright. This will make
float textures being previewed dark (in a linear space) but that's how it
used to behave in pre-OCIO color management.
This change mainly caused by too dark icon generated for texture brushes,
but also makes it a bit more straightforward from what's going on point of view.
Replace old color pipeline which was supporting linear/sRGB color spaces
only with OpenColorIO-based pipeline.
This introduces two configurable color spaces:
- Input color space for images and movie clips. This space is used to convert
images/movies from color space in which file is saved to Blender's linear
space (for float images, byte images are not internally converted, only input
space is stored for such images and used later).
This setting could be found in image/clip data block settings.
- Display color space which defines space in which particular display is working.
This settings could be found in scene's Color Management panel.
When render result is being displayed on the screen, apart from converting image
to display space, some additional conversions could happen.
This conversions are:
- View, which defines tone curve applying before display transformation.
These are different ways to view the image on the same display device.
For example it could be used to emulate film view on sRGB display.
- Exposure affects on image exposure before tone map is applied.
- Gamma is post-display gamma correction, could be used to match particular
display gamma.
- RGB curves are user-defined curves which are applying before display
transformation, could be used for different purposes.
All this settings by default are only applying on render result and does not
affect on other images. If some particular image needs to be affected by this
transformation, "View as Render" setting of image data block should be set to
truth. Movie clips are always affected by all display transformations.
This commit also introduces configurable color space in which sequencer is
working. This setting could be found in scene's Color Management panel and
it should be used if such stuff as grading needs to be done in color space
different from sRGB (i.e. when Film view on sRGB display is use, using VD16
space as sequencer's internal space would make grading working in space
which is close to the space using for display).
Some technical notes:
- Image buffer's float buffer is now always in linear space, even if it was
created from 16bit byte images.
- Space of byte buffer is stored in image buffer's rect_colorspace property.
- Profile of image buffer was removed since it's not longer meaningful.
- OpenGL and GLSL is supposed to always work in sRGB space. It is possible
to support other spaces, but it's quite large project which isn't so
much important.
- Legacy Color Management option disabled is emulated by using None display.
It could have some regressions, but there's no clear way to avoid them.
- If OpenColorIO is disabled on build time, it should make blender behaving
in the same way as previous release with color management enabled.
More details could be found at this page (more details would be added soon):
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.64/Color_Management
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Thanks to Xavier Thomas, Lukas Toene for initial work on OpenColorIO
integration and to Brecht van Lommel for some further development and code/
usecase review!
Shader preview job localizes material without referencing it as a user,
so don't need to unreference itself as a user from this material.
Added BKE_material_free_ex function which could skip user dereferencing.
This also removed old hack with mtex users.
due to old material copies hanging around in the preview database.
This crash happened pretty randomly, but was especially noticeable when using
node groups.
Issue was caused by starting Icon Preview render job from two places:
- Texture buttons for small icon preview
- Properties panel in image editor for large icon of texture
This preview job is starting in suspended mode and if new instance of the same job is
starting, suspended job will be totally stopped. This is normally for cases when you're
changing different settings -- in this case you'd wouldn't want re-render be triggered
on every slide change.
But what we've have with brush preview is that two instances of this job were creating for
large and small icon separately, but because of described policy only one icon was rendered.
If suspended job is getting to be stopped, check if it was started for the same icon
resolution and if not, that resolution will be also rendered in new job.
So it'll be still minimal re-rendering happens, but in cases when job was started from
two places for different icon sizes it'll work just fine.
For premultiplied alpha images, this makes any color space conversion for the image
or render output work on color without alpha multiplied in.
This is typically useful to avoid fringing when the image was or will be composited
over a light background. If the image will be composited over a black background on
the other hand, leaving this option off will give correct results.
In an ideal world, there should never be any color space conversion on images with
alpha, since it's undefined what to do then, but in practice it's useful to have
this option.
Patch by Troy Sobotka, with changes by me.
icon is set'
* Main problem was calling BKE_icon_changed too much, blocked previews
from updating
* Also fixed clearing the icon when it's not a valid image path
Review link: http://codereview.appspot.com/4356045/
Texture preview render now doesn't increment/decrement material->texture
user counts anymore. Blenders library.c code could use some overhaul
once to support data relinkage and copying around better. :)
Pressing ESC on material icon preview changes made it stop updating
the icons. Was caused by default 'break' callback testing ESC and
not resetting it. Now it uses same break callback as other previews.
- "need exec" flag was cleared in wrong tree for preview renders
(it should clear it in the copy, i did in original).
This fixes projection paint on images with previews open
- Previews for nodes were copied always, now only for previews
invoked by node editor itself.
Two bugs in one:
- Lukas commit monday for new group/socket handling accidentally removed
to set socketype in stacks, which as used by (texture) nodes to detect
whether value, color or vector had to be read.
Result was that all texture nodes were rendering as B&W
- Old 2.5 bug: preview renders for texture nodes didn't call a
NodeEndExec function, which gave crashes on deleting nodes.
The change in interface_hanlers.c is only a comment to explain
how keymaps are being found.
Object color option now is incorporated in preview render, and
in display in 3D window.
Note that Object-color is "modulating" the render result, it just
multiplies... which is very limited for practical use. This was
added for Apricot game project. The original meaning however was
to replace diffuse only... so specular and light work still correct.
ALso made header for properties editor start on top, to reflect
default (report in tracker).
New option to start threaded wmJobs, with flag WM_JOB_SUSPEND.
This makes the job wait 1 timer step before running.
Used now for Material Icon render renders, which makes the
big preview to be always rendered first while using UI.