This gets rid of the bottleneck of allocation / free of thousands of elements every frame.
Cache time (Eevee) (test scene is default file with cube duplicated 3241 times)
pre-patch: 23ms
post-patch: 14ms
The system now uses several 3D textures in order to decouple every steps of the volumetric rendering.
See https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite for more details.
On the technical side, instead of using a compute shader to populate the 3D textures we use layered rendering with a geometry shader to render 1 fullscreen triangle per 3D texture slice.
This moves background images out of the 3D viewport,
to be used only as camera reference images.
For 3D viewport references,
background images can be used, see: D2827
Some work is still needed
(background option isn't working at the moment).
Engine is not stored in WorkSpaces. That defines the "context" engine, which
is used for the entire UI.
The engine used for the poll of nodes (add node menu, new nodes when "Use Nodes")
is obtained from context.
Introduce a ViewRender struct for viewport settings that are defined for
workspaces and scene. This struct will be populated with the hand-picked
settings that can be defined per workspace as per the 2.8 design.
* use_scene_settings
* properties editor: workshop + organize context path
Use Scene Settings
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For viewport drawing, Workspaces have an option to use the Scene render
settings (F12) instead of the viewport settings.
This way users can quickly preview the final render settings, engine and
View Layer. This will affect all the editors in that workspace, and it will be
clearly indicated in the top-bar.
Properties Editor: Add Workspace and organize context path
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We now have the properties of:
Scene, Scene > Layer, Scene > World, Workspace
[Scene | Workspace] > Render Layer > Object
[Scene | Workspace] > Render Layer > Object > Data
(...)
Reviewers: Campbell Barton, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2842
Textures were bound once. But since it was not unbound it's bind_num would not change and considered still bound next time a shader needed it.
Fix T52866
Fix T52855
Partial revert of 9068c0743e.
This commit tried to do two things:
(1) Fix UBO binding logic [good]
(2) "Improve" texture binding logic [bad]
Don't ever mix different fixes and refactors in the same commit.
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
Ubo needs to be rebound every times the shader changes.
This simplify the logic a bit.
Also modify texture binding logic to potentially reuse more already bound textures.
This fix the crappy binding logic.
Note the current method is doing a lot of useless binding. We should somewhat order the texture so that reused textures are already bound most of the time.
This is in order to use the same texture on multiple sampler.
Also texture counter is reset after each shading group. This mimics the previous behaviour.
- Use only one 2d texture array to store all shadowmaps.
- Allow to change shadow maps resolution.
- Do not output radial distance when rendering shadowmaps. This will allow fast rendering of shadowmaps when we will drop the use of geometry shaders.
We do have an history of those pieces of evil in our code, would be nice
to get fully rid of it, but at the very least let's not add more of them
in new code. :)
This will only be noticeable for drawing many instances.
In contrived use-case with many instances, and `USE_PROFILE` disabled
this can close to double playback FPS.
The option to disable this is left in the code in case we want to
debug memory use.
See D2756 for details.
Old performance debug was doing queries for every frame even if not debugging perf.
Also, it did not record when a pass was draw multiple time, leading to incorect measurement.
New module also allows to group the timers to limit infos displayed.
Also fix the background CPU draw timer.
For users that means you can tweak shaders in the nodetree and things
are way faster. This is a huge improvement, particularly in
systems that have no shader cache.
From the code perspective it means we are no longer re-compiling the
shader every time a value is tweaked in the UI. We are using uniforms
for those values.
It would be slow to add that many uniforms for all the shaders. So
instead we are using UBO (Uniform Buffer Objects).
This fixes the main issue of T51467. However GWN_shaderinterface_create() still
needs to be improvedi. When opening a .blend all shaders are compiled once, so
optimizing it will bring a measurable impact.
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NOTE: This breaks update of Cycles material upon nodetree nodes
tweaking. It will be fixed separately by depsgraph, once tackling T51925
(Animated Eevee values slowdown).
The idea is to make Depsgraph update more granular. The XXX TODO in
rna_nodetree.c will be tackled at that time as well.
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Reviewers: sergey, brecht, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2739
