The issue was caused by non-watertight nature of intersection, which is now addressed.
Hopefully it doesn't cause any regression caused by uninitialized precalculated storage.
Normal Map node support for GLSL mode and the internal render (multiple tangents support).
The Normal Map node is a useful node which is present in the Cycles render.
It makes it possible to use normal mapping without additional material node in a node tree.
This patch implements Normal Map node for GLSL mode and the internal render.
Previously only the active UV layer was used to calculate tangents.
This patch adds a new `falloff_type` ('Inverse Coefficients') for Lamps in
Blender-Internal and GLSL.
The current falloff modes use a formula like this inverse-square one:
`I = E × (D^2 / (D^2 + Q × r^2))`
While such a formula is simple for 3D-artists to use, it's algebraically
cumbersome to work with. Game-designers authoring their own shaders
could benefit much more by having direct control of falloff-coefficients:
`I = E × (1.0 / (coefC + coefL × r + coefQ × r^2))`
In this mode, the `distance` parameter is unused (except for 'Sphere'
mode); instead relying on the designer to mathematically-model the
falloff-behavior.
The UI has been patched like so:
{F153843}
Reviewers: brecht, psy-fi
Reviewed By: psy-fi
Subscribers: brita_, antidote, campbellbarton, psy-fi
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1194
The issue was caused by some code accessing R from a functions which
are marked as safe for use from outside of render pipeline.
Now those functions are safe(er) for use.
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
The idea is to avoid having roundtrip from byte to float and back to byte buffer
and use render result's byte buffer to store result of sequencer rendering.
This actually matches to what regular render pipeline is doing and this gives
around 2-3 times speedup of sequencer export on a simple scenes.
With this patch "Particle Info" node from Cycles works in GLSL and BI
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: psy-fi
Note: moved particle info to object render instance instead of
shadeinput during review - Antony.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1313
The issue was caused by render pipeline freeing render parts prior to finishing
exr file writing which resulted in unfinished parts not being written into the
file by save_empty_result_tiles().
As a temporary solution we do explicitly write unfinished parts as empty tiles
to the exr file prior to freeing parts.
Not ideal solution, but should work for the release.
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
Still not ideal but getting closer. Main annoying thing so far is
dependency of Render structure for now. It is used to switch particles
to render mode and could probably also be eliminated.
Is was possible that interface will be refreshed at thesame time
as render engine will start freeing render parts.
Not sure if we can get away without RW mutex here, seems we need
one way of synchronization or another..
The issue was caused by the conflict between preview render which would set
R_NO_IMAGE_LOAD flag on the renderer and texture samplers called outside of
the render pipeline trying to use this flag.
Now the sampler functions accepts extra argument so render pipeline can
still skip image load, but calls outside of the pipeline will nicely load
all the images.
Not cleanest change in the world but good enough to unlock gooseberry team,
and assuming we already had pool passed all over the place it should be all
fine.
Will need to reshuffle arguments into SamplerOptions structure later.
Safe for 2.73...
This revert rB9b0ab890676790bb1e8e77797629b889ea66f69e - needed to set that threshold to a small
negative value to remove the last artefacts reported in T39735, but now I could not reproduce
any with the previous 0.0f value, so restoring it for the time being.
If this 'shadowed neighbor face' case re-appears, we can always choose a value in-between, like -1e-18f...
This is just another issue caused by convertblender overwriting the object
matrix at the time of creating render object. What's even worse here is that
original matrix is not stored for the lamps, only lamp_matrix*view_matrix is
stored.
For sure we can combine lar->co and lar->mat back to mat4, multiply by the
inverse view matrix and get object matrix, but this is not suitable for the
viewport render because every viewport rotation will accumulate the error.
For now let's store worldspace lamp matrix in the LampRen structure and use
it when rotating the scene.
The cause of the crash was identified in an uninitialized member variable
`Main->lock`. Now that struct Main has a few member variables whose
values are dynamically allocated, per-render Freestyle-specific Main data
structures will be allocated and released using `BKE_main_new()` and
`BKE_main_free()`, respectively.
This revision complements the commit rB6135556f4556.
Simply add an option to render settings to save an EXR cache,
just when the render is finished. Also changed RE_ReadRenderResult() to read
cache instead of temp sample files (those are fully volatile now anyway).
Path to save cached render results is an UserPreferences setting.
Also added 'Reload render' feature to the Image Editor (so one can now re-open a blend,
and in an Image Editor hit ctrl-R to (try to) reload last render from cache).
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D553
The issue was caused by the wrong scene used to acquire render result for.
Now made it so render pipeline reports currently rendering scene to the job
via special callback.
This also solves missing tile highlight issue when rendering multiple scenes
in the compositor.
This actually had nothing specific to new split normals, it was an internal limitation
of BI raytracer, which would check against neighbor face shadowing only when they shared
a common vertex, now it also performs checks when both faces have a vertex with a common
"ancestor" (org index).
Note this allows to also fix same issue when using SplitEdges modifier (and potentially
others?), but only when AutoSmooth is enabled (due to some compute/mem overhead, we
do not want to enable this code systematically).
Thanks to Brecht for advices and review!
For example for vector displacement, you may have an EXR texture that has
negative colors values. Blender clamps these by default, now the Colors panel
for textures has a Clamp option to disable this clamping.
This option affects all texture types and is enabled by default, you need
to disable it if you want negative values to have an influence.
Patch by Fredrik Hansson with modifications by me.
Summary:
Made objects update happening from multiple threads. It is a task-based
scheduling system which uses current dependency graph for spawning new
tasks. This means threading happens on object level, but the system is
flexible enough for higher granularity.
Technical details:
- Uses task scheduler which was recently committed to trunk
(that one which Brecht ported from Cycles).
- Added two utility functions to dependency graph:
* DAG_threaded_update_begin, which is called to initialize threaded
objects update. It will also schedule root DAG node to the queue,
hence starting evaluation process.
Initialization will calculate how much parents are to be evaluation
before current DAG node can be scheduled. This value is used by task
threads for faster detecting which nodes might be scheduled.
* DAG_threaded_update_handle_node_updated which is called from task
thread function when node was fully handled.
This function decreases num_pending_parents of node children and
schedules children with zero valency.
As it might have become clear, task thread receives DAG nodes and
decides which callback to call for it.
Currently only BKE_object_handle_update is called for object nodes.
In the future it'll call node->callback() from Ali's new DAG.
- This required adding some workarounds to the render pipeline.
Mainly to stop using get_object_dm() from modifiers' apply callback.
Such a call was only a workaround for dependency graph glitch when
rendering scene with, say, boolean modifiers before displaying
this scene.
Such change moves workaround from one place to another, so overall
hackentropy remains the same.
- Added paradigm of EvaluaitonContext. Currently it's more like just a
more reliable replacement for G.is_rendering which fails in some
circumstances.
Future idea of this context is to also store all the local data needed
for objects evaluation such as local time, Copy-on-Write data and so.
There're two types of EvaluationContext:
* Context used for viewport updated and owned by Main. In the future
this context might be easily moved to Window or Screen to allo
per-window/per-screen local time.
* Context used by render engines to evaluate objects for render purposes.
Render engine is an owner of this context.
This context is passed to all object update routines.
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: lukastoenne
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D94
Summary:
Mainly addressed to solve old TODO with color managed fallback
to CPU mode when displaying render result during rendering.
That fallback was caused by the fact that partial image update
was always acquiring image buffer for composite output and was
only modifying display buffer directly.
This was a big issue for Cycles rendering which renders layers
one by one and wanted to display progress of each individual
layer. This lead to situations when display buffer was based on
what Cycles passes via RenderResult and didn't take layer/pass
from image editor header into account.
Now made it so image buffer which partial update is operating
with always corresponds to what is set in image editor header.
To make Cycles displaying progress of all the layers one by one
made it so image_rect_update switches image editor user to
newly rendering render layer. It happens only once when render
engine starts rendering next render layer, so should not be
annoying for navigation during rendering.
Additional change to render engines was done to make it so
they're able to merge composite output to final result
without marking tile as done. This is done via do_merge_result
argument to end_result() callback. This argument is optional
so should not break script compatibility.
Additional changes:
- Partial display update for Blender Internal now happens from
the same thread as tile rendering. This makes it so display
conversion (which could be pretty heavy actually) is done in
separate threads. Also gives better UI feedback when rendering
easy scene with small tiles.
- Avoid freeing/allocating byte buffer for render result
if it's owned by the image buffer. Only mark it as invalid
for color management.
Saves loads of buffer re-allocations in cases when having
several image editors opened with render result. This change
in conjunction with the rest of the patch gave around
50%-100% speedup of render time when displaying non-combined
pass during rendering on my laptop.
- Partial display buffer update was wrong for buffers with number
of channels different from 4.
- Remove unused window from RenderJob.
- Made image_buffer_rect_update static since it's only used
in single file.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: dingto
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D98
Replaces ThreadedWorker and is gonna to be used
for threaded object update in the future and
some more upcoming changes.
But in general, it's to be used for any task
based subsystem in Blender.
Originally written by Brecht, with some fixes
and tweaks by self.
It allows effects such as baking vertex dirt maps to textures.
Also vertex based painting painting may be faster in the future,
so this is useful to have.
Thanks to Sergey for the review!