Gives ~11% speedup for hair.blend, ~10% for koro_final.blend
Also extract few common subexpressions in hair calculation.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D318
This adds a new option "Sample All Lights" to the Sampling panel in Cycles (Branched Path). When enabled, Cycles will sample all the lights in the scene for the indirect samples, instead of randomly picking one. This is already happening for direct samples, now you can optionally enable it for indirect.
Example file and renders:
Blend file: http://www.pasteall.org/blend/27411
Random: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=68033
All: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=68034
Sampling all lights is a bit slower, but there is less variance, so it should help in situations with many lights.
Patch by myself with some tweaks by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D391
All textures are sampled bi-linear currently with the exception of OSL there texture sampling is fixed and set to smart bi-cubic.
This patch adds user control to this setting.
Added:
- bits to DNA / RNA in the form of an enum for supporting multiple interpolations types
- changes to the image texture node drawing code ( add enum)
- to ImageManager (this needs to know to allocate second texture when interpolation type is different)
- to node compiler (pass on interpolation type)
- to device tex_alloc this also needs to get the concept of multiple interpolation types
- implementation for doing non interpolated lookup for cuda and cpu
- implementation where we pass this along to osl ( this makes OSL also do linear untill I add smartcubic to the interface / DNA/ RNA)
Reviewers: brecht, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: dingto, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D317
MSVC 2008 ignores alignement attribute when assigning from unaligned
float4 vector, returned from other function. Now Cycles uses unaligned
loads instead of casts for win32 in x86 mode.
This adds an option in the Volume Sampling panel, which helps rendering lamps
inside or near volumes with less noise. It can also increase noise though and
needs improvements to support MIS and heterogeneous volumes, but since it's
useful in some cases already (especially world volumes) it's there now.
Based on the code in the old branch by Stuart, with modifications by Thomas
and Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D291
Indirect and Direct samples can now be clamped individually. This way we can clamp the indirect samples (fireflies), while keeping the direct highlights.
Example render: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=66586
WARNING: This breaks backwards compatibility. If you had Clamping enabled in an old file, you must re-enable either Direct/Indirect clamping or both again.
Reviewed by: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D303
Z, Index, normal, UV and vector passes are only affected by surfaces with alpha
transparency equal to or higher than this threshold. With value 0.0 the first
surface hit will always write to these passes, regardless of transparency. With
higher values surfaces that are mostly transparent can be skipped until an opaque
surface is encountered.
The AVX kernel functions for reading image textures could be get used from non-AVX
kernels. These are C++ class methods and need to be marked for inlining, all other
functions are static so they don't leak into other kernels.
Code is not equivalent in min/max part (SSE works with NaNs differently), this results in black dots with cardinal_curve hair.
This reverts commit b886c26d1f.
* AVX is available on Intel Sandy Bridge and newer and AMD Bulldozer and newer.
* We don't use dedicated AVX intrinsics yet, but gcc auto vectorization gives a 3% performance improvement for Caminandes. Tested on an i5-3570, Linux x64.
* No change for Windows yet, MSVC 2008 does not support AVX.
Reviewed by: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D216
