The rendered preview didn't show active layer or wasn't updated if the
layer was disabled. Now the viewport always shows an active layer regardless
of whether it's enabled or disabled.
Expand Cycles to use the new baking API in Blender.
It works on the selected object, and the panel can be accessed in the Render panel (similar to where it is for the Blender Internal).
It bakes for the active texture of each material of the object. The active texture is currently defined as the active Image Texture node present in the material nodetree. If you don't want the baking to override an existent material, make sure the active Image Texture node is not connected to the nodetree. The active texture is also the texture shown in the viewport in the rendered mode.
Remember to save your images after the baking is complete.
Note: Bake currently only works in the CPU
Note: This is not supported by Cycles standalone because a lot of the work is done in Blender as part of the operator only, not the engine (Cycles).
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Bake
Supported Passes:
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Data Passes
* Normal
* UV
* Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission/Subsurface/Emit Color
Light Passes
* AO
* Combined
* Shadow
* Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission/Subsurface/Emit Direct/Indirect
* Environment
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
New operator that can calls a bake function to the current render engine when available. This commit provides no feature for the users, but allows external engines to be accessed by the operator and be integrated with the baking api.
The API itself is simple. Blender sends a populated array of BakePixels to the renderer, and gets back an array of floats with the result.
The Blender Internal (and multires) system is still running independent, but we eventually will pipe it through the API as well. Cycles baking will come next as a separated commit
Python Operator:
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The operator can be called with some arguments, or a user interface can be created for it. In that case the arguments can be ommited and the interface can expose the settings from bpy.context.scene.render.bake
bpy.ops.object.bake(type='COMBINED', filepath="", width=512, height=512, margin=16, use_selected_to_active=False, cage_extrusion=0, cage="", normal_space='TANGENT', normal_r='POS_X', normal_g='POS_Y', normal_b='POS_Z', save_mode='INTERNAL', use_clear=False, use_split_materials=False, use_automatic_name=False)
Note: external save mode is currently disabled.
Supported Features:
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* Margin - Baked result is extended this many pixels beyond the border of each UV "island," to soften seams in the texture.
* Selected to Active - bake shading on the surface of selected object to the active object. The rays are cast from the lowpoly object inwards towards the highpoly object. If the highpoly object is not entirely involved by the lowpoly object, you can tweak the rays start point with Cage Extrusion. For even more control of the cage you can use a Cage object.
* Cage Extrusion - distance to use for the inward ray cast when using selected to active
* Custom Cage - object to use as cage (instead of the lowpoly object).
* Normal swizzle - change the axis that gets mapped to RGB
* Normal space - save as tangent or object normal spaces
Supported Passes:
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Any pass that is supported by Blender renderlayer system. Though it's up to the external engine to provide a valid enum with its supported passes. Normal passes get a special treatment since we post-process them to converted and "swizzled"
Development Notes for External Engines:
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(read them in bake_api.c)
* For a complete implementation example look at the Cycles Bake commit (next).
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Normal map pipeline "consulting" by Andy Davies (metalliandy)
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
The mask make sure the conversion only happens in a few areas of the
buffer.
New Functions:
* IMB_buffer_byte_from_float_mask
* IMB_buffer_float_from_float_mask
The functions are an adaptation of their maskless counterparts without accepting different profiles for the input and output buffers.
Review: Sergey Sharybin
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.
does not work as expected for Viewport and Blender Internal.
As @sergey noticed, this was caused by rBfbf8595, which disabled
rendering for wireframe objects in the viewport. However, the same
function `is_object_hidden` is also used for skipping dupli objects then
which may themselves be renderable.
Now use two variants:
* is_object_restricted is the previous test for general viewport/render visibility (lets wireframe duplicators pass)
* is_object_hidden includes the wireframe check for actual render instances
It was broken in 7544961 and the proper way is to make sure proper obmat is being
copied to object before the draw.
Doing obmat copy in advance doesn't really work because object might appear multiple
times in the duplilist.
Probably will not be noticed in most scenes. This helps reduce noise when you
have multiple lamps with MIS enabled, at the cost of some performance, but from
testing some scenes this seems better.
Shinsuke Irie
Bastien Montagne
Joshua Leung
Brecht Van Lommel
Dalai Felinto
Campbell Barton
Sergey Sharybin
Lukas Tönne
Mitchell Stokes
Thomas Dinges
Pablo Vazquez
Tamito Kajiyama
Gaia Clary