A new checkbox "High quality" is provided in camera settings to enable
this. This creates a depth of field that is much closer to the rendered
result and even supports aperture blades in the effect, but it's more
expensive too. There are optimizations to do here since the technique is
very fill rate heavy.
People, be careful, this -can- lock up your screen if depth of field
blurring is too extreme.
Technical details:
This uses geometry shaders + instancing and is an adaptation of
techniques gathered from
http://bartwronski.com/2014/04/07/bokeh-depth-of-field-going-insane-http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2011/SousaSchulzKazyan%20-
%20in%20Real-Time%20Rendering%20Course).ppt
TODOs:
* Support dithering to minimize banding.
* Optimize fill rate in geometry shader.
The purpose of this change is to add extra possibility to render engines and
export scripts to reduce peak memory footprint during their operation.
This new argument should be used with care since it'll leave mesh in not really
compatible with blender format, but it's ok to be used on temp meshes.
Unfortunately, it's hard to get scene where it'll show huge benefit because
in my tests with cycles peak memory is reached in MEM_printmemlist_stats().
However, in the file with sintel dragon it gives around 1gig of memory benefit
after removing the polys which would allow other heavy to compute stuff such as
hair (or even pointiness calculation) to not be a peak memory usage.
In any case, this change is nice to have IMO, and only means more parts of
scene export code should be optimized memory-wise.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1125
Issue this commit is addressed to is that particle system and particle modifier
will contain caches once derived mesh was requested and this cached data will
never be freed.
This could easily lead to unwanted memory peaks during synchronization stage
of rendering.
The idea is to have RNA function in object which would free caches which can't
be freed otherwise. This function is not intended to deal with derived final
since it might be used by other objects (for example by object with boolean
modifier).
This cache freeing is only happening in the background rendering and locked
interface rendering.
From quick tests with victor file this change reduces peak memory usage by
command line rendering by around 6% (1780MB vs. 1883MB). For rendering from
the interface it's about 12% (1763MB vs. 1998MB).
Reviewers: campbellbarton, lukastoenne
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1121
OpenCL doesn't let you to get address of vector components, which
is kinda annoying. On the other hand, maybe now compiler will have
more chances to optimize something out.
This flag is global for all the sessions and never changes. so it doesn't
really make sense to pass it around to all sessions and synchronization
routines.
Switched to a static member of BlenderSession now, but it's probably more
logical to introduce some sort of BlenderGlobals. Doesn't currently worth
a hassle for a single boolean flag tho.
In the worst case it'll do nothing, in the best case it might give some percent
of speedup because of better cache coherency.
Currently it's all handled as an override on blender_python level, don't really
see reason to penetrate the boolean flag further into sync code. This can always
be done later if needed.
This attribute means how "pointy" the geometry surface is, which allows to do
effects like dirt maps and wear-off effects on render geometry. This means the
attribute is calculated for the final mesh which means no baking (which implies
UV unwrap) is needed. Apart from this the behavior is quite close to how vertex
dirty colors works.
The new attribute is available as an output socket of Geometry node.
There's no penalty for the render time, only some delay on scene preparation
(the delay is linear of the mesh complexity).
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: eyecandy, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1086
This is the core code for it, tools (datatransfer and modifier) will come in next commits).
RNA api is already there, though.
See the code for details, but basically, we define, for each 'smooth fan'
(which is a set of adjacent loops around a same vertex that are smooth, i.e. have a single same normal),
a 'loop normal space' (or lnor space), using auto-computed normal and relevant edges, and store
custom normal as two angular factors inside that space. This allows to have custom normals
'following' deformations of the geometry, and to only save two shorts per loop in new clnor CDLayer.
Normal manipulation (editing, mixing, interpolating, etc.) shall always happen with plain 3D vectors normals,
and be converted back into storage format at the end.
Clnor computation has also been threaded (at least for Mesh case, not for BMesh), since the process can
be rather heavy with high poly meshes.
Also, bumping subversion, and fix mess in 2.70 versioning code.
The issue was caused by the whole viewplane used for mapping calculation
which would for sure lead to differences between final camera render and
viewport render from the camera view.
This commit makes it so window texture mapping is the same as final render
when viewing from the camera in viewport render.
It's not totally clear what's the right thing to do when viewport is not
in the camera view mode and that part is left unchanged.
This is the same as blender internal's texture mapping from another object,
so this way it's possible to control texture space of one object by another.
Quite straightforward change apart from the workaround for the stupidness of
the dependency graph. Now shader has flag telling that it depends on object
transform. This is the simplest way to know which shaders needs to be tagged
for update when object changes. This might give some false-positive tags now
but reducing them should not be priority for Cycles and rather be a priority
to bring new dependency graph.
Also GLSL preview does not support using other object for mapping.
This is actually correct for BI shading as well and to be addressed as
a part of general GLSL viewport improvements since it's not really clear
how to support this in GLSL.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: eyecandy, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1021
Root of the issue goes to the fact that since the very beginning Cycles was
using ZYX euler rotation for mapping shader node but blender was always
using XYZ euler rotation.
This commit switches Cycles to use XYZ euler order and adds versioning code
to preserve backward compatibility.
There was no really nice solution here because either we're ending up with
versioning code or we'll need to deal with all sort of exceptions from blender
side in order to support ZYX order for the mapping node. The latest one is
also creepy from the other render engines points of view -- that might break
compatibility with existing bindings or introduce some extra headache for them
in the future.
This could also become a PITA for us with need of supporting all sort of weird
and wonderful exceptions in the refactored viewport project.
NOTE: This commit breaks forward compatibility, meaning opening new files in
older blender might not give proper result if Mapping node was used.
Also, libraries are to be re-saved separately from the scene file, otherwise
versioning code for them wouldn't run if scene file was re-saved with new
version of blender.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D973
Issue was, when requesting (building) lnors for a mesh that has
autosmooth disabled, one would expect to simply get vnors as lnors.
Until now, it wasn't the case, which was bad e.g. for normal projections
of loops in recent remap code (projecting along split loop normals
when you would expect projection along vertex normals...).
Also, removed the 'angle' parameter from RNA's `mesh.calc_normals_split`.
This should *always* use mesh settings (both autosmooth and smoothresh),
otherwise once again we'd get inconsistencies in some cases.
Will update fbx and obj addons too.
This patch adds the option to set minimum/maximum latitude/longitude values for
the equirectangular panorama camera in Cycles, as discussed in T34400.
The separate functions in kernel_projection.h are needed because the regular
ones are also used as helper functions for environment map sampling.
Reviewers: #cycles, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, sergey
Subscribers: dingto, sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D960
This patch makes Cycles ignore the time spent in BVH construction etc. when
estimating the remaining time. Considering that the remaining time is calculated
based on the average time per tile so far, as far as I understand it makes no
sense to include the preprocessing time.
Reviewers: sergey, #cycles
Reviewed By: sergey, #cycles
Subscribers: sergey
Projects: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D895
For CPU it gives available instructions set (SSE, AVX and so).
For GPU CUDA it reports most of the attribute values returned by
cuDeviceGetAttribute(). Ideally we need to only use set of those
which are driver-specific (so we don't clutter system info with
values which we can get from GPU specifications and be sure they
stay the same because driver can't affect on them).
Main purpose of this is to bring new gflags library which is more likely
to have a fix for undefined order of static variables initialization and
also to bring new glog where some compilation error are fixed (which are
only visible with more strict checks with clang and c++11 enabled).
The reason for this is that we don't sue SSE optimization for 32bit platforms
because of T36316.
Things to look into:
- Nail the root of the issue of that report
- Implement non-SSE traversal code for QBVH
Seems the parent check didn't go deep enough and only checked single parent.
Now it checks the chain of parents which seems to be correct but requires
much more intense testing.
We might remove this again in the future, but for testing purposes
during the release cycle, this will be useful.
The setting defaults to QBVH, and can be found in the Performance panel.
This commit enables QBVH optimization structure automatically if rendering
with CPU and SSE2 support is detected.
This brings render time of agent shot back to the speed it used to be before
the watertight intersections commit, single koro and sponza scenes are about
7% faster here.
