Run into it when was re-working tiles in the Cycles X project.
Make sure the storage of highlighted tiles is emptied when the
render is finished or cancelled).
The error is only possible to happen if the engine did not do
something correct, but is still good to deal with such situations
more gracefully.
Should be no visible change on user side.
Preparing for render parts removal as part of Cycles X project.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12317
The idea is to only allocate pixel storage only when there is an actual
data to be written to them.
This moves the code forward a better support of high-res rendering when
pixel storage is not allocated until render engine is ready to provide
pixel data.
Is expected to be no functional changes for neither users no external
engines. The only difference is that the motion and depth passes will
be displayed as transparent for until render engine provides any tile
result (at which point the pixels will be allocated and initialized to
infinite depth).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12195
In this bug report it resulted in rendering animations stopping too early,
but this affected more areas.
After the previous cleanup commit, it becomes clear that frame and ctime
values were mixed up.
Confusingly, BKE_scene_frame_get did not match the frame number as expected by
BKE_scene_frame_set. Instead it return the value after time remapping, which
is commonly named "ctime".
* Rename BKE_scene_frame_get to BKE_scene_ctime_get
* Add a new BKE_scene_frame_get that matches BKE_scene_frame_set
* Use int/float depending if fractional frame is expected
For some custom rendering engines it's advantageous not to write the image files to disk.
An example would be a network rendering engine which does it's own image writing.
This feature is only supported when bl_use_postprocess is also disabled, since render
engines can't influence the saving behavior of the sequencer or compositor.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11512
For Cycles, when enabling the Persistent Data option, the full render data
will be preserved from frame-to-frame in animation renders and between
re-renders of the scene. This means that any modifier evaluation, BVH
building, OpenGL vertex buffer uploads, etc, can be done only once for
unchanged objects. This comes at an increased memory cost.
Previously there option was named Persistent Images and had a more limited
impact on render time and memory.
When using multiple view layers, only data from a single view layer is
preserved to keep memory usage somewhat under control. However objects
shared between view layers are preserved, and so this can speedup such
renders as well, even single frame renders.
For Eevee and Workbench this option is not available, however these engines
will now always reuse the depsgraph for animation and multiple view layers.
This can significantly speed up rendering.
These engines do not support sharing the depsgraph between re-renders, due
to technical issues regarding OpenGL contexts. Support for this could be added
if those are solved, see the code comments for details.
Eevee is now used for Freestyle rendering by default, since other engines are
unlikely to have support for this. Workbench and Cycles do their own rendering.
RenderEngine add-ons can do their own Freestyle rendering by setting
bl_use_custom_freestyle = True.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8335
