Previously, every RenderPass would have a bitfield that specified its type. That limits the number of passes to 32, which was reached a while ago.
However, most of the code already supported arbitrary RenderPasses since they were also used to store Multilayer EXR images.
Therefore, this commit completely removes the passflag from RenderPass and changes all code to use the unique pass name for identification.
Since Blender Internal relies on hardcoded passes and to preserve compatibility, 32 pass names are reserved for the old hardcoded passes.
To support these arbitrary passes, the Render Result compositor node now adds dynamic sockets. For compatibility, the old hardcoded sockets are always stored and just hidden when the corresponding pass isn't available.
To use these changes, the Render Engine API now includes a function that allows render engines to add arbitrary passes to the render result. To be able to add options for these passes, addons can now add their own properties to SceneRenderLayers.
To keep the compositor input node updated, render engine plugins have to implement a callback that registers all the passes that will be generated.
From a user perspective, nothing should change with this commit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2443
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2444
Object Info node can be useful to give some variation to a single material assigned to multiple instances. This patch adds support for Viewport and BI.
{F499530}
Example: {F499528}
Reviewers: merwin, brecht, dfelinto
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: duarteframos, fclem, homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2425
This commit contains all the changes required for most optimal maximum threads
number bump. This is needed to avoid possibly unneeded initialization or data
allocation on systems with lower threads count.
TODO: Still need to review arrays in render data structures from render_types.h,
P.S. We might remove actual bump of max threads from this patch, so when we'll
be applying the patch we can do all the preparation work and then do actual
bump of max threads.
Reviewers: mont29, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: mont29, campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T43306
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1343
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:
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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.
