Previously Noise and Wave texture nodes would use noise functions within a [0,1]
range for distortion effects. We either add or subtract noise from coordinates,
never do both at same time. This led to the texture drastically shifting on the
diagonal axis of a plane / cube. This behavior makes the Distortion input hard
to control or animate. Capabilities of driving it with other texture are also
limited, diagonal shifting is very apparent.
This was fixed by offsetting the noise function to a signed range and making it
zero-centered. This way noise is uniformly added and subtracted from coordinates.
Texture pattern sticks to main coordinates which makes it way easier to control.
This change is not strictly backwards compatible, there is versioning to ensure
the scale of the distortion remains similar, but the particular pattern can be
a little different.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6177
Modes: Linear interpolation (default), stepped linear, smoothstep and smootherstep.
This also includes an additional option for the **Clamp node** to switch between **Min Max** (default) and **Range** mode.
This was needed to allow clamping when **To Max** is less than **To Min**.
Reviewed By: JacquesLucke, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5827
When creating shaders and using maths functions it is expected that Blender should match functions in other DCC applications, game engines and shading languages such as GLSL and OSL.
This patch adds missing functions to the Blender maths node.
Ideally, it would be nice to have these functions available to vectors too but that is not part of this patch.
This patch adds the following functions trunc, snap, wrap, compare, pingpong, sign, radians, degrees, cosh, sinh, tanh, exp, smoothmin and inversesqrt.
Sign function is based on GLSL and OSL functions and returns zero when x == 0.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5957
The Principled BSDF uses Microfacet closures that include a fresnel term,
which are a special case since their weight tends to be near white even
if their average contribution is fairly low.
The sample weight is scaled by the average fresnel weight to account for
this, but the denoising albedo still used the unscaled weight.
This was fine for the original denoiser, but apparently OIDN can't handle
the resulting albedo pass well. Therefore, this commit adds the described
scaling to the albedo pass contribution as well.
This problem was described in T69770.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6289
The Random Per Island attribute is a random float associated with each
connected component (island) of the mesh. It is particularly useful
when artists want to add variations to meshes composed of separate
units. Like tree leaves created using particle systems, wood planks
created using array modifiers, or abstract splines created using AN.
Reviewed By: Sergey Sharybin, Jacques Lucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6154
The OptiX intersection program for curves uses "optixGetObjectRayDirection"
to get the ray direction in object space (which was inverse transformed
with the current transformation matrix). OptiX does no additional operations
on it, so if there is a scaling transform, the direction is not normalized.
But the curve intersection routine expects that. In addition, the distances
used in "optixGetRayTmax()" and "optixReportIntersection()" are in world
space, so need to adjust them accordingly.
When using OpenCL with Cycles the rendering time increased substantial.
After doing some tests the bottleneck was found in 4d voronoi and 2d and
3d smooth voronoi.
This change will hide these behind a specific compile directive so the
speed will improve.
AMD RX480 + BMW scene
2.80 (3:10)
2.81 (5:48)
2.81 excluding 4d voronoi+2d/3d smooth (3:50)
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6231
This is intended for developers on Windows primarily:
Now, CUDA architectures of type compute_xx are supported. This allows for quicker builds,
at the expense of the CUDA driver running ptxas the first time a kernel is loaded.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5953
Cycles casts a pointer from ShaderDataTinyStorage to ShaderData, these structs by default had different alignments however (the former was 1-byte aligned, the latter 16-byte). This caused undefined behavior on at least the CUDA platform. Forcing both structs to use the same alignment fixes this.
CUDA toolkits newer than 10.1 run into this because of a compiler optimization.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5883
Small memory reduction change by only storing the pixels of the combined
pass when it is being shown in the viewport. Previously the combined pass
was always calculated and present in the output buffer. The combined pass
will still be calculated.
It is a limitation in Blender that Cycles always had a combined pass.
This patch will remove the limitation from the code base of Cycles.
Blender still has the limitation, but will always request the combined
renderpass when doing final rendering.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5784
This patch adds a new Vertex Color node. The node also returns the alpha
of the vertex color layer as an output.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5767
This patch allows the Voronoi node to operate in 1D, 2D, and 4D space.
It also adds a Randomness input to control the randomness of the texture.
Additionally, it adds three new modes of operation:
- Smooth F1: A smooth version of F1 Voronoi with no discontinuities.
- Distance To Edge: Returns the distance to the edges of the cells.
- N-Sphere Radius: Returns the radius of the n-sphere inscribed in
the cells. In other words, it is half the distance between the
closest feature point and the feature point closest to it.
And it removes the following three modes of operation:
- F3.
- F4.
- Cracks.
The Distance metric is now called Euclidean, and it computes the actual
euclidean distance as opposed to the old method of computing the squared
euclidean distance.
This breaks backward compatibility in many ways, including the base case.
Reviewers: brecht, JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5743
This change allows the user to select a renderpass in the 3d viewport.
Added support for external renderers to extend the `View3DShading` struct.
This way Blender doesn't need to know the features an external render engine wants to support.
Note that the View3DShading is also available in the scene->display.shading; although this is
supported, it does not make sense for render engines to put something here as it is really
scene/workbench related.
Currently cycles assumes that it always needs to calculate the combined pass; it ignores the
`pass_flag` in KernelFilm. We could optimize this but that was not in scope of this change
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5689
This patch extends Musgrave noise to operate in 1D, 2D, 3D, and 4D
space. The Color output was also removed because it was identical
to the Fac output.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5566
This avoids artifacts for bump mapping and diffuse BSDFs, where the bump
normal deviates far from the actual normal.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5399
Some implementations of the standard c++ library doesn't define its
functions in the global namespace. So the `isinf` function might
fail in some systems. To fix this, we use the `ensure_finite`
function instead.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5687
This patch rewrites the Mapping node to support dynamic inputs. The
Max and Min options have been removed. They can be added as Min and
Max Vector Math nodes manually.
Texture nodes still use the old matrix-based mapping. A new SVM node
`NODE_TEXTURE_MAPPING` has been added to preserve this functionality.
Similarly, in GLSL, a `mapping_mat4` function has been added.
Reviewers: brecht, JacquesLucke
This patch extends perlin noise to operate in 1D, 2D, 3D, and 4D
space. The noise code has also been refactored to be more readable.
The Color output and distortion patterns changed, so this patch
breaks backward compatibility. This is due to the fact that we
now use random offsets as noise seeds, as opposed to swizzling
and constants offsets.
Reviewers: brecht, JacquesLucke
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5560
This will be used by Optix to help the compiler figure out scoping. It is not
used by other devices currently, but worth testing if it helps there too.
Ref D5363
Before there were two options: Paste to original layer called "Paste" and Paste to active layer called "Paste & Merge"
Now, by default the paste is in active layer and the "Paste & Merge" has been renamed "Paste".
For old "Paste", now is called "Paste by Layer" and it's not the default value anymore.
Note: Minor edits to add icons not present in Differential revision.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5591
Use a single loop to iterate over all lights, reducing divergence and amount
of code to generate. Moving ray intersection calls out of conditionals will
also help the Optix compiler.
Ref D5363
