The previous naming scheme for the "selected to active" baking options
lead to confusion and they were not describing what they actually did.
To remedy this, I've added a new settings that does what the older setting implied it did.
Reviewed By: Brecht, Dalai, Andy Davies
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D7733
There should be no user visible change from this, except that tile size
now affects performance. The goal here is to simplify bake denoising in
D3099, letting it reuse more denoising tiles and pass code.
A lot of code is now shared with regular rendering, with the two main
differences being that we read some render result passes from the bake API
when starting to render a tile, and call the bake kernel instead of the
path trace kernel.
With this kind of design where Cycles asks for tiles from the bake API,
it should eventually be easier to reduce memory usage, show tiles as
they are baked, or bake multiple passes at once, though there's still
quite some work needed for that.
Reviewers: #cycles
Subscribers: monio, wmatyjewicz, lukasstockner97, michaelknubben
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3108
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This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
Basically what we address here is to make sure the active object and the cage
are not interferring with the baking result (e.g., when baking Combined).
To do so, we take advantage of the fact that we create our own depsgraph
for baking. So now we can change the cowed objects, instead of the
original ones.
Note: There is still a way to get a crash. If you try to bake from
selected to active when is_cage, but with no cage object, we get an
assert:
```
BLI_assert failed: //source/blender/blenkernel/intern/DerivedMesh.c
mesh_calc_modifiers(), at
(((Mesh *)ob->data)->id.tag & LIB_TAG_COPIED_ON_WRITE_EVAL_RESULT) == 0
```
We can bypass this by passing ob_low instead of ob_low_eval to
bake_mesh_new_from_object on object_bake_api.c:847 . But then the edge
split modifier change will take no effect.
Since we started using looptris we no longer need a triangulation
modifier in the highpoly object. In fact having was causing a bug
where baking would be utterly broken.
This fix normal baking. Combined pass still needs a fix to hide the
objects during baking.
Both the scene and workspace had an active view layer, and it was confusing
which settings were being used or displayed where. Now we always have one,
so there is no mismatch.
The "View Layers" tab in the properties editor is now "View Layer", no longer
showing a list of layers. Instead view layers can be added and removed with
the workspace view layer selector. They are also listed and selectable in the
outliner.
Single layer rendering uses the active view layer from the workspace.
This fixes bugs where the wrong active view layer was used, but more places
remain that are wrong and are now using the first view layer in the scene.
These are all marked with BKE_view_layer_context_active_PLACEHOLDER.
Brecht authored this commit, but he gave me the honours to actually
do it. Here it goes; Blender Internal. Bye bye, you did great!
* Point density, voxel data, ocean, environment map textures were removed,
as these only worked within BI rendering. Note that the ocean modifier
and the Cycles point density shader node continue to work.
* Dynamic paint using material shading was removed, as this only worked
with BI. If we ever wanted to support this again probably it should go
through the baking API.
* GPU shader export through the Python API was removed. This only worked
for the old BI GLSL shaders, which no longer exists. Doing something
similar for Eevee would be significantly more complicated because it
uses a lot of multiplass rendering and logic outside the shader, it's
probably impractical.
* Collada material import / export code is mostly gone, as it only worked
for BI materials. We need to add Cycles / Eevee material support at some
point.
* The mesh noise operator was removed since it only worked with BI
material texture slots. A displacement modifier can be used instead.
* The delete texture paint slot operator was removed since it only worked
for BI material texture slots. Could be added back with node support.
* Not all legacy viewport features are supported in the new viewport, but
their code was removed. If we need to bring anything back we can look at
older git revisions.
* There is some legacy viewport code that I could not remove yet, and some
that I probably missed.
* Shader node execution code was left mostly intact, even though it is not
used anywhere now. We may eventually use this to replace the texture
nodes with Cycles / Eevee shader nodes.
* The Cycles Bake panel now includes settings for baking multires normal
and displacement maps. The underlying code needs to be merged properly,
and we plan to add back support for multires AO baking and add support
to Cycles baking for features like vertex color, displacement, and other
missing baking features.
* This commit removes DNA and the Python API for BI material, lamp, world
and scene settings. This breaks a lot of addons.
* There is more DNA that can be removed or renamed, where Cycles or Eevee
are reusing some old BI properties but the names are not really correct
anymore.
* Texture slots for materials, lamps and world were removed. They remain
for brushes, particles and freestyle linestyles.
* 'BLENDER_RENDER' remains in the COMPAT_ENGINES of UI panels. Cycles and
other renderers use this to find all panels to show, minus a few panels
that they have their own replacement for.
The combined pass is built with the contributions the user finds fit.
It is useful for lightmap baking, as well as non-view dependent effects
baking.
The manual will be updated once we get closer to the 2.77 release.
Meanwhile the new page can be found here:
http://dalaifelinto.com/blender-manual/render/cycles/baking.html
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1674
Combine all the highpoly pixel arrays into a single array with a lookup
object_id for each of the highpoly objects.
Note: This changes the Bake API, external engines should refer to the
bake_api.c for the latest API.
Many thanks for Sergey Sharybin for the complete review, changes
suggestion and feedback. (you rock!)
Reviewers: sergey
Subscribers: pildanovak, marcclintdion, monio, metalliandy, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T41092
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D772
(original patch by Sergey Sharybin)
Note: RNA API can't use size_t at the moment. Once it does this patch
can be tweaked a bit to fully benefit from size_t larger dimensions.
(right now num_pixels is passed as int)
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D688
Note: the custom UV option is only available when calling the operator
via a script. It's currently not exposed in the UI since it's intended
to be used by scripters
To test it:
bpy.ops.object.bake(type='UV', use_clear=True, uv_layer='MyNewUV')
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D546
There is a new option to select whether you want to use cage or not.
When not using cage the results will be more similar with Blender
Internal, where the inwards rays (trying to hit the highpoly objects)
don't always come from smooth normals. So if the active object has sharp
edges and an EdgeSplit modifier you get bad corners.
This is useful, however, to bake to planes without the need of adding
extra loops around the edges.
When cage is "on" the user can decide on setting a cage extrusion or to
pick a Custom Cage object. The cage extrusion option works in a
duplicated copy of the active object with EdgeSplit modifiers removed to
inforce smooth normals. The custom cage option takes an object with the
same number of faces as the active object (and the same face ordering).
The custom cage now controls the direction and the origin of the
rays casted to the highpoly objects. The direction is a ray from the
point in the cage mesh to the equivalent point to the base mesh. That
means the face normals are entirely ignored when using a cage object.
For developers:
When using an object cage the ray is calculated from the cage mesh to
the base mesh. It uses the barycentric coordinate from the base mesh UV,
so we expect both meshes to have the same primitive ids (which won't be
the case if the cage gets edited in a destructive way).
That fixes T40023 (giving the expected result when 'use_cage' is false).
Thanks for Andy Davies (metalliandy) for the consulting with normal
baking workflow and extensive testing. His 'stress-test' file will be
added later to our svn tests folder. (The file itself is not public yet
since he still has to add testing notes to it).
Many thanks for the reviewers.
More on cages:
http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/#Working_with_Cages
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
CC: adriano, metalliandy, brecht, malkavian
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D547
When "Selected to Active" is not on, we bake all the selected objects.
This is the same behaviour we have for Blender Internal.
Dev note: I moved most of the validation tests to outside the bake()
routine so the function can be called in loop.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D560
This should be the final fix for the applyrotation issue. It baffles me
that the fix involves discarding the scale transformations for the
normals but it works so I'm happy with it.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D554
This fixes most of the cases, the only situation not addressed is when
the highpoly object(s) has non-uniform scale.
mul_transposed_mat3_m4_v3() should take care of non-uniform scales so
I'm a bit confused on why it doesn't work. The lowpoly object can have
any transformation, the only issue is if the highpoly object has
non-uniform scale.
Test file of the remaining issue:
https://developer.blender.org/file/info/PHID-FILE-tpw2xgddyzxtpg3e7xzs/
Reference reading:
http://www.unknownroad.com/rtfm/graphics/rt_normals.html
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
