That was really crappy indeed. Now we have a separate API
for low level OpenGL programs, plus a nice interface for GPU, also
removes some GL calls from main code as a plus :)
The source for the programs is also moved to nice external .glsl files
(not sure which extension convention GPU assemply uses)
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
ATI driver does not like declaration of gl_FragColor and glFragData in
the same source file (even though only one of the two is ever
referenced), just use one of the two.
and on screen rendering.
Aaaaah, the beauty of driver implementations of OpenGL!
Turns out the problem here is that drivers calculate df/dy differently
in some cases (probably because OpenGL counts y reverse to how the
window system does, so drivers can get confused).
Fixed this for the ATI case based on info we have so far, there's also
the Intel case which will be handled separately (missing info on Intel's
renderer string etc).
Unfortunately we can't really fix this for the general case so we'll
have to haldle cases as they come in our tracker and by adding silly
string comparisons in our GPU initialization module <sigh>.
This patch will fix the color management for the mist and global ambient color.
It will remove the old "Color Management" switch in the BGE "Render > Shading" panel and will use the "Display Device" setting in the "Scene > Color Management" panel instead.
Reviewers: moguri, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D154
This patch will fix the world GLSL (mist, background, ambient) update for the BGE.
Reviewers: moguri, brecht
Reviewed By: moguri, brecht
Subscribers: panzergame
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D151
Count line from beginning of the whole shader source instead of each
string sepatately since it helps with finding out the error line in most
tested platforms
Quite a few things wrong here:
* Mac did not support EXT_draw_instanced, only ARB_draw_instanced
* Draw instanced did not work unless data came from vertex buffer, which
is second time we see weird things with vertex arrays in mac
* There were a few stupid mistakes by me as well, such as binding to
uniform locations for the wrong shaders (it's a wonder it ever worked
:p)
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.
Using bool when we're asking yes/no questions such as whether some GPU
feature is supported.
Consolidated these simple functions into gpu_extensions.c and grouped
them in the header.
Const-ified some args where the functions don't modify the pointed-to
data.
This is still not so correct, to make it work we really have to do a
blurring pass based on the real coc (currently we are just blending 3
levels of blur)
- spiral scheme is much more intuitive here. Also use float number for
spirals to avoid having samples on the same radial direction when sample
number is divisible by spiral number.
Naming here is slightly misleading. We have:
* Number of elements (objects) that can be picked
* Buffer size
* Number of integers in buffer.
Interestingly enough, bufsize in OpenGL (as far as I could find in
examples on the web) and in most of the code refers to the latter and
actual buffer size is only used whenever we do allocations on the heap.
Added an extra defines here to make things a bit clearer:
* MAXPICKELEMS refers to the number of objects that can be picked
* MAXPICKBUF refers to the number of integers in the selection buffer
Also made all buffers use MAXPICKBUF where some used MAXPICKBUF * 4.
That means that some parts of blender will use less space for selection
now. MAXPICKBUF is set to 10000 for 2500 object selection, which can be
changed at any time, but I think 10000 integers on the stack touches the
borders of uglyland anyway.
patch number D706 with changes:
- WITH_GPU_DEBUG just creates a debug context (and enables the debug messaging
system functions) but leaves the checks we had intact. Old patch
added the debug functionality only if we had the flag on to save some
performance.
Rationale here is that we might not want to recompile blender just to get
the extra information, and having users start blender with a -d flag to
get the extra information is also useful for bug reports. Those checks already
existed and most expensive ones are hidden behind a debug mode check
so performance should not be that bad.
- Did some cleanup of existing functionality:
When things go wrong blender side, just print the error,
don't check for GL errors first.
- Did not port changes needed for GLES to regular glew.h
- Got rid of duplicate or very similar new functionality.
Generally, code is more moving things around/cleanup and should work exactly
as before apart from the debug context, so it's safe to add even now.
It also provides a nice substitute function for glu error descriptions
Basically, before drawing X-Rays, we now bind a second depth buffer.
After drawing XRays, we do an extra resolve pass where we overwrite the
non-XRay depth buffer in pixels where the depth is not maximum (which
means background pixel, since depth is cleared before drawing X-Ray
objects).
This ensures both scene and X-Rays keep their depth values and are ready
for compositing. Well, the odd effect due to depth discontinuities can be
expected, and X-Rays are a bit more expensive (extra buffer + resolve pass)
but at least X-Rays won't invalidate depth values anymore. Whee!
background.
For SSAO supporting this is no problem, for DOF we would ideally do
blurred alpha, but alpha channel in blurred buffers is occupied by coc
field, so use original color alpha instead. It's not entirely correct
but it's better than nothing.
