This enables reducing the noise comming from very bright light sources
(like a sun) that can be found in distant HDRIs.
The lost energy may be replaced manually by a sunlight that compensate the
this loss.
This clamping only concerns Reflection Cubmaps and is done on all on all
of them.
Setting to 0.0 disables it (default).
This is a parameter that will make the interpolation between irradiance
cells of a same Irradiance Volume smoother, reducing the weight of the
light leaking correction factors.
It is usefull in some cases to avoid harsh lighting transition that can
happen when a sample point it near a surface.
This is an important change. Starting from now, all lights have a finite
influence radius (similar to the old sphere option for BI).
In order to avoid costly setup time, this distance is first computed
automatically based on a light threshold. The distance is computed
at the light origin and using the inverse square falloff. The setting
can be found inside the render settings panel > shadow tab.
This light threshold does not take the light shape into account an may not
suit every case. That's why we provide a per lamp override where you can
just set the cutt off distance (Light Properties Panel > Light >
Custom Distance).
The influence distance is also used as shadow far clip distance.
This influence distance does not concerns sun lights that still have a
far clip distance.
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This change is important because it makes it possible to cull lights
an improve performance drastically in the future.
I made an empirical test with a 100% diffuse sphere and manually tweak the
lighting power of a sun lamp trying to fit cycles and eevee the best I can.
Then I plotted the result and found a rough fit to the equation and that
seems to work pretty well.
This makes it possible to tweak indirect lighting in the shader.
Only a subset of the outputs is supported and the ray depth has not exactly
the same meaning:
Is Camera : Supported.
Is Shadow : Supported.
Is Diffuse : Supported.
Is Glossy : Supported.
Is Singular : Not supported. Same as Is Glossy.
Is Reflection : Not supported. Same as Is Glossy.
Is Transmission : Not supported. Same as Is Glossy.
Ray Length : Not supported. Defaults to 1.0.
Ray Depth : Indicate the current bounce when baking the light cache.
Diffuse Depth : Same as Ray Depth but only when baking diffuse light.
Glossy Depth : Same as Ray Depth but only when baking specular light.
Transparent Depth : Not supported. Defaults to 0.
Transmission Depth : Not supported. Same as Glossy Depth.
Caveat: Is Glossy does not work with Screen Space Reflections but does work
with reflection planes (when used with SSR or not).
We have to render the world twice for that to work.
NOTE: There is a float imprecision near the focus plane
due to the current technique used for DOF. This makes the alpha channel
transparent on nearly in focus objects even when they should not.
This artifact should be fixed when the DOF will use scatter as gather for
low brightness areas.
Fix T57042 : Eevee does not render alpha when DOF is turned on
This implementation is a bit hacky but match cycles pretty close.
If pixel size is not enabled, it will use the geom shader to
compute distances between vertices. This will have a cost.
Implementation is a bit hacky in gpu_codegen to make the geom shader works
in an optional manner.
There was an issue caused by Antialiasing being done after DoF. Move TAA
after DOF and Motion Blur.
Also certain pixel with lower CoC would be spread all over the background
because the neighbooring pixel have higher CoC. So we need to apply some
bilateral filtering when downsampling. Currently we limit the influence of
neighbor pixels with a CoC inside the range [MaxCoC-2, MaxCoC].
Note to myself, next time, better check the fix before pushing it.
GL_ARB_texture_gather is defined if there is support for the extension
not only when the extension is enabled. Do this check ourself with
GPU_ARB_texture_gather define.
Original fix 822de6e9e1
The extension GL_ARB_texture_gather is reported to be supported and does
not trigger an error when enabled but the textureGater functions are not
defined.
Workaround is to disable the use of this extension on such systems.
This is more like a static optimisation when some parameters are set to 1.0
or 0.0. In theses case we use a more optimized version of the node.
This also revisit the transmission parameter behaviour to make it closer to
cycles.
Some of them are unecessary and should be removed from the shader instead.
But for now we need a quick fix for the crashes happening on some platforms.
See T55475.
This separate probe rendering from viewport rendering, making possible to
run the baking in another thread (non blocking and faster).
The baked lighting is saved in the blend file. Nothing needs to be
recomputed on load.
There is a few missing bits / bugs:
- Cache cannot be saved to disk as a separate file, it is saved in the DNA
for now making file larger and memory usage higher.
- Auto update only cubemaps does update the grids (bug).
- Probes cannot be updated individually (considered as dynamic).
- Light Cache cannot be (re)generated during render.
This patch reduce the branching in the lamp loop, improving compilation time
noticeably (2372ms to 1785ms for the default shader).
This should not change the appearance of the shader.
Performance impact is negligeable.
