This patch adds support for light portals: objects that help sampling the environment light, therefore improving convergence. Using them tor other lights in a unidirectional pathtracer is virtually useless. The sampling is done with the area-preserving code already used for area lamps. MIS is used both for combination of different portals and for combining portal- and envmap-sampling. The direction of portals is considered, they aren't used if the sampling point is behind them. Reviewers: sergey, dingto, #cycles Reviewed By: dingto, #cycles Subscribers: Lapineige, nutel, jtheninja, dsisco11, januz, vitorbalbio, candreacchio, TARDISMaker, lichtwerk, ace_dragon, marcog, mib2berlin, Tunge, lopataasdf, lordodin, sergey, dingto Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1133
22 KiB
22 KiB