Cycles Light Linking #104972

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opened 2023-02-20 15:14:56 +01:00 by Brecht Van Lommel · 0 comments

Support to have a light to influence only a subset of objects in the scene.

Plan

This is implemented by having a collection per light, where only the objects in the collection are illuminated by that light. This is compatible with other software and USD, which makes interop easier.

It is also simpler in production, since lights tend to be different for each shot and can be easily modified, whereas the linking being on the receivers or their materials would require heavy use of overrides in every shot.

This is however not the most convenient user interface, and a better UI is planned to be added after the initial implementation lands. This UI would have a global overview of all links in the scene, and allow viewing and editing both from the emitter -> receiver and receiver -> emitter points of view.

Cycles

  • Add object bitmask for receiving and emitting, light bitmask for emitting
  • Implement basic kernel side logic including for transparency, volumes, MIS
  • Build specialized light tree for every light set (#107561)
  • Shadow linking basic implementation (#106501)
  • Shadow linking with MIS (#107439)
  • Multiple lights on the ray path for shadow linking (#107739)
  • Mesh emitters for shadow linking (#107981)
  • Distant lights for shadow linking (#107979)
  • Clamping (try to make bounce same as for main path)
  • Path guiding: make recording consistent with main path (#108195)
  • Regression tests (#107964)
  • Optimizatons for dedicated light paths
    • Skip selecting random meshes that don't have matching light link set (#108091)
    • Dedicated intersection filter for selecting lights (scene intersection in shadow_linking_pick_mesh_intersection())
    • MNEE optimizations
  • Reduce memory usage for objects and lights when not using light linking
  • Reduce memory accesses and conditionals related to light linking
  • Hydra import

Blender

  • Light linking receiver collection on objects
  • A way to mark a member of the collection as inclusive or exclusive
  • Separate collections for light and shadow linking
  • Depsgraph implementation to compute bitmask from collections
    • Basic implementation
    • Optimize depsgraph to only weakly reference receiver objects and not evaluate them
  • Dynamic alloc LightLinking in DNA (#108090)
  • UI for easily adding scene collections and objects to the receiver collection
    • Drag-n-drop support of the objects and collections (#106101)
    • Operator to link selection to the active emitter
    • Change x next to list items to more standard - button next to list
    • Add + button next to list, with picker or using selected objects
    • Change light icon for exclude to checkbox (#112857)
    • Re-ordering of the light and shadow linking collections (#112849)
      • Ideally base on #107742
      • Short-term solution could be to use up/down buttons (similar Shapekey list)
  • Remove world and replace it by light object, that then supports linking (#125214)
  • User interface with overview of all light and shadow links in the scene, where it's possible to switch between emtiter and receiver centrics views
  • USD import and export support (see USDLuxLightAPI.GetLightLinkCollectionAPI)
Support to have a light to influence only a subset of objects in the scene. * [User feedback topic](https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cycles-light-and-shadow-linking/29587) * Previous discussion: #68915 * [Implementation notes](https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/4.0/Cycles) ### Plan This is implemented by having a collection per light, where only the objects in the collection are illuminated by that light. This is compatible with other software and USD, which makes interop easier. It is also simpler in production, since lights tend to be different for each shot and can be easily modified, whereas the linking being on the receivers or their materials would require heavy use of overrides in every shot. This is however not the most convenient user interface, and a better UI is planned to be added after the initial implementation lands. This UI would have a global overview of all links in the scene, and allow viewing and editing both from the emitter -> receiver and receiver -> emitter points of view. ### Cycles - [x] Add object bitmask for receiving and emitting, light bitmask for emitting - [x] Implement basic kernel side logic including for transparency, volumes, MIS - [x] Build specialized light tree for every light set (#107561) - [x] Shadow linking basic implementation (#106501) - [x] Shadow linking with MIS (#107439) - [x] Multiple lights on the ray path for shadow linking (#107739) - [x] Mesh emitters for shadow linking (#107981) - [x] Distant lights for shadow linking (#107979) - [x] Clamping (try to make `bounce` same as for main path) - [x] Path guiding: make recording consistent with main path (#108195) - [x] Regression tests (#107964) - [ ] Optimizatons for dedicated light paths - [x] Skip selecting random meshes that don't have matching light link set (#108091) - [ ] Dedicated intersection filter for selecting lights (scene intersection in `shadow_linking_pick_mesh_intersection()`) - [ ] MNEE optimizations - [ ] Reduce memory usage for objects and lights when not using light linking - [ ] Reduce memory accesses and conditionals related to light linking - [ ] Hydra import ### Blender - [x] Light linking receiver collection on objects - [x] A way to mark a member of the collection as inclusive or exclusive - [x] Separate collections for light and shadow linking - [ ] Depsgraph implementation to compute bitmask from collections - [x] Basic implementation - [ ] Optimize depsgraph to only weakly reference receiver objects and not evaluate them - [x] Dynamic alloc LightLinking in DNA (#108090) - [ ]UI for easily adding scene collections and objects to the receiver collection - [x] Drag-n-drop support of the objects and collections (#106101) - [x] Operator to link selection to the active emitter - [x] Change x next to list items to more standard - button next to list - [x] Add + button next to list, with picker or using selected objects - [x] Change light icon for exclude to checkbox (#112857) - [x] Re-ordering of the light and shadow linking collections (#112849) - Ideally base on #107742 - Short-term solution could be to use up/down buttons (similar Shapekey list) - [ ] Remove world and replace it by light object, that then supports linking (#125214) - [ ] User interface with overview of all light and shadow links in the scene, where it's possible to switch between emtiter and receiver centrics views - [ ] USD import and export support (see `USDLuxLightAPI.GetLightLinkCollectionAPI`)
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