The current usage of software-based texture operations in
the oneAPI implementation puts additional register pressure on
the GPU compiler during register allocation. And it also creates
code that requires maintenance. This commit is intended to address
this situation by utilizing a recently productized SYCL bindless
texture API to enable HW-based texture operations using
Intel GPUs' hardware sampler.
This currently translates to 1-11% rendering speedups (scene-specific)
on my Arc A770 and Arc B580. At the moment, there are small
performance regressions with NanoVDB texture operations on Arc B580
and small performance regressions in shade surface MNEE and Raytrace
kernels on Arc A770, but they look recoverable and will be handled
in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133457
Enables building of a Cubin for GPUs based on Blackwell architecture
if CUDA toolkit version 12.8 or higher is installed.
Only added sm_120 to the default set, since it is the one relevant for
consumer GPUs (RTX 5090 etc.) that are generally used with Blender.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134170
OpenCollada used to rely on PCRE (a Perl Regexp library). Since
switching to Aras' OpenCollada fork (#122270), the library is no
longer needed, but is still required as a dependency.
This patch cleans this up by completely removing it from our build
system and linux system package installation script. This also lets
us remove it from our pre-compiled library platform repos, making the
process of recompiling our libraries from scratch easier as it wasn't
compiled by our dependency builder anymore.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134310
This was removed to make building USD plugins easier, without the need to
compile them for Blender specifically. However it also causes errors when
using the bpy module together with the usd-core pip package.
In practice there are not many USD plugins, and often need to be compiled
for Blender specifically anyway due to the monolithic library and DCCs being
on different USD versions.
Additionally, this adds a patch to avoid conflicts when loading the
same USD library version through Blender and usd-core on Windows and macOS.
Fix#127132: Crash using bpy and usd-core pip package together.
Co-authored-by: Ray Molenkamp <github@lazydodo.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133083
OpenEXR: 3.3.2
OpenColorIO: 2.4.1
OpenVDB: 12.0.0
Also sync up exact FFMPEG version with reference (6.1.1, from
`versions.cmake`), and accept 7.x versions since Blender should also be
compatible with this major release.
See also #128577.
Turns out, `apt-cache` will not use exact package names match, leading
to invalid successful results in case a given package does not exist,
but a extended-name one does (e.g. looking for `python3.11` will return
results for packages like `libpython3.11-stdlib`...).
So add a first check using `apt show`, to ensure the requested package
name does exist first!
Also add a `__repr__` callback to the `PackageInstaller` class.
Although not currently used by `main` Blender, this library has been
tracked by platform maintainers for some times now, so time to also add
it to this script.
See aslo #128577.
MSVC does this by default, and is a good way to see build progress
indication, when using msbuild. clang-cl also got that option back
in 2018, but it is off by default.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133810
That version has a bunch of API changes, so by dropping support for older
versions we can remove old compatibility code.
Also, that version is required for OptiX support, so building a fully-featured
Cycles wasn't possible with older OSL anyways.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133746
