This will make further changes for light linking easier, where we want to
build multiple trees specialized for each light linking set.
It's also easier to understand than the stack used previously.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107560
In some cases the Geometry Nodes Volume Cube generates
a Volume grid that doesn't contain any leaf nodes. This can happen
when only tiles are needed to represent the volume.
This PR changes the `empty_grid` check function to also check if
there are any active tiles in the grid before returning `true`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107551
HIP RT enables AMD hardware ray tracing on RDNA2 and above, and falls back to a
to shader implementation for older graphics cards. It offers an average 25%
sample rendering rate improvement in Cycles benchmarks, on a W6800 card.
The ray tracing feature functions are accessed through HIP RT SDK, available on
GPUOpen. HIP RT traversal functionality is pre-compiled in bitcode format and
shipped with the SDK.
This is not yet enabled as there are issues to be resolved, but landing the
code now makes testing and further changes easier.
Known limitations:
* Not working yet with current public AMD drivers.
* Visual artifact in motion blur.
* One of the buffers allocated for traversal has a static size. Allocating it
dynamically would reduce memory usage.
* This is for Windows only currently, no Linux support.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Ref #105538
Scene.cpp and Geometry.cpp are large file it can be broken up into smaller easier to handle files. This change has been broken out from #105403 to make understanding the changes easier.
geometry.cpp is broken up into:
1. geometry.cpp
2. geometry_attributes.cpp
3. geometry_bvh.cpp
4. geometry_mesh.cpp
scene.h & scene.cpp is broken into:
1. scene.h
2. scene.cpp
3. devicescene.h
4. devicescene.cpp
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107079
Due to floating point differences between importance sampling and
texture evaluation, disagreeing on whether or not a ray lies within
the sun disc.
* Use the same input values for geographical_to_direction() in
sky_radiance_nishita() and kernel_data.background.sun.
* The mathematical operations in pdf_uniform_cone() were adjusted to
match sky_radiance_nishita().
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106764
It was that names of related "combo" operations
like Hue/Saturation/Value, *Dilate/Erode*
and Brightness/Contrast should be separated
by slashes in their names.
This patch changes this for the multiple nodes
and operators concerning Hue/Saturation/Value
across Blender.
Note1: This patch should only touch UI names
which do not need versioning and should not
break scripts.
Note2: This breaks first letter fuzzy search
for "hsv". It was noted by @HooglyBoogly that
the "/" character needs to be added to the
fuzzy search split list. Note however that such
search is already broken in Main for nodes like
Brightness/Contrast and Dilate/Erode which
already use slash separators
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106721
Make it a native Cycles light option instead of counter-acting the inverse
area calculation in Hydra.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16838
The problem is that `set_geometry()` otherwise ends up implicitly
casting `Geometry*` to bool. In Blender this worked because the
geometry header was always included before the object header.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16737
For example
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver()
{
}
```
becomes
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver() {}
```
Saves quite some vertical space, which is especially handy for
constructors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105594
was assuming such cases are already handled before this function is
called, but seems to be broken on windows and linux. Do
`safe_normalize()` so the tests pass, will check the problem afterwards.
* Group bounding box, bounding cone and energy to a struct called `LightTreePrimitivesMeasure`
* Add utility functions to add primitives to nodes or buckets
* Precompute the split bucket cost to improve efficiency (about 1.4x expected)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105931
Push a task to `TaskPool` when more than `MIN_PRIMS_PER_THREAD` primitives are to be processed. The nodes are rearranged in a depth-first order when copied to the device.
Tested with the scene in #105550 on an Apple M1 Ultra (20 cores), about 11x speedup.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105862
When linking a texture directly to the material output, it's likely being
done for the purpose of previewing. In that case, bias the heuristic towards
not building a light tree, as it's likely not needed and slow on dense meshes.
This commit replaces the current Glass approach, where Glass is a virtual closure
that gets replaced with a Glossy and a Refractive closure, with a combined
closure that handles Fresnel after sampling the microfacet. That way, the Fresnel
term is more accurate since it accounts for the microfacet normal, not the
shading normal.
Also updates the BSDF sampling to use a 3D sampler now, since we need two
dimensions to pick the microfacet normal and then a third dimension to pick
reflection/refraction. This can also be used to get rid of the LCG in the
Principled Hair BSDF, which means we can remove it altogether once MultiGGX is
gone.
Also, "sharp" is now supported as a microfacet distribution in OSL, and 2
is supported as the "refract" argument to microfacet() in order to get glass.
To improve mesh upload speeds and reduce the size of the scene data which allows larger scenes to be rendered.
The meshes in Cycles are currently stored as flattened meshes, where each triangle is stored as a set of 3 vertices. Unflattening writes out the vertices in a list according to the index buffer. This uses a lot of memory and for current hardware does not provide a noticeable benefit. This change unflattens the mesh by directly using the meshes vertex and index buffers directly and skips the unflattening. This change allows for larger scenes and also a reduction in the sizes of the meshes. Further it results in a decrease the amount of time it takes to upload the data to a GPU. This is especially important for when multiple GPUs are used in a single machine.
Pull Request #105173
The light tree itself is disabled on the AMD GPUs due to a compiler issue.
There are couple of places where this was not fully checked:
- The `light_sample` function in the kernel.
- The light threshold during synchronization
The former one is solved as easy as just adding an ifdef block.
The latter one is solved by delaying the threshold assignment for
later on.
Pull Request #105022
This reverts commit 19222627c6.
Something went wrong here, seems like this commit merged the main branch
into the release branch, which should never be done.
