This change brings the following improvements on the user level
- Support of GPUs with gfx12 architecture
- New HIP-RT library which in addition to the gfx12 support brings
various bug-fixes.
The known limitation of gfx12 is that OpenImageDenoiser does not yet
support this GPU architecture. This means that while Cycles will use the
full advantage of the gfx12 (including hardware accelerated ray-tracing),
denoising will only be possible on CPU, or secondary gfx11 or below GPU.
This is something that requires a change in OIDN and it is to late to do
it for Blender 4.4, but it is something to look forward for Blender 4.5.
The gfx12 changes for the pre-compiled kernels is rather trivial,
so it comes together (in the same PR) as the bigger HIP-RT change.
On the development side this change brings the following improvements:
- One step compile and link (much simpler CMake rules)
- Embedding BVH binaries in hiprt dll (which makes it easier to package
and load, without relying on special path configuration)
Co-authored-by: Sahar Kashi <sahar.kashi@amd.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Sharybin <sergey@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133129
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
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
This change switches Cycles to an opensource HIP-RT library which
implements hardware ray-tracing. This library is now used on
both Windows and Linux. While there should be no noticeable changes
on Windows, on Linux this adds support for hardware ray-tracing on
AMD GPUs.
The majority of the change is typical platform code to add new
library to the dependency builder, and a change in the way how
ahead-of-time (AoT) kernels are compiled. There are changes in
Cycles itself, but they are rather straightforward: some APIs
changed in the opensource version of the library.
There are a couple of extra files which are needed for this to
work: hiprt02003_6.1_amd.hipfb and oro_compiled_kernels.hipfb.
There are some assumptions in the HIP-RT library about how they
are available. Currently they follow the same rule as AoT
kernels for oneAPI:
- On Windows they are next to blender.exe
- On Linux they are in the lib/ folder
Performance comparison on Ubuntu 22.04.5:
```
GPU: AMD Radeon PRO W7800
Driver: amdgpu-install_6.1.60103-1_all.deb
main hip-rt
attic 0.1414s 0.0932s
barbershop_interior 0.1563s 0.1258s
bistro 0.2134s 0.1597s
bmw27 0.0119s 0.0099s
classroom 0.1006s 0.0803s
fishy_cat 0.0248s 0.0178s
junkshop 0.0916s 0.0713s
koro 0.0589s 0.0720s
monster 0.0435s 0.0385s
pabellon 0.0543s 0.0391s
sponza 0.0223s 0.0180s
spring 0.1026s 1.5145s
victor 0.1901s 0.1239s
wdas_cloud 0.1153s 0.1125s
```
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Ray Molenkamp <github@lazydodo.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Sharybin <sergey@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121050
This patches optimizes the Fog Glow Glare node to be about 25x faster
for 4K images. This is mainly achieved by utilizing the FFTW library and
multi-threading support code. Further improvements are still possible by
caching kernels, but the CPU compositor does not support caching yet.
The old Hartley transform was removed, so the node no longer works when
FFTW is disabled as a build time option, much like the OIDN node. A new
BLI library was introduced for FFTW, it includes some helper routines
relevant for FFTW as well as an initialization routine that sets up
multithreading using TBB as well as thread safety.
Build system support for threaded FFTW was also added, which defines the
relevant variables to detect threading support as well as add the
relevant libraries.
We do not currently have the threaded FFTW libs in our precompiled libs,
so the threading code is disabled until the libs lands in the coming
weeks. So currently, the code is only about 9x faster.
The only functional change is that the kernel is now odd sized, which
should produce more accurate results, but the final result is almost
identical and mostly undetectable.
The plan is to port this to the GPU as well similar to how we implement
OIDN until we have a GPU FFT implementation. GPU compositor can also do
caching, so it should be faster, being able to compute a 4K image in
under half a second.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121653
MoltenVK original intent was to let developers work on a mac system developing
for the vulkan eco-system. MoltenVK doesn't support all the features that we
require and would require additional workarounds to be actually supported.
It is not expected that we will release Blender with MoltenVK for this reason.
But it still has value for shader developers to validate shaders on metal and
vulkan on a single platform.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117940
This change fixes confusion situation when the render output
is an RGBA image: the difference in color was not visible in
the report because alpha channel was all zeros. This is due
to idiff performing per-channel difference.
The solution to this problem is to have separate images for
color and alpha difference, which makes it clear where the
difference actually is coming from.
Harfbuzz and FriBiDi are included in our external libraries for all
platforms. This PR adds the glue to make them available as optional
build components (off by default).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114947
Previously the cmake code would try to run the LIBDIR specific "findX.cmake" files for both vulkan and shaderc.
However these would pick up system headers and libraries when LIBDIR were not present. This would lead to compilation errors as the system library configurations were not taken into account or queried.
This changes it so that if LIBDIR is not present, the proper pkgconfig files will be used instead.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114639
The official SDK was released, add correct paths for that version. The
old paths can be removed once the buildbot uses this SDK.
The SDK installer sets a HIP_PATH environment variable. This is used to
automatically detect the location when HIP_ROOT_DIR is not manually
specified.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110519
Changes in 42713bf made it ignore the environment variable if there is a
defined but empty CMake variable. Also make similar changes for other
GPU compute APIs, to guard against future problems like this.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111928
The sound equalizer is using the Audaspace FFT Convolver.
The blender part creates an array of descriptions of power per "band"
and orders the creation of Equalizer (ISound) in the Audaspace.
Modifier can be created on sound strips. It lets you define
amplification or attenuation over frequency range from 30Hz to 20 kHz.
The power is limited to -30 db - 30 db. This is done using curve
mapping widget.
Co-authored-by: menda <alguien@aqui.es>
Co-authored-by: Richard Antalik <richardantalik@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105613
The error message was written assuming the default version was set,
making the error confusing.
Adjust the error message when the non-default version is missing.
The `Find*.cmake` modules originally used uppercase commands to match
CMake's own conventions. Since then CMake uses lower-case and even
within our own find modules, using all uppercase wasn't done
consistently. Opt for lowercase everywhere.
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
This is the minimal change required to start using modern CMake in the
blender build system. This change is designed to allow small
incremental changes to the build system rather than doing it in one
big bang which would be unmaintainable (for me)
The biggest functional change is, previously all libraries in the
`LIB` section of a `blender_add_lib` call had the `INTERFACE` scope,
which is rarely, if ever the correct scope. This diff changes this to
`PRIVATE`
Concrete implications of this diff :
The `LIB`, `INC` and `INC_SYS` sections of an `blender_add_lib` call
now allow scoping keywords (`PUBLIC`, `PRIVATE,` `INTERFACE`) to
declare the scope of the dependency.
Right now the only library using any modern cmake is
`bf_intern_atomic` which is an header only interface library that will
just advertise its include directories.
This allows us to clean up any `CMakeLists.txt` that adds
`../../../intern/atomic` to its `INC` section to remove it in `INC` by
adding a `PRIVATE bf_intern_atomic` to the `LIB` section.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107858
