This commit contains all the remained parts needed for initial integration of
OpenSubdiv into Blender's subdivision surface code. Includes both GPU and CPU
backends which works in the following way:
- When SubSurf modifier is the last in the modifiers stack then GPU pipeline
of OpenSubdiv is used, making viewport performance as fast as possible.
This also requires graphscard with GLSL 1.5 support. If this requirement is
not met, then no GPU pipeline is used at all.
- If SubSurf is not a last modifier or if DerivesMesh is being evaluated for
rendering then CPU limit evaluation API from OpenSubdiv is used. This only
replaces the legacy evaluation code from CCGSubSurf_legacy, but keeps CCG
structures exactly the same as they used to be for ages now.
This integration is fully covered with ifdef and not enabled by default
because there are several TODOs to be solved first:
- Face varying data interpolation is not really cleanly implemented for GPU
in OpenSubdiv 3.0. It is also not implemented for limit evaluation API.
This basically means we'll have really hard time supporting UVs.
- Limit evaluation only works with adaptivly subdivided meshes so far, which
basically means all the points of CCG are pushed to the limit. This gives
different result from old code.
- There are some serious optimizations possible on the topology refiner
creation, which would speed up initial OpenSubdiv mesh creation.
- There are some hardcoded asumptions in the GPU and DerivedMesh areas which
could be generalized.
That's something where Antony and Campbell can help, making it so the code
is structured in a way which is reusable by all planned viewport projects.
- There are also some workarounds in the dependency graph to make sure OpenGL
buffers are only freed from the main thread.
Those who'll be wanting to make experiments with this code should grab dev
branch (NOT master) from
https://github.com/Nazg-Gul/OpenSubdiv/tree/dev
There are some patches applied in there which we're working on on getting
into upstream.
With this patch "Particle Info" node from Cycles works in GLSL and BI
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: psy-fi
Note: moved particle info to object render instance instead of
shadeinput during review - Antony.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1313
ImBuf types were getting stored as bitflags in a 32bit integer which had
already run out of space. Solved the problem by separating file type to
an ftype enum, and file specific options to foptions.
Reviewed by Campbell, thanks a lot!
This patch add a new option for transparency meshes : Alpha to coverage, in the game setting panel in material.
The alpha to coverage request a multisample, the best is 8x but 4x and 2x can also give nice render.
4x alpha clip : http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=89464
4x alpha to coverage : http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=89463
Reviewers: moguri, kupoman, campbellbarton, psy-fi
Reviewed By: psy-fi
Subscribers: lordloki, rdb
Projects: #game_engine
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1354
Official Documentation:
http://www.blender.org/manual/render/workflows/multiview.html
Implemented Features
====================
Builtin Stereo Camera
* Convergence Mode
* Interocular Distance
* Convergence Distance
* Pivot Mode
Viewport
* Cameras
* Plane
* Volume
Compositor
* View Switch Node
* Image Node Multi-View OpenEXR support
Sequencer
* Image/Movie Strips 'Use Multiview'
UV/Image Editor
* Option to see Multi-View images in Stereo-3D or its individual images
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
I/O
* Save/Open Multi-View (OpenEXR, Stereo3D, individual views) images
Scene Render Views
* Ability to have an arbitrary number of views in the scene
Missing Bits
============
First rule of Multi-View bug report: If something is not working as it should *when Views is off* this is a severe bug, do mention this in the report.
Second rule is, if something works *when Views is off* but doesn't (or crashes) when *Views is on*, this is a important bug. Do mention this in the report.
Everything else is likely small todos, and may wait until we are sure none of the above is happening.
Apart from that there are those known issues:
* Compositor Image Node poorly working for Multi-View OpenEXR
(this was working prefectly before the 'Use Multi-View' functionality)
* Selecting camera from Multi-View when looking from camera is problematic
* Animation Playback (ctrl+F11) doesn't support stereo formats
* Wrong filepath when trying to play back animated scene
* Viewport Rendering doesn't support Multi-View
* Overscan Rendering
* Fullscreen display modes need to warn the user
* Object copy should be aware of views suffix
Acknowledgments
===============
* Francesco Siddi for the help with the original feature specs and design
* Brecht Van Lommel for the original review of the code and design early on
* Blender Foundation for the Development Fund to support the project wrap up
Final patch reviewers:
* Antony Riakiotakis (psy-fi)
* Campbell Barton (ideasman42)
* Julian Eisel (Severin)
* Sergey Sharybin (nazgul)
* Thomas Dinged (dingto)
Code contributors of the original branch in github:
* Alexey Akishin
* Gabriel Caraballo
patch number D706 with changes:
- WITH_GPU_DEBUG just creates a debug context (and enables the debug messaging
system functions) but leaves the checks we had intact. Old patch
added the debug functionality only if we had the flag on to save some
performance.
Rationale here is that we might not want to recompile blender just to get
the extra information, and having users start blender with a -d flag to
get the extra information is also useful for bug reports. Those checks already
existed and most expensive ones are hidden behind a debug mode check
so performance should not be that bad.
- Did some cleanup of existing functionality:
When things go wrong blender side, just print the error,
don't check for GL errors first.
- Did not port changes needed for GLES to regular glew.h
- Got rid of duplicate or very similar new functionality.
Generally, code is more moving things around/cleanup and should work exactly
as before apart from the debug context, so it's safe to add even now.
It also provides a nice substitute function for glu error descriptions
There were a few issues to fix here:
* We did not really unpremultiply float image dabs prior to sending them
to the GPU. That made float and byte image result different in texture
painting and undoing could change the result.
* To make textures nicely composited over the mesh, I used decal mode in
OpenGL texture environment for the texture unit. This uses the texture's
alpha channel with a nice over operator.
* Texture creation used to override the alpha setting due to the display
restrictions. Not so anymore, people can now create transparent byte
images.
Also, made alpha zero default for new textures now, since it has such a
nice effect here.
Yep, at last it's here!
There are a few minor issues remaining but development can go on in
master after discussion at blender institute.
For full list of features see:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72/Painting
Thanks to Sergey and Campbell for the extensive review and to the
countless artists that have given their input and reported issues during
development.
Using layer visibility in active render layer makes more accurate
preview but can cause problems in some cases:
https://developer.blender.org/rB1973b17fce65a4dfececb45b19abec37898c1ab5#comment-1
GLSL lamps now ignore layer visibility if lock_camera_and_layers is
OFF or game engine is running. The material lamp group still works
unconditionally though.
Issue here is that "show diffuse" option does not respect its intended
purpose which is to be used only for masking.
There are a couple of caveats here:
Dyntopo and multires -always- have mask data enabled, and thus as soon
as one goes to dyntopo mode or adds a multires modifier he would get the
default grey color instead.
Matcaps would break when nodes asked for a diffuse material color (this
was broken before too). Solved by adding global material state for when
matcaps are enabled. Also matcaps don't always played well with VBOs
off.
Added a few more missing updates for mask operators to notify
show_diffuse property as changed. This was also needed on rebuilding
dyntopo pbvh.
Also make zero mask color duller again after artist feedback.
