On an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015) it crashed when rendering using Cycles. This was due to the fact that it incorrectly detected that the machine supported ray tracing. This uses the device.supportsRaytracing flag to fill in the use_hardware_raytracing flag for the device.
When a file passed in from the command line failed to load,
blender would exit & save the quit.blend.
Resolve by adding a `do_user_exit_actions` to WM_exit_ex which is
false in backgrounds mode or when an error has occurred.
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Back-ported [0] & [1] from main with fix [2] included.
[0]: c803ddab29
[1]: d7d1c524e3
[2]: d3d91b79e0
This patch removes a workaround for an issue that is now understood to be undefined behaviour (and fixed by #108176). It also adds two useful debug flags that we would like to be available in Blender 3.6.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108322
Although auto-focus only works between a single Blender instance's
child windows, this does include our own console and we don't want
that. Luckily fixing this only requires a single check for null -
because GetFocus() returns null to us for our console.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108362
Previously, each GHOST Context instantiated its own Metal device
queue. Commands are only synchronized within a queue, this was the
root cause of a number of flickering issues which had previously
been worked-around with synchronization primitives.
New solution uses a shared queue to simplify dependencies and
alleviate possibility of stalls and bugs when resources are modified
or shared across separate GPU command queues.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108223
This patch fixes an undefined behaviour where we were trying to use linked functions with binary archives. This isn't supported yet. At best this will fail silently, but this is not guaranteed in future. To fix this we simply disable binary archives if any linked functions are involved. The impact of this is that the `SHADE_SURFACE_RAYTRACE` and `SHADE_SURFACE_MNEE` kernels will fall back to the file system cache when MetalRT is enabled. The file system cache will occasionally be purged due to factors beyond Blender's control.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108176
Only Embree CPU BVH was built in the multi-device case. However, one
Embree GPU BVH is needed per GPU, so we now reuse the same logic as in
the other backends.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107992
Hardware Raytracing wasn't properly disabled or enabled in the
subdevices of the multi-device.
This construct:
foreach ( DeviceInfo &info,
(device.multi_devices.size() != 0 ?
device.multi_devices : vector<DeviceInfo>({device}))
)
was a nice trap - it was giving a copy to iterate on.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107989
xdg_surface_ack_configure must run once the events have been handled
which is not the case configure runs from the event handling thread.
In practice this could lead to glitches resizing windows, although some
flickering on startup remains on KDE which would be good to resolve.
Exiting with multiple overlapping windows (a file selector for e.g.)
reliably crashes.
Closing the windows on exit caused the the keyboard enter handler to be
called with a NULL window surface (wl_surface).
While this doesn't look to be documented anywhere, SDL's code-comments
note this happens when windows have just been closed.
GTK also check surfaces for NULL.
Only make libdecor a hard-requirement for using Wayland in gnome-shell
when X11 is available, as it's possible to disable Xwayland.
This also fixes window-borders not being used in gnome-shell when
WITH_GHOST_X11 is off.
Now it's possible to test Blender under gnome without libdecor by
uninstalling libdecor & running with DISPLAY environment variable
set to an empty string - useful for troubleshooting issues which
could be caused by libdecor.
NanoVDB headers have unused code using "double" type, which is not supported on Arc GPUs.
Recent DPC++ changes enforced runtime verifications:
7663dc201d
which prevents execution when such type has been present even if unused.
This is a solution to avoid double to be compiled at all, similar as how it is done for Metal.
Area light sampling use special techniques to reduce noise with small
spread angles; the change in sampled area was not taken into
consideration when computing the pdf in MNEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107897
After the removal of the Shadow pass this no longer worked. Now it works by
marking the object as a shadow catcher and returning the Shadow Catcher pass.
The result is different than before, since it also takes into account indirect
light now and uses a different method to weight the contribution of lights that
is adaptive to the light strength.
This PR enabled the swapchain to be used with AMD GPUs.
The issue is that we had to separate the swapchain into
2 functions and therefore the rendering is also not
controlled at the same time.
Semaphores were finished, before being used and the
driver stalled when waiting for those Semaphores.
This doesn't solve the issue that renderdoc can still
crash the graphics driver.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107840
This PR replaces the previous implementation of the swap chain.
The previous implementation was based on a gaming loop where
inside a single function an image is requested, the drawing occurs
and the requested image is presented on screen.
In blender the drawing isn't controlled in a single function and
this approach lead to freezes, missing frames and other
artifacts.
This approach is not be the final approach but a step into a
direction where the acquiring of the next image in the swap chain
is separated from the swapping.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107740
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
For derived mesh triangulation information, currently the three face
corner indices are stored in the same struct as index of the mesh
polygon the triangle is part of. While those pieces of information are
often used together, they often aren't, and combining them prevents
the indices from being used with generic utilities. It also means that
1/3 more memory has to be written when recalculating the triangulation
after deforming the mesh, and that the entire triangle data has to be
read when only the polygon indices are needed.
This commit splits the polygon index into a separate cache on `Mesh`.
The triangulation data isn't saved to files, so this doesn't affect
.blend files at all.
In a simple test deforming a mesh with geometry nodes, the time used
to recalculate the triangulation reduced from 2.0 ms to 1.6 ms,
increasing overall FPS from 14.6 to 15.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106774
Previous GHOST_ContextVK would create a logical device for each
context. Blender uses multiple contexts at the same time and wasn't able
to share resources between them as the logical device where different.
This patch will create a single logical device and share them between
multiple contexts. This allows sharing memory/shaders between contexts
and make sure that all memory allocations are freed from the device it
was allocated from.
Some allocations in Blender are freed when there isn't a context, this
was failing in the previous implementation. We didn't noticed it before
as we didn't test multiple contexts.
This patch also moves device specific data structures from VKContext to
VKDevice like the descriptor pools, debug layers etc.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107606
