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
This adds support for Overlay tests.
There are some differences with how we handle tests for other engines:
- The renders are captured using `bpy.ops.render.opengl()`, but this
won't work on our GPU build bots.
- A single blend file can run multiple tests by outputting a txt list
with the test names.
- Each overlay test blend file requires a matching script file with
the same name inside `tests/python/overlay/`.
- To reproduce a specific test state you can run
`blender "(...)/tests/data/overlay/<test>.blend" -P "(...)/tests/python/overlay/<test>.py" -- --test <test-number>`.
Note:
The current test permutations are WIP, so reference images are not
committed to the data repo for now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133879
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
Support thumbnail that shows the file contents instead
of the default blend file icon for all files in Finder.
Some files may still have the usual blender icon as thumbnail
depending on their contents.
blender-thumbnailer process is kept alive by the system
in the background and is invoked by QuickLook when needed.
The checkbox to disable the extension is present in
the Settings app.
It will NOT be an interactive "Preview" that allows richer
interactions like Panning viewport, or rotating 3D objects.
The python debugger in Visual Studio for has been broken for years
but the upstream project over at https://github.com/microsoft/PTVS
show hopeful signs of life once in a while, so there is hope that
at one point this will start working again. That being said people
do keep turning this option on and end up disappointed it isn't
working and they spend a whole bunch of time on trying to get it to
work. So for now rather than removing this functionality
completely, just disable it.
* Some libraries like Alembic and OpenColorIO for a long time removed
header dependencies on Boost.
* No need to have BOOST_LIBRARIES anymore, only BOOST_PYTHON_LIBRARIES
is a direct dependency through USD headers.
* OpenVDB is no longer a static library, no need to link its dependencies.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133424
Extract Boykov-Kolmogorov max flow algorithm from boost::graph. As part
of work towards removing Boost as a Blender dependency.
Together with #133347 this removes the last direct Blender dependency
on Boost.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132142
The goal of this test is to try to import some critical py scripts with the
system python of the building machine.
The main target is to ensure that these py scripts remain usable by all
buildbot machines, as some of them are using fairly outdated python
versions.
Current status:
* Scripts in `build_files` and `docs` are checked.
* Some python scripts in `build_files` were 'reverted' to be compatible
with older required python version currently (3.6).
* A few scripts are excluded from the test, mostly because they use Blender's
`bpy` module, which means they are only intended to be ran with Blender's
python anyway.
* The test is only enabled for Linux buildbots currently, as they use the
oldest Python by far.
Notes:
* Some more scripts are likely to be moved around in the future.
* Whether these tests need to be enabled on windows or macos platforms remains
an open question.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130746
Both the draw manager and gpu backend used the same compilation
directive for enablement. This PR seperates them into
`WITH_GPU_DRAW_TESTS` for draw manager related tests and
`WITH_GPU_BACKEND_TESTS` for gpu backend related tests.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132018
Render tests can still fail. This change will disable them until they
are in a better shape. Reduces confusion when running cycles GPU render
tests.
Known issues:
- Render in batch can take forever due to a locking issue
- Headless rendering is still in development
- Particle hair rendering is broken.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131964
This changes the location of the Draco library installation path.
The new location is at the root of addons_core/io_scene_gltf2 addon, as the library is created for this addon only.
This will solve issues where the gltf addon couldn't find the library in case of global python installation or custom script/lib paths
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131080
This commit adds support for clang-tidy checks during compilation on
macOS, which can now be enabled using the optional `WITH_CLANG_TIDY`
CMake variable.
The clang-tidy executable doesn't need to be separately installed since
CMake will pick up the executable from the LLVM pre-compiled library.
This commit also expands the coverage of clang-tidy checks to
Objective-C/C++, for which checks were enabled in PR #128334.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129761
This implements the proposal from #124512. For that it contains the following
changes:
* Remove the global override of `new`/`delete` when `WITH_CXX_GUARDEDALLOC` was
enabled.
* Always use `MEM_CXX_CLASS_ALLOC_FUNCS` where it is currently used. This used
to be guarded by `WITH_CXX_GUARDEDALLOC` in some but not all cases. This means
that a few classes which didn't use our guarded allocator by default before,
are now using it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130181
This allows to use `assert()` directly inside shader source.
The current implementation is just replacing it with a printf
that gives some information about the location of the assert.
It is not that much more helpful than a printf with a condition.
What is useful is that they are disabled by default. So they
can be sprinkle around and only turned on during debugging.
Adding shader name inside the assert report is not trivial and
could be added later (the shader name is only known at compile
time which is too late for string parsing).
Adding which drawcall produced the assert isn't trivial either.
It would require flushing the printf buffer for each drawcall
which might force synchronization and remove bugs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129728
This commit removes support for Vega GPUs from the AMD HIP backend of
Cycles. This is being done as:
- AMD no longer provides official support for Vega GPUs in their
ROCm software.
- Vega GPUs have rendering artifacts on all supported platforms,
and as a result of the reduction of support from AMD, are unlikely
to be fixed. Rendering artifacts include.
- The incorrect shading of volumes (Windows and Linux)
- Missing intersections on many meshes with HIPRT
- Crashing rendering subsurface scattering materials (Linux)
- And more.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129523
WITH_VULKAN_GUARDEDALLOC is a development option to use Blenders guarded
allocator when allocating internal vulkan driver resources. It does not provide any benefits
as this should be covered by vulkan validation and drivers are often ignoring this. This
change will remove the option from cmake and source code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129039
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
Integrate an existing implementation of the SLIM unwrapping algorithm
into Blender. More info about SLIM here:
https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/slim/
This commit is based on the integration code written by Aurel Gruber
for Blender 2.7x (unfinished and never merged with the main branch).
This commit is based on Aurel's code, rebased and further improved.
Details:
- Unwrap has been moved into a sub-menu,
slim unwrapping is exposed as: "Minimum Stretch".
- Live unwrap with SLIM refines the solutions using a timer.
- When using SLIM there are options to:
- Set the number of iterations.
- Weight the influence using vertex weights.
- SLIM can be disabled using the `WITH_UV_SLIM` build option.
Co-authored-by: Aurel Gruber <aurel.gruber@infix.ch>
Ref !114545
The Vulkan backend has come a long way and it is time to spread his
wings a bit more. This change will make the vulkan backend available
in a regular release starting from 4.3.
Vulkan is still experimental and performance isn't there yet. But it
gives add-on developers already time to check if their add-ons work.
Main goal for the vulkan project is to get a better understanding which
platforms are supported.
- NVIDIA GTX900 and up should be supported using the official NVIDIA
drivers. This means that support for GTX700/800 is currently not
available. This is related to dynamic rendering.
- AMD Polaris and up are supported using the AMD drivers. When using
the open source drivers I believe the support level is around GCN2.
- Intel CPUs are supported from UHD (6th gen) on Linux. On windows
it requires features that are not available on all latest drivers and
a workaround should be added on our side.
- Intel GPUs are supported preferrable using the latest drivers on
Windows and Linux
Some render artifacts are showing when using EEVEE but the cause is
clear and would assume to solve them before the actual release.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127096
Disable dynamic SDL loading as well as disable SDL for release builds.
This was only used for audio output which can already use OpenAL
if there are back-ends not natively supported by Blender.
- Remove extern/sdlew/
- Remove the WITH_SDL_DYNLOAD build option.
- Remove `bpy.app.sdl.available`.
Ref !127554
This new version of the graphics compiler solves a performance
regression on Arc, adds support for Battlemage and Lunar Lake GPUs, and
allows to drop older patch to build fat binaries with broad
compatibility.
This latter change requires using -device dg2,mtl naming instead of
passing architecture ids.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127371
