When enabled, this normalize the strength by the light area, to keep
the total output the same regardless of shape or size. This is the
existing behavior.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA.
For add-ons, an API function to compute the area is added for conversion,
in case there is no native support for normalization.
area = light.area(matrix_world=ob.matrix_world)
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136958
Similar to other renderers, this adds a temperature property to set the
light color using blackbody emission. This can be more convenient than
using nodes, and can improve interop with other software.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA and FBX.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134303
Similar to other renderers, this adds an exposure property to multiply
the light power by 2^exposure. This can be more convenient to control
a wide range of values.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA and FBX.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134528
- "Parameters for custom (OSL-based) Cameras" -> "cameras": lower case
in tooltips.
- "Connect two nodes ... (automatically determined": missing
parenthesis.
- "Join curve... control points are detected(if disabled...": add
missing space.
- "Add Selected to Active Objects Collection" -> "Active Object's":
typo.
- "Duplicate the acive shape key" -> "active": typo.
- "Copy selected points ": remove trailing space.
- "Move cursor" -> "Cursor": title case for operator.
- "Paste text to clipboard" -> "from clipboard": typo.
- "An empty Action considered as both a 'layered' and a 'layered'
Action." -> "is considered as both a 'legacy' and a 'layered'
Action": likely copy-paste error.
- "Target's Z axis will constraint..." -> "will constrain": typo.
- "The layer groups is expanded in the UI" -> "layer group": typo.
- Deprecation warnings: add missing parentheses.
- "... on low poly geometry.Offset rays...": add missing space after
period.
- "... relative to the files directory" -> "... to the file's
directory": typo.
- "The unit multiplier for pixels per meter" -> "The base unit": this
property description was copy and pasted.
- "... beyond the faces UVs..." -> "the faces' UVs: typo.
- "Is tracking data contains ..." -> "Whether the tracking data
contains": grammar.
- "Selected text" -> "Text": title case for prop.
- "The user has been shown the "Online Access" prompt and make a
choice" -> "made a choice": grammar.
- "Glare ": remove trailing space.
- "Don't collapse a curves" -> "Do not collapse curves": grammar.
Some issues reported by Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139118
The previous value was incorrectly assuming this is 2^exposure, but it
is a simple multiplier.
Specifying large film exposure values is useful as it affects the raw data and
thus results in the same color values available in EXR, Viewer, and
Compositor, whereas using Color Management exposure is not reflected in EXR
exports, resulting in unusably low values. Using film exposure remedies that.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138850
Add a new shader node to control volume coefficients (scattering,
absorption and emission) directly, making it easier to model existing
volumes with measured data.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136287
(when done from python)
When changing those setting via the **UI**, we somehow get the
dependency graph tagged for changes.
If this happens, the update ripples through the following (and we are
all good):
- `DEG_editors_update` (here the depsgraph update is detected via
`DEG_id_type_any_updated`)
- `deg_editors_scene_update`
- `ED_render_scene_update`
- `ED_render_view3d_update`
- `engine_view_update` which finally calls the renderengine `sync_func`
When doing this from python though, the DEG tag is missing, now added
(similar to 4f15c24705)
We could as well just do a broader update though and use
`update_render_engine`
Since it seems `CyclesVisibilitySettings` are only used for the World
nowadays, this PR also corrects the property descriptions accordingly
(might make sense to split this into a separate commit).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138093
This PR adds a separate "Grease Pencil" render pass. Once
the "Grease Pencil" option is checked in the passes list, the
Grease Pencil engine will render to a new render pass for various
composition uses.
Notes:
- Occluded Grease Pencil geometry is not rendered.
- In most cases, using an "Alpha Over" with the rest will result
in the same render as the "Combined" output. The exception is
when there are Grease Pencil layers that use a blending mode
that changes the chromaticity of the alpha channel.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137638
* Add GraphicsInteropDevice to check if interop is possible with device
* Rename GraphcisInterop to GraphicsInteropBuffer
* Include display device type and memory size in GraphicsInteropBuffer
* Unnest graphics interop class to make forward declarations possible
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137363
* Pixel buffer is always allocated with export and dedicated memory flags.
* Returns an opaque file descriptor (Unix) or handle (Windows).
* Native handle now includes memory size as it may be slightly bigger
than the requested size.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137363
This PR adds Grease Pencil type filter in the view layer, so users can
control whether Grease Pencil objects should be rendered or not. When
the option is turned off, Grease Pencil rendering is skipped.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137667
This allows users to implement arbitrary camera models using OSL by writing
shaders that take an image position as input and compute ray origin and
direction.
The obvious applications for this are e.g. panorama modes, lens distortion
models and realistic lens simulation, but the possibilities are endless.
Currently, this is only supported on devices with OSL support, so CPU and
OptiX. However, it is independent from the shading model used, so custom
cameras can be used without getting the performance hit of OSL shading.
A few samples are provided as Text Editor templates.
One notable current limitation (in addition to the limited device support)
is that inverse mapping is not supported, so Window texture coordinates and
the Vector pass will not work with custom cameras.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129495
This implement the design detailed in #135935.
A new per object property called `Shadow Terminator Normal Offset` is
introduced to shift the shadowed position along the shading normal.
The amount of shift is defined in object space on the object datablock.
This amount is modulated by the facing ratio to the light. Faces
already facing the light will get no offset. This avoids most light
leaking artifacts.
In case of multiple shading normal, the normal used for the shift
is arbitrary. Note that this is the same behavior for other biases.
The magnitude of the bias is controlled by `Shadow Terminator Normal Offset`.
The amount of faces affected by the bias is controlled using
`Shadow Terminator Geometry Offset` just like cycles.
Tweaking the `Shadow Terminator Geometry Offset` allows to avoid too much
shadow distortion on surfaces with bump mapping.
Cycles properties are copied from the Cycles object datablock to the
blender datablock. This break the python API for Cycles.
The defaults are set to no bias because:
- There is no good default. The best value depends on the geometry.
- The best value might depend on real-time displacement.
- Any bias will introduce light leaking on surfaces that do not need it.
- There is an additional cost of enabling it, which is proportional
to the amount of pixels on screen using it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136935
The object was not properly tagged for update when syncing object motion
blur transforms. This caused issue with the camera in volume test after
recent scene update refactoring in 86b67a20d6, but potentially also
other ones.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137930
This makes it available in Cycles standalone, and the implementation
can be shared with Blender. This also makes it possible to compute
tangents after tessellation for adaptive subdivision.
There is a difference in UV map tangents when there are no UVs. They
are now generated from object space coordinates instead of auto
texture space coordinates. This is more efficient, and a corner case
that we don't have to keep compatible.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/cycles/pulls/25
Use the mesh wrapper mechanism from GPU subdivision to get the base mesh.
This can significantly reduce memory usage and render setup time if the
level was not manually set to zero.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135895
* Add SubdAttributeInterpolation class for linear attribute interpolation.
* Dicing computes ptex UV and face ID for interpolation.
* Simplify mesh storage of subd primitive counts
* Remove kernel code for subd attribute interpolation
* Remove patch table packing and upload
The old optimization adds a fair amount of complexity to the kernel, affecting
performance even when not using the feature. It's also not that useful as it
does not work for UVs that needs special interpolation. With this simpler code
it should be easier to make it feature complete.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135681
This is preparation for #129495.
Currently, all of OSL is managed by the OSLShaderManager. This makes it so that the general OSL setup is handled by a general OSLManager, and both the OSLShaderManager and (in the future) the Camera can use it to manage their scripts.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135050
These have bugs in with the latest HIP-RT and HIP SDK, so just disable them
as we do not expect a fix in time, and rolling back would re-introduce other
bugs. As RDNA1 does not have hardware raytracing, it is also less important
to use HIP-RT.
Note that only RDNA2+ is officially supported by HIP, so these GPUs working
at all is somewhat lucky.
Fix#134979Fix#134978Fix#134975
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135179
After the recent HIP SDK 6.3 update on Windows, the minimum GPU driver
required to use HIP in Cycles has increased.
This commit increases the required driver version listed in the UI and
adds a check to avoid showing HIP devices if they're below a certain
driver version number as they don't work properly.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134965
Remove GP legacy obtype and unused functions
Few hidden bugs are fixed with that:
- Outliner drag-drop for GP material/effect elements now works
- Correct stats are shown in status bar.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133957
This is an intermediate steps towards making lights actual geometry.
Light is now a subclass of Geometry, which simplifies some code.
The geometry is not added to the BVH yet, which would be the next
step and improve light intersection performance with many lights.
This makes object attributes work on lights.
Co-authored-by: Lukas Stockner <lukas@lukasstockner.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134846
The current usage of software-based texture operations in
the oneAPI implementation puts additional register pressure on
the GPU compiler during register allocation. And it also creates
code that requires maintenance. This commit is intended to address
this situation by utilizing a recently productized SYCL bindless
texture API to enable HW-based texture operations using
Intel GPUs' hardware sampler.
This currently translates to 1-11% rendering speedups (scene-specific)
on my Arc A770 and Arc B580. At the moment, there are small
performance regressions with NanoVDB texture operations on Arc B580
and small performance regressions in shade surface MNEE and Raytrace
kernels on Arc A770, but they look recoverable and will be handled
in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133457
Replace `const char *` with `StringRef` for the API in `BKE_attribute.h`.
The benefits are slightly simpler code and possibly slightly improved
performance through avoiding the need to measure string length.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134183
