This feature greatly increase depth buffer precision.
This is very noticeable in large view distance scenes.
This is enabled by default on GPUs that supports it (most of the hardware we
support already supports this). This makes rendering different on the GPUs
that do not support that feature (`glClipControl`).
While this give much better depth precision as before, we also have a lot of
imprecision caused by our vertex transformations. This can be improved in
another task.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138898
Part of #136993.
Share as much of the ShaderCompiler implementations as possible.
Remove the ShaderCompiler/ShaderCompilerGeneric split and make most of
its functions non virtual.
Move the `get_compiler` function from `Context` to `GPUBackend` and
creation/deletion to `GPUBackend::init/delete_resources`.
Add a `batch_cancel` function to `ShaderCompiler` (needed for the
GPUPass refactor).
As a nice extra, the multithreaded OpenGL compilation has become faster
too.
The barbershop materials + EEVEE static shaders have gone from 27s to
22s.
I have not observed any performance difference on Vulkan or Metal.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136676
GPUViewport is creating a bunch of framebuffer textures for itself, but
some space types never initialize/use them. E.g. Sequencer, Nodes etc.
only ever use the "overlay" texture. Eventually when viewport is
"drawn", it combines this uninitialized texture data and then only by
luck it happens that most of the time it is black. But not always!
The textures were only cleared (right now) on Metal backend, under
GPU_clear_viewport_workaround as if it was some driver workaround. Stop
doing that, and just clear them always.
However, there was seemingly a performance issue on OpenGL, when this
clear was being done. At least on my machine (Win10, Geforce RTX
3080Ti), the overhead of doing the clears is measurable, and is caused
by usage of GL4.4 glClearTexImage instead of a framebuffer clear. As if
glClearTexImage makes "pixel data to exist" on the CPU side and then
later on binding this framebuffer sends off that data to the GPU, or
somesuch.
More details in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131518
This happened because NVidia GPUs require higher alignment
for SSBO binds than for vertex inputs.
This is related to #131103 which fixed it for vulkan.
Add a common capability option for that.
Some Vulkan platforms don't support framebuffers with gaps between the
color attachments. Workbench framebuffers can create gaps.
(`in_front_fb`, `main_fb` when used for wire frame drawing).
This PR implements a detection mechanism to detect gaps. It also disables
features that are not able to comply to this requirement.
Detected when working on #129062
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130258
Adding a dummy storage buffer to the classification shader
seems to fix the issue on Qualcomm drivers (WoA).
The workaround is added to the force workaround option to
allow other platforms to test the fix.
Rel #122837
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129857
This is the first commit of the several required to support
subprocess-based parallel compilation on OpenGL.
This provides the base API and implementation, and exposes the max
subprocesses setting on the UI, but it's not used by any code yet.
More information and the rest of the code can be found in #121925.
This one includes:
- A new `GPU_shader_batch` API that allows requesting the compilation
of multiple shaders at once, allowing GPU backed to compile them in
parallel and asynchronously without blocking the Blender UI.
- A virtual `ShaderCompiler` class that backends can use to add their
own implementation.
- A `ShaderCompilerGeneric` class that implements synchronous/blocking
compilation of batches for backends that don't have their own
implementation yet.
- A `GLShaderCompiler` that supports parallel compilation using
subprocesses.
- A new `BLI_subprocess` API, including IPC (required for the
`GLShaderCompiler` implementation).
- The implementation of the subprocess program in
`GPU_compilation_subprocess`.
- A new `Max Shader Compilation Subprocesses` option in
`Preferences > System > Memory & Limits` to enable parallel shader
compilation and the max number of subprocesses to allocate (each
subprocess has a relatively high memory footprint).
Implementation Overview:
There's a single `GLShaderCompiler` shared by all OpenGL contexts.
This class stores a pool of up to `GCaps.max_parallel_compilations`
subprocesses that can be used for compilation.
Each subprocess has a shared memory pool used for sending the shader
source code from the main Blender process and for receiving the already
compiled shader binary from the subprocess. This is synchronized using
a series of shared semaphores.
The subprocesses maintain a shader cache on disk inside a
`BLENDER_SHADER_CACHE` folder at the OS temporary folder.
Shaders that fail to compile are tried to be compiled again locally for
proper error reports.
Hanged subprocesses are currently detected using a timeout of 30s.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122232
Compute shaders are required since 4.0. There was one occasion where
an older AMD driver failed and support was turned off. This driver
is now marked unsupported.
This PR includes:
- removing the check in viewport compositing
- remove properties from system info
- always construct draw manager.
- remove unused pass logic in draw hair/curves
- add deprecation warning when accessed from python
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120909
This patch adds the maximum number of supported image units to the GPU
capabilities module. Currently, the GPU module assume a maximum of 8
units, so the patch is not currently particularly useful, but we can
consider committing it for the future anyways.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119057
This avoid the cost of creating the tiles themselves which uses a lot
texture write. This was a bottleneck on Apple GPUs.
Also the per pixel classification allows us to remove certain checks in
the deferred lighting shader making it faster.
### TODO
- [x] Add gl_FragStencilRefARB support on other backend
- [x] Add workaround for when gl_FragStencilRefARB isnt supported
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116704
Blender 4.0 requires OpenGL 4.3 which always support SSBO's.
Platforms that don't support enough SSBO bind points will be marked
as unsupported.
Users who start Blender on those platforms will be informed via a
dialog. This PR also updates the `--debug-gpu-force-workarounds`
to match our minimum requirements. Note that some bugs are still
there that should be solved in other PRs:
* Workbench only renders the object using a unit matrix this is because
there is a bug in the workaround for shader_draw_parameters
* Navigating with middle mouse button is not working. Unsure what the
cause is, but might be a missing feature check in the OpenGL backend.
Related to #112224
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112572
Extract a mask from the stencil buffer and use that texture instead
when texture views are not available.
Needed for supporting the Windows ARM software driver.
The workaround is isolated on its own class so it's easy to remove once
it's no longer needed.
Note that while this adds a function to check if texture views are available
(`GPU_texture_view_support`), at the moment this always returns true in
practice, since OpenGL 4.3 is the minimum supported version.
A separate patch will be needed to allow Blender to run using
OpenGL 4.2 + extensions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111402
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.
Add a High Dynamic Range option in the Color Management > Display panel.
This enables display of extended color ranges above 1.0 for the 3D
viewport, image editor and render previews.
This requires a monitor that can display HDR colors, and a view
transform designed for HDR output. The Standard view transform works,
but Filmic does not as it was designed to bring values into the 0..1
range for SDR displays.
This patch is limited to allowing the display to visualize extended
colors, but does not include future looking work to better integrate HDR
into the full workflow.
It is implemented by rendering to high bit-depth texture formats for
the user interface, and uncapping the color range in color management.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105662
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
The goal is to solve confusion of the "All rights reserved" for licensing
code under an open-source license.
The phrase "All rights reserved" comes from a historical convention that
required this phrase for the copyright protection to apply. This convention
is no longer relevant.
However, even though the phrase has no meaning in establishing the copyright
it has not lost meaning in terms of licensing.
This change makes it so code under the Blender Foundation copyright does
not use "all rights reserved". This is also how the GPL license itself
states how to apply it to the source code:
<one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program is free software ...
This change does not change copyright notice in cases when the copyright
is dual (BF and an author), or just an author of the code. It also does
mot change copyright which is inherited from NaN Holding BV as it needs
some further investigation about what is the proper way to handle it.
Required by Metal backend for efficient shader compilation. EEVEE material
resource binding permutations now controlled via CreateInfo and selected
based on material options. Other existing CreateInfo's also modified to
ensure explicitness for depth-writing mode. Other missing bindings also
addressed to ensure full compliance with the Metal backend.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16243
- Adding in compatibility paths to support minimum per-vertex strides for vertex formats. OpenGL supports a minimum stride of 1 byte, in Metal, this minimum stride is 4 bytes. Meaing a vertex format must be atleast 4-bytes in size.
- Replacing transform feedback compile-time check to conditional look-up, given TF is supported on macOS with Metal.
- 3D texture size safety check added as a general capability, rather than being in the gl backend only. Also required for Metal.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Reviewed By: fclem
Maniphest Tasks: T96261
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14510
This checks for the availability of `gl_BaseInstanceARB` or equivalent.
Disabling for any workaround that disables shader_image_load_store_support
as a preventive measure.
full scaled image isn't used anymore. It was added to use a different scale when
displaying an image in the image editor. This was replaced by the image engine
redesign.
This change will reduce complexity of {T98375}.
GLSL has different max number of ssbo per glsl stage.
This patch checks if the number of compute ssbo blocks matches
our requirements for the GPU Subdiv, before enabling it.
Some platforms allow more ssbo bindings then blocks per stage.
Viewports where cleared explicitly due to compatibility reasons with Intel iGPUs.
This slowed down other platforms as well, this wasn't noticeable on all platforms.
This patch will be more selective when to enable the workaround.
Currently only for iGPUs on Mac + Linux.
This adds detection of the maximum number of shader storage buffer
bindings that is supported on the current platform. This can be
useful to turn off features that require compute shaders but use
more buffer bindings than available.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14337
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
This patch will use compute shaders to create the VBO for hair.
The previous implementation uses transform feedback.
Timings before: between 0.000069s and 0.000362s.
Timings after: between 0.000032s and 0.000092s.
Speedup isn't noticeable by end-users. The patch is used to test
the new compute shader pipeline and integrate it with the draw
manager. Allowing EEVEE, Workbench and other draw engines to
use compute shaders with the introduction of `DRW_shgroup_call_compute`
and `DRW_shgroup_vertex_buffer`.
Future improvements are possible by generating the index buffer
of hair directly on the GPU.
NOTE: that compute shaders aren't supported by Apple and still use
the transform feedback workaround.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11057
This reverts commit 8f9599d17e.
Mac seems to have an error with this change.
```
ERROR: /Users/blender/git/blender-vdev/blender.git/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_hair.c:115:44: error: use of undeclared identifier 'shader_src'
ERROR: /Users/blender/git/blender-vdev/blender.git/source/blender/draw/intern/draw_hair.c:123:13: error: use of undeclared identifier 'shader_src'
ERROR: make[2]: *** [source/blender/draw/CMakeFiles/bf_draw.dir/intern/draw_hair.c.o] Error 1
ERROR: make[1]: *** [source/blender/draw/CMakeFiles/bf_draw.dir/all] Error 2
ERROR: make: *** [all] Error 2
```
This patch will use compute shaders to create the VBO for hair.
The previous implementation uses tranform feedback.
Timings master (transform feedback with GPU_USAGE_STATIC between 0.000069s and 0.000362s
Timings transform feedback with GPU_USAGE_DEVICE_ONLY. between 0.000057s and 0.000122s
Timings compute shader between 0.000032 and 0.000092s
Future improvements:
* Generate hair Index buffer using compute shaders: currently done single threaded on CPU, easy to add as compute shader.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11057
With the compute pipeline calculation can be offloaded to the GPU.
This patch only adds the framework for compute. So no changes for users at
this moment.
NOTE: As this is an OpenGL4.3 feature it must always have a fallback.
Use `GPU_compute_shader_support` to check if compute pipeline can be used.
Check `gpu_shader_compute*` test cases for usage.
This patch also adds support for shader storage buffer objects and device only
vertex/index buffers.
An alternative that had been discussed was adding this to the `GPUBatch`, this
was eventually not chosen as it would lead to more code when used as part of a
shading group. The idea is that we add an `eDRWCommandType` in the near
future.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10913
This module exposes the capabilities defined in the GPU module in C.
This will be useful for porting existing code in `bgl` to `gpu`.
Reviewed By: fclem, brecht, campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T80730
Part of D11147
This patch will show textures in the image editor with the maximum
available resolution determined by the GPU Hardware/Driver.
Currently the size is limited by the user preference texture size limit.
An image user can set the `IMA_SHOW_MAX_RESOLUTION` flag to request
gpu textures in the max supported resolution. When this flag isn't
set the gpu texture is limited by the user preference setting.
When the gl resolution limit is disabled the GPU texture is always
created for the max supported resolution.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Maniphest Tasks: T81206
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9160
This change makes it possible for platforms to only support high quality
normal rendering. This is part of {T82856} where current AMD drivers
running on the polaris architecture does not support the low quality
setting due to a driver bug.
In a next commit the work around will be enabled.
This wraps the functionality used to speedup EEVEE volumetrics.
This touches the rendering code of EEVEE as it should fix a mis-usage of
the GL barrier. The barrier changed type and location, removing an
unused barrier.
This makes the GPUContext follow the same naming convention as the rest
of the module.
Also add a static getter for extra bonus style (no need for casts):
- Context::get()
- GLContext::get()
