All probes (including the world background probe) are stored in a single texture. Each probe
can be of any resolution as long as it is a power of 2 and not larger than 2048. So valid options
are (2048x2048, 1024x1024, 512x512, etc).
Each probe can be stored in their own resolution and can be set by the user.
> NOTE: Eventually we would like to add automatic resolution selection.
The probes are packed in an 2d texture array with the dimension of 2048*2048. The number of
layers depends on the actual needed layers. If more layers are needed the texture will be recreated.
This can happen when a new reflection probe is added, or an existing reflection probe is made visible
to the scene or its resolution is changed.
### Octahedral mapping
Probes are rendered into a cubemap. To reduce memory needs and improve sampling performance the cubemap
is stored in octahedral mapping space. This is done in `eevee_reflection_probe_remap_comp.glsl`.
The regular octahedral mapping has been extended to fix leakages at the edges of the texture
and to be able to be used on an atlas texture and by sampling the texture once.
To reduce sampling cost and improve the quality we add an border around the
octahedral map and extend the octahedral coordinates. This also allows us to
generate lower resolution mipmaps of the atlas texture using 2x2 box filtering
from a higher resolution.
### Subdivisions and areas
Probes data are stored besides the texture. The data is used to find out where the probe is stored
in the texture. It is also used to find free space to store new probes.
This approach ensures that we can be flexible at storing probes with different
resolutions on the same layer. Lets see an example how that works
Code-wise this is implemented by `ProbeLocationFinder`. ProbeLocationFinder can view a texture in a
given subdivision level and mark areas that are covered by probes. When finding a free spot it returns
the first empty area.
**Notes**
* Currently the cubemap is rendered with a fixed resolution and mipmaps are generated in order to
increase the quality of the atlas. Eventually we should use dynamic resolution and no mipmaps.
This will be done as part of the light probe baking change.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109688
This commit implements described in the #104573.
The goal is to fix the confusion of the submodule hashes change, which are not
ideal for any of the supported git-module configuration (they are either always
visible causing confusion, or silently staged and committed, also causing
confusion).
This commit replaces submodules with a checkout of addons and addons_contrib,
covered by the .gitignore, and locale and developer tools are moved to the
main repository.
This also changes the paths:
- /release/scripts are moved to the /scripts
- /source/tools are moved to the /tools
- /release/datafiles/locale is moved to /locale
This is done to avoid conflicts when using bisect, and also allow buildbot to
automatically "recover" wgen building older or newer branches/patches.
Running `make update` will initialize the local checkout to the changed
repository configuration.
Another aspect of the change is that the make update will support Github style
of remote organization (origin remote pointing to thy fork, upstream remote
pointing to the upstream blender/blender.git).
Pull Request #104755
