Removing the GHOST_kKeyUnknown check from processKeyEvent() produces
epeated unknown key events whenever a modifier key is held down, due
to the way ghost uses GHOST_kKeyUnknown as a filter value for modifier
key events.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7257
This works similarly to the CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST
environment variable to allow testing on unsupported
hardware.
Note: like the OPENCL test override, this is
for *testing* only and bug reports on unsupported
hardware will *not* be accepted at this point in
time.
Events for keys specific to certain keyboard layouts unknown to Blender
were ignored. Now pass them along as unknown key events for which we
can still handle text input, like we already do for Linux and macOS.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7229
Random Walk subsurface scattering did look different with OptiX because transmittance is
calculated based on the hit distance, but the OptiX implementation of `scene_intersect_local`
would return the distance in world space, while the Cycles BVH version returns it in object
space. This fixes the problem by simply skipping the object->world transforms in all the
places using the result of `scene_intersect_local` with OptiX.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7232
There is no need to have another font embedded in the Blender executable, we
can assume the bundled font exists. In the future we may provide a fallback
if the font specified by the user in the preferences is missing a character,
but that can use our bundled international font.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6854
The numbers here can probably be tweaked to be better, but it's hard to
predict and this should at least avoid excessive memory swapping.
Fixes T57064.
Tested with AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100, where it brings performance back to 2.80
level, and combined with recent changes is about 2-15% faster than 2.80 in
our benchmark scenes.
This somehow appears to specifically address the issue where adding more shader
nodes leads to slower runtime. I found no additional speedup by applying this
to change to 2.80 or removing the new shader node code.
Ref T71479
Patch by Jeroen Bakker.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6252
We appear to be hitting some limit where adding any amount of code causes a
significant performance regression, no matter what it does. To work around
that a new node level was added.
Ref T71479
Fixes an issue with secondary particles being out of sync with the main simulation. Cleaned up the secondary particle code in general too (making sure that all solver attributes - timestep, framelength, etc. - are set correctly).
Back in 2.79 you could either use the debug panel or an
environment variable to override using OpenCL for unsupported
hardware. Which was rather useful for developers when testing
on NVidia just to be sure the CL kernels at-least build properly.
This broke in rB949ab753bb2
This diff restores testing though the CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST
environment variable.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7202
Reviewers: brecht
* Space: volume density and step size in object or world space
* Step Size: override automatic step size
* Clipping: values below this are ignored for tighter volume bounds
The last two are Cycles only currently.
Ref T73201
By default it will now set the step size to the voxel size for smoke and
volume objects, and 1/10th the bounding box for procedural volume shaders.
New settings are:
* Scene render/preview step rate: to globally adjust detail and performance
* Material step rate: multiplied with auto detected per-object step size
* World step size: distance to steo for world shader
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1777
Voxels are loaded directly from the OpenVDB grid. Rendering still only supports
dense grid, so memory usage is not great for sparse volumes, this is to be
addressed in the future.
Ref T73201
NOTE: While most of the milestone 1 goals are there, a few smaller features and
improvements are still to be done.
Big picture of this milestone: Initial, OpenXR-based virtual reality support
for users and foundation for advanced use cases.
Maniphest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T71347
The tasks contains more information about this milestone.
To be clear: This is not a feature rich VR implementation, it's focused on the
initial scene inspection use case. We intentionally focused on that, further
features like controller support are part of the next milestone.
- How to use?
Instructions on how to use this are here:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/How_to_Test
These will be updated and moved to a more official place (likely the manual) soon.
Currently Windows Mixed Reality and Oculus devices are usable. Valve/HTC
headsets don't support the OpenXR standard yet and hence, do not work with this
implementation.
---------------
This is the C-side implementation of the features added for initial VR
support as per milestone 1. A "VR Scene Inspection" Add-on will be
committed separately, to expose the VR functionality in the UI. It also
adds some further features for milestone 1, namely a landmarking system
(stored view locations in the VR space)
Main additions/features:
* Support for rendering viewports to an HMD, with good performance.
* Option to sync the VR view perspective with a fully interactive,
regular 3D View (VR-Mirror).
* Option to disable positional tracking. Keeps the current position (calculated
based on the VR eye center pose) when enabled while a VR session is running.
* Some regular viewport settings for the VR view
* RNA/Python-API to query and set VR session state information.
* WM-XR: Layer tying Ghost-XR to the Blender specific APIs/data
* wmSurface API: drawable, non-window container (manages Ghost-OpenGL and GPU
context)
* DNA/RNA for management of VR session settings
* `--debug-xr` and `--debug-xr-time` commandline options
* Utility batch & config file for using the Oculus runtime on Windows.
* Most VR data is runtime only. The exception is user settings which are saved
to files (`XrSessionSettings`).
* VR support can be disabled through the `WITH_XR_OPENXR` compiler flag.
For architecture and code documentation, see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/XR.
---------------
A few thank you's:
* A huge shoutout to Ray Molenkamp for his help during the project - it would
have not been that successful without him!
* Sebastian Koenig and Simeon Conzendorf for testing and feedback!
* The reviewers, especially Brecht Van Lommel!
* Dalai Felinto for pushing and managing me to get this done ;)
* The OpenXR working group for providing an open standard. I think we're the
first bigger application to adopt OpenXR. Congratulations to them and
ourselves :)
This project started as a Google Summer of Code 2019 project - "Core Support of
Virtual Reality Headsets through OpenXR" (see
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/).
Some further information, including ideas for further improvements can be found
in the final GSoC report:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/User:Severin/GSoC-2019/Final_Report
Differential Revisions: D6193, D7098
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel, Jeroen Bakker
Extends Ghost to include an abstraction for OpenXR, which I refer to as
Ghost-XR. Such an API is the base for the following commit, which introduces VR
support to Blender.
Main features:
* Simple and high-level interface for Blender specific code to call.
* Extensible for muliple graphics backends, currently OpenGL and a DirectX
compatibility layer are supported.
* Carefully designed error handling strategy allowing Blender to handle errors
gracefully and with useful error messages.
* OpenXR extension and API-layer management.
* OpenXR session management.
* Basic OpenXR event management.
* Debug utilities for Ghost-XR and OpenXR
For more information on this API, check
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Interface/XR.
Reviewed by: Brecht Van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6188
Allow to mark individual vertices as infinitely sharp even if there is
no full topology and no access to edges: infinite sharp vertices do not
need connectivity information.
