Those (one per ID type!) were uselessly duplicated, and badly inconsistent
(some types were actually unlinking before deletion, others were only working if already unlinked!).
Now we use same func and same API for all types, by default deletion is performed only if ID is no more used,
set `do_unlink` parameter to True to always delete ID even if still in use.
Only exception now is with Scene, since we always want to keep at least one!
Note that this will change default behavior of some types (since unlinking is never done anymore by default).
This commit adds a new distribution to the Glossy, Anisotropic and Glass BSDFs that implements the
multiple-scattering microfacet model described in the paper "Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model".
Essentially, the improvement is that unlike classical GGX, which only models single scattering and assumes
the contribution of multiple bounces to be zero, this new model performs a random walk on the microsurface until
the ray leaves it again, which ensures perfect energy conservation.
In practise, this means that the "darkening problem" - GGX materials becoming darker with increasing
roughness - is solved in a physically correct and efficient way.
The downside of this model is that it has no (known) analytic expression for evalation. However, it can be
evaluated stochastically, and although the correct PDF isn't known either, the properties of MIS and the
balance heuristic guarantee an unbiased result at the cost of slightly higher noise.
Reviewers: dingto, #cycles, brecht
Reviewed By: dingto, #cycles, brecht
Subscribers: bliblubli, ace_dragon, gregzaal, brecht, harvester, dingto, marcog, swerner, jtheninja, Blendify, nutel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2002
It was possible to have issues in cases when several child dependencies
goes to IDs with different layers. In this case order of flushing was not
really well defined, which could lead to cases when indirect dependency
via invisible object wouldn't work.
Need some sort of barrier to prevent scheduling of parent nodes for until
all children are done, but that's becoming quite nasty thing to implement.
Added a temp field to component for now. maybe it's not so crazy actually
and we might use it for evaluation as well, so we wouldn't flush updates
to components which does not affect visible stuff.
At some point the idea was that we could have an optimization where we could
render multiple render layers without re-exporting the scene, by just updating
the layer bits. We are not doing this now and in practice with the available
render layer control like exclude layers it's not always possible anyway.
This makes it easier to support an arbitrary number of layers in the future
(hopefully this summer), and frees up some useful bits in the kernel.
Reviewed By: sergey, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2020
The idea of pole merge is to fade interocular distance after a certain
altitude to zero when altitude goes closer to a pole. This should prevent
annoyances looking up in the sky or down to the bottom.
Works for both panorama and perspective cameras when Spherical Stereo
is enabled.
Reviewers: dfelinto, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1998
If the CUDA Toolkit is installed and the user is on Linux,
adaptive, feature based CUDA runtime compile is now possible to enable via:
* Environment flag CYCLES_CUDA_ADAPTIVE_COMPILE or
* Debug menu (Debug value 256) in the Cycles UI.
- Fix wrong current sample reported in the log
- Also includes fix for progressive refine log
- Explicitly print to the stdout that resumable render is enabled
- Print error message and abort when passing wrong values for the
resumable render. Never waste someone's compute power for wrong
render!
Fixes T48185: Cycles resumable num chunks breaks sample counter
This is to prevent situations such as when the camera gets very close to a mesh
and causes it to be tessellated into an excessive amount of micropolygons. In
REYES this is known as the eye-splits problem.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1922
This makes it easier to control overall dicing rate without having to tweak
every object. The preview rate makes viewport editing more interactive. The
default preview rate of 8 is roughly 64 times faster for some operations.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1919
Similar to velocity, it was kind of supported by the mesh manager but
was missing a code in BlenderSession to get actual values.
In Cycles Heat is an attribute which goes from -1 to 1, where -1 is
the coldest ever temperature, 1 is the hottest ever one.
For some reason other parts of blender importer were assuming velocity
is supported, but actual loader was not aware of that.
Fixes T48064: Adding velocity attribute crashes render
This is only the UI change, there is no underlying code change in this commit.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1910
NOTE: this is only the first of many patches towards completing the subdivison
and displacement system in Cycles. These patches will be reviewed and committed
one by one over the coming weeks.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1909
The improved Hosek / Wilkie model was added during my GSoC 2013 and the default since then.
The older model was kinda kept for compatibility, but after more than 2 years it's time to remove it.
The Hosek / Wilkie model is more realistic anyway, and people who really want a day / night transition can mix the Sky Shader with another one (e.g. color) and fade between the two.
This feature is also known by the name Samples Offset, which allows
artists to render animation with given amount of samples N, but then
render more samples, starting from N and ending with M (where M > N)
and merge renders together as if they rendered exactly M samples.
Surely such effect could be achieved by changing Seed variable, but
that has possible issues with correlation artifacts and requiring to
manually deal with per render layer samples and such.
While we can't support all possible renderfarm-related features in
Cycles it's nice to support really commonly used stuff.
Here's a command how to run Blender with the new feature enabled:
blender -- --cycles-resumable-num-chunks 24 --cycles-resumable-current-chunk 2
This command will divide samples range in 24 parts and render
range #2 (chunk number is 1-based).
This feature might be changed a bit after we'll do some tests here
in the studio with it.
