The render generated from Freestyle's data is currently stored in the original scene's render structure ( as 'freestyle_render'): when the render database is generated, the scene's geometrical data is first imported into Freestyle and strokes are calculated. The generated strokes are used to create a Blender scene, rendered independently. The render result is used in the rendering loop.
The final rendering is performed the same way edge rendering is, in a function ('freestyle_enhance_add') operating on each individual render part. Freestyle strokes are only included if the toggle button "Freestyle" (in the 'Output' panel) is active and if the "Freestyle" render layer is also selected. Freestyle's panel appears when the toggle button 'Freestyle' is active.
IMPORTANT: as of now, rendering ONLY works when OSA is disabled and when Xparts = Yparts = 1. If these settings are not set, a bogus image will be created.
To make the render happen, many modifications had to be made:
- the Canvas::Draw and Operators::create methods no longer render strokes. They only generate shading and locational information.
- a BlenderStrokeRenderer class was added to turn Freestyle's strokes into a Blender scene. Basically, the scene consists of strokes in their projected image 2D coordinates and an orthographic camera centered in the middle of the corresponding canvas. The scene is rendered using vertex colors, in shadeless mode (therefore, no lamp is needed). BlenderStrokeRenderer uses the old GLTextureManager to load textures (as required by the StrokeRenderer class), even though stroke textures are probably not supported (not tested). After the scene is rendered, it is safely and automatically discarded.
- AppCanvas' code was greatly reduced to the bare minimum. The former AppCanvas would use an OpenGL-based back buffer and z buffer to determine the scene's color and depth information. In the future, this data will be determined from the corresponding render passes. Currently, the integration is not achieved so all style modules using depth/color information are sure to fail.
- before, Freestyle needed an OpenGL context to determine the camera's information and to compute the view map. As of now, the modelview and projection matrices are fully determined using data provided by Blender. This means both perspective and orthographic projections are supported. The AppGLWidget will very soon be removed completely.
Particle system crashed in convertblender, missing NULL check.
This fixes crash, render survives, but I doubt it was meant so...
Will leave it Janne to evaluate later.
regression files, it showed small dark outline errors on envmap.
This commit rewinds bugfix #8437, which actually had to be fixed on
another location in code, which was done a few weeks ago. :)
Index OB pass didn't support FSA for Ztransp.
Also made buttons to set black/white for non-RGBA images hide in Image Window,
the Curves color code only supports 4 channels atm.
proper results, should bake as if SSS was disabled.
- Fix for GLSL to handle failing shadow buffer creation better.
- Fix for sky/atmosphere version patch, was not doing files from 2.46
and newer.
due to jittering of the start position for antialiasing in a pixel.
Now it distributes the start position over the fixed osa sample
positions, instead of of random positions in space. The ugly bit is
that a custom ordering was defined for osa 8/11/16 to ensure that the
first 4 are distributed relatively fair for adaptive sampling to decide
if more samples need to be taken.
- the number of segments was always 1 too many on cyclic curves.
- [#17739] - normals were not being calculated when rendering curves.
Replaced macro DL_SURFINDEX with a function. it that assumes variable names and could break from the loop that called it.
SunSky didn't include skycolor in raytrace.
Note: there seems to be an error in sunsky when looking straight down,
so this option requires raytracing stuff not in outer space. :)
* subsurf code had a lot of unused variables, removed these where they are obviously not needed. commented if they could be useful later.
* some variables declorations hide existing variables (many of these left), but fixed some that could cause confusion.
* removed unused vars
* obscure python memory leak with colorband.
* make_sample_tables had a loop running wasnt used.
* if 0'd functions in arithb.c that are not used yet.
* made many functions static
- removed ugly clamping function (it was dividing XYZ based on max of
one of the values)
- added option to use Exposure, this only works for brightness (Y).
results look very pleasant, foggy and hazy results are possible.
with exposre==0, no exposure happens for HDR extreme range skies,
this is how yafray rendered it.
- added menu for choosing color spaces (CIE = modern lcds)
Please review! (and yes i know it's still not in World :)
Zbuffer error in render: when you render faces clipped by 'clip end' the
z values could wrap around, resulting in errors. Code not nicely clamps,
plus should be faster even!
- Added blending mode and factor option, so it's more clear and
controllable what happens with it. Also nice for crazy effects
of course!
- Preview render now shows preview for it too
On the todos:
- have this in World buttons (as well) for quicker sky setups
- review math of color clamping and scaling, this is definitely
not good... but a fix will make old files look very different.
- Changed order for applying atmosphere, it does it now before alpha-adding
sky, giving correct transparency
- Added correction for de-premulling and premulling scatter color
Commit patch #7788, allow to set the render step, so it's
possible make render every N frames only.
The step is change in Scene buttons (F10), below start and
end frame buttons.
Also add a command line options (-j), so it's possible to
overwrite the file step (useful for renderfarm).
[ Brecht, this work with OpenGL renders and simulated
the skipped frames, please double check ]
Finally, after a long time new render candy for the non-game peoples! :)
Good doc is here: (url splits in two)
http://www.harkyman.com/2008/08/06/controllable-shadow-intensity-
and-color/
Note the colorpicker for shadow is in "Shadow and Spot" panel. A bit
hidden, could get more attention. For later. :)
not give a smooth fallof. there's no correct fix possible due
to a lack of information, but this manually adds a smoother
falloff, overestimating the contribution of foregroud pixels
instead of becoming transparent.
halo material attach to the object instead of the mesh.
Also for bug #13489: avoid a crash rendering with invalid
active vcol layer, most likely caused by a bug that was
already fixed.
FSA didn't support "key alpha", fixed it.
Also noticed edge-enhance didnt work for FSA, added warning for that,
fixing it is too clumsy, this option belongs in compositor.
the features that are needed to run the game. Compile tested with
scons, make, but not cmake, that seems to have an issue not related
to these changes. The changes include:
* GLSL support in the viewport and game engine, enable in the game
menu in textured draw mode.
* Synced and merged part of the duplicated blender and gameengine/
gameplayer drawing code.
* Further refactoring of game engine drawing code, especially mesh
storage changed a lot.
* Optimizations in game engine armatures to avoid recomputations.
* A python function to get the framerate estimate in game.
* An option take object color into account in materials.
* An option to restrict shadow casters to a lamp's layers.
* Increase from 10 to 18 texture slots for materials, lamps, word.
An extra texture slot shows up once the last slot is used.
* Memory limit for undo, not enabled by default yet because it
needs the .B.blend to be changed.
* Multiple undo for image painting.
* An offset for dupligroups, so not all objects in a group have to
be at the origin.
