Scene layers (all object that influence the render, directly or indirectly) are
shared between all render layers. However sometimes it's useful to leave out some
object influence for a particular render layer. That's what this option allows you
to do.
render results would be displayed on loading new files if the scene names matches, now free render-results so as not to display stale data - also saves some memory.
Detect feedback loop and do not bake to images detected in this loop and show
nice warning message in such cases.
It's a way which wouldn't overcomplicate code trying to duplicate images and so
without real benefit.
details:
- setting format options from python isnt possible anymore since this isnt exposed via op->properties, python should use image.save() function instead.
- image save UI now hides 'Relative' option when copy is selected since it has no effect.
- default image depth is set to 8 or more if the image has no float buffer, otherwise its set to 32 or less.
other fixes:
- image new was adding an image with a filepath set to "untitled", if this file happened to exist in the current directory a save on the generated image would overwrite it, now initialize to empty path.
- BKE_ftype_to_imtype was returning an invalid value if ftype==0.
Show overall progress when doing sequence rendering. Nice for cases when
you're using sequencer to combine video strips only, without rendering
scenes and so. If scene strips are used in sequencer, per-frame rendering
would be used (because of scene rendering sets per-frame progress).
* Scene.use_shading_nodes property to check if RenderEngine is using new shading
nodes system, and RenderEngine.bl_use_shading_nodes to set this.
* Add mechanism for tagging nodes as being compatible with the old/new system.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/RenderEngineAPI
* This adds a Rendered draw type in the 3D view, only available when
the render engine implements the view_draw callback.
* 3D view now stores a pointer to a RenderEngine.
* view_draw() callback will do OpenGL drawing instead of the viewport.
* view_update() callback is called after depsgraph updates.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/RenderEngineAPI
* RenderEngine is now a persistent python object that exists and retains
properties as long as a frame is being rendered. This is mostly useful now
that more than one callback will be added.
* Added update() callback that should ideally be used to export the scene,
leaving only the rendering to the render() callback. This is not required to
be used at this point, but separating this will make things more thread safe
later on.
* Added tag_redraw() and tag_update() functions that will be used for viewport
rendering.
* Internal change: status text is now retained after update_status calls.
* Enabled modifier "Apply" button since it can now be used to apply displacement or output layers to the mesh.
* Default surface output names are now unique in case canvas has multiple surfaces of same type.
* Merged "face aligned" and "non-closed" brush options to a single "Project" toggle, available for "Proximity" brushes.
* Added more icons to user interface selections.
* Increased default proximity distance.
* Set proximity falloff ramp to only affect alpha by default.
* Removed some no longer required render ext. functions.
* Fix: geometry node vertex alpha didn't work unless "Vertex Color Paint/Light" was enabled from material.
from Tom Edwards (artfunkel), with minor edits.
This patch makes the following improvements to environment map scripting:
* Adds a "is_valid" RNA property to envmaps. True if the map is ready for use, False if it needs rendering.
* Adds a "clear" RNA function to envmaps. Deletes any envmap image data.
* Adds a "save" RNA function to envmaps. Writes the envmap to disc with a configurable layout. (Defaults to the current hard-coded layout.)
* Updates bpy.ops.texture.envmap_save with configurable layout support as above.
These changes, particularly configurable layouts, make exporting envmaps to other software much easier.
* Object velocity can now be used to determine brush influence and color.
* Brushes can now be set to "smudge" existing paint.
* Added new operators to easily add and remove surface output mesh data layers from Dynamic Paint ui.
* Fixed drip effect algorithm to work properly on forces pointing towards surface.
* Adjusted drip effect speed.
* Drip effect can now use canvas velocity and acceleration to influence drip direction.
* Fixed texture mapping for material enabled brushes.
* "Object Center" type brushes can now use "material color" as well.
* Improved surface partitioning grid generation algorithm.
* Fixed possible invalid brush collision detection when OpenMP enabled.
* Fixed incorrect random sized particle displace/wave influence.
* Fixed "Object Center" brush color ramp falloff.
* Fixed invalid zero alpha sampling when rendering vertex colors.
* Lots of smaller tweaking.
* Added alpha support renderer for vertex colors. You can now easily render Dynamic Paint produced vertex colors by checking "Vertex Color" in material options.
* Added "Vertex Alpha" socket for "Geometry" material node.
* Fixed vertex surface color output issues.
Full Sample AA (FSA) was failing in cases. Bug report was an empty
scene (with compo nodes) linking in another .blend scene (with render).
That case gave warning "FSA not supported with rendering". That now is
allowed.
Then I noticed FSA was giving corrupt sample buffers or crashes in cases,
especially on first buffer, this appeared to be a missing compo tag on
first sample buffer.
Lastly, to make FSA render a tiny bit less frustrating: added render window
statistic to show which of the FSA steps is being done.
When rendering, during processing scene data, drawing in 3d window
is now locked. Can get extended to more areas in UI easily.
At least this solves all crashes with conflicting memory access in
render && 3d drawing. Deleting objects via operators or delete
modifiers isn't locked yet.
Also fixed: crash on quitting a renderwindow when it was rendering.
the two files mikktspace.h and mikktspace.c. These are standalone files
which can be redistributed into any other application and regenerate the
same tangent spaces. The implementation is independent of the ordering
of faces and the vertex ordering of faces.
This was reverted by Brecht r22541 because its inefficient but there is no way to work around this with povray at the moment so adding it back as optional args.
These should not have any effect on render results, except in some cases with
you have overlapping faces, where the noise seems to be slightly reduced.
There are some performance improvements, for simple scenes I wouldn't expect
more than 5-10% to be cut off the render time, for sintel scenes we got about
50% on average, that's with millions of polygons on intel quad cores. This
because memory access / cache misses were the main bottleneck for those scenes,
and the optimizations improve that.
Interal changes:
* Remove RE_raytrace.h, raytracer is now only used by render engine again.
* Split non-public parts rayobject.h into rayobject_internal.h, hopefully
makes it clearer how the API is used.
* Added rayintersection.h to contain some of the stuff from RE_raytrace.h
* Change Isect.vec/labda to Isect.dir/dist, previously vec was sometimes
normalized and sometimes not, confusing... now dir is always normalized
and dist contains the distance.
* Change VECCOPY and similar to BLI_math functions.
* Force inlining of auxiliary functions for ray-triangle/quad intersection,
helps a few percentages.
* Reorganize svbvh code so all the traversal functions are in one file
* Don't do test for root so that push_childs can be inlined
* Make shadow a template parameter so it doesn't need to be runtime checked
* Optimization in raytree building, was computing bounding boxes more often
than necessary.
* Leave out logf() factor in SAH, makes tree build quicker with no
noticeable influence on raytracing on performance?
* Set max childs to 4, simplifies traversal code a bit, but also seems
to help slightly in general.
* Store child pointers and child bb just as fixed arrays of size 4 in nodes,
nearly all nodes have this many children, so overall it actually reduces
memory usage a bit and avoids a pointer indirection.
