The goal: allow to easily use AO approximation in scenes which combines
both small and large scale objects.
The idea: use per-object AO distance which will allow to override world
settings. Instancer object will "propagate" its AO distance to all its
instances unless the instance defines own distance (this allows to
modify AO distance in the shot files, without requiring to modify props
used in the shots.
Available from the new Fats GI Approximation panel in object properties.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12112
Motion attributes expects mesh to have non-zero number of motion steps,
which was violated in the case when fluid mesh had motion blur disabled.
This is a bit of annoying fix, because of the order of updates. More
ideal solution would be to handle cached and fluid velocities in the
sync_mesh_motion() which ensures all the dependencies between settings.
WITH_CYCLES_DEBUG was used for rendering BVH debugging passes. But since we
mainly use Embree an OptiX now, this information is no longer important.
WITH_CYCLES_DEBUG_NAN will enable additional checks for NaNs and invalid values
in the kernel, for Cycles developers. Previously these asserts where enabled in
all debug builds, but this is too likely to crash Blender in scenes that render
fine regardless of the NaNs. So this is behind a CMake option now.
Fixes T90240
Makes it so Render Layers node in the compositor is updated as soon
as Use Denoising is changed for the final render.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12010
This fixes a performance regression on Ampere cards, on specific scenes like
classroom. For cycles-x there is little difference, but this is still helpful
for LTS releases, and we need to upgrade at some point anyway.
Cached OCIO processors were not freed, instead the color spaces were freed twice.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12011
Fix an incoherence between the Eevee Materials menu and the Cycles Materials menu :
Eevee :
{F10230448}
Cycles :
{F10230449}
Simply Fixed by replacing the Cycles UI code by the Eevee UI code.
Thanks to @Brainzman for helping me create this diff and translate
Reviewed By: Blendify
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11979
It was possible that render buffers and scene kernel data will be out
of sync because reset and scene update happens in different locks.
This is similar issue we've fixed in the Cycles X branch, so backported
relevant changes from there.
This change removes what seems to be unused feature kernel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11828
When compiling BSDF nodes, we only assing stack space to the normal and
tangent inputs if they are linked. However, it could be that the
ConstantFolder removed the link, so checking if there is a link fails
to take this into account.
To fix this, added a flag to ShaderInput to keep track of whether a
constant was folded into the input, and use it as well to verify that
the socket is linked when assigning stack space.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T70615
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11731
Custom properties defined on objects are not accessible from the
attribute node when rendering a volume in Cycles. This is because
this case is not handled.
To handle it, added a primitive type for volumes in the kernel,
which is then used in the initialization of ShaderData and to
check whether an attribute lookup is for a volume.
`volume_attribute_float4` is also now checking the attribute
element type to dispatch to the right lookup function.
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T87194
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11728
Offset rays from the flat surface to match where they would be for a smooth
surface as specified by the normals. In the shading panel there is now a
Shading Offset (existing option) and Geometry Offset (new).
The Geometry Offset works as follows:
* 0: disabled
* 0.001: only terminated triangles (normal points to the light, geometry
doesn't) are affected
* 0.1 (default): triangles at grazing angles are affected, and the effect
fades out
* 1: all triangles are affected
Limitations:
* The artifact is still visible in some cases, it could be that some quads
require to be treated specifically as quads.
* Inconsistent normals cause artifacts.
* If small objects cast shadows to a big low poly surface, the shadows can
appear to be in a wrong place - because the surface moved slightly above
the geometry. This can be noticed only at grazing angles to light.
* Approximated surfaces of two non-intersecting low-poly objects can overlap
that causes off-the-wall shadows.
Generally, using one or a few levels of subdivision can get rid of artifacts
faster than before.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11065
The check on the transformation introduced in rBb313525c1bd0 to fix
T88515 would sometimes prevent to update the light if the Blender object
changed. To fix this, reverse the order in which the checks happen so
that we do not shortcuit the object change check.
This patch fixes many minor spelling mistakes, all in comments or
console output. Mostly contractions like can't, won't, don't, its/it's,
etc.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11663
Reviewed by Harley Acheson
Currently, the OptiX BVH build options are selected based on whether
we are in background mode (final renders) or not (viewport renders).
In background mode, the BVH is built for fast path tracing and low
memory footprint, while in viewport, it is built for fast updates.
However, on platforms without OpenGL support, the background flag is
always set to true and prevents using fast BVH builds in the viewport.
Now, the BVH options derive from the Scene BVH settings:
* if BVH is static, a fast to trace BVH is built
* if BVH is dynamic, a fast to update BVH is built
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11154
This adds support for importing UV sets which are defined per vertex,
instead of per face corners. Such UV sets can be generated when the
mesh is split according to UV islands, or when there is only one UV
island, in which cases only a single UV value can be stored per
vertex since vertices will never be on a seam.
After looking into task isolation issues with Sergey, we couldn't find the
reason behind the deadlocks that we are getting in T87938 and a Sprite Fright
file involving motion blur renders.
There is no apparent place where we adding or waiting on tasks in a task group
from different isolation regions, which is what is known to cause problems. Yet
it still hangs. Either we do not understand some limitation of TBB isolation,
or there is a bug in TBB, but we could not figure it out.
Instead the idea is to use isolation only where we know we need it: when
holding a mutex lock and then doing some multithreaded operation within that
locked region. Three places where we do this now:
* Generated images
* Cached BVH tree building
* OpenVDB lazy grid loading
Compared to the more automatic approach previously used, there is the downside
that it is easy to miss places where we need isolation. Yet doing it more
automatically is also causing unexpected issue and bugs that we found no
solution for, so this seems better.
Patch implemented by Sergey and me.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11603
When moving a linked collection, we seem to only receive a depsgraph update
for an empty object so the Blender synchronization cannot discriminate it
and tag the object(s) (light or geometry) for an update through
id_map.set_recalc.
This missing transform update only affects lights since we do not check
manually if the transformations were modified like we do for objects.
To fix this, add a check to see if the transformation is different provided
that a light was already created.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T88515
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11574
