Users have been getting a bit confused by the way things are worded/arranged in
the UI. This patch makes a few changes to the UI to make it more clear how to
use subdivision:
- make Subdivide UVs option inactive when adaptive subdivision is enabled as UV
subdivision is currently unsupported
- add "px" to dicing rates in the Geometry Panel
- display the final dicing rate in the modifier
- reworded "Dicing Rate" in the modifier to "Dicing Scale" to make more clear
that this is a multiplier for the scene dicing rate and added a note the the
tooltip pointing the user to that setting in the Geometry Panel
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2174
Changes from microdisplacement work broke previous support for subdivision
meshes, sometimes leading to crashes; this makes things work again. Files
that contain "patch" nodes will need to be updated to use meshes instead, as
specifying patches was both inefficient and completely unsupported by the new
subdivision code.
The if branches were reordered when the original patch was
committed, which broke the implicit non-NULL guarantee on link.
To prevent re-occurrence, add a couple of unit tests.
These latter can cause MSVC debug asserts if the array is empty. With C++11
we'll be able to do this for std::vector later. This hopefully fixes an assert
in the Cycles subdivision code.
Kernels can now be built without patch evaluation when not needed by the
scene (Catmull-Clark subdivision not in use), giving a performance boost
for some devices.
By calling `tessellate()` from the mesh manager in Cycles we can do pre/post
processing or even threaded tessellation without concerning client side code
with the details.
This way OpenCL devices can also benefit from a smaller memory footprint, when using e.g. bumpmaps (greyscale, 1 channel).
Additional target for my GSoC 2016.
Now we have the 4 component ones first (float4, byte4, half4) followed by the 1 component ones (float, byte, half).
Makes code a bit more consistent and also reduces code a bit when enabling half support on GPU in next commit.
This also exposed a typo in half CPU images for 3D textures, which wasn't used yet, but good to have that one fixed anyway.
Using unit tests is a wrong way to control static behavior of the
application. They should only be used for checking dynamic behavior,
all the rest is easily controllable at compile time.
Doing tests at ocmpile time are actually more robust approach since
we don't have strict policy of runnign unit tests before accepting
any change.
Proper alignment control is coming shortly.
This reverts commit 7c3a06c349.
Since the optimal values depend on the device used, this option doesn't make much sense in the XML.
Therefore, it's now specified via the command line, just like the device itself.
Another issue with the modified particle motion blur fix: since
pre and post are used as validity markers, they must be set even
if there is no actual motion, like the original bool flags were.
Otherwise an object starting to move or stopping is interpreted
as having invalid blur data and hidden.
Displacement is now a per material setting, which means old files will have to
be updated if they had used displacement. Cool side effect of this change is
material previews now show displacement.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2140
Enables Catmull-Clark subdivision meshes with support for creases and attribute
subdivision. Still waiting on OpenSubdiv to fully support face varying
interpolation for subdividing uv coordinates tho. Also there may be some
inconsistencies with Blender's subdivision which will be resolved at a
later time.
Code for reading patch tables and creating patch maps is borrowed
from OpenSubdiv.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2111
