We appear to be hitting some limit where adding any amount of code causes a
significant performance regression, no matter what it does. To work around
that a new node level was added.
Ref T71479
* Space: volume density and step size in object or world space
* Step Size: override automatic step size
* Clipping: values below this are ignored for tighter volume bounds
The last two are Cycles only currently.
Ref T73201
By default it will now set the step size to the voxel size for smoke and
volume objects, and 1/10th the bounding box for procedural volume shaders.
New settings are:
* Scene render/preview step rate: to globally adjust detail and performance
* Material step rate: multiplied with auto detected per-object step size
* World step size: distance to steo for world shader
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1777
This feature takes some inspiration from
"RenderMan: An Advanced Path Tracing Architecture for Movie Rendering" and
"A Hierarchical Automatic Stopping Condition for Monte Carlo Global Illumination"
The basic principle is as follows:
While samples are being added to a pixel, the adaptive sampler writes half
of the samples to a separate buffer. This gives it two separate estimates
of the same pixel, and by comparing their difference it estimates convergence.
Once convergence drops below a given threshold, the pixel is considered done.
When a pixel has not converged yet and needs more samples than the minimum,
its immediate neighbors are also set to take more samples. This is done in order
to more reliably detect sharp features such as caustics. A 3x3 box filter that
is run periodically over the tile buffer is used for that purpose.
After a tile has finished rendering, the values of all passes are scaled as if
they were rendered with the full number of samples. This way, any code operating
on these buffers, for example the denoiser, does not need to be changed for
per-pixel sample counts.
Reviewed By: brecht, #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4686
This sampling pattern is particularly suited to adaptive sampling, and will
be used for that upcoming feature.
Based on "Progressive Multi-Jittered Sample Sequences" by Per Christensen,
Andrew Kensler and Charlie Kilpatrick.
Ref D4686
This simplifies compositors setups and will be consistent with Eevee render
passes from D6331. There's a continuum between these passes and it's not clear
there is much advantage to having them available separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6848
The node would render black in this case (but should use the
'active_render' layer choosen in the object data properties -- this is
now in line to how this is handled for e.g. UVs)
This introduces ATTR_STD_VERTEX_COLOR and uses this thoughout, if no
particular layer is specified in the node.
Maniphest Tasks: T73938
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6887
This extends FindOpenShadingLanguage.cmake to also look for the location of
stdosl.h and adds the path to the invocation of oslc to deal with the headers
being in different locations a little better.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6865
Reviewers: brecht
This node provides the ability to rotate a vector around a `center` point using either `Axis Angle` , `Single Axis` or `Euler` methods.
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3789
* Direction mode X, Y and Z to align with axes rather than diagonal or
spherical as previously. X is the new default, existing files will
use diagonal or spherical for compatibility.
* Phase offset to offset the wave along its direction, for purposes like
animation and distortion.
https://developer.blender.org/D6382
This adds some extra functions recently added to the float Maths Node.
Not all functions have been ported over in this patch.
Also:
+ Tidy up menu
+ Change node color to match other vector nodes, this helps distinguish vector and float nodes in the tree
+ Move shared OSL functions to new header node_math.h
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6713
There were to copies of stdosl.h one from stock OSL
and one in the cycles tree augmented with cycles
specific closures.
moved the cycles ones to stdcycles.h and copied
the stock stdosl.h and accompanying headers from
the OSL shader folder.
for further details see D6812.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6812
The OptiX denoiser can be a great help when rendering in the viewport, since it is really fast
and needs few samples to produce convincing results. This patch therefore adds support for
using any Cycles denoiser in the viewport also (but only the OptiX one is selectable because
the NLM one is too slow to be usable currently). It also adds support for denoising on a
different device than rendering (so one can e.g. render with the CPU but denoise with OptiX).
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6554
To determine the albedo pass, Cycles currently follows the path until a predominantly
diffuse-ish material is hit and then takes the albedo there.
This works fine for normal mirrors, but as it completely ignores the color of the bounces
before that diffuse-ish material, it also means that any textures that are applied to the
specular-ish BSDFs won't affect the albedo pass at all.
Therefore, this patch changes that behaviour so that Cycles also keeps track of the
throughput of all specular-ish closures along the path so far and includes that in
the albedo pass.
This fixes part of the issue described in T73043. However, since it has an effect on the
albedo pass in most scenes, it could cause cause regressions, which is why I'm uploading
it as a patch instead of just committing as a fix.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6640
Lacunarity parameter determines scaling of subsequent octaves in fractal
noises. For example, Noise node have this scaling hardcoded to 2.0. Each
octave have twice bigger scale than previous one, resulting in finer details.
By design fractal noises that generate octaves with same seed should not
have Lacunarity set to 1.0, since then it just stacks up identical noises.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6742
