* Added support for uchar4 attributes to Cycles' attribute system.
* This is used for Vertex Colors now, which saves some memory (4 unsigned characters, instead of 4 floats).
* GPU Texture Limit on sm_20 and sm_21 decreased from 95 to 94, because we need a new texture for the uchar4 attributes. This is no problem for sm_30 or newer.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
This kernel is compiled with AVX2, FMA3, and BMI compiler flags. At the moment only Intel Haswell benefits from this, but future AMD CPUs will have these instructions as well.
Makes rendering on Haswell CPUs a few percent faster, only benchmarked with clang on OS X though.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
Instead of pre-calculation and storage, we now calculate the face normal during render.
This gives a small slowdown (~1%) but decreases memory usage, which is especially important for GPUs,
where you have limited VRAM.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
This makes the code a bit easier to understand, and might come in handy
if we want to reuse more Embree code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D482
Code by Brecht, with fixes by Lockal, Sergey and myself.
This means packed images and movies are now supported when using OSL
backend for material shading.
Uses special file name to distinguish whether image is builtin or not.
This part might become a bit smarted or optimized a bit, but it's good
enough with this implementation already.
Suggestion by Andy Davies (metalliandy) to conform with industry standard (custom cage is something else apparently)
Note: this is the last bake related commit I plan for 2.71/rc (unless
everyone agrees that we could squeeze in D546 - custom UVs, which would
be really nice to add for 2.71 scripters)
Note 2: I'll update the wiki docs shortly
There is a new option to select whether you want to use cage or not.
When not using cage the results will be more similar with Blender
Internal, where the inwards rays (trying to hit the highpoly objects)
don't always come from smooth normals. So if the active object has sharp
edges and an EdgeSplit modifier you get bad corners.
This is useful, however, to bake to planes without the need of adding
extra loops around the edges.
When cage is "on" the user can decide on setting a cage extrusion or to
pick a Custom Cage object. The cage extrusion option works in a
duplicated copy of the active object with EdgeSplit modifiers removed to
inforce smooth normals. The custom cage option takes an object with the
same number of faces as the active object (and the same face ordering).
The custom cage now controls the direction and the origin of the
rays casted to the highpoly objects. The direction is a ray from the
point in the cage mesh to the equivalent point to the base mesh. That
means the face normals are entirely ignored when using a cage object.
For developers:
When using an object cage the ray is calculated from the cage mesh to
the base mesh. It uses the barycentric coordinate from the base mesh UV,
so we expect both meshes to have the same primitive ids (which won't be
the case if the cage gets edited in a destructive way).
That fixes T40023 (giving the expected result when 'use_cage' is false).
Thanks for Andy Davies (metalliandy) for the consulting with normal
baking workflow and extensive testing. His 'stress-test' file will be
added later to our svn tests folder. (The file itself is not public yet
since he still has to add testing notes to it).
Many thanks for the reviewers.
More on cages:
http://wiki.polycount.com/NormalMap/#Working_with_Cages
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
CC: adriano, metalliandy, brecht, malkavian
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D547
Now baking does one AA sample at a time, just like final render. There is
also some code for shader antialiasing that solves T40369 but it is disabled
for now because there may be unpredictable side effects.
Cycles expects to find all node sockets with their correct names, but
this can be changed via the API (see bug report discussion).
Solution for now is to let cycles accept this case gracefully instead
of crashing. The shader will simply use the internal default values for
inputs and any connections will be ignored.
Would be nice to report the error somewhere, but cycles doesn't have a
proper logging system for this purpose yet.
it's possible that runtime optimizer would call get_attribute
with NULL renderstate. As per documentation, it's valid to
return false in that cases and in worst case we'll just miss
some possible optimization.
Supporting such cases would require some bigger changes to
Cycles since attributes are only set to up for the kernel
after shader compilation.
Thanks Brecht for review!
Transparent objects could become subtly visible by the different sampling
patterns for pixels covered and not covered by the object. It still converged
to the right solution but that can take a while. Now we try to use the same
sampling pattern here.
This reverts commit 12abe94de8.
After a long discussion in the bug tracker we decided baking should use
the faces normals for glossy (and combined). This is what Blender
Internal is doing, and one of the more predictable way of yielding
predictable results.
That also means the result will not match the render perfectly, but this
is preferrable over the alternatives at hand.
Conflicts:
intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_bake.h
Comments from Brecht Van Lommel:
"""
Currently the viewing direction for each pixel is set to the normal, so
at every pixel glossy is evaluated as if you're looking straight at it.
Blender Internal works the same.
"""
This patch makes baking glossy as viewed from the camera.
Reviewers: brecht
CC: zanqdo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D555
The kernel for baking the world texture was the same as the one used for
baking. Now that's separate which allows the kernel to reserve much less
memory.
CMake had this --fast-math flag but scons not, makes a big difference on some
files. Slightly slower rendering might still happen though, but it should not
be this much.
The remaining functions in blender_python.cpp changed from using the
MACRO to use python_thread_state_save/python_thread_state_restore
Since this bug only happens when 'Persistent Images' is on it was
introduced in some of the early merges with master and I never caught
it.
Thanks Daniel Salazar for helping with the bug hunting.
If we are using a mix node we still need to evaluate the BSDF lighting
even if scattering is successful.
Note: this was working for branched path (probably an oversight when
branched path support was introduced for baking, a good oversight though
;)
Fixes T40027. This means we get more CPU usage again when using multiple CUDA,
but the impact on performance is too big a problem with the current code.
