We should use explicit casting. Although it is not always needed it
is a best practise in order to support the shaders on Metal.
* `float max(float, int)` is not supported on Metal and fails with a compilation error
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115464
Improvements to the drawing of shadows, used with blocks, menus, nodes,
etc. Improvements to shape, especially at the top corner or at extremes
of widget roundness. Allows transparent objects to have shadows. This
is a nice refactor that removes a lot of code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111794
Ensure all Closures are filled with correct values,
like the principled bsdf node already does.
The main reason is that the new AgX color transform doesn't play well
with negative values (see #113220), but it's probably best to ensure we
use sanitized values in the rendering code as a whole.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115059
This add the displacement option to EEVEE materials.
This unifies the option for Cycles and EEVEE.
The displacement only option is not matching cycles
and not particularly useful. So we decided to not
support it and revert to displacement + bump.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113979
This uses the principles outlined in
Screen Space Indirect Lighting with Visibility Bitmask
to compute local and distant diffuse lighting.
This implements it inside the ray-tracing module as a fallback when the
surface is too rough. The threshold for blending between technique is
available to the user.
The implementation first setup a radiance buffer and a view normal
buffer. These buffer are tracing resolution as the lighting quality is
less important for rough surfaces. These buffers are necessary to avoid
re-projection on a per sample basis, and finding and rotating the
surface normal.
The processing phase scans the whole screen in 2 directions and outputs
local incomming lighting from neighbor pixels and the remaining
occlusion for everything that is outside the view.
The final steps filters the result of the previous phase while applying
the occlusion on the probe radiance to have an energy conserving mix.
Related #112979
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114259
This path merges the Musgrave and Noise Texture nodes into a single
combined Noise Texture node. The reasoning is that both nodes
intrinsically do the same thing, which is the layering of Perlin noise
derivatives to produce fractal noise. So the patch de-duplicates code
and unifies the use of fractal noise for the end use.
Since the Noise node had a Distortion input and a Color output, while
the Musgrave node did not, those are now available to the Musgrave types
as new functionalities.
The Dimension input of the Musgrave node is analogous to the Roughness
input of the Noise node, so both inputs were unified to follow the same
behavior of the Roughness input, which is arguable more intuitive to
control. Similarly, the Detail input was slightly different across both
nodes, since the Noise node evaluated one extra layer of noise. This was
also unified to follow the behavior of the Noise node.
The patch, coincidentally fixes an unreported bug causing repeated
output for certain noise types and another floating precision bug
#112180.
The versioning code implemented with this patch ensures backward
compatibility for both the Musgrave and Noise Texture nodes. When
opening older Blender files in Blender 4.1 the output of both nodes are
guaranteed to always be exactly identical to that of Blender files
created before the nodes were merged in all cases.
Forward compatibility with Blender 4.0 is implemented by #114236.
Forward compatibility with Blender 3.6 LTS is implemented by #115015.
Pull Request: #111187
OpenGL uses a depth range between -1 and 1, which is then normalized.
Metal & Vulkan uses a depth range between 0 and 1, which is already normalized.
The final plan would be to default to a depth range between 0 and 1, but
for now the depth ranges are retargetted so they won't be clipped away.
This solves the next issues for users:
- Navigate control will be rendered correctly
- Ortographic view clipping artifacts
- EEVEE light evaluation
Retargetting happens at the end of the vertex stage or when a geometry
stage is present at the end of the geometry stage. Derivatives using
depth would have a different value compared to OpenGL, but would match
Metal backend. OpenGL performs clipping and generates derivatives based
on the original depth value.
`gl_FragCoord` and clipping would have some precision differences as clipping
and normalizing are done in a different order but would match Metal.
Geometry shaders should use `gpu_EmitVertex` to ensure that the retargetting
is done per vertex.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114669
Fixes a harsh transistion between diffuse and subsurface scattering
materials in the Principled BSDF as a user increases the Subsurface
Scattering Weight from 0 to 1.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114500
This adds a new way of computing occlusion using visibility bitmask. To
make it more algorithm agnostic, we name it horizon scan.
This cleans-up / simplify the code compared to the Horizon based solution.
There is no more trickery for fading influence of distant samples which
makes the result match cycles closer.
This introduces a new thickness option. Maintaining it relatively low
makes it possible to avoid over occlusion because of in front geometry.
Making it too low will cause under occlusion.
Related #112979
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114150
Adjust clamping of inputs in the Principled BSDF to avoid errors and
inconsistencies between render engines, while trying to leave as many
inputs as possible unclamped for artisitc purposes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112895
The last good commit was 8474716abb.
After this commits from main were pushed to blender-v4.0-release. These are
being reverted.
Commits a4880576dc from to b26f176d1a that happend afterwards were meant for
4.0, and their contents is preserved.
When using Voronoi shader nodes on legacy Intel platforms (HD4400) Blender would crash
due to a driver bug. The bug is related to generating the `fractal_voronoi_x_fx` functions.
It doesn't effect all drivers, but mainly from vendors that don't allow installing the official
intel drivers.
We have tried several approaches including using unique function names and unroll only the
function of the body. But none worked on the failing platform.
In the future we could solve this by including our own GLSL compiler, but that is still very
experimental and requires a lot of testing.#113938
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113834
The previous formula for adjusting Coat Tint intensity resulted
in strong tints and sudden colour changes when using a low coat weight.
This commit fixes these issues by mixing between a white tint (no tint)
and the chosen tint based on the Coat Weight.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113468
This adds correct object bounds estimation.
This works by creating an occupancy texture where one
bit represents one froxel. A geometry pre-pass fill this
occupancy texture and doesn't do any shading. Each bit
set to 0 will not be considered occupied by the object
volume and will discard the material compute shader for
this froxel.
There is 2 method of computing the occupancy map:
- Atomic XOR: For each fragment we compute the amount of
froxels **center** in-front of it. We then convert that
into occupancy bitmask that we apply to the occupancy
texture using `imageAtomicXor`. This is straight forward
and works well for any manifold geometry.
- Hit List: For each fragment we write the fragment depth
in a list (contained in one array texture). This list
is then processed by a fullscreen pass (see
`eevee_occupancy_convert_frag.glsl`) that sorts and
converts all the hits to the occupancy bits. This
emulate Cycles behavior by considering only back-face
hits as exit events and front-face hits as entry events.
The result stores it to the occupancy texture using
bit-wise `OR` operation to compose it with other non-hit
list objects. This also decouple the hit-list evaluation
complexity from the material evaluation shader.
## Limitations
### Fast
- Non-manifolds geometry objects are rendered incorrectly.
- Non-manifolds geometry objects will affect other objects
in front of them.
### Accurate
- Limited to 16 hits per layer for now.
- Non-manifolds geometry objects will affect other objects
in front of them.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113731
Replaces all usage by the the gpu_shader_math
equivalent. This is because the old shader
library was quite tangled.
This avoids dependency hell trying to
mix libraries.
Changes are split into isolated commits until
I had to do mass changes because of inter-
dependencies.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113631
This add the possibility to create a
orthogonal basis around a given unit
vector.
The name was chosen to match the naming
convention already in place and match
the other matrix construction functions.
In other places (ex: renderers), this same
function is commonly named `make_orthonormal`
or `make_basis`.
The function is not given to have a fixed
implementation and might change overtime.
That's why the test only covers the
assumptions and not the raw values.
The implementation is borrowed from
Cycles and adapted to our math API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113218
Shadow Map Ray Tracing is a technique that ray cast against the shadow
depth buffer. The technique is described in "Soft Shadows by
Ray Tracing Multilayer Transparent Shadow Maps".
Note that we only implement the single layer approach since storing
multiple depth is prohibitively expensive.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111809
This avoid confusion outside of the shader node GLSL code.
The issue also is that Metal allow float to cast to bool
implicitly but this create a compilation error on
OpenGL.
This adds a new entry to the split sum LUT to isolate
the effect of the F82 tint.
The application of the tint part is similar to cycles
and uses the same way for precomputing the `b` factor.
Results matches almost perfectly to the extent of the
split sum approximation.
Note that this removes the unused LTC MAG LUT for
EEVEE next to make space for the new table. It can still
be added back if needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112881
Texture Atomics have been added in Metal 3.1
and enable the original implementations of
shadow update and irradiance cache baking.
However, a fallback solution will be
required for versions under macOS 14.0 utilising
buffer-backed textures instead.
This patch also includes a stub implementation if
building/running on older macOS versions which
provides locally-synchronized texture access in
place of atomics. This enables some effects to be
partially tested, and ensures non-guarded use
of imageAtomic functions does not result
in compilation failure.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112866
This keeps the behavior similar to the Disney BRDF, where 0.5
is neutral and lower/higher values respectively decrease/increase
the dielectric specular. But it's more correct in that it's not
an arbitrary scale on Fresnel, but rather adjusting the IOR.
Ref #99447
Ref #112848
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112552
