For Blender 2.8 we had to be compatible with very old OpenGL versions, and
triple buffer was designed to work without offscreen rendering, by copying
the the backbuffer to a texture right before swapping. This way we could
avoid redrawing unchanged regions by copying them from this texture on the
next redraws. Triple buffer used to suffer from poor performance and driver
bugs on specific cards, so alternative draw methods remained available.
Now that we require newer OpenGL, we can have just a single draw method
that draw each region into an offscreen buffer, and then draws those to
the screen. This has some advantages:
* Poor 3D view performance when using Region Overlap should be solved now,
since we can also cache overlapping regions in offscreen buffers.
* Page flip, anaglyph and interlace stereo drawing can be a little faster
by avoiding a copy to an intermediate texture.
* The new 3D view drawing already writes to an offscreen buffer, which we
can draw from directly instead of duplicating it to another buffer.
* Eventually we will be able to remove depth and stencil buffers from the
window and save memory, though at the moment there are still some tools
using it so it's not possible yet.
* This also fixes a bug with Eevee sampling not progressing with stereo
drawing in the 3D viewport.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3061
Normal packing. The sign is stored in the A of the color buffer.
if the A == 1.0 the normal should be inverted. before use.
The reason is that packing has more precision for frontfaces, than for
backfaces
This allows for background rendering with EEVEE and other opengl render
engine.
I've only tested it on Linux for the moment so I can't say about other
platforms.
We do lazy init because we cannot assume we will need Ghost for rendering
before having parsed all arguments and we cannot know if a script will
trigger rendering. This is also because it currently does not work without
any display server (blender will crash).
Added Object Overlap Overlay
- Added R32UI support to GPU_framebuffer
- Added R32U support to draw manager
- The overlay mode has a object data pass that will render 'needed' data to specific buffers so we can mix them together via a deferred rendering. In future will also add UV's and other data
- Overlap is implemented as an overlay so it could be used on top of the Scene lighted Solid mode (that will be rendered by Eevee.
Reviewers: fclem, brecht
Reviewed By: fclem
Subscribers: sergey
Tags: #code_quest
Maniphest Tasks: T54726
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3174
Works on every probe type.
The function to see is EEVEE_lightprobes_obj_visibility_cb.
Set pinfo->vis_data.cached to true makes the computation faster for multiple
views using the same group.
We could even sort the probes by group for that mater to speed things up
even more (only applies to dynamic probes like the planar reflections because
other probes are only rendered one at a time).
This add a callback function that runs after frustum culling test.
This callback returns the final visibility for this object.
Be aware that it's called for EVERY drawcalls that use this callback even
if their visibility has been cached.
Dithering the output color for 8bit precision framebuffer with bayer matrix.
On my tests the bayer matrux patterns are not noticeable at all.
Note that it also does that in opengl rendered mode which can be in a much
higher bitdepth. We can fix that if that's a problem in the future but I
doubt it will.
This "improve" the viewport experience by reducing the noise from random
sampling effects (SSAO, Contact Shadows, SSR) when moving the viewport or
during playback.
This does not do Anti Aliasing because this would conflict with the outline
pass. We could enable AA jittering in "only render" mode though.
There are many things to improve but this is a solid basis to build upon.
This pass create a velocity buffer which is basically a 2D motion vector
texture. This is not yet used for rendering but will be usefull for motion
blur and temporal reprojection.
- need a draw mode in workbench engine.
- reorganized render engine retrieval in 3d view. There are 2 places
where this happenes 1. 3d view draw code and 2. draw manager.
the draw manager code is not used for external engines, currently added
an exception in for cycles. will need to have a better solution in
place.
issue was the factoring of the workspace engine that was removed. the logic implied that the clay could not be rendered as clay will be a draw mode we placed it already there so it is accessible in any engine. Should eventually fix the clay engine by migrating it to the workbench engine.
- Removed the depth pass as it will reuse the depth pass of the render
engine
- Used gl_FrontFacing to determine the facing
- Blender the result with the render engine result
Implemented the face orientation overlay for testing.
Overlay mode is only drawn when there are overlays to be rendered.
The overlay mode is rendered before the object mode.
Brecht authored this commit, but he gave me the honours to actually
do it. Here it goes; Blender Internal. Bye bye, you did great!
* Point density, voxel data, ocean, environment map textures were removed,
as these only worked within BI rendering. Note that the ocean modifier
and the Cycles point density shader node continue to work.
* Dynamic paint using material shading was removed, as this only worked
with BI. If we ever wanted to support this again probably it should go
through the baking API.
* GPU shader export through the Python API was removed. This only worked
for the old BI GLSL shaders, which no longer exists. Doing something
similar for Eevee would be significantly more complicated because it
uses a lot of multiplass rendering and logic outside the shader, it's
probably impractical.
* Collada material import / export code is mostly gone, as it only worked
for BI materials. We need to add Cycles / Eevee material support at some
point.
* The mesh noise operator was removed since it only worked with BI
material texture slots. A displacement modifier can be used instead.
* The delete texture paint slot operator was removed since it only worked
for BI material texture slots. Could be added back with node support.
* Not all legacy viewport features are supported in the new viewport, but
their code was removed. If we need to bring anything back we can look at
older git revisions.
* There is some legacy viewport code that I could not remove yet, and some
that I probably missed.
* Shader node execution code was left mostly intact, even though it is not
used anywhere now. We may eventually use this to replace the texture
nodes with Cycles / Eevee shader nodes.
* The Cycles Bake panel now includes settings for baking multires normal
and displacement maps. The underlying code needs to be merged properly,
and we plan to add back support for multires AO baking and add support
to Cycles baking for features like vertex color, displacement, and other
missing baking features.
* This commit removes DNA and the Python API for BI material, lamp, world
and scene settings. This breaks a lot of addons.
* There is more DNA that can be removed or renamed, where Cycles or Eevee
are reusing some old BI properties but the names are not really correct
anymore.
* Texture slots for materials, lamps and world were removed. They remain
for brushes, particles and freestyle linestyles.
* 'BLENDER_RENDER' remains in the COMPAT_ENGINES of UI panels. Cycles and
other renderers use this to find all panels to show, minus a few panels
that they have their own replacement for.
