This adds the possibility to simulate things like red ears with strong backlight or material with high scattering distances.
To enable it you need to turn on the "Subsurface Translucency" option in the "Options" tab of the Material Panel (and of course to have "regular" SSS enabled in both render settings and material options).
Since the effect is adding another overhead I prefer to make it optional. But this is open to discussion.
Be aware that the effect only works for direct lights (so no indirect/world lighting) that have shadowmaps, and is affected by the "softness" of the shadowmap and resolution.
Technical notes:
This is inspired by http://www.iryoku.com/translucency/ but goes a bit beyond that.
We do not use a sum of gaussian to apply in regards to the object thickness but we precompute a 1D kernel texture.
This texture stores the light transmited to a point at the back of an infinite slab of material of variying thickness.
We make the assumption that the slab is perpendicular to the light so that no fresnel or diffusion term is taken into account.
The light is considered constant.
If the setup is similar to the one assume during the profile baking, the realtime render matches cycles reference.
Due to these assumptions the computed transmitted light is in most cases too bright for curvy objects.
Finally we jitter the shadow map sample per pixel so we can simulate dispersion inside the medium.
Radius of the dispersion is in world space and derived by from the "soft" shadowmap parameter.
Idea for this come from this presentation http://www.iryoku.com/stare-into-the-future (slide 164).
This way we don't modify scene to get current frame from. Will also let us to
hopefully get rid of Scene stored in ModifierData.
Only did for Wave modifier for now, maybe someone is around to check on another
modifiers? :)
This was dangerous to do such calculations, and now it is solvable by making
dependency graph more granular in this case. Removing the workaround also saves
us a hassle of passing lots of extra arguments down the evaluation routines.
In theory, we can also remove EvaluationCOntext from constraints evaluation as
well now. But probably better to wait with such removal for now.
This commit effectively reverts 1130c53. Will do a proper fix in dependency
graph itself.
- initialize the cube-size from the bounding box when it's not set.
- no longer wrap faces to keep in 0-1 bounds,
other projection methods don't do this and calculating the scale
prevents the UV's from being too far outside the view.
Was using cursor position from within menu,
clicking on the same position for every selected item (toggling).
Now operate on each selected outliner element, without toggling.
This commit introduces the following changes:
* Modified the poll callback on the "Update Paths" operator for bones
so that it only checks if there are bones that have motion paths
(instead of checking whether the active bone has paths).
This makes it easier to update paths without having to first select one
that has them - useful when the paths are all on hidden/hard-to-select bones.
* Add a readonly property, "has_motion_paths" to the animviz.motion_path
RNA struct, providing easier access to the internal flag used above.
This makes it possible for the UI to display the "Update" button without
having to check various bones for motion paths.
Notes:
* The flag being used in these changes already existed, and was only really
intended for internal use. However, since it was already used in many places
for determining if auto-update of all bone paths was needed (e.g. after certain
editing ops), it should be safe to use here too.
* The update_paths operator currently bakes all paths when activated, so there's
currently no loss of functionality with changing to not checking if the active
bone has any paths (e.g. we couldn't only update the active bone only either).
That is still listed as a todo in the code.
There were 2 issues here (first was the one reported):
1) Curve shape changes if multiple consecutive pairs of keyframes
are selected. The problem is that after the first pair is handled,
subsequent pairs get sampled on the basis of the modified curve.
2) With multiple separate "islands" selected, unselected points in between
would get ignored, causing the entire curve to get sampled.
UV project mixed up global/local space,
3D cursor offset didn't take object scale into account.
Minor improvements:
- Match Cube Project 'center' behavior w/ sphere & cylinder.
- Add active-element center.
- Wrap UV's in Cube Project based on center instead of first vertex.
This seems to be a correct implementation of the same diffusion profile as Cycles uses by default.
There are a few bias though:
- We consider _A_ the albedo to be 1 when evaluating _s_.
- We use a factor of 0.6 when computing _d_ to match more or less cycles results.
Note that doing per pixel jittering does bias the result even further (loss of energy).
