These are the internal changes to Cycles, for Blender integration there are no
functional changes in this commit.
Images are converted to scene linear color space on file load, and on reading
from the OpenImageIO texture cache. 8-bit images are compressed with the sRGB
transfer function to avoid precision loss while keeping memory usages low. This
also means that for common cases of 8-bit sRGB images no conversion happens at
all on image loading.
Initial patch by Lukas, completed by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3491
This panel is arguably the most important in the ViewLayer properties, so
the concept of "1 panel open per context" doesn't work. Especially since
the first panel (View Layer) contains only two settings.
This also registers the Passes panels before filter/override so it's sorted in the same way as EEVEE.
This never really worked as it was supposed to. The main goal of this is to
turn noise from sampling tiny hairs into multiple layers of transparency that
do not need to be sampled stochastically. However the implementation of this
worked by randomly discarding hair intersections in BVH traversal, which
defeats the purpose.
If it ever comes back, it's best implemented outside the kernel as a preprocess
that changes hair radius before BVH building. This would also make it work with
Embree, where it's not supported now. But it's not so clear anymore that with
many AA samples and GPU rendering this feature is as helpful as it once was for
CPU raytracers with few AA samples.
The benefit of removing this feature is improved hair ray tracing performance,
tested on NVIDIA Titan Xp:
bmw27: +0.37%
classroom: +0.26%
fishy_cat: -7.36%
koro: -12.98%
pabellon: -0.12%
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4532
Shader nodes are now shared with Eevee, so makes more sense to have it in
the core and not be Cycles specific.
Fix T62415: issues with append/link of old Cycles settings.
No functional change, this adds LIB definition and args to cmake files.
Without this it's difficult to migrate away from 'BLENDER_SORTED_LIBS'
since there are many platforms/configurations that could break when
changing linking order.
Manually add and enable WITHOUT_SORTED_LIBS to try building
without sorted libs (currently fails since all variables are empty).
This check will eventually be removed.
See T46725.
Do it only for meshes/curves since those are potentially slow and need user
feedback to see things are not stuck. For object instances and lights assume
it's fast enough.
Printing too much can have a performance impact on slow Windows command
prompt or when logging complex scene renders.
This is only available through the API, mainly intended for render farms to
combine rendered multilayer EXR Files with different samples. The images are
currently expected to have the exact same render layers and passes, just with
different samples.
Variance passes are still simply a weighted average, ideally these should be
merged more intelligently.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4554
It's effectively always enabled, only not on some unsupported OpenCL devices.
For testing those it's not useful to disable these features. This is replaced
by the more fine grained feature toggles that we have now.
This was already supported for Cycles shader nodes, but now also works for
Eevee and compositing nodes. Instead of a generic NodeCustomGroup, now
there is ShaderNodeCustomGroup and CompositorNodeCustomGroup that can be
subclassed and registered.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4370
It only returned those for the active device type. For backwards compatibility
return them all again, but still avoid enumerating them from our own code on
startup or opening preferences.
The main goals of this change is faster starting when using foreground
rendering.
This patch will build kernels in parallel to the update process of
the scene. When these optimized kernels are not available (yet) an AO
kernel will be used.
These AO kernels are fast to compile (3-7 seconds) and can be
reused by all scenes. When the final kernels become available we
will switch to these kernels.
In background mode the AO kernels will not be used.
Some kernels are being used during Scene update (displace, background
light). When these kernels are being used the process can halt until
these become available.
Reviewed By: brecht, #cycles
Maniphest Tasks: T61752
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4428
Confusing to call a menu a panel when subclasses need to define
panel specific variables.
Avoid having bl_ui depend on bl_operator module too.
Since this isn't an operator, add utils modules for shared types.
These new functions control the per view layer object hiding state, similar to
the selection state. All these object state checking functions now also optionally
take a view layer to use instead of the active view layer.
Fixes T62062.
Part of the cleanup of the OpenCL codebase.
Single program is not effective when using OpenCL, it is slower
to compile and slower during rendering (when used in for example
`barbershop` or `victor`).
Reviewers: brecht, #cycles
Maniphest Tasks: T62267
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4481
The UI was trying to use screen_context.c for its poll and draw
functions. So the active object and active object data and active layer
was used in the UI, instead of the context one.
Besides, for the material, the wrong context path was used altogether
when the active object was a greasepencil.
This would lead to all sort of pinning problems:
* A Mesh panel is pinned, but the active object is a grease pencil, the
grease pencil panels would show.
* If a Grease Pencil (data) panel is pinned, but the active object is not
the one pinned, nothing would show.
* Material panels and pinning were totally broken, showing the material
context for pinned mesh data panels even.
I also sanitized the name of the panels, their inheritance and poll
functions.
Reviewers: antoniov, brecht
Subscribers: billrey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4470
Float2 are now a new type for attributes in Cycles. Before, the choices
for attribute storage were float and float3, the latter padded to
float4. This meant that UV maps were inflated to twice the size
necessary.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: #cycles
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4409
