Tried 101 but it gives colisions.
I think 257 is enough now that we dont have thousands of uniforms.
This gives some noticeable performance improvement.
Could be refined further.
The issue was caused by light sample being evaluated to nan at some point.
This is root of the cause which is to be fixed, but is very hard to trace down
especially via ssh (the issue only happens on AVX2 release build). Will give it
a closer look when back to my AVX2 machine.
For until then this is a good check to have anyway, it corresponds to what's
happening in regular radiance sum.
This changes quite a few things:
- Drops the allocation of inputs as a chunk.
- Merge the linked list system into the Gwn_ShaderInput.
- Put name buffer into another memory block, easily resizable.
- Use offset instead of char* to direct to input name.
- Add only requested uniforms dynamicaly to the Shader Interface.
This drops some minor optimisation and use a bit more memory for small shaders (which are fixed count).
But this saves a lot of memory when using UBOs because the names and the Gwn_ShaderInput were alloc'ed for every UBO variable.
This also reduce the Shader Interface initial generation.
The lookup time is left unchanged.
This is an internal structure, and we don't put it to a list for anything else
that hash collision resolution. No need to have dedicated entry here, saves us
from extra allocation and pointer dereference.
This way we reduce number of loops from look-over-all-inputs to
loop-over-collision, which is expected to be much less CPU ticks.
There is still possible optimization: use memory pool of some sort
to manage memory needed for hash entries, but that will only speedup
shader interface construction / deconstruction time.
There are also some trickery happening to speed up process even more
in the case there is no hash collisions detected when constructing
shader interface.
The work size is still very conservative, and this doesn't help for progressive
refine. For that we will need to render multiple tiles at the same time. But this
should already help for denoising renders that require too much memory with big
tiles, and just generally soften the performance dropoff with small tiles.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2856
This was originally done with the first sample in the kernel for better
performance, but it doesn't work anymore with atomics. Any benefit was
very minor anyway, too small to measure it seems.
Notes:
- Changes in paint_vertex.c were simple to merge, mainly related on passing
evaluation context.
- Conflicts in EditDM and drawmesh.c are solved using code from blender2.8
branch. Those areas are deprecated and not to be used in final release.
However, it's possible that some reference code from master is lost, so
keep attention when adding alpha support for vertex painting.
This removes a bunch of code that is no longer needed, and running
"make update" will now automatically download the new libraries.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2861
This is done by storing only a subset of PathRadiance, and by storing
direct light immediately in the main PathRadiance. Saves about 10% of
CUDA stack memory, and simplifies subsurface indirect ray code.
One crucial thing here: OpenVDB shoudl be compiled WITHOUT
OPENVDB_ENABLE_3_ABI_COMPATIBLE flag. This is how OpenVDB's Makefile is
configured and it's not really possible to detect this for a compiled library.
If we ever want to support that option, we need to add extra CMake argument and
use old version 3 API everywhere.
It has been deprecated since at least macOS 10.9 and fully removed in 10.12.
I am unsure if we should remove it only in 2.8. But you cannot build blender with it supported when using a modern xcode version anyway so I would tend towards just removing it also for 2.79 if that ever happens.
Reviewers: mont29, dfelinto, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T52807
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2333
Iterate over invisible objects too, so lamps can still lit the scene.
Also, now you can use a collection to set an object to invisible, not
only to visible.
For example:
Scene > Master collection > bedroom > furniture
Scene > View Layer > bedroom (visible)
> furniture (invisible)
The View Layer has two linked collections, bedroom and furniture.
This setup will make the furniture collection invisible.
Note: Unlike what was suggested on D2849, this does not make collection
visibility influence camera visibility. I will keep this as a separate
patch.
Reviewers: sergey
Subscribers: sergey, brecht, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2849
