Before this change doing something like `--verbose 10 --debug-cycles`
did not properly set verbosity, only using those arguments in an other
way around was leading to a correct verbosity level.
When compute preemption is available we schedule more work which is more
efficient. However the CUDA driver appears to be incorrectly reporting this as
unavailable, even though it should be supported starting with Windows 10 1803
and Pascal and Turing (10x0 and 20x0) graphics cards.
This reduces render time by about a 25% difference on our benchmark scenes. On
Linux compute preemption appears to be reported correctly.
Previously, bright edges (e.g. caused by rim lighting) would sometimes get
halos around them after denoising.
This change introduces a log(1+x) highlight compression step that is performed
before denoising and reversed afterwards. That way, the denoising algorithm
itself operates in the compressed space and therefore bright edges cause less
numerical issues.
This also replaces the Use Alpha setting. We now have these alpha modes:
* Straight: store RGB and alpha channels separately with alpha acting as a
mask, also known as unassociated alpha.
* Premultiplied: transparent RGB pixels are multiplied by the alpha channel.
The natural format for renders.
* Channel Packed: different images are packed in the RGB and alpha channels,
and they should not influence each other. Channel packing is commonly used
by game engines to save memory.
* None: ignore alpha channel from the file and make image fully opaque.
Cycles OSL does not correctly support Channel Packed and None yet, we are
missing fine control over the OpenImageIO texture cache to do that.
Fixes T53672
This is the groundwork for supporting loading image textures with arbitrary
color spaces through OpenColorIO.
Initial patch by Lukas, completed by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3491
This adds our own OSL texture handle, that has info for OIIO textures or our
own custom texture types. A filename to handle hash map is used for lookups.
This is efficient because it happens at OSL compile time, because the optimizer
can figure out constant strings and replace them with texture handles.
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
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
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
Using OpenCL MegaKernel has been slow and therefore not usefull.
This patch will remove the mega kernel from the OpenCL codebase
and the OpenCLDeviceBase class.
T61736: removal of mega kernel
T61703: baking does not work with mega kernel
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4383
This patch implements a workaround to get the multithreaded compilation from D2231 working.
So far, it only works for Blender, not for Cycles Standalone. Also, I have only tested the Linux codepath in the helper function.
Depends on D2231.
Patch by lukasstockner97, jbakker, brecht
job | scene_name | compilation_time
----------+-----------------+------------------
Baseline | empty | 22.73
D2264 | empty | 13.94
Baseline | bmw | 56.44
D2264 | bmw | 41.32
Baseline | fishycat | 59.50
D2264 | fishycat | 45.19
Baseline | barbershop | 212.28
D2264 | barbershop | 169.81
Baseline | victor | 67.51
D2264 | victor | 53.60
Baseline | classroom | 51.46
D2264 | classroom | 39.02
Baseline | koro | 62.48
D2264 | koro | 49.03
Baseline | pavillion | 54.37
D2264 | pavillion | 38.82
Baseline | splash279 | 47.43
D2264 | splash279 | 37.94
Baseline | volume_emission | 145.22
D2264 | volume_emission | 121.10
This patch reduced compilation time as the split kernels and base
kernels are compiled in parallel. In cycles debug mode (256) you can set
unmark the opencl single program file, what reduces the compilation time
even further (bmw 17 seconds, barbershop 53 seconds).
Reviewers: brecht, dingto, sergey, juicyfruit, lukasstockner97
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Loner, jbakker, candreacchio, 3dLuver, LazyDodo, bliblubli
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2264
This patch implements a workaround to get the multithreaded compilation from D2231 working.
So far, it only works for Blender, not for Cycles Standalone. Also, I have only tested the Linux codepath in the helper function.
Depends on D2231.
Reviewers: brecht, dingto, sergey, juicyfruit, lukasstockner97
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Loner, jbakker, candreacchio, 3dLuver, LazyDodo, bliblubli
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2264
For OIIO 2.x we must use unique_ptr. This also required updating the
guarded allocator for std::move to work. Since C++11 construct/destroy
have a default implementation that also works this case, so we just
leave it out.
This adds a cycles.denoise_animation operator, which denoises an animation
sequence or individual file. Renders must be saved as multilayer EXR files
with denoising data passes.
By default file path and frame range come from the current scene, and EXR
files are denoised in-place. Alternatively, a different input and/or output
file path can be provided.
Denoising settings come from the current view layer. Renders can be denoised
again with different settings, as the original noisy image is preserved along
with other passes and metadata.
There is no user interface yet for this feature, that comes later.
Code by Lukas with modifications by Brecht. This feature was originally
developed for Tangent Animation, thanks for the support!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3889
This adds a cycles.denoise_animation operator, which denoises an animation
sequence or individual file. Renders must be saved as multilayer EXR files
with denoising data passes.
By default file path and frame range come from the current scene, and EXR
files are denoised in-place. Alternatively, a different input and/or output
file path can be provided.
Denoising settings come from the current view layer. Renders can be denoised
again with different settings, as the original noisy image is preserved along
with other passes and metadata.
There is no user interface yet for this feature, that comes later.
Code by Lukas with modifications by Brecht. This feature was originally
developed for Tangent Animation, thanks for the support!
