After discussion with cambo here we decided it's better to choose arbitrary side of the box
(in this case it's X-axis) and use image from it. That's better than doing a blackness.
P.S. This is literally a corner case anyway.
Ray actually should have infinite length, so we can detect camera in a volume
which is bigger that the far clipping of the camera.
This might also give some speedup (wouldn't expect much tho) because we don't
need to re-calculate ray direction and length after every bounce now.
basically we skip all non-volume objects now in the volume stack function.
Depending on the show it might give some percent of speedup.
Most of the speedup would be gained in the scenes when having SSS object
intersecting the volume and taking a reasonable amount of frame space.
Single precision exponent on 64bit linux tends to be order of magnitude slower
than double precision version even with single<->double precision conversion.
Some feedback in the mailing lists also suggests that logf() is also slow, but
this i didn't confirm here in the studio yet.
Depending on the shader setup it gives ~3% with the secret agent shot and up to
around 15% with the bmw scene here.
Quite straightforward change, the only annoying thing is that we can't use
indentation for include directive just because of the way headers inlineing
works for OpenCL.
Might do smarter job in path_source_replace_includes() but don't want to
spend time on this yet.
* On sm_30 and above there is no change (was not inlined already before), this just fixes a speed regression from yesterday. 6359c36ba4
* On sm_2x (tested with sm_21), I get a nice 8% speedup in the bmw scene with this. As a bonus, cubin compilation time and memory usage is significantly reduced. Regular cubin size went from 2.5MB to 2.0MB, Experimental one from 3.8MB to 2.5MB.
Currently only summed number of traversal steps and intersections used by the
camera ray intersection pass is implemented, but in the future we will support
more debug passes which would help checking what things makes the scene slow.
Example of such extra passes could be number of bounces, time spent on the
shader tree evaluation and so.
Implementation from the Cycles side is pretty much straightforward, could only
mention here that it's a build-time option disabled by default.
From the blender side it's implemented as a PASS_DEBUG with several subtypes
possible. This way we don't need to create an extra DNA pass type for each of
the debug passes, saving us a bits.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D813
Was hooked up last year for testing purposes, as we already had some code for it, but the closure itself is not really good nor really useful, so let's remove it.
This way there's much less cross-references between objects and meshes
device update functions.
The only thing remained s the object bounds calculation which is needed
by bvh update. This could also be decoupled, but it's not that crucial
yet because its's how it used to be for ages now.
This adds an AABB collision check for objects with volumes and if there's a
collision detected then the object will have SD_OBJECT_INTERSECTS_VOLUME flag.
This solves a speed regression introduced by the fix for T39823 by skipping
volume stack update in cases no volumes intersects the current SSS object.
This means it's no longer needed to enable experimental feature set in order to
have proper camera in volume support. And this also means if there's something
wrong going on, or if there's speed regression for cases when camera is obviously
not in the volume -- this issues are to be reported and handled in the regular
matter.
Happy blending!
The idea is to only count intersections with objects which has volumetric shader
and ignore all other objects.
This is probably as fast as we can go without involving some forth level magic.
Now we do much better preliminary check for panoramic camera is inside the
volume object boundings.
Also we're now cacheing the has_volume in the mesh, which makes it unneeded
iterations for each object's shaders.
Should be no functional changes, just faster sync and panoramic-in-volume
rendering.
This helps to improve the accuracy of UV unwrapping and laplacian deform for
high poly meshes, which could get warped quite badly. It's not much slower,
doubles are pretty fast on modern CPUs, but it does double memory usage. This
seems acceptable as otherwise high poly meshes would not work correctly anyway.
Fixes T39004.
It works around strange shading bug when building with MSVC.
If such weirdeness continues, we perhaps would need to use
proper inline flags all the time.
Anyway, lets see how things will behave now.
Instead of having a label which basically duplicated the information
about experimental feature set being used (which had a bug because
it claimed experimental GPU kernel is used even if compute device is
CPU btw) now we've got an enum item icon.
So once you switched to experimental feature set you'll see an
exclamation mark icon in the enum, so you know something might be
unstable or slow.
Updating maximum requires a bit of a cycle which usually does 1 iteration only,
sometimes needs a bit more but seems there's no speed regressions.
For now the code is commented out. This way it's easier for others to verify
there's no speed regressions.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D626
