These are always supported now
- instancing as of GL 3.1
- geometry shaders as of GL 3.2
The change to rna_scene.c could use some cleanup, since we don't really need a runtime query function.
The "Modern Viewport" was an option in the Viewport panel that would use
the new fancy wire frame code and some depth debugging functionality.
This was introduced as a quick and dirty way to get the new drawing
system showing in the viewport.
Overtime we built a complete Draw Manager system, leaving this original
approach deprecated which adds clutter to Blender code since it would be
removed sooner or later.
Note: The new fancy wireframes and related shaders (white out other
objects) are still in Blender code, though you can't use them anymore.
If we are to have any of those drawing options they should be integrated
in the new draw manager, instead of integrated in the old drawing
pipeline as it was originally coded.
Although this is working fine, there are two changes expected in the new
future once depsgraph copy on write is implemented:
1) To call ED_info_stats_clear a callback from depsgraph, instead of the
notifier system. (that would also allow us to clear only one
SceneLayer).
2) To store/get stats from the evaluated SceneLayer, as well as iterate
over the evaluated objects as well.
Normally, segments up to 50 can be quite enough for most cases.
However, when dealing with things like braids,
the current limit can sometimes be quite a pain.
Adds a version of template_ID that can be used for non-ID properties.
The property to search for and the collection to search in has to be
passed to it.
Like template_ID it also takes arguments to define a 'new' and 'unlink'
operator. They will be displayed as icon-only buttons then.
Also added a version that can display preview thumbnails.
Had to do some additional changes to make text-buttons support
displaying/modifying empty RNA properties.
This will be needed for workspaces, see D2451.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2666
The idea here is to keep things in a logical order to match the order of ones worflow.
This concept can be seen in Graph > Dope Sheet > NLA. This issue is mainly affecting the manual.
Fixes T50709
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2630
* "Filmic" and "False Color" view transforms added (sRGB display device only).
* "Very Low/Low/Base/High/Very High Contrast" looks added.
* Added filtering so that Filmic only shows look names prefixed with "Filmic - ".
Filmic Dynamic Range LUT configuration created by Troy James Sobotka with
special thanks and feedback from Guillermo, Claudio Rocha, Bassam Kurdali,
Eugenio Pignataro, Henri Hebeisen, Jason Clarke, Haarm-Peter Duiker, Thomas
Mansencal, and Timothy Lottes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2659
This commit contains the first part of the new Cycles denoising option,
which filters the resulting image using information gathered during rendering
to get rid of noise while preserving visual features as well as possible.
To use the option, enable it in the render layer options. The default settings
fit a wide range of scenes, but the user can tweak individual settings to
control the tradeoff between a noise-free image, image details, and calculation
time.
Note that the denoiser may still change in the future and that some features
are not implemented yet. The most important missing feature is animation
denoising, which uses information from multiple frames at once to produce a
flicker-free and smoother result. These features will be added in the future.
Finally, thanks to all the people who supported this project:
- Google (through the GSoC) and Theory Studios for sponsoring the development
- The authors of the papers I used for implementing the denoiser (more details
on them will be included in the technical docs)
- The other Cycles devs for feedback on the code, especially Sergey for
mentoring the GSoC project and Brecht for the code review!
- And of course the users who helped with testing, reported bugs and things
that could and/or should work better!
This add a new set of (possible) render settings that can be defined at
the scene level and overridable at the scene layer level.
Once we get workspaces we can either add workspace inbetween scene and
scene layer evaluation. Or to replace layer settings, to avoid extra
confusion to users.
An example of this setting is "samples", as implemented now for the clay
engine.
This implements weight rendering with the draw manager, with all drawing
options (Shading, wire, face masking, vertex masking).
This is part of T51208
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Subscribers: dfelinto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2654
Previously, every RenderPass would have a bitfield that specified its type. That limits the number of passes to 32, which was reached a while ago.
However, most of the code already supported arbitrary RenderPasses since they were also used to store Multilayer EXR images.
Therefore, this commit completely removes the passflag from RenderPass and changes all code to use the unique pass name for identification.
Since Blender Internal relies on hardcoded passes and to preserve compatibility, 32 pass names are reserved for the old hardcoded passes.
To support these arbitrary passes, the Render Result compositor node now adds dynamic sockets. For compatibility, the old hardcoded sockets are always stored and just hidden when the corresponding pass isn't available.
To use these changes, the Render Engine API now includes a function that allows render engines to add arbitrary passes to the render result. To be able to add options for these passes, addons can now add their own properties to SceneRenderLayers.
To keep the compositor input node updated, render engine plugins have to implement a callback that registers all the passes that will be generated.
From a user perspective, nothing should change with this commit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2443
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2444
Note: In one case (rna_Scene_editmesh_select_mode_set) I had to resort
to the temporary solution of BKE_scene_layer_context_active.
This is fine for now, but it will be a problem once workspaces are
introduced. In this case the fix is to use a temporary value in the set
routine, and actually only set the active object in the update function
(which can take bContext).
- Unify GPUMaterial creation (world/mesh).
- Support for multiple shader variations (not used for now).
- Convert GPUInputs to DRWUniforms to be used with the draw manager.
- Nodetree Update is not supported. The only way to refresh the shaders is to change render engine.
- Cleanup in GPUPass.
- Add new temporary Node Compatibility type. Compatibility types should be removed in the future.
This is part of the new draw manager design. Any engine (even clay, eevee, ...) should be able to draw to the viewport, as well as render to an image directly.
Changing the API names to conform to that.
Now we just iterate over all objects. It may be a better idea to use a
smarter approach for performance. However, since this function is not
called regularly (only when changing Alembic file paths), it's not a very
big deal.
