This infinite loop is caused by a conflict between the volume mesh
creation which unintentionally clears the shaders before early exiting
when no grid is found, and the Blender exporter which adds back the
shaders causing us to reupdate as the shaders changed.
To fix this simply preserve the shaders on the Volume node.
The OpenVDB data structure can store voxel data in leaf nodes or tiles
when all the nodes in a given region have a constant value. However,
Cycles is using the leaf nodes to generate the acceleration structure
for computing volume intersections which did not include constant tiles.
To fix this, we simply voxelize all the active tiles prior to generating
the volume bounding mesh. As we are using a MaskGrid, this will not
allocate actual voxel buffers for each leaf, so the memory usage will be
kept low.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9557
Reviewed by: brecht, JacquesLucke
Now that the Blender sync mechanism deletes nodes from the scene, we need to
ensure scene update is stopped before we do this.
Also add some more early out in scene geometry update to ensure we do not
continue working on incomplete geometry data, though that was not the cause of
this crash.
Two issues:
* Automatic deduplication of OpenVDB grid data was failing when Cycles had
already cleared the OpenVDB grid, causing an empty grid. Instead rely on
Blender return the same OpenVDB grid pointer when deduplication is possible.
* The volume bounds mesh was not properly cleared when the OpenVDB grid was
empty, causing a mismatch between mesh and voxel data.
The "type" sockets on shader nodes were renamed in rB31a620b9420cab to
avoid clashes with the `NodeType type` member from the Node base class,
but the OSL shader compilation was missing those changes.
Volumes using tricubic sampling were producing different results with NanoVDB compared
to dense textures. This fixes that by using the same tricubic sampling algorithm in both
cases. It also fixes some remaining offset issues and some minor things that broke OpenCL
kernel compilation on NVIDIA.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9491
The NanoVDB sampling implementation behaves different from dense texture sampling, so this
adds a small offset to the voxel indices to correct for that.
Also removes the need to modify the sampling coordinates by moving all the necessary
transformations into the image transform. See also T81454.
This encapsulates Node socket members behind a set of specific methods;
as such it is no longer possible to directly access Node class members
from exporters and parts of Cycles.
The methods are defined via the NODE_SOCKET_API macros in `graph/
node.h`, and are for getting or setting a specific socket's value, as
well as querying or modifying the state of its update flag.
The setters will check whether the value has changed and tag the socket
as modified appropriately. This will let us know how a Node has changed
and what to update, which is the first concrete step toward a more
granular scene update system.
Since the setters will tag the Node sockets as modified when passed
different data, this patch also removes the various modified methods
on Nodes in favor of Node::is_modified which checks the sockets'
update flags status.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8544
Uniform attributes require immediate access to the shader list
in object update code, so setting the field can't be deferred
to a background task. This required adding a parameter to the
clear method of Geometry.
Ref D2057
While Cycles already supports using both CPU and GPU at the same time, there
currently is a large problem with it: Since the CPU grabs one tile per thread,
at the end of the render the GPU runs out of new work but the CPU still needs
quite some time to finish its current times.
Having smaller tiles helps somewhat, but especially OpenCL rendering tends to
lose performance with smaller tiles.
Therefore, this commit adds support for tile stealing: When a GPU device runs
out of new tiles, it can signal the CPU to release one of its tiles.
This way, at the end of the render, the GPU quickly finishes the remaining
tiles instead of having to wait for the CPU.
Thanks to AMD for sponsoring this work!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9324
The issue stems from the fact that scene arrays are not cleared when rendering is done. This was not really an issue before the introduction of the ownership system (rB429afe0c626a) as the id_map would recreate scene data arrays based on their new content. However, now that the id_maps do not have access to the scene data anymore the arrays are never created.
Another related issue is that the BlenderSync instance is never freed when the persistent data option is activated.
To fix this, we delete nodes created by the id_maps in their destructors, and delete the BlenderSync instance before creating a new one, so the id_maps destructors are actually called.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T82129
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9378
Rather than just printing a message and falling back to the CPU. For render
farms it's better to avoid a potentially slow render on the CPU if the intent
was to render on the GPU.
Ref T82193, D9086
The existing code for this was incomplete. Each instance can now have a set
of attributes stored separately from geometry attributes. Geometry attributes
take precedence over instance attributes.
Ref D2057
This encapsulates Node socket members behind a set of specific methods;
as such it is no longer possible to directly access Node class members
from exporters and parts of Cycles.
The methods are defined via the NODE_SOCKET_API macros in `graph/
node.h`, and are for getting or setting a specific socket's value, as
well as querying or modifying the state of its update flag.
The setters will check whether the value has changed and tag the socket
as modified appropriately. This will let us know how a Node has changed
and what to update, which is the first concrete step toward a more
granular scene update system.
Since the setters will tag the Node sockets as modified when passed
different data, this patch also removes the various `modified` methods
on Nodes in favor of `Node::is_modified` which checks the sockets'
update flags status.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8544
Code was assuming frustrum planes are symmetrical which is not the case
for shifting. This lead to a shrinking region if shift was negative (and
a growing region if shift was positive)
So instead of only keeping track of plane on one side (and mirroring
over in code) get the actual planes after shifting and use these
instead.
This code corrects this for ortho and perspective cameras, it does not
touch panoramic cameras.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T69911
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9342
Corrects incorrect usage of contraction for 'it is', when possessive 'its' was required.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9250
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
NanoVDB is a platform-independent sparse volume data structure that makes it possible to
use OpenVDB volumes on the GPU. This patch uses it for volume rendering in Cycles,
replacing the previous usage of dense 3D textures.
Since it has a big impact on memory usage and performance and changes the OpenVDB
branch used for the rest of Blender as well, this is not enabled by default yet, which will
happen only after 2.82 was branched off. To enable it, build both dependencies and Blender
itself with the "WITH_NANOVDB" CMake option.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8794
Gathers information for time spent in the various managers or object (Film, Camera, etc.) being updated in Scene::device_update.
The stats include the total time spent in the device_update methods as well as time spent in subroutines (e.g. bvh build, displacement, etc.).
This does not qualify as a full blown profiler, but is useful to identify potential bottleneck areas.
The stats can be enabled and printed by passing `--cycles-print-stats` on the command line to Cycles, or `-- --cycles-print-stats` to Blender.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8596
* Support precompiled libraries on Linux
* Add license headers
* Refactoring to deduplicate code
Includes work by Ray Molenkamp and Grische for precompiled libraries.
Ref D8769
Before, Cycles was using a shared Embree device across all instances.
This could result in crashes when viewport rendering and material
preview were using Cycles simultaneously.
Fixes issue T80042
Maniphest Tasks: T80042
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8772
