Now we calculate color in range 800..12000 using an approximation a/x+bx+c for R and G and ((at + b)t + c)t + d) for B.
Max absolute error for RGB for non-lut function is less than 0.0001, which is enough to get the same 8 bit/channel color as for OSL with a noticeable performance difference.
However there is a slight visible difference between previous non-OSL implementation because of lookup table interpolation and offset-by-one mistake.
The previous implementation gave black color outside of soft range (t > 12000), now it gives the same color as for 12000.
Also blackbody node without input connected is being converted to value input at shader compile time.
Reviewers: dingto, sergey
Reviewed By: dingto
Subscribers: nutel, brecht, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1280
This more a workaround for CUDA optimizer which can't optimize clamp(x, 0, 1)
into a single instruction and uses 4 instructions instead.
Original patch by @lockal with own modification:
Don't make changes outside of the kernel. They don't make any difference
anyway and term saturate() has a bit different meaning outside of kernel.
This gives around 2% of speedup in Barcelona file, but in more complex shader
setups with lots of math nodes with clamping speedup could be much nicer.
Subscribers: dingto
Projects: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1224
This way we can get rid of inefficient memory usage caused by BVH boundbox
part being unused by leaf nodes but still being allocated for them. Doing
such split allows to save 6 of float4 values for QBVH per leaf node and 3
of float4 values for regular BVH per leaf node.
This translates into following memory save using 01.01.01.G rendered
without hair:
Device memory size Device memory peak Global memory peak
Before the patch: 4957 5051 7668
With the patch: 4467 4562 7332
The measurements are done against current master. Still need to run speed tests
and it's hard to predict if it's faster or not: on the one hand leaf nodes are
now much more coherent in cache, on the other hand they're not so much coherent
with regular nodes anymore.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: venomgfx, eyecandy
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1236
This inconsistency drove me totally crazy, it's really confusing
when it's inconsistent especially when you work on both Cycles and
Blender sides.
Shouldn;t cause merge PITA, it's whitespace changes only, Git should
be able to merge it nicely.
Issue was introduced in 01ee21f where i didn't notice *_setup()
function only doing partial initialization, and some of parameters
are expected to be initialized by callee function.
This was hitting only some setups, so tests with benchmark scenes
didn't unleash issues. Now it should all be fine.
This is to go to the 2.74 branch and we actually might re-AHOY.
This attribute missed derivatives calculation.
Not totally sure what's the proper approach for algebraic derivative
calculation, so calculating them by definition. This isn't fastest
way to do it in this case and could be replaced with some smarter magic
in the wireframe calculation loop.
At least currently implemented approach is better than nothing.
OpenCL doesn't let you to get address of vector components, which
is kinda annoying. On the other hand, maybe now compiler will have
more chances to optimize something out.
Hair BSDF did not have proper behavior because of non-normalized
tangent direction (which it expected to be normalized).This lead
to wrong labels being returned by the hair BSDF samplers.
This is the same as blender internal's texture mapping from another object,
so this way it's possible to control texture space of one object by another.
Quite straightforward change apart from the workaround for the stupidness of
the dependency graph. Now shader has flag telling that it depends on object
transform. This is the simplest way to know which shaders needs to be tagged
for update when object changes. This might give some false-positive tags now
but reducing them should not be priority for Cycles and rather be a priority
to bring new dependency graph.
Also GLSL preview does not support using other object for mapping.
This is actually correct for BI shading as well and to be addressed as
a part of general GLSL viewport improvements since it's not really clear
how to support this in GLSL.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: eyecandy, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1021
This way Cycles finally becomes feature-full on image projections
compared to Blender Internal and Gooseberry Project Team could
finally finish the movie.
This reverts commit 1549fea999.
After some further discussion with other developers in the team it becomes
clear there's no correct solution here. It is just more matter of what's
more convenient in particular case.
We're just going back to old code to avoid possible frustration with the
older files in newer blenders. This also means all HSV/HSL is considered
to be "linear" in the shading nodes.
Would be ported to 2.73 final.
These nodes were assuming sRGB input/output which is for sure wrong for the
shader pipeline which works in the linear space.
So now conversion to/from linear space happens in these nodes which makes them
making sence in the shader context but which might change look and feel of
existing scenes.
This mainly happens when over-saturating already saturated color.
After some discussion with Campbell and loads of tests we decided
to clamp the result RGB color. As an alternative we might want to
clamp corrected HSV values instead, but that would lead to some
larger changes in the render results.
TODO: The same is to be done for compositor nodes.
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.
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.
That was only needed in the beginning, when we did not had support for tangents. It's time to clean some of the defines up, it's getting a bit too much.
It turns out that the new Beckmann sampling function doesn't work well with
Quasi Monte Carlo sampling, mainly near normal incidence where it can be worse
than the previous sampler. In the new sampler the random number pattern gets
split in two, warped and overlapped, which hurts the stratification, see the
visualization in the differential revision.
Now we use a precomputed table, which is much better behaved. GGX does not seem
to benefit from using a precomputed table.
Disadvantage is that this table adds 1MB of memory usage and 0.03s startup time
to every render (on my quad core CPU).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D614
* Anisotropic BSDF now supports GGX and Beckmann distributions, Ward has been
removed because other distributions are superior.
* GGX is now the default distribution for all glossy and anisotropic nodes,
since it looks good, has low noise and is fast to evaluate.
* Ashikhmin-Shirley is now available in the Glossy BSDF.
* Ashikhmin-Shirley anisotropic BSDF was added as closure
* Anisotropic BSDF node now has two distributions
Reviewers: brecht, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D549
* Added support for uchar4 attributes to Cycles' attribute system.
* This is used for Vertex Colors now, which saves some memory (4 unsigned characters, instead of 4 floats).
* GPU Texture Limit on sm_20 and sm_21 decreased from 95 to 94, because we need a new texture for the uchar4 attributes. This is no problem for sm_30 or newer.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
This makes the code a bit easier to understand, and might come in handy
if we want to reuse more Embree code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D482
Code by Brecht, with fixes by Lockal, Sergey and myself.
Instead of 95, we can use 145 images now. This only affects Kepler and above (sm30, sm_35 and sm_50).
This can be increased further if needed, but let's first test if this does not come with a performance impact.
Originally developed during my GSoC 2013.
The formula was not consistent across Blender and behaved strangely, now it is
a simple linear blend between color1 and min(color1, color2).
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D489
