it's possible that runtime optimizer would call get_attribute
with NULL renderstate. As per documentation, it's valid to
return false in that cases and in worst case we'll just miss
some possible optimization.
Supporting such cases would require some bigger changes to
Cycles since attributes are only set to up for the kernel
after shader compilation.
Thanks Brecht for review!
Transparent objects could become subtly visible by the different sampling
patterns for pixels covered and not covered by the object. It still converged
to the right solution but that can take a while. Now we try to use the same
sampling pattern here.
This reverts commit 12abe94de8.
After a long discussion in the bug tracker we decided baking should use
the faces normals for glossy (and combined). This is what Blender
Internal is doing, and one of the more predictable way of yielding
predictable results.
That also means the result will not match the render perfectly, but this
is preferrable over the alternatives at hand.
Conflicts:
intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_bake.h
Comments from Brecht Van Lommel:
"""
Currently the viewing direction for each pixel is set to the normal, so
at every pixel glossy is evaluated as if you're looking straight at it.
Blender Internal works the same.
"""
This patch makes baking glossy as viewed from the camera.
Reviewers: brecht
CC: zanqdo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D555
The kernel for baking the world texture was the same as the one used for
baking. Now that's separate which allows the kernel to reserve much less
memory.
CMake had this --fast-math flag but scons not, makes a big difference on some
files. Slightly slower rendering might still happen though, but it should not
be this much.
If we are using a mix node we still need to evaluate the BSDF lighting
even if scattering is successful.
Note: this was working for branched path (probably an oversight when
branched path support was introduced for baking, a good oversight though
;)
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.
This fixes the SSS Direct/Indirect passes as well as the Combined pass.
Patch reviewed and with fixes and contributions from Brecht van Lommel.
Note: displacement/bump map (related to the report) will be handled separately
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D503
Now the COMBINED pass includes the Ambient Occlusion.
This was not reported anywhere, but while working in the Subsurface Scattering I realize we needed this fix for combined.
This was faster for my AMD system but slower for Intel.
However with gcc4.9,-O3 I was able to get roughly the same speed before/after.
Revert since this isnt giving such clear benefits on most systems.
Expand Cycles to use the new baking API in Blender.
It works on the selected object, and the panel can be accessed in the Render panel (similar to where it is for the Blender Internal).
It bakes for the active texture of each material of the object. The active texture is currently defined as the active Image Texture node present in the material nodetree. If you don't want the baking to override an existent material, make sure the active Image Texture node is not connected to the nodetree. The active texture is also the texture shown in the viewport in the rendered mode.
Remember to save your images after the baking is complete.
Note: Bake currently only works in the CPU
Note: This is not supported by Cycles standalone because a lot of the work is done in Blender as part of the operator only, not the engine (Cycles).
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Bake
Supported Passes:
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Data Passes
* Normal
* UV
* Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission/Subsurface/Emit Color
Light Passes
* AO
* Combined
* Shadow
* Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission/Subsurface/Emit Direct/Indirect
* Environment
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
Probably will not be noticed in most scenes. This helps reduce noise when you
have multiple lamps with MIS enabled, at the cost of some performance, but from
testing some scenes this seems better.
This also updates the configurations to build kernels for compute capability
5.0 cards, when using and older CUDA toolkit version this will be skipped.
Also includes tweaks to improve performance with this version:
* Increase max registers on sm_30, sm_35 and sm_50
* No longer use texture storage on sm_30
