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Compositing, rendering of multi-layers in Eevee should be fully working now.
Development notes
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Up until now we were still using the same depsgraph for rendering and viewport
evaluation. And we had to go out of our ways to be sure the depsgraphs were
updated.
Now we iterate over the (to be rendered) view layers and create a depsgraph to
each one, fully evaluated and call the render engines (Cycles, Eevee, ...) with
this viewlayer/depsgraph/evaluation context.
At this time we are not handling data persistency, Depsgraph is created from
scratch prior to rendering each frame. So I got rid of most of the partial
update calls we had during the render pipeline.
Cycles: Brecht Van Lommel did a patch to tackle some of the required Cycles
changes but this commit mark these changes as TODOs. Basically Cycles needs to
render one layer at a time.
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3073
- Use BLI_threadpool_ prefix for (deprecated)
thread/listbase API.
- Use BLI_thread as prefix for other functions.
See P614 to apply instead of manually resolving conflicts.
The RenderResult struct still has a listbase of RenderLayer, but that's ok
since this is strictly for rendering.
* Subversion bump (to 2.80.2)
* DNA low level doversion (renames) - only for .blend created since 2.80 started
Note: We can't use DNA_struct_elem_find or get file version in init_structDNA,
so we are manually iterating over the array of the SDNA elements instead.
Note 2: This doversion change with renames can be reverted in a few months. But
so far it's required for 2.8 files created between October 2016 and now.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2927
This patch moves all the functionality previously in SceneRenderLayer to SceneLayer.
If we want to rename some of these structs now would be a good time to do it, before they are in SceneLayer.
Everything should be working, though I will test things further tomorrow. Once this is committed depsgraph can get
rid of the workaround added in rna_Main_meshes_new_from_object and finish whatever this patch was preventing from being finished.
This patch also adds a few placeholders for the overrides (samples, ...). These are obviously not working, so some unittests that rely on 'lay', and 'zmask' will fail.
This patch does not addressed the change of moving samples to ViewRender (I have this as a separate patch and needs some separate discussion).
Following next is the individual note of the individual parts that were committed.
Note 1: It is up to Cycles to still get rid of exclude_layer internally.
Note 2: Cycles still need to handle its own doversion for the use_layer_samples cases and
(1) Remove the override as it is
(2) Add a new override (scene.cycles.samples) if scene.cycles.use_layer_samples != IGNORE
Respecting the expected behaviour when scene.cycles.use_layer_samples == BOUNDED.
Note 3: Cycles still need to implement the per-object holdout
(similar to how we do shadow catcher).
Note 4: There are parts of the old (Blender Internal) rendering pipeline that is still
using lay, e.g., in shi->lay.
Honestly it will be easier to purge the entire Blender Internal code away instead of taking things from it bit by bit.
Reviewers: sergey, campbellbarton, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2919
This was expected behavior for over-exposured lamps when the mode was originally
created for Tears of Steel. Turns out, there could be really bad green screen in
real production which will only have green (or rather screen) channel over
exposured.
Tweaked condition now so we use least bright channel to see if the area has
proper exposure or not.
Seems to work fine in tests, but further tweaks are possible.
Before this patch, the XBlur/YBlur compositor nodes would crash for me when run in a MSVC 2015 debug build (test scene: BMW27_cpu). I added the compiler instructions to explicitly align the local variables that the SSE instructions are accessing.
The issue here is that we can not read scale from socket when determining
dependent area of interest. This area will depend on current pixel. Now fall
back to more stupid but reliable thing: if scale size input is connected to some
nodes, we use the whole frame as area of interest.
The issue was caused by render result identifier only consist of scene name,
which could indeed cause conflicts.
On the one hand, there are quite some areas in Blender where we need identifier
to be unique to properly address things. Usually this is required for sub-data
of IDs, like bones. On another hand, it's not that hard to support this
particular case and avoid possible frustration.
The idea is, we add library name to render identifier for linked scenes. We use
library name and not pointer so we preserve render results through undo stack.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, mont29, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2836
Was caused by numeric overflow when calculating preview dimensions.
Now we try to avoid really insance preview resolutions by fitting
aspect into square.
There is absolute no reason to have such an indentation level, it only causes
readability and maintainability issues. It is really simple to make code more
"streamlined".
Brightness/contrast node was changing color but did not modify alpha
or ensured colors are premultiplied on the output. This was giving
artifacts later on unless alpha was manually converted.
Compositor is supposed to work in premultiplied alpha (except of
some really corner cases) so it makes sense to ensure premultiplied
alpha after brightness/contrast node.
This is now done as an option enabled by default, so we:
(a) Keep compatibility with old files.
(b) Have correct behavior for newly created files.
Later on we can get rid of this option.
The issue is coming from some weird semi-finished canvas feature, which
was remapping coordinate without applying any differential on the sampling
ellipse (in fact, there is no ellipse, sampling think is always a single
pixel).
The whole thing is just weak in the compositor, for now just bring behavior
back to how it was prior to optimization (multithreading) commit.
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
This switches the internal color representation of the eye dropper from display space to linear. Any time a linear color is requested and the color is picked from a linear object, the result is now precise to the bit as the color gets patched through directly. Color space conversion now only happens when a color is picked from non-linear display space objects or when the color is requested to be returned in non-linear space.
In addition, this patch changes the DifferenceMatte node to interpret a tolerance of 0.0 to accept colors that are identical bit by bit, as apposed to simply refusing all colors.
The issue was caused by sometimes negative color returned by the filter node.
Seems to be caused by precision issues. Don't see any reason why we would want
negative colors in output. Those only causing issues later on.
Please never, ever use same DNA var for two different things. Even worse
if they do not have same type and ranges!
This is only ensuring issues (as described in report, but also if
animating both RNA props using same DNA var... yuck).
And we were not even saving any byte in DNA, could reuse some padding
there to store the two new needed vars (yes, two, since we cannot re-use
existing one if we want to keep backward *and* forward compatibility).
This is much more flexible solution which will allow doing some
more procedural features.
Reviewers: brecht, dfelinto, mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Subscribers: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2403
