Transport rays that enter to another location in the scene, with
specified ray position and normal. This may be used to render portals
for visual effects, and other production rendering tricks.
This acts much like a Transparent BSDF. Render passes are passed
through, and this is affected by light path max transparent bounces.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114386
The goal of this PR is to remove any user facing parameter
bias that fixes issues that are caused by inherent nature of
the shadow map (aliasing or discretization).
Compute shadow bias in the normal direction to avoid
both shadow leaking at certain angles or shadow
acnee.
This bias is computed automatically based on the minimum
bias amount required to remove all errors. The render
setting is removed as of no use for now.
#### Normal bias
We do the bias in world space instead of shadow space
for speed and simplicity. This requires us to bias using
the upper bound of biases for the same location in space
(using biggest texel world radius instead of UVZ bias).
This isn't much of an issue since the bias is still less
than 2 texel. The bias is still modulated by facing
ratio to the light so surfaces facing the light have no
biase.
This fixes both self shadowing and flat occluders aliasing
artifacts at the cost of moving the shadow a bit on the
side. This is the blue arrow in the diagram.
We always bias toward the normal direction instead of the
light direction. This is alike Cycles geometric offset for
the shadow terminator fix. This is better since it does'nt
modify the shading at all.
#### Slope bias
To avoid aliasing issue on zero slope receiver, we still
have to use the slope bias with a size of 1 pixel.
#### PCF filtering
We now parametrize the filter around the normal instead of
using the shadow map local space. This requires to use
a disk filter instead of box, which is also more pleasant
for most light shapes (all except rectangle lights).
Setting the filter around normal avoid overshadowing from
zero slope occluders. This cannot be fixed by more slope bias
in light space PCF. We could fix it in light space by projecting
onto the normal plane but that gives an unbounded bias when `N.L`
is near 0 which causes either missing shadows or self shadow if
using an arbitrary max offset value.
To avoid overshadowing from any surface behind the shading
point, we reflect the offset to always face the light.
Doing so instead of using the perpendicular direction
is better for very sharp geometric angles, has less
numerical precision issue, is symetrical and is cheaper.
To avoid any self shadowing artifact on zero slope receivers
with angled neighbors (like a wall and the floor), we have
to increase the slope bias according to the filter size.
This might be overkill in most situation but I don't feel
this should become a setting and should be kept in sync
with the filter. If it has to become an option, it should
simply a factor between unbiased filter and best bias.
#### Shadow terminator
The remaining artifacts are all related to shadow terminator
one way or another. It is always caused by the shading
normal we use for biasing and visibility computation not
being aligned with the geometric normal.
This is still something we need a setting for somewhere.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121088
The resonning is that we expect the default to be close
to realistic rendering. The filtering is only here to
hide aliasing in this case and shouldn't do more
blurring. This is specially disturbing when rendering at
low resolution since the filter is resolution dependant.
Older files are also expecting to use a 1px filter
for compatibility.
For the brush assets project (#116337) all editors with brushes are
getting an asset shelf, and the brush tools are combined, with
individual brushes accessed in the shelf. That design seems way
overkill for UV sculpting which is just three very simple tools.
In order to avoid one editor with inconsistent use of brushes, which
would significantly increase the complexity of the system after the
brush assets merge, port the three UV sculpt tools to be regular
modal operators that don't use the brush or paint system at all.
To be clear, this is a compromise that doesn't feel ideal, but no
one could think of a better solution. Theoretically this removes
some flexibility from UV edit "sculpting", in practice it probably
won't be a noticeable change.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120797
This moves the seemingly arbitrary value of "1 / 2000"
into a constant variable
(`bke::greasepencil::LEGACY_RADIUS_CONVERSION_FACTOR`)
so that it can be used in all the places where
legacy "thickness" values need to be converted.
This also expands the explanation of the factor a bit, so it's
clearer why it is needed.
All callers except for one were already checking, add ATTR_NONNULL
attribute to functions that take a FileData to make it clear that
it's not expected to be null.
Sequencer timeline displays red tint & appropriate icons for strips that are
missing media file (images, movies, audio, or meta strips that contain such).
Sequencer preview and rendering displays missing media strips as magenta,
similar to missing textures elsewhere in Blender. This is on by default,
sequencer view settings have an option to turn it off.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116869
As part of the brush assets project, the image editor needs an asset
shelf to display brush assets for texture paint mode. This commit adds
the unused asset shelf region, similar to the 3D viewport's region that
is currently just used for the pose library. For now, users will just
see an "Asset Shelf" toggle in the view menu.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121034
This makes the read and write API functions match more closely, and adds
asserts to check that the data size is as expected.
There are still a few places remaining that use BLO_read_data_address
and similar generic functions, these should eventually be replaced as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120994
This patch adds the ability to snap strips to markers. Previously, there
only existed options to snap to hold offsets and the current frame.
This snap type works identically to other snapping options by checking
for the relevant bit (here `SEQ_SNAP_TO_MARKERS`) and adding the marker
frame numbers to `snap_data->target_snap_points` within
`seq_snap_target_points_build()`.
To enable `seq_get_snap_target_points_count()` to have access to marker
information, the current Scene object is now passed to the function.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120450
This adds clamping at the light combine stage for both direct
and indirect light.
This allows for clamping direct and indirect light separately.
While direct light clamping might not be very desirable in
EEVEE, it might be wanted to reduce the flickering from distant
shiny bumpy surfaces, or for artistic reason.
This happens after applying the BSDF throughput just like cycles.
This is done in order to minimize the performance impact and
allows to split the clamp for direct light and indirect light.
The indirect light clamp value is still used in the ray-tracing
pipeline to clamp the ray intensity. But this differs from cycles
as we clamp the ray without the BSDF throughput here. Sphere probe
have the same issues. Some more energy loss is expected compared
to the direct light clamp.
Note that we still clamp the indirect light after applying BSDF
in case the BSDF is scaling the energy up above the threshold.
This also corrects the clamping for volume that now clamps after
applying the scattering term.
Also adds clamping to volume indirect lighting.
Since we use light probe volumes for both surface and volume
indirect lighting, we need to clamp them at sampling time.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120866
This is just adding a switch for enabling custom range.
Custom range is now optional as we compute a tight bound
to integrate around volume objects by default.
The custom range is only needed for scene with really
thick world volumes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120823
Now that lights are supported for refraction BSDFs,
there is no reason to not add support for it.
Versionning sets it to zero for compatibility with
legacy EEVEE.
This is also needed in order to support per object
ray visibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120796
- "Log Encoding with Chroma inset and rotation": add "of primaries" in
the description of the AgX Log color space to better explain the
operation, based on wording in !106355.
- Remove a few double spaces.
- Make Line Art title case everywhere, to convey it's the system /
brand / product name and not the generic concept.
- "Copy Absolute coordinates or Normal vector" -> "of Normal Vector":
typo.
- "Makes a link between selected output in input sockets" ->
"Make...", "output and input": typo.
- "Purge Unused Data From This File" -> "from this": title case as per
HIGs.
- GPencil -> Grease Pencil: no reason to use an abbreviation here.
- "Around Current Frame" -> "Around Frame": actual name of the
onion-skinning method.
- "... (layer height for layer tool, i.e.)" -> "(i.e. the layer height
for the layer tool)": put "i.e." at the start of the sentence.
- Expand description of toe-in stereo camera option.
- "Children collections their parent-collection-specific settings" ->
"Children collections with their...": typo.
- "Generate vertex weights base on..." -> "based on" : typo, lower
case.
- Expand description of GP modifier properties, based on their mesh
counterparts.
- "AEnvelope" -> "Envelope": typo.
- "Falloff type the feather" -> "of the feather": typo.
- "usually make transition as long as effect strip": rephrase.
- "When disabled a users extensions directory is created" -> "a
user's": typo.
- "successfull" -> "successful": typo.
- "Remove all attributes... a single wildcard (*).": remove trailing
".".
- "..., use "Save Preferences."": remove trailing ".".
Some issues reported by Marina Veselkova and Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120649
Add a new keyframe type named 'generated', which is meant to indicate
that the key was set by some automated tool (like an add-on), rather
than manually by an animator.
This is meant for tooling that needs to create keys in a repeatable way.
With this new key type, the tool can know which keys it generated
before, and thus those can be removed and re-generated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120564
This PR adds an option to specify custom colors for a
motion path. One for frames before the current frame
and one frame for after. With this it is easier to see
the relation of the motion path to the current frame.
That was already the case with the default colors, but
not with custom colors.
On a technical side note, the colors pre and post the current
frame were already different.
The shader multiplied the custom color by 0.25
for anything pre current frame.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119375
Regression caused by [0], also correct memcpy calls that overwrite
listbase link variables and the theme name, note that this is more a
code-correctness issue as it wouldn't cause user visible bugs.
[0]: adbec9eea9
Use versioning code to change Drivers & F-Curves targeting
`armature.collections[...` to target `armature.collections_all[...`
instead. The former contains the root collections only, whereas the
latter contains all of them in a flat list. Not only does this fix the
tree view (it binds to properties via the `.collections_all` RNA path),
but also this makes the drivers & animation of the properties work even
when the hierarchy changes.
Note that both `.collections` and `.collections_all` give access to all
bone collections. The former just requires iterating hierarchically,
that is, via `some_collection.children`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120514
Change Console and text editor cursor color to match that of
widget_text_cursor. Console cursor is currently red which we normally
use for error conditions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120491
The root of the issue, as identified by Jake-Faulkner in his PR
(!120099), was that after changes in commit 195bb4f8f5,
`BKE_libblock_ensure_unique_name` would not always correctly set
`bmain->is_memfile_undo_written` to false when an ID name was actually
modified.
However, after analyzing a bit more the code in ID renaming, it appeared
that `BKE_libblock_ensure_unique_name` was not needed and only made
things more confusing. Some ID renaming code (from RNA, the Outliner,
and some do_version areas) would then do some manual ID renaming
operations and then call it, instead of simply using the existing 'all
in one' `BKE_libblock_rename` function.
This commit removes `BKE_libblock_ensure_unique_name` and all of its
usages, and simplify all code previously using it by calling
`BKE_libblock_rename` instead.
NOTE: The only non-trivial (not-so-nice) aspect of this commit is the
changes needed in the Outliner renaming code, since here the name of the
ID is directly edited, before calling the rename function, so this edit
needs to be undone to allow calling the generic ID rename API.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120196
Since v2.5 Blenders viewport view has been tilted by around ~0.8
degrees to the right, resolve this using a lookup table to update
the the defaults.
Ref !113751
There are still a few places that are more complicated where the replacement
to `IDP_New` isn't obvious, but this commit replaces most uses of the ugly
`IDPropertyTemplate` usage.
It is unknown why/how this can happen, but there are some files out there
that have e.g. Objects flagged as embedded data... See e.g. the
`(Anim) Hero p23 for 2.blend` file from our cloud gallery
(https://cloud.blender.org/p/gallery/5b642e25bf419c1042056fc6).
Not much to be done, but add another checking pass at the end of
readfile process to fix these.
This adds a new exprimental option to automatically convert GP legacy
data to GPv3 one.
It supports also linking and appending cases. Conversion also happens
when opening a file linking GP legacy data saved by an older .blendfile.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118705
Compositor: Make Hue Correct node wrap
This patch makes the Hue Correct node as well as the Hue Correct VSE
modifiers to wrap, such that no discontinuities occur for the red hue.
Since it now wraps, the default curve preset now exempts the last point
of the curve.
A new CUMA_USE_WRAPPING flag was added to specify wrapping for curve
maps. The implementation works by adding two virtual points before and
after the terminal points in the curve map, such that their handles
match, and would then produce a continues curve.
This is a breaking change, since existing curves were also adjusted
using versioning. However, the change will not be significant, since in
most realistic cases, the terminal points will be close to each other,
and even with wrapping, the connection will be very sharp, almost
matching the old behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117114
Allow the user to scale shadow-map resolution per-light.
Adapt the PCF scale based on shadow-map to pixel footprint ratio,
since we can no longer assume that higher LODs don't need filtering.
This allows using much lower shadow resolutions, which can yield
quite significant performance improvements, with relatively little
perceptual quality loss (at the cost of softening shadow edges).
The per-light resolution scale is a literal scale, so for example 0.5
means half the resolution. The Scene Simplify Shadows setting has
been updated to match this behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119436
Those shouldn't really exist at all currently, since we forbid them in 354915cf3c.
Unfortunately, not all cases were removed, and many node trees with such sockets
have been created during the development of 4.1 due to the auto-smooth changes.
I'm not entirely sure if it's still possible to properly remove them now. The commit
above mentions that we might lose links due to changed identifiers. Maybe we're
better off just supporting these inlined sockets while also allowing the "align with
previous socket" functionality.
Either way, not creating more of such node trees for now is reasonable, since we
explicitly disabled that functionality for now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119654
This uses Spherical Harmonics to store the indirect lighting and
distant lighting visibility.
We can then reuse this information for each closure which divide
the cost of it by 2 or 3 in many cases, doing the scanning once.
The storage cost is higher than previous method, so we split the
resolution scaling to be independant of raytracing.
The spatial filtering has been split to its own pass for performance
reason. Upsampling now only uses 4 bilinearly interpolated samples
(instead of 9) using bilateral weights to avoid bleeding.
This also add a missing dot product (which soften the lighting
around corners) and fixes the blocky artifacts seen at lower
resolution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118924
Fix a crash when inserting a key with tweak mode enabled, but where
`AnimData::actstrip` was NULL.
The root cause of this is that two pointers in the `AnimData` struct
(`act_track` and `actstrip`) are expected to be set when NLA tweak mode
is enabled, BUT these are not exposed to RNA and thus invisible to the
library overrides system. As such, they are NULL when loading from disk,
while the `ADT_NLA_EDIT_ON` flag still indicates they are to be used.
Rather than adding a NULL pointer check (and having to add that in many
more places), I used this two-pronged approach:
- Extend the 'NLA tweakmode' override apply code, to set the `act_track`
and `actstrip` pointers when they are incorrectly NULL. This is done
by lookup of the track and strip by name.
- Add versioning code to exit out of tweak mode whenever the
`ADT_NLA_EDIT_ON` flag is set, but those two pointers are still NULL.
The last step was necessary with the example file attached to the bug
report, as that was saved with a buggy blender version. New saves work
just fine.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119632
