This commit updates all defines, compiler flags and cleans up some code for unused CPU capabilities.
There should be no functional change, unless it's run on a CPU that supports sse41 but not sse42. It will fallback to the SSE2 kernel in this case.
In preparation for the new SSE4.2 minimum in Blender 4.2.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118043
This fixes the issue described in https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/108957.
Instead of modeling distant lights like a disk light at infinity, it models them as cones. This way, the radiance is constant across the entire range of directions that it covers.
For smaller angles, the difference is very subtle, but for very large angles it becomes obvious (here's the file from #108957, the angle is 179°):
| Old | New |
| - | - |
|  |  |
One notable detail is the sampling method: Using `sample_uniform_cone` can increase noise, since the sampling method no longer preserves the stratification of the samples. This is visible in the "light tree multi distant" test scene.
Turns out we can do better, and after a bit of testing I found a way to adapt the concentric Shirley mapping to uniform cone sampling. I hope the comment explains the logic behind it reasonably well.
Here's the result, note that even the noise distribution is the same when using the new sampling:
| Method | Old | New, basic sampling | New, concentric sampling |
| - | - |- | - |
| Image |  |  |  |
| Render time (at higher spp)| 9.03sec | 8.79sec | 8.96sec |
I'm not sure if I got the `light->normalized` handling right, since I don't really know what the expectation from Hydra is here.
Co-authored-by: Weizhen Huang <weizhen@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108996
MSVC can't optimize it out and even keeps an external call to CRT
function rintf: https://godbolt.org/z/Ex9vjf8vj
It does translate to a real speedup on windows on some scenes, here are the ratios I had on my 13900K:
classroom 101.53%
junkshop 100.71%
monster 100.76%
attic 107.98%
bistro 113.00%
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107371
This was tested in some places to check if code was being compiled for the
CPU, however this is only defined in the kernel. Checking __KERNEL_GPU__
always works.
* Replace license text in headers with SPDX identifiers.
* Remove specific license info from outdated readme.txt, instead leave details
to the source files.
* Add list of SPDX license identifiers used, and corresponding license texts.
* Update copyright dates while we're at it.
Ref D14069, T95597
Remove prefix of filenames that is the same as the folder name. This used
to help when #includes were using individual files, but now they are always
relative to the cycles root directory and so the prefixes are redundant.
For patches and branches, git merge and rebase should be able to detect the
renames and move over code to the right file.
