Technically this enables the use of MinmaxZ pyramid inside the probe captures.
Also Disable AO for cubemap probes because it shows big discontinuities at cubeface limits.
The problem was that the depth prepass was using the clip plane but not the shading pass.
During the clipping stage, the triangle is converted to a quad clipped to the given clip plane.
But this introduce subtle changes in the depth when this new geometry is rasterized. Since the shading pass was using an EQUAL depth test, the depth values from the shading pass were not always equal to the depth prepass.
Enabling clipping in the shading vertex shader has a too small impact to require a dedicated shader.
This fixes an issue introduced by the new output node system, where "No
output node" was displayed in the material panel even when an output
node was present.
Naming was confusing, while technically correct -
the result is no scaling (manipulator ignores zoom-level).
Also remove 3D from name since this can be supported for 2D views too.
Although we are calling all of them light probes, there are a lot of
differences between them. This commit does the following:
* Prevent user from changing the probe type once added
* Unify "sphere" and "cube" probes into reflection cubemap
(as before you can switch between them from the probe UI)
To be done
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* Don't show add probe menus unless we are on Eevee
* Light probes panels should not be visible in Clay. Light probe objects
should not be visible in Clay viewport (nor on Cycles).
Notes
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* We need icons for the different light probes, and for lightprobes as a
whole (we are using RADIO for now).
Changes from custom-manipulator branch.
- use property type definitions.
- add property free callback.
- move properties into the wmManipulator struct (over alloc).
- use array length from property types instead of arg passing.
Reorder keyingsets registration order, since it also afects order of I
menu options, better show most used ones first, pure alphabetical order
is not great here... Will likely break some muscle memory though. :|
Based on D2720 by Carlo Andreacchio (@candreacchio), thanks.
Although the original report was about the docs, the real issue was in
the API.
My original commit started from a copy-paste from the Switch
Node. However I don't use custom1 for thew Switch View node.
The docs is slightly incomplete since it would be nice to mention the
views here. Or maybe even expose them via Python. But honestly they are
generated depending on the scene multi-view settings.
Implement GTAO (Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion) which is a special case of Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion that is more physically accurate.
Also add a bent normal option to sample indirect irradiance (diffuse lighting) with the least occluded direction.
- Unify variations between default shaders and material shader.
- Only create default shader passes if needed.
Downside is that we have a big array of passes and shading grp in the vedata ... And it will double in size each time a new variation flag is added.
This commit introduce the computation of a depth pyramid containing min and max depth values of the original depth buffer.
This is useful for Clustered Light Culling but also for raytracing on the depth buffer (SSR).
It's also usefull to have to fetch higher mips in order to improve texture cache usage.
As of now, 1st mip (highest res) is half the resolution of the depth buffer, but everything is already done to be able to make a fullres copy of the depth buffer in the 1st mip instead of downsampling.
Also, the texture used is RG_32F which is a too much but enough to cover the 24bits of the depth buffer. Reducing the texture size would make things quite faster.
This special case function enables rendering to a miplevel while using the miplevels above as texture input.
This is needed for some algorithm (i.e. creating a min-max depth pyramid texture).
If there was any specularity in the Principled BSDF, it would get a sampling
weight of one regardless of its actual impact.
This commit makes Cycles estimate the contribution of the component and adjust
the weighting accordingly, which greatly improves the noise characteristics of
the Principled BSDF in many cases.
Note that this commit might slightly change the brightness of areas when using
MultiGGX and high roughnesses, but the new brightness is more accurate and
closer to the result of Branched Path Tracing. See T51836 for details.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2677
The PDF of the MultiGGX sampling is approximated by the singlescattering GGX
term as well as a scaled diffuse term that makes up for the energy in the
multiscattering component that's missed by GGX.
However, there were two problems with the glossy terms: The diffuse term missed
a normalization factor, and the singlescattering term was not properly scaled
down based on the albedo estimate.
The glass term was completely wrong and has been rewritten. It uses the fresnel
factor to weight reflection vs. refraction and uses the glossy MultiGGX model
for reflection.
For refraction, the correct singlescattering term is now used, and a new
albedo approximation is used that was derived by evaluating GGX albedo for
roughnesses from 0 to 1 and IORs from 1 to 3 and fitting numerical
approximations to it. The resulting model has a mean relative error of 9e-5,
but could probably be simplified without losing noticable accuracy in the
final render.
The improved PDFs help with glossy highlights (due to better light sampling vs.
closure sampling MIS) and fix the situation described in T51836 where mixing
MultiGGX with other closures (as it happens in e.g. the Principled
BSDF) causes incorrect darkening.
