If an OpenVDB grid has an 8x8x8 block with the same value, it is stored as
a tile with a single value. Now iterate over the bounding box and copy the
value to all voxels for this case.
Fix#91174: Hollow emission artifacts
Fix#124064: Hollow density artifacts
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139231
Almost all content in the libdir we can regenerate, wintab however
is not one of them, and if you generate a new lib folder it's one
of the things you have to manually copy back into place.
this PR moves it out of the libdir and into /extern
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128873
- Update to latest ufbx version that adds support for FullWeights
- Handle that in the same way as the Python importer did
- Add test files from ufbx test suite
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138811
Now results are similar under different time steps. Additionally it is
now working correctly with different time scale, where smoke lifetime
is proportional to time scale.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138347
Fixes#135897 by introducing a mixing thread to coreaudio, making the callback lock free. At the same time these changes unify all devices that use a mixing thread (now that's jack, pulse, pipewire and coreaudio).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136711
Adds a C++ based FBX importer, using 3rd party ufbx library (design task:
#131304). The old Python based importer is still there; the new one is marked
as "(experimental)" in the menu item. Drag-and-drop uses the old Python
importer; the new one is only in the menu item.
The new importer is generally 2x-5x faster than the old one, and often uses
less memory too. There's potential to make it several times faster still.
- ASCII FBX files are supported now
- Binary FBX files older than 7.1 (SDK 2012) version are supported now
- Better handling of "geometric transform" (common in 3dsmax), manifesting
as wrong rotation for some objects when in a hierarchy (e.g. #131172)
- Some FBX files that the old importer was failing to read are supported now
(e.g. cases 47344, 134983)
- Materials import more shader parameters (IOR, diffuse roughness,
anisotropy, subsurface, transmission, coat, sheen, thin film) and shader
models (e.g. OpenPBR or glTF2 materials from 3dsmax imports much better)
- Importer now creates layered/slotted animation actions. Each "take" inside
FBX file creates one action, and animated object within it gets a slot.
- Materials that use the same texture several times no longer create
duplicate images; the same image is used
- Material diffuse color animations were imported, but they only animated
the viewport color. Now they also animate the nodetree base color too.
- "Ignore Leaf Bones" option no longer ignores leaf bones that are actually
skinned to some parts of the mesh.
- Previous importer was creating orphan invisible Camera data objects for
some files (mostly from MotionBuilder?), new one properly creates these
cameras.
Import settings that existed in Python importer, but are NOT DONE in the new
one (mostly because not sure if they are useful, and no one asked for them
from feedback yet):
- Manual Orientation & Forward/Up Axis: not sure if actually useful. FBX
file itself specifies the axes fairly clearly. USD/glTF/Alembic also do
not have settings to override them.
- Use Pre/Post Rotation (defaults on): feels like it should just always be
on. ufbx handles that internally.
- Apply Transform (defaults off, warning icon): not sure if needed at all.
- Decal Offset: Cycles specific. None of other importers have it.
- Automatic Bone Orientation (defaults off): feels like current behavior
(either on or off) often produces "nonsensical bones" where bone direction
does not go towards the children with either setting. There are discussions
within I/O and Animation modules about different ways of bone
visualizations and/or different bone length axes, that would solve this
in general.
- Force Connect Children (defaults off): not sure when that would be useful.
On several animated armatures I tried, it turns armature animation
into garbage.
- Primary/Secondary Bone Axis: again not sure when would be useful.
Importer UI screenshots, performance benchmark details and TODOs for later
work are in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132406
It's better for performance to use a single thread pool for all areas of
Blender, and this gets us closer to that.
Bullet, Quadriflow, Mantaflow and Ceres still contain OpenMP code, but it
was already disabled.
On macOS, our OpenMP libraries are no longer compatible with the latest
Xcode 16.3. By removing OpenMP we no longer have to solve that problem.
OpenMP was disabled for bpy module builds on Windows ARM64, which also no
longer needs to be solved.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136865
Only the parallel sparse matrix code was updated. This is used by e.g.
LSCM and ABF unwrap, and performance seems about the same or better.
Parallel GEMM (dense matrix-matrix multiplication) is used by libmv,
for example in libmv_keyframe_selection_test for a 54 x 54 matrix.
However it appears to harm performance, removing parallelization makes
that test run 5x faster on a Apple M3 Max.
There has been no new Eigen release since 2021, however there is active
development in master and it includes support for a C++ thread pool for
GEMM. So we could upgrade, but the algorithm remains the same and
looking at the implementation it just does not seem designed for modern
many core CPUs. Unless the matrix is much larger, there's too much thread
synchronization overhead. So it does not seem useful to enable that
thread pool for us.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136865
To make adding a dependeny on TBB easier.
Additional changes:
* Using LIB for libmv tests, as it now brings in includes
* Removing Eigen header listing in iTaSC
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136865
Removes the playback handle from the synchronizer API and integrates it
into the device, removing the ISynchronizer interface completely.
This has been discussed in more detail in #126047 and its main purpose is to unify the handling of synchronizer events, especially seek which needed different logic for jack vs other backends.
OpenAL now needs a silence playback handle for synchronization but all
other backends are pretty straightforward just counting the mixed
samples in the SoftwareDevice with some specializations for specific
backends that had their own synchronizers before.
Note: CoreAudio changes are untested as I don't have a Mac.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133191
Seems like ASAN has been broken on debug builds for MSVC ever since
d5e50460e7 (1.5 years ago) the core reason is it's incompatible with
fastlink, it'll appear to work, but in the asan reports no symbols
will be resolved.
While looking into this, some other problems like the symbol format being
not inline with the table in the comment above it, and a warning coming
out of /extern were noted.
All of these issues are addressed in this commit.
This change brings the following improvements on the user level
- Support of GPUs with gfx12 architecture
- New HIP-RT library which in addition to the gfx12 support brings
various bug-fixes.
The known limitation of gfx12 is that OpenImageDenoiser does not yet
support this GPU architecture. This means that while Cycles will use the
full advantage of the gfx12 (including hardware accelerated ray-tracing),
denoising will only be possible on CPU, or secondary gfx11 or below GPU.
This is something that requires a change in OIDN and it is to late to do
it for Blender 4.4, but it is something to look forward for Blender 4.5.
The gfx12 changes for the pre-compiled kernels is rather trivial,
so it comes together (in the same PR) as the bigger HIP-RT change.
On the development side this change brings the following improvements:
- One step compile and link (much simpler CMake rules)
- Embedding BVH binaries in hiprt dll (which makes it easier to package
and load, without relying on special path configuration)
Co-authored-by: Sahar Kashi <sahar.kashi@amd.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Sharybin <sergey@blender.org>
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133129
In contrast to libamdhip64, for which blender searches in multiple directories,
libhiprt64 only had limited support for non-standard installation directories.
With this commit, the library lookup for HIPRT is handled in a similar way in
the original HIP/ROCm module. This also fixes issues for downstream Linux
distributions where HIPRT support was enabled during build time but was not
available at runtime.
Co-authored-by: Torsten Keßler <t.kessler@posteo.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131046
Extract Boykov-Kolmogorov max flow algorithm from boost::graph. As part
of work towards removing Boost as a Blender dependency.
Together with #133347 this removes the last direct Blender dependency
on Boost.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132142
There's a "Render -> Render Audio" operator that pretty much calls into Audaspace functionality directly. This PR adds two new options in there, that boThere's a "Render -> Render Audio" operator that pretty much calls
into Audaspace functionality directly. This PR adds two new options in
there, that both feel like an oversight:
- There's an option for AAC container, when someone wants to render
into .aac file. Previously you could render AAC audio, but only in
MKV (Matroska) container. This is a user request #131980.
- When using MKV (Matroska) or Ogg container, it did not list Opus as
an audio codec that can be used. This felt like an oversight; both
the rest of Blender and Audaspace can handle that, jus the option
was not spelled out in the RNA enums.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132877th feel like an oversight:
- There's an option for AAC container, when someone wants to render into `.aac` file. Previously you _could_ render AAC audio, but only in MKV (Matroska) container. This is a user request #131980.
- When using MKV (Matroska) or Ogg container, it did not list Opus as an audio codec that can be used. This felt like an oversight; both the rest of Blender and Audaspace can handle that, jus the option was not spelled out in the RNA enums. Note however that without fix in #132872 the Matroska container continues to be useless in that it produces wrong result.
Upstream Audaspace PR for the 2nd point: https://github.com/neXyon/audaspace/pull/47 (was just merged!)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132877
Matroska container really really wants to internally keep on using
milliseconds as a time base. Even if at initialization time both the
m_stream and m_codecCtx are set to use {1, sample_rate} timebase,
later during the avformat_write_header call the audio stream gets set
to {1, 1000}.
Doing av_packet_rescale_ts for each packet after receiving it but
before writing it seems to do all the correct work. This is what is
being done inside Blender movie_write_audio.cc, and in official ffmpeg
mux.c example.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132872
While I implemented pipewire support I forgot that some of the functions I use is not available in older pipewire versions.
This adds proper library version sanity checks for pipewire.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131610
This commit introduces proper handling of ROCm 5 and ROCm 6 runtimes on
Linux, based on the version of the ROCm compiler used at build time.
Previously, HIPEW (the HIP equivalent of Cuda Wrangler) defaulted to
loading the ROCm 5 runtime. If ROCm 5 was unavailable, it would attempt
to load ROCm 6. However, ROCm 6 introduces changes in certain
structures and functions that are not backward compatible, leading to
potential issues when kernels compiled with the ROCm 6 compiler are
executed on the ROCm 5 runtime.
### Summary of Changes:
**Separation of Structures and Functions:**
Structures and functions are now separated into hipew5 and hipew6 to
accommodate the differences between ROCm versions.
**Build-Time Version Detection:**
The ROCm version is determined during build time, and the corresponding
hipew5 or hipew6 is included accordingly.
**Runtime Default to ROCm 6:**
By default, HIPEW now loads the ROCm 6 runtime and
includes hipew6 (Linux only).
**JIT Compilation Behavior:**
Since ROCm 6 is the default version, JIT compilation is supported only
when the ROCm 6 compiler is detected at runtime.
**HIP-RT Update:**
HIP-RT has been updated to load the ROCm 6 runtime by default.
These changes ensure compatibility and stability when switching
between ROCm versions, avoiding issues caused by runtime
and compiler mismatches.
Co-authored-by: Alaska <alaskayou01@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Sharybin <sergey@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130153
Python 3.12 no longer supports calls to PyImport_AppendInittab
once initialized.
The call was redundant as Blender's `bpy_internal_modules` already
includes the "manta" module.
Resolve by disabling the call when Python's lifecycle isn't being
managed by manta-flow.
