Only Embree CPU BVH was built in the multi-device case. However, one
Embree GPU BVH is needed per GPU, so we now reuse the same logic as in
the other backends.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107992
HIP RT enables AMD hardware ray tracing on RDNA2 and above, and falls back to a
to shader implementation for older graphics cards. It offers an average 25%
sample rendering rate improvement in Cycles benchmarks, on a W6800 card.
The ray tracing feature functions are accessed through HIP RT SDK, available on
GPUOpen. HIP RT traversal functionality is pre-compiled in bitcode format and
shipped with the SDK.
This is not yet enabled as there are issues to be resolved, but landing the
code now makes testing and further changes easier.
Known limitations:
* Not working yet with current public AMD drivers.
* Visual artifact in motion blur.
* One of the buffers allocated for traversal has a static size. Allocating it
dynamically would reduce memory usage.
* This is for Windows only currently, no Linux support.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Ref #105538
Scene.cpp and Geometry.cpp are large file it can be broken up into smaller easier to handle files. This change has been broken out from #105403 to make understanding the changes easier.
geometry.cpp is broken up into:
1. geometry.cpp
2. geometry_attributes.cpp
3. geometry_bvh.cpp
4. geometry_mesh.cpp
scene.h & scene.cpp is broken into:
1. scene.h
2. scene.cpp
3. devicescene.h
4. devicescene.cpp
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107079
For example
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver()
{
}
```
becomes
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver() {}
```
Saves quite some vertical space, which is especially handy for
constructors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105594
To improve mesh upload speeds and reduce the size of the scene data which allows larger scenes to be rendered.
The meshes in Cycles are currently stored as flattened meshes, where each triangle is stored as a set of 3 vertices. Unflattening writes out the vertices in a list according to the index buffer. This uses a lot of memory and for current hardware does not provide a noticeable benefit. This change unflattens the mesh by directly using the meshes vertex and index buffers directly and skips the unflattening. This change allows for larger scenes and also a reduction in the sizes of the meshes. Further it results in a decrease the amount of time it takes to upload the data to a GPU. This is especially important for when multiple GPUs are used in a single machine.
Pull Request #105173
The image manager used to handle OSL textures on the GPU by
default loads images after displacement is evaluated. This is a
problem when the displacement shader uses any textures, hence
why the geometry manager already makes the image manager
load any images used in the displacement shader graph early
(`GeometryManager::device_update_displacement_images`).
This only handled Cycles image nodes however, not OSL nodes, so
if any `texture` calls were made in OSL those would be missed and
therefore crash when accessed on the GPU. Unfortunately it is not
simple to determine which textures referenced by OSL are needed
for displacement, so the solution for now is to simply load all of
them early if true displacement is used.
This patch also fixes the result of the displacement shader not
being used properly in OptiX.
Maniphest Tasks: T104240
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17162
The `MultiDevice` implementation of `get_cpu_osl_memory` returns a
nullptr when there is no CPU device in the mix. As such access to that
crashed in `update_osl_globals`. But that only updates maps that are not
currently used on the GPU anyway, so can just skip that when the CPU
is not used for rendering.
Maniphest Tasks: T104216
Materials now have an enum to set the emission sampling method, to be
either None, Auto, Front, Back or Front & Back. This replace the
previous "Multiple Importance Sample" option.
Auto is the new default, and uses a heuristic to estimate the emitted
light intensity to determine of the mesh should be considered as a light
for sampling. Shaders sometimes have a bit of emission but treating them
as a light source is not worth the memory/performance overhead.
The Front/Back settings are not important yet, but will help when a
light tree is added. In that case setting emission to Front only on
closed meshes can help ignore emission from inside the mesh interior that
does not contribute anything.
Includes contributions by Brecht Van Lommel and Alaska.
Ref T77889
The SVM attribute map is always generated and uses a simple
linear search to lookup by an opaque ID, so can reuse that for OSL
as well and simply use the attribute name hash as ID instead of
generating a unique value separately. This works for both object
and geometry attributes since the SVM attribute map already
stores both. Simplifies code somewhat and reduces memory
usage slightly.
This patch was split from D15902.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15918
* Rename "texture" to "data array". This has not used textures for a long time,
there are just global memory arrays now. (On old CUDA GPUs there was a cache
for textures but not global memory, so we used to put all data in textures.)
* For CUDA and HIP, put globals in KernelParams struct like other devices.
* Drop __ prefix for data array names, no possibility for naming conflict now that
these are in a struct.
evice_update_preprocess is supposed to detect modified attributes and flag the
device_vector for a copy through device_update_flags. However, since object
attributes are only created in device_update_attributes afterwards, they can't
be included in that check.
Change the function that actually updates the device_vector to tag it as
modified as soon as its content gets updated.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14815
This adds support for rendering motion blur for volumes, using their
velocity field. This works for fluid simulations and imported VDB
volumes. For the latter, the name of the velocity field can be set per
volume object, with automatic detection of velocity fields that are
split into 3 scalar grids.
A new parameter is also added to scale velocity for more artistic control.
Like for Alembic and USD caches, a parameter to set the unit of time in
which the velocity vectors are expressed is also added. For Blender gas
simulations, the velocity unit should always be in seconds, so this is
only exposed for volume objects which may come from external OpenVDB
files.
These parameters are available under the `Render` panels for the fluid
domain and the volume object data properties respectively.
Credits: kernel advection code from Tangent Animation's Blackbird based
on earlier work by Geraldine Chua
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14629
Stumbled over the `integrate_surface_volume_only_bounce` kernel
function not returning the right type. The others too showed up as
warnings when building Cycles as a standalone which didn't have
those warnings disabled.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14558
* 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
Make the Embree RTC_SCENE_FLAG_COMPACT flag optional and enabled per default.
Disabling it makes CPU rendering a bit faster in some scenes at the cost of a higher memory usage.
Barbershop renders about 3% faster, victor about 4% on CPU with compact BVH disabled.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13592
This add support for rendering of the point cloud object in Blender, as a native
geometry type in Cycles that is more memory and time efficient than instancing
sphere meshes. This can be useful for rendering sand, water splashes, particles,
motion graphics, etc.
Points are currently always rendered as spheres, with backface culling. More
shapes are likely to be added later, but this is the most important one and can
be customized with shaders.
For CPU rendering the Embree primitive is used, for GPU there is our own
intersection code. Motion blur is suppored. Volumes inside points are not
currently supported.
Implemented with help from:
* Kévin Dietrich: Alembic procedural integration
* Patrick Mourse: OptiX integration
* Josh Whelchel: update for cycles-x changes
Ref T92573
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9887
This fixes crash T94022 when selecting live viewport render with both GPU & CPU devices selected. It is caused by incorrect `KernelBVHLayout` assignment. Similar to `BVH_LAYOUT_MULTI_OPTIX` for Optix, this patch adds a `BVH_LAYOUT_MULTI_METAL` to correctly redirect to the correct Metal BVH layout type.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13561
This patch adds MetalRT support to Cycles kernel code. It is mostly additive in nature or confined to Metal-specific code, however there are a few areas where this interacts with other code:
- MetalRT closely follows the Optix implementation, and in some cases (notably handling of transforms) it makes sense to extend Optix special-casing to MetalRT. For these generalisations we now have `__KERNEL_GPU_RAYTRACING__` instead of `__KERNEL_OPTIX__`.
- MetalRT doesn't support primitive offsetting (as with `primitiveIndexOffset` in Optix), so we define and populate a new kernel texture, `__object_prim_offset`, containing per-object primitive / curve-segment offsets. This is referenced and applied in MetalRT intersection handlers.
- Two new BVH layout enum values have been added: `BVH_LAYOUT_METAL` and `BVH_LAYOUT_MULTI_METAL_EMBREE` for XPU mode). Some host-side enum case handling has been updated where it is trivial to do so.
Ref T92212
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92212
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13353
Need to make sure images needed for hair shaders are loaded
before running the shader.
The naming is a bit misleading, but this is an internal API
and we can change it easily. Submitting minimal patch needed
to fix logic in the code to make it safer to review for 3.0.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13067
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.
* Split render/ into scene/ and session/. The scene/ folder now contains the
scene and its nodes. The session/ folder contains the render session and
associated data structures like drivers and render buffers.
* Move top level kernel headers into new folders kernel/camera/, kernel/film/,
kernel/light/, kernel/sample/, kernel/util/
* Move integrator related kernel headers into kernel/integrator/
* Move OSL shaders from kernel/shaders/ to kernel/osl/shaders/
For patches and branches, git merge and rebase should be able to detect the
renames and move over code to the right file.
