Hydra is a rendering architecture part of USD, designed to abstract the
host application from the renderer. A renderer implementing a Hydra
render delegate can run in any host application supporting Hydra, which
now includes Blender.
For external renderers this means less code to be written, and improved
performance due to a using a C++ API instead of a Python API.
Add-ons need to subclass bpy.types.HydraRenderEngine. See the example in
the Python API docs for details.
An add-on for Hydra Storm will be included as well. This is USD's
rasterizing renderer, used in other applications like usdview. For users
it can provide a preview of USD file export, and for developers it
serves a reference.
There are still limitations and missing features, especially around
materials. The remaining to do items are tracked in #110765.
This feature was contributed by AMD.
Ref #110765
Co-authored-by: Georgiy Markelov <georgiy.m.markelov@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Vasyl-Pidhirskyi <vpidhirskyi@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brian Savery <brian.savery@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104712
The C-style API is still in place, but the implementation
is moved to a virtual method.
This is part of unification of viewport and final render
structure.
Should be no functional changes.
Ref #108618
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110696
Historically, the OCIO based color management implementation in Blender
had exceptions to treat specific configurations differently. It was a
compatibility with the legacy "No color management" option.
With time and more development in the area there are better ways of
achieving this goal, if needed.
This commit removes the named-based exception, which also solves confusion
about why certain similar configurations (from OCIO stand point) give
different results. As well as allows to create a cleaner plate for an
upcoming additions in the OCIO configuration such as AgX.
Quite simple and technical change which constant-folds the check for
whether the scene color management enabled or not with "true" value.
Ref #110685
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110580
This change fixes crash which happens when a viewer node is used for
backdrop, and the scene render size is modified. After the modification
the render size and the texture size gets out of sync since the texture
was never adapting for the size change.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110590
Implements the rest of #101689, after 5e9ea9243b.
- `vdata` -> `vert_data`
- `edata` -> `edge_data`
- `pdata` -> `face_data`
- `ldata` -> `loop_data`
A deeper rename of `loop` to `corner` will be proposed as a next
step, and renaming `totvert` and `totedge` can be done separately.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110432
Implements part of #101689.
The "poly" name was chosen to distinguish the `MLoop` + `MPoly`
combination from the `MFace` struct it replaced. Those two structures
persisted together for a long time, but nowadays `MPoly` is gone, and
`MFace` is only used in some legacy code like the particle system.
To avoid unnecessarily using a different term, increase consistency
with the UI and with BMesh, and generally make code a bit easier to
read, this commit replaces the `poly` term with `poly`. Most variables
that use the term are renamed too. `Mesh.totface` and `Mesh.fdata` now
have a `_legacy` suffix to reduce confusion. In a next step, `pdata`
can be renamed to `face_data` as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109819
This change replaces a bare RenderEngine owned by a viewport
with a VeiwRender. This unlocks a possibility of accessing
RenderResult for viewport renders. Currently it is not done,
but it will be needed for an upcoming work towards unification
of the render passes handling.
Ref #108618
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110244
Currently no functional changes.
Preparing for introduction of a Render structure for the viewport
render which will hold both engine and the render result for
passes access.
Use proper allocation and destruction for it.
Since the allocation is no longer zero-initialized make sure the
fields are explicitly zeroed out. This also allows to use an easier
way to initialize mutexes.
Currently no functional changes, preparing for a bigger refactor.
Used for the global list of the Render structures.
Using C++ container helps moving towards reliable "real" C++
structure for the Render, without worrying about the offset of
the next/prev fields.
Should be no functional changes on the user side.
This formats code that is disabled using `#if 0`. Formatting was achieved
by temporarily changing `#if 0` to `#if 1 /*something*/`, then formatting,
and then changing it back to `#if 0`.
Doing so avoids having duplicated logic for working with pixel
data which is being passed throughout the render pipeline.
Notable changes:
- ImBug can now store GPU texture.
This is not very finished part of the API, which will be
worked further to support tiling for very-high-res images.
- Implicit sharing is removed from the image buffer, as it is
no longer needed.
There should be no functional changes on user level with this
change.
Ref #108618
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109788
Also fix some incorrect usages of `N_` macro instead of `TIP_` one
(these error messages typically need to get translated explicitely, not
only marked for extraction).
The Texture margin 'adjacent faces' algorithm always used the
full UV map, even if not all polygons were actually part of the
baking. Remedy this by checking the mask if passed in.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109500
It was only used by OpenEXR and Iris images, and saving the Z Buffer
in those formats was disabled by default. This option comes from the
times prior to the addition of the Multilayer EXR.
It also worth noting that it was not possible to save Iris with Depth
pass from Blender as internally it is called IRIZ format and it was
not exposed. But even after exposing this format option something still
was missing as saving and loading ITIZ did not show up the Depth pass.
The reason of removal is to make it a more clear match of the ImBuf
with a render pass, and use it instead of a custom type in the render
result and render pass API. This will simplify the API and also avoid
stealing buffers and making shallow copies when showing the render
result.
For the cases when Depth is needed a Multilayer EXR is to be used,
as most likely more than just the Depth will be needed.
On a user level this change:
- Removes the "Z Buffer" option from the interface.
- It preserves existing sockets in compositor nodes, but it will
output black image. Also changing the image data-block will
remove the socket unless a Multilayer EXR with Depth pass image
is selected.
- Removes "Depth" socket of the Viewer and Composite nodes.
Ref #108618
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109687
Since UDIM baking support in 6787cc13d4, the normalization of
diplacement heights was always based on the min/max height detected in
the _last_ tile, which could lead to clipping if the last tile had very
subtle (or no) displacement.
Now getting the min/max is spread across all images.
This also takes the first thread into account for getting the min/max (which for some reason was skipped).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109409
