20 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Lukas Stockner
78147b5db7 Cycles: Add Render Time pass
This implements a basic render time pass,
using HW-based counters to minimize render time impact.

x86-64 uses the TSC instruction for timing, while ARM64 uses the cntvct_el0
register. In theory TSC is not always super reliable (e.g. old CPUs had it tied
to their current clock rate), but for somewhat recent CPU models it should
be fine. If neither is available, it falls back to `std::chrono::steady_clock`,
which should still be very fast.

The output is in milliseconds of CPU-time per pixel.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125933
2025-09-22 21:54:08 +02:00
Weizhen Huang
a4f8e0bfa2 Cycles: Use RGBE for denoised guiding buffers to reduce memory usage
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
2025-08-13 10:28:50 +02:00
Weizhen Huang
5cb6014efd Cycles: Volume Scattering Probability Guiding
Guide the probability to scatter in or transmit through the volume.
Only applied for primary rays.

Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
2025-08-13 10:28:50 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
73fe848e07 Fix: Cycles log levels conflict with macros on some platforms
In particular DEBUG, but prefix all of them to be sure.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141749
2025-07-10 19:44:14 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
988c1798ac Refactor: Cycles: Replace new/delete with unique_ptr also for nodes
Using new unique_ptr_vector utility class.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132361
2025-01-03 10:23:32 +01:00
Brecht Van Lommel
d0c2e68e5f Refactor: Cycles: Automated clang-tidy fixups in Cycles
* Use .empty() and .data()
* Use nullptr instead of 0
* No else after return
* Simple class member initialization
* Add override for virtual methods
* Include C++ instead of C headers
* Remove some unused includes
* Use default constructors
* Always use braces
* Consistent names in definition and declaration
* Change typedef to using

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132361
2025-01-03 10:22:55 +01:00
Lukas Stockner
db991d8ac0 Cycles: Only store per-pixel seed for vertex color baking
Currently, during baking each pixel stores a seed input that comes from the
Blender side. This is only needed for vertex color baking, however -
for regular image baking, we can just as well hash the pixel coordinates.

Therefore, we can save some memory (4 byte per pixel) by splitting the seed
info out into a separate pass and only storing it when needed.

Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122806
2024-06-06 00:45:38 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
d377ef2543 Clang Format: bump to version 17
Along with the 4.1 libraries upgrade, we are bumping the clang-format
version from 8-12 to 17. This affects quite a few files.

If not already the case, you may consider pointing your IDE to the
clang-format binary bundled with the Blender precompiled libraries.
2024-01-03 13:38:14 +01:00
Campbell Barton
c12994612b License headers: use SPDX-FileCopyrightText in intern/cycles 2023-06-14 16:53:23 +10:00
Campbell Barton
6859bb6e67 Cleanup: format (with BraceWrapping::AfterControlStatement "MultiLine") 2023-05-02 09:37:49 +10:00
Sergey Sharybin
d32d787f5f Clang-Format: Allow empty functions to be single-line
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
2023-03-29 16:50:54 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
0731d78d00 Cycles: remove shadow pass
This was not working well in non-trivial scenes before the light tree, and now
it is even harder to make it work well with the light tree. It would average the
with equal weight for every light object regardless of intensity or distance, and
be quite noisy due to not working with multiple importance sampling.

We may restore this if were enough good use cases for the previous implementation,
but let's wait and see what the feedback is.

Some uses cases for this have been replaced by the shadow catcher passes, which
did not exist when this was added.

Ref T77889
2022-12-05 15:52:10 +01:00
Sebastian Herhoz
75a6d3abf7 Cycles: add Path Guiding on CPU through Intel OpenPGL
This adds path guiding features into Cycles by integrating Intel's Open Path
Guiding Library. It can be enabled in the Sampling > Path Guiding panel in the
render properties.

This feature helps reduce noise in scenes where finding a path to light is
difficult for regular path tracing.

The current implementation supports guiding directional sampling decisions on
surfaces, when the material contains a least one diffuse component, and in
volumes with isotropic and anisotropic Henyey-Greenstein phase functions.

On surfaces, the guided sampling decision is proportional to the product of
the incident radiance and the normal-oriented cosine lobe and in volumes it
is proportional to the product of the incident radiance and the phase function.

The incident radiance field of a scene is learned and updated during rendering
after each per-frame rendering iteration/progression.

At the moment, path guiding is only supported by the CPU backend. Support for
GPU backends will be added in future versions of OpenPGL.

Ref T92571

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15286
2022-09-27 15:56:32 +02:00
Lukas Stockner
0b05e0b97e Fix T97159: AOV Pass in Cycles always gets Alpha Value of 1 for whole image
As far as I can see, it makes a lot of sense to have the alpha channel here, it matches the 2.x behavior and also matches what Eevee is doing.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14595
2022-04-10 18:43:57 +02:00
Lukas Stockner
ad35453cd1 Cycles: Add support for light groups
Light groups are a type of pass that only contains lighting from a subset of light sources.
They are created in the View layer, and light sources (lamps, objects with emissive materials
and/or the environment) can be assigned to a group.

Currently, each light group ends up generating its own version of the Combined pass.
In the future, additional types of passes (e.g. shadowcatcher) might be getting their own
per-lightgroup versions.

The lightgroup creation and assignment is not Cycles-specific, so Eevee or external render
engines could make use of it in the future.

Note that Lightgroups are identified by their name - therefore, the name of the Lightgroup
in the View Layer and the name that's set in an object's settings must match for it to be
included.
Currently, changing a Lightgroup's name does not update objects - this is planned for the
future, along with other features such as denoising for light groups and viewing them in
preview renders.

Original patch by Alex Fuller (@mistaed), with some polishing by Lukas Stockner (@lukasstockner97).

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12871
2022-04-02 06:14:27 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
9cfc7967dd Cycles: use SPDX license headers
* 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
2022-02-11 17:47:34 +01:00
Patrick Mours
8393ccd076 Cycles: Add OptiX temporal denoising support
Enables the `bpy.ops.cycles.denoise_animation()` operator again and modifies it to support
temporal denoising with OptiX. This requires renders that were done with both the "Vector"
and "Denoising Data" passes.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11442
2022-01-05 15:58:36 +01:00
Sergey Sharybin
4094868f73 Fix T92502: Position Pass broken
The kernel was writing it for the first sample only, while the film
accessor was thinking it needs to be filtered.
2021-10-26 16:06:35 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
fd25e883e2 Cycles: remove prefix from source code file names
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.
2021-10-26 15:37:04 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
d7d40745fa Cycles: changes to source code folders structure
* 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.
2021-10-26 15:36:39 +02:00