Some of Eevee's Bloom defaults are not very good for physically based rendering. This patches addresses this issue.
This picture shows one of the problems with current default. Bloom looks very foggy:
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Even worse, light emitters much dimmer than the Sun can make everything equally hazy if Clamp is set to 1.0 and intensity to 0.8 (current default). Artists often forget to adjust Clamp value and do not know what value to use for realistic intensity. Also, currently both Clamp and Intensity do not have good UI ranges. This is why often Eevee renders end up very hazy and bloom often does not look right.
Bloom effect plays important role to help to distinguish between bright and relatively dim light sources. With current defaults this is broken because Clamp set to 1.0. Also, it cannot be disabled if set to 0 like expected. This patch fixes this and sets it to 0 by default. If users need to clamp, they can do so easily with UI range up to 1000. This range is good enough for most cases and provides enough precision to control lower values, and the highest value helps to limit bloom from the Sun if necessary and will leave untouched most other light emitters. If needed, much higher values for Clamp can be entered manually up to 100000. 10000 is still affects the Sun, but up to 100000 highest limit allows to clamp anything that is much brighter than the Sun if user needs to limit bloom in such cases (for example, bright explosion in the sky or anything else very bright).
I propose new default for bloom Intensity - 0.05 and UI range to suggests realistic values. Bloom Intensity > 0.1 is not realistic for clean lens but the user can enter manually much larger values if needed.
For comparison, here is a my own photo with and without bloom caused by the Sun (on second photo the Sun was occluded with an object).
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In real life bloom is much more subtle and does not look hazy. If Clamp is disabled, then out of 0.1, 0.05 and 0.025 values I have tried, 0.05 looks most similar to the photo. Here is test render with and without bloom with the Sun in similar position like on the photo:
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Using color probe 27x27 I compared lightness below the horizon under the Sun. In rendered by Eevee images lightness difference was 17. In case of the photos lightness difference in similar place was 11. I then compared leftmost spot (also below the horizon) and lightness difference was approximately 2 between two photos and 1 between rendered images. In other words, with these settings bloom effect is not too strong and is not too weak. Visually it may seem like decreasing bloom intensity may increase photorealism, but then bloom effect would be too localized even for the Sun.
Besides this single test, I tested in many other scenes as well, with and without the Sun, with different HDRIs, and as far as I can tell 0.05 intensity turned out to be good default - it produces bloom strong enough to be noticeable and not too hazy.
In Cycles shutter default value is 0.50, so for consistency set to 0.5 by default in Eevee too. Besides, 0.5 is typical standard for real cameras, and values higher than 0.5 usually are needed only if very strong motion blur is desired.
Here is summary of all changes:
Bloom Intensity: 0.8 > 0.05
Bloom Intensity UI range: 0-10 > 0-0.1
Bloom Clamp: 1.0 > 0.0 (disabled by default)
Bloom Clamp manual range: 0-1000 > 0-100000
Bloom Clamp UI range: 0-10 > 0-1000
Shutter: 1.0 > 0.5
This patch is related to the discussion in this thread, there are more examples of what bloom will look like with 0.05 intensity by me and others:
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/eevee-needs-to-have-physically-based-defaults/4700
Reviewers: fclem
Reviewed By: fclem
Subscribers: pablovazquez, billreynish, rboxman
Tags: #eevee
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4212
This uses the same command as regular hierarchy delete, and is only
activated when debug value is set to 666 for now.
Here on file from T60419, it gives about 20% speed-up (from 5.5s to 4.4s).
There was no documentation at all, some very bad practices (like using
G.debug_value > 0 as some sort of global debug print switch), and even
an overlapping use of '1' value...
Also, python setter did not check for valid range (since this is a
short, not an int).
Main idea is to remove IDs to be deleted from Main, to avoid looping on
them to remove other deleted IDs usage (this is the most expensive
process in ID deletion, by far).
Speed improvements when deleting a large amount of IDs from a Main
containing a lot of them is quite significant, some examples for Objects:
* Removing 1k from 10k: 32% quicker (2.5s to 1.7s).
* Removing 10k from 20k: 60% quicker (59s to 23s).
* Removing 20k from 20k: 99.5% quicker (82s to 0.4s)!
Note however that this process is more risky/touchy, since we by-pass
some safety checks from regular ID removal here.
So will only give access to that code from python API for now (in
separate commit), so that it gets really tested. Also still need to
think about how to hook it up in UI (probably mostly for Outliner),
since we often do higher-level operations there...
Seems to be caused by cae3750 which changed free() function used
by bmain free to the one which does dependency graph tag. We do
no want to do any tags here.
This commit makes it so OpenSubdiv's topology refiner is kept
in memory and reused for until topology changes. There are the
following modifications which causes topology refiner to become
invalid:
- Change in a mesh topology (for example, vertices, edges, and
faces connectivity).
- Change in UV islands (adding new islands, merging them and
so on),
- Change in UV smoothing options.
- Change in creases.
- Change in Catmull-Clark / Simple subdivisions.
The following limitations are known:
- CPU evaluator is not yet cached.
- UV islands topology is not checked.
The UV limitation is currently a stopper for making this cache
enabled by default.
Add 'missing' bpy code from BKE_libblock_free_ex(), now both functions
do exactly the same thing, only the later is less flexible (fewer
'exotic' behaviors supported, like handling IDs outside of bmain etc.).
Next step: nuke usages of BKE_libblock_free functions, makes no sense to
have twice the same code around!
The existing Add and Multiply blending modes have limited usability,
because the appropriate operation for meaningfully combining values
depends on the channel. This adds a new mode that chooses the operation
automatically based on property settings:
- Axis+Angle channels are summed, effectively averaging the
axis, but adding up the angle. Default is forced to 0.
- Quaternion channels use quaternion multiplication:
result = prev * value ^ influence
- Scale-like multiplicative channels use multiplication:
result = prev * (value / default) ^ influence
- Other channels use addition:
result = prev + (value - default) * influence
Inclusion of default in the computation ensures that combining
keyframed default values of properties keeps the default state,
even if the default isn't 0 or 1.
Strips with this mode can be keyframed normally in Tweak mode,
except that for quaternion rotation keyframing always inserts
all 4 channels, and the channel value sliders on the left side
of Graph/Action editors won't insert keys without Auto Key.
Quaternion keys are also automatically normalized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4190
Supporting a strip blending type that treats quaternions as a unit
also means being able to adjust all sub-channels as a unit when
inserting keyframes. This requires refactoring keyframe insertion
code to retrieve array property values for all channels at once,
before iterating over the indices being inserted.
Allows users to select a font for text strips in the video sequence editor.
Related: 3610f1fc43 Sequencer: refactor clipboard copy to no longer increase user count.
Reviewed by: Brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3621
When editing an action without a strip, or tweaking a strip without
time mapping enabled or supported, the extents of the virtual strip
can't be controlled and are purely derived from keys in the action.
Thus, cutting off evaluation of the action at these arbitrary points
gets in the way of observing the natural extrapolation of the F-Curves
and thus appears to be a mis-feature.
With this change non-mapped actions are evaluated with infinite
range, exactly like they are handled without NLA, unless extend
mode is set to Nothing.
The viewport stereoscopy support helpers are finally ported to 2.80.
We now can scale the camera and the "stereo cameras" will scale
in the viewport as well (unlike 2.7x).
At the moment I disabled the drawing of the camera frame when
stereo is selected and you are looking through the camera.
It is to be fixed later, but for now it draws the border wrong.
In 2.79 this was not a problem because the camera frame was drawn
afterwards as a hack.
Viewport > Stereoscopy:
* Cameras
* Convergence plane
* Convergence plane alpha
* Stereoscopy volume
* Stereoscopy volume alpha
Not sure exactly why this happened for 'apply as shape' and not in other
cases (did not took time to fully trace what happens there). But in any
case, `BKE_key_evaluate_object_ex()` can be called from a fair amount of
places, including during depsgraph evaluation, so setting back key's
owner here is plain wrong in CoW era.
More like a band-aid than anything else really, that code is horribly
weak and need to be fully re-written at some point (putting all those
temp data-blocks fully outside of bmain...). But for now should do.
Fix T60194: Sequencer cut loses animation data for the right strip.
Fixing the first also fixes the second. First attempt was delaying
uniquename check at a later step of cut process, after everything had
been duplicated. While this fixed first issue, second one became even
more proeminent (it become active for all strips, and not only
video/audio movie strips in meta's).
So instead, passing along the list of (new) sequences, so that duplicated
seqs can be put there immediately, before checking for unique names,
henceforth ensuring even strips inside meta's get properly handled.
This partially reverts commit bb98e83b99.
It fixed 'strips having same name' issue, but broke handling of
animation then. Need to find a better way to handle this.
This commit groups a set of new tools that were tested in grease pencil object branch before moving to master. We decide to do all the development in a separated branch because it could break master during days or weeks before the new tools were ready to deploy.
The commit includes:
- New Cutter tool to trim strokes and help cleaning up drawings.
- New set of constraints and guides to draw different types of shapes. All the credits for this development goes to Charlie Jolly (@charlie), thanks for your help!
- Segment selection mode to select strokes between intersections.
- New operator to change strokes cap mode.
- New option to display only keyframed frames. This option is very important when fill strokes with color.
- Multiple small fixes and tweaks.
Thanks to @pepeland and @mendio for their ideas, tests, reviews and support.
Note: Still pending the final icons for Cutter in Toolbar and Segment Selection in Topbar. @billreynish could help us here?
The overlay should now use the texture interpolation setting in material
mode.
In image mode, there is now a new button to let the user choose the texture
filter. The option is located in the Texture Slots popover and only shows
in Image mode.
TH_BACK was being used when drawing the 3D view even though
there was no way to set the color in the preferences.
The color was zero'd when moving to the new 2.8x theme.
Having both gradient and background colors was confusing,
especially having to use 'TH_HIGH_GRAD' for the 3D view, 'TH_BACK' for
other views.
Move the background color back to 'TH_BACK', 'TH_BACK_GRAD' is used
when gradients are enabled.
RNA is unchanged so presets don't need updating.
We should *never* prevent copying basic mesh CDLayers (vertices etc.),
that does not make sense.
I guess issue was not in old DM because geometry was duplicated anyway,
and in 'normal' modifier stack eval, probably because bare mesh was
awlays requested? But we should not have to be explicit here about it.
