At the moment light shading in Blender is produced in viewspace. Apparently, that's why
shader nodes work with normals in camera space. But it is not convenient for artists.
The more convenient approach is implemented in Cycles where normals are represented in world space.
Blend4Web Team designed the engine keeping in mind shader parameters readability,
so normals are interpreted in world space as well. And now our users have to use some tweaks, like
empty node group with the name "Replace", which is replacing one input by another on the engine side
(replacing working configuration in Blender Viewport by the configuration that has the same behavior in the engine).
This patch adds the ability to switch to world space for normals and lamp vector in BI and Viewport.
This patch is very important to us and we crave to see this patch in Blender 2.7 because
it will significantly simplify Blend4Web material creation workflow.
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Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: homyachetser, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2046
This patch enables Tube, Sphere and Box projections in GLSL for the image texture node.
Reviewers: sergey
Projects: #nodes, #opengl_gfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2036
See T48453 for details and test scenes
Reviewers: a.romanov, sergey
Reviewed By: a.romanov, sergey
Projects: #opengl_gfx, #nodes
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2011
The title says it all actually.
Added special custom data type, because we don't know in advance
whether we're referencing UV or Color layer. Also made it so vertex
attributes are normalized.
TODO: Border render in viewport ignores the normalization of the
attribute array for some reason, will be looked into still.
Reviewers: mont29, brecht, campbellbarton
Reviewed By: brecht, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2022
This commit implements Bump node in GLSL, making it possible to
see previews of bump mapping in viewport without need to render.
Nothing really fancy going on here, just uses internal dFdx/dFdy
functions to get derivatives of the surface and map itself.
Quite basic but seems to behave correct-ish.
This commit also makes Displacement material output to affect
viewport shading by re-linking unconnected Normal input to a
node which was used for displacement output (via Bump node).
Intention of all this is to make it really easy to do bump map
painting with Cycles as an active render engine.
Reviewers: campbellbarton, mont29, brecht, psy-fi
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, eyecandy
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2014
It gives some slight differences on the plane corners, but can't
really figure out source of the issue here yet.
It's still better than fully white texture for the previews anyway.
At this point we should perhaps ifdef chunks of the code in order
to have faster GLSL compilation and probably even faster compiled
code. Will look into this shortly.
Not very efficient solution -- it'll update mapping node on init ntree exec and will
not work for viewport GLSL shading perhaps, but it's as good as it could be within
current dependency graph.
The issue here is that manual edit of values will cause cached matrix re-evaluation.
but using animation does not use rna update callbacks hence no matrix update was
happening.
Normal Map node support for GLSL mode and the internal render (multiple tangents support).
The Normal Map node is a useful node which is present in the Cycles render.
It makes it possible to use normal mapping without additional material node in a node tree.
This patch implements Normal Map node for GLSL mode and the internal render.
Previously only the active UV layer was used to calculate tangents.
The improved Hosek / Wilkie model was added during my GSoC 2013 and the default since then.
The older model was kinda kept for compatibility, but after more than 2 years it's time to remove it.
The Hosek / Wilkie model is more realistic anyway, and people who really want a day / night transition can mix the Sky Shader with another one (e.g. color) and fade between the two.
This patch implements Mirror influence for environment textures. Approach matches the one from BI.
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See the video https://youtu.be/BskgCv6dcIE
Example: {F281876}
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: campbellbarton, merwin, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: TwisterGE, blueprintrandom, youle, Evgeny_Rodygin, AlexKowel, yurikovelenov
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1786
World space and view space normals were mixed up, we should only convert from
world to view space if a custom normal is connected, otherwise it is already in
view space.
The issue was happening when having unconnected point density which
will cache data but will not free it because there's no actual call
to the actual sampling.
Now the idea is to make sure cache is zeroed on file load and undo
and then caching via RNA will free the data if any exists. This could
leave us with a single copy of cache in the node if it's not used,
but it's quite small amount of memory and it's not leaking.
The Vector Transform node is a useful node which is present in the Cycles renderer.
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This patch implements the Vector Transform node for GLSL mode and the internal renderer.
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Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: brecht, campbellbarton, sergey
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, sergey
Subscribers: psy-fi, duarteframos, RobM, lightbwk, sergey, AlexKowel, valentin_b4w, Evgeny_Rodygin, yurikovelenov
Projects: #bf_blender:_next
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D909
This commit changes the way how we pass bounce information to the Light
Path node. Instead of manualy copying the bounces into ShaderData, we now
directly pass PathState. This reduces the arguments that we need to pass
around and also makes it easier to extend the feature.
This commit also exposes the Transmission Bounce Depth to the Light Path
node. It works similar to the Transparent Depth Output: Replace a
Transmission lightpath after X bounces with another shader, e.g a Diffuse
one. This can be used to avoid black surfaces, due to low amount of max
bounces.
Reviewed by Sergey and Brecht, thanks for some hlp with this.
I tested compilation and usage on CPU (SVM and OSL), CUDA, OpenCL Split
and Mega kernel. Hopefully this covers all devices. :)
Nodes have a feature for moving existing links to unoccupied sockets when connecting
to an already used input. This is based on the standard legacy socket types (value/float,
vector, color/rgba) and works reasonably well for shader, compositor and texture nodes.
For new pynode systems, however, the hardcoded nature of that feature has major drawbacks:
* It does not take different type systems into account, leading to meaningless connections
when sockets are swapped and making the feature useless or outright debilitating.
* Advanced socket behaviors would be possible with a registerable callback, e.g. creating
extensible input lists that move existing connections down to make room for a new link.
Now any handling of new links is done via the 'insert_links' callback, which can also be
registered through the RNA API. For the legacy shader/compo/tex nodes the behavior is the
same, using a C callback.
Note on the 'use_swap' flag: this has been removed because it was meaningless anyway:
It was disabled only for the insert-node-on-link feature, which works only for
completely unconnected nodes anyway, so there would be nothing to swap in the first place.
The issue was caused by non-continuous tangent space calculated for triangles.
This commit adds a Tangent input to Hair BSDF node which can be used to hook up
Tangent calculated form UV as an input to the node in order to make sure the
tangent space is continuous.
Doing this as an input instead of using default tangent layer from UV because of
several reasons:
- This way it's really easy to preserve compatibility with existing setups.
- Default UV map is not necessarily giving continuous space, one might want to
use other tangent space sources or distort the space for some artistic
decision.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto
Reviewed By: dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1428
- Add blentranslation `BLT_*` module.
- moved & split `BLF_translation.h` into (`BLT_translation.h`, `BLT_lang.h`).
- moved `BLF_*_unifont` functions from `blf_translation.c` to new source file `blf_font_i18n.c`.
This commit implements point density texture for Cycles shading nodes.
It's done via creating voxel texture at shader compilation time, Not
totally memory efficient, but avoids adding sampling code to kernel
(which keeps render time as low as possible), In the future this will
be compensated by using OpenVDB for more efficient storage of sparse
volume data.
Sampling of the voxel texture is happening at blender side and the
same code is used as for Blender Internal's renderer.
This texture is controlled by only object, particle system and radius.
Linear falloff is used and there's no turbulence. This is because
falloff is expected to happen using Curve Mapping node. Turbulence
will be done as a distortion on the input coordinate. It's already
possible to fake it using nose textures and in the future we can add
more proper turbulence distortion node, which then could also be used
for 2D texture mapping.
Particle color support is done by Lukas, thanks!
With this patch "Particle Info" node from Cycles works in GLSL and BI
Alexander (Blend4Web Team)
Reviewers: psy-fi
Note: moved particle info to object render instance instead of
shadeinput during review - Antony.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1313
Revert "Nodes: Remove hardcoded BLENDER_MAX_THREADS number of threads"
This reverts commit fdc653e8ce.
The threads override is not affected by the scene, and hence the limit of the
threads was not giving correct result. Need to re-consider some things here.
Use actual available number of threads now, which will make it easier
to increase max number of threads, without having some sloppy memory
usage and without doing some redundant checks on thread data which was
never used.
