With the new closure approach, the code can be simplified and cleaned up quite
a bit.
This also removes four parameters, which is helpful for future additions (!123616)
since the parameter limit appears to be reached.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123643
With selected strips, it is not clear where one of them begins and another
ends since their outlines are right next to each other.
This changes strip look so that:
- All strips have consistent dark 1pt outline at the outer edge.
- Selected strips have 2pt highlight inside said outer edge.
- Selected strips also have a 1pt wide 33% opacity darker line inside the
selection highlight (and inside possible handles). To improve readability
in case strip content happens to be similar to selection/active color.
Images in PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123431
Current look of VSE timeline view strip transformation handles makes them
somewhat "too narrow", especially after recent changes that made them
more narrow than before (handle tweaking feature) and a strip visual change
that made strip outline not go outside of strip bounds. They are now just
2px wide, effectively.
This changes their look as outlined in #123332 design task:
- The inset dark line is no longer over the handles, but rather "inside"
of them (except when handles are semitransparent, i.e. for strips that
are not selected).
- The handles themselves have rounded corners.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123391
Now the strip outline (1 point for unselected strips, 2 point outline +
1 pt dark inset) takes monitor DPI / user preference line width into
account, via the usual U.pixelsize machinery.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123369
This patch implements a new Gabor noise node based on [1] but with the
improvements from [2] and the phasor formulation from [3].
We compare with the most popular existing implementation, that of OSL,
from the user's point of view:
- This implementation produces C1 continuous noise as opposed to the
non continuous OSL implementation, so it can be used for bump
mapping and is generally smother. This is achieved by windowing the
Gabor kernel using a Hann window.
- The Bandwidth input of OSL was hard-coded to 1 and was replaced with
a frequency input, which OSL hard codes to 2, since frequency is
more natural to control. This is even more true now that that Gabor
kernel is windowed as opposed to truncated, which means increasing
the bandwidth will just turn the Gaussian component of the Gabor
into a Hann window. While decreasing the bandwidth will eliminate
the harmonic from the Gabor kernel, which is the point of Gabor
noise.
- OSL had three discrete modes of operation for orienting the kernel.
Anisotropic, Isotropic, and a hybrid mode. While this implementation
provides a continuous Anisotropy parameter which users are already
familiar with from the Glossy BSDF node.
- This implementation provides not just the Gabor noise value, but
also its phase and intensity components. The Gabor noise value is
basically sin(phase) * intensity, but the phase is arguably more
useful since it does not suffer from the low contrast issues that
Gabor suffers from. While the intensity is useful to hide the
singularities in the phase.
- This implementation converges faster that OSL's relative to the
impulse count, so we fix the impulses count to 8 for simplicitly.
- This implementation does not implement anisotropic filtering.
Future improvements to the node includes implementing surface noise and
filtering. As well as extending the spectral control of the noise,
either by providing specialized kernels as was done in #110802, or by
providing some more procedural control over the frequencies of the
Gabor.
References:
[1]: Lagae, Ares, et al. "Procedural noise using sparse Gabor
convolution." ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 28.3 (2009): 1-10.
[2]: Tavernier, Vincent, et al. "Making gabor noise fast and
normalized." Eurographics 2019-40th Annual Conference of the European
Association for Computer Graphics. 2019.
[3]: Tricard, Thibault, et al. "Procedural phasor noise." ACM
Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 38.4 (2019): 1-13.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121820
This was a missing block of the TAA implementation.
TAA jitter and reprojection have a tedency to soften
the texture. Add a 1.5 bias to make them a bit sharper.
Note that this is a bit different than the usual TAA
blurring. In final render we don't do reprojection
so it is only because the texture filter (box filter
from the LOD) is applied at the same time than our pixel
filter (blackmann-harris). It is less noticeable than
the normal TAA blur, but still blurs ~2px instead of
1.5px.
The previous code was using matrix multiplication to
get the local thickness to world thickness.
The correct way is to multiply the local thickness
by the scale of the object (length of each columns
of the object_to_world matrix).
Previous commit that made VSE strip controls not be blurry (91fa37fecb)
applied "snap to pixel grid" in a wrong place - the rectangle corners
should be snapped, not the center and half-size of it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123065
Strips still have sharp corners when you're dragging them from file browser and
switch to rounded when dropped. Fix by using the same drawing code (and shader)
as regular timeline drawing path.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123013
Previously selected strips in VSE timeline were drawing their outline
1px outside of the strip boundaries. This makes outlines of the strips
overlap each other when neighboring strips are selected.
Now the selected outline is fully within regular strip shape.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122890
PR #122576 added rounded corners to VSE timeline strips, but they were not
"snapped" to pixel grid so the outline that is normally 1px was sometimes
falling in between pixels and was blurred out.
Fix by rounding all SDF related coordinates inside the shader to the pixel
grid.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122764
VSE timeline strips now have rounded corners. Strip corner rounding radius is
4, 6 or 8px depending on strip height (if strip is too narrow to fit
rounding, then rounding is turned off).
This is achieved with a dedicated GPU shader for drawing most of VSE
strip widget, that it could do proper rounded corner masking.
More details and images in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122576
The direct lights are usually much smoother and with
higher dynamic range than indirect lighting. Using
the R11B11G10 float format exhibit color shifts and
banding even in simple setups without a way to mitigate
the issue.
Using RGB9_E5 encoding improve the quality while retaining
the storage benefit of 32bit formats. The added overhead
of the software encoding not perceptible in a full lighting
pass.
This affects direct lights and SSS convolution result.
Fix#121937
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122515
Fix for #121890
The image shows testing results with "green" texture. It is expected that
all vectors are displaced along Y axis.
Cases are "no displacement", "tangent", "object" and "world" spaces.
Results are consistent with Cycles.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122376
One of the properties of Perlin noise is that it always evaluates to 0.0
when not normalized (or 0.5 when normalized) when the input consists of
only whole integers in all vector components.
Blender's Perlin noise implementation uses single precision floats with
a machine epsilon of 1.19e-07 meaning that for numbers that are greater
than 1/(1.19e-07) = 8.40e6 there mantissa doesn't have any bits left to
store a rational part of the number, effectively meaning that any number
greater than 8.40e6 is a whole integer as far as Blender is concerned.
Therefore when evaluating Perlin noise for any coordinates greater than
that it always results in 0.0 (or 0.5 when normalized).
This fix works as follows: If the original input number is larger than
1.0e6 it is offset by 0.5 after it underwent modulo, which always outputs
numbers in a [0.0, 1.0e5) range leaving the mantissa room for a rational
part. This way the quantization error still persists however the outputs
are random again instead of a constant 0.0.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122112
The goal of this is to make it easier to add more BSDF
support in the future. Avoids code fragmentation and
allows easy entry points to all algorithms using BSDFs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122255
Add fast image writing and reading variants for render passes.
These variants do not perform range checking on values
and should only be used in cases where the written texel is
guaranteed to be in range. This eliminates additional
branching and simplifies shader logic.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121116
Overlay texts were previously drawn with two sets of shadows:
- 3px blur,
- 5px blur, slightly offset
But since the shadow color was always set to black, it was still
causing legibility issues when the text itself was dark (set
via theme for example).
This PR adds a new "outline" BLF text decoration, and uses that
for the overlays. And it picks text/outline color depending
on the "background" color of the view.
Details:
- Instead of "shadow level" integer where the only valid options
are 0, 3 or 5, have a FontShadowType enum.
- Add a new FontShadowType::Outline enum entry, that does a 1px
outline by doing a 3x3 dilation in the font shader.
- BLF_draw_default_shadowed is changed to do outline, instead of
drawing the shadow twice.
- In the font shader, instead of encoding shadow type in signs of
the glyph_size, pass that as a "flags" vertex attribute. Put
font texture channel count into the same flags, so that the
vertex size stays the same.
- Well actually, vertex size becomes smaller by 4 bytes, since turns
out glyph_mode vertex attribute was not used for anything at all.
Images in the PR.
Co-authored-by: Harley Acheson <harley.acheson@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121383
This is an implementation of thin film iridescence in the Principled BSDF based on "A Practical Extension to Microfacet Theory for the Modeling of Varying Iridescence".
There are still several open topics that are left for future work:
- Currently, the thin film only affects dielectric Fresnel, not metallic. Properly specifying thin films on metals requires a proper conductive Fresnel term with complex IOR inputs, any attempt of trying to hack it into the F82 model we currently use for the Principled BSDF is fundamentally flawed. In the future, we'll add a node for proper conductive Fresnel, including thin films.
- The F0/F90 control is not very elegantly implemented right now. It fundamentally works, but enabling thin film while using a Specular Tint causes a jump in appearance since the models integrate it differently. Then again, thin film interference is a physical effect, so of course a non-physical tweak doesn't play nicely with it.
- The white point handling is currently quite crude. In short: The code computes XYZ values of the reflectance spectrum, but we'd need the XYZ values of the product of the reflectance spectrum and the neutral illuminant of the working color space. Currently, this is addressed by just dividing by the XYZ values of the illuminant, but it would be better to do a proper chromatic adaptation transform or to use the proper reference curves for the working space instead of the XYZ curves from the paper.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118477
This was caused by the 2 transmission event approximation we
do for object with non-null thickness. This follows cycles
by using the square root of the color.
Resolves offset error when building index buffers on device for
cuves/hair strips using Triangles instead of TriangleStrips.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121218
Transport rays that enter to another location in the scene, with
specified ray position and normal. This may be used to render portals
for visual effects, and other production rendering tricks.
This acts much like a Transparent BSDF. Render passes are passed
through, and this is affected by light path max transparent bounces.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114386
Clamp some of the inputs of the Glossy BSDF, Glass BSDF, Sheen BSDF,
and Subsurface Scattering nodes to improve consistency between render
engines and to avoid unexpected results.
* Clamp roughness to 0..1
* Clamp subsurface radius to 0..inf
* Clamp colors to 0..inf
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120390
This adds a new `Transform` type similar to cycles that reduces
the amount of data passed for a typical affine 3D transform.
This then applies this type to the light data and cleanup
all usage of the former `object_mat`. This also changes the axes
macros into utility accessor functions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121089
This contains two thing:
- default (nothing connected to socket) uses the bounding box min axis.
- transform the value plugged to the socket to world space.
We arbitrarly choose to output the axis with the minimum extent since
it is the axis along which the object is usually viewed at.
Rel #120384
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120607
- Expected results should come before actual result.
- Add test case for 8192 bytes as apple has a push constants size of 4096.
- Add more variation to the first order test data.
Improvements detected when working on vulkan backend and validated they
work on metal and opengl as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/120557
The Perlin noise algorithms suffer from precision issues when a coordinate
is greater than about 250000.
To fix this the Perlin noise texture is repeated every 100000 on each axis.
This causes discontinuities every 100000, however at such scales this
usually shouldn't be noticeable.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119884
This limits the number of tilemaps per LOD that can be fed to avoid the
easy to hit "Too many shadow updates" (#119757).
This allows for a max 64 tilemaps to be updated at once at their lowest
requested LOD (so ~10.6667 point lights if every faces of the punctual
shadow map is needed, but likely more in practice).
Unfortunately this is still quite low and will surely be hit quite soon
with directional shadow added to it. One idea to workaround this would
be to time slice the update of some lights, but this opens a whole can
of worms that I'm not ready to open for now so I created #119890 for
future reference.
Some notes, most lights seems to request around 3 LODs. It might help
to allow requesting at least 2 LODs if we are rendering since volumes
might want lower LOD available for volumes.
I added a very simplistic heuristic that also lowers the max tilemaps
when transforming, animation playback or navigating the 3D view to
improve the responsiveness of the engine. Note that this doesn't
only lowers the resolution to the minimum requested one. So it should
be good enough in most cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119889
