This is an intermediate steps towards making lights actual geometry.
Light is now a subclass of Geometry, which simplifies some code.
The geometry is not added to the BVH yet, which would be the next
step and improve light intersection performance with many lights.
This makes object attributes work on lights.
Co-authored-by: Lukas Stockner <lukas@lukasstockner.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134846
Check was misc-const-correctness, combined with readability-isolate-declaration
as suggested by the docs.
Temporarily clang-format "QualifierAlignment: Left" was used to get consistency
with the prevailing order of keywords.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132361
When the spread of a spot light is at it's maximum (180 degrees),
then `atan(tan(theta_e))` could become quite unpredictable due to
a asymtote in the tan function when working with lights with this
spread (because theta_e is `spread * 0.5 = pi/2`).
This lead to issues like theta_e for the spotlight becoming negative,
which lead to rendering errors due to a malformed light tree.
This commit fixes this issue by adding a episilon region around the
troublesome values and sets theta_e to `pi/2` when in that region.
Candidate for backporting to 4.2 and potentially 3.6
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125172
The recursive building has an early output, which could leave the node
without the requested child initialized, causing the access to the left
child to crash later on in the builder function.
Simply add an extra is-canceled check to avoid access of possibly
non-initialized tree structure.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112132
This is a continuation of a fix from the last week in #108311.
The issue was not fully fixed due to a mistake in the regression
test file.
There are two major things which left to be fixed since the
previous patch:
1. Root nodes can not be shared, even if the local and distant
lights belong to the same light set. If the root node is shared
then the flattening will use the same node index for specialized
trees, which is not a desired behavior.
2. The node type needs to be preserved when a new node is
created for a subset of emitters. This is because tree sampling
in kernel will handle distant and local lights differently for
nodes where there are multiple emitters.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108427
was assuming such cases are already handled before this function is
called, but seems to be broken on windows and linux. Do
`safe_normalize()` so the tests pass, will check the problem afterwards.
* Group bounding box, bounding cone and energy to a struct called `LightTreePrimitivesMeasure`
* Add utility functions to add primitives to nodes or buckets
* Precompute the split bucket cost to improve efficiency (about 1.4x expected)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105931
Push a task to `TaskPool` when more than `MIN_PRIMS_PER_THREAD` primitives are to be processed. The nodes are rearranged in a depth-first order when copied to the device.
Tested with the scene in #105550 on an Apple M1 Ultra (20 cores), about 11x speedup.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105862
Cycles ignores the size of spot lights, therefore the illuminated area doesn't match the gizmo. This patch resolves this discrepancy.
| Before (Cycles) | After (Cycles) | Eevee
|{F14200605}|{F14200595}|{F14200600}|
This is done by scaling the ray direction by the size of the cone. The implementation of `spot_light_attenuation()` in `spot.h` matches `spot_attenuation()` in `lights_lib.glsl`.
**Test file**:
{F14200728}
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17129
Uses a light tree to more effectively sample scenes with many lights. This can
significantly reduce noise, at the cost of a somewhat longer render time per
sample.
Light tree sampling is enabled by default. It can be disabled in the Sampling >
Lights panel. Scenes using light clamping or ray visibility tricks may render
different as these are biased techniques that depend on the sampling strategy.
The implementation is currently disabled on AMD HIP. This is planned to be fixed
before the release.
Implementation by Jeffrey Liu, Weizhen Huang, Alaska and Brecht Van Lommel.
Ref T77889
