No color pass because it's hard to define what to use as color in a volume.
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2903
Goal is to reduce OpenCL kernel recompilations.
Currently viewport renders are still set to use 64 closures as this seems to
be faster and we don't want to cause a performance regression there. Needs
to be investigated.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2775
The algorithm averages normals from nearby surfaces. It uses the same
sampling strategy as BSSRDFs, casting rays along the normal and two
orthogonal axes, and combining the samples with MIS.
The main concern here is that we are introducing raytracing inside
shader evaluation, which could be quite bad for GPU performance and
stack memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem so bad though.
Note that using this feature can easily slow down renders 20%, and
that if you care about performance then it's better to use a bevel
modifier. Mainly this is useful for baking, and for cases where the
mesh topology makes it difficult for the bevel modifier to work well.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2803
This causes some difference in the classroom scene, where ray visibility
tricks are used and break the MIS balance. Otherwise there doesn't seem
to be much effect, but better to use the right formulas. Problem originally
identified by Lukas.
We are already using the AO distance, so might as well offer this extra
control over the intensity. Useful when an interior scene is supposed to
be significantly darker than the background shader.
* Remove tex_* and pixels_* functions, replace by mem_*.
* Add MEM_TEXTURE and MEM_PIXELS as memory types recognized by devices.
* No longer create device_memory and call mem_* directly, always go
through device_only_memory, device_vector and device_pixels.
Progressive refine undoes memory saving from save buffers, so enabling
both does not make much sense. Previously enabling progressive refine
would disable denoising, but it should be the other way around since
denoise actually affects the render result.
Includes some code refactor for progressive refine render buffers, and
avoids recomputing tiles for each progressive sample.
This is fully unpredictable for artists when one damaged object makes the whole
scene to render incorrectly. This involves two main changes:
- It is not enough to check triangle bounds to be valid when building BVH.
This is because triangle might have some finite vertices and some non-finite.
- We shouldn't add non-finite triangle area to the overall area for MIS.
Was a mistake in optimization commit which was disconnecting closures and nodes
which does not make sense for volume output.
OSL script we can't ignore and can't currently know in advance if it's a proper
volume shader or not. So we never disconnect OSL nodes from volume output.
This is a good candidate for corrective release.
Two issues here:
- Checking table size to be non-zero is not a proper way to go here. This is
because we first resize the table and then fill it in. So it was possible that
non-initialized table was used.
Trickery with using temporary memory and then doing table.swap() might work,
but we can not guarantee that table size will be set after the data pointer.
- Mutex guard was useless, because every thread was using own mutex. Need to
make mutex guard static so all threads are using same mutex.
This was originally done with the first sample in the kernel for better
performance, but it doesn't work anymore with atomics. Any benefit was
very minor anyway, too small to measure it seems.
We need to make sure we can store all volume closures for all objects in volume
stack. This is a bit tricky to detect what would be the "nestness" level of
volumes so for now use maximum possible stack depth. Might cause some slowdown,
but better to give reliable render output than to fail quickly.
Should be safe for 2.79 after extra eyes.
This implements Arvo's "Stratified sampling of spherical triangles". Similar to how we sample rectangular area lights, this is sampling triangles over their solid angle. It does significantly improve sampling close to the triangle, but doesn't do much for more distant triangles. So I added a simple heuristic to switch between the two methods. Unfortunately, I expect this to add render time in any case, even when it does not make any difference whatsoever. It'll take some benchmarking with various scenes and hardware to estimate how severe the impact is and if it is worth the change.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Subscribers: Vega-core, brecht, SteffenD
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2730
This patch adds "Pixel Size" to the performance options, which allows to render
in a smaller resolution, which is especially useful for displays with high DPI.
Reviewers: Severin, dingto, sergey, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Severin, venomgfx, eyecandy, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1619
Steps to reproduce:
- Create shader Image texture -> Diffuse BSDF -> Output. Do NOT select image yet!
- Start viewport render.
- Select image from the ID browser of Image Texture node.
Thing is: with the memory manager we always need to inform device that memory
was freed.
