For Texture baking, there is a CPU-bound preparation step needed to
establish a mapping between the Hi-Res and Low-Res Meshes before the
rendering engine can take over and start the bake.
Part of this process is now taking advantage of parallel_for,
speeding up this step of the Bake process for many/large textures almost
linearly to the number of CPU-cores.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128964
Blender crashes when using the GPU compositor sometimes. This is because
compositor render data was accessed before it was updated in the
realtime compositor when detecting compositing device. So fix that by
first updating compositor data before calling any context methods.
The Legacy Cryptomatte node doesn't work in GPU execution mode if
Precision is set to Auto. That's because the colors picked from the Pick
layer might be in half precision and thus will not match the colors in
the Cryptomatte layers. This is due to the compositor using the
context's precision for Viewer outputs as opposed to the precision of
the image that actually needs to be viewed in the Viewer node.
To fix this, we set the Viewer node precision to be the precision of its
input, that way, the Cryptomatte pick layer will be output in full
precision as intended.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128495
To avoid unnecessary looping over listbase items the function
`BLI_listbase_count_at_most` was used however it resulting in an awkward
expression: `BLI_listbase_count_at_most(list, count + 1) == count`
replace this with `BLI_listbase_count_is_equal_to(list, count)`.
This patch supports the viewer node in the new CPU compositor. To do
that, the context viewer output mechanism was refactored to allow CPU
storage by utilizing the result class as opposed to a GPU texture.
This patch introduces a new experimental option for the new CPU
compositor under development. This is to make development easier such
that it happens directly in main, but the compositor is not expected to
work and will probably crash.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125960
Previously, values for `ID.flag` and `ID.tag` used the prefixes `LIB_` and
`LIB_TAG` respectively. This was somewhat confusing because it's not really
related to libraries in general. This patch changes the prefix to `ID_FLAG_` and
`ID_TAG_`. This makes it more obvious what they correspond to, simplifying code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125811
The File Output node doesn't provide an option to save byte formats like
PNG in a space that is not sRGB. This is problematic for data images
like normal maps, which need to be saved as non-color.
This patch adds a Color Space option to the File Output node to allows
users to override the assumed color space. This also adds a new global
Save As Render option that is used if Use Node Format is enabled.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124238
The viewport compositor slows down complex scenes even if it has very
simple setups. That's because it internally computes previews which
involves a fair bit of CPU computation, however, those previews are
actually never written to the original tree, so previewers weren't
really visible so it is effectively redundantly computations.
To fix this, we double down on disabling previews for the viewport
compositor and avoid any redundant computations in that case.
The vector pass and potentially other vectors that store 4 values are
stored wrongly, in particular, the last channel is ignored. To fix this
we identify if a vector pass is 4D and store the information in the
result meta data, then use this information to either save a 3D or a 4D
pass in the File Output node.
This is a partial fix for the GPU compositor only. The complete fix for
the CPU compositor will be submitted separately as it is not
straightforward and will likely require a refactor.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124522
This patch adds support for meta data in the GPU compositor much like
the mechanism that already exist in the CPU compositor. Only Cryptomatte
meta data is handled at the moment because that is the only meta data
that the compositor supports.
The is_data member of the result was moved to the meta data structure for
consistency with the CPU compositor.
Fixes#124222.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124460
This patch cleanup and refactors the render pipeline compositor render
code to deduplicate code and clarify usage.
The unused this_scene arguemenet was removed, per-node functions were
introduced to simplify loops, C++ Set was used instead of GSet, and
scene change is now detected by any rendered scene in the set.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124028
Blender doesn't render the scene even though a Cryptomatte node exists.
That's because Blender only considers Render Layer nodes, but
Cryptomatte node can reference scenes as well. This patch fixes that by
putting Cryptomatte nodes into consideration.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123814
Blender crashes when rendering a scene strip that references a scene
with a GPU compositor active. This is because when rendering a scene
strip, a new render with a nullptr system GPU context is created for the
scene it references, which is then used for compositing.
Ideally, the strip scene would have its own context, but we can't ensure
its context because we are not in the main thread. The alternative is to
then identify scenes that will be rendered before hand and set their
renders before starting the job, which doesn't seem like a great
solution. So for now, we just use the DST context in those cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123057
Currently, during baking each pixel stores a seed input that comes from the
Blender side. This is only needed for vertex color baking, however -
for regular image baking, we can just as well hash the pixel coordinates.
Therefore, we can save some memory (4 byte per pixel) by splitting the seed
info out into a separate pass and only storing it when needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122806
The system context is expected to be bound prior to the Blender
can be properly initialized. Otherwise GHOST will be doing OpenGL
calls without system context bound.
This follows code from DRW_render_context_enable().
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122708
Blender crashes when the interactive GPU compositor is running in a node
editor while rendering. This is because the GPU compositor is sharing
the same GPU context used for rendering, which is not allowed. To fix
this, we use a dedicated render list for interactive compositing, to use
its dedicated GPU context.
This is implemented by keeping another render list for the purpose of
compositing and similarly clearing its context when it is no longer
needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122472
This patch refactors the GPU context handing in the GPU compositor.
First, GPU context handling in the GPU compositor constructor was
removed, that's because the constructor does nothing GPU related.
Second, the destructor and the execute methods were unified to use the
global DST context for main thread execution and a dedicated system GPU
context for threaded execution. The former is the case for blocking
rendering as well as background mode, so the blocking due to the global
DST is not an issue, but it makes the code more robust to implementation
errors like #122070.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122389
The "render_stats" handler now includes the message line that was
written to stdout as the first arg (using `BKE_callback_exec_string`
instead of just `BKE_callback_exec_null`).
This can be useful to track render progress (and people were relying on
parsing stdout in the past).
Was a request in chat.
This also corrects possible output from the callback being written in
between message parts in `do_write_image_or_movie` (which was probably a
mistake in 93d5e106aa).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119789
This patch adds support for timing GPU compositor executions. This was
previously not possible since there was no mechanism to measure GPU
calls, which is still the case. However, since 2cf8b5c4e1, we now flush
GPU calls immediately for interactive editing, so we can now measure the
GPU evaluation on the host, which is not a very accurate method, but it
is better than having no timing information. Therefore, timing is only
implemented for interactive editing.
This is different from the CPU implementation in that it measures the
total evaluation time, including any preprocessing of the inputs like
implicit type conversion as well as things like previews.
The profiling implementation was moved to the realtime compositor since
the compositor module is optional.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122230
The issue has been introduced by #122105
The image save operator does exactly the thing which was not supported by
the change and was not caught during development or view: it acquires and
releases image buffers while a render result of the Image data-block is
held acquired.
The solution is to implement a simple user-counter for the render result.
Currently it is only used by the image's render result acquire/release API,
as it is the most important case for now. The render pipeline uses its own
way of protecting the result, for which the user counter is not needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122231
The issue originates to the change in default view transform from Filmic
to AgX, which does slightly different clipping, and clips color to black
if there is any negative values.
This change implements an idea of skipping view transform for viewer
node when it is connected to the Pick output of the cryptomatte node.
It actually goes a bit deeper than this and any operation can tag its
result as a non-color data, and the viewer node will respect that.
It is achieved by passing some extra meta-data along the evaluation
pipeline. For the CPU compositor it is done via MetaData, and for the
GPU compositor it is done as part of Result.
Connecting any other node in-between of viewer and Cryptomatte's Pick
will treat the result as color values, and apply color management.
Connecting Pick to the Composite output will also consider it as color,
since there is no concept of non-color-managed render result.
An alternative approaches were tested, including:
- Doing negative value clamping at the viewer node.
It does not work for legacy cryptomatte node, as it needs to have
access to original non-modified Pick result.
- Change the order of components, and store ID in another channel.
Using one of other of Green or Blue channels might work for some view
transforms, but it does not work for AgX.
Using Alpha channel seemingly works better, but it is has different
issues caused by the fact that display transform de-associates alpha,
leading to over-exposed regions which are hard to see in the file from
the report. And might lead to the similar issues as the initial report
with other objects or view transforms.
- Use positive values in the Pick channel.
It does make things visible, but they are all white due to the nature
of how AgX works, making it not so useful as a result.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122177
Blender crashes when calling the python render operator when GPU
compositor execution is enabled. This is due to a missing system GPU
context, which is not initialized for blocking rendering. So this patch
ensures the system GPU context before compositing. Additionally, it
removes the assert that ensures a non main thread execution, since the
assumption apparently does not really hold.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/122176
After recent commits, the .cc file is only used for actual object data
evaluation in the depsgraph, and the header is only used for the old
DerivedMesh data structure that's still being phased out.
Effectively, make GPU compositor available without need to enable
an experimental feature set.
The compositor device is now exposed in the Performance panel of
Render Buttons. It is also still available in the compositor's
N-panel, together with some other options which are more about how
editing works, and not exactly related to render performance.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121398
BLF_buffer was trying to accept "how many colors channels in output
image?" argument and doing math with it, but in the lowest level code
was always writing out full 4 channels for each pixel.
All the call sites would ever call it with argument of 4 however, and
that is why no one noticed the issue.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121630
This allows to expose these settings in the Performance panel in the
render buttons. Also moves compositor-specific options away from the
generic node tree structure.
For the backwards-compatibility the options are still present in the
DNA for the bNodeTree. This is to minimize the impact on the Studio
which has used the GPU compositor for a while now. They can be
removed in a future release.
There is no functional changes expected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121583
