This is replaced by geometry nodes, where volumes can now be generated from
point clouds and meshes with more control, and more efficient rendering as a
sparse volume.
No backwareds compatibility is provided, as this would be complicated, and
probably this feature was not used much in the past few years.
This node was supported in Cycles only, not by EEVEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140292
In the render test suite there is an OSL folder that contains tests that
need OSL to function.
Previously due to some missed logic, the OptiX OSL test suite would not run
tests in that folder because part of the test code assumed that if you aren't
testing on a CPU, then your device doesn't support OSL.
This commit fixes this issue.
Along with this change, some logic was changed in preparation for allowing
OptiX OSL camera tests to run without OSL shading enabled.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139433
Since commit 175686f2, the behavior of OSL now matches SVM, so instead of this
separate test this is handled by the regular test and the "does OSL match SVM"
checks.
* Share vertices between patches instead of using stitch map
* Switch to OpenSubdiv compatible counter-clockwise indexing
* Simplify patch edge reverse direction logic
* Add more comments to splitting and dicing
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135681
Glossy light path tests are unexpectedly failing on build bot.
My current guess is that something changed between when the reference
images were made and when the tests were committed.
While an investigation into what's causing it is going on, these tests
have been temporarily added to the blocklist to avoid unexpected
failures for other developers.
In a recent commit (1), a bug was fixed where the generated texture
coordinates on volumes in Cycles with OptiX OSL was incorrect.
Due to this fix, OptiX OSL now passes render tests in scenes that use
that feature, so this commit enables those tests on that platform.
(1) 0177537c9a
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134629
In ea7d07098b, the RenderReport base
class was reworked to work better with test variations.
This commit reworks the Cycles render tests file to use the new
variation system for Hardware Ray tracing and OSL tests, avoiding the
custom system put in place in previous commits.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133813
This commit reworks the RenderReport base class to avoid adding
`--cycles-device` device arguments to non Cycles tests.
This reduces some warnings that can show up with EEVEE and
Workbench tests that accidentally used these arguments.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133724
The Principled BSDF tests were previously disabled when testing
with OSL as there was a noticeable difference in noise between SVM
and OSL when mixing/layering materials.
This commit enables the Principled BSDF OSL tests, but with a increased
threshold for failure so we can test for major regressions with the
Principled BSDF OSL implementation.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133530
There was a comment in the Cycles test suite blocklist about UDIM
textures rendering incorrectly.
This has since been fixed (1) so remove the comment from the blocklist.
(1) 82cc0a3eff
The window coordinate test was on the block list due to the
world shader rendering it incorrectly.
This has since been fixed, so this test can be removed from the
blocklist.
Ref: blender/blender#123012
Ref: blender/blender@4f0aef1fde
This commit adds render tests for the outputs of the
texture coordinate node tested on:
- A scaled and rotated mesh
- A instanced scaled and rotated mesh
- A mesh with and without smooth shading
- A mesh with a volumetric shader
- The world background chader
And a few extra objects for specific outputs. Examples including:
- A deformed mesh for the `Generated` output
- View meshes through a reflection for view dependent outputs
- Instanced meshes using the old instancing system to test the
"from instancer" option with the UV and Generated outputs
- Additional objects with extra UV maps to ensure the correct UV map
is loaded
- And more
There are other aspects that we would ideally test
(E.g. Point clouds and hair), but these will be handled by a
separate commit and set of tests.
Ref blender/blender-test-data!30
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132512
OptiX OSL tests were previously disabled due to a GPU driver bug
resulting in many tests failing unexpectedly.
The new driver version is now out with the fix so we can now enable
OptiX OSL testing.
This commit also updates the OptiX OSL block list with better comments,
and more tests that are known to fail and need investigating.
Ref: #123012
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/129280
Some changes to how argparse is used in render tests:
1. Use the common approach of one dash for single-letter options (`-b`)
and two dashes for longer options (`--blender`). In this commit that
just means changing single-dashed (`-testdir`) to double-dashed
(`--testdir`).
2. Remove unnecessary `nargs` arguments. The code was telling `argparse`
to put CLI arguments into a list of one item, and then had code to
turn that one-item list into the item itself. I've just removed the
`nargs` argument altogether, as that just produces the desired
value without requiring more code.
I've also removed `nargs="+"` from the handling of the `--blender`
parameter, as that allowed for multiple occurrences of `--blender
{path}` but was silently ignoring all of those except the first.
To ensure that required arguments are present, the code now uses
`required=True` instead of `nargs`.
3. Add a `description` parameter so that `--help` shows what the
test script actually does. Also it helps people (like me) who want
to figure out which blend file is actually being opened by the
test, without making the test itself more verbose.
No functional changes, except that you now cannot add multiple
`--blender` arguments any more (the CLI invocation will fail). This wasn't
used anywhere I could find, though.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131666
While looking into something else, I noticed that the OSL render tests
were not testing the Principled Volume tests.
This is because when running OSL tests, we skip all Principled BSDF
tests by ignoring all tests that start with `principled_`
(this was done due to noise differences between SVM and OSL).
However this had the knock on effect of skipping tests like
- `principled_absorption`
- `principled_blackbody`
- `principled_smoke`
in the volumetric test suite.
This commit fixes this issue by renaming all Principled BSDF tests to
`principled_bsdf_` and updating the block list to use this new name.
Ref: blender/blender-test-data!31
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131540
Add the ability to control whether or not Hardware Ray Tracing (HWRT)
is enabled during render tests.
This is done by adding `-RT` to the end of the device name in the
Cycles device list. E.g. `HIP-RT`. This is supported with HIP, oneAPI,
and Metal.
Change in behaviour:
If you do not specify `-RT`, then HWRT will be disabled. This results
in a change in behaviour:
1. `METAL` device tests on M3 or newer Macs no longer using MetalRT
2. `ONEAPI` device tests no longer use Embree GPU.
Note: Some tests are failing on some platforms/configurations that can
now be easily tested due to this commit. This does not effect the
build bot automated testing as it does not test these configurations.
These tests have not been blocked from running, primarily to help
developers investigate and fix the issues.
Ref #123012
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125082
This commit adds a new cmake variable `WITH_CYCLES_TEST_OSL`
that runs every Cycles test a second time with OSL enabled.
At the moment only CPU OSL is enabled. There are plans to enable
OptiX OSL in the future when stability issues with OptiX OSL
have been resolved.
Some render tests have been blocked from running until we can figure
out a fix. The most notiable being all the Pricincipled BSDF tests
as some of them are failing due to noise differences.
Ref #123012
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124601
MNEE tests were disabled on Metal due to the feature not being
supported in macOS < 13.
This commit enables MNEE tests on Metal GPUs if they are using
macOS >= 13, otherwise leave it disabled.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124709
This change fixes confusion situation when the render output
is an RGBA image: the difference in color was not visible in
the report because alpha channel was all zeros. This is due
to idiff performing per-channel difference.
The solution to this problem is to have separate images for
color and alpha difference, which makes it clear where the
difference actually is coming from.
Some tests like cycles, sequencer and compositor batch together multiple
tests in a single Blender invocation. This makes them run faster, but
makes debugging harder. This is an option to disable that batching.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114603
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
The failure happens since the recent changes in the make_orthonormals.
The only difference is the underwater caustics test file, and the
difference seems to be a noise floor.
There seems to be nothing wrong with the math in the function itself:
the return values are all without quite small epsilon when comparing
Linux with M2 macOS. The thing is: the very first input is already a
bit different on different platforms. So the difference is already
somewhere else.
For now increase the threshold to avoid confusion of the rest of the
team, and to allow builds to be deployed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108080
Useful for validating changes when sampling/noise changes:
- First run with BLENDER_TEST_UPDATE=1 and e.g. CYCLESTEST_SPP_MULTIPLIER=32
- Apply your change
- Run with only CYCLESTEST_SPP_MULTIPLIER=32
- Compare
- Reset the SVN repo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17107
This patch enables MNEE on macOS >= 13. There was an inefficiency in the calculation of spill requirements, fixed as of macOS 13. This patch also adds a temporary inlining workaround for a Metal compiler bug which causes `mnee_compute_constraint_derivatives` to behave incorrectly.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16235
This adds path guiding features into Cycles by integrating Intel's Open Path
Guiding Library. It can be enabled in the Sampling > Path Guiding panel in the
render properties.
This feature helps reduce noise in scenes where finding a path to light is
difficult for regular path tracing.
The current implementation supports guiding directional sampling decisions on
surfaces, when the material contains a least one diffuse component, and in
volumes with isotropic and anisotropic Henyey-Greenstein phase functions.
On surfaces, the guided sampling decision is proportional to the product of
the incident radiance and the normal-oriented cosine lobe and in volumes it
is proportional to the product of the incident radiance and the phase function.
The incident radiance field of a scene is learned and updated during rendering
after each per-frame rendering iteration/progression.
At the moment, path guiding is only supported by the CPU backend. Support for
GPU backends will be added in future versions of OpenPGL.
Ref T92571
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15286
Move MNEE to own kernel, separate from shader ray-tracing. This does introduce
the limitation that a shader can't use both MNEE and AO/bevel, but that seems
like the better trade-off for now.
We can experiment with bigger kernel organization changes later.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15070
This adds support for selective rendering of caustics in shadows of refractive
objects. Example uses are rendering of underwater caustics and eye caustics.
This is based on "Manifold Next Event Estimation", a method developed for
production rendering. The idea is to selectively enable shadow caustics on a
few objects in the scene where they have a big visual impact, without impacting
render performance for the rest of the scene.
The Shadow Caustic option must be manually enabled on light, caustic receiver
and caster objects. For such light paths, the Filter Glossy option will be
ignored and replaced by sharp caustics.
Currently this method has a various limitations:
* Only caustics in shadows of refractive objects work, which means no caustics
from reflection or caustics that outside shadows. Only up to 4 refractive
caustic bounces are supported.
* Caustic caster objects should have smooth normals.
* Not currently support for Metal GPU rendering.
In the future this method may be extended for more general caustics.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
This code adds manifold next event estimation through refractive surface(s) as a
new sampling technique for direct lighting, i.e. finding the point on the
refractive surface(s) along the path to a light sample, which satisfies Fermat's
principle for a given microfacet normal and the path's end points. This
technique involves walking on the "specular manifold" using a pseudo newton
solver. Such a manifold is defined by the specular constraint matrix from the
manifold exploration framework [2]. For each refractive interface, this
constraint is defined by enforcing that the generalized half-vector projection
onto the interface local tangent plane is null. The newton solver guides the
walk by linearizing the manifold locally before reprojecting the linear solution
onto the refractive surface. See paper [1] for more details about the technique
itself and [3] for the half-vector light transport formulation, from which it is
derived.
[1] Manifold Next Event Estimation
Johannes Hanika, Marc Droske, and Luca Fascione. 2015.
Comput. Graph. Forum 34, 4 (July 2015), 87–97.
https://jo.dreggn.org/home/2015_mnee.pdf
[2] Manifold exploration: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering
scenes with difficult specular transport Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner.
2012. ACM Trans. Graph. 31, 4, Article 58 (July 2012), 13 pages.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/manifolds-sg12/
[3] The Natural-Constraint Representation of the Path Space for Efficient
Light Transport Simulation. Anton S. Kaplanyan, Johannes Hanika, and Carsten
Dachsbacher. 2014. ACM Trans. Graph. 33, 4, Article 102 (July 2014), 13 pages.
https://cg.ivd.kit.edu/english/HSLT.php
The code for this samping technique was inserted at the light sampling stage
(direct lighting). If the walk is successful, it turns off path regularization
using a specialized flag in the path state (PATH_MNEE_SUCCESS). This flag tells
the integrator not to blur the brdf roughness further down the path (in a child
ray created from BSDF sampling). In addition, using a cascading mechanism of
flag values, we cull connections to caustic lights for this and children rays,
which should be resolved through MNEE.
This mechanism also cancels the MIS bsdf counter part at the casutic receiver
depth, in essence leaving MNEE as the only sampling technique from receivers
through refractive casters to caustic lights. This choice might not be optimal
when the light gets large wrt to the receiver, though this is usually not when
you want to use MNEE.
This connection culling strategy removes a fair amount of fireflies, at the cost
of introducing a slight bias. Because of the selective nature of the culling
mechanism, reflective caustics still benefit from the native path
regularization, which further removes fireflies on other surfaces (bouncing
light off casters).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13533
