This was only used on WIN32 when the temporary directory didn't exist.
When the check was added [0] this made some sense because it relied on
`U.tempdir` existing, since then additional checks have been added to
ensure a temporary directory can be used. Further, this fall-back
location isn't documented in the user manual.
[0]: 615db01b01
The Volume input of the world didn't show up inside the property panel.
Reason was that the panel didn't have EEVEE-Next inside its list of compatible
engines.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119729
When loading an add-on without a __file__ set the "cause" was empty.
Now the modules __path__ is included (when available) which points
to the path that failed to load to help with troubleshooting.
Although this error isn't specific to extensions, extensions containing
a blender_manifest.toml but no __init__.py would import a module
with the __file__ set to None.
While there is logic to handle this case, it didn't account for modules
already in sys.modules with __file__ set to None.
From a user perspective enabling the extension silently failed raising
an error on the second attempt to enable.
Smooth transparent shadows by jittering their opacity threshold every
sample.
Always enabled on final renders, optionally enabled in the viewport with
`scene.eevee.shadow_jittered_transparency`.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119480
Allow the user to scale shadow-map resolution per-light.
Adapt the PCF scale based on shadow-map to pixel footprint ratio,
since we can no longer assume that higher LODs don't need filtering.
This allows using much lower shadow resolutions, which can yield
quite significant performance improvements, with relatively little
perceptual quality loss (at the cost of softening shadow edges).
The per-light resolution scale is a literal scale, so for example 0.5
means half the resolution. The Scene Simplify Shadows setting has
been updated to match this behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119436
This uses Spherical Harmonics to store the indirect lighting and
distant lighting visibility.
We can then reuse this information for each closure which divide
the cost of it by 2 or 3 in many cases, doing the scanning once.
The storage cost is higher than previous method, so we split the
resolution scaling to be independant of raytracing.
The spatial filtering has been split to its own pass for performance
reason. Upsampling now only uses 4 bilinearly interpolated samples
(instead of 9) using bilateral weights to avoid bleeding.
This also add a missing dot product (which soften the lighting
around corners) and fixes the blocky artifacts seen at lower
resolution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118924
Don't assume armature of active object is what is displayed in the properties editor, both in C++ and Python code.
Object pointer was left out from some notifiers, as this means only that object was changed. But an armature datablock can be shared by multiple objects.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119663
A tone mapper designed specifically for PBR color accuracy, to get sRGB
colors in the output render that match as faithfully as possible the input
sRGB baseColor under gray-scale lighting. This is aimed toward product
photography use cases, where the scene is well-exposed and HDR color values
are mostly restricted to small specular highlights.
Fixes#118824: Proposal: add a view transform for Khronos PBR Neutral Tone Mapper
Co-authored-by: Emmett Lalish <elalish@google.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118936
Experimental flag for "Extensions Development Utilities" that can be
enabled separately from "Extensions". Note this PR does not enable the
use of this flag (coming later) as uses are in addons-contrib. This
flag is requested in #119521
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119562
With default sizes the Timeline "Playback" popover clips the text of
two items in English. This PR just makes it just wide enough plus a
bit of breathing room.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119474
Layer masks were partly already there. This PR completes the implementation and expose them through the UI.
This also adds three operators to:
- add a layer mask
- remove a layer mask
- reorder layer masks
Note: These are not used by the renderer yet. Will be done in a following PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119433
This adds the `viewlayername` property to grease pencil v3 layers.
It's exposed as `viewlayer_render` in python.
Note: this is not used in the renderer yet. Will be used in a following PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119422
Changes:
- Add Vert Slide and Edge Slide to 'UV -> Transform' menu.
- Add a separator for Vert Slide and Edge Slide in the context menu.
- Don't display the "Correct UVs" option in the Redo menu of UV Editor.
EEVEE-Next performes less on integrated GPUs then discrete GPUs.
Most shaders have been analyzed, but there will always be bottlenecks
related to architectural differences.
In order to make EEVEE-Next run smooth on integrated GPUs this change
will implement viewport pixel size option similar to Cycles. The main difference
is that the samples will still be weighted and up-sampled to the final film
resolution. This makes the pixels not look squared in the viewport but will
resolve to something close to the results without up-scaling.
This improves the performance especially on integrated GPUs. The improvement
for discrete GPUs are less noticeable. See here the stats when playing
`rain_restaurant.blend` back on a RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO iGPU.
| Pixel size | Frames per second |
|------------|-------------------|
| 1x | 0.25 FPS |
| 2x | 4.14 FPS |
| 4x | 6.90 FPS |
| 8x | 9.95 FPS |
Related to: #114597
See PR for some example images.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118903
Our `node_shader_utils.py` module needs to be updated to account for API
changes made during the 4.0 release cycle [1].
Here we need to guard against accessing the "Location" node input if not
dealing with the appropriate type of Mapping node.
[1] e4ad58114b
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119354
We recently added a new "Internet" icon, meant to represent internet
services and protocols generally, in contrast with the existing "url"
icon which can be seen as being http (web link) specifically. This
PR just uses this icon for cloud storage uses and for remote extension
repository.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/119409
