Also make some style decisions more consistent: for example,
the way how stop/continue search return value is commented.
Prefer lower vertical space for those.
Mainly readability purposes:
- Having variables called local_payload is ambiguous: does it refer to
LocalPayload type or to a variable be local in a function?
- Some of the functions are used for different ray types, so having the
type case in intersectFunc and filterFunc makes it easier to scan.
For the latter: now it is more obvious that Curve_Intersect_Shadow
expects RayPayload, but Curve_Filter_Shadow expects ShadowPayload.
It might not be a problem currently as ShadowPayload has the same
"header" RayPayload, but it might change in the future. Also, compiler
might optimize fields out from one but not from the other.
There is a known precision bug in the current HIP compiler version (RDNA2 family/Windows) that has already been fixed and will be available in
a future HIP SDK release. Enabling more precise math prevents the artifacts.
This may cause a 5-10% performance drop in some scenes.
Fix#136138: Microfacet BSDF
Fix#136449: Hair BSDF
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136341
The new correction avoids washed out areas near the shadow terminator,
preserving more detail from normal and bump maps.
It implements the method from the paper "A Microfacet-Based Shadowing
Function to Solve the Bump Terminator Problem" by Alejandro Conty Estevez,
Pascal Lecocq, and Clifford Stein.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135380
This makes it possible to restore previous Blender 4.3 behavior of bump
mapping, where the large filter width was sometimes (ab)used to get a bevel
like effect on stepwise textures.
For bump from the displacement socket, filter width remains fixed at 0.1.
Ref #133991, #135841
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136465
On the user level spatial splits on hair BVH leads to very long build times,
without giving too much advantage in the render times.
There is also some issues and possibly bugs in the builder which lead to all
sort of numerical issues (like divisions by zero). There are also performance
issues that comes from the fact that the alignment space is applied every time
primitive's aligned bounds are requested. It also seems that the splitting
might not be considering aligned space consistently when calculating SAH and
performing splits.
It does sound like issues we'd get fixed ideally, but the importance of the
BVH2 is fading out with the HW-RT becoming more and more popular.
This change contains fix needed for the split algorithm to avoid numerical
issue reported by UBSAN when rendering the `BVH2 particle simple.blend` from
the #126508.
Ref #126508
Ref #136245
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136430
* Perform attribute interpolation as part of dicing.
* Remove temporary subd uv and face index attributes.
On a MacBook M3 with 12 P-cores and 4 E-cores, these changes overall give
a 10x-14x speedup on various scenes. Note that splitting is still single
threaded and can be expensive, and UV subdivision can be optimized more.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136411
* Move dicing out of DiagSplit, caller now uses EdgeDice
* Merge, rename and reorder various EdgeDice functions
* Compute triangle indices for subpatches in advance
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136411
The transparent bounce test was too optimistic in regards to the intersection
being considered. The check needs to happen after it has been validated that
it is not duplicate.
It was already the case for Metal and HIP-RT, but not for Embree and BVH2.
Tests updated by: Alaska <Alaskayou01@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136325
The reason for this to happen is because when spatial split is used
the same intersection could be recorded twice (via different BVH nodes).
This change introduces check for the intersection being already recoded,
similar to the check in the local BVH. The check is done during BVH
intersection which allows to properly ignore intersections even for the
maximum bounce number check. A faster approach would be to do such
filtering after sorting, but then we can not keep bounce check in the
BVH code consistent with and without spatial splits.
Intuitively it seems that it should be possible to merge the new loop
with the one that checks for which intersection to keep. But it is not
so trivial in practice: it doesn't run for all intersections, and also
it is formulated in a way that updates isect_index for the next record.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136251
This issue only affects profiling mode (`CYCLES_METAL_PROFILING=1`). There's a modest limit to the number of concurrent counter sampling buffers per device, so instead of creating one per device queue, we create one per device that can be reused by successive device queues.
Authored by Emma Liu.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136248
The code which was checking whether local intersection is to be
recorded, and under which index was duplicated for triangles,
motion triangles, and HIP-RT triangle filter function.
This change moves the common logic to an utility function which
is reused from all the places mentioned above.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136244
Use the mesh wrapper mechanism from GPU subdivision to get the base mesh.
This can significantly reduce memory usage and render setup time if the
level was not manually set to zero.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135895
This PR removes a bunch of dead code following #123551 (removal of AMD and Intel GPU support). It is safe to assume that UMA will be available, so a lot of codepaths that dealt with copying between CPU and GPU are now just clutter.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136146
This PR removes a bunch of dead code following #123551 (removal of AMD and Intel GPU support). It is safe to assume that UMA will be available, so a lot of codepaths that dealt with copying between CPU and GPU are now just clutter.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136117
There is code that properly handles panoramic cameras in
`camera_world_to_ndc`, the transform matrices (e.g.
`OSLRenderServices::get_inverse_matrix`) in the `transform("NDC", P)`
call dont do the "full work" here (maybe they should though?).
But we can get to `camera_world_to_ndc` by just getting the "NDC"
attribute, so use that for now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136097
This change fixes the remaining failing tests with SSS when using HIP-RT.
This includes crash when SSS is used on curves, and objects with motion
blur and SSS rendering black.
The root cause for both cases was the fact that traversal was always
assuming regular BVH (built for triangles), while curves and motion
triangles are using custom primitives, which requires specialized BVH
traversal.
This change includes:
- Early output from `scene_intersect_local()` for non-triangle and
non-motion-triangle primitives. This fixes `sss_hair.blend` test,
and also avoids unnecessary BVH traversal when the local intersection
is requested from curve object. The same early-output could be added
to other BVH traversal implementation.
- Use `hiprtGeomCustomTraversalAnyHitCustomStack` for motion triangles
primitives. This fixes motion blur on objects with SSS render black.
Fixes#135856
Co-authored-by: Sahar A. Kashi <sahar.alipourkashi@amd.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Sharybin <sergey@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135943
Profiling on Arc B580 shown that sd->num_closure queries were often
stalling.
Packing it closer to other often accessed elements within ShaderData
(type, flag..) does speedup rendering by ~5% in most scenes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135980
While auto lets the compiler make the right choice for shade_surface
kernel when compiling for Battlemage and Lunar Lake, that's not the case
for Alchemist and Meteor Lake, so now we force this mode.
It was always hard-coded to be 0.
It does not seem to result in any extra tests passing, but they are
probably not sophisticated enough.
Noticed while looking into details for the #135856.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135878
* 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
