This feature takes some inspiration from
"RenderMan: An Advanced Path Tracing Architecture for Movie Rendering" and
"A Hierarchical Automatic Stopping Condition for Monte Carlo Global Illumination"
The basic principle is as follows:
While samples are being added to a pixel, the adaptive sampler writes half
of the samples to a separate buffer. This gives it two separate estimates
of the same pixel, and by comparing their difference it estimates convergence.
Once convergence drops below a given threshold, the pixel is considered done.
When a pixel has not converged yet and needs more samples than the minimum,
its immediate neighbors are also set to take more samples. This is done in order
to more reliably detect sharp features such as caustics. A 3x3 box filter that
is run periodically over the tile buffer is used for that purpose.
After a tile has finished rendering, the values of all passes are scaled as if
they were rendered with the full number of samples. This way, any code operating
on these buffers, for example the denoiser, does not need to be changed for
per-pixel sample counts.
Reviewed By: brecht, #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4686
This sampling pattern is particularly suited to adaptive sampling, and will
be used for that upcoming feature.
Based on "Progressive Multi-Jittered Sample Sequences" by Per Christensen,
Andrew Kensler and Charlie Kilpatrick.
Ref D4686
This simplifies compositors setups and will be consistent with Eevee render
passes from D6331. There's a continuum between these passes and it's not clear
there is much advantage to having them available separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6848
The node would render black in this case (but should use the
'active_render' layer choosen in the object data properties -- this is
now in line to how this is handled for e.g. UVs)
This introduces ATTR_STD_VERTEX_COLOR and uses this thoughout, if no
particular layer is specified in the node.
Maniphest Tasks: T73938
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6887
This extends FindOpenShadingLanguage.cmake to also look for the location of
stdosl.h and adds the path to the invocation of oslc to deal with the headers
being in different locations a little better.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6865
Reviewers: brecht
This node provides the ability to rotate a vector around a `center` point using either `Axis Angle` , `Single Axis` or `Euler` methods.
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3789
* Direction mode X, Y and Z to align with axes rather than diagonal or
spherical as previously. X is the new default, existing files will
use diagonal or spherical for compatibility.
* Phase offset to offset the wave along its direction, for purposes like
animation and distortion.
https://developer.blender.org/D6382
This adds some extra functions recently added to the float Maths Node.
Not all functions have been ported over in this patch.
Also:
+ Tidy up menu
+ Change node color to match other vector nodes, this helps distinguish vector and float nodes in the tree
+ Move shared OSL functions to new header node_math.h
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6713
There were to copies of stdosl.h one from stock OSL
and one in the cycles tree augmented with cycles
specific closures.
moved the cycles ones to stdcycles.h and copied
the stock stdosl.h and accompanying headers from
the OSL shader folder.
for further details see D6812.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6812
The OptiX denoiser can be a great help when rendering in the viewport, since it is really fast
and needs few samples to produce convincing results. This patch therefore adds support for
using any Cycles denoiser in the viewport also (but only the OptiX one is selectable because
the NLM one is too slow to be usable currently). It also adds support for denoising on a
different device than rendering (so one can e.g. render with the CPU but denoise with OptiX).
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6554
To determine the albedo pass, Cycles currently follows the path until a predominantly
diffuse-ish material is hit and then takes the albedo there.
This works fine for normal mirrors, but as it completely ignores the color of the bounces
before that diffuse-ish material, it also means that any textures that are applied to the
specular-ish BSDFs won't affect the albedo pass at all.
Therefore, this patch changes that behaviour so that Cycles also keeps track of the
throughput of all specular-ish closures along the path so far and includes that in
the albedo pass.
This fixes part of the issue described in T73043. However, since it has an effect on the
albedo pass in most scenes, it could cause cause regressions, which is why I'm uploading
it as a patch instead of just committing as a fix.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6640
Lacunarity parameter determines scaling of subsequent octaves in fractal
noises. For example, Noise node have this scaling hardcoded to 2.0. Each
octave have twice bigger scale than previous one, resulting in finer details.
By design fractal noises that generate octaves with same seed should not
have Lacunarity set to 1.0, since then it just stacks up identical noises.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6742
This is a more correct fix to the issue Brecht was fixing in D6600.
While the fix in that patch worked fine for linking it broke ASAN
runtime under some circumstances.
For example, `make full debug developer` would compile, but trying
to start blender will cause assert failure in ASAN (related on check
that ASAN is not running already).
Top-level idea: leave it to CMake to keep track of dependency graph.
The root of the issue comes to the fact that target like "blender" is
configured to use a lot of static libraries coming from Blender sources
and to use external static libraries. There is nothing which ensures
order between blender's and external libraries. Only order of blender
libraries is guaranteed.
It was possible that due to a cycle or other circumstances some of
blender libraries would have been passed to linker after libraries
it uses, causing linker errors.
For example, this order will likely fail:
libbf_blenfont.a libfreetype6.a libbf_blenfont.a
This change makes it so blender libraries are explicitly provided
their dependencies to an external libraries, which allows CMake to
ensure they are always linked against them.
General rule here: if bf_foo depends on an external library it is
to be provided to LIBS for bf_foo.
For example, if bf_blenkernel depends on opensubdiv then LIBS in
blenkernel's CMakeLists.txt is to include OPENSUBDIB_LIBRARIES.
The change is made based on searching for used include folders
such as OPENSUBDIV_INCLUDE_DIRS and adding corresponding libraries
to LIBS ion that CMakeLists.txt. Transitive dependencies are not
simplified by this approach, but I am not aware of any downside of
this: CMake should be smart enough to simplify them on its side.
And even if not, this shouldn't affect linking time.
Benefit of not relying on transitive dependencies is that build
system is more robust towards future changes. For example, if
bf_intern_opensubiv is no longer depends on OPENSUBDIV_LIBRARIES
and all such code is moved to bf_blenkernel this will not break
linking.
The not-so-trivial part is change to blender_add_lib (and its
version in Cycles). The complexity is caused by libraries being
provided as a single list argument which doesn't allow to use
different release and debug libraries on Windows. The idea is:
- Have every library prefixed as "optimized" or "debug" if
separation is needed (non-prefixed libraries will be considered
"generic").
- Loop through libraries passed to function and do simple parsing
which will look for "optimized" and "debug" words and specify
following library to corresponding category.
This isn't something particularly great. Alternative would be to
use target_link_libraries() directly, which sounds like more code
but which is more explicit and allows to have more flexibility
and control comparing to wrapper approach.
Tested the following configurations on Linux, macOS and Windows:
- make full debug developer
- make full release developer
- make lite debug developer
- make lite release developer
NOTE: Linux libraries needs to be compiled with D6641 applied,
otherwise, depending on configuration, it's possible to run into
duplicated zlib symbols error.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6642
Similar to the Microfacet Closures, the Principled BSDF Sheen closure is
added at a high weight but typically results in fairly low values.
Therefore, the default weight is a bad indicator of importance.
The fix here is the same as it was back then for Microfacets:
Compute an average weight using the normal as the half-vector
and use it to scale down the sample weight and the albedo channel.
In addition to drastically improving denoising of materials with
sheen when using the new Denoising node, this also can reduce noise
on such materials considerably.
This patch suppress the OSL warnings resulted from ambiguous calls
to the normalize function. This is done by casting to the vector
type before normalizing.
Reviewed By: Brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6621
Embree's local intersection routine was not prepared
for local intersections without per-object BVH.
Now it should be able to handle any kind of local
intersection, such as AO, bevel and SSS.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6602
Commit rB7e61e597253f3ca75f2fb86a57212ca750ffbbe8 broke viewport rendering when not displaying as halfs.
This fixes that by actually using the `scale` parameter that is passed into `film_map` and also de-duplicates code around it.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6557
OptiX always uses record-all behavior for transparent shadow rays, but did not check
whether the maximum number of hits exceeded the shadow hit stack. This fixes that.
transform_direction() can't handle parameters in constant address space.
Creating a local copy of the parameter satisfies the OpenCL compiler.
CUDA and CPU compilers should be able to optimize this away I hope.
This patch adds support for the OptiX denoiser as an alternative to the existing NLM denoiser in Cycles. It's re-using the same denoising architecture based on tiles and therefore implicitly also works with multiple GPUs.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6395
