Changing the geometry in the current scene caused the primitive offsets for all geometry to
change, but the values would not be updated in all bottom-level BVH structures. Rendering
artifacts and crashes where the result. This fixes that by ensuring all BVH structures are
updated when the primitive offsets change.
Adds support for building multiple BVH types in order to support using both CPU and OptiX
devices for rendering simultaneously. Primitive packing for Embree and OptiX is now
standalone, so it only needs to be run once and can be shared between the two. Additionally,
BVH building was made a device call, so that each device backend can decide how to
perform the building. The multi-device for instance creates a special multi-BVH that holds
references to several sub-BVHs, one for each sub-device.
Reviewed By: brecht, kevindietrich
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9718
This encapsulates Node socket members behind a set of specific methods;
as such it is no longer possible to directly access Node class members
from exporters and parts of Cycles.
The methods are defined via the NODE_SOCKET_API macros in `graph/
node.h`, and are for getting or setting a specific socket's value, as
well as querying or modifying the state of its update flag.
The setters will check whether the value has changed and tag the socket
as modified appropriately. This will let us know how a Node has changed
and what to update, which is the first concrete step toward a more
granular scene update system.
Since the setters will tag the Node sockets as modified when passed
different data, this patch also removes the various modified methods
on Nodes in favor of Node::is_modified which checks the sockets'
update flags status.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8544
This encapsulates Node socket members behind a set of specific methods;
as such it is no longer possible to directly access Node class members
from exporters and parts of Cycles.
The methods are defined via the NODE_SOCKET_API macros in `graph/
node.h`, and are for getting or setting a specific socket's value, as
well as querying or modifying the state of its update flag.
The setters will check whether the value has changed and tag the socket
as modified appropriately. This will let us know how a Node has changed
and what to update, which is the first concrete step toward a more
granular scene update system.
Since the setters will tag the Node sockets as modified when passed
different data, this patch also removes the various `modified` methods
on Nodes in favor of `Node::is_modified` which checks the sockets'
update flags status.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8544
Don't allocate a new buffer for refitting meshes, but update the existing one.
It's not clear from the API docs if this is required, but it appears to solve
the issue and should be more efficient.
Before, Cycles was using a shared Embree device across all instances.
This could result in crashes when viewport rendering and material
preview were using Cycles simultaneously.
Fixes issue T80042
Maniphest Tasks: T80042
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8772
This splits the volume related data (properties for rendering and attributes) of the Mesh node
into a new `Volume` node type.
This `Volume` node derives from the `Mesh` class since we generate a mesh for the bounds of the
volume, as such we can safely work on `Volumes` as if they were `Meshes`, e.g. for BVH creation.
However such code should still check for the geometry type of the object to be `MESH` or `VOLUME`
which may be bug prone if this is forgotten.
This is part of T79131.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79131
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8538
Also removing the curve system manager which only stored a few curve intersection
settings. These are all changes towards making shape and subdivision settings
per-object instead of per-scene, but there is more work to do here.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8013
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8014
The hair BSDFs are already designed to assume this, and disabling backface
culling would break them in some cases.
Ref T73778
Depends on D8009
Maniphest Tasks: T73778
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8010
Triangles were very memory intensive. The only reason they were not removed yet
is that they gave more accurate results, but there will be an accurate 3D curve
primitive added for this.
Line rendering was always poor quality since the ends do not match up. To keep CPU
and GPU compatibility we just remove them entirely. They could be brought back if
an Embree compatible implementation is added, but it's not clear to me that there
is a use case for these that we'd consider important.
Ref T73778
Reviewers: #cycles
Subscribers:
The latest versions of Embree support Catmull-Rom splines
which use less memory than the previously used Hermite splines.
The representation is also much closer to Cycles own data structures
and can hopefully be unified in the future for more memory savings.
Memory savings using Victor benchmark scene:
Compared to previous Embree: ~400MB
Compared to Cycles' native BVH: ~1GB
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
Note that this is turned off by default and must be enabled at build time with the CMake WITH_CYCLES_EMBREE flag.
Embree must be built as a static library with ray masking turned on, the `make deps` scripts have been updated accordingly.
There, Embree is off by default too and must be enabled with the WITH_EMBREE flag.
Using Embree allows for much faster rendering of deformation motion blur while reducing the memory footprint.
TODO: GPU implementation, deduplication of data, leveraging more of Embrees features (e.g. tessellation cache).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3682
