In the Bake > Output panel, there is now a choice between Image Textures and
Vertex Colors. The active vertex color layer is used for baking. This works
with both existing per-corner and sculpt per-vertex vertex colors.
The previous design is rather old and has a couple of problems:
* Scalability: The current solution of adding little icon buttons next to the
data-block name field doesn't scale well. It only works if there's a small
number of operations. We need to be able to place more items there for better
data-block management. Especially with the introduction of library overrides.
* Discoverability: It's not obvious what some of the icons do. They appear and
disappear, but it's not obvious why some are available at times and others
not.
* Unclear Status: Currently their library status (linked, indirectly linked,
broken link, library override) isn't really clear.
* Unusual behavior: Some of the icon buttons allow Shift or Ctrl clicking to
invoke alternative behaviors. This is not a usual pattern in Blender.
This patch does the following changes:
* Adds a menu to the right of the name button to access all kinds of operations
(create, delete, unlink, user management, library overrides, etc).
* Make good use of the "disabled hint" for tooltips, to explain why buttons are
disabled. The UI team wants to establish this as a good practise.
* Use superimposed icons for duplicate and unlink, rather than extra buttons
(uses less space, looks less distracting and is a nice + consistent design
language).
* Remove fake user and user count button, they are available from the menu now.
* Support tooltips for superimposed icons (committed mouse hover feedback to
master already).
* Slightly increase size of the name button - it was already a bit small
before, and the move from real buttons to superimposed icons reduces usable
space for the name itself.
* More clearly differentiate between duplicate and creating a new data-block.
The latter is only available in the menu.
* Display library status icon on the left (linked, missing library, overridden,
asset)
* Disables "Make Single User" button - in review we weren't sure if there are
good use-cases for it, so better to see if we can remove it.
Note that I do expect some aspects of this design to change still. I think some
changes are problematic, but others disagreed. I will open a feedback thread on
devtalk to see what others think.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8554
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
Design discussed and agreed on with the UI team, also see T79959.
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
The issue is caused by stale data on the Mesh Node which is not cleared
during synchronizing since the socket API refactor so that we can detect
changes. However, synchronization only updates the sockets of the Mesh,
so other properties were left with outdated values.
This caused an underflow when computing attribute size for undisplaced
coordinates as it was using the current number of vertices minus the
previous count of subdivision vertices, which at this point should be 0.
Added a simple method to clear non socket data. Also modified
Mesh.add_undisplaced to always use an ATTR_PRIM_GEOMETRY as the data is
not subdivided yet and it avoids any further issues regarding computing
attribute sizes.
OptiX support is not in fact experimental anymore, so it is time for that notice to go.
All Cycles features that are currently supported on the GPU do work now when OptiX is selected.
This enables support for baking when OptiX is active, but uses CUDA for that behind the scenes, since
the way baking is currently implemented does not work well with OptiX.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9784
Blender has now the place to store the Cryptomatte settings. This patch
migrates Cycles to use the new settings.
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9746
Now that the Blender sync mechanism deletes nodes from the scene, we need to
ensure scene update is stopped before we do this.
Also add some more early out in scene geometry update to ensure we do not
continue working on incomplete geometry data, though that was not the cause of
this crash.
Two issues:
* Automatic deduplication of OpenVDB grid data was failing when Cycles had
already cleared the OpenVDB grid, causing an empty grid. Instead rely on
Blender return the same OpenVDB grid pointer when deduplication is possible.
* The volume bounds mesh was not properly cleared when the OpenVDB grid was
empty, causing a mismatch between mesh and voxel data.
The issue is that the shaders are stolen from the original Geometry by
the temporary Geometry used to accumulate data, but the main thread
still needs them for syncing the attributes.
So make a copy of the shader array to preserve the data on the original
Geometry.
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 patch allows the user to type a property name into the
Attribute node, which will then output the value of the property
for each individual object, allowing to e.g. customize shaders
by object without duplicating the shader.
In order to make supporting this easier for Eevee, it is necessary
to explicitly choose whether the attribute is varying or uniform
via a dropdown option of the Attribute node. The dropdown also
allows choosing whether instancing should be taken into account.
The Cycles design treats all attributes as one common namespace,
so the Blender interface converts the enum to a name prefix that
can't be entered using keyboard.
In Eevee, the attributes are provided to the shader via a UBO indexed
with resource_id, similar to the existing Object Info data. Unlike it,
however, it is necessary to maintain a separate buffer for every
requested combination of attributes.
This is done using a hash table with the attribute set as the key,
as it is expected that technically different but similar materials
may use the same set of attributes. In addition, in order to minimize
wasted memory, a sparse UBO pool is implemented, so that chunks that
don't contain any data don't have to be allocated.
The back-end Cycles code is already refactored and committed by Brecht.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2057
Uniform attributes require immediate access to the shader list
in object update code, so setting the field can't be deferred
to a background task. This required adding a parameter to the
clear method of Geometry.
Ref D2057
The issue stems from the fact that scene arrays are not cleared when rendering is done. This was not really an issue before the introduction of the ownership system (rB429afe0c626a) as the id_map would recreate scene data arrays based on their new content. However, now that the id_maps do not have access to the scene data anymore the arrays are never created.
Another related issue is that the BlenderSync instance is never freed when the persistent data option is activated.
To fix this, we delete nodes created by the id_maps in their destructors, and delete the BlenderSync instance before creating a new one, so the id_maps destructors are actually called.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T82129
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9378
Rather than just printing a message and falling back to the CPU. For render
farms it's better to avoid a potentially slow render on the CPU if the intent
was to render on the GPU.
Ref T82193, D9086
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
Approximately 141 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8392
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Avoid accessing mesh emitter and hair at the same time. This is not ideal for
performance, but once we have a dedicated hair object this will resolve itself.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9322
This improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many
mesh, hair and volume objects. Sync time speedups in benchmarks:
barbershop 5.2x
bmw 1.3x
fishycat 1.5x
koro 1.0x
sponza 3.0x
victor 1.4x
wdas_cloud 0.9x
Implementation by Nicolas Lelong, and Jagannadhan Ravi (AMD).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9258
Caused by rBe65c78cd43aa.
Since above commit, only geometry and lights received the update,
previous to this check an instancer would receive that is well (in case
of 'is_updated_shading').
Now check for an instancer (checking OB_DUPLI via ob.is_instancer()) and
do an update then as well.
Reviewers: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T81729
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9222
The current way of setting the compute device makes sense for local
use, but for headless rendering it it a massive pain to get Cycles
to use the correct device, usually involving entire Python scripts.
Therefore, this patch adds a simple command-line option to Blender
for specifying the type of device that should be used. If the option
is present, the settings in the user preferences and the scene are
ignored, and instead all devices matching the specified type are used.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9086
Gathers information for time spent in the various managers or object (Film, Camera, etc.) being updated in Scene::device_update.
The stats include the total time spent in the device_update methods as well as time spent in subroutines (e.g. bvh build, displacement, etc.).
This does not qualify as a full blown profiler, but is useful to identify potential bottleneck areas.
The stats can be enabled and printed by passing `--cycles-print-stats` on the command line to Cycles, or `-- --cycles-print-stats` to Blender.
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T79174
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8596
The adds a new option to simplify volumes in the viewport.
The setting can be found in the Simplify panel in the render properties.
Volume objects use OpenVDB grids, which are sparse. For rendering,
we have to convert sparse grids to dense grids (for now). Those require
significantly more memory. Therefore, it's often a good idea to reduce
the resolution of volumes in the viewport.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9040
Ref T73201.
Allows to more easily access time information about how long Cycles
did spend synchronizing objects from evaluated depsgraph on Blender
side to its own structures.
This timer does not include time spent evaluating render depsgraph.
