give a result more similar to the Compatible falloff option. The scale is x2
though to keep the perceived scatter radius roughly the same while changing the
sharpness. Difference with compatible will be mainly on non-flat geometry.
Instead of having ifdef __GNUC__ all over the headers
to use special compiler's hints use a special file where
all things like this are concentrated.
Makes code easier to follow and allows to manage special
attributes in more efficient way.
Thanks Campbell for review!
* More build fixes, 2 link errors remain. http://www.pasteall.org/45279
Note: Probably those paths should only be added for Windows and Linux, as "OPENIMAGEIO_LIBPATH" already inherit them for Mac OS. Also "OPENIMAGEIO_LIBRARIES" inherits the libs for Linux already. Is that intended or a lack of consistency?
* Fix some link errors on Windows, still missing png, zlib, jpeg and tiff.
I couldn't yet figure out the correct flags to pass on here, and the 2300 lines huge main CMakeLists file doesn't help with it...
except for curves, that's still missing from the OpenColorIO GLSL shader.
The pixels are stored in a half float texture, converterd from full float with
native GPU instructions and SIMD on the CPU, so it should be pretty quick.
Using a GLSL shader is useful for GPU render because it avoids a copy through
CPU memory.
* Clamp theta sky coordinates, to prevent a negative solarElevation.
Note: This means that you cannot get absolute night with the new model, but this is not supported anyway. So when you reach the maximum sunset, use the World Strength to further decrease the light.
* Added a new sky model by Hosek and Wilkie: "An Analytic Model for Full Spectral Sky-Dome Radiance" http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/projects/SkylightModelling/
Example render:
http://archive.dingto.org/2013/blender/code/new_sky_model.png
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Textures#Sky_Texture
Details:
* User can choose between the older Preetham and the new Hosek / Wilkie model via a dropdown. For older files, backwards compatibility is preserved. When we add a new Sky texture, it defaults to the new model though.
* For the new model, you can specify the ground albedo (see documentation for details).
* Turbidity now has a UI soft range between 1 and 10, higher values (up to 30) are still possible, but can result in weird colors or black.
* Removed the limitation of 1 sky texture per SVM stack. (Patch by Lukas Tönne, thanks!)
Thanks to Brecht for code review and some help!
This is part of my GSoC 2013 project, SVN merge of r59214, r59220, r59251 and r59601.
Notes:
* Made those edits by full checking of py files, so I should have spoted most needed edits, yet it remains quite probable I missed a few ones, we'll fix if/when someone notice it...
* Also made some cleanup "on the road"!
and "Branched Path Tracing", to try to make it more clear that this is not
related to progressive refinement, non-progressive was always a bad name anyway.
* Add a "Total Samples" info at the bottom of the panel.
This makes understanding the Non-Progressive integrator easier, as it displays how many samples are used for the different ray types.
* Rename Squared Samples to Square samples, to indicate that the action is not already done. The new Total Samples info should make this easier to understand now as well. Also added back for Progressive integrator, for consistency.
Screenshot:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=57980
These are not animatable! Note this is the case of most (all?) render settings, maybe we should go over both Cycles and internal ones, there are still quite a bunch of them that are marked as animatable... :/
* OSL rendered Black with Compatible Fallof option, fixed.
Note: OSL uses compatible scattering when "Compatible" or "Bicubic" is selected. I guess compatible will be removed later? If not we need to fix this properly.
New features:
* Bump mapping now works with SSS
* Texture Blur factor for SSS, see the documentation for details:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders#Subsurface_Scattering
Work in progress for feedback:
Initial implementation of the "BSSRDF Importance Sampling" paper, which uses
a different importance sampling method. It gives better quality results in
many ways, with the availability of both Cubic and Gaussian falloff functions,
but also tends to be more noisy when using the progressive integrator and does
not give great results with some geometry. It works quite well for the
non-progressive integrator and is often less noisy there.
This code may still change a lot, so unless you're testing it may be best to
stick to the Compatible falloff function.
Skin test render and file that takes advantage of the gaussian falloff:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=57661http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=57662http://www.pasteall.org/blend/23501
- Removed the cycles subdivision and interpolation of hairkeys.
- Removed the parent settings.
- Removed all of the advanced settings and presets.
- This simplifies the UI to a few settings for the primitive type and a shape mode.
* Replaced the Preetham model with the newer Hosek / Wilkie model:
"An Analytic Model for Full Spectral Sky-Dome Radiance" http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/projects/SkylightModelling/
* We use the sample code data, which comes with the paper, but removed some unnecessary parts, we only need the xyz version.
* New "Albedo" UI paraemeter, to control the ground albedo (between 0 and 1).
* Works with SVM only atm (CPU and CUDA).
Example render:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=57635
ToDo / Open Questions:
* OSL still uses the old model, will be done later. In the meantime it's useful to compare the two models this way.
* The new model needs a much weaker Strength value (0.01), otherwise it's white. Can this be fixed?
* Code cleanup.
