This commit implements three OSL microfacet closures that are needed to support
MaterialX: dielectric_bsdf, conductor_bsdf and generalized_schlick_bsdf.
Internally these map to existing microfacet closures, only the Fresnel term is
different.
Currently, we use the closure type to encode the type of microfacet distribution
(GGX/Beckmann/Sharp/MultiGGX), the lobes we're interested in
(Reflection/Refraction/both) AND the Fresnel type (None or Principled v1).
This results in the mess of dozens of options that we currently have. Since
adding Principled v2 and the MaterialX OSL closures will involve adding more
Fresnel types, this clearly doesn't scale.
But, since the earlier Fresnel rework (D17101), the Fresnel type only matters
in one place now. This allows to significantly clean up the closure type
handling. To do this, MicrofacetBsdfs now separately store their Fresnel type,
and instead of a single MicrofacetExtra we have one struct per Fresnel type
(unless no extra data is needed).
Further, instead of having one _setup() function per combination, the Fresnel
setup is also split into separate functions. This decouples the implementation
of new Fresnel terms from most of the Microfacet logic, and makes it a very
simple and clean operation.
This commit replaces the current Glass approach, where Glass is a virtual closure
that gets replaced with a Glossy and a Refractive closure, with a combined
closure that handles Fresnel after sampling the microfacet. That way, the Fresnel
term is more accurate since it accounts for the microfacet normal, not the
shading normal.
Also updates the BSDF sampling to use a 3D sampler now, since we need two
dimensions to pick the microfacet normal and then a third dimension to pick
reflection/refraction. This can also be used to get rid of the LCG in the
Principled Hair BSDF, which means we can remove it altogether once MultiGGX is
gone.
Also, "sharp" is now supported as a microfacet distribution in OSL, and 2
is supported as the "refract" argument to microfacet() in order to get glass.
This patch fixes hanging unit tests when MetalRT is enabled. It simplifies and fixes the kernel selection logic by baking the MetalRT-specific options into `kernels_md5` rather than expanding out and testing MetalRT bit flags explicitly.
Pull Request #105270
To improve mesh upload speeds and reduce the size of the scene data which allows larger scenes to be rendered.
The meshes in Cycles are currently stored as flattened meshes, where each triangle is stored as a set of 3 vertices. Unflattening writes out the vertices in a list according to the index buffer. This uses a lot of memory and for current hardware does not provide a noticeable benefit. This change unflattens the mesh by directly using the meshes vertex and index buffers directly and skips the unflattening. This change allows for larger scenes and also a reduction in the sizes of the meshes. Further it results in a decrease the amount of time it takes to upload the data to a GPU. This is especially important for when multiple GPUs are used in a single machine.
Pull Request #105173
For every other texture types this is expected to be implicitly
`GPU_DATA_FLOAT`. There is only one case where this is not the case.
I believe this was previously needed because the data type was
conditionning the texture creation. This is not the case anymore.
This is a workaround for [issue #104087](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/104087). We encounter crashes when using shader binary archives on AMD, so this disables them while we investigate a proper fix. Kernels will still be cached automatically by the OS file system cache. This cache may occasionally be purged due to external factors, in which case kernels will get compiled again.
Pull Request #105186
Cycles fallback display shader previously did not use viewport.
This would crash or cause the display not to show when using
GPU backends other than OpenGL, if another display shader
was unavailable.
Now use ShaderCreateInfo for Cycles fallback display.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref #96261
Pull Request #104987
This fixes issue [#105100](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/105100) where multi-pass renders can be incorrect due to kernels using stale specialisation constants (e.g. when rendering Pokedstudio).
This patch adds a new group of md5 hashes (`global_defines_md5`) to track whether the injected block of #defines is stale and regenerate the source string as appropriate. It also renames the existing group of md5 hashes from `source_md5` to `kernels_md5` to clarify that these refer to a specific kernel set rather than just the source (which might build an arbitrarily large number of kernel sets).
Pull Request #105103
On the Windows platform, raise windows and give them focus as the mouse
hovers over them. This allows keyboard shortcuts for the area under the
mouse without having to click the window caption to make them active.
Pull Request #104681
Revert of commits that allowed non-temp Blender windows to be saved
and restored that spanned multiple monitors on the Windows platform.
This causes problems with temp windows (like Preferences & Render) that
cannot currently be fixed.
See 104956 for much more details.
This change is being redone after it was accidentally reverted.
Differential Revision: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/104956
Reviewed by Ray Molenkamp
The light tree itself is disabled on the AMD GPUs due to a compiler issue.
There are couple of places where this was not fully checked:
- The `light_sample` function in the kernel.
- The light threshold during synchronization
The former one is solved as easy as just adding an ifdef block.
The latter one is solved by delaying the threshold assignment for
later on.
Pull Request #105022
This patch adds initial support for compute shaders to
the vulkan backend. As the development is oriented to the test-
cases we have the implementation is limited to what is used there.
It has been validated that with this patch that the following test
cases are running as expected
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_vbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ibo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_ssbo`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_storage_buffer_create_update_read`
- `GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_2d`
This patch includes:
- Allocating VkBuffer on device.
- Uploading data from CPU to VkBuffer.
- Binding VkBuffer as SSBO to a compute shader.
- Execute compute shader and altering VkBuffer.
- Download the VkBuffer to CPU ram.
- Validate that it worked.
- Use device only vertex buffer as SSBO
- Use device only index buffer as SSBO
- Use device only image buffers
GHOST API has been changed as the original design was created before
we even had support for compute shaders in blender. The function
`GHOST_getVulkanBackbuffer` has been separated to retrieve the command
buffer without a backbuffer (`GHOST_getVulkanCommandBuffer`). In order
to do correct command buffer processing we needed access to the queue
owned by GHOST. This is returned as part of the `GHOST_getVulkanHandles`
function.
Open topics (not considered part of this patch)
- Memory barriers & command buffer encoding
- Indirect compute dispatching
- Rest of the test cases
- Data conversions when requested data format is different than on device.
- GPUVulkanTest.gpu_shader_compute_1d is supported on AMD devices.
NVIDIA doesn't seem to support 1d textures.
Pull-request: #104518
Contributed by Yulia Kuznetcova at Apple.
NanoVDB is patched to give add address spaces required by Metal. We hope that
in the future Metal will support the generic address space.
For AMD and Intel this is currently not available since it causes a performance
regression also on scenes without volumes.
Pull Request #104837
This reverts commit 19222627c6.
Something went wrong here, seems like this commit merged the main branch
into the release branch, which should never be done.
This reverts commit 68181c2560.
I merged 3.6 into 3.5 by mistake. Basically I had a PR against main,
then changed it in the last minute to be against 3.5 via the
web-interface unaware that I shouldn't do it without updating the
patch.
Original Pull Request: #104889
Note that the node group has its sockets names
translated, while the built-in nodes don't.
So we need to use data_ for the built-in nodes names,
and the sockets of the created node groups.
Pull Request #104889
This better aligns with OSX/Linux warnings.
Although `__pragma(warning(suppress:4100))` is not the same as
`__attribute__((__unused__))` in gcc (which only affects the attribute
instead of the line), it still seems to be better to use it than to
hide the warning entirely.
`MEM_delete()` is designed for type safe destruction and freeing, void
pointers make that impossible.
Was reviewing a patch that was trying to free a C-style custom data
pointer this way. Apparently MSVC compiles this just fine, other
compilers error out. Make sure this is a build error on all platforms
with a useful message.
