Since the change to prevent shader recompilation at every update, we got
a regression when clearcoat was used.
Basically at the shader build time we would determine if the shader
needed clear coat, and if it didin't, it would build a different GLSL
program.
However if later the user updated the clearcoat value so that it would
then require the full clearcoat shader, the user wouldn't get it until
manually forcing the shader to recompile, or reopening the file.
We now handle the optimization in the GLSL code. That adds a minimum
overhead due to branching. But the overall performance seems unchanged
(tested on linux in AMD and NVidia).
Reviewers: pascal, brecht, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2822
Since we started supporting the (Cycles) Material Output old files
stopped working. There is no reason to keep the original Eevee material
otuput anymore.
It includes doversion for old files.
Diffuse was not outputing the right normal. (this is not a problem with SSR actually)
Glass did not have proper ssr_id and was receiving environment lighting twice.
Also it did not have proper fresnel on lamps.
We do have an history of those pieces of evil in our code, would be nice
to get fully rid of it, but at the very least let's not add more of them
in new code. :)
As part of the fix for T51587, I removed the Depth output for non-Multilayer
images since it seemed weird that PNGs etc. that don't have a Z pass still get
a socket for it.
However, I forgot about non-multilayer EXRs, which are a special case that can
actually have a Z pass.
Therefore, this commit brings back the Depth output for non-multilayer images
just like it was in 2.78.
This changes the Cycles exporting and Cycles/Eevee UI code to support both
output material nodes, giving priority to the renderer native one. Still
missing is Eevee code to prefer the Eevee output node.
Output in 2 buffers Normals, Specular Color and roughness.
This way we can raytrace in a defered fashion and blend the exact contribution of the specular lobe on top of the opaque pass.
For users that means you can tweak shaders in the nodetree and things
are way faster. This is a huge improvement, particularly in
systems that have no shader cache.
From the code perspective it means we are no longer re-compiling the
shader every time a value is tweaked in the UI. We are using uniforms
for those values.
It would be slow to add that many uniforms for all the shaders. So
instead we are using UBO (Uniform Buffer Objects).
This fixes the main issue of T51467. However GWN_shaderinterface_create() still
needs to be improvedi. When opening a .blend all shaders are compiled once, so
optimizing it will bring a measurable impact.
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NOTE: This breaks update of Cycles material upon nodetree nodes
tweaking. It will be fixed separately by depsgraph, once tackling T51925
(Animated Eevee values slowdown).
The idea is to make Depsgraph update more granular. The XXX TODO in
rna_nodetree.c will be tackled at that time as well.
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Reviewers: sergey, brecht, fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2739
This allow specialized shaders to redefine the closure interface to fit their needs.
For instance, Volumetric closure needs to pass more than one vec4 (absorption vec3, scattering vec3, anisotropy float).
Although the original report was about the docs, the real issue was in
the API.
My original commit started from a copy-paste from the Switch
Node. However I don't use custom1 for thew Switch View node.
The docs is slightly incomplete since it would be nice to mention the
views here. Or maybe even expose them via Python. But honestly they are
generated depending on the scene multi-view settings.
This makes the node menus aware of the Cycles/Eevee distinction, and
only show the relevant nodes for the current engine. Names have also
been changed to accomodate for the new output node system.
This makes Eevee consistent with Cycles, by having a single output node,
and multiple shader nodes that connect to it.
Note that node systems for Eevee saved before this will be missing the
output node, and thus will show an invalid material. This is easily
resolved by connecting the shader output to a new output node.
Made this resilient to unknown types, for now. Supporting specific INT
sockets (through implicit conversion to GPU_FLOAT ones) is considered nice TODO.
Brightness/contrast node was changing color but did not modify alpha
or ensured colors are premultiplied on the output. This was giving
artifacts later on unless alpha was manually converted.
Compositor is supposed to work in premultiplied alpha (except of
some really corner cases) so it makes sense to ensure premultiplied
alpha after brightness/contrast node.
This is now done as an option enabled by default, so we:
(a) Keep compatibility with old files.
(b) Have correct behavior for newly created files.
Later on we can get rid of this option.
Previously, every RenderPass would have a bitfield that specified its type. That limits the number of passes to 32, which was reached a while ago.
However, most of the code already supported arbitrary RenderPasses since they were also used to store Multilayer EXR images.
Therefore, this commit completely removes the passflag from RenderPass and changes all code to use the unique pass name for identification.
Since Blender Internal relies on hardcoded passes and to preserve compatibility, 32 pass names are reserved for the old hardcoded passes.
To support these arbitrary passes, the Render Result compositor node now adds dynamic sockets. For compatibility, the old hardcoded sockets are always stored and just hidden when the corresponding pass isn't available.
To use these changes, the Render Engine API now includes a function that allows render engines to add arbitrary passes to the render result. To be able to add options for these passes, addons can now add their own properties to SceneRenderLayers.
To keep the compositor input node updated, render engine plugins have to implement a callback that registers all the passes that will be generated.
From a user perspective, nothing should change with this commit.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2443
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2444
