Remove old code that added extra updates for shaders that have a dependency on
objects. The dependency graph can now tell Cycles when a material is affected by
an object transform.
Currently in fractal_noise functions, each subsequent octave doubles the
frequency and reduces the amplitude by half. This patch introduces Roughness
input to Noise and Wave nodes. This multiplier determines how quickly the
amplitudes of the subsequent octaves decrease.
Value of 0.5 will be the default, generating identical noise we had before.
Values above 0.5 will increase influence of each octave resulting in more
"rough" noise, most interesting pattern changes happen there. Values below
0.5 will result in more "smooth" noise.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7065
We appear to be hitting some limit where adding any amount of code causes a
significant performance regression, no matter what it does. To work around
that a new node level was added.
Ref T71479
* Space: volume density and step size in object or world space
* Step Size: override automatic step size
* Clipping: values below this are ignored for tighter volume bounds
The last two are Cycles only currently.
Ref T73201
By default it will now set the step size to the voxel size for smoke and
volume objects, and 1/10th the bounding box for procedural volume shaders.
New settings are:
* Scene render/preview step rate: to globally adjust detail and performance
* Material step rate: multiplied with auto detected per-object step size
* World step size: distance to steo for world shader
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1777
Voxels are loaded directly from the OpenVDB grid. Rendering still only supports
dense grid, so memory usage is not great for sparse volumes, this is to be
addressed in the future.
Ref T73201
Rather than passing around void pointers, various Blender image sources now
subclass this. OIIO is also just another type of image loader.
Also fixes T67718: Cycles viewport render crash editing point density settings
This is mostly straightforward, but required some refactoring to ensure that
the default volume material does not always turn on the volume feature for GPU
rendering.
This feature takes some inspiration from
"RenderMan: An Advanced Path Tracing Architecture for Movie Rendering" and
"A Hierarchical Automatic Stopping Condition for Monte Carlo Global Illumination"
The basic principle is as follows:
While samples are being added to a pixel, the adaptive sampler writes half
of the samples to a separate buffer. This gives it two separate estimates
of the same pixel, and by comparing their difference it estimates convergence.
Once convergence drops below a given threshold, the pixel is considered done.
When a pixel has not converged yet and needs more samples than the minimum,
its immediate neighbors are also set to take more samples. This is done in order
to more reliably detect sharp features such as caustics. A 3x3 box filter that
is run periodically over the tile buffer is used for that purpose.
After a tile has finished rendering, the values of all passes are scaled as if
they were rendered with the full number of samples. This way, any code operating
on these buffers, for example the denoiser, does not need to be changed for
per-pixel sample counts.
Reviewed By: brecht, #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4686
This sampling pattern is particularly suited to adaptive sampling, and will
be used for that upcoming feature.
Based on "Progressive Multi-Jittered Sample Sequences" by Per Christensen,
Andrew Kensler and Charlie Kilpatrick.
Ref D4686
This fixes denoising being delayed until after all rendering has finished. Instead, tile-based
denoising is now part of the "RENDER" task again, so that it is all in one task and does not
cause issues with dedicated task pools where tasks are serialized.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6940
This patch adds a new user-configurable option to change at which sample viewport
denoising should kick in. Setting it to zero retains previous behavior (start immediately), while
other values will defer denoising until the particular sample has been reached. Default is now
at one, to avoid the weirdness that is AI denoising at small resolutions.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6906
This simplifies compositors setups and will be consistent with Eevee render
passes from D6331. There's a continuum between these passes and it's not clear
there is much advantage to having them available separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6848
The node would render black in this case (but should use the
'active_render' layer choosen in the object data properties -- this is
now in line to how this is handled for e.g. UVs)
This introduces ATTR_STD_VERTEX_COLOR and uses this thoughout, if no
particular layer is specified in the node.
Maniphest Tasks: T73938
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6887
This node provides the ability to rotate a vector around a `center` point using either `Axis Angle` , `Single Axis` or `Euler` methods.
Reviewed By: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3789
Rendering with multiple CUDA devices but denoising with OptiX caused parts of the image to go
missing at the start while the resolution was scaled. This is because the copy operation in
`MultiDevice::map_neighbor_tiles` which slices the copy across all devices would slice based on the
full resolution and not the scaled one and therefore copy incorrect data between devices.
Since this is not the recommended way of using viewport denoising anyway, simply avoid those
incorrect copies for now by disabling denoising while the resolution is scaled. Doing both rendering
and denoising with OptiX is not affected by this, since it avoids those copies altogether anyway.
* Direction mode X, Y and Z to align with axes rather than diagonal or
spherical as previously. X is the new default, existing files will
use diagonal or spherical for compatibility.
* Phase offset to offset the wave along its direction, for purposes like
animation and distortion.
https://developer.blender.org/D6382
This adds some extra functions recently added to the float Maths Node.
Not all functions have been ported over in this patch.
Also:
+ Tidy up menu
+ Change node color to match other vector nodes, this helps distinguish vector and float nodes in the tree
+ Move shared OSL functions to new header node_math.h
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6713
