Device::const_copy_to is sometimes called when the Embree BVH has been freed
and not replaced yet. Previously this was a simpler pointer copy, now there is
a function call. Make sure it's just a function copy.
Thanks to Nikita Sirgienko for figuring this out.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140457
This is replaced by geometry nodes, where volumes can now be generated from
point clouds and meshes with more control, and more efficient rendering as a
sparse volume.
No backwareds compatibility is provided, as this would be complicated, and
probably this feature was not used much in the past few years.
This node was supported in Cycles only, not by EEVEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140292
The 2D->2D, 3D->3D, 4D->4D hash functions used in Voronoi node were
using quite an expensive hash function. Switch these to dedicated
2D/3D/4D hash functions (pcg2d, pcg3d, pcg4d) -- these are still very
good quality, but the hash function itself is 3x-4x faster.
Which makes Voronoi node calculation overall be around 2x faster. In
some cases when using OSL, the speedup is even larger.
This visibly changes output of the Voronoi noise however. The actual
noise "behaves" the same, just if someone was depending on the noise
pattern being exactly like it was before, this will change the pattern.
Images, more performance results and details wrt OSL are in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139520
This was a missing features in EEVEE for ages which
was in fact very easy to implement.
EEVEE implements the sample override like the default
`Use` value in Cycles. It always override the sample
count if not 0. Adding a new option for changing this
behavior just like Cycles can be done later while
at the same time making the option more understandable
and its value moved to the blender's DNA.
This PR moves the UI panel to the Blender side to
be shared between Cycles and EEVEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140219
a degenerate triangle could produce a tangent that is antiparallel to
the normal, resulting the mapped normal to be zero, and becomes NaN when
normalized in `object_normal_transform()`. Fixed by falling back to
unperturbed normal in this case.
Fixes an assertion in the attic benchmark scene.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140135
In blender-v4.5 some problematic commits were reverted, but for 5.0 we will
keep the changes and wait for the HIP SDK to be upgraded and hopefully fix
these issues.
Ref blender/blender#139836
This reverts commit 23c762e388 in the
blender-v4.5-release branch to work around HIP compiler issues. It will
remain in the main branch.
Ref blender/blender#139836
This reverts commit 64dc9cc98c in the
blender-v4.5-release branch to work around HIP compiler issues. It will
remain in the main branch.
Ref blender/blender#139836
This reverts commit a6015e1411 in the
blender-v4.5-release branch to work around HIP compiler issues. It will
remain in the main branch.
Ref blender/blender#139836
This reverts commit 5abf42012d in the
blender-v4.5-release branch to work around HIP compiler issues. It will
remain in the main branch.
Ref blender/blender#139836
This reverts commit 0e7a696819 in the
blender-v4.5-release branch to work around HIP compiler issues. It will
remain in the main branch.
Ref blender/blender#139836
This prevents the use of unaligned data types in
vertex formats. These formats are not supported on many
platform.
This simplify the `GPUVertexFormat` class a lot as
we do not need packing shenanigans anymore and just
compute the vertex stride.
The old enums are kept for progressive porting of the
backends and user code.
This will break compatibility with python addons.
TODO:
- [x] Deprecation warning for PyGPU (4.5)
- [x] Deprecate matrix attributes
- [x] Error handling for PyGPU (5.0)
- [x] Backends
- [x] Metal
- [x] OpenGL
- [x] Vulkan
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138846
when there is no uv, we call the function `map_to_sphere()` to create
temporary uv for computing the tangent. It could happen that a triangle
has vertices with the u coordinates going across the line where u wraps
from 1 to 0. In this case, just computing the difference of the u
coordinates results in the wrong triangle area.
To fix this problem, we compute distance in toroidal (wrap around)
space.
This is safe for coordinates generated by `map_to_sphere()` function,
because it is not supposed to map the positions of a triangle to u
coordinates that span larger than 0.5.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139880
This requires a minimum driver version of 535, however most devices
were already requiring 570 due to the CUDA toolkit version.
The update is required to be able to use an API function for correct
stack size calculation.
Code for older API versions has been removed.
Fix#138185: OSL custom camera errors with OptiX
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139801
This is required to make ray differentials work correctly for OSL custom
cameras.
But it also lets us simplify the implementation, and makes the OSL
functionality more complete, such as implementing all noise types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138161
Keep around the dummy BVH for lights, even if it serves no purpose for now.
Previously I assumed it was not needed, but there is some device specific
code that assumes it exists, and not much point trying to refactor that now
when in the future we actually want to create a BVH for lights.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139798
With these changes, we can now mark devices which are expected to work as
performant as possible, and devices which were not optimized for some reason.
For example, because the device was released after the Blender release,
making it impossible for developers to optimize for devices in already
released unchangeable code. This is primarily relevant for the LTS versions,
which are supported for two years and require proper communication about
optimization status for the new devices released during this time.
This is implemented for oneAPI devices. Other device types currently are
marked as optimized for compatibility with old behavior, but may implement
the same in the future.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139751
e.g. stands for "exempli gratia" in Latin which means "for example".
The best way to make sure it makes sense when writing is to just expand
it to "for example". In these cases where the text was "for e.g.", that
leaves us with "for for example" which makes no sense. This commit fixes
all 110 cases, mostly just just replacing the words with "for example",
but also restructuring the text a bit more in a few cases, mostly by
moving "e.g." to the beginning of a list in parentheses.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139596
Several small speedups for Voronoi node (no behavior change). This
affects Cycles and CPU execution of Voronoi node e.g. in Compositor.
- F1 mode: when evaluating distance for Voronoi cells, use a faster
distance estimation, and only do final distance calculation on the
resulting closest cell. This is only really relevant for the default
Euclidian distance, where this saves a square root per evaluated cell
(in 3D Voronoi case saves 26 square roots; in 4D case saves 80 square
roots).
- N-Sphere Radius mode: speedup by doing squared distance calculations.
We only need to find the closest one, so again doing the square root
per cell is not needed here.
Something like 5%-10% speedup for F1 3D Voronoi; more performance details
in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139490
This started with investigating a render issue that appears to be caused by
GCC 15. From what I can tell, it was caused by
`*viewplane = (*viewplane) * bcam->zoom;`.
I'm not entirely sure what the root cause is (potentially pointer aliasing?),
but the restructured code works fine now.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139416
With OIDN extending its support for new AMD devices, Blender source
code needs to be updated accordingly to reflect these OIDN changes
in the hipSupportsDeviceOIDN function. This function represents
OIDN support on AMD, allowing Blender to know this information
beforehand and avoid unnecessary errors due to attempt to denoise
on unsupported devices, as it was before the introduction of
the hipSupportsDeviceOIDN function.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139413
Unlike OpenGL and Metal, this handle is not shared, but rather Cycles
has to take ownership of it. This required a fair amount of refactoring
to ensure the handle is closed, ownership is properly transferred, and
the handle is recreated once when the pixel buffer is modified.
When enabled, this normalize the strength by the light area, to keep
the total output the same regardless of shape or size. This is the
existing behavior.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA.
For add-ons, an API function to compute the area is added for conversion,
in case there is no native support for normalization.
area = light.area(matrix_world=ob.matrix_world)
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136958
Similar to other renderers, this adds a temperature property to set the
light color using blackbody emission. This can be more convenient than
using nodes, and can improve interop with other software.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA and FBX.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134303
Similar to other renderers, this adds an exposure property to multiply
the light power by 2^exposure. This can be more convenient to control
a wide range of values.
This is supported in Cycles, EEVEE, Hydra, USD, COLLADA and FBX.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134528
This PR adds a global mutex to `path_create_directories` to fix a thread-safety issue which can occur when concurrently creating multiple subdirectories with common stems.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139266
In detail:
- Direct accesses of state attributes are replaced with the INTEGRATOR_STATE and INTEGRATOR_STATE_WRITE macros.
- Unified the checks for the __PATH_GUIDING define to use # if defined (__PATH_GUIDING__).
- Even if __PATH_GUIDING__ is defined, we now check if the feature is enabled using if ((kernel_data.kernel_features & KERNEL_FEATURE_PATH_GUIDING)) {. This is important for later GPU ports.
- The kernel usage of the guiding field, surface, and volume sampling distributions is wrapped behind macros for each specific device (atm only CPU). This will make it easier for a GPU port later.
