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
Adds a Point Instancing exporter based on the existing
USDPointInstancerReader. Covers both round-trip and Blender-native
workflows. Exports 'Instance on Points' setups as USDGeomPointInstancer,
supporting objects, collections, and nested prototypes.
A warning is shown during export if invalid prototype references are
detected. These would occur if an instancer attempts to instance itself.
This feature is currently gated behind an off-by-default export option
(`use_instancing`) as there are still a few cases which can yield
incorrect results.
Further details in the PR.
Ref: #139758
Authored by Apple: Zili (Liz) Zhou
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139760
This changes the engine identifier back to `BLENDER_EEVEE`.
We keep the `BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT` identifier around for
versioning reasons (have to detect when it is the active
engine of a older file).
This also rename a bunch of pannels that were using `next`
in their name.
This is a breaking change for Addons compatibility.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140282
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
It is possible for a mesh to change topology across frames but still be
detected as not needing a topology update.
Until we can make a finer-grained check against the before and after
topology, unconditionally ensure it's updated for now.
Adds a new test that checks a few frames of changing topology that is
similar, but not the same.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140253
Current NURBS evaluation handles corners or sharp angles poorly. Sharp
edges appear when a knot vector value is repeated `order - 1` times.
Users can make sharp corners by creating NURBS curve with `Bezier` knot
mode or by setting `order` to 2 for legacy curves. The problem occurs
because current algorithm takes all the curve's definition interval,
divides it into equal parts and evaluates at those points, but corners
are exactly on repeated knot's. To hit those, the resolution has to be
increased higher than required for the rest of the curve.
The new algorithm divides non zero length intervals between two adjacent
knots into equal parts. This way corners are hit with a resolution of 1.
This does change the evaluated points of NURBS curves, which is why some
test results have to be updated in this commit.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138565
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
The Extend Bounds input has no effect when the Fast Gaussian filter is
used. Similarly, it has no effect if the Bokeh Blur node is using
variable size. This is a known limitation and was just not implemented.
So to fix this, we implement a general solution that works globally
across the node by pre-padding the inputs of the blur. This uses more
memory but also speeds up the base case when Extend Bounds is disabled,
while also reducing the binary size due to fewer blur specializations.
The variable size Bokeh Blur test was updated since it Extend Bounds was
silently ignored.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140192
The alpha channel value was previously hard codded to one in the lens
distortion node. This patch solves that by integrating the alpha as well
in the radial distortion mode and taking the average alpha in the
horizontal case.
This breaks backward compatibility, but is what users what in most
cases, so it is acceptable.
Fixes#134658.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137994
This adds motion blur support for Grease Pencil.
We follow the same principle form EEVEE and use the existing
`antialiasing_accumulate` (SSAA) function to accumulate the
frames in range of the motion blur over time.
There is a new `motion_blur_steps` setting in the Grease
Pencil render settings to control the accuracy of the motion
blur. This will increase the render time.
Limitations:
* When Grease Pencil is composited into the scene, we only do
it for one the current frame and don't take the motion blur into
account. This will lead to hard edges currently.
* There is no viewport motion blur. This would need an entirely
new technique that can be computed in real-time.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139840
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 changes the way random integers are computed so that there is no
intermediate conversion to float which looses accuracy.
This change breaks compatibility because it changes the generated random
numbers. Therefore this is done in Blender 5.0.
Performance seems to be about ~6% better than before.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/118795
The Movie distortion node crops its data if the movie size differs from
the input size. That's because boundary extensions do not take
calibration size into account. To fix this, we use the same coordinates
range as the distortion grid computation, which computes the distortion
in the space of the calibration size.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139822
Handle the `DomeLight_1` schema for import and translate to a World
material like what was already done for the original `DomeLight` schema.
The primary difference is that the new schema provides a `poleAxis`
attribute that authoring applications can use to remove ambiguity for
the orientation of the HDRI texture. Some care was made to match
`usdview` with a set of hand-crafted files. However, after matching,
some real scenes ended up displaying differently. These were corrected
but this could mean there's still issues that will need investigation
and fixing in the future.
Co-authored-by: Nig3l <nig3lpro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jesse Yurkovich <jesse.y@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137761
Set fuzzy=1 when softbody modifier is added. As of now, value is 0, this
raises concern of division by zero so bump it to 1.
Updated `softbody_test.blend` to fix the failing test.
Resolves#137849
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137878
It was intended that pointers instancers would be skipped if they were
marked as invisible. However, we didn't account for the case of an
instancer using the "inherits" visibility but one of its ancestors in
the hierarchy being invisible.
Now these instancers will also be excluded. This is done by checking for
purpose and visibility earlier and halting the recursive traversal as
soon as we find a prim which doesn't meet the criteria.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139241
This patch turns the Blur node options to inputs.
Size is now a 2D vector and replaces the Size X and Y option. Bokeh was
renamed to Separable to reflect its actual function. Relative was
removed in favor of the newly added Relative To Pixel node workflow.
There is a slight difference in variable size blurring due to float vs
integer computations, so two tests were updated.
Reference #137223.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139329
Also rename "blender export import test suite description.txt" to
"readme.txt" as the filename was including information available
in the leading path.
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
Reported on devtalk: MotionBuilder produced FBX files contain
"cameras" that are not really user visible cameras, but rather map to
MotionBuilder viewports. They are at root, have no child elements,
and have special names. There is also a "camera switcher";
ignore that too.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139204
- #122256: Clamp Size option did not work at all, due to mesh
bounding box still not being calculated (and was firing an assert
in Debug build).
- #123862: Clamp Size option was rounding the resulting scale to
powers of ten, which is not what anyone would expect.
This fixes both issues, and adds test coverage.
Co-authored-by: dshot92 <dshot92@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139145
Add support for the UsdPrimvarReader_TYPE templates for both import and
export. These are used by several USD test assets and support here
represents the last major piece of the UsdPreviewSurface spec to be
implemented.
On import these become `Attribute` nodes and on export the `Attribute`
nodes will become `UsdPrimvarReader_TYPE`'s accordingly.
Import:
- `UsdPrimvarReader_float` and `UsdPrimvarReader_int` will use the `Fac`
output
- `UsdPrimvarReader_float3` and `UsdPrimvarReader_float4` will use the
`Color` output
- `UsdPrimvarReader_vector`, `UsdPrimvarReader_normal`, and
`UsdPrimvarReader_point` will use the `Vector` output
Export (only `Geometry` Attribute types are considered):
- `Fac` will use `UsdPrimvarReader_float`
- `Color` will use `UsdPrimvarReader_float3`
- `Vector` will use `UsdPrimvarReader_vector`
- `Alpha` is not considered
MaterialX note:
Hydra-native support is a bit more involved and will have to be done
separately. Hydra w/USD sync is trivial to implement but those changes
have been left out here.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135143
There is a corner case where one side of a quad needs splitting and the other
side has only one segment. Previously this would produce either gaps or after
recent changes to stitch together geometry, uninitialized memory.
Now solve this by splitting into triangular patches, as suggested in the
DiagSplit paper. These triangular patches can be further subdivided themselves.
Dicing has special cases for 1 or 2 segments on edges. For more segments it
works the same as: quad dicing: A regular inner triangle grid stitched to the
outer edges.
Fix#136973: Inconsistent results with adaptive subdivision
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139062
In Cycles, the convention is that reflection vs. refraction are classified
based on the hemisphere defined by the *shading* normal (N).
In general, most closure code uses the shading normal for most operations,
as is expected since using the geometric normal (Ng) would break normal maps
and smooth shading.
However, there are two places that use Ng: On the one hand, BSDF sampling
functions generally reject reflections that fall below the Ng hemisphere, since
they'd intersect the geometry when tracing the bounce. This is required, and
we can't do much about it.
On the other hand, the Microfacet evaluation code also checked that the ray
is in the same hemisphere w.r.t. both shading and geometric normal.
Theoretically, this is the right thing to do, since sampling and evaluation code
are supposed to be consistent. However, doing so breaks smooth shading, since
now direct light evaluation near the terminator will sometimes be rejected.
This didn't cause problems in practice because of another inconsistency: While
the parameter of the eval functions was named Ng, the caller actually provided
N (unclear whether by mistake or as a hacky workaround to the terminator).
When this was fixed in 063a9e89, users quickly reported issues with the shadow
terminator, so it was reverted to the hacky inconsistency in 1c50dd8b.
So, let's clean this mess up properly. If we don't want to do the Ng hemisphere
check in _eval, then instead of passing in a misleading value that ends up
making it a no-op, just remove the check. After all, the other closures don't
perform it either.
This way, we avoid the mislabeled Ng, we get rid of the special case for
microfacets, and the shadow terminator continues to be fine.
Technically, we still have the _sample vs. _eval mismatch. However, this is just
unavoidable, and is irrelevant in practice: For a strongly directional light
that makes the shadow terminator noticeable, the MIS weights will be massively
in favor of eval, to the point that it doesn't really matter what sample does.
To support this argument: You can actually reproduce a broken shadow terminator
in pretty much every Cycles version going back to 2011 by just setting up a
small intense mesh emitter, turning off MIS on it to disable _eval, and then
rendering a diffuse smooth-shaded sphere with >100000 samples so that the
fireflies resolve into somewhat consistent lighting.
If nobody has complained about this affecting all closures for 11 years,
I guess it's fine.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138632
File under #138795 showed several issues, which, while investigating
them, led to also fixing some other issues.
- FBX files can contain non-bone nodes in between actual bone nodes
("fake bones" as they used to be called in Python importer). Handling
this case was missing in the new importer.
- Due to above, some armatures had what appeared like multiple
"root bones" inside them, which led to crashes while importing
animations.
- Meshes with multiple armature modifiers (multiple skin deformers
in FBX) were not handled correctly, see
https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/issues/45171
for when the same issue was fixed in the Python importer.
Extended test coverage to encompass the above.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138992
Reworks the implementation for how knots are interpreted when importing
NURBS in .obj format. It refactors each test into a separate function
and simplifies functions using a 'multiplicity sequence' which counts
repeated occurances of knot values (or their 'multiplicity'). Making
comparisons simpler, clearer, and with improved correctness.
With regard to regression tests behavior is almost the same, noticable
difference is consideration of cyclic. Allowing curves with multiplicity
at the endpoints to be cyclic (so Bezier curves can be cyclic given
one repeated point). Untested behavior may also have been 'refined'
(changed), but additional tests would be needed to identify those cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138778
Switch from Standard Surface to OpenPBR as the exported MaterialX surface,
since this is the new standard more renderers are adopting and it more closely
matches the Principled BSDF implementation.
Anisotropy support is improved though still not quite the same, as formulas
are different. Nodes are generated to apply anisotropic rotation to the
tangent vector, as there is no corresponding parameter in OpenPBR.
Fixes#138164
Authored by Apple: Lee Kerley
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138165
- Update to latest ufbx version that adds support for FullWeights
- Handle that in the same way as the Python importer did
- Add test files from ufbx test suite
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138811
There was one test in the volume render test folder that made use of
the ocean sim modifier to add some detail. This lead to test failures
when building Blender without ocean sim.
To fix this issue, this commit applies the ocean sim modifier. This
means it's no longer used, but the render results are the same,
meaning there is no need to update the reference images.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138729
Corrects behavior with NURBS knot values in .obj exporter. Knot values
denoting the curve parameter range and values at the boundary region
in the span ends had hardcoded knot values. It also implemented its own
knot calculation, which is not ideal...
Importer is updated to not try to second guess the knot values.
Not entirely sure what it was trying to do but it used wrong indices
and missed writing the end of the knot vector. Combined the changes
should make it possible to import and export a simple NURBS curve with
custom knots and leaving it intact.
This replaces some of the erronous behavior using functions from [new]
Curves implementation. Mixing new and legacy curve implementation is not
ideal but exporter is exporting POLY curves as NURBS while legacy method
does not support computing the knot vector. To avoid introducing
additional branch cases nor update legacy functions, using the new
functions seems to be the correct choice. These functions should be
functionally equivalent but is not identical (e.g. legacy curve returns
knots in [0, 1] range). It should also make it easier to transition to
exporting new Curves.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138732
- FBX "root bone" should become the Armature object itself, and not
an extra bone (follow same logic as Python importer did).
- "World to armature matrix" was not correct for armatures that are
parented under some other objects with transforms.
- Parenting imported meshes under an Armature was not taking into
account that the mesh bind transform might not be the same as the
current mesh node transform (i.e. was not setting "matrix parent
inverse" to compensate like the Python importer did).
- The repro file in #137768 also exposed an issue that importing custom
vertex normals was not working correctly in the new importer, when
mesh is partially invalid (validation alters the mesh, custom normals
have to be set afterwards).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138736
The current regression tests for the Glare Node cover most but not all
of the code. In this case, the simple_star test only tested for 45
degree rotation offset of the glare highlight.
This will add a simple_star_no_rotation.blend regression test and its
corresponding output_render png to cover the no offset case.
The function, line, and region coverage have improved by about ~9-10%
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138587
