The oren_nayar_diffuse_bsdf closure in OSL had two issues:
- It broke when used with roughness of zero
- It only used the provided albedo for energy compensation, so it still
required the user to multiply with the albedo
Therefore, this handles the zero roughness corner case and includes
the albedo in the closure weight.
This makes no difference when using the closure through the Diffuse
or Principled BSDF nodes, only for custom OSL shaders.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133597
* Some libraries like Alembic and OpenColorIO for a long time removed
header dependencies on Boost.
* No need to have BOOST_LIBRARIES anymore, only BOOST_PYTHON_LIBRARIES
is a direct dependency through USD headers.
* OpenVDB is no longer a static library, no need to link its dependencies.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133424
In a previous commit (1), adjustments to light tree traversal were made
to try and skip distant lights when deciding which light to sample
while within a world volume.
The skip wasn't implemented properly, and as a result distant lights
were still included in the light tree traversal in that sitaution.
And due to the way the skip was implemented, there were some
unintialized variables used in the processing of the distant lights
importance which caused artifacts on some platforms.
This commit fixes this issue by reverting the skip of distant lights
in that situation.
(1) blender/blender@6fbc958e89
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132344
It is possible that the valid range computed from `theta` and the range
visible to the current pixel do not overlap. In this case the hair
section has no contribution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133337
In Cycles, the subsurface scattering shader will switch to a
diffuse shader under a few different conditions to improve performance
and reduce noise.
This commit removes the "switch back to diffuse if the scattering
radius is less than a quarter of a pixel" optimization because in some
scenes, this can result in noticable lines as the shader transitions
between subsurface scattering and diffuse.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133245
Happens after f79cae2c59. Seems that Metal pre-processing could not
figure out that the inclusion is guarded behind `#ifdef`, so the
included file is expanded here and never again afterwards.
The pre-processing should be fixed, but for now just always include the file.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133336
The problem here was that the sync code overwrites the point data, but didn't
reset the transform_applied flag, so the rest of the code assumed that the
points are already in world space and didn't apply the transform again.
Cycles has a sample offset feature allowing users to render X samples
in a single frame on one device, then the remaining Y samples later or
on a different device and combine them back together at the end.
However in most situations the result from using this method was
different, and usually lower quality than rendering all the samples in
one go.
This was because Cycles tunes it's random number sequence for the
number of samples being rendered. And the random number sequence was
being tuned for the wrong number of samples in the case that a user
was using the sample offset.
This commit fixes this issue by adding a "sample subset" feature.
The user specifies the total sample count being rendered across all
devices in the existing `Max Samples` parameter, then specifies per
device which subset of samples will be rendered (E.g. Render samples
0-1024 out of a 0-2048 range).
This commit also contains some additional clean up work
inside Cycles related to the area being changed.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132961
The `ZDepth` output of the camera data node was different between SVM
and OSL.
SVM would output the `ZDepth`, with negative distances for points
behind the camera. While OSL would output the absolute of the distance,
which resulted in points behind the camera becoming positive.
Align OSL to SVM and allow outputting the negative distance as it
allows users to differentiate between what's in front or behind the
camera.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132837
In a recent refactor (1), the subsurface weight was set to be
constant, when it can be modified in the case that `__SUBSURFACE__`
is false, such as when using the adaptive compilation feature.
This commit fixes this issue by rearranging the code so the subsurface
weight is never overwritten.
(1) blender/blender@dd51c8660b
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132620
Update the OptiX denoiser model type to the newer and more frequently
updated `OPTIX_DENOISER_MODEL_KIND_AOV` denoiser.
The output of the new denoiser type is typically higher quality.
And the old denoiser is no longer being updated.
Original change was proposed by Patrick Mours from NVIDIA.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132542