Bugs that caused wrong renders should be fixed now, and tests that showed minor
floating point differences on platforms were tweaked to sidestep the problem.
Ref T77889
Cursor motion events on windows read the position from GetCursorPos()
which wasn't always the same location stored in `lParam`.
In situations where events were handled immediately this wasn't often a
problem, for heavier scenes or when updates between event handling was
slow - many in-between cursor events would be incorrect.
This behavior dates back to the initial commit, there doesn't seem to be
a good reason not to use the cursor coordinates from the event.
Noticed when investigating T102346.
Make OpenGL errors match formatting used by GCC & clang
(as well as Blender's logging), so utilities that recognize this
convention can be used to quickly access this location.
Uses a light tree to more effectively sample scenes with many lights. This can
significantly reduce noise, at the cost of a somewhat longer render time per
sample.
Light tree sampling is enabled by default. It can be disabled in the Sampling >
Lights panel. Scenes using light clamping or ray visibility tricks may render
different as these are biased techniques that depend on the sampling strategy.
The implementation is currently disabled on AMD HIP. This is planned to be fixed
before the release.
Implementation by Jeffrey Liu, Weizhen Huang, Alaska and Brecht Van Lommel.
Ref T77889
This was not working well in non-trivial scenes before the light tree, and now
it is even harder to make it work well with the light tree. It would average the
with equal weight for every light object regardless of intensity or distance, and
be quite noisy due to not working with multiple importance sampling.
We may restore this if were enough good use cases for the previous implementation,
but let's wait and see what the feedback is.
Some uses cases for this have been replaced by the shadow catcher passes, which
did not exist when this was added.
Ref T77889
It is not really used from any of the sources, including the
standalone app. Since we are moving to a more backend-independent
drawing it makes sense to remove header which was specific to
how Blender integrates Cycles into viewport.
There is probably some cleanup in CMake files is possible, but
there is some inter-dependency with USD.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16681
This change fixes issues with viewport rendering when Metal
GPU backend is used for drawing. This is not a default build
configuration and requires the following tweaks:
- Enable WITH_METAL_BACKEND CMake option (set it to on)
- Use `--gpu-backend metal` command line arguments
It also helps using the `--factory-startup` command line
argument to ensure Eevee is not used (it is not ported and
will crash).
The root of the problem was in the use of glViewport().
It is replaced with the GPU_viewport_size_get_i() which
is supposed to be portable equivalent form the GPU module.
Without this change the viewport size is detected to be 0
which backfired in few places.
The rest of the changes were to make the code more robust
in the extreme conditions instead of asserting or crashing.
Simplified and streamlined GPU resources creation in the
display driver. It was a bit convoluted mix of creation of
the GPU resources and resizing them to the proper size. It
even seemed to be done in the reverse order. Now it is as
simple as "just ensure GPU resources are there for the
given texture or buffer size".
Also avoid division by zero in the tile manager.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16679
To make GPU backends other than OpenGL work. Adds required pixel buffer and
fence objects to GPU module.
Authored by Apple: Michael Parkin-White
Ref T96261
Ref T92212
Reviewed By: fclem, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16042
In this case the blocksize may not the one we requested, which was assumed to be
the case. Instead get the effective block size from the compiler as was already
done for Metal and OneAPI.
Unless using WITH_CYCLES_DEBUG.
This is convenient for investigating kernel performance, but too verbose to
always have in the buildbot logs especially now that we are also compiling HIP
and OneAPI kernels.
Materials now have an enum to set the emission sampling method, to be
either None, Auto, Front, Back or Front & Back. This replace the
previous "Multiple Importance Sample" option.
Auto is the new default, and uses a heuristic to estimate the emitted
light intensity to determine of the mesh should be considered as a light
for sampling. Shaders sometimes have a bit of emission but treating them
as a light source is not worth the memory/performance overhead.
The Front/Back settings are not important yet, but will help when a
light tree is added. In that case setting emission to Front only on
closed meshes can help ignore emission from inside the mesh interior that
does not contribute anything.
Includes contributions by Brecht Van Lommel and Alaska.
Ref T77889
* Split light types into own files, move light type specific code from
light tree and MNEE.
* Move flat light distribution code into own kernel file and host side
building function, in preparation of light tree addition. Add light/sample.h
as main entry point to kernel light sampling.
* Better separate calculation of pdf for selecting a light, and pdf for
sampling a point on the light. The selection pdf is now also stored in
LightSampling for MNEE to correctly recalculate the full pdf when the
shading position changes but the point on the light remains fixed.
* Improvement to kernel light storage, using packed_float3, better variable
names, etc.
Includes contributions by Brecht Van Lommel and Weizhen Huang.
Ref T77889
Caused by a8a454287a which assumed it was possible
to access the raw data of the edge creases layer. Also allow
processing vertex creases even if there aren't any edge creases.
The wrong guiding distribution was used when direct and indirect light
scattering happened at different locations. Now use a different distribution
for each location.
Recording is not quite correct since OpenPGL does not support spliting the
path like this, instead recording at the start of the volume ray. In practice
this seems to make little difference.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16448
When either initializing with a non-constant value, or using the standard
[[ string widget = "null" ]] metadata. This can be used for inputs like
normals and texture coordinates, where you don't want to default to a
constant value.
In previous OSL versions the input value was automatically ignore when it
was left unchanged for such inputs. However that's no longer the case in
the latest version, breaking existing nodes. There is no good entirely
backwards compatible fix, but I believe the new behavior is better and will
keep most existing cases working.
Fix T102450: OSL node with normal input not working
It is possible that the image editor redraw happens prior to the
"Loading render kernels" status is reported from status but after
the display driver is created. This will make the image editor to
wait on the scene mutex to update the display pass in the film.
If it happens to be that the kernels are actually to be compiled
then the Blender interface appears to be completely frozen, without
any information line in the image editor.
This change makes it so the amount of time the scene mutex is held
during the kernel compilation is minimal.
It is a bit unideal to unlock and re-lock the scene mutex in the
middle of update, while nested reset mutex is held, but this is
already what is needed for the OptiX denoiser optimization some
lines below. We can probably reduce the lifetime of some locks,
avoiding such potential out-of-order re-locking. Doing so is
outside of the scope of this patch.
The scene update only happens from the single place in the session,
which makes it easy to ensure the kernels are loaded prior the rest
of the scene update.
Not only this change makes it so that the "Loading render kernels"
status appears in the image editor, but also allows to pan and zoom
in the image editor, potentially allowing artists to re-adjust their
point of interest.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16581
This prevents Blender from crashing with an access violation when
stopping a VR session using the DirectX backend. The issue occurred for
any headset on Windows+Nvidia when using the SteamVR runtime and thus
affected a large number of users.
The workaround presented here is to simply skip unregistering the
shared resources on exit, as either of the calls to
`wglDXUnregisterObjectNV()` or `wglDXCloseDeviceNV()` will result in an
access violation. While not ideal, this avoids the crash and doesn't
present any issues when starting a new VR session.
Reviewed By: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16569
MoltenVK is part of the vulkan SDK. Blender requires the vulkan SDK
to compile. This patch adds the MoltenVK includes and libraries to
the Vulkan includes and libraries.
This adds a vulkan backend to GHOST. The code was extracted from the
tmp-vulkan branch. The main difference with the original code is that
GHOST isn't responsible for fallback. For Metal backend there is already
an idea that the GPU module is responsible for the fallback, not the system.
For Blender we target Vulkan 1.2 at the time of this patch.
MoltenVK (needed to convert Vulkan calls to Metal) has been added as
a separate package.
This patch isn't useful for end-users, currently when starting blender with
`--gpu-backend vulkan` it would crash as the `VBBackend` doesn't initialize
the expected global structs in the GPU module.
Validated to be working on Windows and Apple. Linux still needs to be tested.
Reviewed By: fclem
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13155
