This also:
- make sure to only compile the shader needed by the active effects.
- same thing for the shading groups.
- disable TAA if motion blur is active (avoid infinite refresh).
If an object is in any visible collection, the object will be visible.
This behaviour has changed in 9ad2c0b615.
If it will change again, it will be for:
https://developer.blender.org/D2878
Bug introduced on 1c4c288727 (well technically in b48694639a).
We should not remove the renderlayer from the context, but instead the one that
is active from scene.
That said, the UI should make a distinction between the scene active render layer
and the one that is active in the UI (and that should be the one used when
removing it).
But for now this is at least more consistent for the users.
- Only basis balls are exported, as they represent the resulting mesh.
As a result the mesh is written to Alembic using the name of the basis
ball.
- MetaBalls are converted to a mesh on every frame, then an
AbcMeshWriter is used to write that mesh to Alembic.
When the mesh changed topology but kept the vertex count the same, it would
result in a corrupt mesh. By checking the face & loop counts too, this has
become less likely.
I've checked IPolyMeshSchema::isConstant(), but it returns true even when
we see that the mesh changed topology.
Recent addition of 'reinsert' didn't match logic for ghash API.
Rename to BLI_heap_node_value_update,
also add BLI_heap_insert_or_update since it's a common operation.
The single byte version of hash_data was casting from unsigned char
instead of signed.
This didn't cause any errors since the result of each aren't compared.
Even so, better keep them matching.
It should behave like cycles.
Even if not efficient at all, we still do the same create - draw - free process that was done in the old viewport to save vram (maybe not really the case now) and not care about simulation's GPU texture state sync.
This is quite basic as it only support boundbing boxes.
But the material can refine the volume shape in anyway the user like.
To overcome this limitation, a voxelisation should be done on the mesh (generating a SDF maybe?) and tested against every volumetric cell.
The system now uses several 3D textures in order to decouple every steps of the volumetric rendering.
See https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite for more details.
On the technical side, instead of using a compute shader to populate the 3D textures we use layered rendering with a geometry shader to render 1 fullscreen triangle per 3D texture slice.
