The --debug-ffmpeg flag now is the same as --log video, and only exists for
backwards compatibility. The ffmpeg verbosity can now be controlled with
--log-level.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143447
This PR proposes to add an environment variable for forcing vsync to
be on or off. My primary use case was to disable vsync for forcing
viewport rendering performance tests not to be capped at the display
refresh rate when #142984 is used for removing animation frame rate
limits.
I initially added the environment variable "GHOST_VSYNC_OFF", but
found "GHOST_VSYNC=0/1" to be more easily understandable.
Usage:
- GHOST_VSYNC=0 => Vsync is forced off
- GHOST_VSYNC=1 => Vsync is forced on
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143049
* Replace G.quiet by CLG_quiet_set/get
* CLOG_INFO_NOCHECK prints are now suppressed when quiet, these were
typically inside a if (!G.quiet) conditional already.
* Change some prints for blend files, color management and rendering to
use CLOG, that were previously using if (!G.quiet) printf().
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143138
The numeric levels have no obvious meaning. This removes the distinction
between severity and levels, instead there is a single list of named levels
with defined meaning.
Debug means information that's mainly useful for developers, and trace is for
very verbose code execution tracing.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
* Add render category, which is automatically enabled when using -f or -a
command line flags for background rendering.
* Add extra logs to mention scene, view layer and frame ahead of time rather
than including it in every line.
* Remaining time was removed from Cycles, this will be added back for animations
at the render pipeline level.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
* Modify --log-level to accept error/warning/info/debug string values
* Add --log-show-source, now hidden by default
* Remove --log-show-basename, path is now on own line
* Add --log-show-memory
* Remove --log-show-timestamp, now always shown
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
* Add own simple logging system to replace glog, which is no longer
maintained by Google.
* When building in Blender, integrate with CLOG and print all messages
through that system instead.
* --log cycles now replaces --debug-cycles. The latter still works but
is no longer documented.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140244
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
Instead of allowing leaks when parsing arguments, always cleanup before
calling exit(). This impacts -a (animation player), --help & --version
arguments, as well as scripts executed via --python which meant tests
that ran scripts could leak memory without raising an error as intended.
Avoid having suppress warnings & rationalize in code-comments when
leaking memory is/isn't acceptable, any leaks from the animation-player
are now reported as well.
This change exposed leaks: !140182, !140116.
Ref !140098
- Pass the exit code back from WM_main_playanim instead of calling exit.
- Errors are printed to the stderr.
- Resolve some leaks on exit.
Note that this addresses noisy leaks reported by ASAN which were
flooding the output, but doesn't attempt to address all leaks.
An unknown --gpu-backend argument would attempt to pass that argument
separately which then attempted to treat is as a blend file,
typically failing to start if the file wasn't found.
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
The GPU implementation is a bit too complex
to implement for now.
As we are improving shader loading, having the
CPU timings is already helpful.
Note that `Map<size_t, int>` does not compile
on Clang.
This is exposing the `--profile-gpu` option on
all backends as the vulkan backend should follow
shortly.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139551
Briefly about this change:
- OpenColorIO C-API is removed.
- The information about color spaces in ImBuf module is removed.
It was stored in global ListBase in colormanagement.cc.
- Both OpenColorIO and fallback implementation supports GPU drawing.
- Fallback implementation supports white point, RGB curves, etc.
- Removed check for support of GPU drawing in IMB.
Historically it was implemented in a separate library with C-API, this
is because way back C++ code needed to stay in intern. This causes all
sort of overheads, and even calls that are strictly considered bad
level.
This change moves OpenColorIO integration into a module within imbuf,
next to movie, and next to IMB_colormanagement which is the main user
of it. This allows to avoid copy of color spaces, displays, views etc
in the ImBuf: they were used to help quickly querying information to
be shown on the interface. With this change it can be stored in the
same data structures as what is used by the OpenColorIO integration.
While it might not be fully avoiding duplication it is now less, and
there is no need in the user code to maintain the copies.
In a lot of cases this change also avoids allocations done per access
to the OpenColorIO. For example, it is not needed anymore to allocate
image descriptor in a heap.
The bigger user-visible change is that the fallback implementation now
supports GLSL drawing, with the whole list of supported features, such
as curve mapping and white point. This should help simplifying code
which relies on color space conversion on GPU: there is no need to
figure out fallback solution in such cases. The only case when drawing
will not work is when there is some actual bug, or driver issue, and
shader has failed to compile.
The change avoids having an opaque type for color space, and instead
uses forward declaration. It is a bit verbose on declaration, but helps
avoiding unsafe type-casts. There are ways to solve this in the future,
like having a header for forward declaration, or to flatten the name
space a bit.
There should be no user-level changes under normal operation.
When building without OpenColorIO or the configuration has a typo or
is missing a fuller set of color management tools is applies (such as the
white point correction).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138433
This adds basic templating support to render output paths. By putting
"{variable_name}" in the path string, it will be replaced by the named
variable's value when generating the actual output path. This is similar
to how "//" is already substituted with the path to the blend file's
current directory.
This templating system is implemented for both the primary render output
path as well as the File Output node in the compositing nodes. Support
for using templates in other places can be implemented in future PRs.
In addition to the "{variable_name}" syntax, some additional syntax is
also supported:
- Since "{" and "}" now have special meaning, "{{" and "}}" are now
escape sequences for literal "{" and "}".
- "{variable_name:format_specifier}", where "format_specifier" is a
special syntax using "#", which allows the user to specify how numeric
variables should be formatted:
- "{variable_name:###}" will format the number as an integer with at
least 3 characters (padding with zeros as needed).
- "{variable_name:.##}" will format the number as a float with
precisely 2 fractional digits.
- "{variable_name:###.##}" will format the number as a float with at
least 3 characters for the integer part and precisely 2 for the
fractional part.
For the primary render output path: if there is a template syntax error,
a variable doesn't exist, or a format specifier isn't valid (e.g. trying
to format a string with "##"), the render that needs to write to the
output path fails with a descriptive error message.
For both the primary and File Output node paths: if there are template
syntax errors the field is highlighted in red in the UI, and a tooltip
describes the offending syntax errors. Note that these do *not* yet
reflect errors due to missing variables. That will be for a follow-up
PR.
In addition to the general system, this PR also implements a limited set
of variables for use in templates, but more can be implemented in future
PRs. The variables added in this PR are:
- `blend_name`: the name of the current blend file without the file
extension.
- `fps`: the frames per second of the current scene.
- `resolution_x` and `resolution_y`: the render output resolution.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134860
This changes removes Vulkan from experimental. It should be feature
parity with OpenGL with the exception of USD/Hydra.
Some backports to USD/Hydra developments are being made #133717
and should land soon.
This change only updates UI text that mentions the state of the
backend.
Thanks for the community so far for testing and reporting issues!
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138086
Regression in [0] which incorrectly swapped the check for the
`use_scripts` property being set with the value it was set to.
Resolve this error as well as the "Recover Last" operator
which never worked.
[0]: 8c688a052c
The main issue of 'type-less' standard C allocations is that there is no check on
allocated type possible.
This is a serious source of annoyance (and crashes) when making some
low-level structs non-trivial, as tracking down all usages of these
structs in higher-level other structs and their allocation is... really
painful.
`MEM_[cm]allocN<T>` templates on the other hand do check that the
given type is trivial, at build time (static assert), which makes such issue...
trivial to catch.
NOTE: New code should strive to use `MEM_new` (i.e. allocation and
construction) as much as possible, even for trivial PoD types.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135620
Add a `--profile-gpu` launch argument.
When set, it generates a profile in the Trace Event Format with CPU and
GPU metrics based on GPU debug scopes.
https://profilerpedia.markhansen.co.nz/formats/trace-event-format/
The profiles are best viewed at https://ui.perfetto.dev/
Notes:
- The profiler captures everything form app start to exit.
- Being JSON based the profiles can become relatively large, but they
compress very well.
- Only OpenGL profiling is supported for now, but the report formatting
code can be shared across backends.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133557
Also correct argument handling when Python arguments were passed in,
which were attempting to handle the following parameters as arguments
instead of skipping them.
* Ensure valid bit depth is set along with file type
* Guard against invalid inputs in stereo imbuf creation
* Remove some unused code
Thanks Yiming Wu for finding the cause.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133499
* BLENDER_SYSTEM_SCRIPTS support for multiple script paths, separated by
; on Windows and : on other platforms.
* New BLENDER_CUSTOM_SPLASH to replace the splash screen image.
* New BLENDER_CUSTOM_SPLASH_BANNER to overlay an image on the splash.
Contributed by Sony Interactive Entertainment: https://github.com/PlayStation-OpenSource
Only enable by default dynamic rendering local read on Qualcomm devices. NVIDIA, AMD and Intel
performance is better when disabled (20%). On Qualcomm devices the improvement can be
substantial (16% on shader_balls.blend).
`--debug-gpu-vulkan-local-read` can be used to use dynamic rendering local read on any
supported platform.
Future: Check if bottleneck is during command building. If so we could fine-tune this after the
device command building landed (#T132682).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132981
The new --disable-liboverride-auto-resync commandline option will prevent
running liboverride auto-resync immediately after loading a blendfile.
This is an alternative way to setting the User Preferences Debug option
`No Override Auto Resync`.
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Some quick performances tests:
Loading a Gold production file goes from 26.5s to 25.9s.
Combined with the recent `--disable-depsgraph-on-file-load` option, it
goes from 3.5s to 2.9s, so another nice extra 15% speedup when only
bare-metal blendfile loading is needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/132017
The new `--disable-depsgraph-on-file-load` commandline option, when used
together with the `--background` or `--command` ones, will prevent
building a depsgraph immediately after loading a blendfile.
The goal is to improve performances of batch-processing of blendfiles by
python scripts. It is intended to become the default behavior in Blender
5.0.
Scripts requiring evaluated data then need to explicitly ensure that
an evaluated depsgraph is available (e.g. by calling
`depsgraph = context.evaluated_depsgraph_get()`).
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This disables the call to `wm_event_do_depsgraph` in `wm_file_read_post`.
Some quick performances tests:
* The whole `blendfile_versioning` tests gain about 2% speedup. These are
almost always small and simple blendfiles.
* Loading a Gold production file however goes from 26.5s to 3.5s (almost
90% faster) when this new option is specified.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/131978
NOTE: This also required some changes to Cycles code itself, who is now
directly including `BKE_image.hh` instead of declaring a few prototypes
of these functions in its `blender/utils.h` header (due to C++ functions
names mangling, this was not working anymore).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/130174
Support suppressing "info" messages when running Blender.
Useful when Blender is used as part of an automated action
that should only show output for warnings/errors.
Ref !127562
This adds a new launch argument when building with
renderdoc support. It allows to trigger the capture
of a specific capture scope. This allows selective
capture of some commonly captured parts.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/126791
