This commit solves couple of issues appeared with new integrator:
- Render job progress bar is now shows progress based on number of
rendered tiles. This is the same as Blender Internal does.
This still requires some further thoughts because for GPU it's
better to use single tile and in this case progress bar should
be based on number of rendered samples.
- Removes "global" sample counter from progress descriptor. There's
no more global-being sample which makes sense.
This counter was replaced with tile counter.
- Use proper sample number when copying render buffer to blender.
It used to be final sample number used which lead to tiles
appearing from complete dark to normal brightness as they're
being rendered. Now tile would be displayed with proper
brightness starting from the very first sample.
Use sample counter stored in render tile descriptor and pass
it to update / write callbacks.
This was tested on CPU and GPU CUDA rendering.
Additional change:
OpenCL rendering now should be cancellable before it finished
rendering all the samples (the same change as for CPU/CUDA from
a while ago).
This part of commit wasn't actually tested, would do it later.
save memory during render and cache render results.
Implementation notes:
In the render engine API it's now possible to get the render result for
one render layer only, and retrieve the expected tile size in case save
buffers is used. This is needed because EXR expects tiles with particular
size and coordinates.
The EXR temporary files are now also separated per layer, since Cycles
can't give the full render result for all render layers, and EXR doesn't
support writing parts of tiles.
In Cycles internally the handling of render buffers and multi GPU
rendering in particular changed quite a bit, and could use a bit more
refactoring to make things more consistent and simple.
* Reverted the general activation of __KERNEL_SHADING__.
Better to handle this in the device file. This way each platform gets specifically what it is capable of atm.
* Nvidia has Shading + Multi Closure
* AMD (Apple) has only Clay Render
* AMD (non Apple) has Basic Shading
* Enable __KERNEL_SHADING__ per default for OpenCL.
This enables basic shading (color, emission, textures...) for AMD cards.
You need the latest AMD catalyst driver in order to have this work.
The rendering device is now set in User Preferences > System, where you can
choose between OpenCL/CUDA and devices. Per scene you can then still choose
to use CPU or GPU rendering.
Load balancing still needs to be improved, now it just splits the entire
render in two, that will be done in a separate commit.
lower than 1.3, since we're not officially supporting these. We're already not
providing CUDA binaries for these, so better make it clear when compiling from
source too.
Some drivers don't support passing include paths with spaces in them, nor does
the opencl spec specify anything about how to quote/escape such paths, so for
now we just resolved #includes ourselves. Alternative would have been to use c
preprocessor, but this also resolves all #ifdefs, which we do not want.
* Reduce kernel arguments size, helps compile for apple nvidia.
* Fix use of unitialized variable in displace kernel.
* Use build flags in opencl kernel md5 hash.
* Reorganize code for kernel feature #defines a bit.
* Enable OpenCL Full Shading on NVIDIA cards.
Notes:
It makes not much sense to use OpenCL on a nVidia card (as it is slower compared to CUDA), but as OpenCL comes without dependencies, it's an good alternative if you don't want to install the CUDA toolkit or the build comes without CUDA kernels.
* Passes renamed to samples
* Camera lens radius renamed to aperature size/blades/rotation
* Glass and fresnel nodes input is now index of refraction
* Glossy and velvet fresnel socket removed
* Mix/add closure node renamed to mix/add shader node
* Blend weight node added for shader mixing weights
There is some version patching code for reading existing files, but it's not
perfect, so shaders may work a bit different.
* OpenCL now only uses GPU/Accelerator devices, it's only confusing if CPU
device is used, easy to enable in the code for debugging.
* OpenCL kernel binaries are now cached for faster startup after the first
time compiling.
* CUDA kernels can now be compiled and cached at runtime if the CUDA toolkit
is installed. This means that even if the build does not have CUDA enabled,
it's still possible to use it as long as you install the toolkit.
* Compute MD5 hash to deal with nvidia opencl compiler cache not recognizing
changes in #included files, makes it possible to do kernel compile only
once and remember it for the next time blender is started.
* Kernel tweak to compile with ATI/linux. Enabling any more functionality than
simple clay render still chokes the compiler though, without a specific error
message ..
* Fix crash in light path node
* Fix struct alignment issue for cuda
* Fix issue with instances taking up too much memory
* Fix issue with ray visibility working incorrect on some objects
* Enable OpenCL always and remove option, it has no dependencies so may as well
* Refuse to load kernel if OpenCL version < 1.1, recent drivers are needed
* Better error handling for OpenCL device
* 3D views with rendered draw mode will now revert to wireframe on file load
* kernel has shading nodes / textures disabled, amd/nvidia opencl
compilers choke on these, need to figure out how to avoid this
* works in cycles_test, not available as option in blender yet
* kernel compiles and runs with opencl 1.1 from intel/amd/nvidia
