Only affects internal API, bout could be exposed as an option for
the compatibility reasons with other software.
Is a part of some ongoing development of multires, but might or
might not be used.
Mainly useful for debugging. Previously, when AVX2 was disabled
in the debug panel but BVH layout was kept on BVH8 nothing was
rendered.
Needed to make it so supported BVH layout mask for devices is
queried in "dynamic", so it is possible to use DebugFlags there.
Needed for the animation denoiser since the denoising filter is done separately there.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3833
This allows for extra output passes that encode automatic object and material masks
for the entire scene. It is an implementation of the Cryptomatte standard as
introduced by Psyop. A good future extension would be to add a manifest to the
export and to do plenty of testing to ensure that it is fully compatible with other
renderers and compositing programs that use Cryptomatte.
Internally, it adds the ability for Cycles to have several passes of the same type
that are distinguished by their name.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3538
Apparently quite a few users would like to have the noisy pass available when using the denoiser, and since it's being generated anyways we might as well expose it by default.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3608
This function is supposed to prevent the black artifacts caused by strong normal- or bumpmapping, but failed in some cases.
Now the code correctly handles all test files and previous issues I am aware of and also has extensive comments describing
the algorithm and the math behind it.
Basically, the main problem was that there can be multiple valid solutions that fulfil the reflection angle criterium,
but I had assumed that only one would exist and therefore simply picked the first solution with a positive term in srqt().
Now, the code uses additional validity checks and a simple heuristic to pick the best valid solution.
Additionally, the code messed up very shallow reflections even if the normal map strength was zero due to the constant
limit for the outgoing ray angle, which caused shallow incoming rays to fail the initial test even when reflected directly
on Ng. Now, the code accounts for this by reducing the threshold in the case of a shallow incoming ray, ensuring that at
least N=Ng is always a valid solution.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3816
Loop triangles are tessellated triangles create from polygons, for renderers
or exporters that need to match Blender's polygon tesselation exactly. These
are a read-only runtime cache.
Tessfaces are a legacy data structure from before Blender supported n-gons,
and were already mostly removed from the C code.
Details on porting code to loop triangles is in the release notes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3539
Since my temporary buffer commit (about a month ago), the OpenCL device was zeroing the wrong buffer, leading to
completely wrong filtered feature passes and therefore significantly lower-quality results than CPU and CUDA.
With new jemalloc versions memory allocated by threads that then become
inactive is not longer automatically freed. Instead we have to enable a
background thread to do it.
Some testing is needed to find out of this is sufficient, because the
background thread only runs periodically.
