Last month we have been in the process of fixing the render tests of EEVEE-Next.
These render tests had some issues. Currently we are in a state that render
differences can be explained or related to an existing issue.
Having these render tests will also enable testing differences between Metal and OpenGL.
The new setup alters the position of the reflection probe so it doesn't intersect the ground
or the sphere at the same time. An offset was added, which adds a small difference
between cycles and eevee-next renders.
There is a known issue with the HiZ buffers when render size is too small. We change the
reflection probe render size as a temporary fix.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117447
Render test would hide objects from probes. It still referred to
the old name of the spherical probes. This change will replace it
with the correct name.
It also hides objects from the planar probes as they were also
recently added.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116093
Some tests like cycles, sequencer and compositor batch together multiple
tests in a single Blender invocation. This makes them run faster, but
makes debugging harder. This is an option to disable that batching.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114603
Update to the new naming convention for `Light Probes`:
`Reflection Cubemap` -> `Sphere`
`Reflection Plane` -> `Plane`
`Irradiance Grid` -> `Volume`
Note that this breaks the Python API (`bpy.types.LightProbe.type`).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113452
Enable tests for EEVEE Next.
As a workaround for allowing the use of EEVEE Next (still an
experimental feature) with `--factory-startup`, `arg_handle_engine_set`
enables the feature when `-E BLENDER_EEVEE_NEXT` is used.
In addition, EEVEE Next is always registered, so it's available when
calling `WM_init`.
If it's actually disabled, it will be immediately unregistered after that.
Notes:
- `get_gpu_device_type` always fails with error:
> GPU API is not available in background mode
- Setup and tests are the same as EEVEE. There are many tests that
only make sense for Cycles, and many EEVEE Next features that are
not actually tested.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112161
