The Multiscatter GGX code was missing the same-side checks for incoming and
outgoing directions w.r.t. to shading and geometry normal.
Should not be needed for the Glass variant since it intentionally has both
reflection and transmission.
Add "stageMetersPerUnit" render setting for USD files that have that set to
something other than the default (e.g. exported by Blender).
And fix a crash when an application creates a Hydra render pass on a thread
that does not have an OpenGL context current.
Long term, this should replace the XML format. This reuses the Hydra render
delegate implementation, and so supports the same features. The same command
line options and GUI work for both XML and USD also.
The implementation of this is still disabled, waiting for some refactoring of
USD library linking. However we want the Cycles code to be in sync between
repositories for the 3.2 release.
Ref T96731
* Leave code for building the render delegate against other applications and
their USD libraries to the Cycles repository, since this is not a great fit.
In the Blender repository, always use Blender's USD libraries now that they
include Hydra support.
* Hide non-USD symbols from the hdCycles shared library, to avoid library
version conflicts.
* Share Apple framework linking between the standalone app and plugin.
* Add cycles_hydra module, to be shared between the standalone app and plugin.
* Bring external libs code in sync with standalone repo, adding various missing
libraries.
* Move some cmake include directories to the top level cycles source folder
because we need to control their global order, to ensure we link against the
correct headers with mixed Blender libraries and external USD libraries.
* Float/double promotion warnings were mainly meant for avoiding slow
operatiosn in the kernel. Limit it to that to avoid hard to fix warnings
in Hydra.
* Const warnings in Hydra iterators.
* Unused variable warnings when building without glog.
* Wrong camera enum comparisons in assert.
* PASS_UNUSED is not a pass type, only for pass offsets.
Currently, the `eval` and `pdf` are not explicitly set to zero when a BSDF sample is invalid (e.g., below the upper hemisphere), when calling
`bsdf_sample` or `bsdf_eval`. It is assumed that `eval` and `pdf` are set to zero before these functions are called, which can cause problems if not.
This patch fixes this potential problem by explicitly setting `eval` and `pdf` to zero when the sampled direction is invalid.
I also added a sanity check if `eval` and `pdf` are valid (i.e., >= 0.f).
The check is activated when build in debug mode and with the `WITH_CYCLES_DEBUG` set to `ON`.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14776
When converting from XYZ to RGB it can happen, in some sky models, that the resulting RGB values are negative.
Atm, this is not considered and the returned values for the sky model can be negative.
This patch clamps the returned RGB values to be `= 0.f`
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14777
This is a stripped down version of D14645 without the scene specialisation optimisations.
The two major changes in this patch are:
- Enables more aggressive inlining on Apple Silicon resulting in a 1.1x speedup and 10% reduction in spill, at the cost of longer pipeline build times
- Revival of shader binary archives through a new ShaderCache which is shared between MetalDevice instances using the same physical MTLDevice. This mitigates the extra compile times via explicit caching (rather than, as before, relying on the implicit system shader cache which can be purged without notice)
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14763
- Add missing doxy-section for Apply Parent Inverse Operator
- Use identity for None comparison in Python.
- Remove newline from operator doc-strings.
- Use '*' prefix multi-line C comment blocks.
- Separate filenames from doc-strings.
- Remove break after return.
The current code for computing tangents is not exactly fast.
This has been a long-standing issue, and recently came up again with T97378.
The main bottleneck is fetching the mesh data, since it's handled through a callback system and each vertex might have its data queried dozens of times.
I've tried a lot of things to optimize `mikktspace.c`, but unfortunately most weren't that useful:
- Vectorizing SVec3 gives a ~5% speedup, but I'm not sure if the additional ~70 lines of code are worth it
- Keeping an internal copy of the data instead of re-querying all the time helps a lot (~50-60% time reduction), but requires a lot of extra memory (~100 byte per face)
- Going C++ and replacing the internal quicksort with std::sort shows no difference
- Restructuring the entire file to be a header-only library so that the callbacks can be inlined gives ~10% reduction, but is a major change and deviation from the original library
In the end, two simple fixes that actually help remain:
- Don't re-query the number of faces in each loop iteration
- Don't bother looking for identical vertices if there's only one vertex with that hash
With this, time for the test case in T97378 goes from 6.64sec to 4.92sec. It's something I guess.
I feel like completely refactoring this library would not be a bad idea at some point, but for now it does the job...
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14675
Remove need for shadow caustic caster geometry to have a UV layout. UVs were
useful to maintain a consistent tangent frame across the surface while
performing the walk. A consistent tangent frame is necessary for rough
surfaces where a normal offset encodes the sampled h, which should point
towards the same direction across the mesh.
In order to get a continuous surface parametrization without UVs, the
technique described in this paper was implemented:
"The Natural-Constraint Representation of the Path Space for Efficient
Light Transport Simulation" (Supplementary Material), SIGGRAPH 2014.
In addition to implementing this feature:
* Shadow caustic casters without smooth normals are now ignored (triggered
some refactoring and cleaning).
* Hit point calculation was refactored using existing utils functions,
simplifying the code.
* The max number of solver iterations was reduced to 32, a solution is
usually found by then.
* Added generalized geometry term clamping (transfer matrix calculation can
sometimes get unstable).
* Add stop condition to Newton solver for more consistent CPU and GPU result.
* Add support for multi scatter GGX refraction.
Fixes T96990, T96991
Ref T94120
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14623
This enables building of HIP binaries for AMD RDNA and RDNA2 GPUs.
This requires the 22.10 / ROCm 5.1 driver.
Ref T91571
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14360
This reverts commit 390b9f1305. It seems to
break things on Linux for unknown reasons, so leave it out for now. A solution
to this will be required for Vega cards though.
This was caused by the use of a reserved keyword macro that is not
directly used but causes an error on some compiler.
Change the occurences to not match the macros.
This adds support for rendering motion blur for volumes, using their
velocity field. This works for fluid simulations and imported VDB
volumes. For the latter, the name of the velocity field can be set per
volume object, with automatic detection of velocity fields that are
split into 3 scalar grids.
A new parameter is also added to scale velocity for more artistic control.
Like for Alembic and USD caches, a parameter to set the unit of time in
which the velocity vectors are expressed is also added. For Blender gas
simulations, the velocity unit should always be in seconds, so this is
only exposed for volume objects which may come from external OpenVDB
files.
These parameters are available under the `Render` panels for the fluid
domain and the volume object data properties respectively.
Credits: kernel advection code from Tangent Animation's Blackbird based
on earlier work by Geraldine Chua
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14629
Noticed while looking into oneAPI patch.
Seems to be unused, without clear indication why/when it might be
needed. Removing the function simplifies adding the new backend.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14652
Keep the existing Rec.709 fit and convert to other colorspace if needed, it
seems accurate enough in practice, and keeps the same performance for the
default case.
This can be useful to match transforms to what native Cycles
would see in Blender, as USD typically uses centimeters, but
Blender uses meters. This patch also fixes the hardcoded focal
length multiplicator, which is now using the same units as
everything else. Default of "stageMetersPerUnit" is 0.01 to match
the USD default of centimeters.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14630
Propagate the fp settings from the main thread to all the worker threads (the fp settings includes the FZ settings among other things) - this guarantees consistency in execution of floating point math regardless if its executed in tbb thread arena or on main thread
Add FZ mode to arm64/aarch64 in parallel to the way its been done on intel processors, currently compiling for arm target does not set this mode at all, hence potentially runs slower and with possible results mismatch with intel x86.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14454
* Don't assume the display colorspace name fully defines the transform
to display space, this is not true in OpenColorIO 2 where view transforms
may be defined in more complexs ways than just specifying a colorspace.
* In places where we need to store the display colorspace name, resolve
<USE_DISPLAY_NAME> token manually.
Ref T96590
As far as I can see, it makes a lot of sense to have the alpha channel here, it matches the 2.x behavior and also matches what Eevee is doing.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14595
Use the Extend method for these, as these do not work correctly. For UVs
it's better to extend the UVs from the same face, and for tangent space
the normals should be encoded in a matching tangent space.
Later the Adjacent Faces method might be improved to support these cases.
Ref T96977
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14572
