Empty hair geometry in Cycles may still report having one curve, even when
there are no actual segments in that curve. This caused an attempt to build
an acceleration structure with zero primitives, which due to other setup
OptiX rejected with an error. Fix that by checking the number of segments
rather than the number of curves in the hair geometry, since the former will
always be zero for empty geometry.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115044
The first problem was triangles with motion blur were all grouped into
one category without separating the ones with and without triangle
motion steps.
The second problem was HIP RT uses the generic motion triangle
intersection function and this function checks prim_visibility buffer.
HIP RT doesn't provide the buffer per primitive but passes it to HIP RT
core per instance.
The buffer name was changed to prim_visibility from visibility to be
the same as what Cycles uses but when the motion triangle intersection
function is called from HIP RT kernels, the instance id is passed to
the function instead of primitive id.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114555
This PR works around an issue where zero-filled motion TLAS instance descriptors can cause unexpected hangs during downstream TLAS builds on M3. Instead of zeroing the descriptor we insert an explicit "null" BLAS, achieving the same result.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114544
Remove `Material > Shadow Mode` and use `Object > Shadow Ray Visibility`
and `Material > Transparent Shadows` instead.
The versioning system auto-updates objects/materials in EEVEE
scenes so their behavior is as close as possible to the previous one.
Update Cycles to use the native `use_transparent_shadow` property.
Note:
Material changes don't set any `recalc` flag on the objects that use
them, so the EEVEE Next shadow maps don't update when changing
settings/nodes.
Fixing this issue is required for 4.1, but it's out of the scope of this PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113980
In order to speedup compilation, we upgrade IGC to 1.0.14828.26 along
with ocloc and the associated dependencies.
We also bump min-driver version accordingly to 26918.
Ref !114341
Done by passing USES_TERMINAL to the add_custom_command().
This allows to see sub-command messages early on, before they
are finished executing.
This should help buildbots to "see" that the kernels are still
being compiled and not kill the build because it did not output
anything in a long time.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114327
This PR adds tunings for the [newly announced](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkW3V0Mh-k) M3 family of chips. In particular, MetalRT will be enabled as the automatic default for intersection testing on M3 and beyond to take advantage of hardware raytracing. This will result in significant path-tracing speedups, as well as faster BVH builds.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114296
Adjust clamping of inputs in the Principled BSDF to avoid errors and
inconsistencies between render engines, while trying to leave as many
inputs as possible unclamped for artisitc purposes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/112895
The last good commit was 8474716abb.
After this commits from main were pushed to blender-v4.0-release. These are
being reverted.
Commits a4880576dc from to b26f176d1a that happend afterwards were meant for
4.0, and their contents is preserved.
_(NOTE: This is a clone of [PR 114067](https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114067), but targeting `blender-v4.0-release` as originally intended)_
This PR removes the "experimental" disclaimer from the MetalRT control now that the unit tests all render correctly with it enabled. As well as "Off" and "On", this adds a third "Auto" setting - a new default which can be used to pick the best option.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114232
This fixes an issue where animation frames occasionally get corrupted (e.g. when rendering "Pokedstudio" Blender 2.77 splash screen). This happens when the KernelData is refreshed but the MD5 isn't immediately regenerated which can cause the wrong PSO to be selected.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114153
This PR adds `@autoreleasepool` blocks around functions that have been observed to create hidden temporary NSObjects, and eventually cause command buffer failures. A couple of allocations needed to be tweaked in order to maintain correct retain/release behaviour. This PR also fixes the command buffer error text to show more useful information.
This PR removes the "experimental" disclaimer from the MetalRT control now that the unit tests all render correctly with it enabled. As well as "Off" and "On", this adds a third "Auto" setting - a new default which can be used to pick the best option.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114067
Design task: #93551
This PR replaces the auto smooth option with a geometry nodes modifier
that sets the sharp edge attribute. This solves a fair number of long-
standing problems related to auto smooth, simplifies the process of
normal computation, and allows Blender to automatically choose between
face, vertex, and face corner normals based on the sharp edge and face
attributes.
Versioning adds a geometry node group to objects with meshes that had
auto-smooth enabled. The modifier can be applied, which also improves
performance.
Auto smooth is now unnecessary to get a combination of sharp and smooth
edges. In general workflows are changed a bit. Separate procedural and
destructive workflows are available. Custom normals can be used
immediately without turning on the removed auto smooth option.
**Procedural**
The node group asset "Smooth by Angle" is the main way to set sharp
normals based on the edge angle. It can be accessed directly in the add
modifier menu. Of course the modifier can be reordered, muted, or
applied like any other, or changed internally like any geometry nodes
modifier.
**Destructive**
Often the sharp edges don't need to be dynamic. This can give better
performance since edge angles don't need to be recalculated. In edit
mode the two operators "Select Sharp Edges" and "Mark Sharp" can be
used. In other modes, the "Shade Smooth by Angle" controls the edge
sharpness directly.
### Breaking API Changes
- `use_auto_smooth` is removed. Face corner normals are now used
automatically if there are mixed smooth vs. not smooth tags. Meshes
now always use custom normals if they exist.
- In Cycles, the lack of the separate auto smooth state makes normals look
triangulated when all faces are shaded smooth.
- `auto_smooth_angle` is removed. Replaced by a modifier (or operator)
controlling the sharp edge attribute. This means the mesh itself
(without an object) doesn't know anything about automatically smoothing
by angle anymore.
- `create_normals_split`, `calc_normals_split`, and `free_normals_split`
are removed, and are replaced by the simpler `Mesh.corner_normals`
collection property. Since it gives access to the normals cache, it
is automatically updated when relevant data changes.
Addons are updated here: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/pulls/104609
### Tests
- `geo_node_curves_test_deform_curves_on_surface` has slightly different
results because face corner normals are used instead of interpolated
vertex normals.
- `bf_wavefront_obj_tests` has different export results for one file
which mixed sharp and smooth faces without turning on auto smooth.
- `cycles_mesh_cpu` has one object which is completely flat shaded.
Previously every edge was split before rendering, now it looks triangulated.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/108014
The previous formula for adjusting Coat Tint intensity resulted
in strong tints and sudden colour changes when using a low coat weight.
This commit fixes these issues by mixing between a white tint (no tint)
and the chosen tint based on the Coat Weight.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113468
