On its own, the main functionality of the Radial Tiling node
is the ability to divide a 2D Cartesian coordinate system into
as many radial segments as specified by the "Segments" input.
Each segment has its own affinely transformed coordinate system,
provided through the "Segment Coordinates" output, which can be
used to tile textures in a radially symmetric manner.
Additionally, a unique index is provided for every segment through
the "Segment ID" output, the width of each segment at Y-coordinate
of the "Segment Coordinates" output without normalization = 0 is
provided through the "Segment Width" output and the rotation value
of the affine transformation of the coordinate system of each segment
is provided through the "Segment Rotation" output.
The roundness of the coordinate lines of the "Segment Coordinates"
output can be controlled through the "Roundness" inputs.
This can be used to make the coordinate systems of the segments
a mix of Cartesian and polar coordinates.
Lastly, the lines of points of the "Segment Coordinates" output with
constant Y-coordinates have the shape of polygon with rounded corners,
which can be used to procedurally create rounded polygons.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/127711
These are causing quite a big difference in existing files, which is not
easy to address in versioning. Since the goal of removing this was to
simplify things for us and that's not the case, just revert this change.
This reverts commit ab21755aaf.
Ref #139923
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146336
This removes unused closure branches in the principled BSDF
code using the Material flags.
On top of this, use constants for weights to use compiler
dead code eliminitation for unused branches when there
is different variants of the principled BSDF node used.
Finally, remove Gbuffer packing cases that are not present
inside the nodetree.
Testing with the same setup as #145347:
| | main (ms) | PR (ms) | Delta (ms) |
| -------- | ----------- | ------------ |------------ |
| Nvidia | 174 | 132 (1.31x) | 42 |
| Mesa AMD | 191 | 170 (1.12x) | 21 |
Barbershop compilation time is almost equal because it is not using
the principled BSDF.
Rel #145347
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146324
This mode is based on the same athmospheric model as the previous one, but now
also accounts for multiple scattering and reflections from the ground.
This increases the accuracy, especially at low elevations.
Also renames some options for consistency:
- The previous "Nishita" model is now "Single Scattering"
- "Dust" is now "Aerosols"
- Default altitude is now 100m.
Co-authored-by: Lukas Stockner <lukas@lukasstockner.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140480
Implementation of the design task #142969.
This adds the following:
- Exact GPU interpolation of curves of all types.
- Radius attribute support.
- Cyclic curve support.
- Resolution attribute support.
- New Cylinder hair shape type.
What changed:
- EEVEE doesn't compute random normals for strand hairs anymore. These are considered legacy now.
- EEVEE now have an internal shadow bias to avoid self shadowing on hair.
- Workbench Curves Strip display option is no longer flat and has better shading.
- Legacy Hair particle system evaluates radius at control points before applying additional subdivision. This now matches Cycles.
- Color Attribute Node without a name do not fetch the active color attribute anymore. This now matches Cycles.
Notes:
- This is not 100% matching the CPU implementation for interpolation (see the epsilons in the tests).
- Legacy Hair Particle points is now stored in local space after interpolation.
The new cylinder shape allows for more correct hair shading in workbench and better intersection in EEVEE.
| | Strand | Strip | Cylinder |
| ---- | --- | --- | --- |
| Main |  |  | N/A |
| PR |  |  |  |
| | Strand | Strip | Cylinder |
| ---- | --- | --- | --- |
| Main |  | | N/A |
| PR | ||  |
Cyclic Curve, Mixed curve type, and proper radius support:
Test file for attribute lookup: [test_attribute_lookup.blend](/attachments/1d54dd06-379b-4480-a1c5-96adc1953f77)
Follow Up Tasks:
- Correct full tube segments orientation based on tangent and normal attributes
- Correct V resolution property per object
- More attribute type support (currently only color)
TODO:
- [x] Attribute Loading Changes
- [x] Generic Attributes
- [x] Length Attribute
- [x] Intercept Attribute
- [x] Original Coordinate Attribute
- [x] Cyclic Curves
- [x] Legacy Hair Particle conversion
- [x] Attribute Loading
- [x] Additional Subdivision
- [x] Move some function to generic headers (VertBuf, OffsetIndices)
- [x] Fix default UV/Color attribute assignment
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143180
It allows to implement tricks based on a knowledge whether the path
ever cam through a portal or not, and even something more advanced
based on the number of portals.
The main current objective is for strokes shading: stroke shader
uses Ray Portal BSDF to place ray to the center of the stroke and
point it in the direction of the surface it is generated for. This
gives stroke a single color which matches shading of the original
object. For this usecase to work the ray bounced from the original
surface should ignore the strokes, which is now possible by using
Portal Depth input and mixing with the Transparent BSDF. It also
helps to make shading look better when there are multiple stroke
layers.
A solution of using portal depth is chosen over a single flag due
to various factors:
- Last time we've looked into it it was a bit tricky to implement
as a flag due to us running out of bits.
- It feels to be more flexible solution, even though it is a bit
hard to come up with 100% compelling setup for it.
- It needs to be slightly different from the current "Is Foo"
flags, and be more "Is Portal Descendant" or something.
An extra uint16 is added to the state to count the portal depth,
but it is only allocated for scenes that use Ray Portal BSDF.
Portal BSDF still increments Transparent bounce, as it is required
to have some "limiting" factor so that ray does not get infinitely
move to different place of the scene.
Ref #125213
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143107
This was caused by the hardware derivatives output being affected
by render resolution. Scaling them back to the full resolution
value fixes the issue.
This also fixes the Wireframe node that also relies on derivatives.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142101
In Blender 3.3 (1) the individual combine and separate color nodes were
combined together into a single combine/separate color node.
To ensure legacy addons still worked, the old nodes were left in
Blender, but hidden from the Add menus.
It has been nearly 3 years since that change was made, most if not all
addons should have been updated by now. So this commit removes these
hidden legacy nodes.
(1) blender/blender@82df48227b
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135376
The 2D->2D, 3D->3D, 4D->4D hash functions used in Voronoi node were
using quite an expensive hash function. Switch these to dedicated
2D/3D/4D hash functions (pcg2d, pcg3d, pcg4d) -- these are still very
good quality, but the hash function itself is 3x-4x faster.
Which makes Voronoi node calculation overall be around 2x faster. In
some cases when using OSL, the speedup is even larger.
This visibly changes output of the Voronoi noise however. The actual
noise "behaves" the same, just if someone was depending on the noise
pattern being exactly like it was before, this will change the pattern.
Images, more performance results and details wrt OSL are in the PR.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139520
Add a new shader node to control volume coefficients (scattering,
absorption and emission) directly, making it easier to model existing
volumes with measured data.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136287
This avoid having to guards functions that are
only available in fragment shader stage.
Calling the function inside another stage is still
invalid and will yield a compile error on Metal.
The vulkan and opengl glsl patch need to be modified
per stage to allow the fragment specific function
to be defined.
This is not yet widely used, but a good example is
the change in `film_display_depth_amend`.
Rel #137261
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/138280
Do this only when applicable.
This allow better compile time checking in Shader C++ compilation.
Moreover, this allows to have `constexpr` in shared code between
C++ and GLSL.
After investigation the `const` keyword in GLSL has the same
semantic than C/C++.
Rel #137333 and #137446
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137497
This unify the C++ and GLSL codebase style.
The GLSL types are still in the backend compatibility
layers to support python shaders. However, the C++
shader compilation layer doesn't have them to enforce
correct type usage.
Note that this is going to break pretty much all PRs
in flight that targets shader code.
Rel #137261
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137369
They are actually already some literals with the `f` suffix
that are in our shader codebase and we never had problem in
the past 5 years (or even 8 years).
So I think it is safe to do and improves convergence of codestyles.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/137352
This makes it possible to restore previous Blender 4.3 behavior of bump
mapping, where the large filter width was sometimes (ab)used to get a bevel
like effect on stepwise textures.
For bump from the displacement socket, filter width remains fixed at 0.1.
Ref #133991, #135841
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/136465
The Mix Color shader node does not retain the alpha channel of the first
input in both the Linear Light and Soft Light modes, while it is retain
for other modes. Further, result clamping also ignores the alpha due to
using the vector clamp function, which introduces implicit conversion
that removes the alpha.
This does not matter for EEVEE because it does nothing with the alpha
channel. But the code will now be shared with the compositor, which does
care about the alpha channel. So adjust the code accordingly to retain
the alpha in those cases.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135632
This patch refactors GPU shaders to remove includes to the utility
gpu_shader_common_math.glsl file. This is done because it has duplicate
functions that exist in other files, and it was really created for use
in GPU material nodes.
The safe_divide and hypot functions were removed since they exist in
gpu_shader_math_base_lib.glsl.
The compatible_[mod|pow] and wrap functions were moved into
gpu_shader_math_base_lib.glsl.
The floor_to_int function was inlined since it was trivial and only used
in one place.
The quick_floor was removed because it was unused.
The euler_to_mat3 function was replaced with the from_rotation function
from gpu_shader_math_matrix_lib.glsl.
Now the file only contains some GPU material node utility functions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/135160
Though "Point Cloud" written as two words is technically correct and should be used in the UI, as one word it's typically easier to write and parse when reading. We had a mix of both before this patch, so better to unify this as well.
This commit also renames the editor/intern/ files to remove pointcloud_ prefix.
point_cloud was only preserved on the user facing strings:
* is_type_point_cloud
* use_new_point_cloud_type
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134803
This commit adds the "is volume scatter" output to the light path node
in the shader editor.
All the funcitonal code for this feature already exists in Cycles SVM
and OSL, but the output wasn't exposed on the node.
EEVEE does not support the feature, so it's output will
always be zero.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134343
Use sub-pixel differentials for bump mapping helps with reducing
artifacts when objects are moving or when textures have high frequency
details.
Currently we scale it by 0.1 because it seems to work good in practice,
we can adjust the value in the future if it turns out to be impractical.
Ref: #122892
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133991
Color to grayscale conversions should take into account the colorspace,
and these are considered to be in scene linear colorspace.
Note the RBG to BW node implementation is used for implicit conversions,
so that is covered as well.
No change with the default configuration.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/133368
Move most of the string preprocessing used for MSL
compatibility to `glsl_preprocess`.
Enforce some changes like matrix constructor and
array constructor to the GLSL codebase. This is
for C++ compatibility.
Additionally reduce the amount of code duplication
inside the compatibility code.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128634
This changes the include directive to use the standard C preprocessor
`#include` directive.
The regex to applied to all glsl sources is:
`pragma BLENDER_REQUIRE\((\w+\.glsl)\)`
`include "$1"`
This allow C++ linter to parse the code and allow easier codebase
traversal.
However there is a small catch. While it does work like a standard
include directive when the code is treated as C++, it doesn't when
compiled by our shader backends. In this case, we still use our
dependency concatenation approach instead of file injection.
This means that included files will always be prepended when compiled
to GLSL and a file cannot be appended more than once.
This is why all GLSL lib file should have the `#pragma once` directive
and always be included at the start of the file.
These requirements are actually already enforced by our code-style
in practice.
On the implementation, the source needed to be mutated to comment
the `#pragma once` and `#include`. This is needed to avoid GLSL
compiler error out as this is an extension that not all vendor
supports.
Rel #127983
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/128076
Previously, Cycles only supported the Henyey-Greenstein phase function for volume scattering.
While HG is flexible and works for a wide range of effects, sometimes a more physically accurate
phase function may be needed for realism.
Therefore, this adds three new phase functions to the code:
Rayleigh: For particles with a size below the wavelength of light, mostly athmospheric scattering.
Fournier-Forand: For realistic underwater scattering.
Draine: Fairly specific on its own (mostly for interstellar dust), but useful for the next entry.
Mie: Approximates Mie scattering in water droplets using a mix of Draine and HG phase functions.
These phase functions can be combined using Mix nodes as usual.
Co-authored-by: Lukas Stockner <lukas@lukasstockner.de>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123532
Add Metallic BSDF Node to the shader editor.
This node can primarily be used to create more realistic looking
metallic materials than the existing Glossy BSDF node.
This commit does not add any new closures to Cycles, it simply exposes
existing closures that were previous hard to access on their own.
- Exposes the F82 fresnel type that is currently used by the
metallic component of the Principled BSDF. Results should match
between the Metallic BSDF and Principled BSDF when using the same
settings.
- Exposes the Physical Conductor fresnel type that was previously
limited to custom OSL scripts. The Conductor fresnel type accepts
IOR and Extinction coefficients to define the appearance of the
material based off real life measurements.
EEVEE only supports the F82 fresnel type with internal code to convert
the the physical conductor inputs in to a colour format for F82,
which can lead to noticeable rendering differences with
some configurations.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114958
This patch improves the isotropic Gabor noise UI controls such that
variations happen in both directions of the base orientation, as opposed
to being biased in the positive direction only.
Thanks to Charlie Jolly for suggesting this improvement.
This patch optimizes the Gabor noise standard deviation estimation by
computing the upper limit of the integral as the frequency approaches
infinity, since the integral is mostly constant for the relevant
frequency range. The limits are 0.25 for the 2D case and 1 / 4 * sqrt2
for the 3D case.
This also improves normalization for low frequencies, possibly due to
the effect of windowing.
Thanks to Charlie Jolly for spotting the optimization.
Optimize the Gabor noise texture code with an early exit for points that
are further away from the kernel center. This was already done for the
kernel, but is now being done earlier before computing the weight, so
its computation is now skipped.
Thanks to Charlie Jolly for the suggestion.
Align Cycles SVM and EEVEE's rendering of the vector math node
in reflect mode with OSL when the normal vector is 0,0,0.
This is done by using safe_normalize rather than normalize on the
normal vector. Which also fixes a NaN in the reflect mode in this
specific configuration.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125688
Fixes a mismatch between Cycles and EEVEE when rendering a
Vector Math node in Refract mode with a normal vector of 0,0,0.
This mismatch first appeared after 8650068f0c which changed the
behaviour in Cycles, but not EEVEE.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/125644
color was not taken into consideration when picking a closure using
reservoir sampling, giving closures with dark color much higher weights
than they should have.
This fix multiplies the weight by the average color when picking the
closure, similar as what has been done in principled BSDF.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/124730
Setting this option to a value above zero replaces the lambertian Diffuse term
with the modified energy-preserving Oren-Nayar BSDF, which matches the OpenPBR
behavior.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/123616
