It was copying the alpha from the foreground instead of background image,
which is not usually what is needed and inconsistent with the compositor.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4371
The bake kernels are also used during mesh displacement and light
importance sampling. We disabled the implementation of these kernels
when baking was not enabled.
Was happening when looking for all intersections for transparent shadow rays
in the case the ray is degenerate.
Still quesitonable whether we should consider this a transparent or opaque
configuraiton. Ideally, we should prevent such rays from happening, but that
is another vector of debugging.
To keep running these tests relatively fast and practical to run often,
running it on all .blend files is a bit much. So now we only run it on
files from this directory.
Additionally this adds supports for following symlinks, so that you can
easily symlinks to other directories if you want to tests extra files
which may have linked libraries.
Using OpenCL MegaKernel has been slow and therefore not usefull.
This patch will remove the mega kernel from the OpenCL codebase
and the OpenCLDeviceBase class.
T61736: removal of mega kernel
T61703: baking does not work with mega kernel
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4383
There is a generic function to retrieve float and float3 attributes
`primitive_attribute_float` and primitive_attribute_float3`. Inside
these functions an prioritised if-else construction checked where
the attribute is stored and then retrieved from that location.
Actually the calling function most of the time already knows where
the data is stored. So we could simplify this by splitting these
functions and remove the check logic.
This patch splits the `primitive_attribute_float?` functions into
`primitive_surface_attribute_float?` and `primitive_volume_attribute_float?`.
What leads to less branching and more optimum kernels.
The original function is still being used by OSL and `svm_node_attr`.
This will reduce the compilation time and render time for kernels.
Especially in production scenes there is a lot of benefit.
Impact in compilation times
job | scene_name | previous | new | percentage
-------+-----------------+----------+-------+------------
t61513 | empty | 10.63 | 10.66 | 0%
t61513 | bmw | 17.91 | 17.65 | 1%
t61513 | fishycat | 19.57 | 17.68 | 10%
t61513 | barbershop | 54.10 | 24.41 | 55%
t61513 | classroom | 17.55 | 16.29 | 7%
t61513 | koro | 18.92 | 18.05 | 5%
t61513 | pavillion | 17.43 | 16.52 | 5%
t61513 | splash279 | 16.48 | 14.91 | 10%
t61513 | volume_emission | 36.22 | 21.60 | 40%
Impact in render times
job | scene_name | previous | new | percentage
-------+-----------------+----------+--------+------------
61513 | empty | 21.06 | 20.35 | 3%
61513 | bmw | 198.44 | 190.05 | 4%
61513 | fishycat | 394.20 | 401.25 | -2%
61513 | barbershop | 1188.16 | 912.39 | 23%
61513 | classroom | 341.08 | 340.38 | 0%
61513 | koro | 472.43 | 471.80 | 0%
61513 | pavillion | 905.77 | 899.80 | 1%
61513 | splash279 | 55.26 | 54.86 | 1%
61513 | volume_emission | 62.59 | 61.70 | 1%
There is also a possitive impact when using CPU and CUDA, but they are small.
I didn't split the hair logic from the surface logic due to:
* Hair and surface use same attribute types. It was not clear if it could be
splitted when looking at the code only.
* Hair and surface are quick to compile and to read. So the benefit is quite
small.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4375
The code assumed all datablocks were read from .blend files saved with the
same version. This restructures the Cycles versioning code to take into
account libraries.
For llvm 6 the visual studio integration was 'not great' and we had
our own, which broke when llvm 7.0.1 came out. llvm now has properly
supported integration available on the VS market place hence we can
retire our custom support.
This patch implements a workaround to get the multithreaded compilation from D2231 working.
So far, it only works for Blender, not for Cycles Standalone. Also, I have only tested the Linux codepath in the helper function.
Depends on D2231.
Patch by lukasstockner97, jbakker, brecht
job | scene_name | compilation_time
----------+-----------------+------------------
Baseline | empty | 22.73
D2264 | empty | 13.94
Baseline | bmw | 56.44
D2264 | bmw | 41.32
Baseline | fishycat | 59.50
D2264 | fishycat | 45.19
Baseline | barbershop | 212.28
D2264 | barbershop | 169.81
Baseline | victor | 67.51
D2264 | victor | 53.60
Baseline | classroom | 51.46
D2264 | classroom | 39.02
Baseline | koro | 62.48
D2264 | koro | 49.03
Baseline | pavillion | 54.37
D2264 | pavillion | 38.82
Baseline | splash279 | 47.43
D2264 | splash279 | 37.94
Baseline | volume_emission | 145.22
D2264 | volume_emission | 121.10
This patch reduced compilation time as the split kernels and base
kernels are compiled in parallel. In cycles debug mode (256) you can set
unmark the opencl single program file, what reduces the compilation time
even further (bmw 17 seconds, barbershop 53 seconds).
Reviewers: brecht, dingto, sergey, juicyfruit, lukasstockner97
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Loner, jbakker, candreacchio, 3dLuver, LazyDodo, bliblubli
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2264
Values outside the 0..1 range produce negative colors, so now clamp to that
range everywhere. Also fixes improper handling of hue > 2.0 in some places.
For OIIO 2.x we must use unique_ptr. This also required updating the
guarded allocator for std::move to work. Since C++11 construct/destroy
have a default implementation that also works this case, so we just
leave it out.
The render layer name is now always included. Best to keep these consistent,
so that animation denoising and sample merging works the same for both and
tests can be the same. Ref D4311.
This adds a cycles.denoise_animation operator, which denoises an animation
sequence or individual file. Renders must be saved as multilayer EXR files
with denoising data passes.
By default file path and frame range come from the current scene, and EXR
files are denoised in-place. Alternatively, a different input and/or output
file path can be provided.
Denoising settings come from the current view layer. Renders can be denoised
again with different settings, as the original noisy image is preserved along
with other passes and metadata.
There is no user interface yet for this feature, that comes later.
Code by Lukas with modifications by Brecht. This feature was originally
developed for Tangent Animation, thanks for the support!
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3889
This is backporting a change from 2.8, which may help solve crashes when
activating a window. Previously bringTabletContextToFront() would call
tablet API functions with NULL tablet, which may crash on some drivers.
Ref T60811.
This is the internal implementation, not available from the API or
interface yet. The algorithm takes into account past and future frames,
both to get more coherent animation and reduce noise.
Ref D3889.
Prefiltering of feature passes will happen during rendering, which can
then be used for denoising immediately or written as a render pass for
later (animation) denoising.
The number of denoising data passes written is reduced because of this,
leaving out the feature variance passes. The passes are now Normal,
Albedo, Depth, Shadowing, Variance and Intensity.
Ref D3889.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
We've had many reported crashes on Windows where we suspect there is a
corrupted OpenCL driver. The purpose here is to keep Blender generally
usable in such cases.
Now it always shows None / CUDA / OpenCL in the preferences, and only when
selecting one will it reveal if there are any GPUs available. This should
avoid crashes when opening the preferences or on startup.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4265
This bring macOS on par with Windows and Linux. It uses the OpenMP library
added to our precompiled libraries.
Custom flags are set because FindOpenMP from CMake below 3.12 does not support
AppleClang, and more recent versions do not work with our custom directory
location either.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4257
The integrator maximum number of closures was not set properly for the CPU/mega
kernels to match the actual available memory. Before relatively recent code
refactoring we did not use this value in those kernels so it worked fine.