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Author SHA1 Message Date
Lukas Stockner
23c276832b Cycles: Add multi-scattering, energy-conserving GGX as an option to the Glossy, Anisotropic and Glass BSDFs
This commit adds a new distribution to the Glossy, Anisotropic and Glass BSDFs that implements the
multiple-scattering microfacet model described in the paper "Multiple-Scattering Microfacet BSDFs with the Smith Model".

Essentially, the improvement is that unlike classical GGX, which only models single scattering and assumes
the contribution of multiple bounces to be zero, this new model performs a random walk on the microsurface until
the ray leaves it again, which ensures perfect energy conservation.

In practise, this means that the "darkening problem" - GGX materials becoming darker with increasing
roughness - is solved in a physically correct and efficient way.

The downside of this model is that it has no (known) analytic expression for evalation. However, it can be
evaluated stochastically, and although the correct PDF isn't known either, the properties of MIS and the
balance heuristic guarantee an unbiased result at the cost of slightly higher noise.

Reviewers: dingto, #cycles, brecht

Reviewed By: dingto, #cycles, brecht

Subscribers: bliblubli, ace_dragon, gregzaal, brecht, harvester, dingto, marcog, swerner, jtheninja, Blendify, nutel

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2002
2016-06-23 22:57:26 +02:00
Brecht Van Lommel
ebdd2e0b6d Cycles: make shader node enums consistently lower case, update OSL shaders accordingly. 2016-06-11 23:50:11 +02:00
Thomas Dinges
ee36e75b85 Cleanup: Fix Cycles Apache header.
This was already mixed a bit, but the dot belongs there.
2014-12-25 02:50:24 +01:00
Brecht Van Lommel
b12151eceb Cycles: glossy and anisotropic BSDF changes
* Anisotropic BSDF now supports GGX and Beckmann distributions, Ward has been
  removed because other distributions are superior.
* GGX is now the default distribution for all glossy and anisotropic nodes,
  since it looks good, has low noise and is fast to evaluate.
* Ashikhmin-Shirley is now available in the Glossy BSDF.
2014-06-14 13:49:57 +02:00
Karsten Schwenk
8ce1090d4e Cycles: Ashikhmin-Shirley anisotropic BSDF
* Ashikhmin-Shirley anisotropic BSDF was added as closure
* Anisotropic BSDF node now has two distributions

Reviewers: brecht, dingto

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D549
2014-06-14 13:49:57 +02:00