Since the optimal values depend on the device used, this option doesn't make much sense in the XML.
Therefore, it's now specified via the command line, just like the device itself.
Another issue with the modified particle motion blur fix: since
pre and post are used as validity markers, they must be set even
if there is no actual motion, like the original bool flags were.
Otherwise an object starting to move or stopping is interpreted
as having invalid blur data and hidden.
Displacement is now a per material setting, which means old files will have to
be updated if they had used displacement. Cool side effect of this change is
material previews now show displacement.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2140
Enables Catmull-Clark subdivision meshes with support for creases and attribute
subdivision. Still waiting on OpenSubdiv to fully support face varying
interpolation for subdividing uv coordinates tho. Also there may be some
inconsistencies with Blender's subdivision which will be resolved at a
later time.
Code for reading patch tables and creating patch maps is borrowed
from OpenSubdiv.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2111
Adds a descriptor for attributes that can easily be passed around and extended
to contain more data. Will be used for attributes on subdivision meshes.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2110
Currently cycles cannot correctly render motion blur for objects that appear or
disappear during the shutter window. Until that can be fixed properly, it may be
better to hide such particles rather than let them render as if they were
stationary for half of the frame.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2125
It is possible that compilation will fail without giving anything in the
log buffer. For this cases giving a tip about error code will be really
handy.
Patch by @Ilia, thanks!
This changes actually lead to 2x slowdown. It's getting a bit annoying
because those are the changes to make pre-maxwell cards render with the
same speed.
The problem happens because smoke collides only with the surface of the
collider and uses incompressible fluid solver. This means that scaling
the collider tries to compress or decompress fluid within the volume of
the collider, which can't be handled by the simulation. Fast rotation
likely also causes transient scaling due to emulation of arcs by chords.
This can be fixed by finding compartments completely isolated by obstacles
from the rest of the domain, and forcing total divergence within each one
to be zero so that equations are solvable. Physical validity is somewhat
dubious, but without this the solver simply breaks down.
From the physics point of view, the effect of the correction should be
similar to opening a hole from every cell to another dimension that lets
an equal amount of air to pass through to balance the change in volume.
Reviewers: miikah, lukastoenne
Reviewed By: lukastoenne
Subscribers: dafassi, scorpion81, #physics
Maniphest Tasks: T43220, T47551
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2112
As a result of other folding simplifications it may happen that
two type conversion nodes end up directly connected. In some
cases it may be possible to then remove both. A realistic case
might be an optimized out Mix RGB node used to blend vectors.
It seems it's safe to optimize when B is a float3 type
(color, vector), and A is float3 or float.
Reviewers: #cycles, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, sergey
Subscribers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2134
This way we can easily switch between toolkits without worrying
whether some kernel was compiled with old or new CUDA toolkit.
It's also now possible to switch machine architecture and have
proper cached kernel detected. Not as if it happens every day,
but i did such a bitness switch back in the days :)
Code coverage of different combinations of secondary conditions
is obviously not complete because there are so many of them, but
all main rules should be there.
The reason for CORRECT vs INVALID is that both words have the same
number of characters so calls line up, but look quite different.
Reviewers: #cycles, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, sergey
Subscribers: dingto, sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2130
All the changes are mainly giving explicit tips on inlining functions,
so they match how inlining worked with previous toolkit.
This make kernel compiled by CUDA 8 render in average with same speed
as previous kernels. Some scenes are somewhat faster, some of them are
somewhat slower. But slowdown is within 1% so far.
On a positive side it allows us to enable newer generation cards on
buildbots (so GTX 10x0 will be officially supported soon).
These values often either turn the node into a no-op, or even make it
evaluate to 0 no matter what the other input value is, thus allowing
deletion of a branch of the node graph that otherwise is not constant.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2085
These are complex nodes, and it's conceivable they may end up constant
in some circumstances within node groups, so folding support is useful.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2084