This is an initial implementation of BVH8 optimization structure
and packated triangle intersection. The aim is to get faster ray
to scene intersection checks.
Scene BVH4 BVH8
barbershop_interior 10:24.94 10:10.74
bmw27 02:41.25 02:38.83
classroom 08:16.49 07:56.15
fishy_cat 04:24.56 04:17.29
koro 06:03.06 06:01.45
pavillon_barcelona 09:21.26 09:02.98
victor 23:39.65 22:53.71
As memory goes, peak usage raises by about 4.7% in a complex
scenes.
Note that BVH8 is disabled when using OSL, this is because OSL
kernel does not get per-microarchitecture optimizations and
hence always considers BVH3 is used.
Original BVH8 patch from Anton Gavrikov.
Batched triangles intersection from Victoria Zhislina.
Extra work and tests and fixes from Maxym Dmytrychenko.
Misleading name since it's between 0..1.
Use as a keyword argument to prepare for keyword only args.
Also document that leaving unset has special behavior.
With small tiles, the repeated allocations on GPUs can actually slow down the denoising quite a lot.
Allocating the buffer just once reduces rendertime for the default cube with 16x16 tiles and denoising on a mobile 1050 from 22.7sec to 14.0sec.
Building the CUDA kernels takes quite a bit of memory, and when building all of
them the combined usage can be too much on some systems (especially VMs).
Therefore, this patch adds an option to force the build system to build them
sequentially by making each build step depend on the previous kernel.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3623
This replaces old single toggle option to subdivide UVs with
an enum which can have more options. The usecase for this is
to be compatible with other software. But we also might choose
different subdivision type as default in the future.
DNA and underlying code supports all possible options, but
only the ones which are compatible with old subdivision code
are currently exposes.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3575
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
This is in preparation of upgrading our library dependencies, some of which
need C++11. We already use C++11 in blender2.8 and for Windows and macOS, so
this just affects Linux.
On many distributions this will not require any changes, on some
install_deps.sh will need to be run again to rebuild libraries.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3568
Just basic algebra - because all vectors have the same z coordinate, a lot of terms end up cancelling out.
Not exactly a massive improvement, but it's measurable with Branched PT and a high sample count on the lamp.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: swerner
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3540
Gathers information about object geometry and textures. Very basic at
this moment, but need to start somewhere.
Things which needs to be included still:
- "Runtime" information, like BVH. While it is not directly controllable
by artists, it's still important to know.
- Device array sizes. Again, not under artists control, but is added to
the overall size.
- Memory peak at different synchronization stages.
At this point it simply prints info to the stdout after F12 is done,
need better control over that too.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3566