* When Baking wasn't used we got an error.
* On top of Volume Nodes (NODES_FEATURE_VOLUME), we now also check if we need volume sampling code,
so we can disable that as well and save some further compilation time.
This re-enables the AA jittering, but with proper clamping so that u >= 0,
v >= 0 and u+v <= 1.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1254
Now pass_filter is modified to have exactly the flags for the light components
that need to be baked, based on the shader type. This simplifies the logic.
There is no function pointers in OpenCL specification. For as long
as we want to support this platform we should follow the specifications.
While the code is not totally optimal now, it should not be that huge
of performance issue on CPU since it does jump tables just nicely, so
it's not that much extra computation here.
The combined pass is built with the contributions the user finds fit.
It is useful for lightmap baking, as well as non-view dependent effects
baking.
The manual will be updated once we get closer to the 2.77 release.
Meanwhile the new page can be found here:
http://dalaifelinto.com/blender-manual/render/cycles/baking.html
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1674
This commit changes the way how we pass bounce information to the Light
Path node. Instead of manualy copying the bounces into ShaderData, we now
directly pass PathState. This reduces the arguments that we need to pass
around and also makes it easier to extend the feature.
This commit also exposes the Transmission Bounce Depth to the Light Path
node. It works similar to the Transparent Depth Output: Replace a
Transmission lightpath after X bounces with another shader, e.g a Diffuse
one. This can be used to avoid black surfaces, due to low amount of max
bounces.
Reviewed by Sergey and Brecht, thanks for some hlp with this.
I tested compilation and usage on CPU (SVM and OSL), CUDA, OpenCL Split
and Mega kernel. Hopefully this covers all devices. :)
This makes it possible to move some parts of evaluation from host to the device
and hopefully reduce memory usage by avoid having full RGBA buffer on the host.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, lukasstockner97, brecht
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1702
There were multiple issues which are solved now:
- It was possible that ray wouldn't be bounced off the BSSRDF, for example
when PDF or shader eval is zero. In this case PathState might have been
left in pre-bounced state which would have been gave incorrect shading
results.
This is solved by having separate PathState for each of the hits.
- Path radiance summing wasn't happening correct as well, indirect rays
were using wrong path radiance in the case when there were more than
one hit recorded.
This is now using a bit trickier state machine which calculates path
radiance for just SSS (both direct and indirect) and then sums it back
to the final radiance.
- Previous commit wasn't totally correct either and was an induced bug
due to wrong path state left from the "un-happened" ray bounce.
There should be no special case happening here, BSSRDFs will be replaced
with diffuse ones due to PATH_RAY_DIFFUSE_ANCESTOR flag.
- Merged back codebases for "delayed" and "immediate" indirect SSS ray
tracing, hopefully making it easier to maintain the codebase.
Sure this changes brings memory usage back by about 4-5%, but overall
it's still about 2x memory reduction for the experimental kernel here.
Thanks Brecht for the review!
There are some issues to be solved with the recent optimization we did for
the indirect rays for the SSS. Those issues will take a bit of a time to
be fully solved still and we need to unlock Caminandes team now, so let's
revert some changes back.
CUDA will still use delayed indirect rays since it's an experimental
feature.
For the details about what's to be done still please refer to T46880.
This wasn't really a complete fix and only worked if there was a single scatter
event recorded only. Proper fix requires some more thoughts to make it correct
without memory use increase.
This reverts commit bf9e88bfbe.
Radiance sum and reset was happening in different order after 26f1c51.
This is a quick fix to unlock Caminandes team, perhaps we can avoid having
separate variable to detect when radiance is to be sum.
This gives much lower stack usage on GPU and reduces kernel memory size to
around 448MB on GTX560Ti (comparing to 652MB with previous commit and 946MB
with official release). There's also a barely measurable speedup of around
5%, but this is to be confirmed still.
At this stage we're using only ~3% for the experimental kernel and SSS
rendering seems to be faster by 40% and after some further testing we might
consider making SSS and CMJ official features and remove experimental
precompiled kernels.
The idea is to delay shooting indirect rays for the SSS sampling and
trace them after the main integration loop was finished.
This reduces GPU stack usage even further and brings it down to around
652MB (comparing to 722MB before the change and 946MB with previous
stable release).
This also solves the speed regression happened in the previous commit
and now simple SSS scene (SSS suzanne on the floor) renders in 0:50
(comparing to 1:16 with previous commit and 1:03 with official release).
The issue was caused by uninitialized ray used for composite and AO evaluation.
Can;t really think of "proper" ray configuration here, it's all a bit arbitrary
but think initializing the ray in a way so we look at the surface in a negative
normal direction is much better alternative to uninitialized ray.
Open for alternative suggestions tho.
This inconsistency drove me totally crazy, it's really confusing
when it's inconsistent especially when you work on both Cycles and
Blender sides.
Shouldn;t cause merge PITA, it's whitespace changes only, Git should
be able to merge it nicely.
The following commits were supposed to add anti-alias and help with OSL
baking:
7b16fda3791b92dfa961
However they introduced other issues (artifacts mostly), see T43550 .
Leaving the code ifdef'ed for now.
Issue was caused by the changes in 7b16fda which changed the initial
state for rng. This commit makes it so the same initial hash is used
(which solves the regression without distorting AA-looking image.
It also makes it so OpenCL compiler is happy about this code (before
this change it'll complain about trying to cast private variable to
global one).
Reported and nailed down by Michale (MeshLogic).
The code that fixes this was commented out, but Brecht gave the go ahead to use it even if it is not the real solution
Create unique flag for output shaders with displacement data and use it
to calculate transformed normal. Implementation suggested by Brecht Van
Lommel.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D890
Basically the title says it all, volume stack initialization now is aware that
camera might be inside of the volume. This gives quite noticeable render time
regressions in cases camera is in the volume (didn't measure them yet) because
this requires quite a few of ray-casting per camera ray in order to check which
objects we're inside. Not quite sure if this might be optimized.
But the good thing is that we can do quite a good job on detecting whether
camera is outside of any of the volumes and in this case there should be no
time penalty at all (apart from some extra checks during the sync state).
For now we're only doing rather simple AABB checks between the viewplane and
volume objects. This could give some false-positives, but this should be good
starting point.
Need to mention panoramic cameras here, for them it's only check for whether
there are volumes in the scene, which would lead to speed regressions even if
the camera is outside of the volumes. Would need to figure out proper check
for such cameras.
There are still quite a few of TODOs in the code, but the patch is good enough
to start playing around with it checking whether there are some obvious mistakes
somewhere.
Currently the feature is only available in the Experimental feature sey, need
to solve some of the TODOs and look into making things faster before considering
the feature is ready for the official feature set. This would still likely
happen in current release cycle.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D794
Basically the title says it all, we need to update volume stack when doing ray
scatter for SSS. This leads to speed regressions in cases scene does have both
volume and SSS (performance in case there's no SSS or no volume should be the
same).
We might try optimizing kernel_path_subsurface_update_volume_stack() a bit by
either recording all intersections or using some more appropriate visibility
flags.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D795
This problem was introduced in 983cbafd18
Basically the issue is that we were not getting a unique index in the
baking routine for the RNG (random number generator).
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D749
Root of the issue goes back to the on-fly normals commit and the
latest fix for it wasn't actually correct. I've mixed two fixes
in there.
So the idea here goes back to storing negative scaled object flag
and flip runtime-calculated normal if this flag is set, which is
pretty much the same as the original fix for the issue from me.
The issue with motion blur wasn't caused by the rumtime normals
patch and it had issues before, because it already did runtime
normals calculation. Now made it so motion triangles takes the
negative scale flag into account.
This actually makes code more clean imo and avoids rather confusing
flipping code in mesh.cpp.
Now baking does one AA sample at a time, just like final render. There is
also some code for shader antialiasing that solves T40369 but it is disabled
for now because there may be unpredictable side effects.
This reverts commit 12abe94de8.
After a long discussion in the bug tracker we decided baking should use
the faces normals for glossy (and combined). This is what Blender
Internal is doing, and one of the more predictable way of yielding
predictable results.
That also means the result will not match the render perfectly, but this
is preferrable over the alternatives at hand.
Conflicts:
intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_bake.h
Comments from Brecht Van Lommel:
"""
Currently the viewing direction for each pixel is set to the normal, so
at every pixel glossy is evaluated as if you're looking straight at it.
Blender Internal works the same.
"""
This patch makes baking glossy as viewed from the camera.
Reviewers: brecht
CC: zanqdo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D555
The kernel for baking the world texture was the same as the one used for
baking. Now that's separate which allows the kernel to reserve much less
memory.
If we are using a mix node we still need to evaluate the BSDF lighting
even if scattering is successful.
Note: this was working for branched path (probably an oversight when
branched path support was introduced for baking, a good oversight though
;)
