Random numbers for step offset were correlated, now use stratified samples
which reduces noise as well for some types of volumes, mainly procedural
ones where the step size is bigger than the volume features.
With better directory layout and more proper include
statements we can avoid several local modifications,
such as changing config.h for Windows Glog and the
ones related on pass-through statements in logging
headers in Glog.
This commit also makes unused functions not-a-warning
for external code.
Increasing the samplig dimensions like this is not optimal, I'm looking
into some deeper changes to reuse the random number and change the RR
probabilities, but this should fix the bug for now.
Unity itself is deprecated, but the API is also supported by KDE and the GNOME Dock extension,
which means that it will be useful for a wide variety of distributions.
To get a progress bar, the system must have a blender.desktop file and libunity installed.
The need for libunity is annoying, but the only alternative would be to integrate a DBus library...
Reviewers: campbellbarton, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3106
This save a little memory and copying in the kernel by storing only a 4x3
matrix instead of a 4x4 matrix. We already did this in a few places, and
those don't need to be special exceptions anymore now.
This is in preparation of making Transform affine only, and also gives us
a little extra type safety so we don't accidentally treat it as a regular
4x4 matrix.
The purpose of the previous code refactoring is to make the code more readable,
but combined with this change benchmarks also render about 2-3% faster with an
NVIDIA Titan Xp.
This is an issue with which value to trust: fps vs. tbr. They both cam be
somewhat broken. Currently the idea is:
- If file was saved with FFmpeg AND we are decoding with FFmpeg we trust tbr.
- If we are decoding with Libav we use fps (there does not seem to be tbr in
Libav, unless i'm missing something).
- All other cases we use fps.
Seems to work all good for files from T53857, T54148 and T51153. Ideally we
would need to collect some amount of regression files to make further tweaks
more scientific.
Reviewers: mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3083
around the volume.
We generate a tight mesh around the active voxels of the volume in order
to effectively skip empty space, and start volume ray marching as close
to interesting volume data as possible. See code comments for details on
how the mesh generation algorithm works.
This gives up to 2x speedups in some scenes.
Reviewed by: brecht, dingto
Reviewers: #cycles
Subscribers: lvxejay, jtheninja, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3038
This is more important now that we will have tigther volume bounds that
we hit multiple times. It also avoids some noise due to RR previously
affecting these surfaces, which shouldn't have been the case and should
eventually be fixed for transparent BSDFs as well.
For non-volume scenes I found no performance impact on NVIDIA or AMD.
For volume scenes the noise decrease and fixed artifacts are worth the
little extra render time, when there is any.
This is used to determine which voxels are to be considered empty space.
Previously it was hardcoded for converting dense grids to OpenVDB grids
to reduce disk space usage.
This value is also useful for rendering engines to know, i.e. to
optimize ray marching.
Some other software cannot handle grid names with spaces in them. We still check for names with spaces so as to not break old
files.
This fixes T53802.
Similar to the Principled BSDF, this should make it easier to set up volume
materials. Smoke and fire can be rendererd with just a single principled
volume node, the appropriate attributes will be used when available. The node
also works for simpler homogeneous volumes like water or mist.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3033
