Now, when there is no usable neighboring pixel for denoising, the noisy value
is preserved instead of producing a NaN.
Also, negative results are clamped to zero.
Note that there are just workarounds that don't fix the underlying problems,
but these issues are very rare and I'm not sure if it's even possible to fix
the underlying problems without introducing a significant slowdown or quality
decrease in other situations.
Because of that and since 2.79 is happening very soon, I just went for these
workarounds for now.
Replaces the placeholder 'emtpy' icons of "Force Field" and "Group
Instance" entries in object-add menu with proper new ones.
Icons by @zlsa, thanks a lot!
Maniphest task T51291.
Technically not passing all buffers used by a kernel is undefined
behavior. We haven't had any issues with this so far on AMD or
Nvidia, but it's known to be a problem with Intel and we received
a report from AMD that this is a problem on newer hardware, so we
need to make this change at some point.
Unfortunately there a cost to being correct, about 5% for the
benchmark scenes. For low sample counts it's even worse, I've
seen up to 50% slowdown. For the latter case I think adjusting
tile updating logic can help, but not sure what that would look
like yet (it would be just a few lines change however).
Unlike regular path tracing, branched path tracing is usually used with lower
sample counts, at least for primary rays. This means that are less samples for
the GPU to work on in parallel and rendering is slower. As there is less work
overall there is also more inactive threads during rendering with BPT. This
patch makes use of those inactive rays to render branched samples in parallel
with other samples.
Each thread that is preparing for a branched sample will attempt to find an
inactive thread and if one is found the state for the sample is copied to that
thread. Potentially, if there are enough inactive threads, 100s of branched
samples could be generated from the same originating thread and ran in
parallel giving large speed ups.
Gives 70% faster render for pavillion midday scene. 20-60% faster on BMW
with car paint replaced with SSS/volumes.
Due to various driver issues with AMD GCN 1 cards we can no longer support
these GPUs. This patch makes them unavailable to select for Cycles rendering.
GCN cards 2 and higher are still supported. Please use the most recent
drivers available to ensure proper functionality.
See here for a list to check which GPUs are supported:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
Reported by Andy Goralczyk (@eyecandy) over IRC, thanks!
Simply nuke all that poor broken custom one-by-one handling in
object_relations.c code, and use highly complex but powerful and
well-tested BKE_library_make_local() in all cases of MakeLocal!
ID management, especially related to linking, is very hairy matters,
better to have as few as possible core functions managing all the dirty
details. ;)
Edge collapse was using bounding box center as the point to collapse to.
When collapsing multiple adjacent edges together, this caused
inconsistencies in placement of the collapsed point, depending on the
orientation of the edges in relation to the space axis.
This makes edge collapse use the mean point instead.
The previous outlier heuristic only checked whether the pixel is more than
twice as bright compared to the 75% quantile of the 5x5 neighborhood.
While this detected fireflies robustly, it also incorrectly marked a lot of
legitimate small highlights as outliers and filtered them away.
This commit adds an additional condition for marking a pixel as a firefly:
In addition to being above the reference brightness, the lower end of the
3-sigma confidence interval has to be below it.
Since the lower end approximates how low the true value of the pixel might be,
this test separates pixels that are supposed to be very bright from pixels that
are very bright due to random fireflies.
Also, since there is now a reliable outlier filter as a preprocessing step,
the additional confidence interval test in the reconstruction kernel is no
longer needed.
The problem was that the strokes in the copy-paste buffer could be keeping
dangling pointers to colors that were already freed. Therefore, this commit
makes it so that when copying the strokes, we now make copies of the colors
and put them in a hashtable beside the stroke buffer. This is convenient,
as it saves us having to look up what colours need to be copied over each
time when pasting.
The problem was that newly pasted strokes were still using colours from
the original datablock. As a result, you'd either get an immediate crash,
or if you managed to save the file before it crashed, each stroke would get
reloaded with a dummy colour.
This commit fixes makes it possible to copy/paste strokes between datablocks
again. However, there are still problems when trying to paste across file
boundaries (i.e. copy strokes in one file, paste in another), which the next
commit will address.
faces.
This was requested by script writers. Especially needed if beveling
wire edges with vertex_only.
Should be backward compatible as just adds two new keys to returned
dict in python ('edges' and 'verts').
Was internally a no-op operation, which only caused extra work
to be done during depsgrpah traversal and evaluation, without
making any measurable improvement.
