There were two issues:
1. Memory leak: std:;erase does not call delete on the
pointer (which is actually a good idea),
2. After MIS was disabled in viewport render there was
no way to bring MIS back.
Now instead of removing light from the scene data we
kind of tagging it for an ignore. Possible cleanup
would be to add Light::is_enabled and use that instead
of passing weird and wonderful function arguments.
The title says it all actually, the idea is to make Cycles
only requiring Boost via 3rd party dependencies like OIIO
and OSL.
So now there are only few places which still uses Boost:
- Foreach, function bindings and threading primitives.
Those we can easily get rid with C++11 bump (which seems
inevitable sooner or later if we'll want ot use newer
LLVM for OSL),
- Networking devices
There's no quick solution for those currently, but there
are some patches around which improves serialization.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, mont29, campbellbarton, brecht, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1764
This is an initial move to have unittests to at least cover
utility functions, which then could be extended further to
test such areas as shader optimization and such.
Currently only based on initial "infrastructure" layout and
writing tests needed to test the no-boost patch.
Note: This patch starts to use "<dir>/<header>.h" notation
for the include statements which i just got used to do in
other projects. Something what would be cool to use globally
in the code eventually.
Reviewers: dingto, juicyfruit, lukasstockner97, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1770
We've upgraded to Boost-1.60 and MSVC2013 since the workaround
was originally committed. After checks with current compiler and
libraries the original bug is no longer happening.
This will make string comparison much faster in Windows, solving
synchronization bottlenecks of fewzillion objects.
Thanks Martin Felke (aka scorpion81) for the tests!
This change the following values:
- World settings:
- Use MIS: On
- MIS Samples: 1
- MIS Resolution: 1024
Enabling World MIS per default won't make simple backgrounds (flat background color) slower,
see previous commit. This gets disabled internally if World MIS is not actually needed.
When World MIS is enabled by the user, we now check if we actually need it.
In case of a simple node setup (no procedurals, no HDRs..) we auto disable MIS internally to save render time.
This change is important for upcoming default changes.
The value was too high, causing bad Newton iteration step.
Now the value is not so good, but it's still within 9 iterations
and those high number of iterations are only happening in
approx 1% of input values.
The idea is simply to pre-compute fitting and parameterization
in the bssrdf_setup() function and re-use the values in both
sample() and eval().
The only trick is where to store the pre-calculated values and
the answer is inside of ShaderClosure->custom{1,2,3}. There's
no memory bump here because we now simply re-use padding fields
for the pre-calculated values. Similar trick we can do for other
BSDFs.
Seems to give nice speedup up to 7% here on my desktop with
Core i7 CPU, SSE4.1 kernel.
Only happened when rendering second time with OSL enabled.
Was caused by fix for T47201. Hopefully now all the issues
are solved (meaning, we don't keep files opened and don't
crash either).
This way we avoid passing structures which could be up to
few hundred bytes by value to the utility functions.
Ideally we'll also have to add `const` qualifier in majority
of the calls, but C++ RNA does not allow us to do that because
it does not know if some function modifies contents or not.
The idea is to switch from allocating separate buffers for shader data's
structure of arrays to allocating one huge memory block and do some index
trickery to make it accessed as SOA.
This saves quite reasonable amount of lines of code in device_opencl and
also makes it possible to get rid of special declaration of ShaderData
structure.
As a side effect it also makes it easier to experiment with SOA vs. AOS
for split kernel.
Works fine here on NVidia GTX580, Intel CPU amd AMD Fiji cards.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1593
Seems i was the only one who was really up to using it and
i do have gcc-5 finally backported and installed here so
such a fine-tune flags are no longer needed.
It was mainly unfinished code for volume in a split kernel which
should be done differently anyway to avoid such a code copy-paste.
The code didn't really work, so likely nobody will cry.
Use KernelGlobals to access all the global arrays for the intermediate
storage instead of passing all this storage things explicitly.
Tested here with Intel OpenCL, NVIDIA GTX580 and AMD Fiji, didn't see
any artifacts, so guess it's all good.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1736
The issue was caused by different AABB used by Cycles and texture sampler.
Instead of trying to keep this two functions in sync we now do have an
utility call in the point density node to query the AABB.
This changes the following defaults:
- Render settings:
* Samples: 100
* Preview Samples: 50
* Filter: Blackmann-Harris
* Tile Order: Hilbert Spiral
- Lamp settings:
* Use MIS: On
- Material settings:
* Volume Sampling: Multiple Importance
Old files are not affected, I tested the versioning code back and forth.
More changes are to come (World, BVH...) but that needs a bit more work.
Fix T47213.
There was actually no real bug here, just clarify now in the UI that Mesh, World and Lamp samples only have an effect if we sample all lights (direct or indirect).
The issue was discontinuity in logic when importing vertices from blender
and then importing data layers regardless of how we split the face. Quite
interesting we didn't notice this issue before.
Thanks Bastien for the investigation, based on D1742 but redid it to make
patch a bit more clear to follow.
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.
Now image will be opened for while render session is active, this is
needed to keep image cache working correctly. But stopping render
should now release all files descriptors.
