The idea is to have separate sets per node name in order to speed up the
comparison process. This will use a bit more memory and slow down simple
shaders, but this extra memory is not so much huge and time penalty is
not really measurable (at least from initial tests).
This saves orders of magnitude seconds when de-duplicating 17K nodes and
overall process now takes 0.01sec on my laptop,
The idea of this commit is to merge nodes which has identical settings
and matching inputs into a single node in order to minimize number of
SVM instructions.
This is quite simple bottom-top graph traversal and the trickiest part
is how to compare node settings without too much trouble which seems to
be solved is quite clean way.
Still possibilities for further improvements:
- Support comparison of BSDF nodes
- Support comparison of volume nodes
- Support comparison of curve mapping/ramp nodes
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1673
This is actually intended behavior to return NULL when the socket is not
found. It's used in certain BSDF nodes to query whether some inputs exists
or not.
Perhaps we can be more explicit here and have dedicated logic to query
socket existance and keep assert in place.
In any case, even if we lost assert() for the constant fold now it's
still somewhat better than duplicated code. Perhaps.
This way, connecting Value or RGB node to e.g. a Math node will still allow folding.
Note: The same should be done for the ConvertNode, but I leave that for another day.
This reduces stress on the the stack memory which could be really handy
on certain operation systems which applies strict limits on the stack.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1656
Graph::disconnect() actually modifies links, needs to create a copy to iterate
if disconnect happens form inside the loop.
Question tho whether we can control this somehow..
Reported by BzztPloink in IRC, thanks!
The issue was caused by not really optimal graph traversal for gathering nodes
dependencies which could have exponential complexity with a long tree branches
connected with multiple connections between them.
Now we optimize the depth traversal and perform early output if the node was
already traversed.
Please note that this adds some limitations to the use of SVM compiler's
find_dependencies() in the cases when skip_node is not NULL and one wants to
perform dependencies find sequentially with the same set. This doesn't happen
in the code, but one should be aware of this.
The issue was than nodes dependencies were stored as set<ShaderNode*> which
is actually a so called "strict weak ordered", meaning order of nodes in
the set is strictly defined, but based on the ShaderNode pointer. This means
that between different render invokations order of original nodes could be
different due to different pointers allocated for ShaderNode.
This commit makes it so dependencies and maps used for ShaderNodes are based
on the node->id which has much more predictable order. It's still possible
to trick the system by doing some crazy edits during viewport rendfer and
cause difference between viewport and final render stacks.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1630
Basically we can not use sharp closure as a substitude when filter glossy is
used. This is because we can not blur sharp reflection/refraction.
This is quite quick and not really clean implementation. Not really happy
with manual handling of original settings, but this is as good as we can do
in the quick patch. It's a good acknowledgment and we now can re-consider
some aspects of graph simplification to make such cases more natively
supported.
P.S. This failure would have been shown by our regression tests, so please,
bother a bit to run Cycles's test sweep before doing such optimizations.
We fallback to Sharp closures for Glossy, Glass and Refraction nodes now, in case the Roughness input is disconnected and 0 (< 1e-4f to be exact).
This way we gain a few percentages of performance, in case the user did not manually set the closure type to "Sharp" in the UI.
Sharp will probably be removed from the UI as a followup, not needed anymore with this internal optimization.
Original idea by Lukas Stockner(Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1439), code implementation by myself.
It can't be simply removed in cases when it's connected to input which is
different from Normal. This is because the input wouldn't be connected to
default Normal geometry input, possibly breaking shading setup.
The fix is not really ideal, but should work at least.
This fixes skin having too much glossy reflection in the file from T46013.
Bump result was passed to set_normal node and then set_node was connected
to all unconnected Normal inputs, including the one from original Bump
node, causing cycles.
* If a Background node is set to a black color or zero strength,
it now gets removed from the shader graph.
* In case the graph is empty (no background node), the kernel will skip
evaluating it and save some rendertime. This can help quite a bit in scenes,
where the majority of the image consists of a black background.
Example: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=82650
In this case the render is ~16% faster.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D972
This is rather useful to see how good optimization went and so.
Currently uses quite simple notation: shader nodes are nodes on the
graph, connects between graph nodes are named by the sockets names,
so i.e. connection between BSDF and Mix would be named bsdf:closure1.
Could be improved in the feature to draw fancier graph, but it's good
enough already.
Use in the following way:
- To create graphix file call graph->dump_graph("graph.dot")
- To visualize the grapf call: dot -Tpng graph.dot -o graph.png
Basically the same as AC2c58e96685e8, but for Mix RGB Shaders, in case we use the Mix type. This way the node can be used as texture switch for example, setting the Factor to 0.0 or 1.0, without wasting extra memory / render time.
This was the original code to get things working on old GPUs, but now it is no
longer in use and various features in fact depend on this to work correctly to
the point that enabling this code is too buggy to be useful.
This does not support staying fixed while the surface deforms, but for static
meshes it should match up with the surface texture coordinates. Implemented
as a matrix transform from objects space to mesh texture space.
Making this work for deforming surfaces would be quite complicated, you might
need something like harmonic coordinates as used in the mesh deform modifier,
probably will not be possible anytime soon.
texture coordinate that should automatically use the default normal or texture
coordinate appropriate for that node, rather than some fixed value specified by
the user.
