Meshes with Cycles subdivision were being transformed to world space leading to
normals to sometimes be calculated in that space, while they should be in
object space. Also caused dicing to happen at the wrong rate for scaled meshes.
Displacement is now a per material setting, which means old files will have to
be updated if they had used displacement. Cool side effect of this change is
material previews now show displacement.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2140
Enables Catmull-Clark subdivision meshes with support for creases and attribute
subdivision. Still waiting on OpenSubdiv to fully support face varying
interpolation for subdividing uv coordinates tho. Also there may be some
inconsistencies with Blender's subdivision which will be resolved at a
later time.
Code for reading patch tables and creating patch maps is borrowed
from OpenSubdiv.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2111
Currently cycles cannot correctly render motion blur for objects that appear or
disappear during the shutter window. Until that can be fixed properly, it may be
better to hide such particles rather than let them render as if they were
stationary for half of the frame.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2125
In certain types of animation it's possible to have some objects
scaling to zero. In this case we can save render times by avoid
traversing such instances.
Better to do ti ahead of a time, so traversal stays simple.
Reviewers: lukasstockner97, dingto, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2048
Mainly makes logging less verbose when doing progressive sampling in viewport.
Such kind of verbosity is not really possible to be filtered out with `grep`
so let's reshuffle few lines of code.
Simple idea, use threads when dealing with "Copying Transformations to device"
scene update step. Only do it if there's enough objects in the scene.
Hopefully only brings less synchronization time and doesn't break anything.
From tests on my desktop this brings down transform update time from 58sec to
11sec on victor_cpu.blend scene from out benchmark.
This commit makes it so casting subsurface rays will totally ignore all
the BVH nodes and primitives which do not belong to a current object,
making it much simpler traversal code and reduces number of intersection
tests.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1823
From artists perspective it makes sense to always apply displacement in a local
space.
TODO: Double-check that BVH is being packed properly. From quick tests seems it's
all fine, but might be missing some obvious failure still.
The issue was caused by the reshuffle needed to make objects flags have proper
object's bounding box to solve regressions in SSS objects intersecting volumes.
There's actually a feedback loop happening here, which is now solved in quite
naive way -- for the true displacement we consider all objects are capable of
intersecting volumes, synchronize object flags prior to displacement shader
tasks runs and then re-update object flags for proper bounding box.
Not sure what will be the proper solution here, we can't do preliminary check
of intersection for displacement shader, but on the other hand we don't really
need this flag for displacement shader anyway.
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.
Issue was caused by wrong order of scene device update, which could
lead to missing object flags in shader kernel.
This patch solves a bit more than that making sure objects flags are
always properly updated, so adding/removing volume BSDF will properly
reflect on viewport where camera might become being in volume and so.
So now cases when object has both hair motion blur and deformation motion blur
vector pass is all correct.
We could get rid of the flag in the future, still need to look deeper into all
the areas trying to find a more clear solution.
This way there's much less cross-references between objects and meshes
device update functions.
The only thing remained s the object bounds calculation which is needed
by bvh update. This could also be decoupled, but it's not that crucial
yet because its's how it used to be for ages now.
This adds an AABB collision check for objects with volumes and if there's a
collision detected then the object will have SD_OBJECT_INTERSECTS_VOLUME flag.
This solves a speed regression introduced by the fix for T39823 by skipping
volume stack update in cases no volumes intersects the current SSS object.
The idea is to only count intersections with objects which has volumetric shader
and ignore all other objects.
This is probably as fast as we can go without involving some forth level magic.
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.
Fix T41115: Motion Blur renders Objects Black - But not in Viewport Preview
This actually extends previous fix to normals and makes it all much nicer now.
Worth doing some intense testing, quick one worked just fine but there always
could be some corner cases.
Fix T41079: Solid black render of object with negative scale and smooth shading
In both cases the issue was caused by negative scaled objects with single mesh
users for which scale gets applied when using static BVH.
Since the on-fly normals calculation land normals for such cases weren't flipped
leading them to point to a wrong direction.
Added a special object flag for this, which is a bit of a bummer because now
we've got less bits for real useful things, but this is the only way to get
proper normals without adding more complexity in the on-fly calculations.
This now supports multiple steps and subframe sampling of motion.
There is one difference for object and camera transform motion blur. It still
only supports two steps there, but the transforms are now sampled at subframe
times instead of the previous and next frame and then interpolated/extrapolated.
This will give different render results in some cases but it's more accurate.
Part of the code is from the summer of code project by Gavin Howard, but it has
been significantly rewritten and extended.
Problem is that the particle systems in the cycles database are not
stored in a well-defined order. This means the particle_id for dupli
objects can not simply be assigned using a global running index during
sync.
Now the particle index is assigned locally for each particle system.
When transferring particle data to the device as a single texture, the
particle indices are offset based on the final order of particle systems
in the database.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: Andreas80
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D352
