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.
I don't see a reason not to do this, and this also fixes update problems when 3D View rendering is running (no volume shader), and then a volume shader gets added.
Thanks for Aldo Zang for the help with the fix for the panorama/fisheye
depth of field calculation and the overall math.
Reviewed By: sergey, dingto
Subscribers: juicyfruit, gregzaal, #cycles, dingto, matray
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D753
This was originally caused by a6ae12a where i didn't foresee unclear distinguishing
between empty and non-synced meshes will give issues for the viewport. They're the
same for final rendering, but for viewport we need to be accurate here.
This problem was introduced in 983cbafd18
Basically the issue is that we were not getting a unique index in the
baking routine for the RNG (random number generator).
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D749
It now uses the tile size to split the job. For CPU this may add
overhead, but for GPU this is highly needed.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D690
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.
(original patch by Sergey Sharybin)
Note: RNA API can't use size_t at the moment. Once it does this patch
can be tweaked a bit to fully benefit from size_t larger dimensions.
(right now num_pixels is passed as int)
Reviewed By: sergey, campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D688
Baking progress preview is not possible, in parts due to the way the API
was designed. But at least you get to see the progress bar while baking.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D656
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.
Fix T41013: OSL and Crash
Fix T40989: Intermittent crash clicking material color selector
Issue was caused by not enough precision for inversion threshold.
Use double precision for this threshold now. We might want to
investigate this code a bit more further, stock implementation
uses doubles for all computation. Using floats might be a reason
of bad rows distribution in theory.
It turns out that the new Beckmann sampling function doesn't work well with
Quasi Monte Carlo sampling, mainly near normal incidence where it can be worse
than the previous sampler. In the new sampler the random number pattern gets
split in two, warped and overlapped, which hurts the stratification, see the
visualization in the differential revision.
Now we use a precomputed table, which is much better behaved. GGX does not seem
to benefit from using a precomputed table.
Disadvantage is that this table adds 1MB of memory usage and 0.03s startup time
to every render (on my quad core CPU).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D614
* Anisotropic BSDF now supports GGX and Beckmann distributions, Ward has been
removed because other distributions are superior.
* GGX is now the default distribution for all glossy and anisotropic nodes,
since it looks good, has low noise and is fast to evaluate.
* Ashikhmin-Shirley is now available in the Glossy BSDF.
* Ashikhmin-Shirley anisotropic BSDF was added as closure
* Anisotropic BSDF node now has two distributions
Reviewers: brecht, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D549
This gives you "Multiple Importance", "Distance" and "Equiangular" choices.
What multiple importance sampling does is make things more robust to certain
types of noise at the cost of a bit more noise in cases where the individual
strategies are always better.
So if you've got a pretty dense volume that's lit from far away then distance
sampling is usually more efficient. If you've got a light inside or near the
volume then equiangular sampling is better. If you have a combination of both,
then the multiple importance sampling will be better.
* Volume multiple importace sampling support to combine equiangular and distance
sampling, for both homogeneous and heterogeneous volumes.
* Branched path "Sample All Direct Lights" and "Sample All Indirect Lights" now
apply to volumes as well as surfaces.
Implementation note:
For simplicity this is all done with decoupled ray marching, the only case we do
not use decoupled is for distance only sampling with one light sample. The
homogeneous case should still compile on the GPU because it only requires fixed
size storage, but the heterogeneous case will be trickier to get working.
* Added support for uchar4 attributes to Cycles' attribute system.
* This is used for Vertex Colors now, which saves some memory (4 unsigned characters, instead of 4 floats).
* GPU Texture Limit on sm_20 and sm_21 decreased from 95 to 94, because we need a new texture for the uchar4 attributes. This is no problem for sm_30 or newer.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
Instead of pre-calculation and storage, we now calculate the face normal during render.
This gives a small slowdown (~1%) but decreases memory usage, which is especially important for GPUs,
where you have limited VRAM.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
This makes the code a bit easier to understand, and might come in handy
if we want to reuse more Embree code.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D482
Code by Brecht, with fixes by Lockal, Sergey and myself.
This means packed images and movies are now supported when using OSL
backend for material shading.
Uses special file name to distinguish whether image is builtin or not.
This part might become a bit smarted or optimized a bit, but it's good
enough with this implementation already.
Now baking does one AA sample at a time, just like final render. There is
also some code for shader antialiasing that solves T40369 but it is disabled
for now because there may be unpredictable side effects.
