There is one legit place in the code where memcpy was used as an
optimization trick. Was needed for older version of GCC, but now
it should be re-evaluated and checked if it still helps to have
that trick.
In other places it's somewhat lazy programming to zero out all
object members. That is absolutely unsafe, at the moment when
less trivial class is used as a member in that object things
will break.
Other cases were using memcpy into an object which comes from
an external library. We don't control that object, and we can
not guarantee it will always be safe for such memory tricks
and debugging bugs caused by such low level access is far fun.
Ideally we need to use more proper C++, but needs to be done with
big care, including benchmarks of each change, For now do
annoying but simple cast to void*.
This is in preparation of making Transform affine only, and also gives us
a little extra type safety so we don't accidentally treat it as a regular
4x4 matrix.
Adds the code to get screen size of a point in world space, which is
used for subdividing geometry to the correct level. The approximate
method of treating the point as if it were directly in front of the
camera is used, as panoramic projections can become very distorted
near the edges of an image. This should be fine for most uses.
There is also no support yet for offscreen dicing scale, though
panorama cameras are often used for rendering 360° renders anyway.
Fixes T49254.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2468
The offscreen dicing scale helps to significantly reduce memory usage,
by reducing the dicing rate for objects the further they are outside of
the camera view.
The dicing camera can be specified now, to keep the geometry fixed and
avoid crawling artifacts in animation. It is also useful for debugging,
to see the tesselation from a different camera location.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2891
The idea is to make include statements more explicit and obvious where the
file is coming from, additionally reducing chance of wrong header being
picked up.
For example, it was not obvious whether bvh.h was refferring to builder
or traversal, whenter node.h is a generic graph node or a shader node
and cases like that.
Surely this might look obvious for the active developers, but after some
time of not touching the code it becomes less obvious where file is coming
from.
This was briefly mentioned in T50824 and seems @brecht is fine with such
explicitness, but need to agree with all active developers before committing
this.
Please note that this patch is lacking changes related on GPU/OpenCL
support. This will be solved if/when we all agree this is a good idea to move
forward.
Reviewers: brecht, lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto, juicyfruit, swerner
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto
Subscribers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2586
The idea of pole merge is to fade interocular distance after a certain
altitude to zero when altitude goes closer to a pole. This should prevent
annoyances looking up in the sky or down to the bottom.
Works for both panorama and perspective cameras when Spherical Stereo
is enabled.
Reviewers: dfelinto, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1998
This commit makes remove_table skip the freeing if the offset is
already set to invalid - or, if it wasn't, set it to invalid after freeing.
That's what the current code was already doing in the Manager classes,
this change allows them to just call remove without the additional code.
Also, two potential memory leaks where new tables were always allocated
without freeing the old ones are fixed.
Reviewers: sergey, dingto, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1974
NOTE: this is only the first of many patches towards completing the subdivison
and displacement system in Cycles. These patches will be reviewed and committed
one by one over the coming weeks.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1909
This is a new option for panorama cameras to render
stereo that can be used in virtual reality devices
The option is available under the camera panel when Multi-View is enabled (Views option in the Render Layers panel)
Known limitations:
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* Parallel convergence is not supported (you need to set a convergence distance really high to simulate this effect).
* Pivot was not supposed to affect the render but it does, this has to be looked at, but for now set it to CENTER
* Derivatives in perspective camera need to be pre-computed or we shuld get rid of kcam->dx/dy (Sergey words, I don't fully grasp the implication shere)
* This works in perspective mode and in panorama mode. However, for fully benefit from this effect in perspective mode you need to render a cube map. (there is an addon for this, developed separately, perhaps we could include it in master).
* We have no support for "neck distance" at the moment. This is supposed to help with objects at short distances.
* We have no support to rotate the "Up Axis" of the stereo plane. Meaning, we hardcode 0,0,1 as UP, and create the stereo pair related to that. (although we could take the camera local UP when rendering panoramas, this wouldn't work for perspective cameras.
* We have no support for interocular distance attenuation based on the proximity of the poles (which helps to reduce the pole rotation effect/artifact).
THIS NEEDS DOCS - both in 2.78 release log and the Blender manual.
Meanwhile you can read about it here: http://code.blender.org/2015/03/1451
This patch specifically dates from March 2015, as you can see in the code.blender.org post. Many thanks to all the reviewers, testers and minor sponsors who helped me maintain spherical-stereo for 1 year.
All that said, have fun with this. This feature was what got me started with Multi-View development (at the time what I was looking for was Fulldome stereo support, but the implementation is the same). In order to make this into Blender I had to make it aiming at a less-specic user-case Thus Multi-View started. (this was December 2012, during Siggraph Asia and a chat I had with Paul Bourke during the conference). I don't have the original patch anymore, but you can find a re-based version of it from March 2013, right before I start with the Multi-View project https://developer.blender.org/P332
Reviewers: sergey, dingto
Subscribers: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1223
This is an attempt to emulate real CMOS cameras which reads sensor by scanlines
and hence different scanlines are sampled at a different moment in time, which
causes so called rolling shutter effect. This effect will, for example, make
vertical straight lines being curved when doing horizontal camera pan.
This is controlled by the Shutter Type option in the Motion Blur panel.
Additionally, since scanline sampling is not instantaneous it's possible to have
motion blur on top of rolling shutter.
This is controlled by the Rolling Shutter Time slider which controls balance
between pure rolling shutter effect and pure motion blur effect.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, keir
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1624
Summary: By calculating the Camera-to-Screen-Matrix first, one inversion can be saved in the Camera sync.
It won't really improve speed and/or precision, it's mainly a small cleanup.
Reviewers: sergey, dingto
Subscribers:
Previously shutter was instantly opening, staying opened for the shutter time
period of time and then instantly closing. This isn't quite how real cameras
are working, where shutter is opening with some curve. Now it is possible to
define user curve for how much shutter is opened across the sampling period
of time.
This could be used for example to make motion blur trails softer.
This adds an option to control at what time relative to the current frame
the shutter is fully opened. Supported options are:
- Shutter is starting to open at the current frame
- Shutter is fully opened at the current frame
- Shutter is fully closed at the current frame
Custom shutter time offset is possible, same as custom curve for shutter
openness but those are considered nice things to have rather than something
crucial.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto
Subscribers: venomgfx, hjalti
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1380
Works totally similar to camera motion blur and majority of the changes are
related on just passing extra arguments to sync() functions.
Couple of things still to look into:
- Motion pass will not include motion caused by the zoom.
- Only perspective cameras are supported currently.
- Motion is being interpolated on projected coordinates, which might give
different results from constructing projection matrix from interpolated
field of view.
This could be good enough for us, but we need to consider improving this
at some point.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto
Reviewed By: dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1383
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.
IN theory object might depend on camera location (spatial adaptive subdivisions
for example) which became not possible to achieve after camera in volume support.
Should be no functional changes for artists.
The issue was caused by the whole viewplane used for mapping calculation
which would for sure lead to differences between final camera render and
viewport render from the camera view.
This commit makes it so window texture mapping is the same as final render
when viewing from the camera in viewport render.
It's not totally clear what's the right thing to do when viewport is not
in the camera view mode and that part is left unchanged.
This patch adds the option to set minimum/maximum latitude/longitude values for
the equirectangular panorama camera in Cycles, as discussed in T34400.
The separate functions in kernel_projection.h are needed because the regular
ones are also used as helper functions for environment map sampling.
Reviewers: #cycles, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, sergey
Subscribers: dingto, sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D960
This means it's no longer needed to enable experimental feature set in order to
have proper camera in volume support. And this also means if there's something
wrong going on, or if there's speed regression for cases when camera is obviously
not in the volume -- this issues are to be reported and handled in the regular
matter.
Happy blending!
