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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Brecht Van Lommel
400e6f37b8 Cycles: reduce subsurface stack memory usage.
This is done by storing only a subset of PathRadiance, and by storing
direct light immediately in the main PathRadiance. Saves about 10% of
CUDA stack memory, and simplifies subsurface indirect ray code.
2017-09-28 15:18:43 +02:00
Mai Lavelle
915766f42d Cycles: Branched path tracing for the split kernel
This implements branched path tracing for the split kernel.

General approach is to store the ray state at a branch point, trace the
branched ray as normal, then restore the state as necessary before iterating
to the next part of the path. A state machine is used to advance the indirect
loop state, which avoids the need to add any new kernels. Each iteration the
state machine recreates as much state as possible from the stored ray to keep
overall storage down.

Its kind of hard to keep all the different integration loops in sync, so this
needs lots of testing to make sure everything is working correctly. We should
probably start trying to deduplicate the integration loops more now.

Nonbranched BMW is ~2% slower, while classroom is ~2% faster, other scenes
could use more testing still.

Reviewers: sergey, nirved

Reviewed By: nirved

Subscribers: Blendify, bliblubli

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2611
2017-05-02 14:26:46 -04:00
Hristo Gueorguiev
57e26627c4 Cycles: SSS and Volume rendering in split kernel
Decoupled ray marching is not supported yet.

Transparent shadows are always enabled for volume rendering.

Changes in kernel/bvh and kernel/geom are from Sergey.
This simiplifies code significantly, and prepares it for
record-all transparent shadow function in split kernel.
2017-03-09 17:09:37 +01:00