The title says it all actually. From tests with barber shop scene here
gives 2-3x speedup for shader compilation on my oldie i7 machine. The
gain is mainly due to textures metadata query from jpeg files (which
seems to requite de-compression before metadata can be read). But in
theory could give nice improvements for scenes with huge node trees
as well (i'm talking about node trees of complexity of fractal which
we had reports about in the past).
Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: monio, Blendify
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2215
Constant folding was removing all nodes connected to the displacement output
if they evaluated to a constant, causing there to be no valid graph for
displacement even when there was displacement to be applied, and sometimes
caused crashes.
Using ones complement for detecting if transform has been applied was confusing
and led to several bugs. With this proper checks are made.
Also added a few transforms where they were missing, mostly affecting baking
and displacement when `P` is used in the shader (previously `P` was in the
wrong space for these shaders)
Also removed `TIME_INVALID` as this may have resulted in incorrect
transforms in some cases.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2192
Bump mapping was happening in world space while displacement happens in object
space, causing shading errors when displacement type was used with bump mapping.
To fix this the proper transforms are added to bump nodes. This is only done
for automatic bump mapping however, to avoid visual changes from other uses of
bump mapping. It would be nice to do this for all bump mapping to be consistent
but that will have to wait till we can break compatibility.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2191
Most of the time, Lamps in Cycles are just a constant emission closure, no texturing etc. Therefore, running a full shader evaluation is wasteful.
To avoid that, Cycles now detects these constant emission shaders and stores their value in the lamp data along with a flag in the shader.
Then, at runtime, if this flag is set, the lamp code just uses this value and only runs the full shader evaluation if it is neccessary.
In scenes with a lot of lamps and with "Sample all direct/indirect" enabled, this saves up to 20% of rendering time in my tests.
Reviewers: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2193
The two SVM nodes added with e7ea1ae78c caused a slowdown on AMD cards when rendering with OpenCL, whether displacement was used or not.
In the Barcelona Pavillon scene on a RX480, this would cause a 12% slowdown.
Therefore, this commit adds a additional flag for feature-adaptive compilation so that the new SVM nodes are only enabled when they are needed (Node tree connected to the Displacement output and Displacement type set to Both).
Also, the nodes were also added to shaders when the Displacement Type was set to Bump (the default), which was unneccessary and is fixed now.
Thanks to linda2 on IRC for reporting and testing and to maiself for help with the displacement shader code.
This fix might be relevant for 2.78, but it should be tested further before including it.
Object coordinates can now be used in the displacement shader and will give
correct results, where as before bump mapping was calculated from the displace
positions and resulted in incorrect shading.
This works by evaluating the shader in two parts, first bump then surface, and
setting the shader state to match what it would be if the surface was
undisplaced for the bump shader evaluation. Currently only `P` is set as if
undisplaced, but other shader variables could be set as well, such as `I` or
`time`. Since these aren't set to anything meaningful for displacement I left
them out of this patch, we can decide what to do with them separately.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2156
Storing multiple copies of a shader was needed when the displacement method was
a mesh option and could be different for each mesh. Now that its a shader option
this is unnecessary.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2156
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.
Changes from microdisplacement work broke previous support for subdivision
meshes, sometimes leading to crashes; this makes things work again. Files
that contain "patch" nodes will need to be updated to use meshes instead, as
specifying patches was both inefficient and completely unsupported by the new
subdivision code.
The if branches were reordered when the original patch was
committed, which broke the implicit non-NULL guarantee on link.
To prevent re-occurrence, add a couple of unit tests.
This reverts commit 40b367479c6fe23d6f2b6d822f2d5266485619f3.
Didn't build or solve any known issue. Please don't push changes without
testing them first.
These latter can cause MSVC debug asserts if the array is empty. With C++11
we'll be able to do this for std::vector later. This hopefully fixes an assert
in the Cycles subdivision code.
Kernels can now be built without patch evaluation when not needed by the
scene (Catmull-Clark subdivision not in use), giving a performance boost
for some devices.
By calling `tessellate()` from the mesh manager in Cycles we can do pre/post
processing or even threaded tessellation without concerning client side code
with the details.
This way OpenCL devices can also benefit from a smaller memory footprint, when using e.g. bumpmaps (greyscale, 1 channel).
Additional target for my GSoC 2016.
Now we have the 4 component ones first (float4, byte4, half4) followed by the 1 component ones (float, byte, half).
Makes code a bit more consistent and also reduces code a bit when enabling half support on GPU in next commit.
This also exposed a typo in half CPU images for 3D textures, which wasn't used yet, but good to have that one fixed anyway.
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
Adds a descriptor for attributes that can easily be passed around and extended
to contain more data. Will be used for attributes on subdivision meshes.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2110
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
As a result of other folding simplifications it may happen that
two type conversion nodes end up directly connected. In some
cases it may be possible to then remove both. A realistic case
might be an optimized out Mix RGB node used to blend vectors.
It seems it's safe to optimize when B is a float3 type
(color, vector), and A is float3 or float.
Reviewers: #cycles, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, sergey
Subscribers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2134
Code coverage of different combinations of secondary conditions
is obviously not complete because there are so many of them, but
all main rules should be there.
The reason for CORRECT vs INVALID is that both words have the same
number of characters so calls line up, but look quite different.
Reviewers: #cycles, sergey
Reviewed By: #cycles, sergey
Subscribers: dingto, sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2130
These values often either turn the node into a no-op, or even make it
evaluate to 0 no matter what the other input value is, thus allowing
deletion of a branch of the node graph that otherwise is not constant.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2085
These are complex nodes, and it's conceivable they may end up constant
in some circumstances within node groups, so folding support is useful.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2084
This commit adds some easy to use way to check whether the graph
was properly optimized. The idea is based on using mock glog sync
which keeps track on all messages and expects specific log message
to appear in the logging.
This means each optimization step should report that it optimized
something (specifying what exactly was optimized) and what was used
for optimization.
There's also some ease-ish way to define shader networks which we
might want to make a bit more global and available for all tests
in the future.
For now only RGBToBW node is covered as an example, really hope
to get help from active guys in the community to finish covering
all existing optimization cases. Ready to fix any possible issues
with builder when needed tho :)
Subdivision options can now be found in the subsurf modifier. The modifier must
be the last in the stack or the options will be unavailable. Catmull-Clark
subdivision is still unavailable and will fallback to linear subdivision instead
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2109
This adds support for ngons and attributes on subdivision meshes. Ngons are
needed for proper attribute interpolation as well as correct Catmull-Clark
subdivision. Several changes are made to achieve this:
- new primitive `SubdFace` added to `Mesh`
- 3 more textures are used to store info on patches from subd meshes
- Blender export uses loop interface instead of tessface for subd meshes
- `Attribute` class is updated with a simplified way to pass primitive counts
around and to support ngons.
- extra points for ngons are generated for O(1) attribute interpolation
- curves are temporally disabled on subd meshes to avoid various bugs with
implementation
- old unneeded code is removed from `subd/`
- various fixes and improvements
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2108
