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62bf24a5c3 Cycles: experimental OpenSubdiv code.
This code can't actually be enabled for building and is incomplete, but it's
here because we know we want to support this at some point and there's not much
reason to have it in a separate branch if a simple #ifdef can disable it.
2013-11-28 02:11:42 +01:00
44d1c92e60 Cycles: add ptex face ID and UV attributes.
Not the most memory efficient way to store these things but it's simple and
implementing it better requires some work to natively support subd grids as
a primitive in some way.
2013-11-28 02:11:42 +01:00
731ffd3cd4 Cycles: remove approximate subdivision surface with gregory patches code.
It was never fully implemented and will be replaced by OpenSubdiv. Only linear
subdivision remains now. Also includes some refactoring in the split/dice code,
adding a SubdParams struct to pass around parameters more easily.
2013-11-28 02:11:42 +01:00
Brecht Van Lommel
b9ce231060 Cycles: relicense GNU GPL source code to Apache version 2.0.
More information in this post:
http://code.blender.org/

Thanks to all contributes for giving their permission!
2013-08-18 14:16:15 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
9e4914e055 Cycles:
* Revert r57203 (len() renaming)
There seems to be a problem with nVidia OpenCL after this and I haven't figured out the real cause yet. 
Better to selectively enable native length() later, after figuring out what's wrong. 

This fixes [#35612].
2013-06-04 17:20:00 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
c5ed6765b9 Cycles / Math functions:
* Rename some math functions:
len -> length
len_squared -> length_squared
normalize_len -> normalize_length

* This way OpenCL uses its inbuilt length() function, rather than our own. The other two functions have been renamed for consistency. 
* Tested CPU, CUDA and OpenCL compile, should be no functional changes.
2013-06-02 20:39:32 +00:00
Thomas Dinges
7636aeffe1 Cycles / Math:
* Add M_2PI_F and M_4PI_F constants and use them inside the codebase.
2013-05-12 14:13:29 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
57cf48e7c6 Cycles Hair: refactoring to support generic attributes for hair curves. There
should be no functional changes yet. UV, tangent and intercept are now stored
as attributes, with the intention to add more like multiple uv's, vertex
colors, generated coordinates and motion vectors later.

Things got a bit messy due to having both triangle and curve data in the same
mesh data structure, which also gives us two sets of attributes. This will get
cleaned up when we split the mesh class.
2013-01-03 12:08:54 +00:00
Campbell Barton
f3ece5a108 style cleanup: trailing tabs & expand some non prefix tabs into spaces. 2012-10-21 05:46:41 +00:00
Campbell Barton
536d9fec80 code cleanup:
- move object_iterators.c --> view3d_iterators. (ED_object.h had to include ED_view3d.h which isn't so nice)
- move projection functions from view3d_view.c --> view3d_project.c (view3d_view was becoming a mishmash of utility functions and operators).
- some some cmake includes as system-includes.
2012-10-17 04:13:03 +00:00
Campbell Barton
b0c7c8756f code cleanup: cycles now uses system includes for boost/oiio.. etc, so we dont get warnings from system headers. 2012-09-20 09:04:43 +00:00
Campbell Barton
9b51503307 style cleanup 2012-07-21 22:58:08 +00:00
Campbell Barton
c6cffe98fa code cleanup: removed/renamed shadow & duplicate variable definitions. 2012-06-09 18:20:40 +00:00
Campbell Barton
0fbb6bff27 style cleanup: block comments 2012-06-09 17:22:52 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
1d8c798188 Cycles: support for motion vector and UV passes.
Most of the changes are related to adding support for motion data throughout
the code. There's some code for actual camera/object motion blur raytracing
but it's unfinished (it badly slows down the raytracing kernel even when the
option is turned off), so that code it disabled still.

Motion vector export from Blender tries to avoid computing derived meshes
when the mesh does not have a deforming modifier, and it also won't store
motion vectors for every vertex if only the object or camera is moving.
2012-04-30 12:49:26 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
07b2241fb1 Cycles: merging features from tomato branch.
=== BVH build time optimizations ===

* BVH building was multithreaded. Not all building is multithreaded, packing
  and the initial bounding/splitting is still single threaded, but recursive
  splitting is, which was the main bottleneck.

* Object splitting now uses binning rather than sorting of all elements, using
  code from the Embree raytracer from Intel.
  http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/embree-photo-realistic-ray-tracing-kernels/

* Other small changes to avoid allocations, pack memory more tightly, avoid
  some unnecessary operations, ...

These optimizations do not work yet when Spatial Splits are enabled, for that
more work is needed. There's also other optimizations still needed, in
particular for the case of many low poly objects, the packing step and node
memory allocation.

BVH raytracing time should remain about the same, but BVH build time should be
significantly reduced, test here show speedup of about 5x to 10x on a dual core
and 5x to 25x on an 8-core machine, depending on the scene.

=== Threads ===

Centralized task scheduler for multithreading, which is basically the
CPU device threading code wrapped into something reusable.

Basic idea is that there is a single TaskScheduler that keeps a pool of threads,
one for each core. Other places in the code can then create a TaskPool that they
can drop Tasks in to be executed by the scheduler, and wait for them to complete
or cancel them early.

=== Normal ====

Added a Normal output to the texture coordinate node. This currently
gives the object space normal, which is the same under object animation.

In the future this might become a "generated" normal so it's also stable for
deforming objects, but for now it's already useful for non-deforming objects.

=== Render Layers ===

Per render layer Samples control, leaving it to 0 will use the common scene
setting.

Environment pass will now render environment even if film is set to transparent.

Exclude Layers" added. Scene layers (all object that influence the render,
directly or indirectly) are shared between all render layers. However sometimes
it's useful to leave out some object influence for a particular render layer.
That's what this option allows you to do.

=== Filter Glossy ===

When using a value higher than 0.0, this will blur glossy reflections after
blurry bounces, to reduce noise at the cost of accuracy. 1.0 is a good
starting value to tweak.

Some light paths have a low probability of being found while contributing much
light to the pixel. As a result these light paths will be found in some pixels
and not in others, causing fireflies. An example of such a difficult path might
be a small light that is causing a small specular highlight on a sharp glossy
material, which we are seeing through a rough glossy material. With path tracing
it is difficult to find the specular highlight, but if we increase the roughness
on the material the highlight gets bigger and softer, and so easier to find.

Often this blurring will be hardly noticeable, because we are seeing it through
a blurry material anyway, but there are also cases where this will lead to a
loss of detail in lighting.
2012-04-28 08:53:59 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
93df58160e Fix #30966: cycles nan mesh vertices got set to (0, 0, 0), now remove them instead. 2012-04-16 08:35:21 +00:00
Campbell Barton
303cecf139 spelling cleanup: tesselate -> tessellate (last of these found) 2012-03-20 22:56:26 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
efe4ea284a Cycles:
* Fix broken compile of test app.
* Fix some warnings compiling with gcc for 32 bit.
* More tweaks to avoid extended precision issue from #29301.
2011-12-02 14:26:28 +00:00
Campbell Barton
33814e0093 edits to cycles cmake files so cmake_consistency_check.py can parse them. 2011-11-08 20:27:37 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
360fcd73fe Cycles:
* add some (disabled) test code for using OpenImageIO in imbuf
* link cycles, openimageio and boost into blender instead of a shared library
* some cmakefile changes to simplify the code and follow conventions better
* this may solve running cycles problems on windows XP, or give a different
  and hopefully more useful error message
2011-08-16 16:15:34 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
18d709022e Cycles: clang build fixes. 2011-08-10 19:45:08 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
2996f08f84 Cycles: first batch of windows build fixes, not quite there yet. 2011-05-03 18:29:11 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
774584d7e8 Cycles: hook up the CMake build system.
New build instructions for Ubuntu Linux in the wiki:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Cycles
2011-04-28 13:47:27 +00:00
Ton Roosendaal
da376e0237 Cycles render engine, initial commit. This is the engine itself, blender modifications and build instructions will follow later.
Cycles uses code from some great open source projects, many thanks them:

* BVH building and traversal code from NVidia's "Understanding the Efficiency of Ray Traversal on GPUs":
http://code.google.com/p/understanding-the-efficiency-of-ray-traversal-on-gpus/
* Open Shading Language for a large part of the shading system:
http://code.google.com/p/openshadinglanguage/
* Blender for procedural textures and a few other nodes.
* Approximate Catmull Clark subdivision from NVidia Mesh tools:
http://code.google.com/p/nvidia-mesh-tools/
* Sobol direction vectors from:
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~fkuo/sobol/
* Film response functions from:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/software/softlib/dorf.php
2011-04-27 11:58:34 +00:00