It has been deprecated since at least macOS 10.9 and fully removed in 10.12.
I am unsure if we should remove it only in 2.8. But you cannot build blender with it supported when using a modern xcode version anyway so I would tend towards just removing it also for 2.79 if that ever happens.
Reviewers: mont29, dfelinto, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T52807
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2333
For the first bounce we now give each BSDF or BSSRDF a minimum sample weight,
which helps reduce noise for a typical case where you have a glossy BSDF with
a small weight due to Fresnel, but not necessarily small contribution relative
to a diffuse or transmission BSDF below.
We can probably find a better heuristic that also enables this on further
bounces, for example when looking through a perfect mirror, but I wasn't able
to find a robust one so far.
Similar to what we did for area lights previously, this should help
preserve stratification when using multiple BSDFs in theory. Improvements
are not easily noticeable in practice though, because the number of BSDFs
is usually low. Still nice to eliminate one sampling dimension.
Previously the Sobol pattern suffered from some correlation issues that
made the outline of objects like a smoke domain visible. This helps
simplify the code and also makes some other optimizations possible.
Now we replace O(N^2) computational complexity with O(N) extra memory penalty.
Memory is much cheaper than CPU time. Keep in mind, memory penalty is like
4 megabytes per 1M vertices.
The issue here was that removing datablock from main database will poke editors
update, which includes buttons context to free users of texture. Since Cycles
will free datablocks from job thread, it might crash Blender since main thread
might be in the middle of drawing.
Solved by exposing extra arguments to bpy.data.foo.remove() which indicates
whether we want to perform ID user count and interface updates. While scripts
shouldn't be using those normally, this is the only way to allow Cycles to skip
interface update when removing datablock.
Reviewers: mont29
Reviewed By: mont29
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2840
Rather than treating all ray types equally, we now always render 1 glossy
bounce and unlimited transmission bounces. This makes it possible to get
good looking results with low AO bounces settings, making it useful to
speed up interior renders for example.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2818
Previously we used a 1D sequence to select a light, and another 2D sequence
to sample a point on the light. For multiple lights this meant each light
would get a random subset of a 2D stratified sequence, which is not
guaranteed to be stratified anymore.
Now we use only a 2D sequence, split into segments along the X axis, one for
each light. The samples that fall within a segment then each are a stratified
sequence, at least in the limit. So for example for two lights, we split up
the unit square into two segments [0,0.5[ x [0,1[ and [0.5,1[ x [0,1[.
This doesn't make much difference in most scenes, mainly helps if you have a
few large area lights or some types of HDR backgrounds.
This causes render differences in some scenes, for example fishy_cat
and pabellon scenes render brighter in a few spots. This is an old
bug, not due to recent RR changes.
Disabled forceinline for those architectures, which seems to be compiling
successfully more often.
There might be ~3% slowdown based on quick tests, but better be rendering
something rather than failing to compile kernels again and again.
Those architectures will be doomed for abandon once we'll switch to toolkit 9.
Empty BVH nodes are set to NaN which must be preserved all the way to the
tnear <= tfar test which can then give false for empty nodes. This needs
strict semantices and careful argument ordering for min() and max(), so
the second argument is used if either of the arguments is NaN.
Fixes T52635: crash in BVH traversal with SSE4.1.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2828
One problem is that it was always using __mm_blendv_ps emulation even if the
instruction was supported. The other that the emulation function was wrong.
Thanks a lot to Ray Molenkamp for tracking this one down.
