well as I would like, but it works, just add a subsurface scattering node and
you can use it like any other BSDF.
It is using fully raytraced sampling compatible with progressive rendering
and other more advanced rendering algorithms we might used in the future, and
it uses no extra memory so it's suitable for complex scenes.
Disadvantage is that it can be quite noisy and slow. Two limitations that will
be solved are that it does not work with bump mapping yet, and that the falloff
function used is a simple cubic function, it's not using the real BSSRDF
falloff function yet.
The node has a color input, along with a scattering radius for each RGB color
channel along with an overall scale factor for the radii.
There is also no GPU support yet, will test if I can get that working later.
Node Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/Shaders#BSSRDF
Implementation notes:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/Subsurface_Scattering
Apparently C== allowed to have implementations of
OCIOImpl::setupGLSLDraw, OCIOImpl::finishGLSLDraw and
OCIOImpl::freeGLState in two different files.
STUPID!
* Unnecessary shader inputs inside the Mix Shader are now ignored, in case the factor is 0.0 / 1.0 and not connected.
This way we save some render time for complex node graphs.
Example: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=48226
Check the Mix Shader at the end: In this case, Cycles will now avoid the complete huge shader tree, and only calculate the Diffuse Shader.
Rendertime decreased from 1:50 min to 1:20 min on CPU. GPU rendering benefits as well from this.
This only affects SVM, OSL was already doing these optimizations.
Implemented using GLSL API from OpenColorIO library and
some general functions were added to it's c-api:
- OCIO_setupGLSLDraw prepares OpenGL context for GPU-based
transformation for a giver processor.
This function compiles and links shader, sets up it's
argument. After this transformation would be applied
on an image displaying as a 2D texture.
So, glaDrawPixelsTex called after OCIO_setupGLSLDraw will
do a proper color space transform.
- OCIO_finishGLSLDraw restores OpenGL context after all
color-managed display is over.
- OCIO_freeOGLState frees allocated state structure used
for cacheing some GLSL-related stuff.
There're some utility functions in IMB_colormanagent which
are basically proxies to lower level OCIO functions but
which could be used from any place in blender.
Chacheing of movie clip frame on GPU is also removed now,
and either glaDrawPixelsTex or glaDrawPixelsAuto are used
for display now. This is so no code duplication happens
now and no large textures are lurking around in GPU memory.
Known issues:
- Texture buffer and GLSL are no longer checking for
video card capabilities, possibly could lead to some
artifacts on crappy drivers/cards.
- Only float buffers are displaying using GLSL, byte
buffers will still use fallback display method.
This is to be addressed later.
- If RGB curves are used as a part of display transform,
GLSL display will also be disabled. This is also thing
to be solved later.
Additional changes:
- glaDrawPixelsTexScaled will now use RGBA16F as an
internal format of storing textures when it's used
to draw float buffer. This is needed so LUT are
applied without precision loss.
- pass string size to BLI_timestr() to avoid possible buffer overrun.
- quiet warning for mingw.
- include guards for windows utf conversion funcs.
- fix for mistage in edge-angle-selection check.
- some style cleanup.
Added new build option WITH_JACK_DYNLOAD for CMake and
WITH_BF_JACK_DYNLOAD for SCons, which means there'll be
no build-time linking against libjack and getting symbols
from libjack will happen runtime using dlopen and dlsym
tricks.
Alternative would be to use weak linking, but it'll require
having wrapper for preloading libjack.
This new options are disabled by default and they only
intended to be used on linux. Other platforms shall not
be using this and there shall be no functional changes
on non-linux platforms at all.
Mac OS X full screen: the old option to go full screen now didn't hide the
dock/topbar anymore. Also made it use dock auto-hide now, not permanent hide.
* Move OpenGL settings out of the film panel into its own.
Imho these should go completely elsewhere, but better separated than mixed with Cycles settings.
Blender now supports the 10.7+ "Full screen" mode, which pushes a window to a permanent
other "screen", with animated zoom and sliding.
Available via the icon in window header (right), Apple+F, or "Window" menu in top.
Works much nicer than Blender's own "full screen" option.
Todo: the zoom effect is still draws a bit ugly, because Blender doesn't have "live resize"
yet.
This commit basically implements frames prefetching for
movie clip datablock.
Number of frames to be prefetched is controlled in User
Preferences, System tab, Prefetch Frames option.
Currently prefetching is destructive-less for movie cache,
meaning mo frames will be removed from the cache when while
prefetching. This is because it's half of simplier to
implement, but it also makes sense from tracking point of
view -- we could want to playback in both directions and
removing frames from behind time cursor is not always a
good idea.
Anyway, smarter prefetching strategy could be developed
later.
Some implementation notes:
- Added MEM_CacheLimiter_get_memory_in_use function to get
memory usage of specified memory limiter.
- Fixed prototype of MEM_CacheLimiter_get_maximum which
was simply wrong (used wrong data type for output).
- Added some utility functions to movie clip and movie
cache for direct cache interaction and obtaining cache
statistics.
- Prefetching is implemented using general jobs system.
which is invoking from clip draw function.
- Prefetcing will stop as soon other job or playback starts.
This is done from performance point of view. Jobs will
likely require lots of CPU power and better to provide
whole CPU to it.
Playback is a bit more complicated case. For jpeg sequence
playback prefetching while paying back is nice. But trying
to prefetch heavy exr images and doing color space
conversion slows down both playback and prefetching.
TODO:
- Think of better policy of dealing with already cached frames
(like when cached frames from other clips prevents frames
from current clip to be prefetched)
- Currently a bit funky redraw notification happens from
prefetch job. Perhaps own ND_ is better to have here.
- Hiding clip while prefetch is active in theory shall stop
prefetching job.
- Having multiple clips opened on file load will prefetch
frames for only one of them.
The issue here was that the proxy nodes created for connecting extern group node sockets to the internal nodes were generated by the input/output nodes themselves.
0 input/output nodes: there would be no proxy that external group node sockets can map to
2+ input/output nodes: additional nodes would overwrite entries from previous nodes, so that only one of the input/output nodes would be used.
Solution is to always generate exactly 1 proxy node for every group socket in advance, regardless of whether it is used internally. Internal node sockets can then all map to this proxy node.
In the case out output nodes there should only ever be one active node, otherwise the connection to the proxy would be ambiguous. For this purpose the NODE_DO_OUTPUT flag has been exposed to RNA, so that cycles can check it and only use the active output.
PyNodes opens up the node system in Blender to scripters and adds a number of UI-level improvements.
=== Dynamic node type registration ===
Node types can now be added at runtime, using the RNA registration mechanism from python. This enables addons such as render engines to create a complete user interface with nodes.
Examples of how such nodes can be defined can be found in my personal wiki docs atm [1] and as a script template in release/scripts/templates_py/custom_nodes.py [2].
=== Node group improvements ===
Each node editor now has a tree history of edited node groups, which allows opening and editing nested node groups. The node editor also supports pinning now, so that different spaces can be used to edit different node groups simultaneously. For more ramblings and rationale see (really old) blog post on code.blender.org [3].
The interface of node groups has been overhauled. Sockets of a node group are no longer displayed in columns on either side, but instead special input/output nodes are used to mirror group sockets inside a node tree. This solves the problem of long node lines in groups and allows more adaptable node layout. Internal sockets can be exposed from a group by either connecting to the extension sockets in input/output nodes (shown as empty circle) or by adding sockets from the node property bar in the "Interface" panel. Further details such as the socket name can also be changed there.
[1] http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Phonybone/Python_Nodes
[2] http://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php/trunk/blender/release/scripts/templates_py/custom_nodes.py?view=markup&root=bf-blender
[3] http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/01/improving-node-group-interface-editing/
- without python builds without warnings.
- replace MAXFLOAT -> FLT_MAX in some areas, MAXFLOAT overflows (lager then float range).
- add cmake option WITH_GCC_MUDFLAP to enable libmudflap use.
before this only active scene would be rendered with border.
When do_render_fields_blur_3d() is finished, it'll modify
render's display rect so it'll correspond bordered render
result placed on black backgrund. Actual border is stored
nowhere, which makes it only way to re-calculate disprect
for all other renders used in compo based on source. Not
so big deal actually.
Also needed to modify Cycles a bit, because before this
patch it used border settings from scene being rendered.
Now made it so render data is passing to external engines.
Using a property inside RenderEngine structure for this.
Not best ever design for passing render data, but this
would prevent API breakage. So now external engines could
access engine.render to access active rendering settings.
Reviewed by Brecht, thanks!
changing the screen resolution wasn't still allowed for larger virtual desktops.
added an exclusive option to ghost so the fullscreen window is ignored by the window manager and we get all events. (common practice for games on X11).
It's implemented as a separate constraint instead of adding properties
to the existing constraints.
Motors only apply linear and angular impulses and don't limit the
movement of rigid bodies, so it's best to use them in conjunction with
other constraints to limit the degrees of freedom.
Thanks to Markus Kasten (markus111) for the initial patch.
This is and old patch (June, 2009). The reason it never made into trunk it's that we (me at least) thought that
it should be optional, as a ui or command-line option.
However, it seems that OSX always have the OpenGL context with alpha enabled. So I think it's consistent to
have the other OSs to follow.
The main usage of this is the BGE (or more specifically people using BGE for TV broadcasting) but I think
pydevs can have their share of fun with it in Blender as well.
* Make Cycles aware of sm_35 (Tesla K20, GeForce GTX TITAN).
The CUDA Toolkit 5.0 is needed for that and this is not officially used yet, but people with access to such cards can start testing. (just build sm_35 kernels).
* Deprecate computing capability 1.3 (sm_13)
This commit disables auto build of sm_13 CUDA platform, which means that starting with Blender 2.67, we don't support sm_13 devices anymore. It has become difficult to support that and it was already feature incomplete (no render-passes, AO, Multi Closure etc).
It's still possible to manually enable sm_13 for own tests, but building might break in the future.
Yes, again.
There's some t within which reset is not allowed. This is so no reset happens
too often for performance issues. If camera changes too often, some reset could
be missed because of this timeout.
For now tag engine for update, which will update viewport from blender side.
Proper solution could be to detect such a changes from blender side and tag
cycles for refresh instead of trying to detect changes form cycles, but that's
for later.
