OpenImageDenoise API exposes two modes, high quality and balanced.
This currently only has effect on Nvidia devices, on which it
provides a noticeable performance improvement without visible
difference in quality. This change sets quality to balanced for
the viewport, and high quality for final frame rendering, as
it's what makes the most sense.
Ref #115045
Co-authored-by: Werner, Stefan <stefan.werner@intel.com>
Pull Request: #115265
HWRT checkboxes visibility in the Cycles settings wasn't uniform across devices.
With this change, we unify it and gray out these in case HWRT isn't available.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117904
- "can not" -> "cannot" in many places (ambiguous, also see
Writing Style guide).
- "Bezier" -> "Bézier": proper spelling of the eponym.
- Tool keymaps: make "Uv" all caps.
- "FFMPEG" -> "FFmpeg" (official spelling)
- Use MULTIPLICATION SIGN U+00D7 instead of MULTIPLICATION X U+2715.
- "LClick" -> "LMB", "RClick" -> "RMB": this convention is used
everywhere else.
- "Save rendered the image..." -> "Save the rendered image...": typo.
- "Preserve Current retiming": title case for property.
- Bend status message: punctuation.
- "... class used to define the panel" -> "header": copy-paste error.
- "... class used to define the menu" -> "asset": copy-paste error.
- "Lights user to display objects..." -> "Lights used...": typo.
- "-setaudio require one argument" -> "requires": typo.
Some issues reported by Joan Pujolar and Tamar Mebonia.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117856
This is a leftover from when there was a global option for transparent
shadows, but since it's now per material this makes no sense anymore.
Solution found by Olivier Maury.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117735
With drivers 101.4972 to 101.5085, some Arc and Meteor Lake devices
ignore the prebuilt GPU binaries and since the addition of Meteor Lake
binaries, fail caching newly generated ones on Windows.
This got fixed in drivers 101.5186 so it's preferable to require these
new drivers to be used.
This allows users to turn off reflective and refractive caustics
separately from each other when using the Generalized Schlick material.
This will impact the Principled BSDF and Glass BSDF, along with some
custom OSL scripts.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117617
Wayland, macOS & SDL weren't using the start-time of the process.
The start-time offset isn't needed so it's similar to forward the
systems method of accessing the time in milliseconds.
Seems to be a fairly niche type, but some people (apparently mostly in the automotive space) use it.
Also improves the handling of IES files in general and lets Cycles accept IES files that are technically violating the spec - which seems to be most of them...
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114689
Improve the handling of Principled BSDF Caustics from Metallic
and Transmissive components, improving consistency between SVM and OSL,
and offering more predictable results.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/115081
While investigating Blender compilation time for windows-arm64, we
identified two compilation units that were taking a long time to compile
(~1h each). This affects windows-x64 builds as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117534
This changes fixes the slowdown when baking data passes like Normal with
the denoiser enabled on scene settings.
When baking to 4K textures denoising could take considerable amount of
time, which is better be avoided.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117483
Cycles can use a per face flag to determine if a face is smooth or flat,
and there is no need to use corner normals in such cases. So revert to
not doing that as before, which also saves a bit of memory.
There is a pre-existing issue where faces are split by sharp edges and
autosmooth, which is not solved by this. It's only fixing the regression.
The pre-4.0 Principled BSDF had a special diffuse BSDF that contained
the roughness value from the node. Since 4.0, the regular Diffuse BSDF is used,
so we need to ignore it when determining the roughness value for baking.
Enable huge pages for jemalloc. This requests the Linux kernel to use
huge (2 MB) pages for large allocations. This has the effect of speeding
up first accesses to those allocations, and possibly also speeds up future
accesses by reducing TLB faults.
By default, 4 KB pages are used unless the user enables huge pages through
a kernel parameter or an obscure sysfs setting.
For Cycles benchmarks, this gives about a 5% CPU rendering performance
improvement. It likely also improves performance in other areas of Blender.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116663
For default GetWindowUnderCursor (when there is not a platform-specific
version), search windows in reverse order. This is because in most
cases with overlapping windows the one that is on top was created after
those that are below it.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111489
Caused by e968b4197b / 67e23b4b29
Since culprit commits, we are not running `MANTA::initGuiding` /
`fluid_alloc_guiding` if guiding is meant to be pulled from other
domains (it does work with effectors though). This is because atm. only
the `FLUID_DOMAIN_ACTIVE_GUIDE` flag sets `mUsingGuiding` to true
(activated in `update_obstacleflags`, so only for effectors).
So to fix this, we have to ensure that `MANTA::initGuiding` runs (also
if guiding is pulled from domains), but also make sure we dont run into
the crashes from T102257.
It seems that the real reason we were getting crashes in T102257 is that
67e23b4b29 made it so that resetting the cache (including a call to
`fluid_modifier_reset_ex`) in `fluid_modifier_processDomain` happens
**after** `FluidDomainSettings.active_fields` have been updated (this
happens in `update_flowsflags` & `update_obstacleflags`).
But `fluid_modifier_reset_ex` also resets
`FluidDomainSettings.active_fields`. If we then update pointers later in
`fluid_modifier_processDomain`, we never get anything in the guiding
related pointers for the new `mCurrentID` (specifically `mPhiGuideIn`
will be a nullptr). This is the real reason `initGuiding()` runs a
second time (it does once for `fluid_modifier_init` then again as a
consequence of the call to `manta_guiding`).
This patch proposes to move the resetting process from 67e23b4b29
**above** the refreshing of the `FluidDomainSettings.active_fields`,
this way these field stay intact, we do get the first run of
`initGuiding()` from `fluid_modifier_init`, manta pointers get updated
with intact fields afterwards (so we then get a valid `mPhiGuideIn`),
which then prevents the second run from `manta_guiding` to actually call
the python script again.
The fix from e968b4197b is then not needed and reverted in this patch.
This should be good for LTS I think.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/117067
The previous commit introduced a new `RPT_()` macro to translate
strings which are not tooltips or regular interface elements, but
longer reports or statuses.
This commit uses the new macro to translate many strings all over the
UI.
Most of it is a simple replace from `TIP_()` or `IFACE_()` to
`RPT_()`, but there are some additional changes:
- A few translations inside `BKE_report()` are removed altogether
because they are already handled by the translation system.
- Messages inside `UI_but_disable()` are no longer translated
manually, but they are handled by a new regex in the translation
system.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/116804
