blender/tests
Brecht Van Lommel 35b1e9fc3a Cycles: pointcloud rendering
This add support for rendering of the point cloud object in Blender, as a native
geometry type in Cycles that is more memory and time efficient than instancing
sphere meshes. This can be useful for rendering sand, water splashes, particles,
motion graphics, etc.

Points are currently always rendered as spheres, with backface culling. More
shapes are likely to be added later, but this is the most important one and can
be customized with shaders.

For CPU rendering the Embree primitive is used, for GPU there is our own
intersection code. Motion blur is suppored. Volumes inside points are not
currently supported.

Implemented with help from:
* Kévin Dietrich: Alembic procedural integration
* Patrick Mourse: OptiX integration
* Josh Whelchel: update for cycles-x changes

Ref T92573

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9887
2021-12-16 20:54:04 +01:00
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blender_as_python_module Tests/bpy: Add installation verification test 2021-03-29 22:26:54 +05:30
gtests cleanup: fix typos in comments and docs 2021-11-16 18:45:10 -05:00
performance Cleanup: fix typos in comments and docs 2021-11-19 12:46:49 +01:00
python Cycles: pointcloud rendering 2021-12-16 20:54:04 +01:00
check_deprecated.py Cleanup: pep8 2018-07-03 06:55:02 +02:00
CMakeLists.txt Tests/bpy: Add installation verification test 2021-03-29 22:26:54 +05:30