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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
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#ifndef __BVH_BUILD_H__
#define __BVH_BUILD_H__
#include <float.h>
#include "bvh.h"
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
#include "bvh_binning.h"
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
#include "bvh_unaligned.h"
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
#include "util_boundbox.h"
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
#include "util_task.h"
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
#include "util_vector.h"
CCL_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
Cycles: threading optimizations * Multithreaded image loading, each thread can load a separate image. * Better multithreading for multiple instanced meshes, different threads can now build BVH's for different meshes, rather than all cooperating on the same mesh. Especially noticeable for dynamic BVH building for the viewport, gave about 2x faster build on 8 core in fairly complex scene with many objects. * The main thread waiting for worker threads can now also work itself, so (num_cores + 1) threads will be working, this supposedly gives better performance on some operating systems, but did not measure performance for this very detailed yet.
2012-05-05 19:44:33 +00:00
class BVHBuildTask;
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
class BVHSpatialSplitBuildTask;
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
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class BVHParams;
Cycles: threading optimizations * Multithreaded image loading, each thread can load a separate image. * Better multithreading for multiple instanced meshes, different threads can now build BVH's for different meshes, rather than all cooperating on the same mesh. Especially noticeable for dynamic BVH building for the viewport, gave about 2x faster build on 8 core in fairly complex scene with many objects. * The main thread waiting for worker threads can now also work itself, so (num_cores + 1) threads will be working, this supposedly gives better performance on some operating systems, but did not measure performance for this very detailed yet.
2012-05-05 19:44:33 +00:00
class InnerNode;
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
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class Mesh;
class Object;
class Progress;
/* BVH Builder */
class BVHBuild
{
public:
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
/* Constructor/Destructor */
Cycles: Avoid having duplication of BVH arrays during build Previous idea behind having vector during building and array for actual storage was needed in order to minimize amount of re-allocations happening during the build, but it lead to double memory overhead used by those arrays at the vector to array conversion stage. Issue with such approach was that for BVH without spatial split size of arrays is known in advance and it never changes, which made vector to array conversion totally redundant. Also after testing with several rather complex from spatial split scenes (such as trees) it seems even conservative approach of reallocation (when we perform re-allocation when leaf does not fit into the memory) doesn't give measurable difference in time. This makes it so we can switch to array, which will avoid unneeded memory re-allocations when spatial split is disabled without harming other cases. it's a bit difficult to measure exact benefit of this change on our production files here, but depending on the scene it might give quite reasonable memory save.
2015-06-28 16:07:48 +00:00
BVHBuild(const vector<Object*>& objects,
array<int>& prim_type,
array<int>& prim_index,
array<int>& prim_object,
Cycles: Fix wrong hair render results when using BVH motion steps The issue here was mainly coming from minimal pixel width feature which is quite commonly enabled in production shots. This feature will use some probabilistic heuristic in the curve intersection function to check whether we need to return intersection or not. This probability is calculated for every intersection check. Now, when we use multiple BVH nodes for curve primitives we increase probability of that primitive to be considered a good intersection for us. This is similar to increasing minimal width of curve. What is worst here is that change in the intersection probability fully depends on exact layout of BVH, meaning probability might change differently depending on a view angle, the way how builder binned the primitives and such. This makes it impossible to do simple check like dividing probability by number of BVH steps. Other solution might have been to split BVH into fully independent trees, but that will increase memory usage of all the static objects in the scenes, which is also not something desirable. For now used most simple but robust approach: store BVH primitives time and test it in curve intersection functions. This solves the regression, but has two downsides: - Uses more memory. which isn't surprising, and ANY solution to this problem will use more memory. What we still have to do is to avoid this memory increase for cases when we don't use BVH motion steps. - Reduces number of maximum available textures on pre-kepler cards. There is not much we can do here, hardware gets old but we need to move forward on more modern hardware..
2017-02-15 09:56:54 +00:00
array<float2>& prim_time,
Cycles: Avoid having duplication of BVH arrays during build Previous idea behind having vector during building and array for actual storage was needed in order to minimize amount of re-allocations happening during the build, but it lead to double memory overhead used by those arrays at the vector to array conversion stage. Issue with such approach was that for BVH without spatial split size of arrays is known in advance and it never changes, which made vector to array conversion totally redundant. Also after testing with several rather complex from spatial split scenes (such as trees) it seems even conservative approach of reallocation (when we perform re-allocation when leaf does not fit into the memory) doesn't give measurable difference in time. This makes it so we can switch to array, which will avoid unneeded memory re-allocations when spatial split is disabled without harming other cases. it's a bit difficult to measure exact benefit of this change on our production files here, but depending on the scene it might give quite reasonable memory save.
2015-06-28 16:07:48 +00:00
const BVHParams& params,
Progress& progress);
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
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~BVHBuild();
BVHNode *run();
protected:
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
friend class BVHMixedSplit;
friend class BVHObjectSplit;
friend class BVHSpatialSplit;
Cycles: threading optimizations * Multithreaded image loading, each thread can load a separate image. * Better multithreading for multiple instanced meshes, different threads can now build BVH's for different meshes, rather than all cooperating on the same mesh. Especially noticeable for dynamic BVH building for the viewport, gave about 2x faster build on 8 core in fairly complex scene with many objects. * The main thread waiting for worker threads can now also work itself, so (num_cores + 1) threads will be working, this supposedly gives better performance on some operating systems, but did not measure performance for this very detailed yet.
2012-05-05 19:44:33 +00:00
friend class BVHBuildTask;
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
friend class BVHSpatialSplitBuildTask;
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
friend class BVHObjectBinning;
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
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Adding references. */
Cycles: Cleanup, split one gigantic function into two smaller ones
2017-01-20 16:52:48 +00:00
void add_reference_triangles(BoundBox& root, BoundBox& center, Mesh *mesh, int i);
void add_reference_curves(BoundBox& root, BoundBox& center, Mesh *mesh, int i);
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
void add_reference_mesh(BoundBox& root, BoundBox& center, Mesh *mesh, int i);
void add_reference_object(BoundBox& root, BoundBox& center, Object *ob, int i);
void add_references(BVHRange& root);
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
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Building. */
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
BVHNode *build_node(const BVHRange& range,
vector<BVHReference> *references,
int level,
int thread_id);
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
BVHNode *build_node(const BVHObjectBinning& range, int level);
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
BVHNode *create_leaf_node(const BVHRange& range,
const vector<BVHReference>& references);
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
BVHNode *create_object_leaf_nodes(const BVHReference *ref, int start, int num);
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
bool range_within_max_leaf_size(const BVHRange& range,
const vector<BVHReference>& references) const;
Cycles: optimization for hair BVH build, allow max 2 hair curves per leaf. This gives me 14% reduction in render time for koro_final.blend.
2014-04-22 14:54:02 +00:00
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Threads. */
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
enum { THREAD_TASK_SIZE = 4096 };
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
void thread_build_node(InnerNode *node,
int child,
BVHObjectBinning *range,
int level);
void thread_build_spatial_split_node(InnerNode *node,
int child,
BVHRange *range,
vector<BVHReference> *references,
int level,
int thread_id);
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
thread_mutex build_mutex;
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Progress. */
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
void progress_update();
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Tree rotations. */
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
void rotate(BVHNode *node, int max_depth);
void rotate(BVHNode *node, int max_depth, int iterations);
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
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Objects and primitive references. */
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
vector<Object*> objects;
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
vector<BVHReference> references;
int num_original_references;
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
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Output primitive indexes and objects. */
Cycles: Avoid having duplication of BVH arrays during build Previous idea behind having vector during building and array for actual storage was needed in order to minimize amount of re-allocations happening during the build, but it lead to double memory overhead used by those arrays at the vector to array conversion stage. Issue with such approach was that for BVH without spatial split size of arrays is known in advance and it never changes, which made vector to array conversion totally redundant. Also after testing with several rather complex from spatial split scenes (such as trees) it seems even conservative approach of reallocation (when we perform re-allocation when leaf does not fit into the memory) doesn't give measurable difference in time. This makes it so we can switch to array, which will avoid unneeded memory re-allocations when spatial split is disabled without harming other cases. it's a bit difficult to measure exact benefit of this change on our production files here, but depending on the scene it might give quite reasonable memory save.
2015-06-28 16:07:48 +00:00
array<int>& prim_type;
array<int>& prim_index;
array<int>& prim_object;
Cycles: Fix wrong hair render results when using BVH motion steps The issue here was mainly coming from minimal pixel width feature which is quite commonly enabled in production shots. This feature will use some probabilistic heuristic in the curve intersection function to check whether we need to return intersection or not. This probability is calculated for every intersection check. Now, when we use multiple BVH nodes for curve primitives we increase probability of that primitive to be considered a good intersection for us. This is similar to increasing minimal width of curve. What is worst here is that change in the intersection probability fully depends on exact layout of BVH, meaning probability might change differently depending on a view angle, the way how builder binned the primitives and such. This makes it impossible to do simple check like dividing probability by number of BVH steps. Other solution might have been to split BVH into fully independent trees, but that will increase memory usage of all the static objects in the scenes, which is also not something desirable. For now used most simple but robust approach: store BVH primitives time and test it in curve intersection functions. This solves the regression, but has two downsides: - Uses more memory. which isn't surprising, and ANY solution to this problem will use more memory. What we still have to do is to avoid this memory increase for cases when we don't use BVH motion steps. - Reduces number of maximum available textures on pre-kepler cards. There is not much we can do here, hardware gets old but we need to move forward on more modern hardware..
2017-02-15 09:56:54 +00:00
array<float2>& prim_time;
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
Cycles: Don't calculate primitive time if BVH motion steps are not used Solves memory regression by the default configuration.
2017-02-15 11:59:31 +00:00
bool need_prim_time;
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Build parameters. */
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
BVHParams params;
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Progress reporting. */
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
Progress& progress;
double progress_start_time;
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
size_t progress_count;
size_t progress_total;
size_t progress_original_total;
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
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Spatial splitting. */
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
float spatial_min_overlap;
Cycles: Wrap spatial split storage into own structure This has following advantages: - Localizes all the run-time storage into a single structure, which could easily be extended further. - Storage could be created per-thread, so once builder is threaded we wouldn't have any conflicts between threads. - Global nature of the storage avoids memory re-allocation on the runtime, keeping builder as fast as possible. Currently it's just API changes, which don't affect user at all.
2016-02-21 14:39:02 +00:00
vector<BVHSpatialStorage> spatial_storage;
Cycles: Make spatial split BVH multi-threaded The title actually covers it all, This commit exploits all the work being done in previous changes to make it possible to build spatial splits in threads. Works quite nicely, but has a downside of some extra memory usage. In practice it doesn't seem to be a huge problem and that we can always look into later if it becomes a real showstopper. In practice it shows some nice speedup: - BMW27 scene takes 3 now (used to be 4) - Agent shot takes 5 sec (used to be 80) Such non-linear speedup is most likely coming from much less amount of heap re-allocations. A a downside, there's a bit of extra memory used by BVH arrays. From the tests amount of extra memory is below 0.001% so far, so it's not that bad at all. Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit, dingto, lukasstockner97 Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1820
2016-04-04 12:43:21 +00:00
size_t spatial_free_index;
thread_spin_lock spatial_spin_lock;
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
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Threads. */
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
TaskPool task_pool;
Cycles: Implement unaligned nodes BVH builder This is a special builder type which is allowed to orient nodes to strands direction, hence minimizing their surface area in comparison with axis-aligned nodes. Such nodes are much more efficient for hair rendering. Implementation of BVH builder is based on Embree, and generally idea there is to calculate axis-aligned SAH and oriented SAH and if SAH of oriented node is smaller than axis-aligned SAH we create unaligned node. We store both aligned and unaligned nodes in the same tree (which seems to be different from what Embree is doing) so we don't have any any extra calculations needed to set up hair ray for BVH traversal, hence avoiding any possible negative effect of this new BVH nodes type. This new builder is currently not in use, still need to make BVH traversal code aware of unaligned nodes.
2016-07-07 10:18:57 +00:00
/* Unaligned building. */
BVHUnaligned unaligned_heuristic;
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
};
CCL_NAMESPACE_END
#endif /* __BVH_BUILD_H__ */
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