undesired dark rings, and give more accurate lighting when the light is
behind the object. As a bonus, the code is simpler & faster.
Patch by Yasuhiro Fujii, detailed explanation here:
http://mimosa-pudica.net/improved-oren-nayar.html
very well for colors that can be outside of the 0.0..1.0 range, giving +/- infinity
results.
Now we just use a simple linear contrast factor as proposed by Paolo Sourvinos, and
clamp values to be >= 0, and also make the parameters work more in the 0..1 range
instead of the 0..100 range, to be more consistent with other nodes.
texture coordinates, due to int overflow.
Also minor tweak in shader code to avoid copying uninitialized
values, should have no effect though because they were not used.
Currently supported passes:
* Combined, Z, Normal, Object Index, Material Index, Emission, Environment,
Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission x Direct/Indirect/Color
Not supported yet:
* UV, Vector, Mist
Only enabled for CPU devices at the moment, will do GPU tweaks tommorrow,
also for environment importance sampling.
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Passes
Contrast helps to adjust IBL (HDR images used for background lighting).
Note: In the UI we are caling it Bright instead of Brightness. This copy what Blender composite is doing.
Note2: the algorithm we are using produces pure black when contrast is 100. I'm not a fan of that, but it's a division by zero. I would like to look at other algorithms (what gimp does for example). But that would be only after 2.62.
By default lighting from the world is computed solely with indirect light
sampling. However for more complex environment maps this can be too noisy, as
sampling the BSDF may not easily find the highlights in the environment map
image. By enabling this option, the world background will be sampled as a lamp,
with lighter parts automatically given more samples.
Map Resolution specifies the size of the importance map (res x res). Before
rendering starts, an importance map is generated by "baking" a grayscale image
from the world shader. This will then be used to determine which parts of the
background are light and so should receive more samples than darker parts.
Higher resolutions will result in more accurate sampling but take more setup
time and memory.
Patch by Mike Farnsworth, thanks!
