Commit Graph

16 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Brecht Van Lommel
4ba456d175 Cycles: first step for implementation of non-progressive sampler that handles
direct and indirect lighting differently. Rather than picking one light for each
point on the path, it now loops over all lights for direct lighting. For indirect
lighting it still picks a random light each time.

It gives control over the number of AA samples, and the number of Diffuse, Glossy,
Transmission, AO, Mesh Light, Background and Lamp samples for each AA sample.

This helps tuning render performance/noise and tends to give less noise for renders
dominated by direct lighting.

This sampling mode only works on the CPU, and still needs proper tile rendering
to show progress (will follow tommorrow or so), because each AA sample can be quite
slow now and so the delay between each update wil be too long.
2012-06-13 11:44:48 +00:00
Campbell Barton
0fbb6bff27 style cleanup: block comments 2012-06-09 17:22:52 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
5ebc88266e Cycles: small code fix for disabled code. 2012-06-06 23:27:38 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
d9589bf0dd Cycles: fix spot lamp emitting light in two directions. 2012-06-04 19:38:10 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
6548f7efef Cycles: spot lamp support. 2012-06-04 17:17:10 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
dd9c1b7fbf Cycles: OpenCL image texture support, fix an attribute node issue and refactor
feature enabling #defines a bit.
2012-05-13 12:32:44 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
c8cbe63947 Cycles: fix issues with texture coordinates and object scale. Auto texture
space size and location were outdated often, and already computed on demand
by blender internal, now do that through RNA as well.
2012-05-08 23:39:31 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
1d8c798188 Cycles: support for motion vector and UV passes.
Most of the changes are related to adding support for motion data throughout
the code. There's some code for actual camera/object motion blur raytracing
but it's unfinished (it badly slows down the raytracing kernel even when the
option is turned off), so that code it disabled still.

Motion vector export from Blender tries to avoid computing derived meshes
when the mesh does not have a deforming modifier, and it also won't store
motion vectors for every vertex if only the object or camera is moving.
2012-04-30 12:49:26 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
4a90339519 Cycles: support for camera rendering an environment map with equirectangular
environment map, by enabling the Panorama option in the camera.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Camera#Panorama

The focal length or sensor settings are not used, the UI can be tweaked still to
communicate this, also panorama should probably become a proper camera type like
perspective or ortho.
2012-02-28 16:44:54 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
4fe00cd4f9 Cycles: disable environment importance sampling code for CUDA cards with
compute model < 2.x, to avoid running out of memory in the compiler.
2012-01-26 19:45:59 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
5873301257 Sample as Lamp option for world shaders, to enable multiple importance sampling.
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!
2012-01-20 17:49:17 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
d5b679253a Cycles:
* Sun, area and point lights with size now supported
* Cast shadow option to disable shadow casting for lamps
* Emission strength of materials tweaked such that setting strength to 1.0
  basically makes the material "shadeless" in that the value of the color
  input will be the resulting color in the image.
2011-10-15 23:49:01 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
cdee3435c6 Cycles: internal changes that should have no effect on user level yet, added
shader flags for various purposes, and some code for light types other than
points.
2011-09-27 20:37:24 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
ebc653463d Cycles:
* Fix missing update when editing objects with emission materials.
* Fix preview pass rendering set to 1 not showing full resolution.
* Fix CUDA runtime compiling failing due to missing cache directory.
* Use settings from first render layer for visibility and material override.

And a bunch of incomplete and still disabled code mostly related to closure
sampling.
2011-09-12 13:13:56 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
63d4bafff5 Cycles: some steps to getting OpenCL backend to compile. 2011-05-20 12:26:01 +00:00
Ton Roosendaal
da376e0237 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