The Progress system in Cycles had two limitations so far:
- It just counted tiles, but ignored their size. For example, when rendering a 600x500 image with 512x512 tiles, the right 88x500 tile would count for 50% of the progress, although it only covers 15% of the image.
- Scene update time was incorrectly counted as rendering time - therefore, the remaining time started very long and gradually decreased.
This patch fixes both problems:
First of all, the Progress now has a function to ignore time spans, and that is used to ignore scene update time.
The larger change is the tile size: Instead of counting samples per tile, so that the final value is num_samples*num_tiles, the code now counts every sample for every pixel, so that the final value is num_samples*num_pixels.
Along with that, some unused variables were removed from the Progress and Session classes.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey, #cycles
Subscribers: brecht, candreacchio, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2214
Since the optimal values depend on the device used, this option doesn't make much sense in the XML.
Therefore, it's now specified via the command line, just like the device itself.
Couple of things:
- No need to use string streams to format the version string,
we can do it at compile time and don't bother with anything
at runtime.
- Function declaration was wring and would have caused linking
conflicts in cases when util_version.h was included from
multiple places.
We should have an utility function to get Cycles version so
applications which are linked to Cycles dynamically can query
the version, but that can't be done as an inlined function in
header and would need to be a function properly exported to a
global symbol table (aka, be implemented in a .cpp file).
Now Cycles has its own versioning, that is mainly interesting for external projects, which integrate the engine.
We start with version 1.7.0. Reasons for that:
* The engine is too mature for a 1.0 release.
* We assume that Cycles inside of Blender 2.61 was version 0.1. We count upwards in 0.1 steps, therefore Cycles inside of Blender 2.77 would be 1.7.
We use a common versioning scheme here, with 3 decimals for the major, minor and patch level.
At the moment cycles --version can be used to display the version, easy to parse for external projects. The info will be added to the UI later aswell.
This inconsistency drove me totally crazy, it's really confusing
when it's inconsistent especially when you work on both Cycles and
Blender sides.
Shouldn;t cause merge PITA, it's whitespace changes only, Git should
be able to merge it nicely.
This is what was handy troubleshooting issues in the studio,
plus this is exactly the same thing which would be helpful
when solving issues with paths to compiled shaders and cubins
for standalone repository.
added in rB74518b28267e9b18199212fbaa3c689fa018d20c.
No special bind/unbind needed for standalone viewer, so can just use a
static stub in the display callback.
* Change Info in header, put more important info to the left
* API: Move Camera width/height to camera, add some film properties
* Add ESC key to help menu
This is very basic for now, but can be extended with more info (available devices for example) later.
Thanks to Bastien and Sergey for some help with the glRect coordinates stuff.