Commit Graph

9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Brecht Van Lommel
b9ce231060 Cycles: relicense GNU GPL source code to Apache version 2.0.
More information in this post:
http://code.blender.org/

Thanks to all contributes for giving their permission!
2013-08-18 14:16:15 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
0a54311450 Fix #35672: missing update when changing light ray visibility during viewport render. 2013-06-08 13:43:38 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
58a290234b Cycles: ray visibility options now work for lamps and mesh lights, with and without
multiple importance sampling, so you can disable them for diffuse/glossy/transmission.

The Light Path node here is still weak and does not give this info. To make that
work we'd need to evaluate the shader multiple times which is slow and we can't
detect well enough when it is actually needed.
2013-06-07 18:59:23 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
dc0f4b5618 Cycles: make multiple importance sampling for lamps an option per lamp now,
disabled by default for backwards compatibility.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Integrator
2013-01-30 15:57:15 +00:00
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
Brecht Van Lommel
6548f7efef Cycles: spot lamp support. 2012-06-04 17:17:10 +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
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
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