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7 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
Thomas Dinges
3840e0b234 Cycles / Ray Depth:
* Added a Ray Depth output to the Light Path node, which gives the user access to the current bounce.
This can be used to limit the maximum ray bounce on a per shader basis. Another use case is to restrict light influence with this, to have a lamp only contribute to the direct lighting. 

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/More#Light_Path

This is part of my GSoC 2013 project. SVN merge of r58091 and r58772 from soc-2013-dingto.
2013-07-31 20:30:37 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
e6a84eb1b5 Cycles: add light falloff node, with quadratic/linear/constant falloff and a
smoothing factor to reduce high values near the light.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/More#Light_Falloff

Note that this was already possible to do manually with the Ray Length, but
this adds a convenient node for it. This commit also makes the mapping node
min/max option work, fixing #31348.
2012-05-07 20:24:38 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
d64661b507 Cycles: add Ray Length output to Light Path node. This gives the distance travelled
by the last light ray. One use case for this might be to do absorption.

Patch #31232 by Agustin benavidez, see this blog post for details:
http://agus3d.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/blender-cycles-ray-length-node-output.html
2012-05-02 17:03:46 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
df625253ac Cycles:
* Add max diffuse/glossy/transmission bounces
* Add separate min/max for transparent depth
* Updated/added some presets that use these options
* Add ray visibility options for objects, to hide them from
  camera/diffuse/glossy/transmission/shadow rays
* Is singular ray output for light path node

Details here:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Render/Cycles/LightPaths
2011-09-01 15:53:36 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
abc601d10e Cycles: opencl 1.1 compatibility tweaks. 2011-08-09 18:53:54 +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