This can for example be useful if you want to manually terminate the path at
some point and use a color other than black.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D454
This code can't actually be enabled for building and is incomplete, but it's
here because we know we want to support this at some point and there's not much
reason to have it in a separate branch if a simple #ifdef can disable it.
* 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.
should be no functional changes yet. UV, tangent and intercept are now stored
as attributes, with the intention to add more like multiple uv's, vertex
colors, generated coordinates and motion vectors later.
Things got a bit messy due to having both triangle and curve data in the same
mesh data structure, which also gives us two sets of attributes. This will get
cleaned up when we split the mesh class.
Also some simple OSL optimization, passing thread data pointer directly instead
of via thread local storage, and creating ustrings for attribute lookup.
rays from the OSL shader. The "shade" parameter is not supported currently, but
attributes can be retrieved from the object that was hit using the
getmessage("trace", ..) function.
As mentioned in the OSL specification, this function can't be used instead of
lighting, the main purpose is to allow shaders to "probe" nearby geometry, for
example to apply a projected texture that can be blocked by geometry, apply
more “wear” to exposed geometry, or make other ambient occlusion-like effects.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/OSL#Trace
Example .blend and render:
http://www.pasteall.org/blend/17347http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=40066
Fixes for API changes in OSL RendererServices:
* Added two new required get_matrix methods, from OSL RendererServices (otherwise the constructor fails). The two new matrix methods probably still need an implementation.
* Removed deprecated "get_pointcloud_attr_query" and "pointcloud". There are two new routines for pointclouds, function headers for those are there.
* Removed the (unused) PARTIO code parts from OSL. It was marked as not tested / not working, and due to the api changes here broken for sure. Code is still in svn history if needed.