- Some arguments were inapproriatry tagged as unused
using (void)foo semantic.
Only use such semantic in tricky casses, when something
needs to be ignored in release builds or something is
dependent on tricky ifndef policy.
For rest of the cases just use void foo(int /bar*/)
semantic, which ensures variable is not used. Solves
confusion and code running out of sync with later
development.
- Used proper unused semantic to some arguments.
- Added braces to make code easier to follow, tricky
indentation with ifdef, uh.
Extremely bright pixels in the rendered image cause the denoising algorithm
to produce extremely noticable artifacts. Therefore, a heuristic is needed
to exclude these pixels from the filtering process.
The new approach calculates the 75% percentile of the 5x5 neighborhood of
each pixel and flags the pixel if it is more than twice as bright.
During the reconstruction process, flagged pixels are skipped. Therefore,
they don't cause any problems for neighboring pixels, and the outlier pixels
themselves are replaced by a prediction of their actual value based on their
feature pass values and the neighboring pixels.
Therefore, the denoiser now also works as a smarter despeckling filter that
uses a more accurate prediction of the pixel instead of a simple average.
This can be used even if denoising isn't wanted by setting the denoising
radius to 1.
This commit contains the first part of the new Cycles denoising option,
which filters the resulting image using information gathered during rendering
to get rid of noise while preserving visual features as well as possible.
To use the option, enable it in the render layer options. The default settings
fit a wide range of scenes, but the user can tweak individual settings to
control the tradeoff between a noise-free image, image details, and calculation
time.
Note that the denoiser may still change in the future and that some features
are not implemented yet. The most important missing feature is animation
denoising, which uses information from multiple frames at once to produce a
flicker-free and smoother result. These features will be added in the future.
Finally, thanks to all the people who supported this project:
- Google (through the GSoC) and Theory Studios for sponsoring the development
- The authors of the papers I used for implementing the denoiser (more details
on them will be included in the technical docs)
- The other Cycles devs for feedback on the code, especially Sergey for
mentoring the GSoC project and Brecht for the code review!
- And of course the users who helped with testing, reported bugs and things
that could and/or should work better!
The idea is to make include statements more explicit and obvious where the
file is coming from, additionally reducing chance of wrong header being
picked up.
For example, it was not obvious whether bvh.h was refferring to builder
or traversal, whenter node.h is a generic graph node or a shader node
and cases like that.
Surely this might look obvious for the active developers, but after some
time of not touching the code it becomes less obvious where file is coming
from.
This was briefly mentioned in T50824 and seems @brecht is fine with such
explicitness, but need to agree with all active developers before committing
this.
Please note that this patch is lacking changes related on GPU/OpenCL
support. This will be solved if/when we all agree this is a good idea to move
forward.
Reviewers: brecht, lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto, juicyfruit, swerner
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto
Subscribers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2586
By calculating the size of the state buffer in the kernel rather than the host
less code is needed and the size actually reflects the requested features.
Will also be a little faster in some cases because of larger global work size.
This is to help debug and track memory usage for generic buffers. We
have similar for textures already since those require a name, but for
buffers the name is only for debugging proposes.
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
Some of these values can get quite large and are hard to read, adding this
makes it easy to read them at a glance.
Reviewed By: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2039
This commit makes it so malloc() is only happening once per volume and
once per transparent shadow query (per thread), improving scalability of
the code to multiple CPU cores.
Hard to measure this with a low-bottom i7 here currently, but from quick
tests seems volume sampling gave about 3-5% speedup.
The idea is to store allocated memory in kernel globals, which are per
thread on CPU already.
Reviewers: dingto, juicyfruit, lukasstockner97, maiself, brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, nutel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1996
Until now, single channel textures were packed into a float4, wasting 3 floats per pixel. Memory usage of such textures is now reduced by 3/4.
Voxel Attributes such as density, flame and heat benefit from this, but also Bumpmaps with one channel.
This commit also includes some cleanup and code deduplication for image loading.
Example Smoke render from Cosmos Laundromat: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=102972
Memory here went down from ~600MB to ~300MB.
Reviewers: #cycles, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1981
The title says it all actually, the idea is to make Cycles
only requiring Boost via 3rd party dependencies like OIIO
and OSL.
So now there are only few places which still uses Boost:
- Foreach, function bindings and threading primitives.
Those we can easily get rid with C++11 bump (which seems
inevitable sooner or later if we'll want ot use newer
LLVM for OSL),
- Networking devices
There's no quick solution for those currently, but there
are some patches around which improves serialization.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, mont29, campbellbarton, brecht, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1764
The combined pass is built with the contributions the user finds fit.
It is useful for lightmap baking, as well as non-view dependent effects
baking.
The manual will be updated once we get closer to the 2.77 release.
Meanwhile the new page can be found here:
http://dalaifelinto.com/blender-manual/render/cycles/baking.html
Reviewers: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1674
This panel is only visible when debug_value is set to 256 and has no
affect in other cases. However, if debug value is not set to this
value, environment variables will be used to control which features
are enabled, so there's no visible changes to anyone in fact.
There are some changes needed to prevent devices re-enumeration on
every Cycles session create.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, lukasstockner97, dingto, brecht
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1720
This makes it possible to move some parts of evaluation from host to the device
and hopefully reduce memory usage by avoid having full RGBA buffer on the host.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, lukasstockner97, brecht
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1702
Currently only two mappings are supported by API, which is Repeat (old behavior)
and new Clip behavior. Internally this extension is being converted to periodic
flag which was already supported but wasn't exposed.
There's no support for OpenCL yet because of the way how we pack images into a
single texture.
Those settings are not exposed to UI or anywhere else and there should be no
functional changes so far.
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.
For CPU it gives available instructions set (SSE, AVX and so).
For GPU CUDA it reports most of the attribute values returned by
cuDeviceGetAttribute(). Ideally we need to only use set of those
which are driver-specific (so we don't clutter system info with
values which we can get from GPU specifications and be sure they
stay the same because driver can't affect on them).
Single precision exponent on 64bit linux tends to be order of magnitude slower
than double precision version even with single<->double precision conversion.
Some feedback in the mailing lists also suggests that logf() is also slow, but
this i didn't confirm here in the studio yet.
Depending on the shader setup it gives ~3% with the secret agent shot and up to
around 15% with the bmw scene here.
This is rather legit case which happens i.e. when having persistent images enabled
and session is updating the lookup tables.
Now device_memory keeps track of amount of memory being allocated on the device,
which makes freeing using the proper allocated size, not the CPU side buffer
size.
This problem was introduced in 983cbafd1877f8dbaae60b064a14e27b5b640f18
Basically the issue is that we were not getting a unique index in the
baking routine for the RNG (random number generator).
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D749
Baking progress preview is not possible, in parts due to the way the API
was designed. But at least you get to see the progress bar while baking.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D656
This kernel is compiled with AVX2, FMA3, and BMI compiler flags. At the moment only Intel Haswell benefits from this, but future AMD CPUs will have these instructions as well.
Makes rendering on Haswell CPUs a few percent faster, only benchmarked with clang on OS X though.
Part of my GSoC 2014.
Now baking does one AA sample at a time, just like final render. There is
also some code for shader antialiasing that solves T40369 but it is disabled
for now because there may be unpredictable side effects.
Expand Cycles to use the new baking API in Blender.
It works on the selected object, and the panel can be accessed in the Render panel (similar to where it is for the Blender Internal).
It bakes for the active texture of each material of the object. The active texture is currently defined as the active Image Texture node present in the material nodetree. If you don't want the baking to override an existent material, make sure the active Image Texture node is not connected to the nodetree. The active texture is also the texture shown in the viewport in the rendered mode.
Remember to save your images after the baking is complete.
Note: Bake currently only works in the CPU
Note: This is not supported by Cycles standalone because a lot of the work is done in Blender as part of the operator only, not the engine (Cycles).
Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Bake
Supported Passes:
-----------------
Data Passes
* Normal
* UV
* Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission/Subsurface/Emit Color
Light Passes
* AO
* Combined
* Shadow
* Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission/Subsurface/Emit Direct/Indirect
* Environment
Review: D421
Reviewed by: Campbell Barton, Brecht van Lommel, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinge
Original design by Brecht van Lommel.
The entire commit history can be found on the branch: bake-cycles
All textures are sampled bi-linear currently with the exception of OSL there texture sampling is fixed and set to smart bi-cubic.
This patch adds user control to this setting.
Added:
- bits to DNA / RNA in the form of an enum for supporting multiple interpolations types
- changes to the image texture node drawing code ( add enum)
- to ImageManager (this needs to know to allocate second texture when interpolation type is different)
- to node compiler (pass on interpolation type)
- to device tex_alloc this also needs to get the concept of multiple interpolation types
- implementation for doing non interpolated lookup for cuda and cpu
- implementation where we pass this along to osl ( this makes OSL also do linear untill I add smartcubic to the interface / DNA/ RNA)
Reviewers: brecht, dingto
Reviewed By: brecht
CC: dingto, venomgfx
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D317
* AVX is available on Intel Sandy Bridge and newer and AMD Bulldozer and newer.
* We don't use dedicated AVX intrinsics yet, but gcc auto vectorization gives a 3% performance improvement for Caminandes. Tested on an i5-3570, Linux x64.
* No change for Windows yet, MSVC 2008 does not support AVX.
Reviewed by: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D216
