This way we save 3 bytes per BVH node while building BVH, which overall
gives 100Mb memory save when preparing Frank for render.
It's not really much comparing to overall memory usage (which is 11Gb
during scene preparation here) but still doesn't harm to have solved.
Using this paper: Sven Woop, Watertight Ray/Triangle Intersection
http://jcgt.org/published/0002/01/05/paper.pdf
This change is expected to address quite reasonable amount of reports from the
bug tracker, plus it might help reducing the noise in some scenes.
Unfortunately, it's currently about 7% slower than the previous solution with
pre-computed triangle plane equations, but maybe with some smart tweaks to the
code (tests reshuffle, using SIMD in a nice way or so) we can avoid the speed
regression.
But perhaps smartest thing to do here would be to change single triangle / ray
intersection with multiple triangles / ray intersections. That's how Embree does
this and it's watertight single ray intersection is not any faster that this.
Currently only triangle intersection is modified accordingly to the paper, in
the future we would also want to modify the node / ray intersection.
Reviewers: brecht, juicyfruit
Subscribers: dingto, ton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D819
The idea is to store visibility flags for leaf nodes only since visibility check
for inner nodes costs too much for QBVH hence it is not optimal to perform.
Leaf QBVH nodes have plenty of space to store all sort of flags, so we can make
nodes one element smaller, saving noticeable amount of memory.
Title says it all, quite straightforward implementation.
Would only mention that there's a bit of code duplication around packing node
into pack.nodes. Trying to de-duplicate it ends up in quite hairy code (like
functions with loads of arguments some of which could be NULL in certain
circumstances etc..). Leaving solving this duplication for later.
* Increase the maximum amount of closures per shader from 16 to 64, so more complex closure trees can be rendered.
I measured performance on CPU and GPU (Geforce 540M) and couldn't find a performance impact, but if someone encounters a noticeable impact on his system, please report.
Patch [#33445] - Experimental Cycles Hair Rendering (CPU only)
This patch allows hair data to be exported to cycles and introduces a new line segment primitive to render with.
The UI appears under the particle tab and there is a new hair info node available.
It is only available under the experimental feature set and for cpu rendering.
disk to be reused by the next render.
This is useful for rendering animations where only the camera or materials change.
Note that saving the BVH to disk only to be removed for the next frame is slower
if this is not the case and the meshes do actually change.
For a render, it will save bvh files to the cache user directory, and remove all
cache files from other renders. The files are named using a MD5 hash based on the
mesh, to verify if the meshes are still the same.
* 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
