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Author SHA1 Message Date
Lukas Toenne
5f6bd44c82 Generalized node groups for Cycles.
This allows group nodes inside other group nodes in cycles and makes the
code more generic for all possible cases, like direct group
input-to-output links and unused group sockets.

Previous code tried to connect external nodes and internal group sockets
by following links until a "real" node input/output. This quickly
becomes complicated in corner cases as described above and can lead to
unexpected behavior when the group socket is of a different type than
the internal/external sockets, but that conversion is skipped.

The new code uses the concept of "proxy nodes" similar to what the new
compositor does. Each group socket is replaced with a proxy node with a
single input and output, to which other nodes in the same tree and
internal nodes can link to. After all groups have been expanded in the
graph, these proxy nodes are removed again, adding converter nodes if
necessary.
2011-12-18 15:34:06 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
4c3b94fdbd Cycles: image texture node now uses UV as default texture coordinate,
instead of generated.
2011-10-12 16:01:37 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
f7b9c85871 Cycles: fix some invalid memory access problems found by running the windows build in debug mode. 2011-08-21 10:32:15 +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