Commit Graph

18 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
Brecht Van Lommel
ed1a08382f Cycles: code refactoring to deduplicate the various BVH traversal variations.
Now there is a single BVH traversal code with #ifdefs for various features.
At runtime it will then select the appropriate variation to use depending if
instancing, hair or motion blur is in use.

This makes scenes without hair render a bit faster, especially after the
minimum width feature was added. It's not the most beautiful code, but we can't
use c++ templates and there were already 4 copies, adding 4 more to handle the
hair case separately would be too much.
2013-04-17 20:07:22 +00:00
Stuart Broadfoot
e9ba345c46 New feature
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.
2012-12-28 14:21:30 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
7c0a0bae79 Fix #33375: OSL geom:trianglevertices gave wrong coordinates for static BVH.
Also some simple OSL optimization, passing thread data pointer directly instead
of via thread local storage, and creating ustrings for attribute lookup.
2012-12-01 19:15:05 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
4ad103cedd Fix cycles motion blur not working correct with shutter time > 2.0. The soft
limit is 2.0, and anything beyond that is extrapolation which might not work
so well but is still allowed.
2012-10-17 17:27:30 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
fedc8e1722 Cycles: add "From Dupli" option for texture coordinate node. This gets the
Generated and UV coordinates from the duplicator of instance instead of the
object itself.

This was used in e.g. Big Buck Bunny for texturing instanced feathers with
a UV map on the bird. Many files changed, mainly to do some refactoring to
get rid of G.rendering global in duplilist code.
2012-10-04 21:40:39 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
f0d2477484 Fix for #32184 and redesign of particle storage in Cycles.
The particle data used by the Particle Info node was stored in cycles as a list in each object. This is a problem when the particle emitter mesh is hidden: Objects in cycles are only intended as instances of renderable meshes, so when hiding the emitter mesh the particle data doesn't get stored either. Also the particle data can potentially be copied to multiple instances of the same object, which is a waste of texture space.

The solution in this patch is to make a completely separate list of particle systems in the Cycles scene data. This way the particle data can be generated even when the emitter object itself is not visible.
2012-08-31 17:27:08 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
fec872ef9c Added a particle index output to the Particle Info Cycles node. This is required to get consistent ID numbers for particles. The Object ID is not usable since it's a user defined value of the instanced object, which does not vary per instance. Also the random value from the object info node is not consistent over time, since it only depends on the index in the dupli list (so each emitted or dying particle shifts the value).
The particle index is always the same for a specific particle. Randomized values can be generated from this with the use of a noise texture.
2012-07-26 11:40:58 +00:00
Lukas Toenne
5e1bbde01d Particle Info node for Cycles. This can be used to access particle information in material shaders for dupli objects. For now only the particle Age and individual Lifetime (in frames) are supported, more attributes can be added when needed.
The particle data is stored in a separate texture if any of the dupli objects uses particle info nodes in shaders. To map dupli objects onto particles the store an additional particle_index value, which is different from the simple dupli object index (only visible particles, also works for particle dupli groups mode).

Some simple use cases on the code.blender.org blog:
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/05/particle-info-node/
2012-06-08 16:17:57 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
66f4ab396f Cycles: different fix for object info random range issue. 2012-06-03 09:50:17 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
9e2f377273 Fix #31556: cycles object info random value was not properly randomized for
dupligroups.
2012-05-29 10:34:16 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
c3e1fce775 Cycles: add Object Info node, with outputs object location, object/material
pass index, and a random number unique to the instance of the object.

This can be useful to give some variation to a single material assigned to
multiple instances, either manually controlled through the object index, based
on the object location, or randomized for each instance. 

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Nodes/More#Object_Info
2012-05-21 12:52:28 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
1e2afcddd3 Fix #31168: cycles mask layer should only affect objects for camera rays.
Fix: texture coordinate normal output was not correct, still changed under
object transform.
2012-05-02 09:33:45 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
1d8c798188 Cycles: support for motion vector and UV passes.
Most of the changes are related to adding support for motion data throughout
the code. There's some code for actual camera/object motion blur raytracing
but it's unfinished (it badly slows down the raytracing kernel even when the
option is turned off), so that code it disabled still.

Motion vector export from Blender tries to avoid computing derived meshes
when the mesh does not have a deforming modifier, and it also won't store
motion vectors for every vertex if only the object or camera is moving.
2012-04-30 12:49:26 +00:00
Brecht Van Lommel
f99343d3b8 Cycles: Render Passes
Currently supported passes:
* Combined, Z, Normal, Object Index, Material Index, Emission, Environment,
  Diffuse/Glossy/Transmission x Direct/Indirect/Color

Not supported yet:
* UV, Vector, Mist

Only enabled for CPU devices at the moment, will do GPU tweaks tommorrow,
also for environment importance sampling.

Documentation:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Cycles/Passes
2012-01-25 17:23:52 +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
2996f08f84 Cycles: first batch of windows build fixes, not quite there yet. 2011-05-03 18:29:11 +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