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Author SHA1 Message Date
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