That was basically not an issue with interpolation, but rather missing wrapping
options and periodic wrapping was always used.
It's still a bit questionable why certain graphics cards were doing clamping in
the file from the report, that's not something what is expected to happen from
the settings of textures being passed to GPU. In any case this issue i still
didn't manage to reproduce on any of the available GPUs, might be something
related on driver glitch or so.
In any case CPU now should behave just fine, rest of the issues we'll need to be
able to reproduce first.
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.
Works totally similar to camera motion blur and majority of the changes are
related on just passing extra arguments to sync() functions.
Couple of things still to look into:
- Motion pass will not include motion caused by the zoom.
- Only perspective cameras are supported currently.
- Motion is being interpolated on projected coordinates, which might give
different results from constructing projection matrix from interpolated
field of view.
This could be good enough for us, but we need to consider improving this
at some point.
Reviewers: juicyfruit, dingto
Reviewed By: dingto
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1383
This commit contains all the remained parts needed for initial integration of
OpenSubdiv into Blender's subdivision surface code. Includes both GPU and CPU
backends which works in the following way:
- When SubSurf modifier is the last in the modifiers stack then GPU pipeline
of OpenSubdiv is used, making viewport performance as fast as possible.
This also requires graphscard with GLSL 1.5 support. If this requirement is
not met, then no GPU pipeline is used at all.
- If SubSurf is not a last modifier or if DerivesMesh is being evaluated for
rendering then CPU limit evaluation API from OpenSubdiv is used. This only
replaces the legacy evaluation code from CCGSubSurf_legacy, but keeps CCG
structures exactly the same as they used to be for ages now.
This integration is fully covered with ifdef and not enabled by default
because there are several TODOs to be solved first:
- Face varying data interpolation is not really cleanly implemented for GPU
in OpenSubdiv 3.0. It is also not implemented for limit evaluation API.
This basically means we'll have really hard time supporting UVs.
- Limit evaluation only works with adaptivly subdivided meshes so far, which
basically means all the points of CCG are pushed to the limit. This gives
different result from old code.
- There are some serious optimizations possible on the topology refiner
creation, which would speed up initial OpenSubdiv mesh creation.
- There are some hardcoded asumptions in the GPU and DerivedMesh areas which
could be generalized.
That's something where Antony and Campbell can help, making it so the code
is structured in a way which is reusable by all planned viewport projects.
- There are also some workarounds in the dependency graph to make sure OpenGL
buffers are only freed from the main thread.
Those who'll be wanting to make experiments with this code should grab dev
branch (NOT master) from
https://github.com/Nazg-Gul/OpenSubdiv/tree/dev
There are some patches applied in there which we're working on on getting
into upstream.
This includes C-API bindings in intern/opensubdiv and CMAke module
which finds the OpenSubdiv library. This filea are not in use so
far, making it a separate commit to make actual integration commit
more clear.
Fix T45381: Crash Blender 2.75 in Win7 x64 AMD card
The issue is basically caused by graphics card driver which crashes when
querying OpenCL platforms. This isn't something we can really solve from
the CLEW side, because opencl.dll does exist in old driver and even has
all the needed symbols, but first ever call to clGetPlatformIDs crashes.
While rest of the blender works fine with those older ATI/AMD cards it's
really needed to solve crashes of OpenCL device enumeration.
Solution here is to force disable OpenCL platforms if we've detected that
display card is using old ATI/AMD driver. It's not really proper solution
so it's done in the python side where it's easy to do tweaks. Reasoning
behind this change is:
- If one uses really old driver it's likely because it's the latest one
he/she can ever to install (because of discontinued support from AMD).
- If old card is used it's likely to not have dedicated GPUs for rendering.
- Even if there's a dedicated GPU device enumeration is likely to crash
because of attempt to query OpenCL from the old card.
There are still some tweaks needed likely, but this commit should make
some of the configurations to work.
extensions, once to get final context extensions.
Not so nice because we get a warning on startup from GLEW, but at least
it GL extensions should work now.
This commit implements point density texture for Cycles shading nodes.
It's done via creating voxel texture at shader compilation time, Not
totally memory efficient, but avoids adding sampling code to kernel
(which keeps render time as low as possible), In the future this will
be compensated by using OpenVDB for more efficient storage of sparse
volume data.
Sampling of the voxel texture is happening at blender side and the
same code is used as for Blender Internal's renderer.
This texture is controlled by only object, particle system and radius.
Linear falloff is used and there's no turbulence. This is because
falloff is expected to happen using Curve Mapping node. Turbulence
will be done as a distortion on the input coordinate. It's already
possible to fake it using nose textures and in the future we can add
more proper turbulence distortion node, which then could also be used
for 2D texture mapping.
Particle color support is done by Lukas, thanks!
The idea of this node is to sampling of 3D voxels at a given coordinate
supporting different mapping strategies (world space mapping, object
local space etc).
Currently not in use, it's a preparation step for supporting point density
textures.
The idea is to give artists a simplier way to control memory usage in such
scenes as grass fields by doing automatic object culling based on whether
object is visible in the frame or not.
This is controlled on per-object level. In order to use this option few steps
are required:
- Enable Simplify in scene settings
- Enable Camera Cull option in the Simplify panel
- Set camera cull margin (measured in relative value to the render resolution)
This setting is used to avoid possible flickering caused by changes in shadow
which are cast by objects outside of the frame.
- Enable Camera Cull for objects which are desired to be culled
(object culling option could be found in Option panel in object buttons).
There is still room for improvements, but this worked quite well during
Gooseberry open movie project, so think it's useful feature even in it's current
non-ideal state.
This means render devices now might skip building baking kernels in cases when
only actual render-related functionality is used.
For now it's only implemented for OpenCL split kernel device and mainly needed
to work around some compiler-specific bugs which crashes on building the kernel.
Using OpenCL for baking might still crash the driver, but at least there is now
higher probability of that GPU will be usable to render the scene.
Real fix should actually be done in the driver side.
The idea is to make all kernels as small as possible to work around possible
issues with buggy drivers which might fail building feature-complete kernels.
It's indeed just a workaround to make at last simple test scenes to render
on OpenCL. Real fix should happen from the driver side.
It is rather annoying attitude nowadays to use const qualifier all over the
place, including using it for multi-dimensional arrays. This isn't really
supported in GCC prior to version 5.0 because it considers such an arrays
to be a "pointer to a const pointer" which gives implicit casting errors.
It's not possible to disable this particular type of warnings treated as
errors in any GCC version prior to 5.0 as well, meaning currently usage of
-Werror globally in Blender code is not possible at all.
This commit makes it possible to use -Werror in areas which are complaint
with older GCC versions. New advanced CMake options are:
- WITH_COMPOSITOR_WERROR
- WITH_LIBMV_WERROR
- WITH_CYCLES_WERROR
Turning on importance sampling on area lights increases noise on diffuse
surfaces. This was caused by PDF calculated for an intersected point on
light instead of original light position.
Patch by Stefan with some own modifications.
Requires having latest El Capitan beta 3 OSX due to ome crucial fixes made in the
compiler. Supports same features as NVidia OpenCL apart from CMJ (there's no
experimental feature set support in megakernel yet).
Uses megakernel internally, which works much better than the split kernel. Split
kernel is not supported on OSX still, needs to be investigated still.
Some more details can be found there:
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.6/Source/Render/Cycles/OpenCL#AMD_on_OSX
From artists perspective it makes sense to always apply displacement in a local
space.
TODO: Double-check that BVH is being packed properly. From quick tests seems it's
all fine, but might be missing some obvious failure still.
When using MIS, the world is treated as regular light and in this case
we can now also limit the maximum amount of bounces, the background light
will contribute to the scene.
This can improve performance in some cases, where it's e.g. sufficient to
only have a contribution on first 1-2 bounces.
Examples can be found in the differential.
Differential revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1399
option.
This makes sense, since contexts get created at runtime, there is little
reason to require recompilation for this.
Only works on linux currently, will be doing more OSs later
