Useful for validating changes when sampling/noise changes:
- First run with BLENDER_TEST_UPDATE=1 and e.g. CYCLESTEST_SPP_MULTIPLIER=32
- Apply your change
- Run with only CYCLESTEST_SPP_MULTIPLIER=32
- Compare
- Reset the SVN repo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D17107
This patch enables MNEE on macOS >= 13. There was an inefficiency in the calculation of spill requirements, fixed as of macOS 13. This patch also adds a temporary inlining workaround for a Metal compiler bug which causes `mnee_compute_constraint_derivatives` to behave incorrectly.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16235
This adds path guiding features into Cycles by integrating Intel's Open Path
Guiding Library. It can be enabled in the Sampling > Path Guiding panel in the
render properties.
This feature helps reduce noise in scenes where finding a path to light is
difficult for regular path tracing.
The current implementation supports guiding directional sampling decisions on
surfaces, when the material contains a least one diffuse component, and in
volumes with isotropic and anisotropic Henyey-Greenstein phase functions.
On surfaces, the guided sampling decision is proportional to the product of
the incident radiance and the normal-oriented cosine lobe and in volumes it
is proportional to the product of the incident radiance and the phase function.
The incident radiance field of a scene is learned and updated during rendering
after each per-frame rendering iteration/progression.
At the moment, path guiding is only supported by the CPU backend. Support for
GPU backends will be added in future versions of OpenPGL.
Ref T92571
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15286
Move MNEE to own kernel, separate from shader ray-tracing. This does introduce
the limitation that a shader can't use both MNEE and AO/bevel, but that seems
like the better trade-off for now.
We can experiment with bigger kernel organization changes later.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15070
This adds support for selective rendering of caustics in shadows of refractive
objects. Example uses are rendering of underwater caustics and eye caustics.
This is based on "Manifold Next Event Estimation", a method developed for
production rendering. The idea is to selectively enable shadow caustics on a
few objects in the scene where they have a big visual impact, without impacting
render performance for the rest of the scene.
The Shadow Caustic option must be manually enabled on light, caustic receiver
and caster objects. For such light paths, the Filter Glossy option will be
ignored and replaced by sharp caustics.
Currently this method has a various limitations:
* Only caustics in shadows of refractive objects work, which means no caustics
from reflection or caustics that outside shadows. Only up to 4 refractive
caustic bounces are supported.
* Caustic caster objects should have smooth normals.
* Not currently support for Metal GPU rendering.
In the future this method may be extended for more general caustics.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
This code adds manifold next event estimation through refractive surface(s) as a
new sampling technique for direct lighting, i.e. finding the point on the
refractive surface(s) along the path to a light sample, which satisfies Fermat's
principle for a given microfacet normal and the path's end points. This
technique involves walking on the "specular manifold" using a pseudo newton
solver. Such a manifold is defined by the specular constraint matrix from the
manifold exploration framework [2]. For each refractive interface, this
constraint is defined by enforcing that the generalized half-vector projection
onto the interface local tangent plane is null. The newton solver guides the
walk by linearizing the manifold locally before reprojecting the linear solution
onto the refractive surface. See paper [1] for more details about the technique
itself and [3] for the half-vector light transport formulation, from which it is
derived.
[1] Manifold Next Event Estimation
Johannes Hanika, Marc Droske, and Luca Fascione. 2015.
Comput. Graph. Forum 34, 4 (July 2015), 87–97.
https://jo.dreggn.org/home/2015_mnee.pdf
[2] Manifold exploration: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique for rendering
scenes with difficult specular transport Wenzel Jakob and Steve Marschner.
2012. ACM Trans. Graph. 31, 4, Article 58 (July 2012), 13 pages.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/manifolds-sg12/
[3] The Natural-Constraint Representation of the Path Space for Efficient
Light Transport Simulation. Anton S. Kaplanyan, Johannes Hanika, and Carsten
Dachsbacher. 2014. ACM Trans. Graph. 33, 4, Article 102 (July 2014), 13 pages.
https://cg.ivd.kit.edu/english/HSLT.php
The code for this samping technique was inserted at the light sampling stage
(direct lighting). If the walk is successful, it turns off path regularization
using a specialized flag in the path state (PATH_MNEE_SUCCESS). This flag tells
the integrator not to blur the brdf roughness further down the path (in a child
ray created from BSDF sampling). In addition, using a cascading mechanism of
flag values, we cull connections to caustic lights for this and children rays,
which should be resolved through MNEE.
This mechanism also cancels the MIS bsdf counter part at the casutic receiver
depth, in essence leaving MNEE as the only sampling technique from receivers
through refractive casters to caustic lights. This choice might not be optimal
when the light gets large wrt to the receiver, though this is usually not when
you want to use MNEE.
This connection culling strategy removes a fair amount of fireflies, at the cost
of introducing a slight bias. Because of the selective nature of the culling
mechanism, reflective caustics still benefit from the native path
regularization, which further removes fireflies on other surfaces (bouncing
light off casters).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13533
Use a shorter/simpler license convention, stops the header taking so
much space.
Follow the SPDX license specification: https://spdx.org/licenses
- C/C++/objc/objc++
- Python
- Shell Scripts
- CMake, GNUmakefile
While most of the source tree has been included
- `./extern/` was left out.
- `./intern/cycles` & `./intern/atomic` are also excluded because they
use different header conventions.
doc/license/SPDX-license-identifiers.txt has been added to list SPDX all
used identifiers.
See P2788 for the script that automated these edits.
Reviewed By: brecht, mont29, sergey
Ref D14069
Remove small ray offsets that were used to avoid self intersection, and leave
that to the newly added primitive object/prim comparison. These changes together
significantly reduce artifacts on small, large or far away objects.
The balance here is that overlapping primitives are not handled well and should
be avoided (though this was already an issue). The upside is that this is
something a user has control over, whereas the other artifacts had no good
manual solution in many cases.
There is a known issue where the Blender particle system generates overlapping
objects and in turn leads to render differences between CPU and GPU. This will
be addressed separately.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12954
CYCLES_TEST_DEVICES is a list of devices (CPU, CUDA, OPTIX, OPENCL). It is set
to CPU only by default.
Test output is now writen to build/tests/cycles/<device>, and the HTML report
has separate report pages for the different devices, with option to compare
between CPU and GPU renders.
Various GPU tests are still failing due to CPU/GPU differences, these are to be
fixed or blacklisted still.
Ref T82193
This adds a new `--debug-exit-on-error` flag. When it is set, Blender
will abort with a non-zero exit code when there are internal errors.
Currently, "internal errors" includes memory leaks detected by
guardedalloc and error/fatal log entries in clog.
The new flag is passed to Blender in various places where automated
tests are run. Furthermore, the `--debug-memory` flag is used in tests,
because that makes the verbose output more useful, when dealing
with memory leaks.
Reviewers: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8665
CentOS on the buildbot still runs Python 3.6, which is also used for the
unit tests. This means that the tests can't use language features that
are available to Blender itself. And testing with a different version of
Python than will be used by the actual code seems like a bad idea to me.
This commit adds `TEST_PYTHON_EXECUTABLE` as advanced CMake option. This
will allow us to set a specific Python executable when we need it. When
not set, a platform-specific default will be used:
- On Windows, the `python….exe` from the installation directory. This is
just like before this patch, except that this patch adds the
overridability.
- On macOS/Linux, the `${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}` as found by CMake.
Every platform should now have a value (configured by the user or
detected by CMake) for `TEST_PYTHON_EXE`, so there is no need to allow
running without. This also removes the need to have some Python files
marked as executable.
If `TEST_PYTHON_EXE` is not user-configured, and thus the above default
is used, a status message is logged by CMake. I've seen this a lot in
other projects, and I like that it shows which values are auto-detected.
However, it's not common in Blender, so if we want we can either remove
it now, or remove it after the buildbot has been set up correctly.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7395
Reviewed by: campbellbarton, mont29, sergey
Blender startup time and shader compilation is a big factor when running
hundreds of tests, so now all renders in the same ctest run in the same
process.
This was previously reverted due to skipping other tests when one test
crashed. Now if a test crashes, Blender is re-run with the remaining
tests so we get results from them still.
Blender startup time and shader compilation is a big factor when running
hundreds of tests, so now all renders in the same ctest run in the same
process. If a test crashes, the remaining tests in the same category will
be marked as skipped.
Benchmarked on a quad core with ctest -j8.
cycles: 118.1s -> 94.3s
eevee: 66.2s -> 29.2s
workbench: 31.7s -> 8.6s
Being able to compare Eevee reference images is useful for refactoring I'm
working on so might as well add them now, even if we can still improve them.
Workbench tests are just rendering the same files as Cycles and Eevee. This
doesn't really tests many workbench settings until we add tests specifically
for them, but does cover how it it handles the different object types.
This adds Eevee render tests using the Cycles files. Currently it must
be enabled by setting WITH_OPENGL_RENDER_TESTS=ON. Once we have reference
images we can enable it by default.
Some of the Cycles and Eevee tests are also currently broken due to
modifier and particle changes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3182
Shows new, reference and diff renders, with mouse hover to flip between
new and ref for easy comparison. This generates a report.html in
build_dir/tests/cycles, stored along with the new and diff images.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2770
Works similar to regular Cycles tests, just does OpenGL render to
get output image.
Seems to work fine with the only funny effect: Blender window will
pop up for each of the tests. This is current limitation of our
OpenGL context. Might be changed in the future.
Made them closer to how GTest shows the output, so reading test logs
is easier now (at least feels more uniform).
Additionally now we know how much time tests are taking so can tweak
samples/resolution to reduce render time of slow tests.
It is now also possible to enable colored messages using magic
CYCLESTEST_COLOR environment variable. This makes it even easier to
visually grep failed/passed tests using `ctest -R cycles -V`.
This reverts commit d390e24c49.
Forcing tests to success is really bad idea. It'll only lead to cases when
you see PASSED and will think everything is OK.
Long story short: never force tests to pass!
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