Along with the 4.1 libraries upgrade, we are bumping the clang-format
version from 8-12 to 17. This affects quite a few files.
If not already the case, you may consider pointing your IDE to the
clang-format binary bundled with the Blender precompiled libraries.
In the commonly used cycles headers, it's enough to include
much smaller <iosfwd> than the full <iostream>. While looking at it,
removed inclusion of some other headers from commonly used headers,
that seemed to not be needed.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111063
Only Embree CPU BVH was built in the multi-device case. However, one
Embree GPU BVH is needed per GPU, so we now reuse the same logic as in
the other backends.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/107992
HIP RT enables AMD hardware ray tracing on RDNA2 and above, and falls back to a
to shader implementation for older graphics cards. It offers an average 25%
sample rendering rate improvement in Cycles benchmarks, on a W6800 card.
The ray tracing feature functions are accessed through HIP RT SDK, available on
GPUOpen. HIP RT traversal functionality is pre-compiled in bitcode format and
shipped with the SDK.
This is not yet enabled as there are issues to be resolved, but landing the
code now makes testing and further changes easier.
Known limitations:
* Not working yet with current public AMD drivers.
* Visual artifact in motion blur.
* One of the buffers allocated for traversal has a static size. Allocating it
dynamically would reduce memory usage.
* This is for Windows only currently, no Linux support.
Co-authored-by: Brecht Van Lommel <brecht@blender.org>
Ref #105538
For example
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver()
{
}
```
becomes
```
OIIOOutputDriver::~OIIOOutputDriver() {}
```
Saves quite some vertical space, which is especially handy for
constructors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/105594
To improve mesh upload speeds and reduce the size of the scene data which allows larger scenes to be rendered.
The meshes in Cycles are currently stored as flattened meshes, where each triangle is stored as a set of 3 vertices. Unflattening writes out the vertices in a list according to the index buffer. This uses a lot of memory and for current hardware does not provide a noticeable benefit. This change unflattens the mesh by directly using the meshes vertex and index buffers directly and skips the unflattening. This change allows for larger scenes and also a reduction in the sizes of the meshes. Further it results in a decrease the amount of time it takes to upload the data to a GPU. This is especially important for when multiple GPUs are used in a single machine.
Pull Request #105173
Having the OptiX/MetalRT/Embree/MetalRT implementations all in one file with
many #ifdefs became too confusing. Instead split it up per device, and also
move it together with device specific hit/filter/intersect functions and
associated data types.
* Rename "texture" to "data array". This has not used textures for a long time,
there are just global memory arrays now. (On old CUDA GPUs there was a cache
for textures but not global memory, so we used to put all data in textures.)
* For CUDA and HIP, put globals in KernelParams struct like other devices.
* Drop __ prefix for data array names, no possibility for naming conflict now that
these are in a struct.
* Replace license text in headers with SPDX identifiers.
* Remove specific license info from outdated readme.txt, instead leave details
to the source files.
* Add list of SPDX license identifiers used, and corresponding license texts.
* Update copyright dates while we're at it.
Ref D14069, T95597
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
There are two things achieved by this change:
- No possible downcast of size_t to int when calculating motion steps.
- Disambiguate call to `min()` which was for some reason considered
ambiguous on 32bit platforms `min(int, unsigned int)`.
- Do the same for the `max()` call to keep them symmetrical.
On an implementation side the `min()` is defined for a fixed width
integer type to disambiguate uint from size_t on 32bit platforms,
and yet be able to use it for 32bit operands on 64bit platforms without
upcast.
This ended up in a bit bigger change as the conditional compile-in of
functions is easiest if the functions is templated. Making the functions
templated required to remove the other source of ambiguity which is
`algorithm.h` which was pulling min/max from std.
Now it is the `math.h` which is the source of truth for min/max.
It was only one place which was relying on `algorithm.h` for these
functions, hence the choice of `math.h` as the safest and least
intrusive.
Fixes 32bit platforms (such as i386) in Debian package build system.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14062
There are two things achieved by this change:
- No possible downcast of size_t to int when calculating motion steps.
- Disambiguate call to min() which was for some reason considered
ambiguous on 32bit platforms `min(int, unsigned int)`.
On an implementation side the `min()` is defined for a fixed width
integer type to disambiguate uint from size_t on 32bit platforms,
and yet be able to use it for 32bit operands on 64bit platforms without
upcast.
Fixes 32bit platforms (such as i386) in Debian package build system.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13992
Make the Embree RTC_SCENE_FLAG_COMPACT flag optional and enabled per default.
Disabling it makes CPU rendering a bit faster in some scenes at the cost of a higher memory usage.
Barbershop renders about 3% faster, victor about 4% on CPU with compact BVH disabled.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13592
This add support for rendering of the point cloud object in Blender, as a native
geometry type in Cycles that is more memory and time efficient than instancing
sphere meshes. This can be useful for rendering sand, water splashes, particles,
motion graphics, etc.
Points are currently always rendered as spheres, with backface culling. More
shapes are likely to be added later, but this is the most important one and can
be customized with shaders.
For CPU rendering the Embree primitive is used, for GPU there is our own
intersection code. Motion blur is suppored. Volumes inside points are not
currently supported.
Implemented with help from:
* Kévin Dietrich: Alembic procedural integration
* Patrick Mourse: OptiX integration
* Josh Whelchel: update for cycles-x changes
Ref T92573
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9887
This fixes crash T94022 when selecting live viewport render with both GPU & CPU devices selected. It is caused by incorrect `KernelBVHLayout` assignment. Similar to `BVH_LAYOUT_MULTI_OPTIX` for Optix, this patch adds a `BVH_LAYOUT_MULTI_METAL` to correctly redirect to the correct Metal BVH layout type.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13561
This patch adds the Metal host-side code:
- Add all core host-side Metal backend files (device_impl, queue, etc)
- Add MetalRT BVH setup files
- Integrate with Cycles device enumeration code
- Revive `path_source_replace_includes` in util/path (required for MSL compilation)
This patch also includes a couple of small kernel-side fixes:
- Add an implementation of `lgammaf` for Metal [Nemes, Gergő (2010), "New asymptotic expansion for the Gamma function", Archiv der Mathematik](https://users.renyi.hu/~gergonemes/)
- include "work_stealing.h" inside the Metal context class because it accesses state now
Ref T92212
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92212
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13423
This patch adds MetalRT support to Cycles kernel code. It is mostly additive in nature or confined to Metal-specific code, however there are a few areas where this interacts with other code:
- MetalRT closely follows the Optix implementation, and in some cases (notably handling of transforms) it makes sense to extend Optix special-casing to MetalRT. For these generalisations we now have `__KERNEL_GPU_RAYTRACING__` instead of `__KERNEL_OPTIX__`.
- MetalRT doesn't support primitive offsetting (as with `primitiveIndexOffset` in Optix), so we define and populate a new kernel texture, `__object_prim_offset`, containing per-object primitive / curve-segment offsets. This is referenced and applied in MetalRT intersection handlers.
- Two new BVH layout enum values have been added: `BVH_LAYOUT_METAL` and `BVH_LAYOUT_MULTI_METAL_EMBREE` for XPU mode). Some host-side enum case handling has been updated where it is trivial to do so.
Ref T92212
Reviewed By: brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T92212
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13353
Brecht Van Lommel
Hans Goudey
Campbell Barton
Aras Pranckevicius
Nikita Sirgienko
Xavier Hallade
Sahar A. Kashi
Sergey Sharybin
Bastien Montagne
Xavier Hallade
William Leeson
Ethan-Hall
William Leeson
Thomas Dinges
Michael Jones
Sybren A. Stüvel