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
This functionality is related only to debugging of SYCL implementation
via single-threaded CPU execution and is disabled by default.
Host device has been deprecated in SYCL 2020 spec and we removed it
in 305b92e05f.
Since this is still very useful for debugging, we're restoring a
similar functionality here through SYCL 2020 Host Task.
Cycles already treats denoising fairly separate in its code, with a
dedicated `Denoiser` base class used to describe denoising
behavior. That class has been fully implemented for OIDN
(`denoiser_oidn.cpp`), but for OptiX was mostly empty
(`denoiser_optix.cpp`) and denoising was instead implemented in
the OptiX device. That meant denoising code was split over various
files and directories, making it a bit awkward to work with. This
patch moves the OptiX denoising implementation into the existing
`OptiXDenoiser` class, so that everything is in one place. There are
no functional changes, code has been mostly moved as-is. To
retain support for potential other denoiser implementations based
on a GPU device in the future, the `DeviceDenoiser` base class was
kept and slightly extended (and its file renamed to
`denoiser_gpu.cpp` to follow similar naming rules as
`path_trace_work_*.cpp`).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16502
Buildbot infrastructure relies on the fact that it can enable and
disable `WITH_CYCLES_<COMPUTE>_BINARIES` without affecting speed of
incremental builds. This allows buildbot to skip GPU kernels when
doing CI regression tests which do not need GPU kernels, as well as
it allows to move GPU kernels compilation to a separate step where
all the resources are available to the GPU kernel builders.
For the oneAPI compute enabling and disabling AoT kernels has much
higher implications due to the kernels being a part of the device
implementation from the build target perspective.
This change makes it so different target names are used for JIT and
AoT configurations, which allows CMake to more fully benefit from
"caching" the compiled result.
The end goal of this change is to make it so sequential build of the
same code base on the buildbot happens super fast,
Blender binary still needs to be re-linked when the AOT of oneAPI
option is toggled, but that's already the case in the buildbot due
to the WITH_BUILDINFO.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16312
It fixes SYCL runtime issues in Debug builds that were due to mixing
Release and Debug MSVC runtimes.
This commit also removes specific handling of dpcpp compiler executable
to simplify the CMake implementation. Using it like clang++ works and
clang++ executable is also available from Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler in
case it doesn't.
This is a minimal set of changes, allowing a lot of cleanup that can
happen afterward as it allows sycl method and objects to be used outside
of kernel.cpp.
Reviewed By: brecht, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15397
This allows individual users or Linux distributions to specify a directory
Cycles will automatically look for the OptiX include folder, to compile kernels
at runtime.
It is still possible to override this with the OPTIX_ROOT_DIR environment
variable at runtime.
Based on patch by Sebastian Parborg.
Ref D15792
This cleans up the OpenGL build flags and linking.
It additionally also removes some dead code.
One of these dead code paths is WITH_X11_ALPHA which actually never was
active even with the build flag on. The call to use this was never
called because the default initializer for GHOST was set to have it off
per default. Nothing called this function with a boolean value to enable it.
These cleanups are needed to support true headless OpenGL rendering.
Without these cleanups libepoxy will fail to load the correct OpenGL
Libraries as we have already linked them to the blender binary.
Reviewed By: Brecht, Campbell, Jeroen
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D15554
With libepoxy we can choose between EGL and GLX at runtime, as well as
dynamically open EGL and GLX libraries without linking to them.
This will make it possible to build with Wayland, EGL, GLVND support while
still running on systems that only have X11, GLX and libGL. It also paves
the way for headless rendering through EGL.
libepoxy is a new library dependency, and is included in the precompiled
libraries. GLEW is no longer a dependency, and WITH_SYSTEM_GLEW was removed.
Includes contributions by Brecht Van Lommel, Ray Molenkamp, Campbell Barton
and Sergey Sharybin.
Ref T76428
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15291
This patch adds a new Cycles device with similar functionality to the
existing GPU devices. Kernel compilation and runtime interaction happen
via oneAPI DPC++ compiler and SYCL API.
This implementation is primarly focusing on Intel® Arc™ GPUs and other
future Intel GPUs. The first supported drivers are 101.1660 on Windows
and 22.10.22597 on Linux.
The necessary tools for compilation are:
- A SYCL compiler such as oneAPI DPC++ compiler or
https://github.com/intel/llvm
- Intel® oneAPI Level Zero which is used for low level device queries:
https://github.com/oneapi-src/level-zero
- To optionally generate prebuilt graphics binaries: Intel® Graphics
Compiler All are included in Linux precompiled libraries on svn:
https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/lib The same goes for
Windows precompiled binaries but for the graphics compiler, available
as "Intel® Graphics Offline Compiler for OpenCL™ Code" from
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/oneapi-standalone-components.html,
for which path can be set as OCLOC_INSTALL_DIR.
Being based on the open SYCL standard, this implementation could also be
extended to run on other compatible non-Intel hardware in the future.
Reviewed By: sergey, brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D15254
Co-authored-by: Nikita Sirgienko <nikita.sirgienko@intel.com>
Co-authored-by: Stefan Werner <stefan.werner@intel.com>
* Add missing GLEW and hgiGL libraries for Hydra
* Fix wrong case sensitive include
* Fix link errors by adding external libs to static Hydra lib
* Work around weird Hydra link error with MAX_SAMPLES
* Use Embree by default for Hydra
* Sync external libs code with standalone
* Update version number to match Blender
* Remove unneeded CLEW/GLEW from test executable
None of this should affect Cycles in Blender.
Ref T96731
This patch adds a Hydra render delegate to Cycles, allowing Cycles to be used for rendering
in applications that provide a Hydra viewport. The implementation was written from scratch
against Cycles X, for integration into the Blender repository to make it possible to continue
developing it in step with the rest of Cycles. For this purpose it follows the style of the rest of
the Cycles code and can be built with a CMake option
(`WITH_CYCLES_HYDRA_RENDER_DELEGATE=1`) similar to the existing standalone version
of Cycles.
Since Hydra render delegates need to be built against the exact USD version and other
dependencies as the target application is using, this is intended to be built separate from
Blender (`WITH_BLENDER=0` CMake option) and with support for library versions different
from what Blender is using. As such the CMake build scripts for Windows had to be modified
slightly, so that the Cycles Hydra render delegate can e.g. be built with MSVC 2017 again
even though Blender requires MSVC 2019 now, and it's possible to specify custom paths to
the USD SDK etc. The codebase supports building against the latest USD release 22.03 and all
the way back to USD 20.08 (with some limitations).
Reviewed By: brecht, LazyDodo
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14398
* 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
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
Remove prefix of filenames that is the same as the folder name. This used
to help when #includes were using individual files, but now they are always
relative to the cycles root directory and so the prefixes are redundant.
For patches and branches, git merge and rebase should be able to detect the
renames and move over code to the right file.
NOTE: this feature is not ready for user testing, and not yet enabled in daily
builds. It is being merged now for easier collaboration on development.
HIP is a heterogenous compute interface allowing C++ code to be executed on
GPUs similar to CUDA. It is intended to bring back AMD GPU rendering support
on Windows and Linux.
https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP.
As of the time of writing, it should compile and run on Linux with existing
HIP compilers and driver runtimes. Publicly available compilers and drivers
for Windows will come later.
See task T91571 for more details on the current status and work remaining
to be done.
Credits:
Sayak Biswas (AMD)
Arya Rafii (AMD)
Brian Savery (AMD)
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12578
This includes much improved GPU rendering performance, viewport interactivity,
new shadow catcher, revamped sampling settings, subsurface scattering anisotropy,
new GPU volume sampling, improved PMJ sampling pattern, and more.
Some features have also been removed or changed, breaking backwards compatibility.
Including the removal of the OpenCL backend, for which alternatives are under
development.
Release notes and code docs:
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/3.0/Cycleshttps://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles
Credits:
* Sergey Sharybin
* Brecht Van Lommel
* Patrick Mours (OptiX backend)
* Christophe Hery (subsurface scattering anisotropy)
* William Leeson (PMJ sampling pattern)
* Alaska (various fixes and tweaks)
* Thomas Dinges (various fixes)
For the full commit history, see the cycles-x branch. This squashes together
all the changes since intermediate changes would often fail building or tests.
Ref T87839, T87837, T87836
Fixes T90734, T89353, T80267, T80267, T77185, T69800
Rather than just printing a message and falling back to the CPU. For render
farms it's better to avoid a potentially slow render on the CPU if the intent
was to render on the GPU.
Ref T82193, D9086
* Support precompiled libraries on Linux
* Add license headers
* Refactoring to deduplicate code
Includes work by Ray Molenkamp and Grische for precompiled libraries.
Ref D8769
The code uses OpenGL functionality, so is to be linked against
OpenGL libraries.
This makes it easier to integrate with cycles using CMake.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8371
Compared to Optix denoise, this is usually slower since there is no GPU
acceleration. Some optimizations may still be possible, in avoid copies
to the GPU and/or denoising less often.
The main thing is that this adds viewport denoising support for computers
without an NVIDIA GPU (as long as the CPU supports SSE 4.1, which is nearly
all of them).
Ref T76259
This reduces code duplication between the CUDA and OptiX device implementations: The CUDA device
class is now split into declaration and definition (similar to the OpenCL device) and the OptiX device
class implements that and only overrides the functions it actually has to change, while using the CUDA
implementation for everything else.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6814
This is a more correct fix to the issue Brecht was fixing in D6600.
While the fix in that patch worked fine for linking it broke ASAN
runtime under some circumstances.
For example, `make full debug developer` would compile, but trying
to start blender will cause assert failure in ASAN (related on check
that ASAN is not running already).
Top-level idea: leave it to CMake to keep track of dependency graph.
The root of the issue comes to the fact that target like "blender" is
configured to use a lot of static libraries coming from Blender sources
and to use external static libraries. There is nothing which ensures
order between blender's and external libraries. Only order of blender
libraries is guaranteed.
It was possible that due to a cycle or other circumstances some of
blender libraries would have been passed to linker after libraries
it uses, causing linker errors.
For example, this order will likely fail:
libbf_blenfont.a libfreetype6.a libbf_blenfont.a
This change makes it so blender libraries are explicitly provided
their dependencies to an external libraries, which allows CMake to
ensure they are always linked against them.
General rule here: if bf_foo depends on an external library it is
to be provided to LIBS for bf_foo.
For example, if bf_blenkernel depends on opensubdiv then LIBS in
blenkernel's CMakeLists.txt is to include OPENSUBDIB_LIBRARIES.
The change is made based on searching for used include folders
such as OPENSUBDIV_INCLUDE_DIRS and adding corresponding libraries
to LIBS ion that CMakeLists.txt. Transitive dependencies are not
simplified by this approach, but I am not aware of any downside of
this: CMake should be smart enough to simplify them on its side.
And even if not, this shouldn't affect linking time.
Benefit of not relying on transitive dependencies is that build
system is more robust towards future changes. For example, if
bf_intern_opensubiv is no longer depends on OPENSUBDIV_LIBRARIES
and all such code is moved to bf_blenkernel this will not break
linking.
The not-so-trivial part is change to blender_add_lib (and its
version in Cycles). The complexity is caused by libraries being
provided as a single list argument which doesn't allow to use
different release and debug libraries on Windows. The idea is:
- Have every library prefixed as "optimized" or "debug" if
separation is needed (non-prefixed libraries will be considered
"generic").
- Loop through libraries passed to function and do simple parsing
which will look for "optimized" and "debug" words and specify
following library to corresponding category.
This isn't something particularly great. Alternative would be to
use target_link_libraries() directly, which sounds like more code
but which is more explicit and allows to have more flexibility
and control comparing to wrapper approach.
Tested the following configurations on Linux, macOS and Windows:
- make full debug developer
- make full release developer
- make lite debug developer
- make lite release developer
NOTE: Linux libraries needs to be compiled with D6641 applied,
otherwise, depending on configuration, it's possible to run into
duplicated zlib symbols error.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6642
Using OpenCL MegaKernel has been slow and therefore not usefull.
This patch will remove the mega kernel from the OpenCL codebase
and the OpenCLDeviceBase class.
T61736: removal of mega kernel
T61703: baking does not work with mega kernel
Tags: #cycles
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4383
This patch changes the huge list of projects in visual studio into a nice tree matching the source folder structure. see D2823 for details.
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D2823
Image textures were being packed into a single buffer for OpenCL, which
limited the amount of memory available for images to the size of one
buffer (usually 4gb on AMD hardware). By packing textures into multiple
buffers that limit is removed, while simultaneously reducing the number
of buffers that need to be passed to each kernel.
Benchmarks were within 2%.
Fixes T51554.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2745
This commit contains the first part of the new Cycles denoising option,
which filters the resulting image using information gathered during rendering
to get rid of noise while preserving visual features as well as possible.
To use the option, enable it in the render layer options. The default settings
fit a wide range of scenes, but the user can tweak individual settings to
control the tradeoff between a noise-free image, image details, and calculation
time.
Note that the denoiser may still change in the future and that some features
are not implemented yet. The most important missing feature is animation
denoising, which uses information from multiple frames at once to produce a
flicker-free and smoother result. These features will be added in the future.
Finally, thanks to all the people who supported this project:
- Google (through the GSoC) and Theory Studios for sponsoring the development
- The authors of the papers I used for implementing the denoiser (more details
on them will be included in the technical docs)
- The other Cycles devs for feedback on the code, especially Sergey for
mentoring the GSoC project and Brecht for the code review!
- And of course the users who helped with testing, reported bugs and things
that could and/or should work better!
The idea is to make include statements more explicit and obvious where the
file is coming from, additionally reducing chance of wrong header being
picked up.
For example, it was not obvious whether bvh.h was refferring to builder
or traversal, whenter node.h is a generic graph node or a shader node
and cases like that.
Surely this might look obvious for the active developers, but after some
time of not touching the code it becomes less obvious where file is coming
from.
This was briefly mentioned in T50824 and seems @brecht is fine with such
explicitness, but need to agree with all active developers before committing
this.
Please note that this patch is lacking changes related on GPU/OpenCL
support. This will be solved if/when we all agree this is a good idea to move
forward.
Reviewers: brecht, lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto, juicyfruit, swerner
Reviewed By: lukasstockner97, maiself, nirved, dingto
Subscribers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2586
This does a few things at once:
- Refactors host side split kernel logic into a new device
agnostic class `DeviceSplitKernel`.
- Removes tile splitting, a new work pool implementation takes its place and
allows as many threads as will fit in memory regardless of tile size, which
can give performance gains.
- Refactors split state buffers into one buffer, as well as reduces the
number of arguments passed to kernels. Means there's less code to deal
with overall.
- Moves kernel logic out of OpenCL kernel files so they can later be used by
other device types.
- Replaced OpenCL specific APIs with new generic versions
- Tiles can now be seen updating during rendering
Should be no functional changes at all, just speeds up re-compilation
when some features needs to be disabled for development purposes.
For example, when running lots of Valgrind it's handy to disable any
GPU devices because otherwise you'll be wasting quite some time in
the driver while enumerating devices.
Reviewers: dingto, lukasstockner97, brecht, juicyfruit
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D1730
The main purpose of such linking is to make Blender compatible with
NVidia's debuggers and profilers which are doing some LD_PRELOAD
magic to intercept some function calls. Such magic conflicts with
our CUDA wrangler magic and causes segmentation faults.
The option is disabled by default, so there's no affect on any of
artists.
In order to make Blender linked directly against CUDA library use
the WITH_CUDA_DYNLOAD CMake option (it's marked as advanced).
Brecht Van Lommel
Campbell Barton
Sahar A. Kashi
Xavier Hallade
Nikita Sirgienko
Patrick Mours
Sergey Sharybin
Xavier Hallade
Sebastian Parborg
Christian Rauch
Michael Jones
Brian Savery
Imre Palik
Sergey Sharybin
Campbell Barton
Jeroen Bakker
Ray Molenkamp
Brecht Van Lommel
Mai Lavelle
Lukas Stockner