* Add viewport display support for Sphere and Plane probes.
* Make all probe display options per object instead of per scene.
(Uses the already existing `LIGHTPROBE_FLAG_SHOW_DATA`
and adds a new `data_display_size ` property to the `LightProbe` DNA)
* Python `show_data` property has been deprecated and renamed to
`use_data_display` (`data_display_size ` has been exposed as well).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/114176
Update to the new naming convention for `Light Probes`:
`Reflection Cubemap` -> `Sphere`
`Reflection Plane` -> `Plane`
`Irradiance Grid` -> `Volume`
Note that this breaks the Python API (`bpy.types.LightProbe.type`).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113452
This PR reuses the scene specific reflection probe resolution for all
reflection light probes in the scene. The target is to have a automatic
detection for the resolution. But as long as we don't have a mechanism
for detection it is better to not introduce a new UI element that will
be removed within the foreseen future.
This setting is currently used by EEVEE and EEVEE-Next. EEVEE supports
resolutions upto 4096px. This will be clamped to 2048 when using
EEVEE-Next.
The motivation for this is that EEVEE-Next will soon replace
EEVEE and 4096 can then be removed from the choices that the user can
made. Adding as separate option could need synchronization, and that
option would also be temporary as it will be removed by the resolution
detection mechanism.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113491
This PR is contains the initial capture pipeline for planar probes.
It requires work to generate the correct view to capture and to include
the result during ray tracing. These will be developed in a separate PR.
This PR detects if a planar probe is active in the scene. If this is
the case the planar probe pipeline will be activated. During rendering
this is done by querying the depsgraph, during viewport drawing this
is done during sync. If an planar probe is detected and the pipeline
wasn't activated. The pipeline will be activated and the sampling
will be reset to ensure the pipeline is filled with all objects.
Per object the user can set the visibility of the object in planar
reflections.
For a reflection plane the resolution and clipping offset can be set.
EDIT: Resolution option was removed because too complex to
implement with the little time we have at the moment.
Related to #112966
Co-authored-by: Clément Foucault <foucault.clem@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/113203
`extern "C"` did not actually have an effect here since it only impacts
name mangling of functions, not structs (or other class types). Now this
can get in the way when we add C++ blocks with functions , e.g.
templates are not allowed in code with C-linkage.
Most of these were added in ad4b7741db, even though it was known that
this doesn't have any impact. Reason was because developers thought they
would have to add that to all direct and indirect includes to be able to
use a header in C++ (a common misconception). Now with most files
compiled in C++, it's obvious that this isn't the case.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111926
Listing the "Blender Foundation" as copyright holder implied the Blender
Foundation holds copyright to files which may include work from many
developers.
While keeping copyright on headers makes sense for isolated libraries,
Blender's own code may be refactored or moved between files in a way
that makes the per file copyright holders less meaningful.
Copyright references to the "Blender Foundation" have been replaced with
"Blender Authors", with the exception of `./extern/` since these this
contains libraries which are more isolated, any changed to license
headers there can be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Some directories in `./intern/` have also been excluded:
- `./intern/cycles/` it's own `AUTHORS` file is planned.
- `./intern/opensubdiv/`.
An "AUTHORS" file has been added, using the chromium projects authors
file as a template.
Design task: #110784
Ref !110783.
This allows irradiance volume that have less priority to
transfer lighting to the ones with higher priority.
Meaning interactive relighting from the world or
lookdev HDRI is now supported if the world isn't baked
inside the volume data.
This should improve workflow with larger scenes and
interactivity with light setups.
To help setup with dynamic objects, this patch introduce
3 new parameter to remove some components from the
irradiance grids.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110838
Implement capture point bias. This offsets the capture
points to reduce the amount bad capture locations (i.e.:
inside objects, near walls etc...).
Two new parameters are added:
- Capture Surface Bias: Ensure a minimum distance between
capture points and surrounding geometry. This is expressed as the
relative distance between two capture point. Requires re-bake
to take effect.
- Capture Escape Bias: Moves capture points enclosed inside
objects above the nearest surface. This bias defines how far a
capture point can be moved for escaping the object. This is
expressed as the relative distance between two capture point.
Requires re-bake to take effect.
This is called virtual offset in the reference material.
A quick prepass runs before the baking to offset the samples away
from any surface that could potentially make bad samples.
In order to speedup the process, we create cluster list of surfels
near each irradiance grid point. This allow access to neighboring
surfels that can contribute to the virtual offset which should
never be more than half a cell wide.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110355
Implement invalid sample points filling. Improves invalid regions
but introduce light leak.
Grid sample points are considered invalid if they have a ratio of
front-face ray hit under the given threshold. This is a post-processing
pass on the baked lighting that fills dark regions produced by
invalid sample location (e.g.: inside walls) with valid neighbor
samples data.
Two new parameters are added:
- Dilation Threshold: Validity threshold under which grid samples are
considered invalid. Invalid samples will gather valid lighting data
from valid neighbors inside the dilation radius.
- Dilation Radius: Radius of the dilation process. Expressed in grid
sample distance.
The validity of each point is progressively refined just like the
lighting data during the baking process.
The dilation process is implemented as a post-processing pass during
the loading of the grid data into the irradiance atlas. This allows
live tweaking the dilation parameters.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110386
This replaces the trilinear interpolation with manually
placed samples to avoid most light leak.
Add two new parameters to bias the sampling position:
- Normal bias
- View bias
Move the irradiance smoothing parameter per grid.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/110312
All probes (including the world background probe) are stored in a single texture. Each probe
can be of any resolution as long as it is a power of 2 and not larger than 2048. So valid options
are (2048x2048, 1024x1024, 512x512, etc).
Each probe can be stored in their own resolution and can be set by the user.
> NOTE: Eventually we would like to add automatic resolution selection.
The probes are packed in an 2d texture array with the dimension of 2048*2048. The number of
layers depends on the actual needed layers. If more layers are needed the texture will be recreated.
This can happen when a new reflection probe is added, or an existing reflection probe is made visible
to the scene or its resolution is changed.
### Octahedral mapping
Probes are rendered into a cubemap. To reduce memory needs and improve sampling performance the cubemap
is stored in octahedral mapping space. This is done in `eevee_reflection_probe_remap_comp.glsl`.
The regular octahedral mapping has been extended to fix leakages at the edges of the texture
and to be able to be used on an atlas texture and by sampling the texture once.
To reduce sampling cost and improve the quality we add an border around the
octahedral map and extend the octahedral coordinates. This also allows us to
generate lower resolution mipmaps of the atlas texture using 2x2 box filtering
from a higher resolution.
### Subdivisions and areas
Probes data are stored besides the texture. The data is used to find out where the probe is stored
in the texture. It is also used to find free space to store new probes.
This approach ensures that we can be flexible at storing probes with different
resolutions on the same layer. Lets see an example how that works
Code-wise this is implemented by `ProbeLocationFinder`. ProbeLocationFinder can view a texture in a
given subdivision level and mark areas that are covered by probes. When finding a free spot it returns
the first empty area.
**Notes**
* Currently the cubemap is rendered with a fixed resolution and mipmaps are generated in order to
increase the quality of the atlas. Eventually we should use dynamic resolution and no mipmaps.
This will be done as part of the light probe baking change.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/109688
A lot of files were missing copyright field in the header and
the Blender Foundation contributed to them in a sense of bug
fixing and general maintenance.
This change makes it explicit that those files are at least
partially copyrighted by the Blender Foundation.
Note that this does not make it so the Blender Foundation is
the only holder of the copyright in those files, and developers
who do not have a signed contract with the foundation still
hold the copyright as well.
Another aspect of this change is using SPDX format for the
header. We already used it for the license specification,
and now we state it for the copyright as well, following the
FAQ:
https://reuse.software/faq/
This is the first step for refactoring the lightcache system.
Each probe instance (as in `Object`) will now store its own baked data.
The data is currently stored in uncompressed readable format.
This introduces two new operators for baking to avoid confusion with
the previous light baking pipeline. These do nothing other than
creating empty caches that will be populated by EEVEE later on.
The DNA storage is made to be able to include multiple caches
in case of baked simulation over time but it isn't yet supported.
I prefer to keep the implementation simple for now as the long term
goals for this feature are uncertain.
There is still a type flag (`LightProbeObjectCache.cache_type`) that
will be used for versioning.
The naming convention of structs is a bit weird but that's all I
found in order to avoid interfering with the old scene light cache
that is still used by (old) EEVEE.
Related task #106449.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/106808
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 changes the roughness mapping to better utilize the mip chain resolution.
This improves glossy reflections with small roughness.
Lightcache version bumped because old data does not have the same roughness
mapping and cannot be used.
This replaces header include guards with `#pragma once`.
A couple of include guards are not removed yet (e.g. `__RNA_TYPES_H__`),
because they are used in other places.
This patch has been generated by P1561 followed by `make format`.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8466
Some implementation have different maximum texture size.
This patch avoid crash when texture allocation fails when:
- trying to bake a lightcache too big for the OpenGL imeplementaion.
- loading a cache from file that is too big for the OpenGL imeplementation.
We implement cubemap array support for EEVEE's lightcache reflection probes.
This removes stretched texels and bottom hemisphere seams artifacts caused
by the octahedral projection previously used.
This introduce versioning code for the lightcache which will discard any
lightcache version that is not compatible.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7066
Avoids mixing these in with regular variables in code-completion.
Use char for pad members except for 'void *', to make size clearer.
Removed/shrink a few redundant padding vars which were >= 8 bytes.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
This separate probe rendering from viewport rendering, making possible to
run the baking in another thread (non blocking and faster).
The baked lighting is saved in the blend file. Nothing needs to be
recomputed on load.
There is a few missing bits / bugs:
- Cache cannot be saved to disk as a separate file, it is saved in the DNA
for now making file larger and memory usage higher.
- Auto update only cubemaps does update the grids (bug).
- Probes cannot be updated individually (considered as dynamic).
- Light Cache cannot be (re)generated during render.
OVERVIEW
* In 2.7 terminology, all layers and groups are now collection datablocks.
* These collections are nestable, linkable, instanceable, overrideable, ..
which opens up new ways to set up scenes and link + override data.
* Viewport/render visibility and selectability are now a part of the collection
and shared across all view layers and linkable.
* View layers define which subset of the scene collection hierarchy is excluded
for each. For many workflows one view layer can be used, these are more of an
advanced feature now.
OUTLINER
* The outliner now has a "View Layer" display mode instead of "Collections",
which can display the collections and/or objects in the view layer.
* In this display mode, collections can be excluded with the right click menu.
These will then be greyed out and their objects will be excluded.
* To view collections not linked to any scene, the "Blender File" display mode
can be used, with the new filtering option to just see Colleciton datablocks.
* The outliner right click menus for collections and objects were reorganized.
* Drag and drop still needs to be improved. Like before, dragging the icon or
text gives different results, we'll unify this later.
LINKING AND OVERRIDES
* Collections can now be linked into the scene without creating an instance,
with the link/append operator or from the collections view in the outliner.
* Collections can get static overrides with the right click menu in the outliner,
but this is rather unreliable and not clearly communicated at the moment.
* We still need to improve the make override operator to turn collection instances
into collections with overrides directly in the scene.
PERFORMANCE
* We tried to make performance not worse than before and improve it in some
cases. The main thing that's still a bit slower is multiple scenes, we have to
change the layer syncing to only updated affected scenes.
* Collections keep a list of their parent collections for faster incremental
updates in syncing and caching.
* View layer bases are now in a object -> base hash to avoid quadratic time
lookups internally and in API functions like visible_get().
VERSIONING
* Compatibility with 2.7 files should be improved due to the new visibility
controls. Of course users may not want to set up their scenes differently
now to avoid having separate layers and groups.
* Compatibility with 2.8 is mostly there, and was tested on Eevee demo and Hero
files. There's a few things which are know to be not quite compatible, like
nested layer collections inside groups.
* The versioning code for 2.8 files is quite complicated, and isolated behind
#ifdef so it can be removed at the end of the release cycle.
KNOWN ISSUES
* The G-key group operators in the 3D viewport were left mostly as is, they
need to be modified still to fit better.
* Same for the groups panel in the object properties. This needs to be updated
still, or perhaps replaced by something better.
* Collections must all have a unique name. Less restrictive namespacing is to
be done later, we'll have to see how important this is as all objects within
the collections must also have a unique name anyway.
* Full scene copy and delete scene are exactly doing the right thing yet.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3383https://code.blender.org/2018/05/collections-and-groups/
Miguel Pozo
Jeroen Bakker
Clément Foucault
Julian Eisel
Bastien Montagne
Campbell Barton
Clément Foucault
Sergey Sharybin
Brecht Van Lommel
Campbell Barton
Jacques Lucke
Dalai Felinto
Brecht Van Lommel