The system now uses several 3D textures in order to decouple every steps of the volumetric rendering.
See https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite for more details.
On the technical side, instead of using a compute shader to populate the 3D textures we use layered rendering with a geometry shader to render 1 fullscreen triangle per 3D texture slice.
This required some small changes to the data display shaders so that they match the way the object mode renders them.
Strangely enough, I had to remove the normal attribute from the display code because it was being not bound as soon as I created another rendering call in object mode. The problem may be deeper but I did not have time for this so I derive the normal from the sphere pos.
This adds TAA to eevee. The only thing important to note is that we need to keep the unjittered depth buffer so that the other engines are composited correctly.
Adds a FXAA for smoothing out the extracted outlines.
The Post Process Anti Aliasing is only done on the Alpha channel of the outlines.
Because of that we need to add bleed the outline color out of the silouhette so the AA'd alpha can blend the right color and not pick black when the alpha is smoothed out of the silhouette.
Also because of the AA needs to have clear contrast to work with, I decided to ditch the "bluring" or the occluded outlines.
The FXAA adds an overhead of 0.17ms but we gain back 0.22ms * 4 = 0.88ms by removing the blur.
The FXAA Implementation is from Corey Richardson (cmr) (D2717). I had to modify it a bit to only filter the alpha channel.
- Replace poisson by concentric samples: Less variance. They are sorted by radius then by angle.
- Separate filtering into 2 blur. First blur is 3x3 box blur. Second is user dependant.
- Group fetches by group of 4.
- Use only one 2d texture array to store all shadowmaps.
- Allow to change shadow maps resolution.
- Do not output radial distance when rendering shadowmaps. This will allow fast rendering of shadowmaps when we will drop the use of geometry shaders.
This function was called to recreate the lower mip level of the probe texture. But this is not it's usage and it introduced a stall.
This patch add cubemap mipmap level regeneration in eevee_effects.c
This includes big improvement:
- The horizon search is decoupled from the BSDF evaluation. This means using multiple BSDF nodes have a much lower impact when enbaling AO.
- The horizon search is optimized by splitting the search into 4 corners searching similar directions to help which GPU cache coherence.
- The AO options are now uniforms and do not trigger shader recompilation (aka. freeze UI).
- Include a quality slider similar to the SSR one.
- Add a switch for disabling bounce light approximation.
- Fix problem with Bent Normals when occlusion get very dark.
- Add a denoise option to that takes the neighbors pixel values via glsl derivatives. This reduces noise but exhibit 2x2 blocky artifacts.
The downside : Separating the horizon search uses more memory (~3MB for each samples on HD viewport). We could lower the bit depth to 4bit per horizon but it produce noticeable banding (might be fixed with some dithering).
For the moment the only way to enable this is to:
- enable Screen Space REFLECTIONS.
- enable Screen Space Refraction in the SSR parameters.
- enable Screen Space Refraction in the material tab.
We generate a 3D lut to precompute the btdf intensity.
I decided to use a 64*64*16 (N dot V, ior, roughness) because the btdf varies less with roughness than with IOR.
We also remap the ior to better use the space in the LUT.
Old performance debug was doing queries for every frame even if not debugging perf.
Also, it did not record when a pass was draw multiple time, leading to incorect measurement.
New module also allows to group the timers to limit infos displayed.
Also fix the background CPU draw timer.
Output in 2 buffers Normals, Specular Color and roughness.
This way we can raytrace in a defered fashion and blend the exact contribution of the specular lobe on top of the opaque pass.
Implement GTAO (Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion) which is a special case of Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion that is more physically accurate.
Also add a bent normal option to sample indirect irradiance (diffuse lighting) with the least occluded direction.
This commit introduce the computation of a depth pyramid containing min and max depth values of the original depth buffer.
This is useful for Clustered Light Culling but also for raytracing on the depth buffer (SSR).
It's also usefull to have to fetch higher mips in order to improve texture cache usage.
As of now, 1st mip (highest res) is half the resolution of the depth buffer, but everything is already done to be able to make a fullres copy of the depth buffer in the 1st mip instead of downsampling.
Also, the texture used is RG_32F which is a too much but enough to cover the 24bits of the depth buffer. Reducing the texture size would make things quite faster.
Maybe not very useful but it's here for feature parity with the other probes.
The fragment shader clipping is here because I'm lazy and don't want to creating a proper quad Batch.
Early implementation. Slow and still has quality
3 ways of storing irradiance:
- Spherical Harmonics: Have problem with directionnal lighting.
- HL2 diffuse cube: Very low resolution but smooth transitions.
- Diffuse cube: High storage requirement.
Also include some name change.
Separate material handling inside another file.
Make use of enums to identify shader variations.
Group all 64*64 LUTs into one array texture.
Only update world probe if world changes.
We render linear distance to the light in a R32 texture and store it into an octahedron projection inside a 2D texture array.
This render the sampling function much more simpler and without edge artifacts.
This still has a couple of issues:
* Instancing is not working when multiple particle systems use the same
primitive. Only the last particle system to be drawn with a particular
primitive shows up.
* Because of colors being passed as uniforms with static variables, the
color of the collection of the last object to be evauluated is used for
all particles being displayed.
Also, note that while this is being drawn in the clay engine, this might
be moved to the object mode later intead.
Part of T51378
Disabled by default. Set ENABLE_EFFECT_MOTION_BLUR to 1 to enable.
No fancy motion blur. Use depth and camera matrix to get the motion vectors. Then blur in this direction.
Only available in camera view.
Only Camera animation is supported, does not take into account the parents motion
We can now use object and other modes on top of Cycles.
Since we are now always on "render_to_view" (old Rendered mode), the
pause button is always visible.
mano-wii
Clément Foucault
Campbell Barton
Luca Rood
Dalai Felinto