Blender Git Commit Log

Cycles: Refactor adaptive sampling filtering work

Move the code to own function and own section of RenderWork.
Preparing for a more comprehensive logic which will progressively
be bringing down noise floor in viewport.

There could be some performance impact due to an extra parallel
for call over the render works, but in practice it should not be
measurable.

Cycles: Move adaptive filter check to own function

No functional changes, just makes some development easier.

Cycles: Report render scheduler information

Allows to have access to timing about how long specific tasks took
in terms of wall time and in average (per task, or per sample).

Helps with profiling, bottlenecks detection, time improvements
investigation of various steps.

Example report:

Render Scheduler Summary

Adaptive sampling:
Use: True
Step: 16
Min Samples: 18
Threshold: 0.002809

Denoiser:
Use: True
Type: OpenImageDenoise
Start Sample: 0
Passes: Color, Albedo, Normal

Time (in seconds):
Wall Average
Path Tracing 6.769805 0.019016
Adaptive Filter 0.044594 0.000133
Denoiser 0.634125 0.634125
Display Update 0.333205 0.066641

Total: 7.781729

progress

cleanup

initial transfer from pointcloud

Merge branch 'master' into cycles_texture_cache

Merge branch 'master' into cycles_texture_cache

Cycles: Remove unused accumulation function

Fix adaptive sampling never stopping on NaN pixels

Clamp all passes in a way that they are finite. Fixes both adaptive
sampling and makes results usable for post-processing.

There is no speed regression with Classroom scene on GPU, so performance
is not expected to suffer from this change.

Merge branch 'master' into temp-attribute-transfer-node

Merge branch 'blender-v2.93-release'

Geometry Nodes: skip attribute conversion if src and dst are the same

Merge branch 'blender-v2.93-release'

Fix T87541 EEVEE: AO causes black outline around objects and NaN pixels

It seems the pow result is unstable on some implementations.

Also avoid undefined behavior by clamping aoFactor to strict positive values.

Cycles: Use per-pixel sample for convergence check

Currently there should be no functional changes, but this allows to
resume rendering once pixels converged to some threshold.

Cycles: Pass adaptive sampling threshold to filter kernel

Before the threshold was used from the KernelIntegrator, which makes it
very tricky to modify on runtime. The only other place in the kernel
which was checking for the threshold is passes write code, which should
be possible to only check for existence of passes.

The change moves forward with the allowance of progressively lowering
the noise floor in the viewport render.

So far should be no functional changes.

Cycles: Allow resetting convergence flag of pixel

This way it is possible to resume rendering with lower adaptive
sampling threshold.

Done as an extra argument to the convergence check function instead
of always re-calculating the flag based on the following ideas:

- The reset flag is the same for all threads, so it should not harm
coherency of GPU threads.

- Reset is not always used, and in cases when it is not used it is
cheaper to check boolean flag than to calculate the error norm.

So far again should be no functional changes, preparing for the new
development in the viewport.

progress

extract mesh surface sampling to separate file