Blender Git Commit Log

Cycles: use defensive sampling for picking BSDFs and BSSRDFs.

For the first bounce we now give each BSDF or BSSRDF a minimum sample weight,
which helps reduce noise for a typical case where you have a glossy BSDF with
a small weight due to Fresnel, but not necessarily small contribution relative
to a diffuse or transmission BSDF below.

We can probably find a better heuristic that also enables this on further
bounces, for example when looking through a perfect mirror, but I wasn't able
to find a robust one so far.