The problem was that Cycles implicitly uses a transparent surface shader when only
volume nodes are used, but since the black emission shader gets optimized away,
it was no longer detected and therefore no transparent surface was used.
Therefore, the shader now stores whether volume nodes were connected before
optimizing.
Extremely bright pixels in the rendered image cause the denoising algorithm
to produce extremely noticable artifacts. Therefore, a heuristic is needed
to exclude these pixels from the filtering process.
The new approach calculates the 75% percentile of the 5x5 neighborhood of
each pixel and flags the pixel if it is more than twice as bright.
During the reconstruction process, flagged pixels are skipped. Therefore,
they don't cause any problems for neighboring pixels, and the outlier pixels
themselves are replaced by a prediction of their actual value based on their
feature pass values and the neighboring pixels.
Therefore, the denoiser now also works as a smarter despeckling filter that
uses a more accurate prediction of the pixel instead of a simple average.
This can be used even if denoising isn't wanted by setting the denoising
radius to 1.
The implementation originally handled four different cases:
Regular glossy, glass, metallic fresnel glossy and diffuse.
However, only the first two are actually used currently. Therefore, this commit
removes the other two, which allows to simplify the code.
Additionally, due to the Principled BSDF, the function arguments are now
identical for glossy and glass, which allows to get rid of some ugly #ifdefs.
Use smarter check of where the file is coming from instead of
attempting to replace same source twice with different settings.
Brings down processing time from 3.6sec to 1.8sec.
It is not a good idea to:
1. Duplicate metadata to self
2. Ignore the fact that something might have had metadata already.
Also moved metadata copy to a preparation function, so it is
never lost.
The mesh interpolation code had an edge case where one of two
adjacent edges to a vertex has 0 length. This caused an assert
failure indexing the vertex mesh for splash Blenderman.blend.
Found when was looking into T49864. The issue is caused here
by render_copy_renderdata() doing a copy of views with
BLI_duplicatelist() so we can not just zero the pointers out.
Similar thing is happening for layers as well.
Fix T50882: VSE: Blend Modes on Scenes do not layer properly
Fix T51002: Scene strip with Alpha over not working as expected
The byte-to-float conversion was being skipped if the color spaces of the sequence and the scene
are the same, which is the default, resulting in any non-float strips becoming invisible.
Reviewers: sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2635
Normally, segments up to 50 can be quite enough for most cases.
However, when dealing with things like braids,
the current limit can sometimes be quite a pain.
This commit fixes crash, but user feedback can be improved here to
inform artist that one can't use Render Result as a texture since that
will cause feedback loop.
Basically upon invoking cycles baking we could canell it which would
leave G.is_break hanging as true. Since we were not setting is_break to
false before exec baking, it would misbehave.
The issue was caused by stupid workaorund for libav. Now things works for
FFmpeg. There might need some tweaks needed for Libav, but that one is
not really priority for support.
Previous method was based on face-area, giving un-even results
based on topology and gave issues with zero area faces.
This method gives matching results for concave ngons and the same geometry triangulated.
Sergey Sharybin