Cycles Denoising: Skip feature pass writing for volume-only shaders

Volume shaders without anything connected to the surface output are treated
as if they had a transparent BSDF as the surface shader in Cycles, so the
denoiser should skip feature pass writing for them just as it does with an
actual transparent BSDF.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h b/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h
index c5206940493..9d52834ffcc 100644
--- a/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h
+++ b/intern/cycles/kernel/kernel_passes.h
@@ -152,6 +152,11 @@ ccl_device_inline void kernel_update_denoising_features(KernelGlobals *kg,
 
 	L->denoising_depth += ensure_finite(state->denoising_feature_weight * sd->ray_length);
 
+	/* Skip implicitly transparent surfaces. */
+	if(sd->flag & SD_HAS_ONLY_VOLUME) {
+		return;
+	}
+
 	float3 normal = make_float3(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
 	float3 albedo = make_float3(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
 	float sum_weight = 0.0f, sum_nonspecular_weight = 0.0f;