From fd77a28031daff3122ded3a1cb37a7fb44feedf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brecht Van Lommel Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:16:11 +0200 Subject: Cycles: bake transparent shadows for hair These transparent shadows can be expansive to evaluate. Especially on the GPU they can lead to poor occupancy when only some pixels require many kernel launches to trace and evaluate many layers of transparency. Baked transparency allows tracing a single ray in many cases by accumulating the throughput directly in the intersection program without recording hits or evaluating shaders. Transparency is baked at curve vertices and interpolated, for most shaders this will look practically the same as actual shader evaluation. Fixes T91428, performance regression with spring demo file due to transparent hair, and makes it render significantly faster than Blender 2.93. Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12880 --- intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.cpp | 1 + intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'intern/cycles/device/cpu') diff --git a/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.cpp b/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.cpp index 91282390e27..bbad2f3147d 100644 --- a/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.cpp +++ b/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.cpp @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ CPUKernels::CPUKernels() /* Shader evaluation. */ REGISTER_KERNEL(shader_eval_displace), REGISTER_KERNEL(shader_eval_background), + REGISTER_KERNEL(shader_eval_curve_shadow_transparency), /* Adaptive sampling. */ REGISTER_KERNEL(adaptive_sampling_convergence_check), REGISTER_KERNEL(adaptive_sampling_filter_x), diff --git a/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.h b/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.h index 2db09057e44..3787fe37a33 100644 --- a/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.h +++ b/intern/cycles/device/cpu/kernel.h @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ class CPUKernels { ShaderEvalFunction shader_eval_displace; ShaderEvalFunction shader_eval_background; + ShaderEvalFunction shader_eval_curve_shadow_transparency; /* Adaptive stopping. */ -- cgit v1.2.3